790 miles traveled in 1 day
526 / 9 minutes/hours of Beatles listened to, nonstop
456 Beatles songs on my iPod
at least 5 attempts to obtain the Past Masters albums
10 drum corps watched
8th time seeing OK Go in concert
Thursday. Let me just say that marathoning the 13 U.S. Beatles' albums in order was probably the best way to spend all day in a car (and the only reason I'll listen to Revolution #9 in its entirety). It's hard to listen to the entire Beatles catalog because so many of their singles are not included on the albums...and as mentioned above, it was impossible to stream Past Masters using a phone. But to make up for it, we also listened to plenty of Live at the BBC and Anthologies 1 & 2. I realized during this marathon that Let It Be might actually be my favorite Beatles album??? (the Naked version, that is). The things you learn on the road....
Thursday night, Lauren, Jocelyn, and I reunited at Jocelyn's apartment in Provo and promptly sat down to catch up on drum corps. The 2014 show that I've been hyping all season is Bluecoats' Tilt (watch the closer and awesome crowd hype/BLOO). Congrats to Bluecoats on their silver medal and to BD for a world record high score! I love this activity so much.
Friday. We spent the day around Provo and the night in Salt Lake City for OK Go! First off, the State Room in SLC is AWESOME: spacious but intimate (especially because OK Go only uses like 1/4 of the stage), and a good mix of seating and standing space. Really cool venue! And the show was one of my favorites of all time. I love all the visual effects on this tour, from the double screens to crazy optical illusions. OK Go puts on a great show. :) My favorite song of the set was "The One Moment," which they played during the encore. Oh, and listening to the new EP yesterday, I realized that I can't hear "The Writing's On the Wall" without envisioning huge bursts of confetti raining down on me, which makes me so, so happy.
I only spent one full day in Utah (seems to be the norm, at least the last 3 times I've visited!), but I couldn't have asked for a better time. Especially reuniting with my favorite OK Go show buddies:
Our first OK Go concert together: San Diego, 2009.
Salt Lake City, 2014.
OK Go fans for life!!