Are You Busy One Year From Now?

   
     I am the first of all my friends to get excited about a concert announcement. If I really want to go to an event, the furious link sharing, venue debates, and messages that begin. The hype lasts about 2-3 days between the tour announcement and the pre-sale date with comments like "Does your sister want to go so we can get the 4-pack seats?" or "Are we all agreeing that we will stick with this unless the seats are over $70.00?" * If we strike out during the pre-sale it is not guaranteed there will be any trinkets left for general on sale, although I do fondly remember the Maroon 5 ticket miracle in the Fall of 2014.
   

McGraw at the 2014 "Sundown Heaventown"
tour (c)PipPepPop

    With all of this background knowledge, one might ask why I even bother seeing live music. Some people are addicted to drugs or gambling or drinking, but I am addicted to live music!  I am delighted to hear Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's announcement they are re-booting their 2006 Soul2Soul tour for 2017. On top of that, the country power couple is celebrating 20 years of  a as co-parents and marriage champions. What could be better than that news?  Tickets begin going on sale this Friday for concert dates. Yes, this Friday the 20th!

     When I looked to see where my local shows would be, I discovered the last stop on the tour is at Brooklyn's Barclays Center (sigh). (For various reasons, I have had bad associations with attending events at the center, but that is a story for another time). The date of that tour-ending show? It's October 27th of next year! Let me remind you, we haven't even passed this October 27th yet.  I'm a bit shocked the tour would announce dates over a year into the future. While I can't see this show going in sale yet, I have reached the point in my life where I like making plans, but I don't like paying for tickets and arranging my entire October a year from now around this date.  I enjoyed seeing Tim (or Timmy McGee as my friends lovingly call him) in 2014, and I committed to that show 2 months out, which is more than reasonable. I'm certainly not going to "Live Like You Were Dying" and commit to pricey concert tickets a year in advance.


* I wish I was joking about the prices. The cheapest concert tickets I purchased this year were $20.00 lawn seats for Daruis Rucker (during a ticket discount sale) and it rained on our uncovered lawn seats. See my recent piece on the difficulty to even procure concert tickets and the accompanying skyrocketing prices.

A Note About the Best Bad Guy Name Ever

Truly, you cannot compete with the minds of Buffy. They gave us legendary vampire henchman:
<-----Mr. Trick.

How many people are evil henchmen and referred to as Mister? Not many. Plus he got an episode named after him- season 3's "Faith, Hope and Trick."

Would you mess with this guy? I wouldn't. And yes, he got dusted and all his plans were foiled, but he was good.

A Note About Daisy and Sweets

Daisy and Dr. Lance "Sweets" from Bones have been a cute, albeit creepy couple on the show. Seeing their painful breakup and decision not to reconcile at the beginning of this season was tough on top of Booth telling Bones he was not going to wait for her to get over her issues any longer.

So once again, Sweets and Daisy find themselves together and struggling to find something in common besides each other. Whatever could it be? Dogs, Indian food, and travel were all fails of a common interest. But, SAVED BY THE BELL was clearly the thing that will bond them together? Although its odd, I think it was a sweet connection. Although I don't agree at all in their thought that Jessie and screech were meant to be together. Jessie and Slater had a perfect love...too bad she decided to go to college across the country.

A Note About the Guts of Meredith Grey

Photo note: I created this list for my friend to use at Halloween a few years ago when she dressed up as Meredith Grey. Many of these things still apply today. In homage to our favorite miserable doctor, check out her to-do list above.