Summer Concert Series
So my huge slate of summer concerts, 4 so far, which is a lot for me, starts tonight. I'm heading after work down to the Jones Beach Ampitheatre to catch Blink-182 and No Doubt and I'm highly looking forward to it. I've never seen Blink live before, but heard their live CD which is good and they're stupid funny on stage. Very juvenile humor, but thats OK with me sometimes. I've seen No Doubt before, but this was back in 1997 when they opened for the Goo Goo Dolls and Bush. This was before "Don't Speak" was a huge hit, I think. It was a good show then, and I think thats the tour where Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale first hooked up. That's an odd coupling. I sometimes forget they're married.
Anyway, also there is a major change of plans for Incubus, which is at the end of the month, a week before I head over to the UK to see Elena. Seth basically backed out of going with me to the show at Madison Square Garden as he has a makeup summer class that night. He said try to find someone else and if I couldn't he'd still go, just show up late, but he said really try to find someone else. Mark and Randy are both going the next night when they play at the Nassau Coliseum, so they were out. Mark is taking one of his friends, who also came with us the last time we saw them, back in 2002 at MSG. The kid has a twin brother and they're actually one of the few friends of my little brother I can stand. So I asked Mark to ask him if he wanted to see them at MSG. The kid said yes, so Seth is off the hook. Crisis averted. Turns out, Randy got invited to Fire Island that weekend and really wants to go and since I'm going one night with one brother and Mark's going the other night with the other brother and Randy wants to be elsewhere that night, we're swapping tickets. Randy will go to the show at the Garden with whoever he wants to, and Mark and I and his twin brother friends will go the next night at Nassau Colisuem (which I work directly across the street from!) Sounds confusing and it is, but problem solved. I did kind of want to see them at MSG since my seats were awesome, but Randy's tickets aren't that bad and I guess I can help out my brother once in awhile. It hurts to, but it won't kill me.
In Elena news it sounds like she's pretty set on coming home once her dissertation is done, and its due September 17 or something. Her and her roommate talked about it and they both want to head home when school is done, so I'm sure they can get out of their lease and it'll be all good. She and her roommate want to head to Prague after school is over, which is cool, but I would so love to go with them, but doubt I'll be able to. Like the good, but crazy boyfriend I am I offered to fly over to London with mostly empty suitcases and help her move back, and that involves taking time off, something I don't have too much of. We'll see what happens. In other news I have to find us a hotel to stay in while we're in Edinburgh, because Elena's friends boyfriend lives with two other guys, who all smoke and all they'd have to offer us is a floor and a small couch. Can you say no thank you? So now I'm just waiting on some hotel location info on them and I'll book the cheapest, but nicest one I can find. At least I have a free place to stay in Ireland, and 100 to 150 a night for a hotel for three nights won't kill me, yet.
So thats all thats new here. Exciting stuff, I know. Looking forward to the show tonight, should be fun. I'll provide a full report tomorrow. Adios!