I can has Foo swag?

Today the White Limo rolled into St. Louis at Vintage Vinyl. I got some swag...



A bunch of new CDs, an old DVD, and I made some new friends...





The day's gray drizzle kept the flocks of FooFans to a minimum, but us hardcore peeps showed up.

Check my flickr for more Footos...DoBee's White Limo Photos

Foogasm SEATS

Tuesday May 17 Tulsa

YES! Section 111 Row K Seat 11


Wednesday May 18 Little Rock

Meh, nosebleed Section 204 Row 5 Seat 16


Friday May 20 Memphis

SWEET! Section 114 Row U Seat 19


Monday May 23 Council Bluffs

Meh, could be worse Section 205 Row J Seat 11

Foogasm Tour...the itenerary

MONDAY, May 16
Depart St. Louis, MO
~~4ish hours drive~~
Arrive Ozark, MO (near Springfield), hang with the family overnight

TUESDAY, May 17
Depart Ozark, MO
~~3ish hours drive~~
Arrive Tulsa, OK Hotel (Reservations so made)
...rest, feed face, take photos, play with dog, get ready...

...leave hotel for...

**FOO FIGHTERS SHOW (w/Motorhead) BOK Center 7:00 pm
ROCK OUT!!

...back to hotel...zzzzzzzzzzz

WEDNESDAY, May 18
Depart Tulsa, OK
~~4ish hours drive~~

Arrive Little Rock, AR Hotel (Reserved to the max)
...rest, feed face, take photos, play with dog, get ready...

...leave hotel for...

**FOO FIGHTERS SHOW (w/Motorhead) Verizon Arena 7:00 pm
MAJOR HEADBANGING!!

...back to hotel...zzzzzzzzzzz

THURSDAY, May 19
Depart Little Rock, AR
~~3ish hours drive, plenty of time for meandering~~

Arrive Memphis, TN Hotel (Totally snagged)
...rest, feed face, take photos, play with dog, goof around in Memphis...

FRIDAY, May 20
...more goofing around in Memphis, then get ready...

...leave hotel for...

**FOO FIGHTERS SHOW (w/Motorhead) FedEx Forum 7:00 pm
VIVA LE FOO!!

...back to hotel...zzzzzzzzzzz

SATURDAY, May 21
Depart Memphis
~~5ish hours of driving~~

Arrive St. Louis for stop over at home...ahhh, rest

SUNDAY, May 22
Depart bright and early
~~7ish hours of driving~~

Arrive Council Bluffs, IA Hotel. Collapse in front of TV.

MONDAY, May 23
...goofing around in Council Bluffs, then get ready...

...leave hotel for...

**FOO FIGHTERS SHOW (w/Motorhead) Mid-America Center 7:00 pm
OMFG!!

Alas, here we say farewell to Dave, Lemmy and the boys...at least until we hook up again in Ireland in July.

...back to hotel...zzzzzzzzzzz

TUESDAY, May 24
Depart, Council Bluffs, IA...wander east...
~~4ish hours of driving~~

WEDNESDAY, May 25
Depart wherever I wind up (Davenport maybe?)
~~4ish hours of driving~~

THURSDAY, May 26
Depart wherever, I'm likely in Milwaukee by now...but if not...
~~?ish hours of driving~~

FRIDAY, May 27
...goof around in Milwaukee, then get ready...

**ARCTIC MONKEYS SHOW The Rave 8:00 pm
CLUB GIG SWEETNESS!!

...back to hotel...zzzzzzzzzzz...I am too old for this shit!

SATURDAY, May 28
Depart Milwaukee
Head back to St. Louis...It's a long drive, may have to take a break in the middle.

SUNDAY, May 29
Keel over.

Oh yeah, forgot the photography...here's a photo I took this week of a sweet Harley.

I have lost my mind...in the very best way ever!

Hello.  I’m turning forty-four this year and I am deep in the throws of an epic mid-life crisis.  The thought of working on things that would advance my career makes me want to stick red-hot pokers in my eyes.  I get all revved up and determined, but then when I sit down to actually work on it?  Fried eyeballs.  I have no passion for it…it is drudgery.  In fact, I’d rather scrub the kitchen floor.  That’s a bad sign.

So after much reflection and the bountiful wisdom of colleges, peers, and friends with such massively smart brains, it’s down right scary…I’ve decided what I truly and deeply need to do with my life…

…go on tour with the Foo Fighters.

Ow.  I snorted pretty hard on that one.  But I’m not joking.  Seriously, I’ve worn the yolk of Corporate America *salutes dutifully* for half of my freaking life now.  My silly sparkly soul is worn down to a gritty nub from it.  I snarl more than I laugh.  So it is time for radical change, before it’s too late (although it likely already is, more on crawling back if I have to later). 

I’ll be laid off at the end of April.  I’ve known it was coming.  My contract is up.  So I have been saving all my little pennies to survive some time off.  Time, I have decided, that I am going to take to explore my brain, a couple of neighboring states, and my favorite hobby.   

A friend recently asked me what I would be if I could choose a career and be instantly great at it.  My brain has answered ‘photography’ to that question since I was 16.  Why in the hell did I become a developer?  *shrug*  Anyway, I hope the end result of my sabbatical is that I ditch my old career and take the freaking scary step of going back to school to become a photographer.  Carpe diem.  Take a fucking risk and LIVE!  Or maybe fall on your ass and have to crawl back…whatever.  At least I will have tried.

So my mid-life crisis sabbatical has been in my head for months now but on a separate channel.  At the same time, I’ve been following the Foo Fighters as they Tweeted their way through the recording of their new album, the theme of which has been ‘old school.’  From the recording to tape in Dave’s garage, to playing a few practice gigs around L.A., to now…let there be TOUR DATES!  With 6 weeks left for me of Too-Big-To-Fail daily torture (and the regular cash it yields *sigh*), this week the Foos announced the first of their North American gigs.  Tulsa, OK…Little Rock, AR…Memphis, TN…Council Bluffs, IA.  Shit!  All right around me!!!

Although I’ve already booked a trip to see them (and a zillion other delicious bands) at the Oxegen Festival in Dublin this summer, the timing of the mid-west shows is RIGHT AFTER I GET LAID OFF!  This is a sign that God digs rock and roll (and even if it’s not, I say it IS so THERE)! 

Tickets went on pre-sale today.  I have a ‘fan club’ super secret password and…now I have 4 tickets to see the Foo Fighters in different cities around the mid-west in late May.  *flails* The route of my sabbatical road trip is now set!  Oh, and to further prove this is a sign from above, Motorhead will be opening.  We all know who Lemmy is right? *collapses with rock chick glee*  Lemmy is GOD!

I will be free!  I will be unemployed!  I will be broke!  I’m taking my dog!  Welcome to the prelude to DoBeeDeux’s mid-life crisis rock and roll photography tour! 

Any coincidence the new Foo album is entitled ‘Wasting Light’?  Any coincidence that I already have a ticket to see Queens of the Stone age on April 6?  Any coincidence that I already had a ticket to see the Arctic Monkeys in Milwaukee May 27?  New Foo album comes out April 12.  April 25, I turn 44. 

I’m going to have the freaking time of my life and I’m gonna blog it and photo the hell out of it!  I’ll look for a job when I get back…fuck it, let’s ROCK!

April 6 - Queens of the Stone Age, St. Louis, MO
April 12 - Release of 'Wasting Light'
April 25 - My birthday
April 30 - End of my employment contract

May 17 - Foo Fighters & Motorhead, Tulsa, OK
May 18 - Foo Fighters & Motorhead, Little Rock, AR
May 20 - Foo Fighters & Motorhead, Memphis, TN
May 23 - Foo Fighters & Motorhead, Council Bluffs, IA
May 27 - Arcitc Monkeys, Milwaukee, WI

June 11 - Buxom Space Fish, St. Louis

July 7-10 Oxegen Festival, Dublin Ireland (Foo & Monkeys again and more more more!)

Oh, and here's a photo I took of my mid-life crisis today...