TYRANNOSAURUS WILSON IS A SWEET NAME

As alluded to yesterday, there are a lot of Wilsons running around. For example:

Brian Wilson sings "Surfin' USA" with the Beach Boys

Wilson Phillips sings "Hold On"

Wilson Harron, a UGuelph friend who stole my Saskatchewan flag

Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany in 1917

Owen Wilson played Hutch with Ben Stiller as Starsky

Wilson, the best supporting actor nominee for Cast Away

Mark Wilson, a friend who will probably get to be an honourary uncle when I have kids (like Uncle Joey was on Full House). This will surely confuse my offspring as we are not related

Wilson Wilson, the neighbour on Home Improvement, not to be concerned with Mr. Wilson, neighbour of Dennis the Menace

So although it's easy to spell, the surname Wilson is something I get to share with a lot of nice people. When I started at my new job, I found out that I'm not the only Jesse Wilson on staff in Mountain View. Fortunately when picking out my email addresses, he left me the obvious one - jessewilson@.... Sharing the name was slightly annoying but not tragic - occasionally the mail room had to guess who a package was for, and I'd have to forward a voicemail or email his way once every week or so.

The payoff was this yesterday afternoon. One of Jesse Wilson's friends (I hear he's a hit with the ladies) intended to email him to ask if he wanted her extra tickets to the Thursday night Foo Fighters concert. I forwarded the message on with a quick note, PS -if you don't want 'em, I'll take 'em! Turns out the other Jesse Wilson is very cool and connected and already had tickets, so just by sharing his name I scored a sweet hookup for a pair of Foo Fighters tickets!

The concert was this evening and it was different. It was the Foo Fighter's first big acoustic tour, so they were experimenting a lot and Dave Grohl said it was the most fun he'd had in years! It was a fun show, but it was seated and I don't think I got into it as much as I would have, had it been electric. One neat thing was that the acousticness seemed more personal - Dave told detailed stories about writing his songs in a way that I'd never seen on stage before. It was a sweet gig, and I got to see it all just 'cause I'm a Jesse Wilson.