9/27/06 - IRVINE

September 27, 2006Verizon Wireless AmphitheatreIrvine, CA
Hey guy-probably-sitting-in-row-G-or-H-in-Section-2, I know you love Orange County and all, but there's no need to "boo" and yell "this is IRVINE!!" when the venue is referenced to as being in "Los Angeles." Significant Digits come into play in three industries - Math, Science, and Touring. Very few venues are in metropolitan areas, so we have the tendency to round up. I, too, love the Angels, Adam Brody, and Kristin Cavalleri, but please give my man a little leeway when he talks about how much he loves it here in Los Angeles.
Now, Show and Tell:
John sat in during Sheryl's set in Favorite Mistake.
BeliefGood Love Be On The WayVulturesWhy GeorgiaSlow Dancing In A Burning RoomBigger Than My BodyDaughtersClarityGravityNo Such ThingWaiting On The World To Changeencore3x5 (solo acoustic)Trust Myself (With Loving You)In Repair
Belief is quickly becoming very becoming. Seriously, it feels like an old favorite and is a strong way to start the set. The spot on JJ was long overdue and sets off the tune. We got some fun little inserts in the songs: When The World Is Running Down in Good Love and The Eraser in Slow Dancing. dela and DRh were back to kicking it Rainbow Time style in Bigger Than My Body. Robbie led Daughters off with a great solo. Really nice. Clarity sounded great - I feel like the end of the song could go on for 10 more minutes and still feel like it ended too soon. Very cool new break in No Such Thing (including a killer solo by Mr. Ricky Peterson), and the crowd again made itself proud and loud in Waiting. We got what I am to believe is the first 3x5 of the tour, solo acoustic no less, before the 1-2 punch of the beautiful Trust Myself and In Repair.
LA - sorry, I mean Irvine - you got yourselves a rock show. This is the first time I've watched an entire show from a seat (maybe even the first time I've had a hard ticket assigned to me), and I was honestly blown away. The band sounds incredible and the new tunes bring life to the stage that I've never sensed before. Incredibly tight.
Wonderful night with wonderful people. See y'all in a few weeks.
-Scotty

9/26/06 - SAN DIEGO

September 26, 2006Bayside AmphitheatreSan Diego, CA
BeliefGood Love is on the WayWhy GeorgiaVulturesSlow Dancing in a Burning RoomBigger Than My BodyDaughtersWaiting On The World To ChangeGravityNo Such ThingIn Repair
Does the feeling of standing at front of house, watching The Chad turn little knobs, looking up to see John soloing, JJ smoking a cigarette without using his hands, and David Ryan Harris rocking a mohawk EVER get old? Needless to say, there was an infinite amount of really badass stuff going on, but I caught myself really enjoying what was happening about 3 minutes into the set.
First off, how hot is a venue called "Bayside"? We actually got into a conversation about how little sense the "Bayside Tigers" meant. I guess Saved By The Bell was set in the Bay of Bengal? And "The Valley" was actually the "Ganges River Valley"? And all this time, I thought they were in the same city as Sly and the rest of the people from California Dreams.
Second, the weather was fantastic - breeze coming in over the water, creating a nice, crisp, late summer night. General admission created a cool feel too - sort of like a big, packed lawn with a grandstand at the back. And y'alls came to par-tay.
Belief was a perfect opener - throughout the night, I was mad impressed at everyone's knowledge of Continuum- y'all did your homework this past week. Georgia has to make you smile - just feels so good. Slow Dancing is one of my favorite tracks off the new record, and it was fantastic. Dynamite, even. The crowd did its thing in Waiting, which has a slightly different end that I was used to. Another one of my favorite new tunes, In Repair, finished the set. Robbie and DRH sprinkled in solos throughout the night on most of the tunes, sounds great. dela (of course) did his thing with the dancing and the bopping and the eating of the Jello Jigglers, yep.
Big up to the guys from Aloris for coming down (they helped us make this here website), and it was wonderful to see all my family members I've missed for so long. We hang again tomorrow, this time in the OC. Until tomorrow night, enjoy your mall.
-Scotty

NEBRASKA AT USC

Is there anything in the world better than college football? The leaves turning, the temperature dropping, and hundred-thousand-person parties all over the country every Saturday? I sadly can't stroll down Techwood anymore at gametime, but our man Kelley (more on him soon) has USC season tickets, and it was an experience on Saturday.
I'd never been to the Coliseum out here nor been to any event with 90,000 people in attendance. It was insane. The feeling of walking through the archways and seeing the sold-out stadium was chilling. And although I'll hold the ACC and SEC as superior conferences in every way forever, I gotta admit that the Trojans (and those passionate, fired up, almost frightening Cornhuskers) brought it like Gabrielle Union.
I made the sweet decision to not bring a camera, so the pics below are the best I could salvage from my phone (who cares about memories in high-quality anyway?). I wish there was footage of me walking into a steel piling (and breaking my collarbone), looking foolish (why is everyone waving '#2'? "It's a 'V' for 'Victory', idiot."), or of my boy Kent shot-putting bowling balls down the lane at our post-game extratravaganza.

DOV DAVIDOFF

Lately, the two most prominent things in my life seem to be Greg Kinnear and football. After Little Miss Sunshine and our Fantasy draft (why do I ALWAYS type "fatnasty" the first time??) over the weekend, I decided to marry them like sidework tonight when I bought tickets to Invincible.
The movie is cool in itself (I'll never get tired of movies about sports teams/players who battle against the odds), but something in the first five minutes made me realize that the next 90 were going to be far better than I imagined: the voice (and later face, then entire person) of Dov Davidoff.
I love me some standup comedians. I distinctly remember the moment I first laughed at a Mitch Hedberg joke (frozen banana), was appalled by Dave Attel (that's just how she passed out), and listened to Daniel Tosh's CD for the 89th time (76 times ago). Anyway, when seeing some dude named Dane Cook at the Laugh Factory one night, this fast-talking, erratic guy named Dov came out and had us wishing we weren't laughing so much so that we could hear what he was saying. Dude is straight up just fun to watch.
He's got better stuff than his site offers, but check him out (especially if you're one of the rare folks that likes to laugh).
I want someone to call ME "candle guy".