Inspired by the twitter hashtag trending on 8/22/2012
This is roughly chronological.
Music
- The Statler Brothers
- New Kids on the Block
- Perfect Gentlemen (yes, I remember what band opened for NKOTB twenty years ago)
- Live
- Buffalo Tom
- PJ Harvey
- Poe
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- The Slackers
- Wesley Willis
- Barenaked Ladies
- Henry Rollins
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Pedro the Lion
- Yo La Tengo
- Ani DiFranco
- Blues Traveler
- Counting Crows
- Soul Coughing
- Luscious Jackson
- Cibo Matto
- 311
- Dave Matthews Band
- David Garza
- Noe Venable (yep, and I remember someone who opened for Ani 12 years ago)
- Ben Folds Five
- Elliott Smith
- Tori Amos
- Iron & Wine
- Violent Femmes
- Radiohead
- Willie Nelson
- The Fifth Wheel (woo Cleveland-area shows in the 1990s!)
- Bernadette Peters (in Gypsy October 11th 2003?)
- Andrew Bird
- Final Fantasy/Owen Pallett
- Sufjan Stevens
- Fleet Foxes
- Bright Eyes
- Yo-Yo Ma (twice in one day in Swasey Chapel at Denidoo)
- Tegan & Sara
- Mates of State
- Damien Rice
- Indigo Girls
- Arcade Fire
- Magnolia Electric Co.
- Jenny Lewis
- Of Montreal
- Cat Power
- New Pornographers
- Girl Talk
- Lauryn Hill
- Outkast
- The Roots
- Rusted Root
- Wilco
- Gin Blossoms
- The Dodos
- Beck, wait, have I seen Beck??
- Glen Hansard
- Telekinesis
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Garbage
- Fountains of Wayne
- Neko Case
- Rage Against the Machine
- Sea Wolf
- The White Stripes
- Bob Dylan
- Spoon – right? I must have. Â You can’t live in Austin for 4 years an avaoid them.
- James Brown
- The Moldy Peaches
- The Breeders
- Vampire Weekend
- Bjork
- Robert Plant and Alison Kraus
- Ben Harper
- Fastball
- Alana Davis
- G Love and Special Sauce
- Erykah Badu
- Jamiroquai
- Sheryl Crow
- The Offspring
- Korn
- Bush
- Everclear
- Ice Cube
- Moby
- The Chemical Brothers
- Fatboy Slim
- Kid Rock
- Wyclef Jean
- Alanis Morissette
- Limp Bizkit
- Brian Setzer Orchestra
- Everlast
- Jewel
- Dear lord – did I freaking see Creed??
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Muse
- My Morning Jacket
- Robert Earl Keen (in concert and at a WWDTM taping)
- Lucinda Wililams
- The Decemberists
- Regina Spektor
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Foo Fighters
- David Byrne
- Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
- The Swell Season
- Gillian Welch
- Okkervil River
- Asleep at the Wheel
- Octopus Project
- Menomena
- Hooray for Earth
- Surfer Blood
- Modest Mouse
- The Monkees
- KC and the Sunshine Band
Speakers
- Bill Clinton
- Sean Astin (remember how he randomly opened for that Hillary rally?)
- Barack Obama
- Dennis Kucinich
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Jim Bruer
- Paula Poundstone
- Roy Blount, Jr.
- Peter Sagal
- Ira Glass
- Sherman Alexie
- Carl Kassel
- Charlie Pierce
- Kyrie O’Connor
- Amy Sedaris
- Molly Shannon
- Julie Andrews
- Nick Hornby
- Clinton Kelly
- Dick m-f’in Goddard (wut wut Cleveland!)
- Jeff Kinney
- Angela Davis
- Ken Burns
- Garrison Keillor
- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Dan Savage <3<3<3
- Tiffany Shlain (so so good)
- Jeff Jarvis
- Will Shortz
- Dave Isay (of StoryCorps)
- Oh god . . . so many more
I’ve also seen every college football and men’s basketball team in the Big 12 (the 2006 – 2010 version), half of the American League (MLB) and a smattering of the National League, a handful of NBA games featuring the Cavs, and I saw a Nuggets game in Colorado.
I met the Snapple lady.
I saw Macauley Culkin’s doppelganger at Speak in Tongues in Cleveland.
And once I had a conversation with Clinton Portis on the street in DC without realizing who he was until I was a block away.
Tags: geek much?, Music, navel gazing
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Bitch and Animal
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Death Cab for Cutie
Jeff Mangum
Fiona Apple
The Magnetic Fields
La Vida Boheme
The Shins
M. Ward
Polica
Talib Kweli -
The Head and the Heart
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