Last night was the Madonna concert in Vancouver.

I wish she'd write an autobiography. The woman is amazing! She went non-stop for two hours. She is in incredible shape.

The audio-visual portion of the show was awesome. BC Place Stadium is known for horrible acoustics, but where I sat, Madonna came out so clear and there was no echoing. Lainey from laineygossip.com thought the sound was "shit." I completely disagree. Madonna had a couple of monitors and skilled camera people. And the neatest part was this cylindrical thing that was seethrough yet was also a screen. It went up and down. She had a lot of videos playing to accompany her songs.

She played a lot of stuff from her latest album, and the old stuff she did play was re-done -- re-done in a good way. I can just imagine... "Hello, I'm Jose. I toured with Madonna as the accordian player." She either played her guitar and sang standing in front of a mic, or she sang and danced with a couple of dancers on the stage, or the whole dance troupe was out there. 

The word I would use to sum up the Madonna concert is AMAZING.

I'm glad I brought binonculars. Even though I was sitting high up, I was close to the stage, but the binoculars helped. Sometimes I watched the screens through my binoculars. The only time I couldn't get a good view using them was whenever the guy in front of leaned over to talk to his friend (which was A LOT), or when people clapped or danced. BWAHAHAHA I could feel the stadium shaking!

Her opening act was DJ Enferno. I couldn't see him and could barely hear his music, but I had gone by his myspace page and checked out some of his stuff before hand. He was good. He DJed during parts of the show, too. 

Madonna was in good spirits and looked like she was enjoying herself. There were a few standout moments for me.

When she sang She's Not Me, she had four of dancers dressed up looking like her from her earlier days: the Marilyn look, the dress from Material Girl, some bride, and some other one. Then she tore them a new one when she ripped off their wigs and slapped them around. Then she did some other song, which I think was Rain. I can't remember. I was too engrossed. It started off with these guys in long blonde dreads in kimono like outfits dancing. The cylindrical screen showed images of butterflies and stuff. She sang in the middle of the cylinder with the images going on around her. Anytime all the dancers were on stage were a cool moment. They all wore different costumes, and the choreography was incredible. Breakers, dancing in unison, skipping rope...a real visual delight!

She's made political statements, but those were really light this time around. She did this montage with images of people (Dalai Lama, politicians, Michael Moore), aftermath of war, and other political images. She was also in this montage and she kept repeating words, which I can't remember. It was pretty much..."You can make a difference." "Do something." etc. When Obama's image flashed on the screen, there was a lot of cheering, especially from the two ladies beside me. I am sure a lot of people from Washington state came up for the concert.

There were even Obama T-shirts for sale at the merch table. I wish I could have spent more time checking out the merchandise, but I wasn't even going to look since there were SO many people. The show was going to start soon for me, too. But there were accessories (posters, books, sunglasses, sweat bands), T-shirts, shorts, hoodies, and jackets. I wasn't going to buy anything, but then I saw people holding up their T-shirts. I can't believe I paid $50 for the T-shirt. It was printed on the front and back, and it only noted the Vancouver date. $45 would have gotten you a generic double-sided T-shirt. $35 for a single-sided T-shirt, and $25 for an Obama shirt.

And there were a lot of men attending the show. I thought there'd be more people dressed up, but there were only a handful. I couldn't undestand why one girl had her hair in foam rollers.

Happy Hallowe'en!