A general attempt to list every band I've seen live

As the title says, here is my attempt to list all the bands I've seen live. I'm fairly certain I got about 85% of them, remembering small small local bands from ticket stubs i found, posters, and just my general memory. I chose not to list bands at large events (Warped Tour, Bamboozle) who I didn't watch because that would be a giant pain in the ass. I did however, do my best to list all the locals bands I've seen in the past, and did an OK job of it.

But before I go with that, a couple of lists regarding live shows:

Best Live Shows (Whole show taken into consideration)

1. Starland Summer Campout 07 (Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, Against All Authority, Suburban Legends, 16 local bands)
2. Starland Summer Campout 08 (Dropkick Murphys, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Civet)
3. The English Beat, Bad Manners, The Pietasters: 1/27/09 @ Rams Head Live!

Bands that put on the best live performance (in no order)

1. Rx Bandits
2. Streetlight Manifesto
3. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
4. Rise Against
5. Bomb the Music Industry!

So here is the incomplete but the best I can do list. It is listed alphabetically, with any bands I've seen multiple times noted so with how many times I have seen them.

Against All Authority (3)
Against Me! (2)
The Aggrolites (3)
The AKAs
Alkaline Trio (2)
All Star Otis
The Allstonians
Alto-Sound Fiasco
Anti-Flag (2)
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches
Awful Waffle (6)
Badfish (2)
Bad Manners
Bad Religion (2)
Beat Soup
Bedouin Soundclash
Big D & the Kids Table (7)
A Billion Ernies
Bomb the Music Industry! (2)
Bomb Town
Boss Relief (3)
Brain Failure
The Briggs
Bubble Gum Octopus (2)
Catch 22 (2)
Civet
Conspicuous Consumption (2)
Cooler Than Kip
Corporate Agenda
Dillinger Four
Drive-Through Pharmacy (2)
Dropkick Murphys (2)
Echo Movement
The English Beat (2)
The Expendables
Fairview Burning
Fatter Than Albert
The Flaming Tsunamis (4)
The Flamingos (2)
Flatfoot 56
The Flatliners (2)
Flogging Molly
The Fortune Tellers
The Gaslight Anthem (2)
GBH
Gym Class Heroes
Hit and Run
Hoochie & the Go Get Ems (3)
HorrorPops (2)
Houston Calls
Hub City Stompers
I Voted For Kodos (2)
Inspector Hector (2)
International Jet Set
Jade Fire
Jazz Face (2)
Jet Lag Gemini
King Django
The Krays
Left Alone
Legitimate Business (5)
Less Than Jake (3)
Long Shot Hero (2)
The Loved Ones
The Maddhatters
The Mafia
MC Lars
Men, Women, and Children
The Miasmics (4)
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (4)
Dan From MU330 (2)
Mustard Plug (4)
Nine Lives
NOFX (2)
None The Less
Nurses
Offbeat in Suburbia (2)
ORESKABAND
Pasadena
Passafire (2)
Patent Pending (2)
Pepper (4)
The Pietasters (3)
Pirates of the Skaribbean
The Planet Smashers
Reel Big Fish (5)
Rise Against
Rx Bandits (2)
SGR (2)
The Shods
S1gleton (2)
The Slackers (2)
Slightly Stoopid
Sly Robbie and the Taxi Gang
Stephanie White and the New Jersey PhilthHarmonic (2)
Straylight Run
Street Dogs
Streetlight Manifesto (8)
Suburban Legends (6)
The Superspecs
The Supervillains (2)
Teenage Bottle Rocket
10 Cents Short
Thrice
Third Eye Blind (2)
Time Again (2)
Tip the Van
The Toasters (2)
Trevor Hall
Tri-State Conspiracy
The Upperhand
Vagiant
Voodoo Glow Skulls (2)
The Waffle Stompers
The Wailers
Wonka Mobile (2)
Westbound Train (7)
Whole Wheat Bread (5)
Wicker Hallow
Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer

SWEEP!

Yeah, can you say 6.5 game lead?

pictures from http://www.nydailynews.com/

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Thursday I went to an amazing Yankee Game. Yankees 13, Red Socks 6. I mean the score alone is all you need to know about why it was a great game. Broke the Socks winning streak vs the Yanks this year, established a steady first place in the east, and also established the end of John Smoltz's career. AND THEN....The Yankees would win Friday's game 2-0 in 15 innings and then Saturday 5-0. Their lead in the division is now 5.5 games! And I couldn't be happier with how the team is playing.

But that wasn't all in the baseball-related world this weekend. For the third time in four years (2006, 2007, 2009), my softball team, Roosevelt & Cross, were victorious in the championship. We won game one (without me) Thursday, something like 13-4. Then last night we won the second and final game, 12-3. I ended the season batting .471, with I believe 8 RBI in 12 games (stats including the playoffs). We overall were 11-3 on the season, easily winning the B Division. It should be noted that the 3 losses were during the regular season: one to who we would beat in the first round of the playoffs, and the other 2 to the team would beat twice in the finals. Great job to everyone on the team, can't wait til next season.

I decided to end with some interesting facts about the 17 Major League Baseball games I've seen in person. Thanks to http://www.baseball-reference.com/, my weird memory, and seasonal unemployment, I was able to look up all the box scores and find out some things worth sharing about the games. Enjoy.

Team Records;

• Yankees: 8-5
• Orioles: 5-6
• Rays: 0-2
• Red Socks: 2-1
• Twins: 0-1
• Mariners: 1-0
• Rangers: 1-1
• Blue Jays: 0-1

Notable pitchers I've seen;

• Andy Pettitte
• John Smoltz
• CC Sabathia (twice)
• El Douque (twice)
• Mariano Rivera (twice)
• Tim Wakefield
• Mike Mussina
• Carl Pavano as a Yankee lose in 2005
• Scott Kazmir
• Doc Gooden

Notable home runs I've seen;

• 500 Home Run Club Members: Ken Griffey Jr., Sammy Sosa, Gary Sheffield, Alex Rodriguez
• Bernie Williams hit 2 in one game
• Jorge Posada has homered in 5 different games I've been to. Brian Roberts, Melky Cabrerra and Bernie Williams have 2 each.
• Notable steroid users: Sammy Sosa, Gary Sheffield, Alex Rodriguez, David Oritz, Brian Roberts, Miguel Tejada, and Javy Lopez

Notable games I've been to;

• 5/16/98 (Yankees 5, Twins 2). Ramerio Mendoza throws 5 no-hit innings on Yankee Sock Day. The next day David Wells would throw 9 perfect innings on Beanie Baby day. This is one of the few times I'll be quoted saying Fuck My Life
• 4/6/09 (Yanks 5, Orioles 10) Opening Day at Camden Yard in Father Linnane's personal seats
• 5/8/09 (Yanks 4, Orioles 0) CC Sabathia throws a complete game, 4 hit, one walk, shut out and Alex Rodriguez homers in his first at bat of the season after being hurt. Yanks go on a roll from then on in.
• 5/8/99 (Mariners 14, Yanks 5) Who cares??? I saw Ken Griffey Jr. hit a home run

Salute to Fiction

Here is my salute to my two favorite blogs created by fictional characters. You'd be surprised how many of them are out there, but these two by far are my favorites.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/community/barney_blog/index.php
First up is "Barney's Blog" from "How I Met Your Mother". Barney writes on a variety of things, from what it means to be a Bro (Also in his "Bro Code", a book I have), to how to score with a certain chick where, to general thoughts on his fictitious life.

http://blog.nbc.com/CreedThoughts/
Next up are "Creed Thoughts" from "The Office". Creed blogs about...well basically anything. If you don't watch The Office, then this might seem hilarious. It should still be funny, but you really really have to know the Creed character to appreciate this.

Anyway, I recommend that you check them both out. They are great time killers, and quite humorous.

"Funny People" and Whisky.....no clever title, just a descrpition of Saturday

"Funny People" finally came out and I was very pumped to see it. Unfortunately....it wasn't amazing. Good? Yes. Funny? Yes......But not great nor hilarious. One thing it is is LONG. But I will give credit where credit is due

• Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill ("1 and 3/4 Seth"), hilarious as always
• Adam Sandler made fun of his typical movies and was great for the movie. His other movies suck, and he basically acknowledged it in this
• Always love to see "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared" Alumni, most notably Jason Schwartzman, Carla Gallo, and Steve Bannos.
• Silent Apatow Regulars to appear in Movie poster form: Elizabeth Banks and Ken Jeong
• Probably the funniest person in "Funny People"....Eminem
• GREAT other cameos (Dave Atell, Ray Ramano, Andy Dick, Sarah Silverman, Norm Macdonald to name a few off the top of my head)
• And the best thing from the movie: Aziz Ansari as RAAAAAAAANDY. Not only was he being basically a shitty Dane Cook-comic, but has taken it so much further. Watch all the 8 videos he uploaded http://www.youtube.com/user/RAAAAAAAANDY

Really the biggest problem is how long the movie is. The other Apatow movies are long, but they were much much funnier. I know that this one wasn't supposed to as funny, but it really disappointed because I was REALLY anticipating it. To compare it using an earlier post (http://bgklein.blogspot.com/2009/06/oh-im-sure-if-they-were-orsen-wells-itd.html), I would rank "Funny People" at 9. Behind "Zack and Miri", but above "Adventureland". Judd Apatow himself is going to be quiet next year, only involved in the "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" spin off.....which I'm sure wont disappoint.

Then after seeing that Saturday, I went to my friend Liz's to celebrate our good friend Kyle's 20th birthday. Long story short, 5th of Jack was gone by the end of the night along with some good ol' Natty Bohs. Good times minus people getting sick and cats waking me up.

And then today, we won our first playoff game in Softball. Finals are Thursday and Friday, should be reporting on that soon.

Also soon to come:

• Thursday's trip the Yankee Stadium for Yankees v Red Socks (yes, soCKS)
• A post regarding live shows I've seen as it seems I have new followers from the wide wide world of web who found my blog via google
• On that note, Google "Fluent in Stroll" (Not Strictly Rude)......I'm so proud
• Also more to come.....maybe more complaints about Tina. I think that's why the Google search came up so highly