My monday night.

Anyone recognize this place? Yeah, that's right read on.

Ok. Monday I woke up and checked out some of the videos we had taken at the Coldplay concert and they were quite cool so I went and downloaded the new album and re-listened to all the songs and then remembered how good they were live. Sure, I have liked Coldplay songs through the years but I guess something about having heard the songs live and quite likeing the new album put me in this serious post-concert high.

At one point in the afternoon Mck came into the office and was all up in her post-Coldplay concert tizzy, jumping up and down (literally) talking about how she wanted to see them again. We looked up their tour and they were at the Garden in Boston at 7:30. We joked that if we left then, we could make it in time. Ha. She went home and I went back to work. At 5:49 she started a chat wondering what I was up to for the night and then sent me this video and link to a blog that had been to the concert in Hartford.



Yes, that video is the perfect visualisation for that song, with build,the harmony, and the pyrotechnics. Yum. A nutty conversation then took place where we just nearly got in the car and drove 2 hours to see a concert we had just seen without even knowing IF and HOW MUCH tickets would be. Nuts right? I couldn't handle the adventure of it all! But finally we came to our senses and settled on not going and returning to our regularly scheduled Monday night at home.

UNTIL...20 minutes later she called me and said that her husband told her she should go and that sometimes we need to do spontaneous things (ha) and not to worry about their son at which point, Mike, said to me "GO!" and 10 minutes later we were on the interstate out of town on our way to Boston to see the show we had seen two days ago not knowing IF we could get tickets and HOW MUCH they would be.

Man, we made good time and right down to the Garden, parked and ran to the center where what we found was more like a government assembly in China (and I've been to China) than a rock concert. People waiting in lines, no one milling around, quiet, orderly, and no one selling tickets, not a friendly scalper in sight! We circumambulated the entire centre 4 times and repeatedly bumped into the same dumb people who thought they could get coldplay tickets AFTER the concert started...but a bit shocked at what we beheld.

So I went to Boston to see Coldplay and all I got were these pitiful pictures but boy was it spontaneous and exciting. And N8 (who was also dumbfounded by the fact there were no scalpers) found some numbers on Craig's List that I called. Sure, one of them retorted, "Um, yeah I sold my tickets. The Concert is tonight, right now actually."...like I didn't know that. It's like no one has ever tried to buy tickets to a sold out show of an extremely popular band half way through their concert. Wow, we're dumb.

Anyway, then I called Luke but talked to Rick and he works for a big scalping ring (but likes to call it Professional Ticket Sales) and ending up being in Texas so tried to get a hold of his boys in Boston and was very confused, again, why I was trying to get into a concert under way but I just wanted to see IF he could get us tickets and I have seen the show and would catch any part of it that I could. Turns out his buddies didn't answer, because they were home and in bed probably, but he told me to save his # and call me and next time he'd get us a real good discount on some tickets and he could even email them! Oh and he called me Sweet Honey or was it Sweet Baby, it's all a blur. A very funny blur.

5 hours from when we took off we were back home. Sure, it would have been more fun to actually have been to the concert, but we created some pretty sweet memories in the process of not seeing them. That is good enough for me.

The cool bridge outside the Garden and a shot through the gates of
their tour vehicles...as close as we got.