Bare. Today. 10. Dead. Mandarin. Star. Buddha.

So far this year has been full of "firsts" … at least 7 come immediately to mind. (The title of this post is comprised of cryptic references to each of those "firsts". You can try to decipher them. But you won't. Actually... go ahead and try, this might be fun!) Some might impress you, some might make you laugh because maybe you've done them a million times… but they've all meant something significant to me. I'm pretty interested in seeing what the second half of the year holds.

This is all so uplifty!

When ya gotta go, you gotta go...

...to a concert alone, that is.
I attended a National show this past weekend. I was all set to write a nice blog about it, but then I lost... well, let's just say I lost steam. So here are a few of the highlights. or at least I think they were. I only wish they'd done Geese of Beverly Road, or perhaps Lucky You, but that's okay... they played almost all my favorites otherwise. The videos aren't the best, but they ain't bad either!


They opened with Start a War

Apartment Story

Squalor Victoria, which I never really liked until I heard it live.

And they ended their second set with About Today... the perfect ending...



*Sigh* Happiness. Yeh, you people who bailed on me, you missed a good time. Especially when I knocked over a section of seats. I rock.