Since the last post, I have been to Vegas and back, had my sister, brother in law, and nephew stay at my place for a few days as soon as I got back from there and played Wii with my nephew Neil and James a few times (apparently Neils grandparents do not know how to turn on the game so it will be on tv so Neil gets excited to see me. When I pulled on Thursday night, Neil was yelling "Uncle Chris is here. Now we can play Wii!) I also saw Shinedown play last night with Stone Cold Cherry and Theory of a Madman. Theory was pretty good last night as was Shinedown. The singer for Theory looked like Ben Afleck from Phantoms which he was the bomb. (A little Jay and Silent Bob reference.)
The singer for Shinedown was a little too serious throughout the show. He had all these messages and stories about each song. Personally I would rather sit through some of Eddie Vedder ramblings about politics, but the show was good. He looked a lot like Ozzy with his hair pulled back in a pony tail and with the eye liner he was wearing with the body weight of Meatloaf. Just my impression.
While in Vegas I was able to break even gambling. Not the goal, but always is better than losing everything while there. I finished 8th of 84 in a Caesar's poker game making me late to see Aries Spears do stand up at Harrah's. One coin flip race at the tourney, and I could have gone deeper in the tournament and felt confident I could have won it all. It is the best I played poker in close to two years. Here is the first night at a Japanese restaurant paid for by the guy on the right, Craig Daniel, who won big and decided to treat us well. Tim is on the left and Steve on the right.
Also, if anyone goes to Vegas, go to Freemont Street. They have a light show every night which we could see from the car while looking for a parking garage, but missed the whole thing. But, there is also an artist who does art using only spray paint on like a 16x20 canvas in about 10 minutes. I saw him do a total of 4 and they looked awesome. Here is a link to see some of the cool things they can do in a few minutes.
Check out some of the other things he could do. This was a different artist than I saw, but the talent is the same. I am trying to see if they would be able to do something with a Pink Floyd theme with Dark Side of the Moon in the picture. I got the idea after he did some work with the some casinos in Vegas including the Luxor.
He thinks he could do a painting of the guy sitting in the field with the TV from the movie The Wall, but I already have a framed print of that. What do you think, would it be cooler to have someone do it with spray paint and maybe include the tree from the half life (looks like the profile of a person's head) with maybe the prism and the rainbow and stream of light coming out each side? Need opinions people. Come on now.
No more concerts for awhile on the schedule. Although my neighbor did ask me today if I would like to see Jimmy Buffet tonight in Chicago. I am not a huge fan and I have seen him, so I passed. He also came over to ask me to stop watering my yard since I had two sprinklers going at the same time. But, my grass is a nice brown and needs some water to catch up with the neighbors who have a sprinkler system.
3 comments:
Sounds like you've been having a good time, that's great for you! Isn't it Theory of a Deadman...not madman?
And it's Black Stone Cherry. Shinedown was right...
Interesting to know.
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