So let me take you back to September of 2008. I was a senior in High School, My good friend Cody Nesbitt and I were planning a trip, to Eugene Oregon, to go see what might have been our 2nd favorite band at the time, the Arctic Monkeys, live at the McDonald theatre. SO stoked, we'd planned the money, the couches to crash on, talked our parents into letting us miss two full days of school to go hit this off the hook concert and rock our faces off to the british punk sensations.
And I screwed it up.
That same weekend We had a marching band competition, I hadn't put two and two together that they might be in the same weekend and might there might be difficulties in being in Eagle, Idaho and Eugene, Oregon at the same time, I had yet to master my technique of being in two places at once. I had dealt with a lot of drama on the drumline and didn't dare miss it because the last time I missed 2 days of anything, that summer, they almost threw me off the line (I was bad at politics even if I was a really good drummer at that point) so I had to cancel. Cody, obviously, was pissed. But he's a forgiving dude, eventually, so we smoothed it over.
WELL GUESS WHAT HOMIE!
Next week they play the Crystal Ballroom in Portland and guess who's going? (It's not Bill Cosby) ME! So my face just might still get rocked off after all. It's seriously so cool that three years later we're actually going through with what was going to be our ultimate high school roadtrip, IT's probably not as good anymore since we're not as dramatic, and since the Monkeys have since dropped a few spots on my list, but still, they rule and this is gonna be off the hook.
Five songs I desperately hope to hear. 1. Fluorescent Adolescent 2. The View From the Afternoon 3. Brianstorm 4. A Certain Romance 5. She's Thunderstorms.
Boo yeah baby, the monkeys are in town!
