silersun pickups

tonight before heading over to oakland for the silversun pickups show elle and i ate dinner with the griffins. lois had us over for homemade pizza to celebrate peters birthday. if you ask her the pizza didn't turn out but if you ask anyone else eating we'd all say it was a success. the toppings were plentiful, the sauce was great and the dough was fine even if lois doesn't think it was. next time maybe the slightest change to the dough but overall i thought she did an amazing job. after pizza we had carmel cheesecake and i'd like to say this was so so so delicious!! seriously lois is a champ for that cheesecake even if it was her first attempt she rocked the free world. once we were pleasantly filled we were off to oakland for our concert.

we took bart to oakland since it's so conveniently located.


the opening band wasn't very good so i'm not going to write about them but the next opening band was against me! i have their 'searching for a former clarity' cd and i was shocked when i found out they were on tour together. i like against me! but i wouldn't think that these bands would draw the same audience. i previously felt like they weren't exactly well matched but it actually worked. as for their performance sadly the sound was off, their instruments were too loud to understand the lyrics from most of their songs. elle and i are convinced that the fox theater does this on purpose so that the headlining band sounds better than the rest. even with the snafu in sound i enjoyed listening and i'd be willing to check them out again.


next up was silversun pickups and of course by this time the sounds was perfect. they sounded just like they do on their tracks but they were right in front of me. besides his voice being so unique and vibrant it was nice that they didn't chat it up between songs. if you don't have anything fun to say just sing and don't waste my time with your nonsenses. i thought the entire band did a great job but it was funny casue i noticed that all them members just stayed in one place. the singer moved around a little but he stayed in a straight line and only moved backward and forward... hahaha good times!