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The Black Keys at US Airways Center

I had to slap it in my story tag, you know. 

This was my third time seeing TBK and it definitely fit right in the middle of the other two times. Nothing will ever beat seeing them at MSG, but I liked this setlist more than the one in Philly. 

I didn’t do GA because I was with my dad…and that would not have ended well. But this was the most full-on view I’ve ever had of them so that was awesome. 

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The Shins at the Rialto Theatre

here’s a tip don’t ever go see the shins in a “”college town”“ 

holy shit the show was great and they were wonderful but I had NO idea a crowd at their show could be so awful……..these sweaty douchey guys kept jumping all over me and shoving me out of the way so they could be at the front instead and I thought I was going to pass out at one point because I hadn’t eaten anything since a smoothie at 3 on campus oops 

but anyway james mercer is the cutest little person 

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that time I stalked one direction and had no regrets

I SAW ALL FIVE OF THEM I SAW THEM ALL THEY ARE REAL 

HARRY’S HAIR IS REAL IT BOUNCED IT WAS BEAUTIFUL 

actually this is a fucking stupid tag you should go to 


Foo Fighters at Bamboozle

This is a long post about my day at Bamboozle and stuff? It’s mostly me complaining about how awful the dumb festival was? But if you just want to read specific moments and stuff from the FF set go down to the bottom and there’s a bulletpoint list because that’s how my brain works.

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Oh MAN

burcespingsteen:

  • SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT!!!!
  • THUNDERCRACK!!!!
  • BACKSTREETS!!!!
  • ROSALITA!!!!

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The Joy Formidable at Terminal 5

THEY WERE SO GOOD WOW 

I’ll make a post tomorrow and also I still need to make Keys/Monkeys posts because I never did that but ahhhhh the most important things to know are 

  • Front row \m/ some short girl kept squeezing in front of me on my spot on the rail but I was at least a foot taller than her so it didn’t even matter 
  • Ritzy Bryan is the most adorable person in the world (we knew that already) 
  • Rhydian is a bro and it was his birthday aw 
  • Matt Thomas (I am so in love with him……he is a long-haired drummer how could I not be) is the biggest goober and I was directly in front of him and he kept making the dumbest faces at us omg…and for the encore he came out onstage IN A LOBSTER SUIT…

The Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys

I was lucky enough to see this show twice with Emily… First on March 10th in Philadelphia and second on March 22nd at Madison Square Garden. I’m really late making this post so I won’t go into extreme detail but I did want to have a post that summed everything up and what not. 

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@ the last hour of my life 
basically, a 5 minute long clusterfuck of NBC comedy after the show under the NBC marquee huddling in a circle talking and waving to everyone waiting that consisted of
Amy Poehler
Will Arnett
Rachel Dratch
Seth Meyers
Jack McBrayer
John Krasinski
Emily Blunt
Tracy Morgan
Horatio Sanz
MORE THAT I’M PROBABLY FORGETTING
like you guys they were getting in cars to go to the after party…can you imagine that after party…and just oh my god it was the heart of SNL over the past 10 years and all right there I can’t even 
then talking to various cast members (the usuals who come out…Jay, Bobby, Taran, Vanessa, Nasim, Paul, Fred) 
YOU GUYS. I spoke the words “YOU WON THE ENTIRE INTERNET WITH THAT VIDEO” to Taran Killam. He smiled and bowed. I… oh my god. 
also
LORNEY MIKES
Higgins
Questlove
Shoemaker
Mulaney
OTHERS TOO PROBABLY CAN’T REMEMBER
I took pictures hang on I’ll post them
good god this was incoherent but GOOD GOD 

@ the last hour of my life 

basically, a 5 minute long clusterfuck of NBC comedy after the show under the NBC marquee huddling in a circle talking and waving to everyone waiting that consisted of

  • Amy Poehler
  • Will Arnett
  • Rachel Dratch
  • Seth Meyers
  • Jack McBrayer
  • John Krasinski
  • Emily Blunt
  • Tracy Morgan
  • Horatio Sanz
  • MORE THAT I’M PROBABLY FORGETTING

like you guys they were getting in cars to go to the after party…can you imagine that after party…and just oh my god it was the heart of SNL over the past 10 years and all right there I can’t even 

then talking to various cast members (the usuals who come out…Jay, Bobby, Taran, Vanessa, Nasim, Paul, Fred) 

YOU GUYS. I spoke the words “YOU WON THE ENTIRE INTERNET WITH THAT VIDEO” to Taran Killam. He smiled and bowed. I… oh my god. 

also

  • LORNEY MIKES
  • Higgins
  • Questlove
  • Shoemaker
  • Mulaney
  • OTHERS TOO PROBABLY CAN’T REMEMBER

I took pictures hang on I’ll post them

good god this was incoherent but GOOD GOD 


IDK I HAVE TWO PICTURES WITH NATE MENDEL 

AND ONE WITH PAT SMEAR 


PAT AND NATE SIGNED MY TICKET 
The ladies I was waiting with screamed for Pat and Nate to come over and they did and they were SO NICE OH MY GOD and this chick said “Sorry if we freaked you out!!!” to Pat and he goes “ALL GIRLS SCARE ME” oh my god 
Then I said “Thanks for the best show ever on Sunday!!!!!” to Nate and he was like “WOW THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT!!!” okay Nate like you didn’t already know you were fucking awesome 
Also Joan Jett came over but oops I was too busy taking pictures of the cases of Foo gear 

PAT AND NATE SIGNED MY TICKET 

The ladies I was waiting with screamed for Pat and Nate to come over and they did and they were SO NICE OH MY GOD and this chick said “Sorry if we freaked you out!!!” to Pat and he goes “ALL GIRLS SCARE ME” oh my god 

Then I said “Thanks for the best show ever on Sunday!!!!!” to Nate and he was like “WOW THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT!!!” okay Nate like you didn’t already know you were fucking awesome 

Also Joan Jett came over but oops I was too busy taking pictures of the cases of Foo gear