Do It Right

It is with sadness that I must back away from this “blogging” thing for awhile.  My father taught me many things and one of them was this.  “If you are going to do something then do it the best that you can or don’t do it at all.”  With that thought in mind that I will not be able to post for the time being. Some issues have arisen in my personal life that makes MSN Spaces something that I cannot devote much time to.  Hopefully I will be back in a few months and on the road again with new adventures and pictures of my travels.  In the meantime, I have decided to leave my space up in case someone would want to keep in touch. There are so many GREAT people around this country and the friends I have met here certainly prove that. Until we get to hook up again, take care my friends.

Enjoy,

Ed

Y’allapalooza

It was  Sunday and at the last moment I decided to go to a local outdoor concert here.   It was called “Y’allapalooza” and was at the “Verizon Amphitheater” just outside of Kansas City.  The gates opened at noon and the last performer finished up around midnight. With almost a full 12 hours of music, eating, socializing, and of course drinking you can only imagine that viewing the concert was not the only thing that people were there for. Lol

I will begin with the performers.  As a side note, I forgot to bring my camera, dang it.  Oh well.  There were 14 bands in all, country music was the theme and there was never more than 10 minutes when a band was not playing.  The more popular bands that were there were Halfway to Hazard, Emerson Drive, Keith Anderson, Miranda Lambert, Carolina Rain, and Dierks Bently.    I was most impressed with Miranda Lambert. I have always liked her since I first heard an interview she did on a local radio station here. That first hit, “Me and Charlie Talking” was written by both her and her Dad. She said at the time, that song writing was her passion and that performing was really never a goal.  I must say I was most impressed with her show.  I always thought of her as somewhat of a timid, soft-spoken kind of voice. Man was I wrong. That girl can sing and with such power that I did never imagine. 

The secondary entertainment at a concert like this was watching other people.  The cowboy hats, boots with shorts, men with sagging pants wearing tighty whities, ewwwwww, all make up for an “educational” evening.  I sat down in the lawn area just behind a group of high school kids. A couple of moms were not far away keeping tabs on their comings and goings. I figured this would be a safe place to sit back in my beach chair and mellow out with the music.  I could say so much of what I saw but will limit it to just a few comments.  First of all, I witnessed a lot of public display of “love”.  Lol Any one that knows me knows that I am sort of timed when it comes to PDA. (Public Display of Affection).    The most shocking I guess for me were the girl on girl displays. Then when I went to the men’s bathroom there were 3 girls in there watching men do their thing.  Along with that was a man doing his thing and talking very emotionally to his beer can. At first I thought he was talking to me, thank goodness he wasn’t.  lol 

At any rate the whole day was a blast and great music filled the air.   There were no fights or acts of violence that I saw, just a lot of people getting together to have fun, listen to music and “do their thing”.  

Have a great Labor Day weekend.

Enjoy,Ed