Lee and I are officially more than half way through our week of concerts. On Monday night, we were lucky enough to see Damien Rice, live at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas. The show was magnificent, as expected, and continues my belief that Damien Rice is one of the greatest live performances you can see these days. It's amazing to me that 4 musicians can produce such a large and complex sound as his band can.

Last night, we went to the Nokia Theatre at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie last night to see Modest Mouse. Immediately, we were both overcome with bad feelings as the general parking was $15. Ridiculous. A glass of beer, $9. Come on...

Like most TicketMaster events, this show was over-hyped, over-produced, and over-priced. In hindsight, we should have known better. While I do really enjoy their music, I should have known that the venue was going to be not my style, the crown would be not my people, and the prices would be not my stratosphere. I guess we just got caught up in the concert week madness and committed to something we should have avoided.

It was bad enough that we paid so much just to get in the freaking door, but that the two opening bands were just so horrendous. I can not even explain how sorry the music was and how much it compounded the bad juju we were already feeling.

But never fear, Ben Gibbard, Johnathan Rice, and David Bazan will restore our souls on Monday night at the Granada Theatre. I'm pretty much swearing off large corporate type places for live music...