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I have very few regrets looking back through my relativly short life. I don’t regret getting married, or getting divorced, although I do regret some of my actions, or inactions, during said marriage. I don’t regret getting out of the Air Force, even though sometimes I hate not being in anymore.

The things I do regret are percieved as small by bystanders, I would imagine. They are little things. But, as most people know, it’s the little things that count, not only when giving gifts, but in enhancing one’s life.

One thing I realized I regreted occured to me yesterday as Dave and I were talking about last years KROQ Inland Invasion [2005] lineup [Beck, Bloc Party, The Bravery, Cake, Garbage, Jet, Live, Madness, Oasis, 311, Arcade Fire, and Weezer] Bloc Party played…and I missed them. They were done playing by noon, when we, Dave, Heather, and I, got there. I had only just started listening to Bloc Party at the time of the concert, and so I wasn’t as into them as I am now. I’ve also started listening to more of Jet and Arcade Fire, although, less of the latter.

The greatest moment of the ‘05 show? Weezer. Hands down. Their show was simply amazing, even though we were way up in the nosebleeds section [voluntarily. Less people, better view.].

This year’s lineup is still yet-to-be-announced, but they have finally announced a date and the headliner: September 23, Gun’s ‘n’ Roses.
Don’t get too excited just yet. GnR aren’t the superband from your 1987 memory banks. Slash is gone. Yes, gone. Quit. Axl is the only remaining original member, and Axl Rose is a piece of shit. Supposedly he has an album he has been working on for years [since 1998] called Chinese Democracy, and he has said it would be released by the end of this year. I honestly see no hope for this, even though I havn’t heard one song or read one review of it. Axl Rose maintains and own’s the rights to the “Guns ‘n’ Roses” namesake, but Axl Rose alone is not Guns ‘n’ Roses. Axl Rose alone is a has-been, trying to maintain his celebrity on the coat-tails of a once-great band.

Will I/we stay to the end of the show to watch this attempt to grasp at former greatness? I don’t know. Will I enjoy it if we do? Certainly not!

Dave took us [his family, and in-law's and I] to Tokyo House tonight to thank father-in-law and I for installing [almost completely] the new tile in the store and installing the two new fans and fixing the electrical sockets and light switches. I’m beat!! But, dinner was excellent.