A day late and a dollar short
Yesterday I went to a concert at the Ark. It was for a band that randomly friended me on myspace. I had never heard of them before but they are a local band (Ypsi) and they were having a CD release party so I decided to go check it out. The concert "started" at 8 and I got there at 8:05 so I asked if they still had any tickets for the CD release concert, and they did. It cost $12.50 just like the website told me they would, and I got upstairs before the opener took stage so I was quite pleased with myself. The opener reminded us that the new CDs would be $10 just as the website had told me, but I thought something was amiss. I checked my wallet and I only had $9. I checked my shorts and I had two quarters. I'm 50 cents short of buying the CD. The opener was pretty good, just an acoustic guitar and his voice. After the opener, I started talking to the people next to me and I find I'm sitting with the daughter of the lead guitarist for the main attraction. We chatted politely until the main act was ready. They came on and played an hour and a half of some of the most inspired (and saddest) folk music I've ever heard. They rocked out, and the small yet fiesty audience (even for the ark) got totally into it. It was bizarre since a lot of their songs were somber in lyrical content, yet upbeat in musical style. They were energizing physically but draining emotionally. But somehow I left the concert feeling great, and with two of their CDs (I used my credit card, which I didn't know you could use at the ark).
When I got home I got onto myspace to check out their page again and noticed that the band name was different and I didn't recognize any band pictures. The myspace band had played the previous night and I had missed their concert! I knew something didn't feel right. It was weird that so many things turned out to be the same: price, time, CD release, had an opener, and price of CD. Maybe a lot of that is standardized by the Ark, or maybe those are some cool coincidences. In the end it worked out alright.
When I got home I got onto myspace to check out their page again and noticed that the band name was different and I didn't recognize any band pictures. The myspace band had played the previous night and I had missed their concert! I knew something didn't feel right. It was weird that so many things turned out to be the same: price, time, CD release, had an opener, and price of CD. Maybe a lot of that is standardized by the Ark, or maybe those are some cool coincidences. In the end it worked out alright.