Tuesday's Elvis Costello show was awesome but was tainted for me by 2 things: cell phones and dropped plastic cups! There needs to be some technology invented that interrupts cellular phone signals and prevents cell phones from ringing. And the Ryman needs to ban beverages inside the auditorium. I don't care that someone loudly dropped a cup 3 rows behind me and I had to sit with my feet in their beer but I do mind that it happened right at the beginning of "I Still Miss Someone." I witnessed someone get yanked out of the Ryman at a previous show for being lound and drunk but that wasn't taking place Tuesday unfortunately.

On another note, I went to buy the Rhino reissue on Wednesday and the clerk at Grimey's Records asked if I went to the show and if "he rocked." The clerk said that he didn't go because he was afraid that "he wouldn't rock." I replied that you don't always have to have a drum kit to rock. I don't think that he was able to process that at all.