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Killers Concert NYC

On Friday night, Al and I drove up to NYC to hit the Killers Concert in Central Park on Saturday. My brother, David, has been doing work up in NYC, so we met up with him at his hotel, and then hit a diner for some greasy grilled cheese around midnight, and then off to bed.

On Saturday, did the typical shopping excursion of hitting Soho, and walking around the city. We later met up with our friend Eric, and his friend Betsy, who we had bought tix for. Of course, when we asked Eric initially if he had wanted to go to see the Killers with us, he had an enthusiastic response of “Yes! I love that song Mr. Rightguard!” Um, I think he meant Mr. Brightside, but you know, a nice deodorant song works as well I suppose.

At some point of meeting up, Eric unveils this packet of papers stapled together…which are the lyrics to ALL of the Killers songs. Not only did Eric go on Lyrics.com for the lyrics, he copied and pasted them into a Word Document, and printed them out to bring to the concert. I was laughing so hard at this point, I was almost crying.

We walked over to the Park, and met up with David’s friend Shannon, and sat around Central Park mixing a few drinks before going in for the show. It was super hot, and the first band, Louis XIV was good, but it was too hard to get into because it was so hot. Finally, before the Killers went on, the sun started to set, so it cooled off.

I think we were definitely some of the oldest people at the concert, but it was surprisingly chill—no mosh pits or body surfers—but not without lack of effort on Al or Eric’s part. At one point in the concert, I look over at Eric, and he’s doubled over the lyrics print out singing along as he’s reading the words. That got some great laughs from the people around us, who didn’t quite know what to make of him.

After the concert, I was about ready to cry because my feet hurt so badly from walking all day, and then standing for the concert. After grabbing a bite to eat downtown, we headed back to our hotel, and crashed.

On Sunday, we hit Barney’s---didn’t really get anything, but I just love Barney’s and seeing what the fashions are, and what designers are doing. And then, off to home.

It was a nice weekend to get away—especially now that the humidity is just starting to set in. The city is starting to get expensive again…which is good and bad. Good that it’s recovered from 9/11, but bad b/c I used to be able to find deals there, and couldn’t this go round.

One thing I will say, is that I loved NY more this time around because I’m getting more comfortable with living in a city, and getting around a city, and didn’t find it as confusing.