On to the DTE

So, guess who I'm going to see again in September? Yep, I'm off to see KISS once more. This time at the Detroit Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan. And guess what? I'm gonna write about it, too and I don't don't wanna hear any guff! If you've visited this blog enough (and judging by the number of comments left, I assume no one has *sigh*) you should know by now that I blog about KISS quite often. Why? 'Cause...they're...awesome!!

Anywho, so I get some direction the night before I call Ticketmaster that my friend Holly (the one accompanied me to the last KISS show-by the way I really wish I could get the 'SS' to look like the lightning bolts in their name when I type it, just like whenever you see their name in their CD sleeves and whatnot) and her boyfriend and another friend of ours wouldn't mind going to the show as well. Cool by me, the more the merrier and more souls to share in my love of the greatest band in the world.

So, I stay up all night (not because of excitement, but because I slept a little too long earlier in the night and I couldn't sleep between midnight and...well about four o'clock the next afternoon) and in the morning, go to the nearest Money Mart and put what I figured would be enough cash on my re-loadable VISA (no, not the international travel document-nevermind, private joke) about $240 (Canadian, mind you) and try to get home as fast as I could to get on the Ticketmaster website and get the best tickets I could before they were sold out, as the tickets went on sale at 10 a.m; Holly said they wouldn't be, but it is KISS and it is Detroit after all. Me thinks she doesn't understand the almost symbiotic relationship between the two.

So, I get home, get online, and only then I realize I didn't put enough cash on the card. I thought I had figured for the tickets themselves, plus the conversion rate of Canadian to American, fees and taxes. But oh no, I had to have more for the mailing fee. I could have chosen the option to pick them up at Will Call, but c'mon I want them as soon as possible (even though the website said they wouldn't be mailed until "no later than 48 hours before the event," which means I could get them sooner, I guess) I hope they actually have the KISS logo on the tickets as I've seen many do. This will be my fourth time seeing them since 1985 and I've never gotten tickets with their logo on them. Geez, the logo is on every other frickin' thing they release, so why not my ticket??

So after seeing that I was only $12 short, I go back to Money Mart, and throw on another $30 just to be sure. I get back home, go through the process of ordering my tickets again (which cost us more than a few rows of real estate, I'm sure) and in the final tally, end up paying $254 American for four $45 tickets, service fees, taxes and mailing fee-not to mention the conversion rate, which obviously isn't included in the overall price, but still took a bite out of my wallet.

But, Once again, just like the $276 I paid just for Holly and myself to go to the last show we saw at Caesar's Windsor last year (I can't believe it been almost a whole year, BOO!) it'll be worth it, because as the theme for this show says, it will be "The Hottest Show on Earth!"

Did I mention KISS rules?
Yeah, they do.