Concert was great and the world is full of tall people with weird butts

Well went to the concert at the Borgata casino event center – the venue was ok – standing room only and the stage was not raised enough. The lights were cool and the sound was so-so (had problems with the first act mikes squealing a bit).

I usually hang out around the sound board area at most concerts – usually that section is placed in a good spot sound wise, often a little easier to see and I am fascinated with the sound board and such.

Was talking to this teacher yesterday who is developing a new career class for our school – music technology – I oversee curriculum rewrites so I get to help him write the course and it sounds cool – he was showing my the web site for the local Grammy chapter (to which he belongs) and talking some about sound and music and stuff. Yes I am weird I think it would be cool to learn how to run a sound board. I know I do not have the musical ear/talent for it but eh….

So I am at the concert – British Sea Power opened – I had never heard of them and I liked them – got their one CD and listening to it now – they remind me of Acceptance – who I am going to Philly next week to see. They were good and did weird things towards the end of their set (like throwing oranges into the crowd, putting each other on their shoulders while playing guitar, walking around with bags on their head, smashing a guitar and mangling a microphone stand…)

The Killers were great, I was singing and dancing and they did a nice set and a long encore. The covered a David Bowie song as well as older stuff and of course stuff from Hot Fuss. Concerts are the only place I feel comfortable dancing alone. I really like dancing, I am no good, have no rhythm or moves, but fuck that I like it… but I feel very self-conscious dancing alone

KUDOS to those of you who do get out there and just let the music take you – I admire you!!! But at concerts I say screw it and just dance and move around (cause usually I am by myself so dancing by myself – and whoa was there a lotta dancing at this concert especially in the back and especially towards the end when a lotta beer had been consumed - lol)

Another fun thing I did was watching the oopsie dance – let me explain. I was leaning against the metal gate that surrounds the sound board area. Well the metal gates are stabilized by this wooden about 2 inch high board (so picture heave metal gate and then wooden floor adjacent – looked like a capital L) I was standing on the board which was about 1 – 2 feet out from the gate and it was black…. So in the dim light, guess what I kept watching people doing….

Only about three people spilled their beer, no one did a total wipeout and because I was in the spot where people decided to cut through (that happens to me a lot I think because I am so short people think it is a totally open spot and cut through my way – lmao anyhoo) well I got groped a lot and used as a stabilizing thing as people tripped on the corner of the wooden thing – hehe

The thing with standing room only concerts (and hence the title of this blog) is I am convinced only TALL people like the Killers and British sea Power. See everyone is tall, (hey 4'9" is respectable but realistically I meet more adults and even kids taller than I am than shorter than I am – and that sentence made no sense – laying off the citrus vodka now – lol – anyhoo)

So I am at the concert and these people who are really tall decide to stand right in front of me (really tall as defined as I seriously came up to just above their waist – no lie, and with the ladies, wellllll I was at a certain eye level which is very nice from front… um anyhoo) So I spend a lot of the concert dancing, watching people and really noticing the backs and butts of people. I am now conducting a scientific study on the shape of people form the back, the type of pockets and what people put in them and such… I will publish my results in the future.