{"id":331,"date":"2004-05-23T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=331"},"modified":"2004-05-23T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T06:06:00","slug":"the-river-styx-dead-people-ogres-and-squirrel-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/the-river-styx-dead-people-ogres-and-squirrel-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Styx at Universal Amphitheater, Dead People, Ogres, And Squirrel Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/052104a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>Friday I decided to bookend the last two weeks with related concerts. Two weeks ago I saw Dennis &#8220;Domo&#8221; DeYoung, and after getting the L.A. Weekly on Thursday I was reminded Styx was going to be at the Universal Amphitheatre. So Friday morning I bought a ticket and trooped across town that night to Universal. I conveniently ran late so I could miss the opening act The Nelsons. Yes, the two very putzy blonde twins of Nelson fame. In fact, just as I arrived at my seat Peter Frampton went on. Observations: he&#8217;s small, he&#8217;s kinda boring in concert, which completely negates &#8220;Frampton Comes Alive&#8221;, he&#8217;s only got about 5 hit songs, but he&#8217;s a pretty damn good guitar player. I forgot how well thought of he was as a lead guitar player. The place went absolutely apeshit over &#8220;Do You Feel Like We Do&#8221;, &#8220;Show Me The Way&#8221;, and &#8220;Baby, I Love Your Way&#8221;. The girl next to me kept singing &#8220;ooooo baby, I love your WAYS&#8221;. Plural!! At the top of her lungs. It&#8217;s not friggin&#8217; plural, stop singing it like that! Ugh. After Frampton finished I went to use the restroom and witnessed one of the most absurd things I&#8217;ve ever heard. I go into the restroom and of course two guy friends cannot stand directly next to each other at the urinals. Much like sitting next to each other in a movie theater, so I had to take the urinal between them. Facing the wall, the guy on my right looks over at his buddy and yells in my ear with his drunken slur, &#8220;DOOOOD, FRAMPTON STILL ROCKS!!!&#8221; Then the guy on my left nods his head and in his drunken slur yells back, &#8220;OH MAN. DUDE, FRAMPTON WILL ALWAYS ROCK!!!!!&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t about to argue as they&#8217;d probably turn and pee on me. Styx was pretty good. Another of the 70&#8217;s bands I can mark off the list of never having seen.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/052304c.jpg','','width=450,height=600')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/052304c_th.jpg\" class=alignright WIDTH=100 border=\"1\"\/><\/a> Saturday night was Cinespia at the graveyard. I was in a bad mood and didn&#8217;t want to go but was talked back into going since I had arranged the thing in the first place. &#8220;Johnny Guitar&#8221; was the movie and it was perfectly awful and Joan Crawford couldn&#8217;t act her way out of a paper bag, but it was definitely the best worst movie they&#8217;ve shown.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the caterpillar eyebrow on Shrek in that photo. Sunday I added to the bonus checks of my friends who worked on Shrek 2. After having seen it opening day, my parents came up for a visit so we headed over to the Arclight and caught a digital screening. It&#8217;s as good as the first and in some ways better, but all said and done I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t have to work on it. Five years of living with Shrek would have been way too much. 2 1\/2 was enough of a tour of duty. Maybe the next one. It&#8217;s making mad amounts of money [<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?page=daily&#038;id=shrek2.htm')\">LINK<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><center>[<a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/052304.mov',320,250)\">SQUIRREL VIDEO LINK<\/a>]<\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/052304b.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"\/><br \/>Then there were the squirrel attacks in the trees above my patio. Two squirrels were going at it for a couple hours this afternoon. Hissing and yelping. They really didn&#8217;t like each other very much. Even the cats got bored and fell asleep on the grass below the trees. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I decided to bookend the last two weeks with related concerts. 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