the music comes first

for me, at least... often for Precious too, but not for Rasputin... what that means is Precious is the only person I am close to in my every day life who wants to go to concerts regularly... but that means I have to pay for two tickets each time and that's tapping the wallet a bit much lately... meanwhile, this weekend I bought 30 Seconds to Mars (2 tickets) at just over $30 a pop... Death Cab for Cutie (4 tickets, though Rasputin is supposed to give me back for two) at about $34 a pop... and Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins (3 tickets, one as a birthday present for Precious's best friend Dreamer because Jenny, of Rilo Kiley, is Dreamer's favorite artist) at $20 a pop...

that's over $250 in tickets purchased this weekend... probably around $1,000 for the year so far... it would be financially prudent to find a concert partner who pays her (or his) own way, huh?...

the Paramore (with Cute is What We Aim For, Hit The Lights, and This Providence) concert was tonight and that was only about $30 for the three of us (Precious and Dreamer)... somewhere (I think in a myspace blog entry) I listed all the concerts I've got tickets for in the next few months...

the concert was great, so why am I focused on money?... maybe because I don't want to be focused on lonely... of course I could justify the comment by my on again off again paramore, z0tl for focusing me on money as I ask myself why I don't splurge on a new computer and the music expenses roll out as one reason why... but the finding a concert partner part of the line above is the real thorn in the side of the overjoyment tonight... sharing music, intimacy, and falling in love are just so intertwined for me, alas...

still, there is much overjoyment...

though I wish the younger acts today would appreciate the ambiance of the club they play in and not let their egos influence or control the directives they give the sound guys... it's not that I want them to turn down their instruments, it's that I want them to balance and stop competing for who's got the loudest sound... especially when they have a great lead singer who is completely drowned out by the musician's ego-competition... it happened with every band tonight, especially with the headliners and that's just not fair to the singer...

she, Haley Williams, lead singer of Paramore, is a kid with serious talent and potential and she deserves better than to get drowned out by her band... and I'm still grumbling over stuff, dang, I must be lonelier than I thought...

I'm gonna take a shower, I stink of cigarettes...

still, with overjoyment J