2 posts from February 2008

I just posted a Depeche Mode song, in memory of the first real concert I ever attended. By real, I mean without my parents, and at an actual venue. An older child of a friend of the family had an extra ticket, so my parents let me tag along.

I think my very first concert was The Beach Boys, in Atlantic City with my parents, probably around 1985.

Other early concert memories that come to mind:

• 2nd real concert: Squeeze (who I still love)
• Going to a huge hip-hop show in downtown Baltimore in Jr. High with a same-aged friend by ourselves. (3rd Base, Digital Underground, and a bunch of other equally dated acts)
• Guns N' Roses and Skid Row, which was actually an amazing show.
• Choosing to see Michael Bolton at the Taj Mahal with my parents (such good food to be had!), rather than go to the first Lollapalooza
• Skipping my one chance to see Nirvana (American University, 11/93), "I'll go next time"
• Sitting outside a Pearl Jam concert with my brother at the Patriot Center the night they found Kurt's body. We drove down from Baltimore, but couldn't get tickets to get inside.
  
• Crowd surfing at the HFStival my senior year of high school (1994) and being dropped on a glass bottle. Ouch!
  

There were also lots of underground shows in high school (I've got to find some of those bands' tapes!), and a couple Jimmy Buffett concerts, but for some reason my memories of all those are a bit fuzzy...

For the past couple of months, I've been posting over on tumblr. It's a really simple (fun?) interface, and good for posting links, pictures, music, and other short content. It also pulls data from various feeds, like my del.icio.us links, flickr photos, last.fm, and this very blog, so if you head over there, you'll have more daryn than you've ever wanted!

Vox will still be my home for long-form blog posts, when/if the urge and energy magically strike me simultaneously.

My tumblelog can be found at blog.daryn.net