So many shows, so little time...

My Keane tickets have arrived in the mail and I am quite excited. Cory and I have really been living it up in regards to seeing concerts here in Chi-town. To date we've seen: Pedro the Lion, Deathcab For Cutie, Wheat, Billy Corgan, Damien Rice, Lucinda and Miller Williams, Muse, Richard Buckner, The Mutual Admiration Society and I've seen Ben Folds. Not to shabby for only having lived here for 6 1/2 months!

And coming up we have of course Keane, Richard Buckner again, and Jimmy Eat World.

And all this has brought to mind my first concert I went to when I was in 8th grade. Any guesses? Well, I am not ashamed to say, it was NKOTB. And for those of you unprivileged souls who don't know what that stands for...New Kids On The Block. Yep! I went. I screamed. I didn't cry, now! That would have put me back into the obsessive category which I was not in. Although I did have posters covering every inch of my room. Eh, I was artsy. We'll leave it at that.

So, I've been making a mental list of all the concerts I've seen to date, not including Chicago shows. It's quite an eclectic little list. And since I'm curious about other people's little lists, here's mine:

In Atlanta: NKOTB, U2-Zoo TV tour, The Pixies

In Missouri: Tori Amos, Radiohead (who were an opening band then for...) REM, Sunnyday Real Estate (twice), The Gin Blossoms, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Sun Sawed In Half, No Knife, The Urge, Cursive and The Appleseed Cast

In NYC: Ben Folds, Jude, The Samples, Seeking Homer, Joe F'in Cocker, and the guy who sings "Walking In Memphis," Mark Cohn, I think his name is. All of these shows blew the house down.

In Tennessee: I saw the Foo Fighters play an acoustic set in a tiny little record store. It was amazing!

So, there you have it! I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but it's time to go to work!

-listening to This Is The Last Time by Keane