My money largely goes a few places. Clothes, coffee and concerts. My deadly money-sucking 3 C's. I've been doing better lately with my spending on the 3 C's. I have limited myself on clothes purchases: I was in Italy for 7 days and all I bought was I rain coat (I acutally need) for 29 euro. I have cut down on my starbucks purchases: I make coffee at home now (most of the time.) But concerts?! Concerts are hard to give up. Missing a concert just means your missing out. It's not like resisiting the urge to buy a dress from Urban for $39.99. It's not like drinking drip coffee at home instead enjoying a foamy latte. It's missing an experience. I most likely won't want to tell me children how great my skim latte was on this one particular day. But I WILL want to tell them about the time I saw Bob Dylan at Bethel Woods or the time I saw Regina Spektor and she was baffled that everyone knew the lyrics to her songs and proclaimed with astonishment, "I'm so huge!" or the time I saw M.I.A. at Coney Island in 90+ degree heat and people were climbing barbed wire fences just to get a better view or the time I saw Andrew Bird play a secret show at The Hideout and then I got to play a dancing tree in his music video. These are the things I will want to tell my children about. These are the things I want to tell YOU about. These are the things that cause me to be poor, poor. :(
So anyway, here is a list of the concerts in Chicago I want to attend. I want to make it my goal to see these concerts for free/for very little money. This may be a futile effort. But one's reach must exceed...oh, you know.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs...5/26 Riviera Theatre
Camera Obscura...5/29 Metro
Jenny Lewis...6/5 Park West
St. Vincent...6/7 Epiphany
Au Revoir Simone...6/25 Logan Square Auditorium
Rothbury Music Festival..7/3-5 Rothbury, Michigan
Pitchfork Music Festival...7/17-19 Union Park
Lollapolooza...8/7-9 Grant Park
I will work on it and blog the results. Let me know if you have any ideas!
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We have the exact same 3Cs. Alas, if i was in Chicago, I would attend every one of those concerts with you. You want to come to SF and go to the Decemberists with me may 20? Because a story I'm a gonna tell my grandkids is about that time I saw the Decemberists in 07 where they jumped off stage, and I hugged Colin Meloy, and then two small boys jumped onstage and preceded to finish playing "Chimbley Sweep" guitar and all....see what I mean.
ReplyDeleteHeard the new Dylan yet? It's... interesting (and that's coming from ME, fer chrissakes). Kind of Louisiana-shipyard-on-a-wet-summer night stuff; zydeco without a fiddle. I think I'm just surprised at the departure from the last three albums-- at the moment I like a couple of the tracks on it, but hopefully the rest will grown on me (Dylan's a grower).
ReplyDeleteAlso, I might be at Rothbury (with Owen Curry, of all people)! Waiting to hear about this Nantucket gig first...
ohhh my gosh...we should meet at Rothbury...and we could volunteer to work there and go for free!
ReplyDeleteI would love to go see camera obscura with you!
ReplyDeleteYES! let's do it...oh, and Pitchfork, check!
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