By far the creepiest concert review EVER

A review for André Rieu, a violinist:

My Mom and I have watched Andre Rieu on PBS, watched his DVD's and listened to cassettes and CD's for many years. Usually while we were playing Yahtzee. Mom passed away in Feb. 2009 at the age of 93 never having to had seen Andre on the stage in person. We had always said if he came to our area we would finally get to see him. So my husband and I did find out that he was to be in Milwaukee May 22nd, and I finally got to the concert, and I was not disappointed, he was wonderful, and entertaining as well as the orchestra. In a sense Mom got to go too because I took some of her cremated remains in her pill box, in her hankerchief, along with greatgrandma's opera glassed from Denmark, and we all enjoyed the concert!!! Thank-you, it was an unforgetable night.

I think taking your dead relatives to concerts is just a little creepy. That's me though. I suppose if that makes you happy, alright. I am just glad they didn't try to sprinkle her ashes on the performer or anything.

concert going

Apparently Stone Temple Pilots is putting on a tour. How they can deal with Scott Weiland right now is beyond me. When we saw Velvet Revolver, the show went on an hour late and Weiland was clearly fucked up out of his mind. I couldn't blame the band for kicking him out. Must have felt like shades of Axl.

This is probably the most hilarious thing I've read all day, from a review of a recent STP show:
Scott: get off the drugs. If it's not drugs, meet someone who can cut your hair. You looked like a smack addict version of Hitler with that combover.

Other notes:
- Complaints about Green Day using profanity are ridiculous. Won't someone please think of the children?!?!?

- Why would you take a toddler to see Motley Crue? Really?

- Bob Dylan mumbles. He's been mumbling for a few decades now. It's a little late to start complaining about that.

- If you have no babysitter and amazing tickets to Cirque du Soleil, then I understand taking your infant with you. But refusing to walk outside of the room when the baby has been screaming for at least thirty minutes during the show is kind of rude to the people around you. Those tickets aren't cheap.

west texas tarantulas

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/garden/16location.html?ref=garden

He built the house last year, on the incline of a mesa on his 3,000-acre spread in Brewster County, where shale bluffs and sandy valleys are dotted with sagebrush and spiky yucca, and giant tarantulas languidly cross the heat-radiating roads.

Yes, there are giant tarantulas in West Texas. Yes, they cross roads. What's really crazy is when they migrate en masse and the ground is covered in a horde of giant tarantulas on the movie.

That said, the house in this article is incredible. I would love to have a vacation there. Check out the slide show, especially for the two pictures that show the incredible sky.