My first concert in a long while

I have never been a concert person, I can count them on my fingers, two free Creighton concerts, two Edgefests and the occasional SOJH show. However, Monday night I will be attending my first concert in a long while at Sokol to see my favorite college band, Zebrahead. I have all their cds, with "Waste of Mind" being my sentimental favorite, I listened to that CD on my diskman (see no Ipod, this is why it's sentimental) everyday while walking to class during my freshmen year of college. "Someday" being probably one of the greatest songs ever. Twice I have missed previous concerts in the area for various stupid reasons I will not get into. Then about a year ago or so, I found out that Justin had left the band and the search to replace him, produced none other than Matty Lewis. Holy shit I thought, I know Matty! I was shocked for a while at the odds of all this taking place, but it's true.

For those who don't know what the hell I'm rambling about, I will explain. Matty was my Legion baseball coach for two summers back in high school. My favorite baseball story to tell is when he gave me the suicide squeeze sign when I was up to bat in the bottom of the last inning and the pitch was outrageously high and I had to jump and throw my bat at the ball to bunt it and it worked and we won the game and Matty ran over afterwards screaming about how that was "the coolest thing he'd ever seen". I agreed.

I probably wouldn't have ever seen him again after he stopped coaching, but after high school my first "real" film I made called "The Dean's Boys" brought me into the local Omaha music scene trying to find songs for the soundtrack. Matty was in a band called Jank 1000, we used one of their songs and they actually made a cameo in the movie too playing in the background of one of the club scenes. If you don't believe me, I still have about 100 vhs copies of that movie in a box somewhere, I'll give you one.

So in closing, this is me both bragging and also telling a really crazy and surreal true story. If you are not impressed than eff off, you are a jerkface. I think it's cool and am really looking forward to the show.

Out.