So, last night this happened:

Aaaand:

Aaaand:

It was so incredibly awesome to get to see U2 in concert for the second time, especially since this time we were TEN FEET AWAY FROM BONO OH MY GOD. Needless to say I’m rather in love with this band, and do you know what’s funny about that? The first album of theirs I ever owned and listened to seriously was Pop. I might be in a one-man minority of people who really dig that record, though to be fair I haven’t listened to it in awhile. I might have to remedy that tonight.

The opening act were the Black Eyed Peas, who did little if anything to change my relatively low esteem for their body of work. Though I do have to tell you that earlier this year when I realized that Fergie was Stacy Ferguson from Kids Incorporated, I about crapped my britches. And anyway, it didn’t matter, because my view for most of the Peas’ set was this:

This photo was taken from exactly my eye level and is a great representation of what happens to me every time I go to a concert. I’m pretty sure I’ve taken to this website to bitch about this before, but EVERY TIME I get great seats to a show, some six-foot-plus douche bag comes and stands DIRECTLY in front of me. In front of five-foot-six me. This guy was especially douchey, because not only was he dancing like a crack-addicted ape, which is dangerous when your elbows are at everyone else’s eye level, but he was also standing on a sort of riser, a large hump in the floor that made him even taller by about six inches. He TOWERED over everyone around us, as did two of the friends he came with. A lady next to me, who was about five-foot-two, offered him and his friend free beers if they’d move back a ways, but they wouldn’t. I know everyone wants to be close, but come on! If you’re six and a half feet tall, maybe give up a little distance so that the rest of us don’t have to jump to see the show, hmmm?

Anyway, we shuffled ourselves around and by the time U2 came on we had managed to find an arrangement that suited us for the most part, and when they played “Magnificent,” my favorite track of the new CD, I was able to grab this video. The sound quality’s not great, but GOOD GOD LOOK! I GOT TO STAND UNDER BONO’S CROTCH!

U2 “Magnificent” in Norman from Okay City Nate on Vimeo.