Party like it's 1999!

I don't know what y'all used to listen to back in the day, but Julia and I met up with some friends and another couple who's new at her work to to see Collective Soul, Live, and the Counting Crows Saturday night up in Grand Rapids. It was at the minor league park up there - really nice place for a minor league stadium.

I should've know I was going to be a jerk from the time we backed out of the drive way and I was inches from running smack into our friend's car. There was a pile of mulch in the drive way, so I whipped around it and the front end of Julia's jeep just missed their car ... not a good start.

Well, eventually we got up there after dinner and eventually got through the beer line and got the biggest plastic cup of beer I've ever seen in my life. Collective Soul is rocking out while we drink our beers, but it takes almost the whole time they're playing to get the beer.

Live's up next and I grab another beer as soon as they start. Then's when I started getting rowdy. Not drunk at all, but had a big beer or so in me and people were jumping around and singing for Live and I'm swearing at people. Some chick came up and grabbed my ass and asked what the blanket was for Julia and I had. I said it was to bang on right there during the concert. Except I think I was probably a little more explicit. The she grabbed some other dudes ass, and I yelled something about how he wouldn't like that cause he's flaming. And I'm dropping the F bomb like it was 2003 back at the ACN digs. Eventually the new girl that Julia works with and her fiancee walk away from us. I don't know if it was my swearing or singing. Either way, I was enjoying things.

Live was great, they rocked the shit out of their songs. Until one song when the lead singer started singing the word 'love' over and over again. I yelled something about not getting gay on us. They he said he was sending it out overseas for peace and I yelled something about seeing the insurgents dropping their weapons as we sing. Come to think of it ... that's about the time the other couple walked off. We didn't see them anymore.

Cut to Counting Crows - they blew and we left early. Even though that's the band I wanted to see most, but damn, they sucked.