Alanis

I just got back from seeing Alanis Morissette. I had a really good time, and she put on a really good show.... but I have some thoughts...

The Lost Art
OK. I spent much of last summer too sick to even try to go to a concert. But the year before, I probably hit around 8 concerts. Could things have changed that much in 2 years? What happened to the art of tailgating before a concert? Tonight, we got to Merriweather-Post Pavilion around an hour or so before the opening band (Res or Ras or Rog from "What's Happening".... something like that), expecting people to be partying outside of the show... Tailgating... Well, hardly no one was... Has this trend disappeared? Do people not do that anymore?

Angry Women?
OK... Alanis is supposed to be an "Angry Woman". She writes about how Men are so wrong and so bad... and women flock to her shows. I'd bet there was a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of women to men there tonight... Note, I didn't say straight women to men...

Anyways, Alanis sings about how men are basically pigs, evil and wrong. But guess what she does to make me totally disbelieve all of that? She wears a shirt, with the boobs cut out of it... .and some sort of lacy sports bra-looking thing underneath it. How can you be angry woman, anti-man, if you're exposing your tits? She cannot have an argument that will satisfy me on this one...

Music
Did you know that Alanis actually plays an instrument? And I mean more than the 2 notes she repeats ad naseum on the harmonica... Yeah, she can play guitar, too.... I never knew....

Security Guards -- for what?
Chris and I were talking to these 2 girls, when a Security Guard came up to one of the girls, took away her beer, and threw it away. She let him... and then wondered.... why did he do that? So, I ask him to come back and answer that question. His answer: "Because you have a beer".

OK, that has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. She bought the beer from the Merriweather Post vendors... why the hell should she have to throw it away? When the security guard found out that the beer was purchased there, he reached into his pocket and pulled out $8 for the girl to go buy another beer.

Youth
I know that Alanis is pretty young, but she appeared a little older than she is, in person. I'm not sure if the original promotes an accurate time frame, but we should be all right now!!