Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
Matt Turns 21
Sunday
April 14, 2002
"You'd better put this on LouPickney.com"
-Weezie (Matt Pickney), via cell phone, 4/14/2002 12:30 AM CDT
Gotta start this off by wishing my bro Matt a very happy 21st birthday. He finally joins the club of the legal drinkers. Wish I could've been down there to help him celebrate in style, but the Swole Patrol and company did a good job with that, from what I've been told.
I went to the Festa Italiana (Italian Fest) here in Ybor City today. Clear Channel had tents set up for 970 WFLA and Star 95.7. It's too bad 10 News didn't have something out there. The Star tent had a unique deal, as they had a carny-style wheel with 8 or so different artists that they frequently play (Sugar Ray, Dave Matthews, Goo Goo Dolls, etc.) The deal was, you pick an artist, and if the wheel stops on it, you win a prize. I picked Barenaked Ladies, and the wheel teased me, stopping on the rung before it (Sugar Ray).... and hanging there. No prize for me. I felt like the guy on The Price Is Right who spins the wheel and has it stop right before the $1.00 spot. But it was cool, and a rather original way to promote the station's core artists in a non-annoying way. Good work by the Star promotions people.
Friday night, Jeff Berardelli threw a fun party. That guy knows so many people, it's ridiculous. It's too bad there wasn't a crew there filming it -- there would've been some fine reality TV there (especially during "I Never"). To my girl with the guy in Tampa and her true love in Maryland, I wish you good luck with the drama. It's funny how sometimes you can have the most genuine conversations with absolute strangers who you just met.
I'm making my return to Huntington the weekend after next, which will be nice. It'll be ny first visit there since I moved more than a year ago. Actually, as I recall, the Italian Fest in Ybor happened the weekend I moved here in 2001. Time flies. I really would like to get to Nashville the following weekend, as the Counting Crows are playing at a festival there, but there are only so many days and so much cash to go toward that sort of thing. Especially with California less than two months away.
Speaking of concerts missed, it looks like I won't go see Dashboard Confessional at Masquerade this Tuesday after all. Doors open at 6:30, but I have to leave for work at 9:30. Figure the show starts at 7, but there are TWO opening acts. So I'd run the risk of having to leave mid-show to leave for work, which for a $20 ticket would suck. I've come to love Dashboard Confessional since my friend Scott Massey turned me on to them a few months back. They can be compared with Dave Matthews in 1995, who was an underground live show sensation who then caught on big-time (which of course pissed off the old-school hardcore fans). DC is starting to break through to the mainstream, and it could be one of those things where the next time they come to town, it'll be at the Ice Palace, not tiny Masquerade. Oh, the decisions we face in life. I might have a last-minute change of heart and go to the show... but we'll see.
The Masters is on in the other room right now. Another memory I have of my first weekend here was watching Tiger win -- he's got a shot to repeat as champ (and capture his third green jacket overall). And that's despite them re-designing the course to try and make it "Tiger proof". Those PGA bastards. But Tiger's got the skills to make it happen anyway.
I've become addicted to the Yahoo game Literati. It's essentially a knock-off of Scrabble, played in real-time with people all over the world. Fun stuff, for sure...
I finally got around to adding the old commentary archives to the page. They date back to April 2000 -- check them out here.
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