March 12, 2004
YACC (Yet Another Cool Concert)
I found out yesterday that Less Than Jake, The Early November, and Fall Out Boy will be at Peabody's in Cleveland on April 22, just one day after SoCo and Yellowcard. I've been wanting to see Less Than Jake for a while, so I just might need to hit 2 concerts in as many days. I'll have to wait and make sure the Cocoa Programming Competition awards aren't rescheduled for that day though.
iTunes Sessions
Thanks to my iTunes RSS feed, I found out about the Get Up Kids - iTunes Sessions album that was added to the ITMS Tuesday. The album contains 4 acoustic tracks off their new album, Guilt Show, plus 2 acoustic versions of older songs Action and Action (one of their best songs) and Better Half.
March 09, 2004
Last Stop Suburbia
Allister is going to be at the Grog Shop Saturday May 1 for their Last Stop Suburbia Tour. Huzzah! Hopefully I can get them to sign my ALLISTer R0x0rz t-shirt.
March 06, 2004
cIP
Lynn's a cappella had their first concert of the Spring semester on Thursday during the Thwing Atrium hour. I got out of Lego Lab a little bit early, which was good since I got there just a couple minutes before they started singing. I was talking to one of my Lego Lab partners, Bryan Munch, who is in another a capella group, Speakeasy, and he decided to come and watch also. The concert itself was very good. My favorite songs were: the opener (What Went Wrong by Blink-182), Keep Me a Secret by Ainslie
Henderson (Lynn arranged that song), The Lion Sleeps Tonight, and You Do (a song from a Family Guy episode). I'm definitely looking forward to their next concert on April 16th at 7 in the Rough Rider Room.
March 04, 2004
What's the Dillio?
On Wednesday last week Lynn, Dana, and I went to see Mest, Fall Out Boy, Matchbook Romance, and Dynamite Boy at The Odeon. This was my first time at The Odeon and this was Lynn's first "punk" concert. Too quote Mike when I told him that on AIM: "How cute :D". We got to The Odeon around 6:00 and there was already a pretty long line outside. The doors were supposed to open at 6:30, but we didn't actually get in until 6:45 or a little later. Overall I'd say The Odeon is about the same size as The Agora Theater, and there were probably a good couple hundred people at the show. We started out pretty much in the center of the stage, and fairly close to the front, unfortunately though a circle pit opened up right next to us during Dynamite Boy's set, so we ended up moving to the right side of the stage and a little further back. All the bands put on a good show, though I was mainly there to see Fall Out Boy and Mest. Matchbook Romance was good, but I hadn't heard many of there songs and it's always more enjoyable when you know the words and can sing along. I was really glad they played The Greatest Fall Of All Time since that was one of their songs I actually know, and it's a good song. Fall Out Boy put on a good set as always. They're a really fun band to see live. Mest was also really good. They opened with Until I Met You, which I guessed they would since they opened with that at the Good Charlotte show, and it's its the first track on their new album. I really like the song and it does make a great opener since its fast and catchy. My other favorite songs they did were Hotel Room, Drawing Board, and the closer Cadillac ("Jump! Jump!"). The only disappointment was they didn't play What's the Dillio?. I had a good time, and Lynn said she also enjoyed it. The last concert I had been too was in October, so it was nice to get to a concert again, and I'm looking forward to a bunch of upcoming concerts.