Day 1 of my 5 day vacation from work will consist, well, I already started drinking wine, waiting for my girlfriend to get here and then we're going to drive to San Diego to see Sigur Ros.

Tomorrow I am going with 3 friends to see My Bloody Valentine somewhere in LA.

Sweet.

5 day vacation sounds nice. Especially one with enough money to go to concerts and drink wine.

I just got a promotion too. I'm doing okay for the moment.

Sounds like the trip I had planned (to go see Sigur Ros and MBV in CA). Have fun.

Looking forward to waking up tomorrow and seeing the thread "Day 2 of vacation"

sigur ros was amazing, so was the day. we found a sushi bar, i had a few stellas. we walked around some. we ate mexican food, i had a corona. we killed time at a cocktail bar before the show, i had a few jack N cokes. we got to the venu and i had a newcastle. we made friends with ushers. the show was amazing.


pics:

http://www.aminiature.org/sros01.jpg
http://www.aminiature.org/sros02.jpg
http://www.aminiature.org/sros03.jpg
http://www.aminiature.org/sros04.jpg
http://www.aminiature.org/sros05.jpg
http://www.aminiature.org/sros06.jpg
http://www.aminiature.org/sros07.jpg

tongight is my bloody valentine in santa monica.
gonna roll there with my chick, my friend alonso, and sober dave.

then we're going to walk to the beach and hang out.

Where did you go for sushi, Ra?

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Originally posted by one scientist:
Where did you go for sushi, Ra?

yeah! it wasn't bad. we found our way to the plaza after that and walked around more.

the little cocktail bar was on the corner of B street and something else near the copley symphony hall.

That's my favorite sushi bar downtown. They have a yellowtail plate that kicks serious sashimi ass. Tomorrow I am also heading to LA, got some serious business to take care of at Amoeba.

Very nice pics! I bet that was a great show.

it was a great show. it felt more intimate than when i saw them in 2003.

are you one of those people that takes a million pictures at concerts? it annoys the shit out of me that nobody can leave their cameras and cellphones off and enjoy the show.

*rants*

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Originally posted by mizboognish:
are you one of those people that takes a million pictures at concerts? it annoys the shit out of me that nobody can leave their cameras and cellphones off and enjoy the show.

*rants*

Not really, and when I do I never use the flash. People that use flash at shows kind of annoys me. I only take pictures at shows because I'm into photography. Besides, this show was at a symphony hall and we had good balcony seats.

ok. just checking.

I bring my tripod and lights - usually goes down well with the other punters . . .

Hah. I brought my professional DSLR to a few shows. I felt nerdy.

Also, whenever I take pictures from shows where I am seated there's really not a need to take more than a few pics since there's only so many pics you can take from the same perspective.

This sounds like a pretty swell vacation, david. Nice pics.

My Bloody Valentine was great.

The actual show was good. But my whole night was kind of shitty because of the way my girlfriend acted and then I drove 4 people plus myself to the venue, a total of 144 miles, and only one person paid the 8 dollar parking fee for me and another got me a drink even though I was the designated driver anyway and didn't want to drink that much.

And then when we were walking on Santa Monica beach I had the wine bottle in my hand that my girlfriend was drinking from and I decided to throw it away but take a swig from it before doing so, but before I did the one guy in the group that doesn't drink snatched it from my hands while saying "designated driver!" and it spilled all over my chin and down into my shirt. I was like "Wow, thanks, you go ahead and throw it away then."

Then during the show I took a few clips with my cell phone to send to my friend Sara, oh, before I get to that, I didn't do a good job of sneaking my camera into the venue because I wasn't aware I had to do so. So the guy that was searching people in line searched me then told me I had to take my digital camera (a small lumix camera) back to my car. I get back in after going back to my car and I see people with their digital cameras in the air shooting and filming the opening band.

So anyway I was taking cell phone 15 second clips, just 2, and sent them to my friend Sara that couldn't go to the show because she's dealing with a cancer scare at the moment. My girlfriend takes it from my hand and looks at who I am sending pictures to and gets pissed off. So I just ignore her and watch the band. Then I see my girlfriend reach down under our seats and take 2 empty beer cups and then she decides to throw them and one hits a girl that is sitting beside her boyfriend gets hit and I feel bad for them because they're at a show and trying to enjoy shit.

Ugh. Then in the parking lot we're all waiting to leave and they're all sitting in my car and my girlfriend throws my floor mats out, there's a Santa Monica police cruiser parked near us watching people, and then she throws the all silver wine opener that resembles a switchblade out of my car and it goes skidding on the ground near the police cruiser so I have to go get it wondering if we're going to get yelled at or something.

Then on the 80 mile ride home I have to listen to my drunk girlfriend blather one, another dude on his cell phone checking in with his girlfriend like a whipped fool, the guy that doesn't drink that kept yelling designated driver is asleep in the back seat with his knees in the back of my drivers eat and I can't move up anymore in my seat.

Yeah. I wanted to shoot myself.

was your girlfriend just really drunk, or does she throw tantrums like that a lot?

or get drunk then throw tantrums??

whats the deal your freind may have cancer and thats a nice thing you did to send pics