first week of may and already it's been too busy!

talk about outrageousness.  remember that talk of a small buzz coldplay show?  try as i may, my luck ran out, and tickets sold out in. like. five seconds.  no kidding. 

then i jump on ebay to check.  mind you, these are WILL CALL tickets.  meaning you physically have to be there and show your credit card that you , yes, YOU were the one who bought the tickets.  buy it now for $800 per pair, i saw ten minutes later.  you got to be joking, i thought.  an hour later, people are bidding over a grand for $26 tickets.  outrageous!  Brad Kava wrote an article about these kind of shows here.  Here's a snippit:
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"If you are a band that could easily play a bigger show, when you do a show like the Fillmore, you want to sell it out and leave people on the street,'' says Rick Mueller, the man who books all the large shows for San Francisco's Bill Graham Presents.

``There's a huge buzz when you turn people away. It gets the momentum going. Radio comes down and covers it. They play the single more.

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genius marketing.

here's a tracklisting of graduation songs i came up with.  you know it's serious when there's no nickel creek/glen phillips/toad.  criteria was songs in major, somewhat celebratory, upbeat, etc.  disregard the numbering, no order. shuffle mode.

1. Coldplay – Don’t Panic
2. Norah Jones – Sunrise
3. U2 – Beautiful Day
4. Indigo Girls – Closer to Fine
5. Polyphonic Spree – Section 9
6. Vienna Teng – Harbor
7. Darol Anger & the American Fiddle Ensemble – Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder Cover)
8. Bruce Springsteen – Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
9. Travis – Flowers in the Window
10. The Arcade Fire – Wake Up
11. Aimee Mann & Michael Penn – Two of Us (Beatles Cover)
12. Incubus – Drive
13. John Mellencamp – Walk Tall
14. Dave Matthews Band – Everyday
15. Foo Fighters – Times Like These

better than ezra, cake, and gomez all in san jose friday night, within blocks of each other.  for once we'll be the capital of the alternative universe. enjoy it.