The Devlins, Waiting

Oddly fitting I've been listening to this band tonight...as they opened for Tori on the Plugged 98 tour...I'm obsessed.  I'm a Tori-aholic.  I admit that fact, but the knowledge doesn't do much good.  I have plans for next weekend now.  It's a four day weekend so it actually is still rather sane to drive the 8.5 hours to Columbus OH, particually since the following night is only another 2.5 hour drive (in Indianapolis, IN)...Friday=drive out.  Monday=drive home.  Two more tori amos shows.  I've bid on a pair of tickets to both nights, sept 4h and sept 5th at ticket.com.  From what I've seen, most ofthe people who know abotu that site or are willing to bid already have their tickets so don't want to spend more money.  Less than 2 days to go and no-one has bid on any of the some 40 sets of tickets to the two shows...Odds are good in other words.

Dan wants to go roadtripping next weekend, he's already asked me where I want to go My feelings are that he'll jump at this chance to see Tori, especially since he missed out on these last few shows, and considering the holiday, it's a snap to get there and back in time, and all things considered, it really isn't all that far.

If my roomate thought I was nuts before, he must think I'm a complete mental case now.  Five shows on this tour just isn't enough...i have to make it seven.  If this happens (and I really think it's going to at this point, w/ or w/o Dan) I'll end up having seen Tori more time than Pearl Jam...now THAT is saying something.  It's like I told Kerri, once PJ rolls through, I'll be taking out a loan against my car to see shows.

A quick note on the MD ticket--i traded stubs with someone who wanted to stay for alanis...with my pavilion ticket, they hopefully styaed dry...it rained like a bitch that night...The other, mangled ticket is the charlotte stub that went through the wash by accident!

Right now, i justify all the expenses thus:  i'm settled now into a full time job, making money and i have plenty of credit to spread around right now.  I should probably save the money for my trip back to Cali a month from now and if things fall through for some stupid reason, I'll take solace in that, but i don't care about money--never have and probably never will.  Maybe somewhere out there I'll unload my chicago ticket to make things work out a little better, but probably not...

I have duty driver thursday...0900 to 0900 friday.  I wanted to take my computer in to get the disk drive fixed so it can hurry it's way along to the next problem so i can exchange it, but I really want to have this to keep me occupied in the wee hours of the night...Apparently there's a phone line free or something at the desk, cuz Rich plays everquest at that time of night whenever he's pulling duty.  Maybe i'll catch up a bit on Les Mis too while I'm at it...

And besides, I just changed my oil yesterday, so my car's all squeaky clean and happy running!

Not looking forward to PT tomorrow.

this is the post I made to The Dent Online Forum in reference to the MD show.  I wrote no reviews for any of the other shows and haven't really detailed my emotions too much as to why I want to make another trek this weekend.  This will explain part of it

                    out of four shows, this one took the cake, hands down. while Tori seemed a little
                    unsure of herself in the beginning of the tori, and the empty seats only making it
                    worse, this was definately a TORI show and a TORI crowd...everyone was standing
                    and I don;t know *WHY* God was so kind as to make me pick the two seats no-one
                    would come to claim (i scalped (still having a hard time getting used to paying face to
                    a scalper...must be just an east coast thing...) 2nd to last row pavilion seats and
                    moved to like sixth row stage right...right in frot of the stacks )

                    this show was an impulsive roadtrip...the prior three shows were at least planned a
                    little, and I already had tickets...

                    despite the rain, despite arriving less than an hour b4 tori came on because of
                    circumstances beyond my control (the 1.5 hours traffic jams in DC being one) despite
                    just about peeing myslf to get set up in time and into position...this was the best
                    night i've had in many many many months.

                    I'm always late to post reviews just because of havingo go to work in two hours or
                    some other some such, so i usually skip it...whats to be said is already said, but this
                    show. Tori was in control, from acapella god line to the all too familiar precious thigns
                    encore now...Each and every song was played like the last time it would ever be
                    played, with a fire and a brilliance that set my spine a tingling.

                    When Tori launched into Graveyard, my jaw dropped...it was but the second time ever
                    and unexpected last night as it was then (when i didn't even knwo the song)

                    Thank you was as beautifull as I think it ever could be...with a passion befitting the
                    elegence of the dedication.

                    Silent all these years had power just because of the rarity of such powerful and old
                    school favorites of mine on this tour...

                    even cruel, which was started to wear on me with the constant performances on this
                    tour, had me rivited. It was like this was my first, last, and only tori show ever...Even
                    with the "neccessity" of shortening the set so alanis could play, I felt as if everythign
                    to get there in that 'seat' was worth it twice over.

                    Spring Haze was amazing. I was hoping to hear 1000 oceans live, and i still have yet
                    to hear Hotel live, but a new premier i haven't heard is alwasy welcome here...

                    jarez--second ime i heard it live. the sound this time was much clearer and I enjoyed
                    it just that much more.

                    every show just got better and better than the last. My next and final show is
                    Chicago and I'm realing to imagine what it'll be like by then.

                    I was spell bound. Even though I knew it was over after precious things, I stood
                    there, immobile...all cares lost. Tori gave me a focal point in basic training and last
                    nights show only proved once more how founded that focal point is...

Each night of this tour has given me tingles, and each night has been better than the last.  There is just something about Tori's music that I connect to on a spiritual level.

That's all I'm going to write tonight.  I could go on and on about my reasons, but it all boils down to the only real love i've discovered outside my immediate family...and that is music...Tori's is the greatest I have found I think.

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