My kick ass week

So last week was fricken incredible. Thanks to a generous Chanukah gift from my mom (which she doesn't know about yet, j/k Mom in case you see this) I saw two amazing concerts last week. My favorite new band Sugarland was opening for Brad Paisley and Sara Evans at this little theater in Times Square. There not my total favorite, thats still the Dixie Chicks, but they are alike in many ways. There music includes some real country sound with a dude that plays mandolin and lyrics that seriously kick ass. Also their song Baby Girl reminds me a lot of Wide Open Spaces by the Dixie Chicks, one of my fave songs ever. What pissed me off was the whole time onstage, the lead singer was so self deprecating saying stuff like we are only here as a warm up act and we're nobodies etc, etc. It pissed me off. I bought the ticket primarily to see them. They put on an incredible show and I'm yet to hear a song I don't like. How many awards must we give them before they realize they are awesome on their own. Next was Sara Evans who I'm not the biggest fan of. In fact, I don't think shes a good live singer at all. Could barely hit the right notes. But she was really funny onstage making fun of her brother who is now her bassist and stuff. Next was the main act, Brad Paisley, who was such a contrast to Sugarland cause his music has a major rock and roll sound to it especially since he plays a sweet electric guitar. His music is also very funny and has a couple comic songs including his new one, Alcohol which speaks from alcohol's point of view, for example "I got blamed at your wedding reception for the best man's embarrassing speech", or "I help white people dance", or "I will make you put that lamp shade on your head". Funny stuff. All in all it was an awesome concert and I was so lucky to get a ticket to it. Then came Thursday. Thursday I got tickets to a private taping of Tim McGraw's upcoming TV special. Normally now Tim's tickets are well over 100 bucks. These were only 50 and I knew at the venue it was being held in, every seat was within inches of Tim. Like the Brooks and Dunn concert Destiny, my token country lovin' friend, and I were right near the stage. Tim put on a kick ass show and looked super hot although hes got a little beer belly now. I got on camera alot and even had a solo moment where I was taped singing some lyrics into the camera with 2 other hot chicks. So keep an eye out for me. I'm the one in the cowboy hat. Also, Deano, Tim's guitarist, kept throwing picks into the crowd which no one noticed cause it was so dark in there. At the end of the show I looked down and found one at my feet. Yay! At the end of the show the NBC producer came out and said Tim was going to retape the show an hour later and we were welcome to stick around. Knowing how rare an opportunity this was, Destiny and I stuck aroud. The second concert was even better. The crowd was way more pumped up (I think because it was later and people outside the city hence "real country lovers" were able to make it to the show). Tim even was fired up. He sang some extra songs and climbed upstairs to sit on his wife Faith Hill's lap. It was awesome. Anyway, that was my week. The first and probably last busy week I'll have for a long time. Until next time...