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June 5, 2008
Nissan Pavilion Sux Donkey Dick
UPDATE II: I'm bumping this back up, cuz I just found out Barack Obama is speaking at Nissan Pavilion as I type this. Hilarious! I guess he doesn't read my blog. :( Methinks there's gonna be some cranky Obama supporters in about, oh, say, an hour. I should head there tomorrow morning and take pictures of them still trying to get out of the parking lot. Their makeup will be runnin' down their face, while they scream through their tears, "I'm voting for fucking Hillary now!"
UPDATE: This blog has a great run-down of the clusterfuck that is Nissan Pavilion. He also calls out Radiohead for their hypocrisy playing "eco-friendly" venues. Well done, sir.
Radiohead performed last week at Nissan Pavilion and their fans are not pleased. Not because of Radiohead, but because of the venue. Why Radiohead continues playing there, I'll never know. And it's not so much the venue; it's how fucking horrible the traffic situation is getting in and out.
I swore that place of ten years ago when I attended an Alanis Morissette concert -- shut up, she's good! -- with Radiohead opening. Obviously this was way before Radiohead got all freaky-deaky and abandoned the things that kinda attract me to a song -- y'know, like the melody. I recall the show started around 7:00pm, yet I remember still participating in a daisy chain of cars at 11:00am the next morning, drunk on carbon monoxide and softly singing to myself, "I..want..you..to know..that..I'm...still in FUCKING VIRGINIA."
If an artist wants my money, they need to come closer to ME. No one is worth waiting in Virginia traffic -- not even Weezer. *shudder*
Wolf Trap isn't much better. Merriweather Post Pavilion is slightly more attractive, but it's like 45 minutes away and in Maryland.
This is prolly why -- along with ticket prices and body odor -- I rarely go to many concerts these days. It's part of being in your thirties, I think. You start to develop fussiness, which may actually just be a disguise for becoming more responsible with self-gratifications.
I may venture out of my hole, but these days I'm all about Verizon Center or Taco Bell Arena or Citibank Stadium or the Sacks Fifth Avenue -- in partnership with Payless Shoes -- Theatre or the 9:30 Club or Constitution Hall or any other place located in DC -- especially when the artist's tour itinerary claims they are playing in Washington, DC. You just have to come to ME and be worth it. That's all.
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Rivers Cuomo has to be one of the coolest heterosexuals out there. He's always been socially awkward -- and he's not even gay! -- but seems to be coming out of his shell lately. Yay! He launched a YouTube page a few months ago, asking for people to help him create a new song. It's fun to watch all the videos that led up to the latest. This might bore you since it's not Leona Lewis, but I liked it. And he's kinda adorable with his li'l porn 'stache and voice alterations. I think I may have a man crush.
Weezer have released another single from their new CD (out June 3) for download on iTunes called "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived." That title's not proper grammar, right?
It's a five-minute epic song full of homages to almost every genre of rock music (rap/metal/country/emo) and songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and even a small nod Radiohead. It's made of teh awesome. Sorry, I broke my own rule. I meant to say, it's made of THE awesome. Anything "teh" passed away last month.
Posted by durban bud at June 5, 2008 10:58 AM
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Well . . .
At least you didn't call it the Dirty Vag like Scott does.
Just remember however, the opposite holds true for us trying to come into the city. And you have more to do in there then we do out here.
Thus trying to make the move *nods*
Pity us poor souls.
Posted by: Leo at May 21, 2008 2:58 PM
fussiness = bitterness! Look at Jimbo or Brett.
Posted by: tonkamanor at May 21, 2008 4:21 PM
The accoustics at Nissan do suck. Even Prince sucked there, but we caught him later that night at a secret show at the 9:30 Club and it was much better.
I still dig Wolf Trap and Merriweather as long as it's not 120 degrees out and my underwear is all wet from the humidity.
Posted by: jimbo at May 21, 2008 11:41 PM
Another gay guy likes Weezer?
Cool.
Posted by: Mark at May 22, 2008 3:09 PM
Alanis DOES rock... I'm feelin' ya, bro.
Posted by: cb at May 22, 2008 3:17 PM
Get your mitts off the Rivers he's mine I tell you!
Well, maybe we can share..
I seem to recall seeing Alanis in concert. It was the last show before they changed the name of the venue from the Thunder Dome to...Tropicana Field (lame). I'm just glad I got to see something in a venue called "Thunder Dome".
Posted by: Alden at May 22, 2008 10:13 PM
dude your blog is fucking hysterical. keep it up.
Posted by: Mark at May 22, 2008 10:48 PM
Even I won't go to Nissan any more - and I'm a concert whore. Merriweather is awesome though.
Posted by: dumbek at May 23, 2008 3:15 PM
Honey, as long as you're down with the naughtier of the fur set you're going to have to deal with the body odor, so you might as well take the good music with it.
Not that I don't agree, they really are just going to have to come into town. Whenever i hear someone is going to be playing Nissan I just think "Oh well, won't see them." Wolf Trap is good though, if a bit of a trek but is suited to a more convivial kind of music.
Posted by: copperred at May 25, 2008 12:46 PM
Speaking of Alanis, have you see a couple of her cover song videos? They are kind of funny:
Black Eyed Peas' My Hump
Seal's Crazy... with a little twist at the end.
Posted by: Jeff in Nashville at May 25, 2008 6:32 PM
I cannot believe you bumped up this post to be "relevant". That takes a lot of balls Mister! Since I see that I didn't comment on this post back then, I'll go ahead and comment now.
Is there really a Taco Bell arena? Because I would all up in that sour cream! I just love how you shove a big thick burrito down your mouth and that cool sour cream just squirts down your throat. MMMmmm...
Posted by: brettcajun at June 6, 2008 7:54 AM