it’s funny that i start off with eventful, and can’t think of any events, really. now that i’m back in employment land, a blur of recreation and binge drinking turns into a blur of work and binge drinking. but it’s been so long since i wrote that i don’t know everything i need to cover, while timing it in-between various duties i have at work while i’m still here. I’m pretty sure this will be my first laptop blog though (since i got this fancy laptop for various job responsibilities) and probably won’t be the last. also wearing latex gloves, which is also a first. i wear them all the time, it just feels natural to have them there.

i guess i should sum up some of the concerts i went to that i couldn’t afford. the ben folds one was pretty much how i thought it would be, lots of the same songs, a couple new ones, but one thing was odd. ben wasn’t the end act, it was the other guy rufus wainwright. rufus isn’t much of a singer or songwriter from what i heard at the concert, but i guess alot of people were still there to see him. i think his claim to fame is that he’s openly gay. i’m surprised all his struggles haven’t inspired better songs. i mean, the least he could do is learn to breath while he sings.

but anyways, me and mike were both far too drunk off of 8 dollar bottles of wine they had there (one incredible reason to go to chateau st. michelle for a concert) and we may have been a little loud and unruly. the pinnacle was when mike yelled toward the stage “rufus is gay!”, which he was, but probably under different connotations that were expressed. then stumbling back to the car before the show was even over (ben did not come out the rest of the show, the slacker.) high fiving people along the way and being more obnoxious. Heather really is a saint to put up with the two of us sometimes.

concert of the summer was at bumbershoot though, where the hip hop stage had the pharcyde, talib kweli, and common. common has been making an insurgence again since he teamed up with kanye, maybe he’ll stick around this time, he certainly deserves it. his show was awesome though, which might be influenced by the fact that i like his music so much. he still could get the crowd going though, and then pull them back within a few minutes. the sound system wasn’t working so he would improvise, like bringing out one of his PR girls on the road to sing the chorus of “the light” or missing so much of his song’s melody as to almost make it a totally different song, only for him to never miss a beat even when flashes of it would come on when they were trying to fix it. he played alot of my favorites, along with his new stuff, and managed to display a feeling that he was a genuine, chill person that can kick amazing 5 minute long freestyles.

i’ve always wanted to see the pharcyde as well, and they probably haven’t changed too much since their big album, bizzare ride to the pharcyde came out in 92. they just sang their old songs, some new ones, and praised the glory of marijuana. passin me by is such a great song. talieb was different than i thought he was going to be. his voice is so soft and lyrical on his black star record with mos def, but in concert he kinda screamed like ja rule. he still sang some good ones, and common and talieb even teamed up for a couple of their songs.

well, all this work definatly took longer than i thought it would, i wrote everything above this about 3 hours ago, and have been tending the machines since. i think that’s why i’ll like this job though, those three hours went by in the blink of an eye.