weerez

i am not a spontaneous person. i panic under any kind of last-minute pressure and need a good long stewing process to feel confident in any plans. so pretty much, whenever a waiter comes to take my order, it's like a deer in the headlights. every. time.

but, as the girls and i were on our way to the lake thursday morning, and somewhere between summer's soliloquy on all the many varied activities she wanted to do that day and afton telling me the colors of all the cars that passed by, i overheard a disc jockey on el radio mention that weezer was in town. playing the blue album.

i called bryan right then and asked, "how did we not know about this? is it too late to get tickets? to get *gulp* a babysitter?" and bryan was all, "no way, let's do this."

and so, in a rare moment of emily-sanctioned spontaneity, we did.

weezer's debut album hit the airwaves seventeen years ago and is one of the few albums that both bryan and i know in its entirety. (and c'mon, who was a teenager in the 90s and doesn't?)

all in all, it was a good concert.  nothing like this, but certainly entertaining. as is our custom, we found some comfortable seats with all the other old fogies and lazy folks in the back and watched the young punks crowd surf and climb up on stage and throw things at one another whilst weezer regaled them with songs from our youth (certainly not songs from their youth).

however, with good ol' rivers at the helm, there were definitely some concert quirks.

first off, the band interacted ZERO with the crowd. nothing. nada. no "hi how are you" or profanity-laced song intros. not a word. rivers cuomo sang every lyric on the blue album and pinkerton and gave us not a peep more. and then, the encore was absolutely the worst i'd ever seen. after their quite energetic, hero-worshiping fans begged and pleaded and screamed for them to come back on stage, they played a lame song nobody knew, and we all went home like, "seriously, weezer? that's how you're going to leave us hanging?" i guess so.

fortunately, before that, there was this:



(http://youtu.be/9BZGoKd0iZU)