It’s the weekend and I decided was a good reason to make a post about random happy things that have gone on this week …
* I had dinner at my Grandma Rita’s house the other night. We had such a nice visit. She shared a cookie recipe with me for these lovely crunchy sugar cookies that I can remember my great gram making years ago. They’re fabulous dunked in coffee. Yum! I’m planning to make a double batch and take some to my grandma as a “thank you”.
* I spent my Saturday morning with my hunny. He went across town and got donuts from my favorite locally-owned shop (which is in a not-so-nice part of the city). Haven’t had donuts from this shop since I was a kid! I made coffee which, for some reason, tasted especially wonderful too. We spent the morning talking, sipping coffee, and listening the Mumford and Sons CD. How great of a morning is that!?
* Earlier this week, we found out the other day that Cold is going to be playing at Peabody’s in Cleveland on March 29th. We scored tickets (for only $15 each!) and I got the day off work to go. From what I understand, Peabody’s is a fairly small venue, so it should be amazing.
* Stopped by World of Music today and saw they were having signups for a Ukulele Workshop next weekend. For $45, you get a ukulele, a beginner group lesson, “learning materials” (a booklet of some sort, presumably) and an art workshop to customize your new uke. Seriously … how fun does that sound?! I stood there and debated for a quite a while and finally decided to just go for it.
… As a result I’ve wasted the rest of my afternoon browsing sites like Ukulele Underground (!!) and perusing ukulele cover songs on YouTube. (Check out the one above – awesome!) I’m ridiculously excited. Mike says I have to learn to at least play “Happy Birthday” by the time his birthday rolls around next January. (Deal!)
* Finally, I wanted to share some wonderful new-to-me blogs that I’ve stumbled upon recently. I just adore these ladies … Liz at SrslyLiz, Danielle at Sometimes Sweet, Alycia at The Curious Pug, Elycia at Love Elycia and Kyla at KylaRoma.com. Check them out!
I’m off to catch a nap – ’cause there’s nothing more luxurious and wonderful on a rainy afternoon – and enjoy the rest of my weekend. Hope y’all are having a great Saturday too!
We got to meet Corey Taylor and the rest of the guys from Stone Sour. I got the cover of their CD single autographed.
The Jägermeister stage featured: As Summer Dies, Hail the Villain, New Medicine, Airborne and HellYeah. Hail the Villain was freakin’ amazing. They’re big in Canada but haven’t made as much of a name for themselves here in the US yet, unfortunately. As Summer Dies (a local Buffalo, NY band) was pretty great too.
I liked Halestorm pretty well; Mike and I agreed their drummer, Arejay Hale, is freakin’ amazing and SO fun to watch.
Stone Sour, sadly, fell a little flat. Still totally worth seeing … but somehow they seemed sort of disinterested in performing? Maybe it was just me.
A7X flat out stole the show. Check out how they opened their set…
(Uh, yah. That may have been me screaming when the guy jumped out of the rafters there.)
A7X’s tribute to The Rev was a tear-jerker. Mike Portney (the drummer from Dream Theater) really held his own though, and it was great to see fans giving him a warm welcome.
While I think A7X could have easily carried the show themselves, getting to see Disturbed was just a bonus. I can’t believe this year marks the 10-year anniversary of The Sickness being released.
Yup. Happy times.
P.S. There are more photos on my Flickr photoset for Uproar Fest – here.
In case you haven’t seen it all over Twitter or Facebook (heh), this is where I’m going next Sunday with Mike…
I am SO. FREAKING. PSYCHED!
This will be Mike’s 10th time seeing Disturbed. (Not necessarily on purpose; they have just happened to play at several festivals — Ozzfest, Mayhem, etc. — that he’s been to over the last several years.) He promised me about 5 or 6 years ago (when he’d only seen them maybe 2-3 times) that he would take me to see them. For a whole variety of reasons, it never happened.
It was really purely a whim when Mike told me to check the dates that Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed were playing. (I don’t think he realized it was a “fest”; I know I didn’t.) When we saw all the bands that will be playing … well, it was just a MUST.
Sunday, we stopped at Giant Eagle’s Ticketmaster counter to pick up the tickets. Mike stayed in the car with Little Man (we were on our way home from church) while I ran in to get them. Again, on a whim, I asked the clerk to check if there were any good seats left at a reasonable price (I was assuming most of the good tickets would be gone with only a week till the show). We would have been just as happy with lawn tickets, but I managed to get seats in the front of section 200 (dead-center)!
The best part? Seeing Mike’s face when I went back out to the car and told him the seats I got. Total jaw-drop reaction. It completely made my day!
It was really purely a whim when Mike told me to check the dates that Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed were playing. (I don’t think he realized it was a “fest”; I know I didn’t.) When we saw all the bands that will be playing … well, it was just a MUST.
