So we took the Girl Monkey to her umpteenth concert last night.  It was the 101X Xmas concert with Alpha Rev, Morningwood, StellaStar and Spoon.  I only went to see Spoon, although Tim also enjoyed StellaStar.  The Girl Monkey, (or Eunice Tallulah as I told my mother-in-law we were going to call her), has been to several concerts:  The Killers, ACL Fest and David Garza, but I think this is the first one where her hearing is actually functioning.  She moved a lot as soon as the music started!  I enjoyed it because a lot of the music sucked;)  She’s in a very active phase, so she probably would have moved a lot anyway, but I like to think she was dancing to the music.  Or she was cowering in fear with her tiny hands over her tiny ears.  Who knows?  But Tim and I both think it’s important to expose our child to a lot of music since we’re such music lovers and hey, it’s never too early to start!  Plus, in 3 months it will be a lot more difficult to go see concerts on a whim:)

Last night worked out well because we was able to sit for almost the entire night, and so I still had lots of stamina to dance my booty off to Spoon.  My biggest concern was petering out because I don’t have the energy or physical ability to stand for long periods of time that I used to.  They put on a great show and I was able to get a clear drooling view of Britt Daniel.  There were lots of obnoxious drunk people, unfortunately, mostly 101x employees who seemed to not even notice that a concert was going on.  The poor girl in front of me was so drunk, and this obnoxious guy who was trying to take her home I think kept pushing her so she’d teeter off balance and nearly fall.  And he kept plying her with alcohol.  Ah, why don’t these people go to The Drunk Monkey or Exodus to enact their stupid mating rituals?  And these two girls next to me when I was sitting (who I’m sure were 101x employees), kept holding their camera out to take pictures of themselves.  Finally I offered to do it for them and they said, “oh, no thanks, that’s okay!” and kept taking pictures of themselves, checking out the pictures, and then doing different poses.  It was the most pitiful display of vanity I’ve ever seen.  Luckily, none of this dampered the concert for me, but gave me lots of eye candy to watch during the slow points.  Oh, Spoon, protect me from your audience members!

BUT we saw Andy Langer several times (he was standing very near to us and the club was very sparsely populated), and I actually saw him move a bit to the music.  That’s certainly not like him!  All in all it was a fun night and I’m hoping my body forgives me for going to bed at 1:30.

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Marsha

2006-01-10T03:15:59.000Z

I went to a big Guy Forsyth show at Stubbs when I was 8+ months pregnant.  I couldn’t stand for long and definitely not in the crowd but a security guard got me a folding chair and we hung out on the side near the green room area.  Guy Forsyth actually came out, recognized us from playing our wedding and put his ear to my big ol belly and gave it a kiss.  Jackson was blessed by Guy before he was born.  Pretty cool.