veeRob’s Blog

I am writing this blog from the lobby of The Hyatt Place Hotel at the Ontario Mills Mall.  Random, I know.  See, my friend Jeff drives to San Diego to see his kids some weekends, so I hitched a ride from him at a very early hour, and had him drop me off here.  Why?  Well, this was the closest place to LA on his drive to San Diego, and my friend Kristen is on her way to pick me up here.  We’re seeing the sold-out Cursive show at the Troubador tonight, and checking out a great new band called Pendulum at Club Nokia LA Live tomorrow.  If you haven’t heard either of these bands, I highly recommend you check them out.  Cursive is just amazing live, but I’m not entirely sold on their new album.  Hopefully tonight’s set will convince me.  Pendulum is a rock/dance band from the U.K., and I have no idea what their live show is all about.  I imagine that it’s going to be awesome.  Two good shows in two days that I couldn’t catch in Vegas, and a chance to hang out with my friend Kristen… not a bad weekend.  I just need a nap to get me through the rest of today.

I just got back yesterday from a weekend in San Diego, and I was lucky enough to get to see Jimmy Eat World on Friday night as part of their “Clarity” tour.  Even better, No Knife opened up for them.  I snuck my camera into the show, and took a few videos of their set.  Here they are for you to enjoy:

Had an amazing week and then a bad week and thought I’d share it with y’all.  So last week was Coachella out in California, and though I didn’t go, I did reap the benefits of all of the bands traveling through Las Vegas to get out to the desert.  In 6 days, I saw 5 concerts… Minus The Bear, Death Cab For Cutie, Kanye West, The Raconteurs, and VHS Or Beta.  Special thanks to Rick Savage and Jen Creason for hooking me up with tix to a couple of the shows.  All the shows were great, with standouts for me being Minus The Bear and Kanye West.  My friends really enjoyed Death Cab, but I had seen them before and found them a little too mellow for my tastes.  VHS Or Beta would have blown me away had I not just seen them a couple of weeks ago.

Unfortunately, all that show-going and partying wore me out, and I have spent most of the last week in bed being sick.  While I’m not super sick, I’ve had a sore throat and a runny nose that just won’t go away.  Blah.