Last night Jess, Sonia, Peaches & I went to see the Silversun Pickups, Ok Go & Snow Patrol. Of course, the band we were most excited to see -- Silversun Pickups -- played first and, to our dismay, went on way earlier than the tickets said so we missed the first few songs. I've seen them a few times before, so I wasn't super bummed for me, but I wish the other three could have seen the whole show.
Whatever the case, Silversun Pickups put on a great show as usual-- after which Peaches and I got to meet Nikki Monniger (bass) in the hallway just outside the auditorium. I pulled the star struck dork approach, gushing over how she has inspired me to learn bass... blah blah. Peaches was a cutie and calmly shook her hand. It was a nice moment.
Ok Go was decent too, the best part being the video feed playing in time to the music and the hot pink sky-dancer tubes thrusting like jazz hands into the air during the last song. I usually hate those things, but they somehow worked for this.
Snow Patrol's set entertained as well. They had three floor to ceiling, *LED nets behind them, glowing with patterns that you had to either severely blur your eyes (I just took off my glasses), or be standing far enough back to properly see what was going on, but it was a nice visual element. At one point the lead singer, Gary Lightbody, started rambling about people having things that glow in their pockets and if they did to hold them up during the second verse of the following song... you know "pretend like this is San Francisco." I'm not sure exactly what he meant by that. It felt a bit like an insult. He's a foreign (Irish) rock star though, so I suppose it's forgivable, no? Below is a crappy camera phone photo of what the sea of glowing cell phones, cameras & a few token lighters looked like:

Geez, that is a crappy photo. It was way more impressive and moderately disturbing in person. Oh well. I'm just happy I figured out how to get this photo off my phone! Yay bluetooth. So, after all was said and done, it was a good night.
Back to work for me now.
* LED nets are hard to explain, but imagine if each pixel on your computer
monitor was about 1"x1" and spaced 6" apart, with nothing but darkness
in between. Did that help?