Concert!!

The concert was six hours long! The line up was Seether, Collective Soul, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, and LIVE. It is the only concert I have been at where I was hollered a for standing. I also had beer thrown on me. I have had that happen before; just never thrown on me because I was standing at a rock concert.

The weather was summer weather. Due to a late start, Jerry and I did not have much time to tailgate. We did get lucky enough to park next to truck that was playing the Penn State game. We were, for a short time, the Penn State HQ at Hershey. Everyone who walked by just needed to know what the score was. Shame we didn't have a portable white board. We could have posted the score and avoided unnecessary conversations that cut into my pre-show tailgating feast.

Seether was just opening the show as Jerry and I made our way into the stadium. It was very sunny and warm. The crowd was happy. Jerry watched our seats while I went to get the requisite concert t-shirts (let's not ask how much). Then I went and bought the infamous six-dollar beer. That's about 25 cents an ounce. Uumm, uummm. Good beer.

Seether only had a 35 minute set before they had to leave the stage. It took about 20 minutes for the next band, Collective Soul, to be set up. They played for nearly 50 minutes before another break. Three Days Grace set-up and started playing.

It was during this third performance that things got whacky in the stands. I picked the front row of section six because it is above the crowd and I have a railing to lean on while I'm standing. Every concert I have been to, the audience stands and goes nuts while the band is rockin' away. As I get older, I like having something to lean on. Apparently the lady (well, she wasn't acting very lady like) behind us a row or two bought stand tickets so she could sit. I'd like to think that she was older than I, but I probably beat her by a decade.

She starts demanding that I, Jerry, and the 5 or so other people in front of her sit down so that she can see. If we wanted to stand, she informed us rudely, we should have gotten tickets on the ground. Jerry remained calm. The girls to his right did not. They told the . . lady (I don't really know why I feel compelled to censor this) to . . . be quite. (OK - they told the f***in B**ch to shut up.)

The lady continued to go on a tirade, trying to gain support from other less enthused members of the stands. Some jumped into the shouting, but most just ignored her. I think I may have asked her something stupid like "why do you think they call this the 'stands'?" or something. Then to further irritate her, Jerry had one of the girls climb up on his shoulders in order to further block this woman's view.

That is about when it started to rain beer. And at 25 cents an ounce, it was a very expensive shower.

I don't know what happened to the lady. Two of the girls went down on the stadium floor and asked for security. Eventually, after the yellow shirt security person contacted a red shirt security person, who in turn found a 'suit', the 'suit' said he didn't have the time to go up into the stands to deal with a crazy woman. He told the girls to go get her friends and he would let them go up to the stage.

By the beginning of the Breaking Benjamin set, Jerry and his new friends were about 5 rows back from the stage taking in the concert. I was happy to stay in the stands and, well . . . stand.

I was thrilled when Jerry came back and said he liked LIVE. He originally thought that they would be 'gay'. Turned out he really liked them. He listened to them in the car on the trip home as well.

Concert!!!

Jerry and I went to see Seether, Collective Soul, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, and LIVE at the Hershey Stadium.



More on the concert in the next post.

In case you didn't hear

Steelers 2-0
Eagles 0-2

The Pig Roast Video or Worst Music Video Ever!

It took a while, but I finally put together a short video from the pig roast. I didn't have a lot of video to work with and I decided to use Michael singing. Most of you won't get it, but I do; and that is all that matters.

What a great weekend

Pig Roast and Trace's Birthday party were wonderful, but let me mention the other excitement from this weekend --



Penn State beats Notre Dame! Roar!



Then Pittsburgh beats Cleveland! Wooo Whooo!



Then, to make it the perfect weekend -
Eagles get BEAT by Green Bay! Yessss!

A&P vs College Student Parody on YouTube

First - Read the article in the Daily Item.

http://www.dailyitem.com/lifestyles/local_story_241084310.html

Then my response -

I have just read an article picked up in my local paper about your companies suit against the D’Avella brothers. I have not watched the video that they produced. But your heavy handed over-reaction has piqued my interest and I may have to see if I can find the parody on the web.

I do not shop at your grocery chain. There are no A&Ps near where I live.

The article in my paper (Sunbury Daily Item) stated that your company has “at least one” customer who was offended enough by the video to no longer shop at our store. “At least one”? How many really were offended? Two? Three? A dozen? “At least one” is deliberately vague.

How many customers must you lose to make it worth all of the legal fees that you will incur by pursuing charges against these young men?

Frankly, your reaction to this situation is more distressing than any video spoof could be. Your over-reaction will likely disenfranchise you from your customer base more than these young men’s video.

I hate Apple

I had this great idea to use CNN Student news (I know, it sounds like I've sold out to the enemy. But FOX doesn't provide a student news program) in the morning at Bethesda/PATH. So Sunday night I download the news and try to xfer it to my Zen.

Error. Try again. Error.

Four in the morning and I'm still trying to resolve why my video converter will not work. No luck.

Tonight I finally find a discussion group that addressed this problem. Seems like Apple set up the latest version of Quicktime so that it would crash my Creative Video Converter.

I deleted Quicktime and installed a shareware version. Now everything is working fine. Yippee!

Silly Motivational Posters

Court Inequality

Well, I only had 5 responses to the poll. I posted it because of a court case in Perry County. The few Poll results I did get were what I expected. People seem to agree that people should get relatively stiff penalties for having sex with children.

What concerns me is the double standard. In Perry County, a 24 year old woman received a 3 to 18 month suspended sentence for having sex with a 14 year old boy. She is also a the mother of a baby boy. The baby is the son of the 14 year old boy. The judge (Kathy Morrow) doesn't want the baby to suffer from separation from the mother. Hence the lean (non-existent) sentence. I suppose the message is, ladies, if your going to have sex with a minor, make sure you get knocked up.

What if the roles were reversed. If the 24 year old were the father, he wouldn't get out of jail until the baby was 20 years old. I know that the role of the father is just as important as the role of the mother. Why do we treat the sexes difference in these cases?

Trace's First Christmas

A quick video I made off of a friends video. Her husband is stationed out of the country. I'm posting it here so that he can view it, but you can watch it too.

Baby Goes Boom breaks a Grand

One of my first editing jobs just broke 1000 hits on YouTube. Check out "Baby Goes Boom" on My YouTube and help make this video go big.

Knoebel's

Instead of posting the second half of the cooking vid (which can be watched on my YouTube Channel) I'm posting our Knoebel's Trip Video.

Cooking With Courtland

Junior's boys are in for a week or so. As promised, we filmed Courtland cooking. We stayed simple - spaghetti, meatballs, veggies dip, rice krispie treats. The whole video is a bit long, so it is in two parts. Here is part one of Cooking With Courtland --

Paintball Warriors

Mia and her gang all bought paintball guns. We decided to take them out for a test game on some of Frank's family property. Pretty exciting. No serious casualties. And I can still hold my own with my Tippman Pump Gun.

Dan and I worked real well together and managed to flank our opponents fairly regularly. Jerry - no surprise here - was a super athlete. He was a one man paintball killing machine.

Hopefully everyone will want to continue playing and we can get out again soon.

TV Widget

Added a TV Widget to my MySpace.

Get your own widget.

New Section Finished on My MySpace

I've finished adding the music section to my MySpace. I tried to get a sample of bands I like, but not necessarily the most known songs by the artist or band.

Ocean City MD

We left Wednesday morning on a semi-spontaneous trip to the shore. The ride down was great. No traffic jams, construction, or any other problems. We made it to the shore by lunch.

I spent most of my time reading on the beach or flying my kites. Jerry bought a body board and beat himself up with it in the surf. He also went to H2O, the only under-21 club in OC, in the evenings. He had a great time at the club and it was probably the highlight of the trip for him so far.

Today we head north to Rehoboth Beach.

Vacation Time

Going on vacation. Jerry and I are leaving this AM and will return early next week. Stay tuned for updates.

Simpsonized?

I fell for the marketing ploy. I sent my picture to the "Simpsonizer" and this is what I look like after I get squashed into two-dimensions.


Not a horrible un-likeness. I think I look better than Jerry.
Well - in two-dimensions anyway.

Have not seen the movie yet, but plan to soon.

Can this be real?

I don't follow the sports drama, much. I was sad to hear about the assistant coach who was killed by a line drive. I heard that an NBA official is alleged to be helping 'fix' over/unders (I just except that sports betting is corrupt). And Vic got busted for fighting dogs.

Here is a supposedly true copy of the court document. It is from SLATE and I suspect it is the real deal.



You may have to blow up the image. Note the top of the complaint. The Defendants are "approximately 53 pit bulldogs". This concerns me. How do pit bulldogs get a legal standing and why are they on the defense? And why 'approximately'? Could the officials involved in this search and seizure not count? Apparently not. The top of the third page of the document says they found 54 pit bulldogs. Maybe it is 'approximately' because they don't want to make it appear that all of the dogs are defendants. Maybe some of them were just visiting and not involved in the fighting.

Shouldn't Vic be the defendant? Does anyone think Vic is going to lose in the end?

Hey - It is our tax dollars at work.