money well spent

so this week, my bank account went down by about thirty bucks. not a huge amount, it's still significant, especially when the money goes to tickets to shows that i'm not sure about, have never heard of the acts or whatever. wednesday, it was for cake. that wasn't so risky, cuz i do like cake, but their opening acts, i didn't know what to expect. the first band, robbers on high street, ehhh. they weren't bad, but they weren't great either. about what i'd expect from a opening act. after their set, i was ready for a good night, nothing special, just enough to make the ticket worth it. however, the next band, gomez, put a stop to that. they were introduced as the best live band, and while that may be a bit of a exaggeration, they are up there. they were really good. their lead singer, or at least one of them (they kind of switched between three different people) sounded a lot like the lead singer of shinedown. like him, this guy could do things with his voice that i can only dream about. besides that, they just really tried to get the crowd into the music. which they did, apart from a few people who were there just for cake and wouldn't even try to enjoy the music. their loss. eventually though, they did get their wish, and cake played. it was all i expected, and a bit more. i mean, they're not my favorite band, but they're still good, and when they played "going the distance", well, i may have sung along a bit. just a little bit.

thursday was a long day. it started with me being late for politics, having to run across campus because, one, i didn't want to miss the class, and more importantly, i thought we would get our tests back. we did not, however. anyway, then i came back to the dorm, had to deal with more housing crap. i thought i was done with that when we got placed on the waiting list, but there was the issue of perhaps they hadn't put the four of us (me, mike, ryan, and jared) together for our room next year. luckily, we got it all sorted out. after worrying some more about classes, and where i'm going in life (fun stuff), i was ready to laugh. 7ish, jaya and i headed over to mcalister for dane cook's tourgasm. halfway there, we caught sight of the line- two of them, heading out to the street and then splitting each going opposite directions for a few hundred feet. apparently dane cook is popular. we eventually got in, and immediately started laughing. not because of any of the comedians, but because of the choice of background music. it started with pretty woman, moved through some journey, maybe a bowie song or two, that sort of thing. not exactly what you'd associate with a crowd of twenty something college students. soon enough, the actual show started. there were three comedians, plus the host. the host wasn't the greatest, but the others were good. real good. the first guy, gary goldman was funny, he had me crying once or twice from laughing so hard. and it just got better from there. the second guy was even better. he didn't try for any of the highbrow, intellectual humor, starting with the suggestion that fat people should have midgets to pick things up for them, and moving from there. it was awesome, and we hadn't even gotten to the main act yet. when dane cook finally got onstage, i didn't think i could laugh anymore, for fear of rupturing something. somehow, i made it, which was difficult, because mr. cook is one of the funniest guys i've ever heard. a lot of it was probably because i'm finally at the age that i know what he's talking about. i mean, when he described being the drunk guy at a party, all i could think was, been there, done that. that was one of the best nights i've had in a while. the comedy show one, not the getting drunk and stumbling to the bathroom one.