Dustin Barton
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It was awesome! (Utada + Chicago)
Feb 4th
The concert was awesome. Utada was amazing. The guitarist was freaking sweet. Really enjoyed it overall. Would have liked to of had a better view but at least we could see her without being crushed. Aside from her having a great voice, her guitarist almost stole the show. He has some serious talent. Some of the songs were rock-ish and he solos just powered through the entire building, it was great. REALLY hoping she released a DVD of her “In the Flesh” concert at one of the House of Blues.
We checked out the Navy Pier and the Water Tower in Chicago. The Navy Pier was cool, we saw Avatar in 3D at the IMAX, it was fucking awesome. It was also my first IMAX/3D (polarized 3D) experience so not a bad way to pop my cherry (so to speak). The Water Tower on the other hand was really disappointing. Shitty, overpriced stores…no pop up shops in the middle of the floors, a waste of time really. Overall we had a blast. We tried some Lou Malnati’s “famous Chicago-style pizza”. The sauce was amazing, the crust…eh, not so much, still good, but not great. I’ll take my cheesy, thinner-crusted New York-style pizza any day 
I’ll try and get the pictures up sometime this weekend, some of them turned out, some didn’t.
EDIT: uploaded some pictures, will upload the rest later. You can view them here: http://twitpic.com/photos/SynGamer
And we’re off!
Feb 1st
Just a quick post today. Not only are we leaving for Chicago today, I also get to open the store, by myself, for the first time today so a lot of things are happening 
Looking forward to the 13+ hour train ride already. Will be nice to get some sleep and just sit back and relax. Hoping the Utada concert is good, I’m sure it will be, and the House of Blues looks very cool. Fingers crossed everything goes as planned and no problems crop up between here and Chicago!
Utada + Chicago = Awesome
Jan 17th
So I think I’ve already mentioned this, but Callan and I are going to Chicago in early February to see Utada (Hikaru – the JPop artist) to see her live at the House of Blues. While I’m not a huge fan, I do enjoy her songs and she’s pretty so I figure this can’t be too bad. And we’ll be in Chicago so we’re going to visit Callan’s friend whom she hasn’t seen in a few years. So really, this is killing two birds with one stone, three if you include getting to see my aunt I hardly ever see and four if you include getting to site-see Chicago. All in the course of about 36 hours
We’re taking the train from Syracuse, NY to Chicago, a 13+ hour trip, but it sure as hell beats driving for 15 hours. $212 for 2 round-trip tickets, score. And it only cost us about $50-75 more than if we drove and had to gas the car up. In this case, we’re paying for the luxury of not having to drive, well worth the cost if you ask me. I’m looking forward to the train ride, as well as seeing Chicago, and we’re staying in a Super 8 Motel for like $42 so you really can’t beat the prices.
That’s all for now. I set my phone up to text directing to Twitter so I’m totally going to update while on the train