marty with the party: jack's mannequin

6/10/2013

Weekend Update: All Sorts Of Blah

Mondayyyy. You have arrived. Meh. This weekend had so much potential, but ended up being a little lackluster.

Thursday: Yep, we’re starting with Thursday. I worked all day and then headed to a Relay For Life meeting. This will be my 3^rd year doing it, and it’s crazy how big the event has grown in our little town. 1^st year was 2011 and we had like 5 teams, 2^nd year totally blew up and we had like 18 teams or something AND raised like $40,000 for the American Cancer Society. The event is still 2 weeks away and according to the website, we have 20 teams and have about $39,000+ raised. Super cool! My team captain is my best friend’s mom so I got to the meeting a little early and raided her fridge like the good old days. We talked about what is gonna happen at the relay and what our team has planned…should be an awesome event.

This walk is for the AmericanCancer Society , an organization that raises money to fight ALL cancer. The Relay For Life is a 24 hr walk where teams participate and each team must have at least 1 person walking at all times. Ideally, there should be 20 people walking the course at any given time. Even at 3:00 am! I've kind of sucked at raising money, so I’m pitching it to my readers :] If you've got an extra $5, $10, $20, or even $100…throw it my way! It will be greatly appreciated!

Friday: Remember how I was super excited for Tim? He kind of did not impress. We left town a little late, encountered traffic, missed our exit, more traffic, tailgate, strongggg honey jack & coke, found an InCahoots group that brings speakers and line dances in the tailgate lot before the show, completely missed Love & Theft, caught Brantley Gilbert’s last 2 songs, searched through the masses for friends, didn't find them, and mostly chilled through Tim's set. My problem with Tim was he played a lot of new music I didn't know. I guess that’s my own fault for not being a true fan. Loved the last 20 minutes of his set which was where he played everything I knew! Chilled in the parking lot and waited for traffic to die down, saw a chick dance on the roof of a car and secretly wished she fell…no luck. Mexican food. Sleep.

Chelsea with the photobomb.

3 amigos <3

Let's take a second to appreciate the growth of my hair! Left is 2 summers ago (I think?),
baby piggy tails, right was at Tim Friday night.

Saturday: Worked in the morning, 3.5 hour nap, unpacked my bedroom stuff, hung art I've collected in the last year, caught up on SYTYCD, sleeeeeeep.

Yankees Stadium

Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate autographed lyric posters.

1 more off the 100 things to do before you die list! #33.

Sunday: Did laundry & ran errands with my mom. Purchased bedroom curtains. Bought cinder blocks to put on the corners of my bed frame to raise it. Got the idea from pinterest! I bought the wrong size, had to make another trip to HD and buy the right size which raised my bed about 10 inches. Now I’m kind of scared I’ll fall off! Pictures soon once my room is completely done!

Wasn't a boring weekend, but nothing too exciting.

3/22/2013

Jack's Mannequin

Remember when I talked about about my favorite music over here? Jack's Mannequin was one of my favorites mentioned.

I love that guy. A lot. Enough to have camped out for like 10 hours a few years ago to see him open for The Fray. He wasn't even the headliner! Which was SO worth it because I was totally front and center!

I haven't seen him since...2009? Welp, I got to see him again Wednesday night, and he was just as amazing as I remembered.

This week's show was at the House of Blues in Downtown San Diego which I was super stoked about because I haven't been there since I've been 21+ so for the couple of shows I have seen, I was up in the top seats. This was the first time I could be in the GA Pit all up in the action!

But first we ate some dinner at the HOB restaurant. They have this deal where if you spend over $20 you can cut infront of the line that was waiting outside to enter into the venue. We totally planned on taking advantage of this, but got distracted because it was trivia night and I love me some trivia! haha.

[Sara had a rough day, which called for shots!]

Once we finished, we entered the venue like 30 minutes after the doors opened and it wasn't packed. Which was a good thing for us :] We were in the 3rd-ish row which normally would be very cool, but I'm kind of a shorty so my view was kind of obstructed.

The opening opening band was pretty freaking legit. I think they were called Erland? Either way, I was thoroughly impressed with their musicality.

Something noteworthy...they keyboard player was really hot. Ready for a creeper stalker photo?

Their guitarist was pretty cool. He was wayyyyy into their music. He was fun to watch...when I wasn't busy oogling the keyboarder.

[Fun guy on the left, lead singer on the right]

The next opening band was a group called Barcelona. Never heard of them but they had some fans in the audience. Two of the guys looked like brothers, and the drummer looked pretty out of it, but was really good.

The lead singer was a really good story teller, talking about sweat pants among other random things.

And now for your feature presentation: Jack's Mannequin.

The lead singer's name is Andrew McMahon. He was once part of a group called Something Corporate (SoCo). You should actually go check out his story. It makes him so much more of an inspiration and gives his lyrics so much more meaning.