So I saw metallica tonight...

  Ok, check this out:

  My buddy paid like 190$ for metallica tickets and let me have one if I agreed to buy the alcohol.

  Ok so like we get there and its awesome

  We buy these bud select thingies that are not glass and are flexible and are $6 a "bottle".

  Ok so then like I get all excited and I text all these people like this:

METALLICA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!

  Ok so I drink the 2 beers or whatever and then the first band comes, it was cool.

  Observations:

  The place had an intense lighting system, and they very carefully stepped up the intensity for the full effect during metallica's show.  The whole place would turn like red/orange/ white in time with the music.  Quite professional.

  There were signs saying that you couldnt use your cell phones as a camera, but everyone was anyways.

  Every time someone was floating in the crowd, about 3 crowd control people were ready to block them from reaching the stage.  Also the crowd didnt seem to be close enough to the stage to do anything anyways.

  As soon as metallica started, it started smelling funny (and kind).  My bud noticed it too.

  These rocker guys have a kind of cool persona where they just like kick ass with guitars on stage.  I'll bet they get laid alot.

  Apparently this is the first time in 5 years metallica toured.  I'm not a fan -

but it was still a blast!

  Metallica started throwing a ton of cheap little picks into the crowd.  I had an entire row to walk back and forth between so I tried to position myself to catch one.  Finally, the dude started throwing them higher into our section (We were section 121, row 9 seat 5 if that means anything to you (it doesnt)) - but here's the deal: we were still kinda close/)

  I was ready.  Here comes the metallica pick.  I panicked.  I flinched.  It hit me IN THE LEFT CHEEK!  Then it drops on the floor and my friend picks it up.

  I felt simulated rage at that point, simulated because I am not a metallica fan. If I had been waiting 5+ years to see them in concert and stuff I assume I would have been more angry =))))

  In the middle of the concert, after I was quite inebriated, I texted a chess friend of mine this:

  To: *****

  Punk ***** metalica concert what what   e4 mother ******* ill beat yer *** drunk what

 Jacob

The above text message has been censored to protect the innocent.  I was SO ready to play my first game at my third ever concert (the first 2 were on monday and tuesday).  I mean, I made the first move.  But he didn't reply!  ANd yes - I would have been playing blindfold, and drunk.  But that's easy when yer the man who made zenchess.com, and you fly subspace ships in and out of sticky situations in the game subspace/continuum

Ok - Thank you for reading!  I think I'm supposed to be really excited right now but mostly I'm vaguely amused that it happened.  It's kind of like this, I was in the concert, and honestly I don't really care about it at all, but I'm appreciating the intense energy of the people around me and the amazing lights, effects, fire, and showmanship of the people on stage.  I think I could go to just about any concert in the world and feel exactly the same.  You guys ever try that?  Like once I was in new york city (I lived there for a few months) and I was just randomly wandering the streets looking for an adventure, and I followed a bunch of people into a church (HAVING NO IDEA WHAT WAS IN THERE).  It turns out that there was this gigantic indian flute type music thing, and I sat on the floor cross-legged with my eyes closed and just flowed into the music, it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo low pitched at times, just wow

The final observation I made is that when you were leaving the concert, there was a SUV cop car there that everyone had to drive by and a drug dog. 

Ok thanks for reading people and maybe sometime I'll tell you about my journey on the night of 1999 new years eve trying to get into times square

OFF TO NEVER NEVER LAND!!!

That was a pretty cool story with a lot of observations.