weekend wrap-up - "thank you and you're welcome"

ok, i'm still waking up. it was so dang hot last night! made it difficult to sleep. had to apologize to my sweetie in the morning for being a brat.

so i thought i'd go into allll this great detail and make my weekend sound realll interesting... but i'll just cut straight to the point - it was a great weekend. i coulda and shoulda took photos to post up, but hey, life is what's happening when you're too dang busy, or into it, to think about documenting it.

that's why i love my writer homies, my filmmaker homies, my documentarian homies... how the hell do y'all do that so well??

landed in vegas and was swooped up by the homies pab and 'nilo, and treated to some cupcakes and red mango frozen dessert. much to their dismay, i prefer red mango over pinkberry. then we met up with the rest of their homies, they checked into their party hotel of choice, the hard rock. nice poolside view i'm sure they enjoyed the rest of the weekend =)

then over to my party hotel of choice, the red rock. super sexy. i'm definitely staying there again! let's just say, i applaud the architects and interior desginers of the hotel, particularly the rooms, for making it ergonomically correct for ... debaucherous fun and games!

the homies made their way into the show... i needed to catch my breath, eat something, and settle into the evening. so i did all that, and it ended up being perfect timing, because my partner-in-crime for the weekend arrived, and we strolled into the show.

i didn't catch lupe and nerd. it's ok, i've seen them twice before, and if i didn't relax and settle in i would have been one bitchy feline for the rest of the night. i was even nice when a drunk white girl fell on my dude, "ohmygosh you are sooo lucky he's tall and handsome and strong... " insisting she didn't need her boyfriend's help who was somewhere over there to get around. lol. aaaanyways...

kanye was amazing and entertaining. he was like a hip hop lukeskywalker/outer space loner trying to make sense of the world as someone who is supposed to save something. (ok someone was trying to tell me what the whole premise/theme of the show was... but i don't remember. i'll look it up later and add it in when i have time. or if you know, please post a comment. thank you (and you're welcome)

the stage set up was the inside of the control station of a spaceship, and it talked back to him, kinda like how Jem (of Jem and the Holograms) had Synergy. there were these large video panels that had pretty dope graphics, the landscapes and the skyscapes were my favorite.

oh and yeah - he's the only one on stage. no DJ, no band, no backup singers, no hype man. just kanye. which, i do applaud him for - he carried it on HIS OWN. no one to foil and make him look sexier or shinier. but at least a DJ woulda been nice to see. the sound was amazing. oh and the stage had an angle/slant to it, so i could see him from where i was standing! see, a short person like me usually just accepts that, at a SRO show, i will only hear the music and see the stage via the video. good lookin out for the (literal) shorties!

he started with "good morning," which i love. i do play that in the morning because well, it captures morning time energy very well. lol it's easy to enjoy his show because his songs are so catchy and you sing and dance along and it's just a good time.

i don't remember the order of the songs. was in the moment. and, pleasantly inebriated. totally present in the moment, i didnt bother remembering such details so diligently. i remember, in no particular order... jesus walks, all falls down, through the fire, can't tell me nothing, good life! flashing lights, stronger ... and more. ended with touch the sky =)

but dang i wish i brought my camera! they didnt even frisk me! oh well. it let me enjoy just being there, and not think about what i should blog about.

i wonder if the kanye troopers scour the net to remove photos of the show, because i didn't find any. but then again, maybe i'm not looking hard enough. oh well.

we just sang along and drank along happily. it was a great time.

friday stumbled into saturday, and it was just pleasant. i wish the r&r could have lasted a little longer, but it was just right.

i got home, and switched right to community member mode. SIPA anniversary banquet, which always has it's fun points.

ok this is already long. i'll continue it later....