Passive Manipulation
Posted on August 19, 2005
That's right, Michelle and I went to see the White Stripes last night at the Greek in Los Angeles. Our friends Jan and Mike joined us for the concert which I've been looking forward to since Michelle bought the tickets. We had decent seats in the middle about half way back, except for the wonderful couple behind us who wanted to make sure that I was able to participate in their conversation during every song they didn't know. Unfortunately, they weren't too well versed in White Stripes songs, well other than those they heard on KROQ. But if you were to hear the way the mr wonderful whistled as loud as he could after each song he didn't pay attention to, you'd be fooled. Annoying couple aside, they played a great set with a diverse mix of songs off all their albums, and even played Black Jack Davey. Jack wasn't much of a performer, but he did play very well. Excellent musician but he didn't engage the audience much. The music was great (what I was able to hear of it over the couple behind me).
Michelle and I were concerned about leaving in time to get home by 11pm for our baby sitter. Of course murphey's law was such that we got stuck parking at the very back of the lot. We left right at the end of the last encore song, only to find a tree had fallen across 6 cars blocking the exit from the parking lot. Michelle ended up getting a ride home from Mike and Jan and I waited for the parking lot to clear.
