Still Rockin'

So I started to right this last night but getting in at 1AM, seeing that Tech lost and knowing I still had to go to work today I decided to put it off. First let me say, thank you to the 6 people that accepted my challenge in my last entry. I had no faith in you guys and therefore put a counter on the page only to find there were several people who viewed my site and chose not to accept the challenge, shame on you. Of course this is not really the point of my post this time.

Last night I had the opportunity to attend a concert for The Who compliments of a local radio station (see blog entry from 3/2/07 for the background). I had mixed opinions going to this. First as much as I enjoy listening to music and love classic rock I am terrible at actually knowing the names of the songs and who performs them. I of course knew The Who’s big hits (Baba O’Riley, Who’s Next, Not Gonna Be Fooled Again, My Generation, and Pinball Wizard) and discovered that was enough. The concert itself was quite the experience and it took a while for me to get my head around seeing families in attendance at a rock concert! Peter and Roger can still rock. their performance was top notch and they really had the crowd going after Baba O’Riley and effectively intermingled some of their newer stuff (Yes they released an album last year) along with some of their European Releases. The show was well worth the price of admission.

Is anyone reading this

So I have this theory. I started this blog as a way to keep friends and family up to date on what is going on in my life. Now as Troy will be quick to point out I have not been the best at posting in here, though I am trying to get better. Anyway, this is my theory, I believe the only people that actually read this thing are my friends that I speak to on a regular basis and really have no need to keep up to date through this blog. So I challenge you to prove me wrong, if you are reading this then I challenge you to leave a comment and prove to me that I am mistaken!

Amazing Grace

So this afternoon I went over to Troy’s place and he helped me upload some videos on my computer I had been having trouble with. After the video fun we decided to go catch the flick Amazing Grace. Contrary to popular opinions this movie is not about the writing of the song or the story of John Newton’s life. The movie in fact more about William Wilberforce, and his quest to abolish the slave trade in England. The connection between the title and the movie is that Wilberforce sat under the preacher John Newton who penned the song, which seemed to serve as an inspiration for Wilberforce. The Movie also indicated that Newton himself was very instrumental in Wilberforce’s success. The movie was excellent and I would highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys period pieces, drama , historical movies etc.

The only complaint I have has nothing to do with the movie but people watching the movie. You know those little shorts they play at the beginning of the movie about no talking, cell phones, babies, etc. they really needed one in front of this movie. There were a couple of teen girls sitting next to me who could not stop giggling, talking, and playing with their cell phone. That is until I said something to them. Then there is the guy that walked from one side of the theatre that was a walking slot machine or key ring or something. Oh well one bad experience I have ahead going to theaters is not bad.

Thank you 94.7

So back in December when I went to Jax for the ACC championship game I get an e-mail from one of the D.C. Radio stations I had been listening to recently, 94.7 The Globe (they have just recently changed their name to that) saying that I had won tickets to the Ron White Show at the Warner Theatre on Dec 2. I was a little put out since I was in Jacksonville and would not be able to make the show, but I almost immediately got a follow up e-mail saying they made a mistake and the show was March 2! well I get a call on Wed. that the tickets were for the Thursday night show. Anyway I make it to the Warner Theatre tonight expecting some mediocre seats (since I still had no clue how I won the tickets) and what did I get but tickets for the front row center stage! We were here



I could reach out and touch the stage if I had wanted to. This made for a rather interesting night. First due to weather and traffic we arrived late and instead of waiting for a break they escort us down to our seats in the middle of the opening act, Alex Reymundo who was quite funny and was gracious enough not to make a big deal about us arriving late (fortunately I do not think this was the type of show to single out audience members). After The opening act Ron White comes on stage and I must say he is every bit as funny in person as he is on TV. As with most comedians his stage act is a little raunchier than what you see on TV, but not nearly as over the top as others I have see. At one point in the show he is discussing the color coded states of awareness they have here in the U.S. and how confusing it is. compliments of the location of the seats he looks straight at me and says, “Sir, did you know there are 5 states of awareness”. I must have had a dumb look on my face or he didn’t care because he immediately say, “you didn’t know that”. truth be told I did not. I knew of green, yellow, orange and red; i was clueless about the 5th which is blue. that was pretty much the only time he directly addressed the crowd without prompting. The other time of note was a guy sitting one row behind me and two seats to my right was becoming quite annoying yelling stuff out to Ron who at one point had enough and called him out and embarrassed the stew out of him. One thing that impressed me with Ron’s act was there there were two times that he fouled up the joke or mixed up words, and he jumped right in and started making fun of himself making those two parts some of the funniest of the evening. We also continued to reference those foul ups throughout the show which made for a good inside joke between him and the audience.