That 1001 list is odd. There seems to be a lot of variety until you look more closely: Do you really need to hear five different Radiohead albums before you die? All five Led Zeppelin albums? I can sorta see the multiple entries for the Beatles or the Stones, since they went through many phases, but not so much the former two.

t on edit Surely a few of those could have been dropped for some Neutral Milk Hotel, Husker Du or Mission of Burma.

The current album is Swordfish Trombones

Never heard of it.

Never heard of it.

Careful, Hec. You'll put a hole in your cheek with your tongue like that.

You'll put a hole in your cheek with your tongue like that.

I should take off the drill bit attachment.

So what was the last arean show folks have been to? Besides last night, my last was Nirvana when they toured behind their last studio album. Before that it was the Greatful Dead (friend bought me a ticket), R.E.M., David Bowie--all in the late '80s.

I saw the Pixies on Saturday in an arena.

Beastie Boys at the Long Beach Convention Center. HOMG what a great show. It was like seeing three different bands but they were all the same guys. (they kept leaving the stage and coming back in different outifts and different genres) That was, maybe 5 years ago. Before that, Robert Plant at Poplar Creek in the mid 90s.

Rush was probably my last arena show too. I used to go to a lot of shows, but alas, no more. So most of my current shows are festival acts.

My last arena show was taking Emmett to see The Stooges. But even that wasn't a real stadium - it was at the Orpheum. Still it was my first non-club music event in a long time.

As in BIG arena? Hmmm. Probably Rob Zombie & Ozzy Osbourne. MCR played smaller venues for this tour, and there is no way on this earth I would call Showbox SODO an arena.

Which means that my next big arena show will be Slayer & Rob Zombie. I sense a theme here.