The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

[HoyaSaxa03]

it's like he got most of the way through writing and "researching" this inane think-piece and realized that his half-baked theory was way off, and tried to rescue the article with some quote at the end tearing the whole thing apart
 
 it's really embarrassing that an editor let this be published

[alex]

on a side note, damn they sold out of dar orchestra tickets fast.

[allmy$to930]

I couldn't get orchestra either...seems strange.
 
 I ended up in Section D

[bearman🐻]

I had to buy 4 tickets...Section M, row E (which looks to be the second row?) Eh, it's fine. I saw them 2 nights at the Black Cat right up front, so I'm just happy to go.

[allmy$to930]

I just had 2 seats come up in Orch Row S and returned them.

[ggw]

I pulled up four pairs of orchestra seats between rows S and HH.  The new security code program they have sucks.  I was batting below .500 on that.

[urwhyimhiding]

I got 4 in section F, but i've been to DAR and almost any seat is decent for a seated show since its not really all that big.

[crevers]

Any thoughts on box seats?  I just got 37, row A.

[sweetcell]

for once i lucked out.  i got a refresh at 10:00:01, got the first password right, and scored a pair of ORCH row O.  the GF was online trying too, she was about 3 seconds behind me and didn't get anything on the floor.
 
 those new ticketbastard capchkas (or whatever they're called) are HORRIBLE.  now humans can't even understand them.  half of them are illegible - no difference between zero and the letter O; 6 looks like G; K, Y and X all look the same... those test are meant to prove that we're not machines.  given my success rate with them, i'm not human either.  it's insulting.

[chokeychicken]

this was not nearly as hard to get tickets for as i thought it would be.
 
 ORCH row F.  about where i saw for death cab.  not bad.

[alex]

Yeah that's what fucked me over...I went through four of them initially.
 
 Oh well, Row D section R ain't bad, and I'm not complaining.

[sweetcell]

bearman: high-res seating map available here:  http://www.dar.org/pics/conthall/seatchrtbig.gif  - so yup, second row (albeit at the back of the hall).
 
 alex: Sec R Row D = front row of that section, unobstructed view!
 
 dhinojwala: i'm a big fan of box seats at DAR, although yours is kinda far back.  boxes always have a clear view of the stage.  box seats are GA (and thus all row "A") - each box has 5 moveable chairs in it, first come first serve.  get there early to grab the the best one(s).

[HoyaSaxa03]

I must be getting old, because i went 0 for 4 at one point with those fucking letter/# combinations
 
 I threw a bunch back and wound up with section T row J ... seems pretty decent, right?
 
 there was no way i was sitting in one of the last 10 rows on the floor

[crevers]

Hoya: I don't think it's a function of you getting old...I went through about 6 screens before I got something that looked like English letters and Arabic numerals.  It was like the 7th row of the optometrist board.
 
 Sweetcell: Thanks for the opinion & info on box seats.  I've never been to a concert at DAR, although I've heard/read all kinds of horrible things about the acoustics there.  I'm just hoping low expectations = reasonably good experience.

[sweetcell]

i've been to about a dozen shows at DAR, and i've never noticed anything horrible with the sound.  some shows were only so-so, but it's not like verizon which always sounds like shite.  many a show has sounded great.  then again, i've always scored seats in the front half of the hall where the PA might be overpowering back-of-the-room reverberation.