#132 - kokua

kokua was awesome! the concert was great, the atmosphere was great, even the nutty health food was pretty great. but what made it even greater was that it almost didn't happen... here's how the story goes...

i got my ticket from spencer (thanks spencer), but four of my friends who i was meeting at the shell had bought theirs on ebay, for like $105. so we all went down to the shell on saturday, i caught a ride with my co-worker and we met my other three friends there. we get there early, stand in line fully expecting to be in there early, get a great seat on the lawn and camp out for the whole afternoon. then my friend looks at her ticket... it says SUNDAY! the lady standing in line in back of us says, "that sucks, sorry." haha. then we panic. after a bit of that we compose ourselves again and go up front to the ticket booth to see if there's anything that can be done (my ticket was for saturday, but then i'd have to ditch my friends, plus, she was my ride home). so after an hour or so of comtemplating leaving, trying to find someone to trade sunday for saturday tickets (which didn't really make much sense because no one there would be like, "oh you want me to give you my tickets and then i'll go home and come back tomorrow? sure!"), thinking about buying some scalpers' saturday tickets and then scalp the sunday ones ourselves, we finally got real proactive and asked one of the shell ticket guys (who looked pretty local and lax) if there's anything he could do... we kept talking to this guy because he actually seemed interested in our sob story, and finally, after the crowd died down and most people were inside already, he swapped our sunday tickets for "jammin' hawaiian" concert tickets (the concert was last weekend but i guess since the date was past already then the ticket scanners could beep it as we went through the gates). so there we are, trying to rush through security and the ticket scanners scaredidly, me with my saturday kokua ticket and them with their jammin' hawaiians tickets for april 12th... and before you knew it we were through! it was awesome! and look what was waiting for us on the other side...

before the music on the main stage started jack played a little mini-concert for the kiddies on the back stage. it was cool. anyway, the rest of the night went pretty sweetly. i had a black bean hummus pita that was yummy. lots of $7.75 beer. almost had a drunk dude fall on me (he missed me and landed flat on his back on our backpacks and stuff, then just kept staring up blankly at the sky like nothing happened). smelled tons of pot. saw a super-stoned dave matthews. met a lady from new york whose daughter was here because of the make a wish foundation (her wish was to meet jack johnson, so they had dinner with him before the concert), she was also drunk, she was standing in front of us in the beer line. it was sweet.

anyway, on a semi-related note, i've decided that i need to like more things. well, i had that resolution before, but i think i need to reaffirm it every now and then because it can get kinda lost. so, more positive posts from now on, let's start with....

BONES!! haha, okay i saw my second episode ever tonight, i really liked it! it was funny. y'know just this afternoon i was watching commericals of live comedy shows and people laughing their asses off in the audience to really lame jokes. and it got me thinking, do people at those things just put themselves in a frame of mind where everything anyone says is gonna sound tremendously funny and then they'll just laugh their brains out after each line? because really, not every single line is funny (and mostly, i think maybe only 5-10% of those stand up comedy acts are really worth laughing at). but i think people go with the flow and allow themselves to laugh more easily at those kind of things, like show and movies. if i was watching even a very funny movie by myself there are very few instances when i actually laugh out loud (usually it's at really dumb stuff, like that "man who's scared of plants" bit on that christopher walken snl i posted a while ago), although i do notice that now that i'm living alone i tend to laugh out loud a little more (also talk to myself a little more, but that's a post for another day).

anyway, my point is that i actually laughed out loud during BONES today, which is something that very few tv shows are able to do, so i give them a lot of credit and will watch it again next week... hmm, i may have just found a monday night replacement for "terminator" and "heroes."

also, i like those mac ads. y'know the one with those two guys, pc and mac. i like the pc guy. i don't think i'll ever buy a mac (although i've been flirting with the idea of finally buying an ipod recently), but i do like the light-heartedness of those commercials. cool. well, maybe i'm being swayed by my attempt to like more things, but that's not a horrible thing right?