MIA and Happiness!

Trav and I went to go see MIA at the Gothic Theater. I dragged Travis because no one wanted to go with me. Drove down to Denver at night for the first time. It was fine, I was really pretty okay.

The opening DJ were interesting. DJ Black and the Whities.... yep, that was their name. The DJs on the turntables played old 60's hits but with techno backbeats. Like Diana Ross Techno. It was funny and crazy.

DJ Black reminded me of a young hip hop version of Michael Jackson, like the way he moved and dressed. He was really good.

It was all sort of dancey hip hop, lots of good stuff.

DJ Contra was on after and DJed for MIAs set. Before MIA came on he played lots of fun music including Bloc Party followed by the funky booty shakin beats of Rio Baile Funk's "Who Let the Dogs Out" in Portuguese. We have both at the station.

MIA was amazing. I would have gotten a better photo of her but it was dark (so my camera had issues) and we were standing next to the security guard. Apparently we could take as many photos as we liked of the opening acts, just not MIA.

MIA had a backup singer who did the really nice backing vocals on the songs. The stage was totally decked out in Tibetian Prayer flags, a wooden Tiger, palm trees, a giant helicopter....

She did most of the songs off her album Arular except "Hombre" which is one of my favorites. MIA also did alot of tracks I had never heard before, maybe she's coming out with a new album (Hopefully Hopefully?).

MIA was just amazing to see in concert. Really great. She loved pulling people from the crowd to dance on stage and thrusting the mic into the crowd to hear them sing. She got this one guy on stage who was booty shakin' it like none other. MIA and her backup singer were laughing so hard they almost couldn't finish the song.

I got a hoodie. It tanish brown, has Helicopters on it with little soldiers dropping down from them and then it has "M.I.A." on the lower back of it.

So my show this morning.... Mike M. was supposed to come in and DJ with me. He never showed up, so Pat filled in instead. Pat and I rocked it. We raised $1220 during my show!! I was so happy!!! We had a blast. Paul called (one of my regular listeners) and well as Jay from the Denver Zoo. Rock on! Totally made me happy. Oh yeah and Pat rocks with his keytar (took this picture yesterday morning, classic Pat).

I saw Matt this morning. I was waiting in the lobby with Richard and Amina for Alicia to show up so we could all go eat, and Matt walked in. I talked to him a bit, he really likes the music I've burned for him. I am in such a good mood, I was so happy to talk to him and see him. He's borrowing my movie Ossama from Jen (who lives down the hall, Jen and I are both CSI addicts and have alot in common). I saw him again as we walked out of Farrand after we were done eating. He told me he like the Weakerthans and was asking about where they were from and such. I burned the Weakerthans for him just on a whim thinking that he might like them. He's also apparently getting into hip hop. I told him he needs to stop by and just go through my music and burn stuff. It's a good way to get him to come over and get to know him. :)

Need to go study like mad.

Current Mood: Super happy!!!