Looking at how I’m starting to forget some important things in my life, I think it’s time that I wrote some of these things down and come back and laugh on them.

Concerts that I’ve been to:
2014 – Foster The People (Bayou Music Place, 4/30), Christina Perri (5/6 House of Blues, Houston)

2013 – Muse (Target Center, 3/7), Metric/Paramore (Dallas, TX 10/26), Metric/Paramore (Austin 360, 11/1)

2012– Metric (State Theater, 9/11), Silversun Pickups/School of Seven Bells (State Theater, 9/20)

2011 – Cage The Elephant/The Black Keys (Roy Wilkins, 7/3), U2 (TCF Stadium, 7/23), Weezer (State Fair, 9/3)

2010 – She & Him (1st Ave, 6/5), Weezer (Block Party, 7/9), Phoenix (State Theater, 8/12), Cage The Elephant/Stone Temple Pilots (Roy Wilkins, 8/13), Drive by Truckers (First Ave, 9/30), Muse (10/4, Target Center)

2009 – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs (1st Ave, 5/30), Kid Rock/Lynard Skynard (State Fair Grounds, 8/31), Cage The Elephant/Manchester Orchestra/Silversun Pickups (Des Moines, 9/19), The Bravery (Fine Line, 10/3), Metric, The Bravery, Spoon, Hockey (Midland Theater, Kansas City MO), Muse, Metric, AFI, 30 Seconds to Mars (Oracle Center, CA 12/16)

2008 – KT Tunstall (State Theater 5/14), Take Back (9/1), Weezer (Xcel, 10/3), Nine Inch Nails (Target Center 11/25)

2007 – The Killers (Roy Wilkins 5/15), The Bravery (Varsity Theater 6/18), Alice in Chains/Velvet Revolver (Xcel 8/29), The Bravery/The Smashing Pumpkins (Roy Wilkins 10/2)

2006 – Shinedown/Seether (Myth 2/13), Kurt Vatland (Fine Line 5/4), Chuch (Nectars 5/12), Jewel/Rob Thomas (6/18 Northrop)

2005 – Interpol (1st Ave 3/12), The Shins (1st Ave 4/11), Moby (1st Ave), The Bravery/Ash (Hole), Velvet Revolver (Xcel 4/28), Everclear (4/30 U of M), Embrace/Snow Patrol (Quest 5/11), Maroon5 (Xcel), Anna Nalick (Quest 7/9), Mike Doughty/Howie Day (7/15 Aquatennial), Jewel (O’Shaughnessy 7/21), Ike Reilly Assassination (Zoo 8/20), Coldplay (9/20), John Mayer Trio (9/23), Nine Inch Nails (Xcel 10/11), Coach Said Not To (Triple Rock 11/25), Moedell/Kurt Vatland (Station 4 12/11)

2004 – Grandaddy/Pete Yorn (?/??), Grandaddy (?/??), Evanescence (Xcel 7/13), Collective Soul (MOA 11/10)

2003 – Everclear (1st Ave), Coldplay (1st Ave & Target Center), Avril (Xcel 4/20), Red Hot Chili Peppers (Xcel 5/1), Pearl Jam (6/16), Weezer (Xcel), Evan Dando (1st Ave & Fine Line)

2002 – Moby (Rivercentre 6/??), Goo Goo Dolls (Northrop ?/??), Jewel (Northrop 7/13)

2001 – Everclear (2/7 St Cloud), Matchbox20 (2/27), Oasis (5/19 Xcel), Ozzfest (6/16 Somerset), Depeche Mode (6/19 Xcel), Soul Asylum (6/23 Chicago), Dido/Travis (7/8) Sugar Ray (7/30 Xcel), Matchbox20/Everclear (8/1 Xcel)

2000 – The Smashing Pumpkins (5/29 Paramount, Seattle & Portland), Nine Inch Nails (Seattle), Kid Rock (Target Center), U2 (10/?? Target Center)

1999 – Jewel (KL)

Dates unsure: Foo Fighters (1st Ave), Wallflowers (Quest), Guns N’ Roses (Target Center), Incubus (Roy Wilkins), Spoon (1st Ave)