so i went to yet another concert friday night. it was probably my 4th or 5th show of the year to attend. this one was in Dallas w/ John Mayer headlining the show and Ben Folds performing in the supporting role. Brett Dennen also played early in the evening. it was raining before the show...but the grass wasn't wet at the show...so apparently it didn't rain there. i think i'm through w/ fighting traffic and putting up w/ annoying people at concerts only to have seats so far away from the action. i'm going to make a pact w/ myself that i will not attend another concert at some huge arena/stadium unless i have some good seats....it's just not worth it.

we could only hear bits of the last song of Brett Dennen's set as we walked toward the arena....but never actually saw his carrot-headed/sesame-street-voice havin' self. Ben Folds came out and i feel that the venue was just too large for his play....or they just didn't have him turned up enough. one funny note was when he played his cover of the rap song B*tches Ain't Sh*t....i don't think some of the teeny-boppin John Mayer fans' parents were ready for such a tune. we saw one young girl's mother doing the "ear muffs" thing to her daughter....the lyrics are of course pretty raw in that song....but it's supposed to be comedic....don't think too many non-Ben Folds' fans there understood that point of the show. but...you can't expect them to get it....

John Mayer came on and he sounded good volume/level wise. he really didn't need to have on that black v-neck shirt...but hey....i'm sure all the annoyingly-hyper young girls and mo-douche-hawk sporting bags were digging it. we had to get away from our position in the middle of the lawn right before J.Mayer came on for fear that the annoying teeny-bopped girls behind would get up and started dancing and cool-puffing on their cigarettes. we found the sweetest location atop the lawn area on the wall. this area wasn't a sweet-spot due to the high traffic area of being the pathway of everyone going to get beer and visit the piss-pots...but then again it was. as we approached our new vantage point we saw a lady laid out on the ground laughing. i thought at first she was just drunk and had fallen down. but we soon realized that there was a grass-grown-camouflaged HOLE in the ground that she had stepped into and busted her big @ss. we spent the rest of the night standing there watching people fall in that hole over-and-over-and-over-and-over-and-over-and-over-and-over again. it never got old. it was great. it was the best part of the entire evening. i know it's wrong....but people tripping, stumbling, falling, and even twisting ankles all night was humorous to us....call us evil. especially the people holding a to-the-rim-full-beer in each hand, people w/ a hand full of nachos, people drunk-dancing as they walked w/ the music, people on their cell phones, etc. pregnant ladies or ladies carrying babies should have been warned more....and the powers-that-be should have let more of the douche nozzles fall (they seemed to luckily step over the hole too often).

so...that's about it. getting joy out of other people's downfall ended up being the best part of the show....i don't know what we would have done w/out it

V/        afternoon