{"id":3559,"date":"2012-05-18T08:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:32:35","slug":"portugal-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Portugal. The Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I won another concert show from 98.7.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So last month Sex God and I went to the Fox Theater to see <em><strong>Portugal. The Man<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0 (Yes, that&#8217;s how the band spells their name.. I don&#8217;t know why, I also don&#8217;t care why!)\u00a0\u00a0 The email said it was for Saturday night but the contest winning said it was for Friday and THAT was what I was going to trust! Ha&#8230;. so Brant (aka Sex God) had to change his Friday plans with his co-worker to attend.\u00a0 Poor Al&#8230;. so wanted Sex God to hang ALL night at one of his house parties.\u00a0 He seems to think that drinking all night is THE most fun and actually told him &#8220;Bro&#8217;s before Ho&#8217;s!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His other co-worker, Cesar, actually chuckled at that one.\u00a0 And Cesar is a fellow Coachella bud of mine so I sent him a chastising text over THAT!\u00a0\u00a0 (Sex God admits that after meeting me Cesar is now looking for a Cougar&#8230; Sex God told him what he REALLY needed was a Slut.. I take both titles as a compliment.)<\/p>\n<p>Two paragraphs and I still haven&#8217;t got to describing the concert.\u00a0 Tells you how interesting it was!<\/p>\n<p>Before the concert Sex God, Luke &amp; I all went for sushi at my favorite place in Glendale.\u00a0 Zono Sushi with its huge happy hour menu from 3pm to closing.\u00a0 The salmon was delicious although we were a bit disappointed in the yellowtail and, sadly, in the service.\u00a0 Although they remembered Luke, as last time was his first and they got a kick over the expressions on his face when he tried amazing things like octopus, oh and a mouthful of ginger! hahaha..<\/p>\n<p>Once home we watch a little Big Bang Theory and then head out to the venue.\u00a0 Parking seemed challenging but downtown Pomona was very well lit and a pleasant walk.\u00a0 I brought both my old license under my married name and my new one under my maiden name.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure WHICH the tickets would be under and was a little worried the date snafu would play out.\u00a0 But it was all good.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Theater is very much like the Wiltern Theater.\u00a0 It looks like a refurbished old movie theater where they took ALL the seats out to create a mosh pit.\u00a0 So we ordered drinks and explored.\u00a0 It was a first time in such a venue for Sex God so he was appropriately &#8220;Wow&#8230; cool!&#8221; and I was a bit more jaded.. Ha!\u00a0 We stood in the\u00a0 mosh area (plenty of room, hello&#8230; only 9pm!) and watched the opening band <strong><em>Lonely Forest.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I immediately noticed that the sound system seemed to overwhelm the building which housed it.\u00a0 Creating a situation where the base was drowning out all the words to whatever they were singing.\u00a0 Which was sad cuz they sounded like a pretty good band!\u00a0 Maybe they&#8217;ll get lucky and play Coachella next year.<\/p>\n<p>About halfway through their set we went to pee &amp; get another drink and on the way back discovered that the balcony (where the bathrooms were) had seats!\u00a0 So us Old Folks found some comfy theater seats to enjoy the music from there.\u00a0 The acoustics were a bit better but frankly, I began to doze off even through the audible base pounding.\u00a0\u00a0 Which was actually a little refreshing!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3620\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?attachment_id=3620\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3620\" class=\" wp-image-3620\" title=\"portugal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/portugal-1024x806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/portugal-1024x806.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/portugal-150x118.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/portugal-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did I mention the stage lighting choices SUCKED!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When <strong><em>Portugal. The Man<\/em><\/strong> came on\u00a0 were were looking forward to it, but the house music they played before it (shit from the 50&#8217;s!) was really grating!\u00a0 Perhaps it should have been a warning.\u00a0 The main event began and again, WAAAAAY too much base&#8230; and I LOVE base!\u00a0 But not only could we NOT tell what the words were, but we couldn&#8217;t tell which one of the 5 guys were singing!\u00a0 I finally figured out it was the guitar guy on the left, but there was no spotlight on him, barely an indication he was singing at the microphone.\u00a0 So, I had no connection to him.\u00a0 And without a connection to the music by hearing the words or seeing the lead singer, I quickly got bored.<\/p>\n<p>So when Sex God turns to me and notices that I&#8217;m dozing off, he yells into my ear.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m pretty done with this, if you want to leave.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m all&#8230; yea!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve slept\/worn off the alcohol that was buzzing through my system.\u00a0 And being always horny as hell, I&#8217;d rather be in between the sheets with my man than sitting bored in a theater!<\/p>\n<p>I did learn two things&#8230;.\u00a0 cuz you know me&#8230; its all about what I learned!<\/p>\n<p>I concluded that ALL women should wear panty liners at these\u00a0 events(or any public toilet situation where you&#8217;ll encounter lines).\u00a0 Cuz lets face it girls&#8230; at SOME point in the evening you&#8217;ll finally get a toilet only to realize that it has no TP.\u00a0\u00a0 Just saying&#8230; a nice liner protecting your cute panties that you wore for the evening comes in handy!<\/p>\n<p>And I learned that not all hand dryers are the same!\u00a0 The hand dryers in The Fox Theater run like a woman.\u00a0 You gotta put your hands under it and wait while it deigns to notice you, then it slowly builds up air flow and if you move your hands to rub them together or turn them over the whole machine stops and you have to begin the process all over again.\u00a0\u00a0 Just makes me glad I&#8217;m not a man!<\/p>\n<p>And that I wore pants to the venue!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I won another concert show from 98.7.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 So last month Sex God and I went to the Fox Theater to see Portugal. 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