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My friend Josh ended up having an extra ticket to last night’s Pearl Jam concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Sonic Youth (I’m not a big fan) opened with a bunch of noise, but once Pearl Jam got on stage things really got going. Eddie Vedder was forgot the words to the first song. Oops. Kept things going though with awesome guitar and drum solos during Even Flow and got the whole house going with Alive. It was one of the best shows I’ve seen. If you ever have the chance to go see them play, do it.

Last night’s set list

I picked up a few new albums today. Norah Jones’ new album Feels Like Home, Five For Fighting’s new album The Battle For Everything, and newcomer Nellie Mckay’s album Get Away From Me. Nellie Mckay’s album is pretty interesting and I’d recommend checking it out. Her album is two discs, although neither disc is much longer than 30 minutes, so why they wanted two doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I haven’t had much time to listen to Norah Jones’ new album, but I love her voice so and the stuff I have heard sounds pretty good so I’m sure it will grow on me. I haven’t had much time to listen to Five For Fighting’s new album either, but the songs I have heard seem good. Need to listen to all the albums a few dozen more times before I’ll be sure about them, but I suspect I’ll end up liking them all a lot.

Have you heard this song? A group named TATU sings it. They’re these two Russian lesbian teenagers. For some crazy reason they’re getting air play now and everytime I hear it it gets stuck in my head for at least 2 days. MAKE IT STOP!

Last night was pretty crazy. I met up with my friend Phil around 6PM. We played some Mario Party 4 for a while. We then proceeded to Palo Alto and had Dinner at Taxi’s. After eating a very very large burger, we went to Stanford to see Phil’s friend performing in a modern dance show. We only had time to see a few dances before we had to leave for San Francisco to see They Booty Boys. They were scheduled to go on stage around 10:30PM at the Voodoo Lounge. On our drive up, I learn that Phil and Chris (brownEye from the band) were best friends growing up. We drove around for a while looking for parking (I love San Francisco parking!) and finally found a spot on Mission a few blocks from the place.

We got in around 10:15PM and met up with some friends. Some band is on stage when we get there. After them, a band called Attaboy and Burke played. They were pretty good and I picked up their CD for $5. One of their singers saw my shirt and instantly recognized They Might Be Giants. Needless to say, I was impressed and gained extra respect for the band.

An hour and a half and a band later, The Booty Boys finally took stage! They have a really hot dancer who wasn’t wearing very much. She was a sight to see. Her dancing was so over the top. Absolutely brilliant. These guys really are all about the booty. They performed various songs including Rootie Tootie, Bootyhole Rangers, Booty Duty, and Journey To The Center Of The Booty. They were great! I’m totally going to see them again.

After they finished, around 1:15AM, the band and a small group of us went to someone’s apartment nearby and had an after party. I got to talk to the band members and meet some other cool people. Chris even uses Mozilla for e-mail. Spencer, the other rapper was having a lot of fun with his digital camera taking lots of pictures. Hopefully some of them will end up online. Around 3:00AM everyone left and Phil and I headed back to Mountain View.

The night was most excellent. I highly recommend checking out The Booty Boys.

I’m going to see The Booty Boys tomorrow night at the Voodoo Lounge in San Francisco with some friends. They’re some hip-hop performers who are "dedicated to bringing the most rump-shaking songs about the rump known to man." Should be interesting. It appears that they have some great song lyrics that will no doubt keep me laughing for a long time.