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I can't believe I've actually been watching baseball these playoffs. I'm sure that it has had much to do with watching the hard-luck Cubs in their quest to fight off history. Apparently the rest of the country feels much the same as baseball ratings are way up.

Tonight the Yanks take on the BoSox in game 7, which I will have to watch delayed on TiVo as I am attending a concert. Concert week here in D-Troit. Tonight it's the Strokes at the State Theater. Saturday is the even more anticipated Eddie Izzard at the Music Hall.

As a result, I'll have to hold off my new photo gallery until early next week ish. I know you all can't wait, but this will allow me to upload photos directly to the page with comments. The Program will auto-thumbnail them and everything. Long live PHP. If only I could get this CSS thing worked out so all pages displayed properly.

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Last night was a good night. It started off with The Strokes in concert (well actually Kings of Leon, but they weren't very good). To put it simply, the concert kicked ass. The crowd was rowdy, Julian (the lead singer) was visibly drunk, and they sounded good. Quite a few times he jumped out into the crowd, and was successful on almost half of those leaps.

Some of their playing was a bit off, especially the tempo on one song (Amber theorizes that the lead singer was too inebriated to find the beat, so the band had to slow things up to get him back), but the atmosphere was fun. As an added bonus, The Strokes NEVER do encores. It's just something they don't believe in. ( I happen to agree. If you plan on doing an encore, then it's just part of the show. Encores should be spontaneous.) And last night, they broke that streak. After marveling at the size and excitement of the crowd (in a packed State Theater), they hinted they may come back afterwards, but left the stage without deciding. Still many people left after the lights were turned on. (The staff at the State were told there would be no encore.) A few minutes of raucous cheers later, they returned and brought the house down.

Julian proceeded to climb the speakers and then halfway up the stage wall (possibly on a built-in ladder) before security brought him down. A few speakers were overturned and mic stands broken. Good times.

This alone would have been a good night, but to top it off, I returned to speed through a TiVo'd Game 7 and saw Aaron Boone hit a walk-off series winning home run at 2:30 in the morning. All in all, it made me a zombie Friday - but it was definitely worth it.

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Sorry to inform you, but it appears that Eddie Izzard's "Dress to Kill" was lightning-in-a-bottle. This weekend, I saw "Sexie" at the Music Hall in Detroit, Eddie's recent stand-up/monologue/performance, and it was - okay. It was maybe even good, but nevertheless a letdown since I was expecting something along the lines of "Dress to Kill".

For those of you who have never seen it, go out and rent or buy "Dress to Kill" as soon as possible. The Emmy Award winning performance was outstanding as Izzard took viewers on a long and convoluted ride through history, transvestism (is that a word?), French (the language), and other stuff that was merely odd. Throughout all of it, however, it seemed as if he was always driving to his central point of the difference between America and the R.O.W. (Rest of World). In "Sexie" there was no such central force.

There were funny parts, and I laughed heartily - but I never felt that "wow" that I got from Izzard at the end of "Dress". It was kind of the same thing I got from "Circle". Funny, but not amazing. Which makes you wonder if "Dress to Kill" was magical happenstance not to be reproduced and "Sexie" and "Circle" are more along the lines of what is to be expected. A good time? Yes. A disappointment? That as well.

P.S. I hate Jim Fassell and I hate the New York Giants.

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Been doing some other web stuff for my employer, The Rocky Allen Show. Right now, if you go over to our web site, www.RockyAllen.com, and go to our Audio page, you'll find more clips than you can shake a stick at. There are about 65 audio clips of varying length. If you have a few hours you want to kill, check them all out. If not, then just check out a few to see what I'm doing with my time. In addition, I've adjusted the layout of the site, so now there should be a black bar at the bottom of every page. This footer should also have a contact link and a copyright. Please Comment or email me and tell me what you see.