True Colors Tour

...was incredible! Definitely my favorite concert so far, not that I've been to a lot of them. We had wonderful seats (with a table!) on the left side of the amphitheater, probably less than two hundred feet from the stage. It was awesome. RM, LW, RG, KB, and my friend AP from work came and it was a wonderful experience. First the Cliks played. I had never heard of them before, but the lead singer had this amazing deep voice and all of the band members were smokin' hot. Then Tegan and Sara played, and they did "Living Room" and "Nineteen." The former is my favorite song of theirs, and the latter was sort of awkward because it was sort of me and LW's song, but it was still very cool to see Tegan and Sara live; I have been trying to do that ever since I missed their November concert with Northern State last year.

Roise O'Donnell was fucking amazing, although I wish she hadn't talked about her dead mom so much; it wasn't her usual stand-up fare and it also sounded a little rehearsed (not that the emotion wasn't there, it definitely was). But I got to see her in person! Also Carson Kressley, who hosted, was two rows down from us at one point, and we could see this small wave of people running from the center and right parts of the theater to go mob him. Fun times!

One of the most amusing things was the table in front of us. There were four gay men and a straight woman (who I dubbed Grace). Carson was talking about how all the gay men brought their tablecloths and flowers and candles--which they definitely did--and how the dykes did not--we definitely did not. (While he was saying this, the gay men in front of us jokingly put their flowers on our empty table.) We brought a grocery bag of chips and a pink cooler with a breast cancer sticker on it, full of hard cider, water, gucamole, and celery. The people in front of us brought, in addition to their candles, flowers, and tablecloth, a five course meal, complete with shrimp, rich people crackers, coleslaw, salad, this stuff that looked disturbingly like raw chicken meat. For dessert, they had brownies and strawberries with expensive liquor. They consumed the latter right before the B52's got going, and then proceeded to dance like crazy people, especially the Asian man in striped shorts. These were definitely executive homosexuals.

I wondered why Tegan and Sara and the Cliks didn't get more applause until I looked around and realized that we were some of the youngest people in attendance. Props to my dad for all of the really great music we listened to growing up.

Anyway, the B-52's were fucking incredible. I think everyone really came to see them; again with the older generation. But everyone at the table (except LW and KB, who left after Tegan and Sara, the bitches, they couldn't handle not smoking) loved them. RM looked a little tired, but she still said she had fun. AP was bouncing out of her seat, and RG and I just sort of swayed in our seats.

Also, BM, my employer, went to the concert. I had thought that she was much more conservative than she actually is; she actually liked Rosie. And gay events are, well, REALLY GAY. And I quite enjoy that about them. There's something really cool about being with an enormous group of gay people.

In conclusion, the Cliks are my new favorite band and I would like to have sex with their lead singer, Lucas.