2006, my year so far, a year in XS...

Well, so far this year, can only be described one way: INXS (pronounced: in excess). . .

INXS you ask? Well if you are reading this, and you are not me, LOL...you likely know this is the name of a band I have become a bit enraptured with!

And no, Mom! it is NOT N'sync!

Seriously...N'sync...INXS...not the same thing! One is a currently defunct boy band...the other, INXS, is a recently rejuvenated hot ROCK BAND! Remember them?!?!? Back in the late 80's, early 90's they had a long string of hot dance rock hits...Never Tear Us Apart, Need You Tonight, Devil Inside, Suicide Blonde...just to name a few...

Anyway they are back, thanks in large part to a freakin' rockin' TV show last summer that helped them fill the spot of lead singer, open since 1997's untimely demise of the late Michael Hutchence (RIP). Apparently (unbeknownst to me) they had been trying a couple of other singers in the interim, but none had worked out until now...Anyway, the tv show? Rock Star: INXS . . .Oh my god! That show was TV crack, LOL ;) Addictive to say the least...and aeons better than the best of American Idol...anyway, I digress (shocker!)...the show gave them one JD Fortune, end of last September, and they started on a world tour this past January. . .

And that, everyone, was just the beginning of this story...

Needless, to say, the TV show, combined with my obsessive need to accumulate information (I am an information junkie!) means I am now a proud owner of many brain cells currently filled with endless information about said Band, Our Band, Our Boy, INXS...or as many fondly refer to them, the BINXS (pronounced binks...funny, because I once thought, way back in the 80's, that they were call 'inks' !).

So what do me and my little brain do, other then accumulate somewhat random trivia? Well, for one: I obsessively hang out on my favorite message boards, in the INXS Lounge. . . and chat incessantly with other equally disturbed individuals, LOL (I kid!)...

But, is that it, you ask? Uhmmm, no! I must also decide to attend as many of their shows as possible... Crazy! I have never attended more than one concert in a year, I have never attended more than one concert for a specific artist, ever! And, I have only attended like, 4 other concerts before 2006, ever! Now you say...what, she's talking about 2 or 3 shows, right? Ha! if only...I have attended 3 shows so far, have tickets for 3 more, and will likely buy tickets for 1-2 more...in Excess, in XS, INXS...indeed!

If you don't believe me, read my concert reviews so far...check out MySpace blogs for Seattle (hey, it's home!), Las Vegas and St Charles . (You'll have to scroll past my mini dissertation on the INXS song Taste IT, or read it, if you want to see how really far gone I am!)

Concerts currently on the Itinerary: Nashville, Vancouver, Los Angeles(the Greek)

These could happen...I will attend any additional show if scheduled in Seattle, and maybe one or two more in California. I won't even go into how I am still entertaining the idea of Austrailia...

So, do I need to be committed yet? Wait, don't answer...