Liz and I bought our Pavement tickets a long time ago when somebody thought that somehow they would sell out the 1st Bank Arena in Broomfield.  Yeah right.  Months later and the show got moved to a way better venue – The Ogden.  The same place that Liz and I had seen Pavement multiple times in the 90s.  Perfect.  After dropping off our kids at some friends we rolled to the Ogden with our neighbors and got to the venue plenty early.Jenny and Johny were up first.  Jenny Lewis is totally awesome, but Jenny and Johny aint so awesome.  Decent background opener music, but nothing as good as Jenny’s solo stuff.  Luckily they close with a Jenny Lewis song that totally killed it – The Next Messiah.(sorry for the crappy cell phone photo)The show was sold out so there was lots of hype when Pavement came out.  Looking about the same as they did back in the day they played for over two hours and pounded out a well rounded set from all their albums.  By the end of the first song No Life Signed Her the show was already worth the $30.  Here’s the whole setlist:

1. ? 
2. No Life Singed Her 
3. Shady Lane 
4. Kennel District 
5. Summer Babe (Winter Version) 
6. Frontwards 
7. Starlings of the Slipstream 
8. Cut Your Hair 
9. Father To A Sister Of Thought 
10. In The Mouth A Desert 
11. Silence Kit 
12. Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite at :17 
13. The Hexx 
14. Stereo 
15. Date w/Ikea 
16. Gold Soundz 
17. Spit On A Stranger 
18. Unfair 
19. ? 
20. Range Life 
21. Fight This Generation 
22. Two States 
23. Stop Breathing 
24. Encore:
25. Lithium (Nirvana cover) 
26. Box Elder 
27. Fin 
28. Rattled By The Rush 
29. Our Singer

I stole this from setlist.fm and it seems accurate.  The show seriously ruled.  Everything about it was awesome.  The lights were a nice touch.  They played beyond all of our expectations.  They were funny like they used to be, and they seemed to know how to play music better.  Sorry you couldn’t make it Brian and sorry my reviews are so boring.

Didn’t have much time since we were leaving for an early show at the Ogden.  Pavement!  Anyways Ollie and I went over to the school for a bit.  It was a pretty weak session.  I landed a treflip in skier stance with my front heel on top of my back toes.  That’s a new one for me.  I like inventing new ways for my style to suck even more than it already does.  I started encouraging Ollie to stop pushing mongo more than normal.  I even told him that if he finally loses mongo he can get a new complete.  He seemed to like that motivation.  As we were leaving I tried to kickflip over Florida (on the USA map that’s painted on the ground) and totally ate shit and bashing my left heel into the ground really hard.  Ugh ..