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Update: Peter, Bjorn and John at the Gallivan Center.

I saw the Fiery Furnaces and Yo La Tengo at the Gallivan Center (see map– 249 S. Main in Salt Lake City), but this post is more about the venue than the show, but the show was really great. This was my first time at the Gallivan Center, so here are some things that are good to know.

1. Address- Gallivan Center - 249 S. Main Street. The underground parking enterance is on 200 S. halfway between Main and State.

2. Money- Expenses you’ll be obliged to: The concert is free, but parking will probably run you $5 for the whole night if you want to park in the close underground parking. Besides that, you won’t be obliged to pay anything else.

There are plenty of booths for food. “The Pie” pizzaria is included. 3.50 a slice. Other booths include stone/silver jewelry and the like.

If you like beer or wine, it is $5 a glass. The glasses of beer looked to be about 12 oz. It looked like Uinta Brewing company was the available micro brew (no other beers were present). I think I spotted lagers, amber ales, and stouts.

3. Allowed Foreign Items- You are allowed to bring in coolers, although outside alcohol is not allowed. There are some event staffers spot checking coolers and purses, but it wouldn’t be hard to conceal alcohol in a container. A point that might be interesting to some is that the event staffers weren’t patting down anyone. There are about a thousand wide open entrances to the outdoor venue.

Although there is technically no smoking allowed, it is impossible to police. Once you enter the general area there are no authority figures. I actually didn’t see any real cops the whole night.

I also suggest you bring blankets and/or lawn chairs. Once you reserve a place on the grass, you will be glad you did.

No pets allowed.

4. If you are worried that you are too: fat /skinny /ugly /pretty /old /young /drunk /high /black /white /family oriented for a free summer concert at the Gallivan Center, don’t worry, you won’t be alone. It is refreshing to see senior citizens in lawn chairs enjoying the absurd prog rock amelodic stylings of the Fiery Furnaces along-side the teenies smoking their little pinners.

So, in other words, if you want to take your family, there are plenty of big families with small children there. But if you are going to meet young singles, there’s that too.

Peter, Bjorn, and John is performing with the Apostle of Hustle tonight at the Gallivan Center for free. Check out my Guide to the Gallivan Center Twilight Concert Series in Salt Lake City.

Take my 4 second quiz to find out if you would enjoy going to this show:

1. Do you like to be around other human beings?

2. a. Do the little hairs on your outer ear pass sound waves that eventually end up being processed successfully by your brain?

b. If the answer to part a. of question 2 is in the affirmative, do you enjoy this sensation?

c. If the answer to part a. of question 2 is in the negative, do you enjoy this sensation anyway?

3. Do you live in driving distance of Salt Lake City?

If the answers to these questions are all yeses, then you will really enjoy this show tonight. Bring a blanket and some sushi or something.

Update:

mmmm…gulp…

With gas at about $3.00, Costco has become more and more of a popular source. In a way, this doesn’t make a ton of sense, because whether gas is at $1 or $3/gallon at the normal stations, you’re going to be saving about the same amount per gallon at Costco, about $.10/gallon. Nevertheless, the lines get longer at Costco when gas spikes, as it did this weekend. I drove by to get gas myself, and with one look at these lines, I decided my time was worth more than to wait and save $.10 per gallon:

But then I realized that I needed proof, and I needed to know what my effective wage would be (in gasoline savings) for sitting in line.

So I started in line around the bend, about two cars away from being in the main line area which you can see above, at about 12:04 on a Saturday afternoon, which I’m guessing is one of the more crazy times of the week. The line moved considerably faster than I expected.

I also chose to get in a line that led to the left side of the pump. If you’ve ever been to Costco, this is the faster less popular line since you can only drive in one way, and most people have their tank on the left. I guess some people don’t realize that the pumps are equipped to reach quite easily and safely to either side of your car. I estimate that you cut out about 1/3 of the wait time on that side.

So, here are the stats:

Started in line: 12:04/ Started Pumping: 12:14

Gas price at Costco: $2.95 9/10/ Nearest Competitor: $3.05 9/10

Savings per gallon: $.10

Honda Accord Gas Tank: +/- 15 gallons

Total Savings: $1.50

Effective wage (in savings): $1.50 divided by 10 min. in line = $.15 in savings per minute, or +/- $9 an hour.

So if you need about 15 gallons, and you value your time at about $9 an hour or less on a Saturday afternoon, then its worth it. I personally don’t think its worth it, and I did everything possible to speed up the line process. I’d rather go to Chevron (with Techron) and spend the extra 1.50, avoiding the stress of the line and getting on with my day. However, if you need 20 gallons, and you’re also filling up some cans in the back of your truck, it might be more worth it.

On 4/20, to balance out our militant blood lusty gun activity, Some of us went to see Shake Your Peace at the Alamo on his Utah Rock and Roll Bicycle tour. His sustainable rock project involves a PA system that is powered by a bicycle powered generator. He calls folks up from the audience to take turns pedalling, so it is a community involved show.

He is a very entertaining musician to watch; he puts a lot of himself into what he’s doing on stage. Its straight-up folk music with harmonica, stomping, and a little soft shoe. Several parts of some of his songs are improvised.

Anyway, check out his site, you can even hit the road with him if you like.

(sorry about all the crappy pictures shot in the dark lately with my 1.5 megapixel phone camera)

In spite of occasional violence that happens around the country because of insane people that are somehow allowed to own guns, guns can be fun sometimes. Sam recently got a .40 caliber weapon that is a taste of what it feels like for Zeus to throw lightning bolts.

Anyway, nothing much more interesting to say (except Mark, Sam’s roomate, had this really neat auto loading shotgun, so you could squeeze off 5 shotgun rounds in 3 seconds), except that after about 30 tries, I got this sweet picture of Dan. Its a dark picture because we started when there was plenty of light, but finally got a good firey muzzle picture when it was really dark:

A casualty of the auto load shotgun

Every first Thursday of the month is the Utah Blues Jam in Spanish Fork. Its at 165 N. Main and starts at 8pm. Usually they have a host band for the first 45 minutes or so and then anyone may join the jam. Amps are ample, and a drum kit is also provided. Obviously you are too late to go to April’s blues night, so go in May.

This just in: The Barenaked Ladies suck.

Instead of performing quantitative analysis on whether or not the Barenaked Ladies suck, Lewis and I decided to play ping pong for it. If I won, they suck, if Lewis won, they’d still suck but not in Lewis’s delusional world of pink bunny rabbits and sexy Danny Gans hallucinations.

I won, so they universally suck.

The last time we played ping pong to determine if someone sucked, it was Brian Regan. Turns out he sucks too.

Be looking for the next Powerless release, because they debuted one of their new songs, and it was splifferific. The song’s name is still up in the air I guess (Sam, the bassist is right here and I just asked him what its name was and he said he doesn’t know). Anyway, the song’s time signature changed like three times and there were all these really creative wandering melodies. It was almost like if Tool did the Beatles song Happiness is a Warm Gun, but then changed it a lot.

Anyway, be careful the next time you go to The Big Red Barn. Not that its a very trafficked venue or anything (its just this big red barn…in Mapleton) but I got stung 3 times by a huge wasp. I think the Powerless summoned it by playing the secret yellow note, which was designed by the Top Secret Weapons Division of the US Military to summon the Japanese out of their pill boxes, but ended up summoning wasps. So they just sprayed LSD all over them and let them back loose over St. George, UT.

Powerless plays next at the Velour (which is on University Ave. near Center Street in Provo) on Feb 22nd at 8:30.

Today was the second Sewell Direct summer day. Summer day is when we all come in shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter and turn the heat up really high. We also all pitch in some money to have a bar-b-que, and we bust out the hacky-sack so all of the stoners that work in the warehouses adjacent and accross from us and the ones that go to the alternative school accross the way start to salivate.

Summer day number two had a much better turn out than summer day one (which was last week), mainly because we actually told the other departments about it this time.

Check out these super awesome action shots of food and hacking. Warning: don’t view these pictures if you’ve spliffed it up.

Here’s Dan with the Half-Jester

Here I am with the combo outside-kick/counter-culture-t-shirt-wear:

Here are some bovine pies:

Well, it is officially the time of year when the days become shorter and darker. Naturally, we turn to the warm glow of the malls which are airtight as not to let in any natural air made from plants, and without a single window, so as to disallow any natural luminescence to enter those souless confines. And we buy nifty gifties (nifty gifties!) which are offerings to the deity Sol Invictus. Since I am well aquainted with my readership and happen to know that I only have one loyal reader that is pagan, (and ex-pagan at that… hi lena) I can guess that most of you don’t know that the festival to commemorate the winter solstice starts on Dec. 17, so start buying enough gifts to fill the days.

Playstation 3 camp Summary

…Which leads me to talk about the most sought after holiday store-item and the sacrifices made by brave Americans at Playstation 3 Camp. You can read about Playstation 3 camp if you go several posts down.

As you know I visited these fearless crusaders of the American dream several times and gave them my card with my blog address so they can come comment on my posts which were bearish about their plans to sell their new Playstation 3s on ebay for a projected gross revenue of north of $3K (most were talking low $5Ks). That would be a rough gross profit of $2,400 with the most conservative projections, not taking into account the real and immeasurable costs of lost jobs, failed exams, freezing camping, and the opportunity costs of what could be done during the week. It might still be worth it though, and that’s why I gave them all business cards so they could remember afterwards gloat about how smart they were and how worth it it really was. But I haven’t gotten any comments yet.

So I revisited the scene of the great PS3 rush of 2006 at the Best Buy of Orem, Utah (a small town adjacent to the booming metropolis of Provo). Our brave pioneers from day one could not be found. My only thought is that they were consumed by these hungry Donner-looking pilgrims pictured above. Those pictured above claim that the original campers were kicked off by “the Landlords” whatever that’s supposed to mean. I think its some strange vernacular from some sort of alternative society that has obviously begun to form here.

I spoke to some and every single one of these missing-link types claim that they will be selling their Playstation 3 for $3000 on ebay when Friday comes around. They claim that 200K will be released and 1,000K will want them. I’m not an economist, but for the price of a product to increase 500% because there are 1,000K kids who might know what a PS3 is and feel some desire to own one in the next 6 months (6 months is probably even a pipe dream in their little minds) with the supply weighing in at 200K units, is incredible if true. If I had to wager, it ain’t happening. So, if you are one of these people in the crowd, you’d better get back to McDonald’s before someone takes your old job cleaning toilets.

The Yellow Subterfuge Challenge

That was harsh. In all honesty, if you like to camp on freezing cold pavement in 20F weather and wouldn’t mind making some money doing it, please, by all means. You just aren’t walking away with a gross revenue of $3000 from your troubles. If you were one of the campers and you have successfully sold a PS3 for a profit sometime after 8 am on Friday the 17th, please comment on this blog and say how much you made, and please leave a link of your ebay auction for proof. I don’t trust your scrappy pragmatism.