Foozer Rules!

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Last night I was rockin' like Dokken. Jay, Kevin and I went to the Weezer/Foo Fighters concert at America West Arena. I managed to score general admission floor seats, which meant we could get as close to the action as we wanted.

I've never seen Weezer perform live before and I have to say I was mighty impressed. They are notorious for not interacting with the audience or with each other on stage, but last night they did both and exceedingly well.

All of the guys took turns singing a song, which surprised the hell out of me. Rivers (the lead singer) is notorious for being a control freak. My buddy Robbie was there. This was his 8th time seeing Weezer. He said it was one of their best shows ever. He said that normally they don't do anything but stand apart from each other and play.

Fun moments: After the encore break, Rivers appeared at the back of the arena (where they have the sound/lighting section gated) and did an acoustic version of Islands in the Sun. They plucked a girl from the crowd and taught her the chords for Undone (the Sweater Song), she played it while they sang. I saw her walking out of the arena at the end of the show w/ her new guitar--she seemed stoked. At the end of the show they dropped confetti on us in.

Foo Fighters played one of the loudest sets I've ever heard (or didn't hear). After the first song, my ears were blasted. During certain songs the vibration was so intense it was making my heart beat funny. My entire body was shaking--cool but at times scary.

That was my fourth time I've seen FF play. They rule--they always put on a great show.

The funny thing was I saw four people that I knew. Three were from Skyview (my part time job). But the three weren't together and didn't know the others were there. Kinda weird how you see people you know in a crowd of 20,000.

In personal news... week has been busy. Tennis started back up. My wrist is getting better but it's still terribly weak.

Oh, I need to rant on something. Last week I went to the doctor's to start getting the immunization shots for Hepatitis A and B. If you're gay and you have sex and you are reading this--you should have this immunization--it's a series of shots but will protect you from transmission.

Anyway, the doctor had me take another HIV test. I told him I wasn't a whore and that I hadn't done anything that was risky. He said that they were concerned about my throat--when I went in last month for being sick they noticed some white goop on my throat that they thought was thrush.

Now thrush is something that occurs in people with weakened immune systems, such as HIV. But there is no test for thrush--doctors just "guess" if you have it.

I said that the white goop was probably from a combination of the strep (for which I tested positive) and my allergies (which give me very odd symptoms--such as loss of hearing, ringing in the ears, excessive phlegm, terrible headaches, etc).

But they wanted to "be safe" and test 30 days later. So... once again I had to wait 4 days for the results... and it was negative. I wasn't concerned but it kind of pisses me off. I'm glad that the docs are vigilant but they also need to listen to their patients.

If I said I hadn't engaged in risky behavior and I had two tests (one that tested for the antibodies and one that tests for the disease itself), a third was unnecessary!

OK. off soap box. I've got a lot of catching up to do... lots of blogs I haven't read in awhile.