Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Fresh and Easy Loophole

Loophole of the week.

OK, so Fresh and Easy has this coupon they put out every so often for 10 dollars off of a fifty dollar order right. Here is what you do.

Tear out the coupon, Duh, but rip up a few other pieces of paper same size as it and put them with the coupon. Now shop at fresh and easy, but buy only 50 dollars worth of food, NO MORE THAN 50! And here is why.
The coupon is good for anything in the store no limit no item anything. Buy 50 dollars worth, its self check out. Go scan the coupon but, don’t slide it in the little hole keep it and use it again a different day. That is 100 dollars of ANYTHING for 80 bucks.

This can be done til the coupon expires.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

A knight at the Sound Table

July 22 2011.

I must first give a little background so you understand my Soundgarden Fan-dumb… ha

Back as a freshman in high school I go see my brother who was a freshman in college and get to his dorm room and he plays Big Dumb Sex for me and talks about this band Soundgarden. Then in 1991 some time later I go see Warrior Soul, and band my bro told me about, soundgarden and Danzig. Not a dazig fan then or now. Good show fun Someone throw a empty milk jug and it hit me in the head near the end of the night.. very funny. After the show we go see if we can find the band and sure enough met the whole band that night. So that was it a solid fan for life, DONE!
So I have been a huge fan since then. Years later my brother had this little white gold Soundgarden pendant made for me, save that info for later. So…

I had not planned on even going to the show because I had my show, tickets were 50 and I had no one to go with so with all that on the plate I figured I would just sit this one out. My buddy is good friends with Chris, the singer of SG so I thought I would ask him if he was going. He replied yes and asked if I was and I said no did not buy ticket. Moments later he texts me that Chris put dug down for 2 tickets and VIP passes. So to recap the Band I have loved for years I am now a personal guest of the singer and his friend?!?!?! WTF ha!!! That set the stage at too cool and have not even gotten to the show yet.

So show night, last night, we get there go to will call and right out the gate see LA people Juliette Lewis is there, a FAN how cool is that. It started to hit me that all these people were like me fans of this great band that had not done anything for years. A connection to all these strangers that was a cool feeling. Anyway so we start at will call to get our tickets and the Anthrax Singer is there doing the same thing, he was really nice and just a normal dude, very cool! At this point I should point out who I am with Dug Pinnik, bass player and singer of King’s X and Dave Henning bass player from big wreck and a bunch of other bands. These two guys are really great musicians and bass players, and then there is me, ha ha ha. So we put on out VIP passes and head to this bar area.

With in a few minutes I noticed how out of place I was. Josh Brolin walks by me and another Actor I could not place in time and he was gone. Get a drink and the Drummer from TOOL comes over to Dug and is all hi man how you been. Danny was super cool and nice plaid shorts t-shirt and green shoes oh and over 6 foot tall which was nice. Being around tall people is fun, anyway. As we are about to go to our seats someone says “hey Dave Grohl is over there” So I know dug knows dave so I am like hey Dug Dave is over there say hi. So as dug is saying hi to Dave and he is laughing and joking with people a song off nevermind is playing in the bar. It was a surreal moment that I cant explain. Hob-knobing is over time to go get our seats.
Before each SG show my brother and I would play the game What song will they open with. I was next to Dave Henning so I say just that. I don’t think he wanted to play but I had to anyone so we guessed and both wrong, I guess spoonman or jesus chris pose I could not hear Dave’s guess so we ended up being both wrong, but both my guesses were in the first 5 songs for the official record. They played for almost 2 hours straight with one small 4 minute break to milk the drama, ha ha which is great. They sounded like they did when I would see them back in the late 90’s. fun show no thrills no dancers no fireworks or mannequins or anything crazy just the band amps and some lights. If you go to see anything more than that at a Soundgarden show you will not see it. But they were spot on solid fun and loads of energy. The only thing missing was seeing them with my brother that was a bummer but he was there with in spirit, cause I would not even be going to see them if it were not for him so…. I can also add that they recorded the entire show into protools so hopefully we can buy the live show at some point that would be cool.
I also took some short videos of songs but I was enjoying the show too much to stop and pull out my phone but I got a couple cool moments. Ben putting down his bass and going to play the drums with Matt on the Song Ben wrote was really cool. I did miss some girl holding up a sign saying she loved Matt and he gave her a drumstick which was very cool to see. The only thing I was bummed about music wise was my two favorite songs were not played, Like Suicide and Overfloater, oh well.

So the show is over and I must say that there were some really HOT girls around where we were and in the whole place…. WOW, thank you lovely ladies we have one thing in common.

We then go to the VIP party thing, which was for Chris Birthday. We then bumped into Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains and the new Singer of AIC. Of course Dave Grohl over by the bar being loud and crazy again. I watched josh Brolin take a cell call in the loud room, “hey can you hear me I can’t hear you very well” yeah No shit BUSH your in a bar!!! Knob. Then Chris comes down and the birthday cake thing was light and everyone sang happy birthday to him. Which was cool for me cause my birthday was Monday and it was a shared moment for me in those minutes. I also realized that I am just a fan and that trying to meet and greet just did not seem right or important anymore. I know on my birthday if “I” came up to me and was all huge fan I would be wanting to run. But I will add this one thing. I had on my SG necklace thing which I have had on for 2 years now and usually keep it under my shirt. I “pulled it out” so it was on top of my shirt and made my finally push with Dug to say hi to Chris. I noticed others trying to do the same so I stopped and just enjoyed the rest of the evening.

So today the 23rd can be all Soundgarden playing all day!!! Night all.

Kip