ok so last week josh and i went to see the killers play at the hollywood bowl, and it uberrocked!!!

i didn’t realize until like a day before the show that the psychedelic furs were opening for them, and i was like uhhh that’s cool. because it makes me wanna rummage through thrift store racks for pink things to shove in jenn’s face while singing (badly) “PRETTYYYYY IN PIIIIIINNNNNNNK”. i didn’t realize at the time how amazing this one-two punch of musicness was gonna be!!

so we pretty much had the perfect concert experience – we drove up to hollywood early afternoon, got there before rush hour traffic had even begun. checked into the best western that’s like 2 blocks from the bowl, and moseyed down to the hollywood/highland complex. it really kinda cracks me up how this place is billed as so hip and trendy and the oscars are held there, but really… it’s just a fancy mall.

i’m not exaggerating. it’s a mall. there’s a hot topic. steps away from where they hold the oscar. it just cracks me up.

we were lucky! we were there the same day hot topic was having a q&a about that new jennifer’s body movie, and i guess panic at the disco was gonna play. i didn’t so much care about that, we were just there to gawk at celebs. so we hung out directly behind the sound booth, listening to them talk crap about everybody was awesome. and on the second level you could see celebs getting their pics snapped and doing interviews. saw adam brody from the oc, megan fox and diablo cody.

i don’t know about you but i wanna party with diablo cody. she reminds me of my girl liz. i bet she rocks the karaoke stage!

anyhow, i found out after the fact that my old pal ed killmond from scad was there and thought he recognized me, and that is super awesome even though we didn’t get a chance to say hi. hi, ed!

after we hung out there a bit, walked back to the hotel and packed up our snacks for the concert. i LOVE that you can bring your own snacks to the h-wood bowl. we brought enough for 20 people, but it was just me and josh… we may have overpacked. for certain shows you can’t bring your own booze, and i declare shenanigans!

the show was AWESOME. every song psychedelic furs played i was all “i know this song! i know this song!” it was like sitting and listening to a john hughes movie soundtrack. and then they didn’t play pretty in pink. and their set was over. and i was like “WHAT THE HELL!!!”

josh and i started figuring maybe they were one of those bands that was so sick of that song, maybe they refuse to play it these days. but then the killers started, and their sound is SO psychedelic furs, i started thinking. omg that’s gonna be the encore. they’re gonna do pretty in pink with the furs.

and they did.

and it was AMAZING.

seriously, the killers rock my socks off and almost every song has this nostalgic quality about it, every song is so awesome. i heart them hooray!

once the show was over, instead of having to deal with crappy parking lot traffic we just had a short 2 block walk to the hotel and that was it. bliss.

the hotel thing, it made all the difference. a while back i saw the police at dodger stadium with my sis danielle and some friends, and we were in the parking lot for like an hour and a half after the show.

so that’s my recap – in other news, hearts and laserbeams was offline for a couple of days due to hacky shenanigans. it’s back online and all fixed now, so thank goodness for that! i have to seriously thank raina from the queen’s men for getting rid of all the hacker shenanigans, and bluehost for helping me get my hosting account unsuspended. y’all are the best!