WEDNESDAYS

Smiling on the Inside

  Many months ago Avery saw a guitar at the store where he takes guitar lessons.  The super nice guy Roy that manages the place let him play it even though it was one of the more expensive guitars they had for sale.  Every Wednesday Avery would go and visit the guitar and play it and give me that look, the one that says, "This is good."  I told him it wasn't the money necessarily.  He already has a nice red electric guitar and he is able to play Abby's acoustic whenever he chooses.  I just didn't want to commit to buying anything else right after Christmas etc. 

  One day about a month ago I lost my mind and decided to buy the guitar and they let me put it on layaway etc.  The next time Avery went to play the guitar it was still there but it had a sold sign on it.  He was crushed.  Some fool had bought 'HIS' guitar.  How could this be?  It turned out that the guitar was a limited edition and the company didn't make that many and the ones we found online were being sold for much more than what the music store had asked.  Avery didn't stop talking about this development.

  I was able to pick it up this week for him.  I told him that I had his other guitar restrung so when he opened the case and saw the new one he almost threw it across the room.  So excited.  It is a great guitar, very fancy looking and has this cool button that turns off one of the pickups so it sounds very different from his other guitar.   

Now if I could just get his rock star hair to grow back in faster...............

KILLERS

  Went to see the Killers last night with Lisa and the two Abbys...Abby one and Abby two.  The entire show started a  little late with TWO opening acts.  The first was called Dirty Sweet and they were pretty good with a Black Crows/southern rock kind of vibe.  I liked a couple of their songs.  Next up was a band from Australia called Howling Bells.  I will continue to think of them as howling hell.  The music did not match the singing and it was very loud.  Nothing quite like "music" that is so off that the sound actually hurts you when played loud.  Both the Abby's were ready to quit about two songs into this madness.

  However, the Killers more than made up for HH.  They brought the house down along with about a ton of glitters and shiny prizes.  Brandon CAN sing and he was way better live than he is on any recording.  The lights were fantabulous phenomenal.  This was my Abby's first concert and I believe she was impressed especially when they played her favorite song.  We got a couple of t-shirts, one for Abby and one for Avery who missed out on this concert.  Not to worry, there will many more in his future.

I loved this concert and although I liked the Killers before I went, I am now moving toward obsessed fan.  And just for the record, Abby 1 AND 2 were mortified that the "moms" were screaming, "I heart Brandon" and other random things for most of the time they were on stage.  Two encores later we finally made it home.  Sweet

Depeche Mode

Not many people know this about me but I love DEPECHE MODE.  I have never seen them in concert.  I don't have all of their recordings in my collection of music.  Yet, when I hear one of their songs played on the radio, I turn up the volume.  My favorite song is "Just Can't Get Enough."  If I have listened to it once I have listened to it 1000 times and I still love every note. 

Currently I am very much into the GooGoo Dolls (not sure if GooGoo is one or two words).  I am learning about Damien Rice, aka the ricearoni, the riceman, the rice-a-nator and he is incredible.  And of course I am and always will be one with U2.  Let's just settle it right now: They can do no wrong.