My friend, the scalper

Got the best kind last minute call last night. My friend, we'll just call him "Tim" had an extra ticket to the Jay Z/Mary J. Blige with my name all over it. Made the quick change and drove from the East side up to Hollywood in record time...only to get stuck in the nasty that is Hollywood Bowl traffic (fuck you!). Funny how I lived in that area for 4+ years up until recently, and I didn't have a better strategy.
My friend and I finally got inside (after one more sale on the way in), and MJB was already on.

This women's music has def been around most of my life, and it was sweet seeing her do tha damn thing. Occasional sour note and all, that's just Mary ;0).

No intermission, and the H2theizzO was on.

Nice look for Crooks. A few songs in, he took it back to basics in a plain white tee.
It's crazy how many hits this man has. He couldn't perform them all, and had a lil' banter w/ Dj Neil Armstrong to showoff his catalog. I can't even lie, I got all ghetto-hype on a few songs, "99 Problems" being one of them. BTW, I did look, no ring, but he's too smart for that anyways.

The hits kept coming. The crowed joined in to flip off a Jumbotron'd Dub-Ya, and then a subtle endorsement for Obama...


Gotta love the 1st amendment.

On that contact high from all the bud smoking going on, I wasn't even trying to mess w/ my camera settings, hence the blurry shots. Overall, it was a good show, def on the "Grown-up" tip though. Chilling in the boxes was great, felt sorry for the suckers in the back, The Bowl is huge.

~B