how ella got her groove back...

So you're looking at a girl who LOVES her some music. Loves. But for a while I also did that "thing" - where you let other people and their loves swallow you up to the point you pretty much disappear...  This is my way of getting myself back - and having a blast in the process!!

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We'll never stop fighting for our health, rights & communities. #IStandWithPP & 2.5MM who rely on it. #PinkOut http://thndr.me/VMSpDW

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MUSE - 12/18/2015

Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA

Have I ever mentioned how much I love a good confetti cannon?? 

Setlist

Drones (played from tape)

Psycho

Dead Inside

Interlude

Hysteria (AC/DC's 'Back in Black' riff outro)

Plug In Baby (Extended outro)

The 2nd Law: Isolated System (Shortened)

The Handler

Resistance

Supermassive Black Hole (The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'Voodoo Child' intro)

Prelude

Starlight (Dedicated to Matt's son, Bing)

United States of Eurasia

Munich Jam (Fast ending)

Madness

Undisclosed Desires

[JFK] (played from tape)

Revolt

Time Is Running Out

Uprising (Extended outro)

The Globalist

Drones (Reprise) (played from tape)

Mercy

Knights of Cydonia

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Muse - 12/18/2015

Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA

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Muse - 12/18/2015

Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA

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Muse - 12/18/2015

Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA

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Muse - 12/18/2015

Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA

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remembering when I watched this episode in early ‘94 and heard this song for the first time...  can’t even count the number of times I have sung along since then...  my dizzy head is conscious laden

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Marilyn Manson

10/26/2015 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA

sweet dreams are made of THIS...

sweat and bodies and music and passion and marilyn manson

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...a pill to make you anybody else...

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Marilyn Manson

10/26/2015 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA

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Marilyn Manson

10/26/2015 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA

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Foo Fighters - 10/17/2015

Honda Center - Anaheim, CA

Everlong

Monkey Wrench

Learn to Fly

Something From Nothing

The Pretender

Big Me

Congregation

Walk

Eruption / You Really Got Me / Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love / Keyboard Solo / Tom Sawyer / Another One Bites the Dust / MTV Theme Song / Day O (snippets during band introductions)

Cold Day in the Sun

My Hero

Breakout

Arlandria

What Did I Do?/God as My Witness (with Gary Clark, Jr.)

All My Life

Times Like These

These Days

This Is a Call

In the Flesh? (Pink Floyd cover)

Best of You

I had planned to attend their September shows in Los Angeles and Anaheim but had to miss all 3 due to Life just deciding to be a complete asshole...  Anyway, lucky for me Foo had rescheduled one of their Anaheim dates for October, so I got a reprise!  (Albeit from the nosebleeds, but better than nothing!)

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Gary Clark, Jr. - 10/17/2015

Honda Center - Anaheim, CA

Opening for Foo Fighters

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Gary Clark, Jr. - 10/17/2015

Honda Center - Anaheim, CA

Opening for Foo Fighters

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10/15/2015 - Hozier

Open Air Theatre at SDSU

My interaction with the woman sitting next to me was so unbelievable and absurd (and therefore gracefully dancing the line of hilarious and infuriating all. effing. night.)... or more accurately, her interaction with everyone around, anyone who was listening - which in her mind was obviously the whole entire universe.  With her in the center.  But I’m not even going to get into it because what really matters and what I really want to remember is that this man can craft and deliver a song like nobody’s business.  Wasn’t sure how high to set my expectations going in, but he had me from the start and changed my entire experience of his album.  Thanks Ireland, sure do appreciate it.

[ellagrooves]

it feels good...

10/15/2015 - Hozier - OAT SDSU

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10/15/2015 - Hozier - Open Air Theatre, SDSU - San Diego