Archive for July 6th, 2009
The Hangover
I saw The Hangover this Sunday and I have to say I was not impressed.
Not a good movie. It was boring.
Guy goes for bachellor party with soon-to-be brother in law and 2 best friends. They go out partying. Wake up next morning. One is married to a hooker, there’s a tiger in the bathroom and they’re missing the Groom. Awesome.
So the three dudes go on a wild goose chase to find this friend and in the process find out one was in the hospital, one got married, they stole Mike Tyson’s tiger and took $80,000 from a naked Chinese dude.
Of course some people would find this amusing, but I’m not into the… “dumb” humor for lack of better word. Movies like Super Bad don’t appeal to me. I’m sorry.
HOWEVER… I’m going to agree with this post about how hot Mr. Cooper was.
Yup.
That’s all.
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Green Day Concert
Epic Sexiness
I bought tickets for Green Day on May 10th, 2009 at 10:02am sharp. Seriously. And I had been eagarly waiting their arrival to Vancouver.
I started listening to Green Day when I was about 7 years old. The year would be 1996. Two years after Dookie came out and a year after Insomniac came out. My family got their first computer in 1996 and my (now) estranged father became very interested in downloading things. He discovered a website where you could download music (Nasap? Nascape? The one with the cat logo!!!) And shortly learned how to make CDs. So on longerish trips we would listen to mix CDs which usually contained Green Day. Of course one of the first songs I heard by Green Day was When I Come Around. Classic. And it’s been a long standing love obsession with them ever since.
So Saturday July 4th rolls around. Jess and I pick up the tickets from GM Place* around 1pm. After running around doing stuff and grabbing food we napped for a bit and then at 7:30, headed to GM Place to watch… GREEEEN DAAAAAY. 
We grabbed beer and some cinnaminy dough stick things and then headed down to general admin. Aka: Standing area. We stood around centre ice, near the back of the crowd. Jess is very tall and feels guilty that he blocks views. I would have liked to get up near the front.. maybe even touch a hand! But I stayed with Jess.
The Bravery opened for them. They remind me of a cross between Coldplay and The Killers mixed with
Dirnt Dirnt Dirnt Dirnt
a touch of punk. I didn’t mind them. They weren’t awesome, but they weren’t bad either.
After they went off stage Jess and I went to buy a t-shirt. I got a pretty yellow one! I’ll post pictures when I have the time. So… tonight!
When we came back it was only a matter of time until Green Day would start. The Pink Bunny ran out onto stage. If you’re a Green Day fan at all you know about the Pink Bunny mascot. He got the crowd going. He made everyone scream. He shot gunned two beers and imitated Michael Jackson’s infamous crotch grab.
And then… it began! Dun dun dun!
Having been listening to these guys since I was a child and finally seeing them live was incredible. I thought being in San Fran a few years ago was awesome just because I was in the same city as them! But being in the same building, watching them play, listening to them sing was surreal.
They had mini fireworks! And sparks falling from the ceiling! And fire balls/streams exploding behind Tre Cool! And the best part I think is that they TALK to the crowd. They interact.They pulled up a guy from the crowd to sing Longview and another guy to play guitar for Jesus of Suburbia. Which I think is effin’ rad. Jess said that the show was worth the ticket price in the first two songs. I’m inclined to agree. But I knew it’d be worth it either way. 
Also, they sound VERY similar to how they sound on the CD even though GM Place has shitty sound. (It’s a hockey arena, what do you expect?)
Tre Cool... my hero
So for those poor souls that didn’t make it to the Vancouver concert of Green Day, I found a f*cking rad fan that managed to sneak a camera into the concert and record most if not all of the concert! You can find his channel here.
Here’s the set list they played.
Holiday (one of my favorite songs ever)
Jaded/Longview (this is the one where the guy got to get up on stage and sing!)
After this I thought the show was over. But we encored.
Tales of Another Broken Home (latter chunk of JoS)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the videos as much as I enjoyed the concert!
I was very deaf the night of/morning after BUT I still had most of my voice in spite of copious amounts of screaming/yelling/chanting/singing along.
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You don't get anymore badass than this.
* GM Place is a hockey area where the Vancouver Canucks play! So it’s big!
