You guys, I am old

[5kcandlesinthewind]

We went to the Garbage show at the House of Blues on Tuesday night.  I took yesterday off to recover, and I am still sore and tired. But it was awesome. And we were so close!



Ok,so the iPhone camera sucks. But yeah. Super close.
And I still want to be Shirley Manson when I grow up. I figure she's a few years older than me, so there's still time.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Mar 28, 2013 9:00:32 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Jealous!! That's awesome.
I hear you on being old. I used to go to shows like that and then get up and go to work the next morning frequently. I cannot fathom doing that now, I would die.

Seriously. I was just going to come in late yesterday, and then I thought, "yeah, no. General admission show on a Tuesday = vacation day on Wednesday."

Also, there was a dude there who liked like something off Jersey Shore who was up on the balcony near the stage. I wish I'd gotten video of him because he was hilarious.  He had his sunglasses on almost the entire time, and then took them off at one point to reveal the most amazing guy-liner.  Like Cleopatra style. I pointed it out to my friends and was like, "is that a thing now?" But they didn't know either, because they are also old.  And then he kept unbuttoning more buttons on his shirt, til it was open almost to his navel. Oh! And he was doing that beat up the beat thing they did on JS when he was "dancing" around.  My friends and I couldn't stop watching him. Like, at one point he went to the bathroom and my friend yelled, "Where'd The Situation go?? COME BACK, MIIIIIKE!" Hee!

[vtdiamond]

Aww, sounds like fun!!

I would need a day to recover as well! My younger co-workers do this all the time and still show up to work the next day. I couldn't do that anymore, actually not sure if I ever did this.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Mar 28, 2013 9:09:13 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Mar 28, 2013 9:04:33 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Thursday nights used to be my big going out night.  I routinely went to bed at 3:00 - 4:00am and was at work at 9:00am the next day.  I wonder if I could still do it...I'm not a morning person at all but I have this weird ability to just get up and deal with it if I have to.

I know I couldn't. On the few instances I've tried in the recent past (the Black Keys concert last year stands out), I woke up the next morning all "Oh hell no" and worked from home (read: slept next to my blackberry) lol.

This was the first show on a weeknight I'd been to in years. It has to be someone I reaaaallly want to see to force myself to go out on a school night. But since H and I are stuck in the 90s, it's easy to pass on most shows because we've seen them already. 

Though I don't think anything short of a Smiths reunion/Kurt Cobain coming back from the dead could get me out to GreatWhateverItsCalledNow on a weekend, never mind a week night.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Mar 28, 2013 9:18:08 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Hahahahaha, that's awesome 5KC. I wish you had gotten video. What was that dude doing at a Garbage show anyway?? Totally not their peeps! He probably thought it was a HOB dance night and just made the best of it, lol.

It was definitely bizarre, but he kept singing along and knew all the words.  He also kept hanging over the balcony any time Shirley made her way over there, so I finally turned to H and said, "he knows she's not going to fuck him right?"  And H said, "apparently not." Hee!

[preppy]

You went to a concert. On a weeknight.

Not old.

[who22]

Ditto Preppy. This will be me next week. Only I didn't take any days off so I will be dragging.