The New abNormal

Duran duran live 09
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Put away your hairspray and blue eyeliner, boys and girls - this ain't your parent's pop band anymore. Well, not really.

( in which our hero goes to a concert and holds off all the goofy song references until the end. )

Yeah, so I managed to prattle on for several paragraphs and manage to say sweet little about the actual concert. So, shoving my prose back into the back of my brain, here's some basic details about the show.

I ordered my tickets only a couple days before the show, but got row 7 seats for me, Lizz and our daughter Jillie. She's 8, but already likes a lot of Duran Duran's music.  Plus, I was pretty sure it'd be a "reasonably safe for child consumption" concert, and I want her to experience rock shows. And I'd like to experience them with her. Going to shows is really about the shared experience, I think.

We got there early enough to get a good parking space and pick up the tickets from Will Call - - I have to say, "Will Call" is one of my favorite bits about concerts. It's the next best thing to saying "the band left tickets for me."

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( reposting for your amusement )

15 years ago, the world stopped and glued their eyes to the Television screens to watch a helicopter-eye-view slow-motion police chase of a white ford bronco.

Today, the world stops and glues their eyes to the television screen to watch a helicopter-eye-view slow-motion police escort of a black hearse.


In the end, I don't think its so much about color as much as it is about us being spoonfed what passes for "news." We're all just cyber-exhibitionists, with front row tickets to everything, complete with a play by play commentary that tells us what to think and how to feel about it.

I watch the news all day with the sound off - and it's better, but only by a little bit.


Everything else I have to say about this... I'm thinking I'll just keep to myself.