During a recent outing on my bike cruiser, I was riding along, wind blowing through my hair, smiling, soaking up the sun. While cruising on the sidewalk I noticed some landscapers trimming the bushes ahead of me on the side of the road. Plenty of room to ride around them, no problem, then I noticed another bicyclist riding towards me. She was also on the sidewalk, so I drifted a little towards the bush, minding the landscapers, still had plenty of room to pass. With a ring of my bike’s bell, greeting the other rider, smiles, hello, then out of the corner of my eye, what looks like a chainsaw at the end of a pole coming towards my head. … Whoa … he came from around the hedges, and at first did not notice me. (It was like an ancient booby trap meant to chop off your head, something that Indiana Jones would of ducked and rolled to avoid.) At the last second he elevated the contraption so I could pass safely underneath it.

That would have been a crappy way to die.

The Saturday night Dave Matthews Band show in West Palm Beach is ALWAYS a sellout. Year after year that is guaranteed, its just not known when it will sell out. This year I was a but slow in purchasing my ticket, and after a highly successful ticket push by Live Nation the show sold out earlier than normal. So I needed to make a decision… Should I buy a ticket through Stub Hub? Or take a chance buying a ticket at the show? Continue reading

Photos taken at the Dave Matthews Band show in West Palm Beach, July 31, 2010. Used my iPhone from about 10-15 feet away from center stage.

A little while back I caught Weezer play a show up in West Palm Beach. Had a great time, it was during the Sun Fest Music Festival. They are one of the few groups where I have all of their albums, and followed them since I first bought Weezer Blue on cassette back in 1995. I wanted to share some of my pictures and their setlist from the show. As well as a list of how I rank their albums.

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