Music Adventure: Concert No. 7 for Matty & Sam

[my music: Morningwood ~ Nth Degree]

Adventure Distance: Hamden, Connecticut to Hartford, Connecticut
Destination: Webster Theatre
Performers: Head Automatica with opener: We Are The Fury, Morningwood and some band that was first to perform but we missed...

Disclaimer: Opinions on the areas of Hartford are in no way shape or form intended to disrespect the city of Hartford, Connecticut or it's residents.

The sky was black. The road was long. The music was loud. The tradition lives on. Last night Head Automatica became concert number 7 that Matty & myself have been to together in the last year (The first six were Everclear, Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Piebald, Finch, and the Ataris). What began with scrum-dilly-umptous deli sandwiches and talks of loving relationships or lack-there-of, ended with ringing ears and sore throats.

the major discovery of the night remains that Ray & Mike's sells Ben & Jerry's ice cream... and they have Magic Brownie. Holla!

Last night was the first time ever going to the University of Hartford. It was a lot smaller than I thought it would be... I thought it was wicked confusing though but matt & scott kept saying that it was just one big circle. Hey! Don't make fun. Any campus other than Quinnipiac's is confusing. We have 1 relatively straight road that goes through the campus withone branching road. And lets just get it out there that beyond campus, on one side there are ginormous and beautiful homes... and on the opposite side there is the ghetto. It was mildly strange.

You would think that being this was the 4th concert that Matty & Scott were going to at the Webster Theatre in Hartford, they would know how ot get there... but nooooo, they didn't. damn boys! We wound up driving through the hardcore G-HETTO areas and I was so convinced that my life was going to end. Finally, by random luck we found it. So we drove around looking for a parking spot because oh, that's right, it is real smart to not have a parking lot for a musical venue in the middle of the ghetto so that all of the little emo white kids have to park in front of run down, nasty looking homes and then walk for blocks to go see their little rock bands play.

As for the music, we got there in the middle of We Are The Fury's performance. I really really liked them. They had part of the Tetris theme in one of their songs and it was awesome. I almost bought their underwear, but they only had one size... that sucked. Morningwood performed after them. Matty had said on the way to the show that he had seen a pic of the lead singer and thought she was hot... i argued with him that he def was not thinking of the right band, and he thought I was wrong. So when they came out on stage and she started "dancing" he immediately repealed his previous comments about her being hot. They were fun, didn't really feel their music all that much. New York Girls and Nth Degree are 2 songs that I like. Head Automatica was SOOOO GOOD. They opened with The Speed of a Yellow Bullet, then Brooklyn is Burning... which made me happy. They did Razor really well also... didn't really feel the ending to the encore though. New songs as closers never really do too well in my opinion. They were fun and energetic as expected, Daryl was a little off, but it wasn't terrible. I wasn't feeling the little rap bit that they did, but it was a damn good performance none the less. I was most pleased.

On the way back, we got a little tense cuz Scott never has ANY idea where we are and how to get to his school. It wasn't too late, but matty had promised to help his suitemate with stuff and had to call steph, and that made matty kinda aggitated. Well after we dropped off scott at UHa, we sped all the way home. Matty was singing at the top (and by top i mean the tippy tippy top) of his lungs to Saves the Day. After one song, he was sympathizing with singers who perform live... but that didn't stop him. he went on and on and i just laughed the entire way home. It was good times with good people.

Matty = Love of my life. Thanks. bye. :::sorry steph::::
Hartford was interesting. Music was Great. I went to sleep happy and because of the ringing I was unable to hear the drunken slobs in Troup when they got back from the bars...

ps- steph, that's a joke.