This owl is so fun to watch for awhile at work. He ate all the rabbits though so I think he’ll move on soon. I wish I could have got a photo of him with my good camera.
My third in show in little over a week. Also the third show in a row I didn’t have even a single beer. Weird. Anyways, Liz and I rolled in shortly before the opening band Free Energy. I had heard nothing about them before listening to some songs of theirs on myspace early that day. After what I heard I should have known better, but we don’t like just seeing only one band.
This band was bad. Really really bad. Somehow they had a large following.
Lots of them wore headbands.
Or they were parents.
Even some Ultimate Fighters in the house. It was seriously the weirdest crowd.
Killing some time during the sucking we rolled back to the merch booth and noticed their name was wrong on their own 7 inch. That’s funny! The scary part was that the members of Titus Andronicus came out to play the Springsteen cover with Free Engery and it was also really bad. Liz and I were definitely a bit worried for Titus at that point.
Titus Andronicus eventually arrived on stage. It started about as epic as one can imagine. A drunken fan recited the opening speech from The Monitor and stage dived into the crowd as the band exploded into “A More Perfect Union”. I haven’t witnessed a band get on stage and blow me away that quickly in a long time. The giant turd left in the air by Free Engery was defeated immediately. Thank god. Titus Andronicus went on to play one of the best shows I have ever seen. Tons of energy throughout, great setlist, great stage presence, it was loud, the sound was good, the crowd was very into it, everything you need for a great show. They came off more punk rock then I would have thought with lots of fist pumping anthems being yelled by the crowd. The ender “Four Score And Seven” was so intense and powerful that I actually hoped the show was done. No encore. That song burned the house down. Totally epic set.Lastly, sorry once again for the crappy cell phone photos. But if I brought my nice camera I’d feel obligated to spend my time trying to get the perfect photo instead of just enjoying the show.
Skated Rampy for a few minutes and sucked. Ollie filmed a fakie pivot fakie for an HD test. Looks like I gotta turn up the sharpness and stuff. But hey, it was the first clip.
Just a quick session before going to see one of the best shows I’ve ever seen – Titus Andronicus. I went out right after eating a ton of food so I felt extra fat and uncoordinated. It didn’t last long though and I started actually feeling pretty good. I didn’t do anything special and did a few flippers going pretty slow. The only noteworthy thing to me was manually from the neighbors curb cut all the way to ours. Pretty long for me. Yippee.