was last night really only tuesday? yikes. and we were all over the place, so i will try my best to bottle it all up into one lovely blog post on this beautiful wednesday morning.it all started tuesday morning when i was handed skybox tickets to the josh groban concert. maybe you've heard of him? no, probably not. but i couldn't very well pass up skybox tickets so i rounded up the roommates and we headed to verizon center. well let's be honest - first we headed to happy hour.
since we're new to the metro center/chinatown neighborhood we figured we'd try out a 
new happy hour spot. cha ching - we found a winner! mccormick & schmidt's is the new garrett's. because it's st. patrick's day week they had guinness and smithwicks (pronounced 'smidicks') on special. and who knew they had the best food happy hour specials ever? a half pound cheeseburger w/ fries - $1.95. corned beef quesadillas - $1.95. soft pretzels w/ spicy mustard (which according to molly makes your face feel great) - $1.95. and we definitely made friends with wayne and big nick behind the bar. no doubt we'll be back over there soon.
new happy hour spot. cha ching - we found a winner! mccormick & schmidt's is the new garrett's. because it's st. patrick's day week they had guinness and smithwicks (pronounced 'smidicks') on special. and who knew they had the best food happy hour specials ever? a half pound cheeseburger w/ fries - $1.95. corned beef quesadillas - $1.95. soft pretzels w/ spicy mustard (which according to molly makes your face feel great) - $1.95. and we definitely made friends with wayne and big nick behind the bar. no doubt we'll be back over there soon.
happy hour was over but we still had some time to kill before the concert so we frolicked across the street to gordon biersch. we got a round of "red label" beers (aka marzens) - and they were delicious! we chatted it up for a bit and then figured we should head over to verizon. way to chug it nari - i think you really impressed all my coworkers. no, really.
so we beelined to the third floor and into our suite. the suite was sweet - haha. we raided the fridge and ordered some chicken (wings and fingers) and popcorn. about five minutes after we arrived the lights went out and the opening act came on. her (yes nari, she
was a she) name is angenlique kidjo. she's straight out of africa - and has a pretty amazing voice. she was singing in all different languages - and at one point the guy in our suite thought she was saying "two slurpees and a lotto ticket." but i assure you that's not what she was singing out - although honestly i couldn't tell you the real lyrics. consensus last night was she was good, but angelique raised up (pun intended) about 10 levels in my book when this morning wikipedia told me that junior vasquez remixed two of her songs. so then the lights went back on. i took a look around and there was not an empty seat in all of verizon center. i'm not going to lie, i was impressed. and then it went dark again. and josh groban (or was it grohan? or grolan?) took the stage. and the curtain dropped - and the crowd went crazy - literally.
it was a pretty cool setup - he had a full backing band with a mini orchestra in the back and a violinist and cellist up front. if i had to describe his musical style (and i'm generally bad at this, but this time i think i got it) it would be a classically trained popish. and he has a really deep voice. but it's unbelievably powerful.
like angelique, he sang in a bunch of different languages. i could kind of follow the spanish song, but everything else was up pretty up in the air. but no matter what language he was singing in all of his songs sounded exactly the same. he can't dance, but he did try. and he tried entirely too hard to be funny - and in my opinion he failed miserably.
probably the best part of the whole night - no definitely the best part of the whole nigh
t - was when we almost got in a fight with the glow stick girl. actually there were two girls waving glow sticks who were sitting right in front of our box. they were waving blue and orange glow sticks and that couldn't even make up for their annoyingness. now we paid good money to be up in a box (well we didn't pay for it, but someone paid good money for us to be in that box) so the fact that glow stick girl had the nerve to stand up, turn around and tell us to be quiet (during a CONCERT!) really made us mad. luckily all our popcorn was gone at that point because otherwise i have a strong feeling it would have ended up all over her head.
t - was when we almost got in a fight with the glow stick girl. actually there were two girls waving glow sticks who were sitting right in front of our box. they were waving blue and orange glow sticks and that couldn't even make up for their annoyingness. now we paid good money to be up in a box (well we didn't pay for it, but someone paid good money for us to be in that box) so the fact that glow stick girl had the nerve to stand up, turn around and tell us to be quiet (during a CONCERT!) really made us mad. luckily all our popcorn was gone at that point because otherwise i have a strong feeling it would have ended up all over her head.after that debacle we decided it was best to probably hit the road. and we didn't even get to hear the one song we had heard before - "you raise me up." but honestly i think those lyrics would fit in any of his songs. actually i KNOW it would work since we tried it for every single song. oh well, the convertible ride home pretty made up for the fact that we didn't hear it live.
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