No more Mrazzy Goodness

I’ve been to three Jason Mraz concerts in the last week and a half, and I’m bummed that this great period in my autumn has come to an end. I enjoyed all three of the concerts, albeit in different ways.

New York was great because it was the first show that I attended this tour and I hadn’t seen Jason Mraz perform live in two years, and also because I’d never been to Radio City Music Hall before. I don’t know how I managed to avoid this in my 27 years, but it was just beautiful and definitely worth the wait. And!! THEY SERVE ALCOHOL. Sometimes they come in faux martini glasses with Rockette legs for stems. Cute, right? So yeah, I was totally lit up for that show. People were dancing in the aisles and I bonded with a group of Boston Red Sox fans in the row in front of me and ended up dancing with one of the cuter guys for a song or two.

The second show, which was at Brookdale Community College, was interesting because I’d never been to this particular school before. The energy of the college students was pretty great (except for this weird section of people who could not get enough of sitting on their butts and never stood until Mraz told them to get on their feet). I saw a Brooke Hogan lookalike in a way too short dress, and felt inexplicably cheered every time our paths crossed.

The Boston show was pretty fun, too. I was with a friend who is also a huge Mraz fan (and her much less fan-like but good sport fiance), so that was awesome. We’ve been to several shows all over the eastern seaboard (and Wisconsin), and it was nice to be back at a show with my #1 Mrazzy buddy. I brought my camera to this show, but left the freaking memory card in New Jersey. I missed most of the opening act searching high and low for a place to get a new card. Why do stores in Boston close at 7 pm? What kind of a city downtown closes so early? Just terrible. Anyway, I stumbled upon CEX, a British store just starting to appear in the US. It seems that pretty much everything they sell is used, but who cares when you can get a 4GB memory card for $20. Almost never happens at a brick and mortar place without some kind of an insane sale going on. I got back to the show in time to hear the last few songs of Lisa Hannigan’s set. and and took some pictures and video.

Here’s a video I took during the song “Live High.” All you Barack Obama fans, pay attention starting at the 1:15 mark.

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Ha! Found it

The song that was stuck in my head was “Tarde o Temprano” by Tommy Torres. Who is completely adorable! Apparently that’s song #16 on the Nielson Latin Pop chart, but I would be super surprised if it didn’t go higher.

What is that song?

While we were in Puerto Rico, there was one song that we heard ALL THE TIME. In stores, every time we turned on the radio, just walking down the street. So now, of course, it’s stuck in my head, and I have no idea what it is or who sings it. Added to that, I don’t remember any of words, just that it sounded like a power ballad and has a lot of OOOOHHs in it. I’m on the case, though!

Best bug ever

I brought my iPod on vacation so that I would have something to listen to. While we really enjoyed listening to Puerto Rican stations, sometimes we needed a break. We listened to both Rodney’s and my iPods, but mine mostly, since his only holds 1 gig of music. I quickly learned that my general inclination of alternative stuff wasn’t really anybody else’s favorite, but that R&B/hip hop and pop were usually good choices. When Jess was in the front (which was 90% of the time, since I really enjoy the solitude of the back seat), she was good at finding songs on my iPod that I’d never listened to before. One such song was “If I Never See Your Face Again” by Maroon 5. They also did a version of it with Rihanna, but I didn’t have it then.

I downloaded it as soon as I got home, and have been playing it since then. I put it on my iPod and put it in a playlist that I made this morning. The playlist seemed funny thought, because it kept playing the Maroon 5/Rihanna song, even though there were a bunch of other songs in the list. Then I looked at the screen during the fourth time the song came up, and even thought that’s what was playing, it said “Babylon – David Gray” so then I realized that there might be something wrong with that track, or my iPod. If that’s a bug, it’s pretty much the coolest bug ever, and I’m not going to kill myself to fix it.