John Mellencamp

HA! I cannot offer any offtopic recap. I didn’t make tailgate festivities OR the game. As it turns out, my son had a soccer game, as well as team pictures beforehand (which I did not make either but I was lone cheerleader his last two games as DH was traveling) all at the time the UC game started. We gave our tickets to my sister-in-law and 12 year old nephew, so we were well represented. My husband did relay to me, though, he was keeping track on his blackberry, the game started off very slow with UC kicking it up a notch the second half for the win.

The next home game is actually at Paul Brown Stadium on a Thursday, playing Oklahoma. That is a big buzz game. The tailgating festivities will be limited there. The games played at UC’s Nippert Stadium has us doing the tailgating thing in a dedicated space in the alumni section. We usually just show up with a covered dish (but help with tear down), all the initial work is done by other passionate UC coworkers. I’ll have to take pictures of our space, complete with huge inflatable UC bearcat mascot.

Excellent video (and find!), lwj, of “Scarecrow” at Farm Aid in 1985. I may just use that for the mellenblog this week. 😉

A little trivia in regards to one of the lines in the song. John is a fan of old movies, in particular, he was a big James Dean fan and Paul Newman as well. One of the lines in “Scarecrow” was influenced by “Cool Hand Luke.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/quotes

Boss: Sorry, Luke. I’m just doing my job. You gotta appreciate that.
Luke: Nah – calling it your job don’t make it right, Boss.

Scarecrow:

The crops we grew last summer weren’t enough to pay the loans;
Couldn’t buy the seed to plant this spring and the Farmers Bank foreclosed.
Called my old friend Schepman up to auction off the land;
He said John it’s just my job and I hope you understand.
Hey, calling it your job, ol’ hoss, sure don’t make it right,

lwj, there will be many Mellenheads in the 6th row. We all purchased VIP seats through Farm Aid and they put us together, a few in the 7th row as well. It’s suppose to be c-o-l-d. Thank goodness for the retractrable roof at Miller Ballpark. The Brewers will be playing the Cincinnati Reds that weekend, in Cincinnati, where by and by, we should be in a holding pattern for the playoffs…first time in 15 years! The city is jazzed.

Our schedule is jam packed today. Once again, no time to tailgate. My son has a soccer game this afternoon. Hopefully, next home game I can take some photos. Our grillmaster has been on ESPN two seperate times, for those occasional games they would cover UC, grilling sausages he buys from a historic outdoor market, Findlay Market, in Over The Rhine. Have fun searching all about Findlay Market, lwj. 😉 😉 😉

The rate this team is going, next year may not bring any ESPN coverage. 😆 I look for it to be ugly today for the Bearcats.

2nd leg of JM tour, with 2 shows in Canada, your side of the country, lwj 8)

I’m not sure about venues, yet. A first, announcement came up on pollstar and is not up on website .

I could be making my way down to tnt’s part of town. Have to map it out. Would be nice if I knew Lu’s prospective schedule and Amos Lee’s and ….and…

I’m a planner which sometimes works to a disadvantage.

Thursday 02/03/2011 Lowell, MA
Friday 02/04/2011 Waterbury, CT
Sunday 02/06/2011 Ottawa, ON
Wednesday 02/09/2011 Toronto, ON
Tuesday 02/15/2011 Washington, DC
Friday 02/18/2011 New York, NY
Monday 02/21/2011 Philadelphia, PA
Thursday 02/24/2011 Richmond, VA
Saturday 02/26/2011 Columbia, SC
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Tuesday 03/01/2011 Durham, NC
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Friday 03/04/2011 Clearwater, FL
Saturday 03/05/2011 Jacksonville, FL