Friday, April 1, 2016

Long time, no see ya...

... so good to see ya!

Soooo, I'm thirty. Yep. Do I feel any different? Not really, but kinda... and in a good way. Turning 30 kinda bummed me out, so the only logical place to go to celebrate my birthday, was Chuck E. Cheese's. I remember when that place was the bomb.com, haha! I'm going to go back even farther- remember when it was ShowBiz Pizza?!?! That place was THE BEST. CEC's entertainment is now just a bunch of video screens. But the pizza rules and it has a few fun games and a few fun picture/sketch a picture booths, so it's all good. 

I got this rad stuff for my birthday:

(I just so happen to be wearing the same exact Simba/Nala sock combination, as I did on my birthday, haha!)

Aaaaand I also got an IOU (if you will) for Duran Duran tickets, because the tickets hadn't went on sale yet. However, that didn't happen. Vallitix is awful and the California Mid-State Fair is ridiculous, because they put 3 concerts on sale on the SAME day, at the SAME time, so the server overload was massive. All of the decent seats were gone within minutes. Scalpers took almost half of the damn tickets. It was a mess. There are still seats left, but they're horrible... and I'm not sitting there. I am not a snob, but we saw Def Leppard there last year, and I know what is good and what isn't. I'm still frowning, but not as much as I was, because... I'LL BE SEEING JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS/CHEAP TRICK, IN AUGUST. That is like a DREAM SHOW of mine, oh my god. I am going to die. I am freaking out so hard. Like, I'm seriously going to faint. And spaz. And be merry. MY BABES. Tom Petersson, Robin Zander, and Joanie... *squeeeeeeeeeeees* Okay, I'm good now...

... no, wait, one more squee moment: I'LL ALSO BE SEEING DEF LEPPARD IN SEPTEMBER!!!!! That was a story. A very, very bad story. Live Nation is just as worse as Vallitix. Easier to use, but damn, y'all. There was like a zillion dang pre-sales going on and the scalpers pretty much took everything, except for the $725 and $350 VIP tickets (although, I think a few have). The best available tickets through pre-sales were lower bowl row R right in to the 200 sections. Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. I even had 3 pre-sale options and it was a joke. So, I held out for the public on-sale. IT WAS A JOKE. I kept checking back for like a week... nothing new had popped up, so I quit. I randomly decided to check a few days ago and row I, K, and M had opened up... on Viv's side. And they were decent seats. I was going to wait until about a week or so before the concert to see if any available VIP tickets had re-opened to public on-sale price... but I decided that I wasn't going to take that chance. I'm down with row I, 13th row (rows don't start with A lol). That's better than the seats we had last year at the Paso Robles fair... good grief. So yeah, Tesla opens the shows, REO Speedwagon (God, help me) plays the middle slot, and then Def Leppard gets to rule us \m/ \m/
I'm already freaking out. Def freaking Leppard. MY. BOYS. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!


Speaking of Cheap Trick, today (in Rockford, Illinois) is CHEAP TRICK DAY!! It's actually Cheap Trick Day everywhere, because they released a new album today!! "Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello" and I think it's their 17th studio album? It's also their first album without Bun E. Carlos. (For those living under a rock, Daxx Nielsen is behind the drum kit, and has been for about six years, now.)
This album is perfect, from start to finish. There isn't really a bad song on it. It's a gem. It has the perfect amount of pop, the perfect amount of rock, the perfect amount of punk, and the perfect amount of Cheap Trick. It could easily be a top 10 Cheap Trick album for me. It's that good. They've still got it... it's never left, to be honest. "Heart On the Line", "No Direction Home", "Blood Red Lips", "Sing My Blues Away", "Roll Me", "The In Crowd", and "Long Time No See Ya" are my favorites from the album. So pretty much half of the album!







P.S.- Hell froze over. A partially reunited Guns 'n' Roses played the Troubadour tonight. Axl, Duff, and Slash. Together. And they're all still standing. Whoa. It's happening. It's happening without Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler, though... and that blows. :-/ (Edited at 1:24AM, April 2nd)