Saturday, January 29, 2005
Mind Zappa For Sure
In the eighteen months we've lived in Boston, there have been only two events that I've strongly wanted to buy tickets for. One is the U2 concert at the Fleetcenter this May, the other is the Braves-Red Sox series at Fenway the same week. Of course they both went on sale at the exact same time, this morning at ten am, and of course both U2 shows sold out almost immediately. They added a third show, on May 28th, and that sold out within five minutes. Meanwhile, I've been in a Red Sox "Virtual Waiting Room" for fifty minutes now. Once (if?) I get through, I'm not even guaranteed that any of the Braves games will still have tickets available. Legal scalping services run rampant up here, and I'm sure those assholes are the ones snatching all the tickets up. There's a ticket place a block or so away from my apartment. It's in the back of a music store that has this awesome mural of Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and Jerry Garcia in outer space painted on their storefront. We went in there once just to see how much they were selling REM tickets for. We figured since absolutely nobody gives a shit about REM anymore we could maybe get some relatively cheap tickets. The guy at the counter admitted that there'd been very little demand for the show, and yet they were still asking twice face value for shitty nose-bleed seats.
This seals it. SF's a definite go. I shall zap and be zapt.
In the eighteen months we've lived in Boston, there have been only two events that I've strongly wanted to buy tickets for. One is the U2 concert at the Fleetcenter this May, the other is the Braves-Red Sox series at Fenway the same week. Of course they both went on sale at the exact same time, this morning at ten am, and of course both U2 shows sold out almost immediately. They added a third show, on May 28th, and that sold out within five minutes. Meanwhile, I've been in a Red Sox "Virtual Waiting Room" for fifty minutes now. Once (if?) I get through, I'm not even guaranteed that any of the Braves games will still have tickets available. Legal scalping services run rampant up here, and I'm sure those assholes are the ones snatching all the tickets up. There's a ticket place a block or so away from my apartment. It's in the back of a music store that has this awesome mural of Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and Jerry Garcia in outer space painted on their storefront. We went in there once just to see how much they were selling REM tickets for. We figured since absolutely nobody gives a shit about REM anymore we could maybe get some relatively cheap tickets. The guy at the counter admitted that there'd been very little demand for the show, and yet they were still asking twice face value for shitty nose-bleed seats.
This seals it. SF's a definite go. I shall zap and be zapt.
