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I found this in the Creative Gigs section on Craigslist. If I’m not doing anything that night, I think I might join up in this just to say I took part. Keep in mind that the group behind this is trying to make a profit by selling their dance videos, but I still think it could be hilarious. LARP’ing meets Hip Hop:

“On October 27, 2007, (Oct. 28 in some parts of the world) zombies will get together in over 100 cities on six continents to dance “Thriller” at exactly the same time in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Simultaneous Dance! We would like to invite you to join us! Last October 29, 2006, Thrill Toronto saw 62 people learning the Thriller dance in 2 hours, rehearsing for 2 hours then performing the dance to set the first Guinness World Record for Largest Thriller Dance. We need over 200,000 people to dance “Thriller” to win the Guinness Record. We currently have people in over 121 cities, in 18 countries who will Thrill The World. The dance is easy to learn with our Thriller Teaching Videos 2.1 available on YouTube.com and on DVD. Go to www.thrilltheworld.com for weblinks and info about the DVD. To date, the oldest participant who learned the dance in 2 hours is a 53-year-old man who had never danced before! And a 5-year-old is rehearsing for the big event, too! Anyone can Learn The Dance! Even if you have two left feet!”

[tags] Thriller, Michael Jackson, Guiness, World Record, dance [/tags]

Last weekend I went to the Zero 7 concert at the San Diego House of Blues. It friggin’ rocked. I got there early enough that I was one of the first few in, so I got to be right up-front literally touching the stage. They had the speakers up nice and loud so I could feel the music.

Sia, a solo artist who is also one of the featured singers for Zero 7, looked like a cross between Gwen Stefani and Bjork and sang like a mix of Fiona Apple and Imogen Heap, a haunting yet intoxicating voice.

They played a two hour set with a 30-minute opening act from Jose Gonzales (pic below). He has a great voice and is an amazing guitarist, but all his solo songs sounded very similar. He was much better when we accompanied Zero 7 on the songs he had performed from The Garden.

There was an amazing song that they did where they recorded Jose singing a few notes, mixed it, looped it over and over added different reverb and SFX to it, continually adding more instruments until it built to a climax and then transitioned into the next song.

The only thing that kept me from giving this concert a 10/10 was the encore took way to long to get started and they ended with a song that dragged on and lost the energy of the audience.
Check out all my pictures of the concert on my Flickr page.

If you haven’t yet listened to Zero 7, I’d strongly suggest that you check them out.

[tags] Zero 7, concert, San Diego, House of Blues, music [/tags]

Last Wednesday night, I went to see the Death Cab For Cutie and Franz Ferdinand concert at Agganis Arena in Boston. It was awesome! We missed the opening act (The Cribs), but made it just it time to see the entire sets for both Death Cab and Franz.

I took a bunch of pictures which you can see at my Flickr site.

Also, I took a couple video clips with my digital camera that you can watch below.

Enjoy!

[tags] Death Cab for Cutie, Franz Ferdinand, Agannis Arena, Boston, music, concerts, video clips [/tags]

As promised, here are some pictures from the Jason Mraz concert.

Jason Mraz with Toca Rivera playing behind him.

Jason singing his heart out.

Me and my sister at the concert. Note that she is wearing the official “Geek in the Pink” shirt.

I am definitely going to try and catch Jason in concert again next time he comes to San Diego.