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June 28

Greg’s wedding

Here are some photos from Greg’s rehearsal and wedding.

 

June 12

What are you doing this weekend?

I am going to a couple of SIFF films including the closing night gala.  I am also going to the Sounders game on Saturday night.  What are y’all doing this weekend???

May 24

SeaQuest DSV and baseball

On my XBOX 360 I have been streaming the SeaQuest DSV TV show via Netflix.  The show was on NBC from 1993-96 and depicted a time in the future of the years 2018-32.  I watch it at some level to see what the writers thoughts on the future were.  While I am half way through season one thing they have had is a couple of baseball references of note.

The first is that in 2009 the Seattle Mariners played Havana in the World Series.  16 years into the future the writers were predicting that Havana had a baseball team playing in major league baseball.  You could infer from that Communism had fallen and that now that the MLB had teams outside of the US and Canada.  Maybe teams from the World Baseball Classic got to play in the World Series??  (episode: Give Me Liberte)

The second was the the Florida Marlins were the World Series champs in 2010.  Jonathan Brandis who plays the genius kid on the show wears a jersey with this written on the back.  In 1993 the Marlins were an expansion team and it was interesting that the writers thought in that short period of time they would make it to and win the World Series.  Of course they did win only four years into their existence in 1997 and again in 2003.  (episode: To Be or Not to Be)

Hopefully it will be Seattle’s year in 2009 as they are only one of three current teams to never play in the World Series.  The other two are the Texas Rangers (Washington Senators) and the Washington Nationals (Montreal Expos).

May 20

Mike McCready plays the national anthem before the M’s game

Before the Mariners game tonight Mike McCready of Pearl Jam played the national anthem.  I tried to capture it on my cell phone but I guess the video is just not that great and you will have to trust me that he was there.  On his jersey it had his last name and the number 59 which I think is a reference to the fact that the guitar he plays is a 59 strat.

You might be able to see the small set of amps behind home plate in these photos.  They are kind of dark and people are standing in front of them.

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Mike McCready plays the star spangled banner
March 25

The list of bands that have played at White River Amphitheatre

Apparently Wikipedia is not the place to list the concerts that have happened at a concert venue within a wiki entry for said venue because it is considered “unencyclopedic”.  Awhile back I had added information to the entry about the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, WA with the list of bands that had played but then someone had come along later and deleted all of that content claiming there was no citations for the content.  When I reverted this deletion and added citations it was deleted again saying that is not what wikipedia is all about.  I guess from my point of view where would you go to find a list of shows?  To preserve the content I guess I will list it in my blog because I do not think you can find the information anyplace else.

2003(incomplete list?)
6/14/03 Heart and Berlin
6/20/03 Beck and The Black Keys (Dashboard Confessional was dropped from Beck's tour before coming to the White River Amphitheatre)
7/12/03 Ozzfest '03: Chevelle, Marilyn Manson, Disturbed and Korn
7/16/03 Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and Lucinda Williams
7/26/03 Fleetwood Mac
7/27/03 Boston
8/17/03 Liquid Mix Tour: N.E.R.D., O.A.R., The Roots, Talib Kweli, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, and Slightly Stoopid
8/22/03 Cher
8/23/03 Lollapalooza: Jane's Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus, Perfect Circle, the Donnas, Jurassic 5, and others
8/24/03 The Eagles
8/31/03 Radiohead
9/16/03 Jimmy Buffett
9/27/03 Widespread Panic
10/3/03 Blue Man Group
10/5/03 Alan Jackson and Joe Nichols
10/12/03 Aerosmith and KISS

2004(incomplete list?)
5/13/04 Christina Aguilera, Chingy
6/16/04 No Doubt, Blink-182, and Phantom Planet
6/23/04 KISS and Poison
7/1/04 Fleetwood Mac
7/2/04 Rush
7/11/04 John Mayer, Switchfoot, DJ Logic
7/14-15/04 Lollapalooza Tour canceled
7/24/04 Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson, Ryan Cabrera, Kimberly Locke, JoJo, MisTeeq, Christina Milian, Kevin Little and Bowling for Soup
7/25/04 Alanis Morissette, Barenaked Ladies, Nellie McKay
7/27/04 Ozzfest '04: Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Slayer, Dimmu Borgir, Superjoint Ritual; second stage: Slipknot, Hatebreed, Lamb of God, Lacuna Coil, God Forbid, Bleeding Through, Atreyu, Everytime I Die, Unearth
8/15/04 Chicago/Earth, Wind & Fire
8/28/04 Josh Groban
9/10/04 Deep Purple, Joe Satriani, Thin Lizzy
9/18/04 Farm Aid -- Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Jerry Lee Lewis, Trick Pony, Tony Coleman, Blue Merle, Tegan and Sara, Kate Voegle, Kitty Jerry, Marc Broussard
9/25/04 Endfest 13: The Presidents of the United States of America, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, X, Violent Femmes, Psychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, Metric, Muse, Lashes, Super Deluxe, Idiot Pilot, Schoolyard Heroes, U.S.E. and Leuko
10/8/04 Sting, Annie Lennox, and Dominic Miller

2005
5/28/05 Snoop Dog with The Game and Oowee
6/4/05 KNDD 107.7 "The End" Endfest #14. Social Distortion, Queens of the Stone Age, Interpol, MxPx, Hot Hot Heat, Stereophonics, The Bravery, Ash, Kaiser Chiefs, The Caesars, Kasabian, Tegan & Sara, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Lashes, Aqueduct, Mountain Con, and Razrez.
6/10/05 Reba McEntire with Brad Paisley and Terri Clark.
7/4/05 Judas Priest with Queensryche
7/17/05 "Anger Management" tour. Eminem, 50 Cent, D12, G-Unit, Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz, Obie Trice, Stat Quo, and Green Lantern.
7/30/05 Mötley Crüe with Sum 41, The Exies, and Silvertide.
8/8/05 Avril Lavigne with Gavin DeGraw and Butch Walker.
8/11/05 Ozzfest 2005. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Shadow Falls, Black Label Society, Rob Zombie, with Mudvayne, Killswitch Engaged, As I lay dying, Mastodon, A dozen furies, The Haunted, In flames, Arch Enemy, The Black Dahila Murder, Bury the Dead, It dies today, Soil Work, Trivium, Gizmachi.
8/16/05 Black Mountain and Coldplay.
8/19/05. 99.9 KISW "Hooky Day" Sevendust, Trapt, Cold, Smile Empty Soul, Glimpse, Point One. Local stage: Murdock, Dog Bone Sanctuary, Top Heavy Crush, Rishloo.
8/26/05 John Mellencamp with John Fogerty and Stoll Vaughn.
8/31/05 Chicago with Earth, Wind, & Fire.
9/10/05 "Gigantour": Megadeth, Anthrax, Fear Factory, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Nevermore, Life of Agony, Dry Kill Logic, & Bobaflex.
10/13/05 Brooks & Dunn, Big & Rich, the Warner Brothers, and Cowboy Troy

2006
6/10/06 Drive-By Truckers, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, and The Black Crowes
6/22/06 Augustana, Goo Goo Dolls, and Counting Crows
6/29/06 "Ozzfest 2006" Black Acid Trip, A Life Once Lost, All That Remains, The Red Cord, Strapping Young Lad, Between The Buried & Me, Walls of Jericho, Norma Jean, Bleeding Through, Unearth, Atreyu, Black Label Society, Dragonforce, Lacuna Coil, Hatebreed, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, System of a Down, and Ozzy Osbourne
7/27/06 Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
7/28/06 Michael McDonald and Steely Dan
7/29/06 "KUBE 93.3 Summer Jam" -- Ray J, E-40, Bow Wow, T.I., and Ludacris
7/30/06 Trey Anastasio and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (with Stevie Nicks and Eddie Vedder)
8/6/06 Rooney and Kelly Clarkson
8/12/06 "Endfest '06" -- The Gossip, Rock Kills Kid, The Subways, Nine Black Alps, Eagles of Death Metal, Wolfmother, The Mars Volta, and Red Hot Chili Peppers
8/31/06 Journey and Def Leppard
9/23/06 Majorie Fair, Sheryl Crow, and John Mayer
9/27/06 Shinedown, Rob Zombie, and Godsmack

2007
5/26/07 Taylor Swift, Kellie Pickler, Jack Ingram, and Brad Paisley
6/16/07 Gwen Stefani, Akon, Lady Sovereign
7/1/07 Paquita la del Barrio with Vicente Fernández
7/12/07 "Ozzfest '07" -- Chtonic, In This Moment, DÅÅTH, 3 Inches of Blood, Circus Diablo, The Showdown, Nile, Ankla, Mondo Generator, Behemoth, Hatebreed, Lordi, Static-X, Lamb of God, and Ozzy Osbourne
7/20/07 Rush
7/25/07 "Projekt Revolution" tour -- Madina Lake, The Bled, Saosin, Mindless Self Indulgence, Julien-K, Placebo, HIM, Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, and Linkin Park
7/27/07 Flynnville Train, Miranda Lambert, and Toby Keith
7/28/07 "KUBE Summer Jam" -- Shop Boyz, Baby Boy Da Prince, Mike Jones, T-Pain, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Nas, and Ludacris
9/8/07 Pepe Aguilar <Canceled>
9/26/07 Styx, Foreigner, and Def Leppard

 

2008
6/02/08 Iron Maiden
6/24/08 Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Halfway to Hazard
6/29/08 "Rock 'N' Ride for Children" -- The Marshall Tucker Band with Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Foghat,Starship Starring Mickey Thomas, Spike and the Impalers
7/09/08 Mayhem festival – Drown Mary, The Red Cord, 36 Crazyfists, Suicide Silence, Black Tide, Underoath, Walls of Jericho, Five Finger Death Punch, Airbourne, Machine Head, Mastodon, DragonForce, Disturbed, and Slipknot
7/11/08 Stevie Wonder
7/19/08 Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry
7/26/08 "KUBE-FM Summer Jam" -- Bow Wow, Lil Wayne, The Game, Ray J, T-Pain
8/08/08 Mötley Crüe, Trapt, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:Am
8/09/08 Brooks and Dunn, ZZ Top, Rodney Atkins
8/16/08 Native American Music Association Hall of Fame Showcase with Redbone, Janice Marie Johnson, Indigenous
8/19/08 Tony Hawk's Boom Boom HuckJam
8/20/08 Radiohead, Liars August
8/23/08 KISW “Pain in the Grass” 2008 with Queensryche, Seether, Shinedown, Sevendust, Drowning Pool and Jet Black Stare
9/6/08 Santana
9/19/08 Journey, Heart, Cheap Trick
9/21/08 Maroon 5, Counting Crows, Augustana


2009

7/07/09  New Kids on the Block with JabbawockeeZ and Jesse McCartney
7/14/09 “Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival” – Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid, Cannibal Corpse, Job For A Cowboy, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Whitechapel.
7/19/09 No Doubt and Paramore and The Sounds
7/27/09 “Crüe Fest 2” - Mötley Crüe, Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, and Charm City Devil’s
8/6/09 The Fray with Jack’s Mannequin Show moved to Paramount Theatre
8/7/09 Rod Stewart
8/17/09 Aerosmith with ZZ Top
9/10/09 Blink-182 with others

February 25

White River Amphitheatre 2009 summer schedule

Bookmark this post to see who is coming to White River this summer.

 

  • 7/07/09 (Tuesday)  New Kids on the Block with JabbawockeeZ and Jesse McCartney.
  • 7/14/09 (Tuesday)  “Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival” – Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid, Cannibal Corpse, Job For A Cowboy, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel and Killswitch Engage.
  • 7/19/09 (Sunday) No Doubt with Paramore and The Sounds
  • 7/25/09 (Saturday) KUBE 93.3 FM “Summer Jam”  Kid Cudi, Asher Roth, Soulja Boy, Pitbull, The Dream, Akon, New Boyz, Flo Rida, Ludacris 
  • 7/27/09 (Monday) “Crue Fest 2” -- Mötley Crüe and Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, and Charm City Devil’s 
  • 8/06/09 (Thursday) The Fray with Jack’s Mannequin (Show moved to Paramount)
  • 8/07/09 (Friday) Rod Stewart
  • 8/17/09 (Monday) Aerosmith with ZZ Top
  • 8/22/09 (Saturday) KISW Pain in the Grass “Pedal To The Metal Tour” – Slipknot, Mudvayne, Chevelle, Static-X, Saliva, and Steel Panther.
  • 9/10/09 (Thursday) KNDD 107.7 “Endfest 18” Blink-182 and Weezer with Taking Back Sunday and Chester French.
  • 9/12/09 (Saturday) Def Leppard and Poison with Cheap Trick
January 11

Love is in the air!

Catching up on what happened over the holidays I wanted to give a congratulations to my buddies Erik Olson and Greg Price.  Erik got engaged around Thanksgiving and Greg got engaged on New Years day.

Before moving into my current place I lived in Erik’s place for five years, perhaps one year too long, and I am happy to hear that he has found someone to spend the rest of his life with.

Greg was a roommate in college and also was a roommate in the Montlake House (as was Erik) and he and Laurie have known each other for many and many years now.  I’ll have to start the workouts so I look good in a tux in his wedding photos come this June.

I think I am down to one roommate I have lived with in the last 20 years that has not tied the knot.  Of course there is also good old me and people gave up on trying to set me up years ago.  :(

 

Congrats to Erik and Greg!

January 07

The new Showare Center in Kent

Last Friday I went to the grand opening of the Showare Center in Kent, WA.  Showare is a ticketing company like Ticketmaster.  The Showare Center is the new home for the Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team that for the last few years has played in Key Arena in Seattle.

Attached are pictures I took at the opening.

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For the open house they had a stage on the ice.

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This is a photo from my seats which are six rows behind the glass, behind the goal.

A few photos of the home team locker room.  Nice space for each team member (but only four showers).

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The visiting team locker room is basically bare with this lovely shade of green.  Note the little hooks to hang things on compared to the home team locker room.

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Hopefully you can notice the Braille on the referee locker room sign.  This proves that in fact that the referees do have problems with their site.  The umpire room at Safeco Field also has Braille on the room door.  Update: I was able to grab a photo of the Umpires room at Safeco today.

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Me and the T-Birds Zamboni.

 

Pros:  Showare Center is small so you have great sightlines from most places in the venue, including the suites at the top.  I really think it will give the T-Birds more of a home ice advantage.

It also will be nice for concerts assuming that the sound does not echo.  It seats 6100+ for hockey and less than 8000 for a concert.  This makes it about 2000 smaller than the Everett Event Center.

Kent Station is near by which has some decent restaurants like Dukes or The Ram.  The paperwork with our season tickets said we should not park there but I have no idea on how they would know you did and went to game.  If you can park there and go to the movie theatre it would be just as long to go to a game.

Cons:  When it is sold out it will be hard to move around.  At the first game the lines were long for concessions and you really could not move around the concourse.  The second game which was an average game crowd size made it easier to move around.

At Key Arena I had the habit of making loops around the concourse between periods just to get a little walk in.  In Showare you cannot make full loops as one end is closed off from walking through.  You can go from ground level, up steps to the top and go over two sections and walk back down however.

The main parking lot only holds less than 900 cars.  There is the old park and ride lot less than two blocks away to offset this and in either case chances are you will have less of a walk than you did at Key Arena but do not expect to park close unless you get their early.  In theory they do have spots set aside for carpools and hybrid cars but I have not seen it in practice.

I tend to think that they might not have enough bathrooms.  On opening night there were long lines, even for the guys, when you compare to Key Arena.  I only counted four stalls.

 

Overall however it is a nice building.  It was built at a low cost and should do well for the T-Birds, Disney on Ice, Harlem Globetrotters, etc. type of events.  It is far from being a fancy venue.  

December 01

How is MSFT doing against the DOW with Balmer in charge

I have blogged a few times about Microsoft is doing against the rest of the DOW since Steve Balmer became the CEO.  Since today was the day that the recession was agreed upon I thought I would pull the data on how Microsoft is doing (the answer is not tha well).  Note that I include Bank of America, Chevron, and Kraft which were added in the last year or so to the DOW and International Paper and Kodak which were members when Microsoft was added to the DOW.
 
1/3/2000 12/1/2008  P/L
XOM ExxonMobil $39.156 $74.31 $35.15
*** CVX Chevron 41.813 70.02 28.21
MCD McDonald's 39.625 56.17 16.55
MMM Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing 47.188 62.14 14.95
UTX United Technologies 31.25 45.62 14.37
CAT Caterpillar 24.313 35.58 11.27
JNJ Johnson & Johnson 46.094 55.33 9.24
PG Procter & Gamble 53.594 60.49 6.90
BA Boeing 40.188 39.88 (0.31)
6/13/2001 KFT Kraft 31.25 25.66 (5.59)
MO Altria 23.438 15.26 (8.18)
DIS Disney 29.456 20.33 (9.13)
*** BAC Bank of America 24.219 12.85 (11.37)
KO Coca-Cola 56.375 44.33 (12.05)
WMT Wal-Mart 66.813 53.01 (13.80)
PFE Pfizer 31.875 15.28 (16.60)
T AT&T 47 26.96 (20.04)
JPM JP Morgan Chase 48.583 26.12 (22.46)
HPQ Hewlett-Packard 58.719 33.44 (25.28)
AXP American Express 46.084 19.64 (26.44)
VZ Verizon 57.755 30.67 (27.09)
HON Honeywell 56.688 25.99 (30.70)
INTC Intel 43.5 12.56 (30.94)
AA Alcoa 40.469 9.31 (31.16)
C Citigroup 39.75 6.45 (33.30)
GE General Electric 50 15.5 (34.50)
IBM International Business Machines 116 76.9 (39.10)
MSFT Microsoft 58.281 18.61 (39.67)
MRK Merck 67.625 24.85 (42.78)
DD DuPont 65 22.22 (42.78)
HD Home Depot 65.188 21.3 (43.89)
AIG American International Group 69.292 1.65 (67.64)
GM General Motors 74.625 4.95 (69.68)
** IP International Paper 55.5 11.08 (44.42)
** KD Kodak 64.563 7.08 (57.48)
November 04

RIP Edward McMichael aka The Tuba guy

The news today out of Seattle was that Edward McMichael who I only new as the Tuba guy (and in the paper they refer to him at the Tuba Man) died in his hotel room days after being beating and robbed in Seattle.  You could always count on seeing the Tuba guy and sporting events and generally in the same spot at every event.  I remember him playing outside of the Kingdome before M's games.  My friend did a documentary on Richard Peterson who was a trumpet play who would also play out in front of sporting events, along with being on the radio with the Robyn and Maynard.  One of the parts of the movie is when both Richard and Edward where on the Seattle TV show Almost Live playing their instruments.  He really was an icon in the town.
 
After any event at Key Arena you could always find the Tuba guy on the fountain side of the arena under the same light post.  After T-Birds or Sonics games with a win I would always drop my spare change in his steal bucket with a loud clank and you would hear that baritone voice say thank you, go T-Birds, or he would play you a few bars of a song.  At M's games you would always see him on First street in the same place outside of Safeco field.  Also at hockey games he would either get a ticket from someone or buy a cheap seat and you would see him in the last row standing and marching in place for the majority of a game.  Many little kids would come and join him.
 
Tonight was a T-Birds game and it was very cool to see lit candles and flowers outside of the very spot he would always be at Key Arena.  There was also big juice bottles as he would always seem to have at least one large Sunkist style bottle of juice or a gallon of water at his feet.  After the 8-2 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings my buddy Greg and I dropped our spare change in with others as part of the memorial in our way of trying to say goodbye.
 
I took the attached photo from the Seattle Weekly.

Two months without a post!

Well my blog might be almost dead.  I guess it has been over two months without a blog post.  I have been keeping my lists up to date for movies, concerts, books, etc. but I guess I have not had much to write.  I think facebook makes it a bit easier to write something really quick even if it just your status on what you are currently doing.  Hopefully everyone just has this on their RSS and gets the updates if and when I make them.
August 22

5479 days at the same company

Saturday (tomorrow) will be 5479 days that I have worked at same company (5925 days if you count my internships).  As such I have 15 pounds of M&Ms outside of my office which is the tradition to bring in a pound for every year you have been ther.  Stop by and get yourself a treat!  Because 15 years is considered a hallmark at my company I got the M&Ms personalized. 

 

Any interesting fact is that 15 lbs of M&Ms weighs over 19 lbs when shipped.

 

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August 10

I want CBUT in HD!

We are only three days into the Olympics coverage and NBC is driving me crazy.  I am tired of seeing "Live" listed next to events listed on NBC when the events happened much earlier.  Living in Seattle we get the Canada channel CBUT on cable which is the CBC channel for Pacific time zone and it always seems to have coverage of Olympic events that is much more live than anything on NBC (or MSNBC, CNBC, Universal, etc.) but its downfall on cable is that it is not in high definition.  I also like the fact that I get to see events that NBC seems to ignore or if there is not USA people participating.  It was great to see some team handball and water polo on CBUT.  Just tonight some of the swiming I saw on CBUT at 8:30 was jus shown on NBC at 11 pm!
 
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