Jack and Co did not disappoint Wednesday night at the Woodlands Pavilion. Before the show on the main stage, Paula Fuga, G.Love, then Zach Gill, G. Love and Jack Johnson played an acoustic set right inside the pavilion gates. I was waiting for my friends Chris and Meredith Sharp to get there as our tickets were at Will Call and Chris had to get them. I had a great view of the set though right outside the gates.
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A teenage stoner kid was standing out there and after Jack left, this is what I overheard.
Stoner kid talking to his girlfriend (I presume as they were sharing a Jamba Juice):
I walked up and as soon as I heard the music I knew it was him. I was in the presence of Jack Johnson, he was right here.
Stoner kid to passerby’s:
Jack Johnson was playing right here, (passerby’s move on by without saying anything) Nobody cares but me! Jack Johnson was playing right here people!”
Once we got inside, my brother Brad had showed up and staked us out a great spot on the lawn about twenty feet from the rail. He and his wife Angela were there listening to G Love’s solo set on the main stage. G Love played a lot of bluesy numbers, and then said he would normally come out later and play with Jack but he was leaving after his set to be with a sick family member.
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After G Love came the rain. It rained and poured for 30-45 minutes and was still going for most of ALO’s set. It finally let up as they were finishing. We just set where we were and got wet.
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Jack and his band came on around 9 and played until almost 11 counting the encore. I wish I had a list of the set list, but it just flowed from one great song to the next. During “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” he threw a verse of The Cars’ “Just What I needed”, which was very cool. Paula Fuga, and Dan Lebowitz from ALO came out and played with him for a few songs each. Then they came back at the end of the encore.
The crowd an eclectic mix (see very drunk in some cases). Despite the rain and the humidity (Jack mentioned that he was from Hawaii and when he returns home it will feel cool compared to Houston), the show was awesome and I was not disappointed!
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Jack does not talk a lot between songs; he just gets up there and plays. At one point during a song he asked for people to clap. The crowd started an applause type clap, and he said “I’ll never ask you to clap for us; I just want you to clap along and be our rhythm section.” It’s the first concert in my memory where I wasn’t prodded to “make some noise” for the artist’s ego. And it was very refreshing actually.
tonight at The Woodlands
I am pumped about this show. This will be the first time to see him live. My brother, his wife, and my friends Chris and Meredith are going too. So it will be a great time!
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“I never expected to be anybody important. Maybe I’m not now, but whatever I am, whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.” -Photoplay magazine in 1957
Elvis Presley
January 8, 1935-August 16, 1977
Bad Drivers
Over the last couple of years, it seems like most of the drivers on the road are unsafe and it seems to be accepted. Since by my theory most of the drivers are on the road, this makes sense. They all accept each other.
They accept each other to run up on stop signs, and never stop completely. Several times a day I am at intersections and come to a complete stop, and before I proceed someone from a different direction has come up to the intersection, slowed to see if it’s clear for them to not stop and just keep on going. Sometimes, I ask myself if I just wasn’t paying attention and they had the right away because they were there first. It’s hard to tell though since the people never stop!
Blinkers are a thing of the past now too. Bad drivers just switch lanes sometimes three at a time with no blinker. They just assume everyone else knows where they’re going. From what I’ve observed, not even most police officers use blinkers. They just weave into whatever lane they choose. So why would we expect anything but bad driving habits by everyone else?
Another thing is people who will go across three lanes of traffic and hold everyone else up, even though the lanes are not clear because they want to get to a u turn lane. For example, let’s take an intersection close to where I live the northbound feeder on I-45 at Sawdust road. Yesterday I was sitting in the far left turn lane. A car came across from the Academy parking lot and the front of his car was pointed at the side of my car. When I looked to the right
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I could see his headlights. See diagram below:
When I am in this situation, if the lanes are clogged and I cannot make it across to the lane I need to be in without blocking traffic. I just take the feeder down a couple of miles and take the overpass across. Then back in the other direction. That’s just me though.
I could go on and on about bad drivers, but I won’t.
Phones during movies
If your life is so busy or important that you cannot keep the phone holstered for two hours, maybe you should not go to the movies. Every time I go now people of all ages are pulling out and sending a text, checking email, or updating their facebook status with “I am pissing off everyone in the theater right now that. These people paid for a movie ticket and overpriced concessions. And I’m sure they enjoy the light of my phone shining in their eyes during the movie. I am important!” Seriously if there is something that pressing that you cannot put the phone down, don’t go to the movies! I think it would only be fair for theaters to allow the use of water guns and laser pointers to combat these inconsiderate scourges.
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