Coldplay Concert

• Fin, the tour manager for BNL, is now the tour manager for Coldplay. I'm sure he is now enjoying a tasty snack of chilled revenge as he sees the Coldplay audience blasted with paper butterflies and giant yellow balloons. Mac & Cheese payback.

• The giant yellow balloons hurtling through the air at my FACE caused unpleasant flashbacks to grade school dodgeball. I think that might be why the lead singer kept asking if everyone was okay. There was a lot of "Saint Louis - How ya doin out there? Are you all doing okay?" It began to make me think Gwynneth must need constant reassurance. There was also a moment of "I hear people in Saint Louis like to fuckin' rock!" As opposed to people in, say, Auckland, perhaps?

• The music was wonderful, however, even if the opening act sang entirely in a foreign tongue, except for the last word of every song: a very satisfied "Yeeeeaaaaah." Coldplay's music was good, and you could tell they were trying to build audience rapport. They played out in the audience a number of times. They had a display that showed text messages the crowd sent. I should have texted "BNL is the best band EVER! Woooo!" but I didn't.

• I am tall. Tall is good for concerts, short is bad. Poor short people can't see a thing. I have never fully appreciated this before, but .75 and her sister are both short; I could tuck them under my lowest chin. They are oddly similar. They have the same legs. Spectacularly shaped, curvy, strong, colt-like short short legs. Also, .75 (who is Jewish) mentioned her sister's Jewish upbringing and I almost said, "Oh! Your sister's Jewish too?"

Comments

[Big Dot]

I would say that he missed off the last word when he said that to us - except I'm not that rude.

Yeah, we had the butterflies and yellow balloons too. Did you have the cellphone wave?

When he ran past us to play from the back of the stadium, I automatically stuck out my hand and got a fingerful of sweat (off his TSHIRT) and then didn't know what to do with it, so I wiped it on my daughter's face. Is that gross?

You're tall? You don't read like you're tall.

PS I have a blog now too. Nobody's visited yet...

[Big Dot]

Queen! Thank you so much for visiting my blog and reading it all - you're a star!

You're in Wisconsin???

[#0.75]

Well, compared to me, she is tall. :)

[#0.75]

OH...btw...yes, we have the same legs but hers are way more tan which I am MOST jealous of.

And I would have let you touch mine for a $1. I would have flexed a calf for you too.

[TheQueen]

Big Dot - I am 5' 7", and from Saint Louis. You have had 31 hits on your profile. I twittered you, did anyone come in from twitter? OH and your blog is so well-written, of course.
.75 - A dollar? Giving it away!

[#0.75]

You're too kind. :)

[Christy]

If 5'7 is tall, then I'm not NEARLY as short as I thought I was. AM I short? Now I'm having an existential crisis. Because of Coldplay? I need to chill and let the pain killers take over...

[3]

When my sister's in St. Louis, she's Jewish, as she was brought up. When she's in southern Missouri, she's Christian.

When in Rome...

[TheQueen]

.75 - It's to make up for all the short remarks
Christy - I'm tall next to .75, who is like 5 foot 2. If that.
3 - Maybe she's just Jewish for the food?

[#0.75]

Queen - AWWWWWWWWWW!!! Now if you could just fix everyone else, that'd be great!

3 - I know *I* am Jewish for the food! :) But I'm all about food all the time!

Christy - I would kill to be 5'7! Ooooh how I long to be normal!

[Christy]

0.75 -- I'm as short as you, but I don't think of 5.7 as tall. Maybe because I work with Amazonian women.