I have been way to fucking busy for my own good!
I miss writing about all my shows!
Need. to find. more. time....
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
taking back sunday, 26.05.2009
LINE-UP: Envy on the Coast, Anberlin, Taking Back Sunday @ The Boulder Theater
As much as I love Envy on the Coast, twenty-five dollars for four people for one band is a little damaging to my sister's wallet, so ultimately, we decided not to go into the show, =(. It ended up selling out anyway, but we do decide to hang out around the venue before and after the show. For a very long time. We do, however, see Matt from TBS outside their bus, talking on his phone. Nora gets super excited, but we don't approach him. It's more fun to just admire from afar.
Eventually the doors open and everyone goes inside. We stand directly outside of the venue's doors as Envy starts performing, and we can actually hear them play, which is a nice treat seeing as how we couldn't get in at all. They play two new songs, I think, and they seemed pretty good from what I could hear. After their set, Jeremy comes into view right inside the venue's doors because that's where their merch is set up. My mom hopes that if we just stand there, he'll see us and come out and say hi. Nope. But he does see my mom and waves at her.
We round the outside of the venue afterward and see the rest of the guys taking their gear out from the venue to put it into their van which is across the street. The security guard there is getting suspicious of us, for some reason, so we just walk away instead of forcing our way into the alley and getting yelled at by some asshole.
We wait around by the front of the venue for a little while until we decide to cross the street to where Envy's van is to see if they're there. They are, so we walk towards them. I get all ansy, thinking this is awkward, but I'm forced forward. It's really dark by their van, but somehow, Sal sees us, says hi, and asks us how we are. It's a very sweet gesture since we were never sure if he knew who we were. Ryan sees us, too, and says hi. He finishes loading up the van and comes over to talk to us. He asks us how we are about two times, I'm pretty sure, and gives everyone a hug. Well, a half hug; Nora is the only one who gets a full one. ;) We do a little small talk, we ask how the tour's been going, and he tells us that touring with Taking Back Sunday is the greatest and that it's weird touring without them. When they had a day off, Ryan tells us, they felt so lost, so both bands were texting each other, all, "I miss you guys, man!" It's funny.
During the midst of this all Adam Lazzara (ADAM LAZZARA, OH MY GOD!) comes over and hands Ryan a guitar he had left behind, and I start freaking out. Adam Lazzara is standing practically two feet from me, but he leaves, and I calm down. Ryan then asks us if we liked the new songs, and Nora (stupid little Nora) says she hasn't heard them. "We played them tonight," Ryan clarifies. Duh Nora. "We... weren't in there," she says. None of us could lie to them if our lives depended on it. We weren't in there?! Oh no! "It sold out..." Nora adds, trying to ease her guilt. Did we not think it was going to sell out?" Ryan asks. We say that we weren't sure. We didn't know what TBS's fan base was like here, so we decided to just wait it out, and lo and behold, it sold out. Oh well. That's okay, at least we came afterward, he says. He tells us that he's gotta go and get food, so he gives us all hugs and says he'll see us next time. Love him.
Conveniently as we round the corner to the front of the venue, Jeremy is outside! He's talking with a girl holding a camera and smoking. Yay. He sees us and says hi very enthusiastically. He asks us how we are and such, and we talk for a good long while. He asks Daniel and I what grades we're going into, and if my brother still won't talk. Nope, he won't. My mom mentions how long his hair has gotten, and he likes it, still, and points out that Daniel used to have longer, so he would know what it's like. My mom wasn't sure if he had been waving to from inside earlier, but he was, and he hadn't thought anything of it until we tell him that we actually weren't in the show. He's super bummed out about this, but still thinks it's awesome of my mom to bring us down her to hang out anyway. My mom rules!
It suddenly hits Jeremy that he's been talking the entire time without introducing us to his lady friend. Her name is Emily, and she's Envy's photographer. She goes around the circle and introduces herself as we offer our hands and do the same. She, too, joins the conversation. She is very nice, and Nora tells her she wishes she had her job. (My sister loves photography.) Emily, however, doesn't think the touring photographer life is so fabulous, but if she wants it...
(Okay, so this happened so fucking long ago, so I've nearly forgotten everything that's happened. I feel like a failure!) I do remember, however, that Envy's new drummer, whom I do not know the name of (failure x2), comes out to talk to Jeremy, and Jeremy introduce us to him. It's so sweet! We go around, shakes hands, and tell him our names, except Daniel, ha ha, and he calls my mom and Nora "Nora Squared", so it wouldn't be too hard to remember.It's really funny, and actually quite clever! I've never heard that one before. The end of the conversation rolls around, and by this time, we've gotten a couple of people into the circle, i.e. Eddie from TBS. (Holy shit!) So Jeremy goes around and gives us all hugs.
"She gives the best hugs," he says about me as he walks off. "You should take lessons." Fuck yeah.
As much as I love Envy on the Coast, twenty-five dollars for four people for one band is a little damaging to my sister's wallet, so ultimately, we decided not to go into the show, =(. It ended up selling out anyway, but we do decide to hang out around the venue before and after the show. For a very long time. We do, however, see Matt from TBS outside their bus, talking on his phone. Nora gets super excited, but we don't approach him. It's more fun to just admire from afar.
Eventually the doors open and everyone goes inside. We stand directly outside of the venue's doors as Envy starts performing, and we can actually hear them play, which is a nice treat seeing as how we couldn't get in at all. They play two new songs, I think, and they seemed pretty good from what I could hear. After their set, Jeremy comes into view right inside the venue's doors because that's where their merch is set up. My mom hopes that if we just stand there, he'll see us and come out and say hi. Nope. But he does see my mom and waves at her.
We round the outside of the venue afterward and see the rest of the guys taking their gear out from the venue to put it into their van which is across the street. The security guard there is getting suspicious of us, for some reason, so we just walk away instead of forcing our way into the alley and getting yelled at by some asshole.
We wait around by the front of the venue for a little while until we decide to cross the street to where Envy's van is to see if they're there. They are, so we walk towards them. I get all ansy, thinking this is awkward, but I'm forced forward. It's really dark by their van, but somehow, Sal sees us, says hi, and asks us how we are. It's a very sweet gesture since we were never sure if he knew who we were. Ryan sees us, too, and says hi. He finishes loading up the van and comes over to talk to us. He asks us how we are about two times, I'm pretty sure, and gives everyone a hug. Well, a half hug; Nora is the only one who gets a full one. ;) We do a little small talk, we ask how the tour's been going, and he tells us that touring with Taking Back Sunday is the greatest and that it's weird touring without them. When they had a day off, Ryan tells us, they felt so lost, so both bands were texting each other, all, "I miss you guys, man!" It's funny.
During the midst of this all Adam Lazzara (ADAM LAZZARA, OH MY GOD!) comes over and hands Ryan a guitar he had left behind, and I start freaking out. Adam Lazzara is standing practically two feet from me, but he leaves, and I calm down. Ryan then asks us if we liked the new songs, and Nora (stupid little Nora) says she hasn't heard them. "We played them tonight," Ryan clarifies. Duh Nora. "We... weren't in there," she says. None of us could lie to them if our lives depended on it. We weren't in there?! Oh no! "It sold out..." Nora adds, trying to ease her guilt. Did we not think it was going to sell out?" Ryan asks. We say that we weren't sure. We didn't know what TBS's fan base was like here, so we decided to just wait it out, and lo and behold, it sold out. Oh well. That's okay, at least we came afterward, he says. He tells us that he's gotta go and get food, so he gives us all hugs and says he'll see us next time. Love him.
Conveniently as we round the corner to the front of the venue, Jeremy is outside! He's talking with a girl holding a camera and smoking. Yay. He sees us and says hi very enthusiastically. He asks us how we are and such, and we talk for a good long while. He asks Daniel and I what grades we're going into, and if my brother still won't talk. Nope, he won't. My mom mentions how long his hair has gotten, and he likes it, still, and points out that Daniel used to have longer, so he would know what it's like. My mom wasn't sure if he had been waving to from inside earlier, but he was, and he hadn't thought anything of it until we tell him that we actually weren't in the show. He's super bummed out about this, but still thinks it's awesome of my mom to bring us down her to hang out anyway. My mom rules!
It suddenly hits Jeremy that he's been talking the entire time without introducing us to his lady friend. Her name is Emily, and she's Envy's photographer. She goes around the circle and introduces herself as we offer our hands and do the same. She, too, joins the conversation. She is very nice, and Nora tells her she wishes she had her job. (My sister loves photography.) Emily, however, doesn't think the touring photographer life is so fabulous, but if she wants it...
(Okay, so this happened so fucking long ago, so I've nearly forgotten everything that's happened. I feel like a failure!) I do remember, however, that Envy's new drummer, whom I do not know the name of (failure x2), comes out to talk to Jeremy, and Jeremy introduce us to him. It's so sweet! We go around, shakes hands, and tell him our names, except Daniel, ha ha, and he calls my mom and Nora "Nora Squared", so it wouldn't be too hard to remember.It's really funny, and actually quite clever! I've never heard that one before. The end of the conversation rolls around, and by this time, we've gotten a couple of people into the circle, i.e. Eddie from TBS. (Holy shit!) So Jeremy goes around and gives us all hugs.
"She gives the best hugs," he says about me as he walks off. "You should take lessons." Fuck yeah.
Monday, June 15, 2009
danger radio, 19.05.2009
LINE-UP: Roe, Stereo Skyline, My Favorite Highway, Danger Radio @ Marquis
WHY DOES DANGER RADIO ALWAYS HAVE TO PLAY ON DAYS WHEN I HAVE OTHER THINGS GOING ON, HUH?!?! The Cab and This Providence were playing the same as them two times before that; sad, sad day, and this time, it was my older brother's birthday, so we weren't able to go to the actual show. FML. Instead, we decide to go to see if we can meet them afterward, but we don't end up heading down there until about 11 at night.
Because it's my brother's birthday, I'm still wearing this super awesome, very Demi Lovato like, black dress with a black and red checkered bottom from Forever 21 that looks super good on me, let me tell ya. My mom, Nora, and I wait around awkwardly as we see Andrew with his plate of pizza talking to a bunch of other people, among them Molly and her gang, who take it upon themselves to shoot us nasty glares for absolutely no reason at all.
Andrew spots us, and suddenly it hits him that we weren't there. (So sweet that he noticed.) He yells at us and asks, jokingly, if This Providence was playing. No, they weren't, we answer. So what kept us away? he walks over to us. It was our brother's birthday, we explain, and he accepts it as a valid reason for missing his show. My mom asks him if he actually notices that we're gone, and he says, he didn't think of it at first, but now that he sees us, of course he realized that we hadn't been inside the entire time.
We go off on a bunch of random conversations, but there's a point where Andrew full on pauses and looks me up and down (in a kind of inappropriate way) at least three times, and just jumps right back into what he was saying as if he hadn't just done anything awkward. Nora and I glance at each other and have to hold back laughter. This was probably the most memorable part of the night.
A couple of homeless people walk by and ask us for money. A woman asks if Andrew will share his food, and he gives all of it to her. "I wish I was that nice," I say; I really was. This reminds him about wanting to become healthier on the road, and so far, he's started to work out and run. That day, when he was running, he was listening to new Taking Back Sunday and totally jamming out while he was jogging. A man on a cyclist goes past him from behind and just stares at him as he goes by. Apologies for the self-expression.
Andrew says he also walked all the way to 7-11, where other homeless folks asked him for money, and he gave whoever it was two dollars, which was all he had. A few blocks down another person asks for money, but he apologizes and says he already gave it to someone else. But then the same person offers him some drugs that he's on, and Andrew's like, "Really, I don't have any money." He makes a joke about how you can't really trust anything they sell, even if you do do drugs. They're homeless, for God's sake! "It's probably rat poison, or something."
Funny story.
Where this next subject comes from I have no idea, but he starts telling us about his divine love for Scrubs and Zach Braff. He asks if we watch the show, which we unfortunately don't, but goes off describing an episode he really loves. He says that the producer for the Scene Aesthetic's album personally knows Zach Braff, so he's going to try to get her to "hook them up", in theory, so they can meet. And hopefully, through Zach Braff, he can meet Natalie Portman because he's totally in love with her. So is my sister. =) She adores her. They off on their "I love Natalie Portman" rant and Nora informs him that she's actually really short, so she's actually not taller than Andrew, like he thought. Hooray for him!
They bring up that rap she did on SNL, and I say, "I was like 13 when that premiered, I was like, 'What is this'," hoping he gets the hint THAT I'M REALLY YOUNG. Nada. My mom says she thought that he loved Ellen Page. Andrew says he does also love Ellen Page, but Natalie Portman would have to come first, then Ellen in a close second.
A little later on, we get pictures when it's about van call, so he says he has to go and gives us all hugs, but he ends up talking to us for a lot longer. I know Elan got involved for a quick minute because he needed a Sharpie, but that was about it. Andrew gives us another set of hugs and heads off. We, unfortunately, don't get to meet anyone else. I had really wanted to talk to Nico, but Andrew wouldn't shut the eff up, which was really okay because he's such a character. I love Danger Radio very, very much. Hopefully they next time they play it doesn't coincide with anything else that's important, but we'll just have to see.
WHY DOES DANGER RADIO ALWAYS HAVE TO PLAY ON DAYS WHEN I HAVE OTHER THINGS GOING ON, HUH?!?! The Cab and This Providence were playing the same as them two times before that; sad, sad day, and this time, it was my older brother's birthday, so we weren't able to go to the actual show. FML. Instead, we decide to go to see if we can meet them afterward, but we don't end up heading down there until about 11 at night.
Because it's my brother's birthday, I'm still wearing this super awesome, very Demi Lovato like, black dress with a black and red checkered bottom from Forever 21 that looks super good on me, let me tell ya. My mom, Nora, and I wait around awkwardly as we see Andrew with his plate of pizza talking to a bunch of other people, among them Molly and her gang, who take it upon themselves to shoot us nasty glares for absolutely no reason at all.
Andrew spots us, and suddenly it hits him that we weren't there. (So sweet that he noticed.) He yells at us and asks, jokingly, if This Providence was playing. No, they weren't, we answer. So what kept us away? he walks over to us. It was our brother's birthday, we explain, and he accepts it as a valid reason for missing his show. My mom asks him if he actually notices that we're gone, and he says, he didn't think of it at first, but now that he sees us, of course he realized that we hadn't been inside the entire time.
We go off on a bunch of random conversations, but there's a point where Andrew full on pauses and looks me up and down (in a kind of inappropriate way) at least three times, and just jumps right back into what he was saying as if he hadn't just done anything awkward. Nora and I glance at each other and have to hold back laughter. This was probably the most memorable part of the night.
A couple of homeless people walk by and ask us for money. A woman asks if Andrew will share his food, and he gives all of it to her. "I wish I was that nice," I say; I really was. This reminds him about wanting to become healthier on the road, and so far, he's started to work out and run. That day, when he was running, he was listening to new Taking Back Sunday and totally jamming out while he was jogging. A man on a cyclist goes past him from behind and just stares at him as he goes by. Apologies for the self-expression.
Andrew says he also walked all the way to 7-11, where other homeless folks asked him for money, and he gave whoever it was two dollars, which was all he had. A few blocks down another person asks for money, but he apologizes and says he already gave it to someone else. But then the same person offers him some drugs that he's on, and Andrew's like, "Really, I don't have any money." He makes a joke about how you can't really trust anything they sell, even if you do do drugs. They're homeless, for God's sake! "It's probably rat poison, or something."
Funny story.
Where this next subject comes from I have no idea, but he starts telling us about his divine love for Scrubs and Zach Braff. He asks if we watch the show, which we unfortunately don't, but goes off describing an episode he really loves. He says that the producer for the Scene Aesthetic's album personally knows Zach Braff, so he's going to try to get her to "hook them up", in theory, so they can meet. And hopefully, through Zach Braff, he can meet Natalie Portman because he's totally in love with her. So is my sister. =) She adores her. They off on their "I love Natalie Portman" rant and Nora informs him that she's actually really short, so she's actually not taller than Andrew, like he thought. Hooray for him!
They bring up that rap she did on SNL, and I say, "I was like 13 when that premiered, I was like, 'What is this'," hoping he gets the hint THAT I'M REALLY YOUNG. Nada. My mom says she thought that he loved Ellen Page. Andrew says he does also love Ellen Page, but Natalie Portman would have to come first, then Ellen in a close second.
A little later on, we get pictures when it's about van call, so he says he has to go and gives us all hugs, but he ends up talking to us for a lot longer. I know Elan got involved for a quick minute because he needed a Sharpie, but that was about it. Andrew gives us another set of hugs and heads off. We, unfortunately, don't get to meet anyone else. I had really wanted to talk to Nico, but Andrew wouldn't shut the eff up, which was really okay because he's such a character. I love Danger Radio very, very much. Hopefully they next time they play it doesn't coincide with anything else that's important, but we'll just have to see.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
this providence, 10.05.2009
LINE-UP: A bunch of local bands, This Providence @ The Depot
Even though the show was in Greeley and on Mother's Day, we convince our mom to take us up there and take Caleigh with us. The venue is not really a venue at all, it's a tiny warehouse with two separate sections: one a lighted gathering area with games and a food place, the other through a door that's dark where the stage is set up. It even has a wall that opens when the bands need to set-up! It's so cute! We get up there after the first band is finished playing their set, and we walk straight into the stage area. We watch the first band, who are actually quite decent (The Analog Reason, maybe they were called). The singer reminded me of Brendon Urie at times; it was amusing.
We head back out to the gathering area (it's a Jesus place) and sit around while Regret Night plays because we can't stand them - no offense-, leaving my mom behind in the other room. Finally, finally I spot David Blaise in the opposite corner of the room on his laptop. We sit around, order a delicious Ice Chai beverage for under two dollars and a pretzel (XD), and watch David Blaise make weird motions at his laptop. It's kind of cute, actually, and I'm quite entranced.
"Is he watching something?" I ask Caleigh. She answers, "He might be talking to someone. Probably Cass," she adds jokingly, as in Cassadee Pope from Hey Monday. (It pretty much destroyed me when I found out they were dating... not really.) I decide to take the ballsy move and "discreetly" walk by to see what he's doing. Right there, on his laptop screen IS CASSADEE! I was going to keep walking by on down to my mother, but I totally freak out and bolt backwards back to my sister and Caleigh. "I thought you were just kidding!" I tell Caleigh as I explain to them that David Blaise is, in fact, talking to Cassadee. That pretty much tears my heart in two (She's my girlfriend!) and I totally freak out, hence why I couldn't keep going forward. It was too much.
I go to get my mom so she doesn't have to sit by herself anymore, and I explain to her what happened because she was wondering why I had run away like I did. I'm totally freaking out because I really didn't think Caleigh could have been right. The image of her on the screen is forever burned into my mind. Ha ha ha ha. It really is, though.
Even then we continue to watch David Blaise as he finishes his virtual chat with Cassadee, gawk at Andy Horst when we see him (my mom loves him), and make fun of Dan Young and his silly accent. One of the guys from Regret Night - the least obnoxious one - comes over to talk to us, God only knows why. He asks us if we like Saving Verona, the band currently playing, and we all just shrug. He tells us that he actually really likes them and misses seeing them play. "So why don't you go watch them?" Nora says. "Oh I didn't mean it like that," she adds when he shamefully leaves us alone, realizing we don't actually want to talk to him. Poor kid.
Towards the end of Saving Verona's set, we go back into the stage area to watch the last few songs. We pass Andy on the way in, and my mom totally freaks out. Internally, that is. Saving Verona is actually really good, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to listen them. Dan Young is sitting on one of the couches, so my mom goes to sit next to him while Caleigh is pushing me to stand closer to where David Blaise is standing. Dan young eventually leave, though, but I find it really funny. Finally, it's This Providence's turn, so we get closer to the stage.
Dan Young is really interesting to watch on stage: he kind of squirms and twists like he has to go to the bathroom, but that's just my observation. Caleigh liked it, but I don't know what's wrong with her. They don't perform for very long at all, but pretty much divide their set with half of the songs from the new album and the other half from the one before. And overall, it was a really good time.
Afterward, we actually decide to brave it and meet Dan Young. He tells me he likes the coordination I have with my gold vest and the gold print on my "This ProviDANCE" shirt, and I politely tell him thanks you and that I was glad he noticed. We get pictures (Caleigh gets two because she didn't like the first one. Lame-o.), and my mom says something about having gone to sit next to him. He says something along the lines of how he liked that she was confident enough to do so. Strange. Very strange. He does tell her Happy Mother's Day, though, which is nice.
We meet David Blaise next after hesitating to approach him and take some pics. I "blink" in the first one, so I get another one. (I really didn't blink; I don't know what Nora's talking about.) "It's your birthday in 8 days, isn't it?" I say to him to start a conversation. "Yeah," he answers, "The big 21, but I still look really young." "My sister has the same problem," I tell him. "People always say she looks like she's 14, but she's really 20." Don't you hate that? he asks her, she agrees, and they go off on a quick conversation about their ages. There's another girl butting into our conversation (which is okay, because I actually like her, and I think she's nice), Kay, I think her name is, who also look like she's 12 because she's super short. She becomes part of the conversation, too.
David goes one to say how sometimes people take his youth ridiculously far. "Are you 10?" he quotes, and I make a comment about how yes, he's 10, he's tall, and he has a tattoo. "Yeah, my mom let me get this." He goes along with my joke, "I got it out of the 25 cent dispenser," which is the most hilarious part. He asks for our names, and we introduce ourselves. It's totally sweet, and I love him even more. He tells us to have a good night, and I go to hug him. He gives very sweet hugs. =)
We stop by to meet Gavin, and head outside to find Andy. He's talking to a few people and smoking (FAIL), so we wait around in a little group beside theirs, awkwardly, I might add. He looks over a few times, wondering what we want, but it isn't until he parts ways with them that we rush over to get pictures. One with my mom, of course because she loves him so much! She even gets a hug out of him! (That lucky bitch! XD) Dan Young ends up with us, too, and while we take turns getting a picture with Andy, Caleigh starts talking to him. About what, not even she knows, but she likes it. He tells Mom Happy Mother's Day again, and that's when it clicks in Andy's head, and he wishes her a happy day as well.
We leave soon after that and head home. Overall, it was a pretty successful night, and I know even my mom was glad that she made the effort to drive all the way down there. ;)
Even though the show was in Greeley and on Mother's Day, we convince our mom to take us up there and take Caleigh with us. The venue is not really a venue at all, it's a tiny warehouse with two separate sections: one a lighted gathering area with games and a food place, the other through a door that's dark where the stage is set up. It even has a wall that opens when the bands need to set-up! It's so cute! We get up there after the first band is finished playing their set, and we walk straight into the stage area. We watch the first band, who are actually quite decent (The Analog Reason, maybe they were called). The singer reminded me of Brendon Urie at times; it was amusing.
We head back out to the gathering area (it's a Jesus place) and sit around while Regret Night plays because we can't stand them - no offense-, leaving my mom behind in the other room. Finally, finally I spot David Blaise in the opposite corner of the room on his laptop. We sit around, order a delicious Ice Chai beverage for under two dollars and a pretzel (XD), and watch David Blaise make weird motions at his laptop. It's kind of cute, actually, and I'm quite entranced.
"Is he watching something?" I ask Caleigh. She answers, "He might be talking to someone. Probably Cass," she adds jokingly, as in Cassadee Pope from Hey Monday. (It pretty much destroyed me when I found out they were dating... not really.) I decide to take the ballsy move and "discreetly" walk by to see what he's doing. Right there, on his laptop screen IS CASSADEE! I was going to keep walking by on down to my mother, but I totally freak out and bolt backwards back to my sister and Caleigh. "I thought you were just kidding!" I tell Caleigh as I explain to them that David Blaise is, in fact, talking to Cassadee. That pretty much tears my heart in two (She's my girlfriend!) and I totally freak out, hence why I couldn't keep going forward. It was too much.
I go to get my mom so she doesn't have to sit by herself anymore, and I explain to her what happened because she was wondering why I had run away like I did. I'm totally freaking out because I really didn't think Caleigh could have been right. The image of her on the screen is forever burned into my mind. Ha ha ha ha. It really is, though.
Even then we continue to watch David Blaise as he finishes his virtual chat with Cassadee, gawk at Andy Horst when we see him (my mom loves him), and make fun of Dan Young and his silly accent. One of the guys from Regret Night - the least obnoxious one - comes over to talk to us, God only knows why. He asks us if we like Saving Verona, the band currently playing, and we all just shrug. He tells us that he actually really likes them and misses seeing them play. "So why don't you go watch them?" Nora says. "Oh I didn't mean it like that," she adds when he shamefully leaves us alone, realizing we don't actually want to talk to him. Poor kid.
Towards the end of Saving Verona's set, we go back into the stage area to watch the last few songs. We pass Andy on the way in, and my mom totally freaks out. Internally, that is. Saving Verona is actually really good, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to listen them. Dan Young is sitting on one of the couches, so my mom goes to sit next to him while Caleigh is pushing me to stand closer to where David Blaise is standing. Dan young eventually leave, though, but I find it really funny. Finally, it's This Providence's turn, so we get closer to the stage.
Dan Young is really interesting to watch on stage: he kind of squirms and twists like he has to go to the bathroom, but that's just my observation. Caleigh liked it, but I don't know what's wrong with her. They don't perform for very long at all, but pretty much divide their set with half of the songs from the new album and the other half from the one before. And overall, it was a really good time.
Afterward, we actually decide to brave it and meet Dan Young. He tells me he likes the coordination I have with my gold vest and the gold print on my "This ProviDANCE" shirt, and I politely tell him thanks you and that I was glad he noticed. We get pictures (Caleigh gets two because she didn't like the first one. Lame-o.), and my mom says something about having gone to sit next to him. He says something along the lines of how he liked that she was confident enough to do so. Strange. Very strange. He does tell her Happy Mother's Day, though, which is nice.
We meet David Blaise next after hesitating to approach him and take some pics. I "blink" in the first one, so I get another one. (I really didn't blink; I don't know what Nora's talking about.) "It's your birthday in 8 days, isn't it?" I say to him to start a conversation. "Yeah," he answers, "The big 21, but I still look really young." "My sister has the same problem," I tell him. "People always say she looks like she's 14, but she's really 20." Don't you hate that? he asks her, she agrees, and they go off on a quick conversation about their ages. There's another girl butting into our conversation (which is okay, because I actually like her, and I think she's nice), Kay, I think her name is, who also look like she's 12 because she's super short. She becomes part of the conversation, too.
David goes one to say how sometimes people take his youth ridiculously far. "Are you 10?" he quotes, and I make a comment about how yes, he's 10, he's tall, and he has a tattoo. "Yeah, my mom let me get this." He goes along with my joke, "I got it out of the 25 cent dispenser," which is the most hilarious part. He asks for our names, and we introduce ourselves. It's totally sweet, and I love him even more. He tells us to have a good night, and I go to hug him. He gives very sweet hugs. =)
We stop by to meet Gavin, and head outside to find Andy. He's talking to a few people and smoking (FAIL), so we wait around in a little group beside theirs, awkwardly, I might add. He looks over a few times, wondering what we want, but it isn't until he parts ways with them that we rush over to get pictures. One with my mom, of course because she loves him so much! She even gets a hug out of him! (That lucky bitch! XD) Dan Young ends up with us, too, and while we take turns getting a picture with Andy, Caleigh starts talking to him. About what, not even she knows, but she likes it. He tells Mom Happy Mother's Day again, and that's when it clicks in Andy's head, and he wishes her a happy day as well.
We leave soon after that and head home. Overall, it was a pretty successful night, and I know even my mom was glad that she made the effort to drive all the way down there. ;)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
fall out boy, 15.04.2009
LINE-UP: Hey Monday, Cobra Starship, Metro Station, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy @ the Fillmore
Once inside the venue, Nora and I do our best to shimmy our way as close to the front as we can, and eventually, we make it to about second/third row, theoretically, which is really impressive for only having to wait fifteen or so minutes for the show to start. Hey Monday, as usual, does an amazing performance. The day before they had performed Candles like they always do, but because they were playing the same city twice in a row, they decide to switch that song out for 6 Months! I start freaking out because I never expected to ever hear that song live because it's so soft and slow, but it doesn't even change the mood of the performance and Cassadee sings so beautifully! That song right there was worth going into the show a second time. Pete Wentz comes out on stage again during Homecoming, and Nora snaps some really sick shots of Cassadee throughout their set.
As the next band is setting up, Nora and I become all confused. The mother-fuckers changed the line-up on us! Instead of All Time Low playing second, like we had hoped so we could get out of the pit, Cobra Starship is playing next. I don't mind that part at all because Cobra is a whole ton of fun to see live, and I was actually forced to pay attention. During Snakes on a Plane, Cassadee comes out - a tad too late, but she makes it works even though Gabe's glare at Victoria during the first chorus pretty much screamed, 'Where the fuck is she?' - to sing with them. Cobra Starship, despite my initial protest and hate, is badass.
The worst part of the line-up change is the fact that in order to stay up front for All Time Low, we have to sit through Metro Station up close! Noooooooo! I don't know how we do it, but somehow, Nora and I manage to survive, even though this is the point where we almost made it to the second row. I try to distract myself as much as I can, avoiding Trace Cyrus as he takes his shirt of yet again, and before I'm driven to the brink of suicide, their set is over. THANK GOD.
All Time Low comes out and plays next. It's pretty much a repeat of the day before, but I still enjoy it. Nora and I decide that it's not going to be worth it to stay up front for Fall Out Boy and get pummeled by idiotic fans, so we leave after All Time Low and venture the back of the venue for awhile. Nora sees Cassadee with a security guard, but we don't stop because I hadn't even seen her come down the stairs, and we were afraid one or the other would have gotten yelled at. We should have just gone for it, though. Eventually we just go stand where we stood the day before to watch Fall Out Boy, who again, do amazing! After What A Catch, Donnie, Nora and I bolt it behind the stage and find Alex, but he's occupied with a few other fans. Security, surprisingly, is not kicking us out, but Alex ignores and eventually lingers toward the bar area where we're not allowed. We decide it's okay to not talk to him right then and there and head back to where we were standing originally. From there, we can see Alex, Jack, and Vicky T on the other side, drinking and watching Fall Out Boy. That keeps me occupied for a good while.
Right as Fall Out Boy's set comes to a close, Nora and I leave to the merch area, scan it for a few seconds, and head outside to the back where the buses are again after finding no one. Our mom is here to pick us up at this point, so she gets off the car to come meet All Time Low with us, who is already out by the wire. Just Rian, Zack, and Jack, though. We manage to find a crack in the crowd at the very end, which enables us to get a picture with Zack and Rian. Yay!
I don't know what comes over me, but I decide that we should get pictures with Jack just for the hell of it. A spot opens up perfectly for us, so we got for it and wait a little bit while he takes picture with other people until his attention is directed toward us. Nora asks if we could get a picture with him. He says yes, takes the camera from Nora's hands, (WTF?!?!? Nora and I totally freak out because that camera is everything to her XD.) and decides to take the picture for us. "It's more professional that way," Jack says. Again, WTF?! I step out of the picture because I want my own, but I ask for one afterward, so he takes Nora's camera again, and I don't know how he does, but he angles the picture perfectly and it turns out to be one of the most adorable pictures I have ever taken in my life. No joke. Really, WHAT THE FUCK?!
Alex comes out of the bus not too long afterward and stops for a few minutes to talk to a girl he knows loading her car. After that, he comes over to the crowd and yells something. He starts not too far from where we are and makes his way over to us in no time. He smiles, asks us how we are while complaining about how cold he is. Again, I am absolutely horrible at this, and I forget half of what was said. I do remember that some guy comes up behind us and hands a phone to Alex, telling him his biggest fan, Molly, is on the phone because she couldn't make it tonight because she was at another show. Biggest fan, my ass. After totally shit-talking him like she always does, Nora tells Alex that she's a writer, and when she writes a sentence, she always asks herself, "Could Alex Gaskarth have written this better?" "That's cool!" he laughs. "Whenever I write a lyric, I always ask myself, 'Could Jesus have written this better'? And the answer is 'no'." Meanwhile, I am completely ignored and practically shoved to the side, yay me. ='(
Alex tells Nora to email some of her stories to him and he'll grade them - red pen teacher marks! Okay, really? I think, I was a writer first. Thanks Nora, not everything is about you. My whole jealously rage gets worse: "Oh by the way," Nora says after we both get pictures, "I'm Nora." Alex shakes her hand, laughing, "I'm Alex." And of course, I'm offered no introduction, so on my own I decide to introduce myself, too. I get to shake his hand and all, but I can tell he doesn't care. His face was just, like, "Ohhhkay." Nora tells him we're going to be heading off - what I hadn't realized until now was that he completely shut out all the other fans to talk to us, err, Nora and no one else - so I say, "Could we pull off doing a hug?" STUPID ME. "I don't know if we can pull it off, but we'll do it," he says, hugging me, then Nora and my mom.
I don't mean to take things to heart so much or get so overly sensitive about stupid things, but I couldn't help but feel so ignored the entire time, even by my own sister. It was like she didn't even care that I'm pretty much in love with the asshole and didn't pay any mind to the fact that I was standing right there. I really never was involved any of the times we've met him. Story of my life.
Once inside the venue, Nora and I do our best to shimmy our way as close to the front as we can, and eventually, we make it to about second/third row, theoretically, which is really impressive for only having to wait fifteen or so minutes for the show to start. Hey Monday, as usual, does an amazing performance. The day before they had performed Candles like they always do, but because they were playing the same city twice in a row, they decide to switch that song out for 6 Months! I start freaking out because I never expected to ever hear that song live because it's so soft and slow, but it doesn't even change the mood of the performance and Cassadee sings so beautifully! That song right there was worth going into the show a second time. Pete Wentz comes out on stage again during Homecoming, and Nora snaps some really sick shots of Cassadee throughout their set.
As the next band is setting up, Nora and I become all confused. The mother-fuckers changed the line-up on us! Instead of All Time Low playing second, like we had hoped so we could get out of the pit, Cobra Starship is playing next. I don't mind that part at all because Cobra is a whole ton of fun to see live, and I was actually forced to pay attention. During Snakes on a Plane, Cassadee comes out - a tad too late, but she makes it works even though Gabe's glare at Victoria during the first chorus pretty much screamed, 'Where the fuck is she?' - to sing with them. Cobra Starship, despite my initial protest and hate, is badass.
The worst part of the line-up change is the fact that in order to stay up front for All Time Low, we have to sit through Metro Station up close! Noooooooo! I don't know how we do it, but somehow, Nora and I manage to survive, even though this is the point where we almost made it to the second row. I try to distract myself as much as I can, avoiding Trace Cyrus as he takes his shirt of yet again, and before I'm driven to the brink of suicide, their set is over. THANK GOD.
All Time Low comes out and plays next. It's pretty much a repeat of the day before, but I still enjoy it. Nora and I decide that it's not going to be worth it to stay up front for Fall Out Boy and get pummeled by idiotic fans, so we leave after All Time Low and venture the back of the venue for awhile. Nora sees Cassadee with a security guard, but we don't stop because I hadn't even seen her come down the stairs, and we were afraid one or the other would have gotten yelled at. We should have just gone for it, though. Eventually we just go stand where we stood the day before to watch Fall Out Boy, who again, do amazing! After What A Catch, Donnie, Nora and I bolt it behind the stage and find Alex, but he's occupied with a few other fans. Security, surprisingly, is not kicking us out, but Alex ignores and eventually lingers toward the bar area where we're not allowed. We decide it's okay to not talk to him right then and there and head back to where we were standing originally. From there, we can see Alex, Jack, and Vicky T on the other side, drinking and watching Fall Out Boy. That keeps me occupied for a good while.
Right as Fall Out Boy's set comes to a close, Nora and I leave to the merch area, scan it for a few seconds, and head outside to the back where the buses are again after finding no one. Our mom is here to pick us up at this point, so she gets off the car to come meet All Time Low with us, who is already out by the wire. Just Rian, Zack, and Jack, though. We manage to find a crack in the crowd at the very end, which enables us to get a picture with Zack and Rian. Yay!
I don't know what comes over me, but I decide that we should get pictures with Jack just for the hell of it. A spot opens up perfectly for us, so we got for it and wait a little bit while he takes picture with other people until his attention is directed toward us. Nora asks if we could get a picture with him. He says yes, takes the camera from Nora's hands, (WTF?!?!? Nora and I totally freak out because that camera is everything to her XD.) and decides to take the picture for us. "It's more professional that way," Jack says. Again, WTF?! I step out of the picture because I want my own, but I ask for one afterward, so he takes Nora's camera again, and I don't know how he does, but he angles the picture perfectly and it turns out to be one of the most adorable pictures I have ever taken in my life. No joke. Really, WHAT THE FUCK?!
Alex comes out of the bus not too long afterward and stops for a few minutes to talk to a girl he knows loading her car. After that, he comes over to the crowd and yells something. He starts not too far from where we are and makes his way over to us in no time. He smiles, asks us how we are while complaining about how cold he is. Again, I am absolutely horrible at this, and I forget half of what was said. I do remember that some guy comes up behind us and hands a phone to Alex, telling him his biggest fan, Molly, is on the phone because she couldn't make it tonight because she was at another show. Biggest fan, my ass. After totally shit-talking him like she always does, Nora tells Alex that she's a writer, and when she writes a sentence, she always asks herself, "Could Alex Gaskarth have written this better?" "That's cool!" he laughs. "Whenever I write a lyric, I always ask myself, 'Could Jesus have written this better'? And the answer is 'no'." Meanwhile, I am completely ignored and practically shoved to the side, yay me. ='(
Alex tells Nora to email some of her stories to him and he'll grade them - red pen teacher marks! Okay, really? I think, I was a writer first. Thanks Nora, not everything is about you. My whole jealously rage gets worse: "Oh by the way," Nora says after we both get pictures, "I'm Nora." Alex shakes her hand, laughing, "I'm Alex." And of course, I'm offered no introduction, so on my own I decide to introduce myself, too. I get to shake his hand and all, but I can tell he doesn't care. His face was just, like, "Ohhhkay." Nora tells him we're going to be heading off - what I hadn't realized until now was that he completely shut out all the other fans to talk to us, err, Nora and no one else - so I say, "Could we pull off doing a hug?" STUPID ME. "I don't know if we can pull it off, but we'll do it," he says, hugging me, then Nora and my mom.
I don't mean to take things to heart so much or get so overly sensitive about stupid things, but I couldn't help but feel so ignored the entire time, even by my own sister. It was like she didn't even care that I'm pretty much in love with the asshole and didn't pay any mind to the fact that I was standing right there. I really never was involved any of the times we've met him. Story of my life.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
all time low in-store, 15.04.2009
I'm pretty sure God loves us, ha ha, because out of all the states All Time Low could have done an in-store at, they miraculously are able to do one in Colorado at the Apple Store in the Park Meadows Mall. An exciting idea, but nonetheless intimidating.
We get to the Apple Store about two, three hours before the in-store is supposed to begin, but there was only three people waiting outside. It's weird. So my little brother and I venture off into the mall to go "exploring" while Mom and Nora wait behind. We come back, and Nora and I take off to the Forever 21 there. While we're there, Daniel informs us that All Time Low is physically inside the store, but there still aren't many people, so we're still safe. We head to the Hot Topic across the ways next, and as I'm trying on a shoe - one. single. shoe. - my little brother sends us another text telling us that all four members of All Time Low left right through the entrance of the Apple Store in front of all the people and are heading in the direction we are. We bolt it out of the Hot Topic as fast as we can. It's quite a hilarious sight, I imagine, to see me throw the shoe I was trying on off and struggle to put my boot back on. This is all done while trying to book it out of the store, mind you.
Nora suggests we head up to the food court; where else would they be, right? Yeah, bingo. We head to the left side and spot them on the right at Chik-Fil-A, Alex in his beanie and sunglasses, everyone else in plain view. Great disguise, huh? We're unsure of what to do at this point. We feel like being stupid and going over there to buy an ice cream, but realize that's too obvious. After a few minutes of deliberation, we decide to leave them and go to Urban Outfitters while we wait for them to finish eating. Yeah, yeah, it totally sounds creepy, I know, but we were all freaking out at the same time because we just thought it was soooo funny. Don't ask us why.
We spend adequate time at Urban, and as we head back upstairs to the food court, I spy Jack, Rian, and Zack in the Sunglass Hut, but no Alex. They couldn't have left him alone, so we head back to the food court, and he's still there with Matt Flyzik. We decide to take the idiotic plunge and buy an ice cream at Chik-Fil-A (stupid, stupid!) Just as we're walking up there, so does Alex to get a refill (I don't know how I actually remember all of this), and I can't keep the cheesy grin off my face, so I imagine we looked absolutely stupid! We really weren't trying that hard... that just sort of happens. We stand awkwardly in line, and we know that Alex sees Nora, but he can't say anything, of course, and he heads off right after. A girl says, "I love you, Alex!" and I feel really bad for himself. Really, I feel bad for myself for being such a moron.
We actually DO get the ice cream and run back down to get back to the Apple Store. Conveniently as we're running down and obnoxiously out of the way set of stairs we make it to the first floor just as Alex is passing by. We end up walking behind him and the same girls who said they loved him before, laughing and feeling awkward yet again. The girls are telling Alex to tell the people they got there first, so he does, absent-mindedly, and I get pissed. The three kids from the beginning had been there since 9 in the morning! Outside, there are a ton of people now, so we squeeze in with my mom and brother. No worker has told them to form a line, which is absolutely dumb because we're all crowded around awkwardly. Eventually they push us along the side of the door, but it's still so ridiculously unorganized. The three kids from the beginning DO end up getting in first, thankfully, and we bolt in right behind them despite the mob of girls in front of us. We get to the front little barricade thing beside them on "Alex's side of the stage", in theory. We're so incredibly thankful we were actually able to make it in correctly. Whew!
Alex comes out with his Chik-Fil-A cup and Zack with an acoustic guitar. Rian and Jack aren't performing with them, but instead sit behind them on two stools, which is nice that they had everyone show up to do the signing. At one point, Alex spills his drink, and it's quite funny. Don't know how that was relevant at all. Anyhow... Alex is such an amazing singer! Each time I hear him sing, he gets better and better and every time I am more and more impressed. They perform Six Feet Under the Stars, Jasey Rae (go figure), Weightless (which everyone screwed up, except for me, fuckers), and Dear, Maria. We snap some pretty decent shots, and I feel strange when Alex watches Nora sing along. Heh.
Afterward, they form us into a line so we can "meet" them, and we even get a free poster to get signed, yay! Nora goes first, then Daniel; me, and lastly my mother. Zack is first at the little counter-type thing. Nora tells him she likes his sweater vest-type thing, which is exactly what I was going to tell him! "She stole my line!" I say to my mom, but she doesn't really understand why I just said that. (She's pretty absent-minded, but I love her.) Then it's Alex, and he starts talking to Nora, asking her how she is. She tells him that she really doesn't hate him, at least not all of the time anyway. "I've come to terms with it," Alex tells her, WTF?! I scurry on by to get my poster signed by him, too, but he really doesn't pay much mind to me. Yeah, okay.
Here comes the embarrassing part (for me anyways): Because I am feeling oh so kind today, I decide to tell Jack - even though I hate him - that I like the plaid that he is wearing, God only knows why. He doesn't hear me, so he leans in closer to me to have me repeat it. Then he goes, "Oh, is that a Camp Rock necklace?" "Yes," I answer. "I have a um..." He fumbles for a second. "Camp Rock bed sheet." I can feel my face heating up already, but some God forsaken reason I blurt out, "Me, too!" But I take my poster (Rian had already signed it, and I felt bad for not being able to pay attention to him) and take off toward my sister. I almost got my Camp Rock coin purse signed by them if they didn't have poster, but thank God I didn't! My face is beet red, and I am legit crying because I have never been so embarrassed in my life. Something weird had happened between me and Jack the last time All Time Low played (it really wasn't that weird, but I'm kind of traumatized), and I had pretty much walked into something I was always trying to avoid; therefore I now think Jack thinks that I have a crush on him. Great.
My mom gets finished about a second later, and she asks what's going on with me and what I had said to Jack because while I was talking to him, she told me that my face was turning completely red. EVEN BETTER. I am so ashamed of myself.
My mom later tells us that Alex asked her if we were going to the show again that night, and she told him that Nora and I were, implying that he wanted us there. Nora, I should say, but whatever.
We wait around in the Apple Store for everyone else to get through the signing, but All Time Low doesn't have time to take pictures with everyone like they thought they would, so they take off, and we do too shortly thereafter and head back down to the Fillmore for yet another late night adventure. Weeee!
We get to the Apple Store about two, three hours before the in-store is supposed to begin, but there was only three people waiting outside. It's weird. So my little brother and I venture off into the mall to go "exploring" while Mom and Nora wait behind. We come back, and Nora and I take off to the Forever 21 there. While we're there, Daniel informs us that All Time Low is physically inside the store, but there still aren't many people, so we're still safe. We head to the Hot Topic across the ways next, and as I'm trying on a shoe - one. single. shoe. - my little brother sends us another text telling us that all four members of All Time Low left right through the entrance of the Apple Store in front of all the people and are heading in the direction we are. We bolt it out of the Hot Topic as fast as we can. It's quite a hilarious sight, I imagine, to see me throw the shoe I was trying on off and struggle to put my boot back on. This is all done while trying to book it out of the store, mind you.
Nora suggests we head up to the food court; where else would they be, right? Yeah, bingo. We head to the left side and spot them on the right at Chik-Fil-A, Alex in his beanie and sunglasses, everyone else in plain view. Great disguise, huh? We're unsure of what to do at this point. We feel like being stupid and going over there to buy an ice cream, but realize that's too obvious. After a few minutes of deliberation, we decide to leave them and go to Urban Outfitters while we wait for them to finish eating. Yeah, yeah, it totally sounds creepy, I know, but we were all freaking out at the same time because we just thought it was soooo funny. Don't ask us why.
We spend adequate time at Urban, and as we head back upstairs to the food court, I spy Jack, Rian, and Zack in the Sunglass Hut, but no Alex. They couldn't have left him alone, so we head back to the food court, and he's still there with Matt Flyzik. We decide to take the idiotic plunge and buy an ice cream at Chik-Fil-A (stupid, stupid!) Just as we're walking up there, so does Alex to get a refill (I don't know how I actually remember all of this), and I can't keep the cheesy grin off my face, so I imagine we looked absolutely stupid! We really weren't trying that hard... that just sort of happens. We stand awkwardly in line, and we know that Alex sees Nora, but he can't say anything, of course, and he heads off right after. A girl says, "I love you, Alex!" and I feel really bad for himself. Really, I feel bad for myself for being such a moron.
We actually DO get the ice cream and run back down to get back to the Apple Store. Conveniently as we're running down and obnoxiously out of the way set of stairs we make it to the first floor just as Alex is passing by. We end up walking behind him and the same girls who said they loved him before, laughing and feeling awkward yet again. The girls are telling Alex to tell the people they got there first, so he does, absent-mindedly, and I get pissed. The three kids from the beginning had been there since 9 in the morning! Outside, there are a ton of people now, so we squeeze in with my mom and brother. No worker has told them to form a line, which is absolutely dumb because we're all crowded around awkwardly. Eventually they push us along the side of the door, but it's still so ridiculously unorganized. The three kids from the beginning DO end up getting in first, thankfully, and we bolt in right behind them despite the mob of girls in front of us. We get to the front little barricade thing beside them on "Alex's side of the stage", in theory. We're so incredibly thankful we were actually able to make it in correctly. Whew!
Alex comes out with his Chik-Fil-A cup and Zack with an acoustic guitar. Rian and Jack aren't performing with them, but instead sit behind them on two stools, which is nice that they had everyone show up to do the signing. At one point, Alex spills his drink, and it's quite funny. Don't know how that was relevant at all. Anyhow... Alex is such an amazing singer! Each time I hear him sing, he gets better and better and every time I am more and more impressed. They perform Six Feet Under the Stars, Jasey Rae (go figure), Weightless (which everyone screwed up, except for me, fuckers), and Dear, Maria. We snap some pretty decent shots, and I feel strange when Alex watches Nora sing along. Heh.
Afterward, they form us into a line so we can "meet" them, and we even get a free poster to get signed, yay! Nora goes first, then Daniel; me, and lastly my mother. Zack is first at the little counter-type thing. Nora tells him she likes his sweater vest-type thing, which is exactly what I was going to tell him! "She stole my line!" I say to my mom, but she doesn't really understand why I just said that. (She's pretty absent-minded, but I love her.) Then it's Alex, and he starts talking to Nora, asking her how she is. She tells him that she really doesn't hate him, at least not all of the time anyway. "I've come to terms with it," Alex tells her, WTF?! I scurry on by to get my poster signed by him, too, but he really doesn't pay much mind to me. Yeah, okay.
Here comes the embarrassing part (for me anyways): Because I am feeling oh so kind today, I decide to tell Jack - even though I hate him - that I like the plaid that he is wearing, God only knows why. He doesn't hear me, so he leans in closer to me to have me repeat it. Then he goes, "Oh, is that a Camp Rock necklace?" "Yes," I answer. "I have a um..." He fumbles for a second. "Camp Rock bed sheet." I can feel my face heating up already, but some God forsaken reason I blurt out, "Me, too!" But I take my poster (Rian had already signed it, and I felt bad for not being able to pay attention to him) and take off toward my sister. I almost got my Camp Rock coin purse signed by them if they didn't have poster, but thank God I didn't! My face is beet red, and I am legit crying because I have never been so embarrassed in my life. Something weird had happened between me and Jack the last time All Time Low played (it really wasn't that weird, but I'm kind of traumatized), and I had pretty much walked into something I was always trying to avoid; therefore I now think Jack thinks that I have a crush on him. Great.
My mom gets finished about a second later, and she asks what's going on with me and what I had said to Jack because while I was talking to him, she told me that my face was turning completely red. EVEN BETTER. I am so ashamed of myself.
My mom later tells us that Alex asked her if we were going to the show again that night, and she told him that Nora and I were, implying that he wanted us there. Nora, I should say, but whatever.
We wait around in the Apple Store for everyone else to get through the signing, but All Time Low doesn't have time to take pictures with everyone like they thought they would, so they take off, and we do too shortly thereafter and head back down to the Fillmore for yet another late night adventure. Weeee!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
fall out boy, 14.04.2008
LINE-UP: Hey Monday, All Time Low, Cobra Starship, Metro Station, Fall Out Boy
VENUE: Fillmore Auditorium
I hated how we had to choose between this show and the Devil Wears Prada. TDWP are SO incredible to see live; neither my sister nor I wanted to give up the opportunity to go see them, but alas, Fall Out Boy is one of Nora's ultimate favorite bands and we chose to see them instead, which was absolutely fine with me, despite the show being at my least favorite venue. At least it wasn't in an arena, so we seized the opportunity.
Like crazy-ass fanatics, but not the maximum extreme, we get down to the venue at about 7 in the morning, whip out our sleeping materials and lie down on the pavement behind only five or so people (which DO multiply by the end) to sleep and wait and wait and wait. Way later into the day, as I'm laying on the pavement, I glance up to see a guy on a scooter with a Glamour Kills shirt. I find this funny and decide to check him out, then I see a girl behind him. IT'S HEY MONDAY. (FYI, I love Cassadee, and she's my theoretical girlfriend... but I don't swing that way.) I freak out a little bit on the inside as I watch them ride away on scooters. How darling.
The ten hours of waiting actually go by pretty fast. Despite all the early-entry assholes and line-cutters, Nora and I make it about second row, in theory inside the venue. I start to feel really, REALLY sick and don't know if I can make it through the hour wait. I want to so badly, but I feel so ridiculously ill that ten minutes before Hey Monday comes out, I have to bolt to the bathroom and forfeit my spot. I am so, SO sad about this but feel a whole lot better afterward and venture back into the crowd. I make it about "fifth row" and I can see really, really well. Cassadee can't see me, but that's okay. They open with Run, Don't Walk (badass, I tell you, badass!) and only play a few songs, but my girlfriend looks damn good and sings SO well! Pete Wentz even comes on stage to sing with them and people go crazy! I even go crazy!
All Time Low comes on next, and they of course, perform they're typical-ass songs, but despite this, they perform well. They always do. They keep the inappropriate comments to a minimum (probably because Alex knew Nora was there!), which is actually quite nice. After their set, I leave, and meet up with Nora at the merch area, miraculously. We wander around for a little while, looking for someone to meet, but we find no one. Instead, we find the Summer Set standing around in the middle of the pit. A day off, we figured, and decide to venture near them when Jess is alone. She says hi to us and confirms that we were at their show the night before. We reintroduce ourselves, and she tells us that they had gotten in free, but didn't get to see Hey Monday or All Time Low, even though she wanted to because they had just arrived. Sad day. We part ways, saying we'll see her next time.
Even though Gabe Saporta can't shut his mouth, Cobra Starship is still a really fun band to see live. I like his morals and speeches; they move me, and they're good for a dance. Gabe starts talking shit about Cassadee and how she had agreed to sing Snake on a Plane with them until Fall Out Boy asked her to sing a song with them. "Fuck you, Gabe!" he quotes. He then says that they asked Alex Gaskarth the same thing. He, too, agreed, until Fall Out Boy snatched him up, too. "Fuck you, Gabe!" he says again, "But you know what? That's okay because WE DON'T GIVE A SHIT." I find this hilarious, but in the middle of Snakes on a Plane, Alex runs on stage out of nowhere to sing William Beckett's part. "I heard you talking shit about me from downstairs," Alex tells Gabe. It's all quite a sight to see.
Both Nora and I are dreading the moment Metro Station comes on stage. And I really don't give a rat's ass if you say you like them, because THEY SUCK. They're horrible. There's nothing good about them. Sometimes, yes, they have decent beats, but those needs dudes who actually know how to sing if they want to turn it into a good song. They're SO nasty. At one point, Trace Cyrus takes his shirt off "because it's so hot", girls scream, and I almost throw up on myself. I kid you not. He is the epitome of disgusting, but luckily, their set is over soon before I go through with suicide. Thank God.
We go and stand with my mom a level up on the side of the stage to watch Fall Out Boy. It may not be in the pit, but it provides a really good view. And let me tell you, I don't really go out of my way to listen to Fall Out Boy, but seeing them live is always so amazing! Plus it doesn't hurt that I can see Cassadee sitting on the side of the stage watching and waiting for her turn to come out. They start with an introduction projected on the screen and come out in business attire and wigs. A little later on, they do another segue way video and change into another set of unified outfits. In total, I believe they play about an hour and a half, almost. They perform some songs from Take This To Your Grave (definitely Saturday and Grand Theft Autumn) and my favourite song from the news record: Headfirst Slide in Cooperstown. I was so thrilled when they played it; Alex came out during Grand Theft Autumn, and after, when they perform What A Catch, Donnie (which was really awesome, especially when Gabe came out to sing and the other members who sing in the song were projected on a screen; that was pretty BA), Alex leaves the stage, and I try to hunt him down from the back, but I don't find him. Not a big deal.
I head back to my mother and sister and continue to watch Fall Out Boy. They really are amazing performers; even that silly little Pete Wentz that drives me crazy sometimes (in a negative manner). Cassadee also comes out and performs a song with them towards the end... but I don't remember what it was. I have the worst memory ever! After Fall Out Boy's spectacular performance, we head back to the merch and spot Gabe Saporta off to the side being hounded by girls who have no idea who the hell he is! Fun! I decide that I want a picture with him just for memory's sake, so after a good while of waiting we get our pics. We also see Alex Suarez from Cobra, but we don't talk to him and instead head outside to the back where all the buses are.
We find Alex Suarez again and a shitload of people against the wire barricade waiting for someone "famous" to come that they could hound. Alex has a badass necklace of a Pokeball around his next, so I decide to get a picture with him at this time (my pictures with him always turn out so cute!) and ask him, "Where do you get necklaces like that?" He tells me that a fan had just given it to him. It was such a cool necklace; I couldn't even tell you. At that same moment, Alex Gaskarth hops off his tour bus and people freak out, so we freak out, too and head against the mob of people to get our turn. We hadn't realized it until then, but Rian, Jack, and Zack had all been out there meeting people already, and we missed out opportunity. Oh well.
Instead we have to focus on getting our time with Alex. We trace him back and forth behind the line of people, trying to find an empty space against the wire too jump in and talk to him. Eventually we make our way through, and after girls hound him for a good while, he turns in our direction, comes over - ignoring everyone else, mind you - and says hey... to Nora, mostly, but I'm trying to get over that. Way to remind myself. And I'm such a douchebag because I can't remember any of the conversation! =( I do remember that he was talking to Nora for a good while (maybe I'm just trying to block it), and I just stood there, only half listening. Randomly, Alex says to Nora, "I love you," all sincerely, which takes us both aback a little bit, but of course, she replies with, "I hate you." "Why?" He basically whimpers, but laughing, he adds, "I didn't do anything."
I know my mom joined in, he asked her how she was. I was standing there awkwardly, but Alex realized that I was with my sister, so he smiles, does a polite little wave, and says hi. We do all get pictures, but I really wish I remember more of what we talked about. =/ I know he gives Nora a farewell hug, then proceeds to hug my mother and I. He asks us if we're coming tomorrow, but we say that we don't know, but we'd definitely be going to the in-store at the Park Meadows Mall. He's glad we'll be going and says he doesn't know how many people are actually going to be there so they could hang out, but it'll be a good time. =) Content, we leave a little bit after, just as Trace Cyrus is walking off his bus (good timing) and head home.
That was basically the majority of the night. I didn't get to meet Cassadee, but it was okay because Alex knows who my sister is. Heh.
VENUE: Fillmore Auditorium
I hated how we had to choose between this show and the Devil Wears Prada. TDWP are SO incredible to see live; neither my sister nor I wanted to give up the opportunity to go see them, but alas, Fall Out Boy is one of Nora's ultimate favorite bands and we chose to see them instead, which was absolutely fine with me, despite the show being at my least favorite venue. At least it wasn't in an arena, so we seized the opportunity.
Like crazy-ass fanatics, but not the maximum extreme, we get down to the venue at about 7 in the morning, whip out our sleeping materials and lie down on the pavement behind only five or so people (which DO multiply by the end) to sleep and wait and wait and wait. Way later into the day, as I'm laying on the pavement, I glance up to see a guy on a scooter with a Glamour Kills shirt. I find this funny and decide to check him out, then I see a girl behind him. IT'S HEY MONDAY. (FYI, I love Cassadee, and she's my theoretical girlfriend... but I don't swing that way.) I freak out a little bit on the inside as I watch them ride away on scooters. How darling.
The ten hours of waiting actually go by pretty fast. Despite all the early-entry assholes and line-cutters, Nora and I make it about second row, in theory inside the venue. I start to feel really, REALLY sick and don't know if I can make it through the hour wait. I want to so badly, but I feel so ridiculously ill that ten minutes before Hey Monday comes out, I have to bolt to the bathroom and forfeit my spot. I am so, SO sad about this but feel a whole lot better afterward and venture back into the crowd. I make it about "fifth row" and I can see really, really well. Cassadee can't see me, but that's okay. They open with Run, Don't Walk (badass, I tell you, badass!) and only play a few songs, but my girlfriend looks damn good and sings SO well! Pete Wentz even comes on stage to sing with them and people go crazy! I even go crazy!
All Time Low comes on next, and they of course, perform they're typical-ass songs, but despite this, they perform well. They always do. They keep the inappropriate comments to a minimum (probably because Alex knew Nora was there!), which is actually quite nice. After their set, I leave, and meet up with Nora at the merch area, miraculously. We wander around for a little while, looking for someone to meet, but we find no one. Instead, we find the Summer Set standing around in the middle of the pit. A day off, we figured, and decide to venture near them when Jess is alone. She says hi to us and confirms that we were at their show the night before. We reintroduce ourselves, and she tells us that they had gotten in free, but didn't get to see Hey Monday or All Time Low, even though she wanted to because they had just arrived. Sad day. We part ways, saying we'll see her next time.
Even though Gabe Saporta can't shut his mouth, Cobra Starship is still a really fun band to see live. I like his morals and speeches; they move me, and they're good for a dance. Gabe starts talking shit about Cassadee and how she had agreed to sing Snake on a Plane with them until Fall Out Boy asked her to sing a song with them. "Fuck you, Gabe!" he quotes. He then says that they asked Alex Gaskarth the same thing. He, too, agreed, until Fall Out Boy snatched him up, too. "Fuck you, Gabe!" he says again, "But you know what? That's okay because WE DON'T GIVE A SHIT." I find this hilarious, but in the middle of Snakes on a Plane, Alex runs on stage out of nowhere to sing William Beckett's part. "I heard you talking shit about me from downstairs," Alex tells Gabe. It's all quite a sight to see.
Both Nora and I are dreading the moment Metro Station comes on stage. And I really don't give a rat's ass if you say you like them, because THEY SUCK. They're horrible. There's nothing good about them. Sometimes, yes, they have decent beats, but those needs dudes who actually know how to sing if they want to turn it into a good song. They're SO nasty. At one point, Trace Cyrus takes his shirt off "because it's so hot", girls scream, and I almost throw up on myself. I kid you not. He is the epitome of disgusting, but luckily, their set is over soon before I go through with suicide. Thank God.
We go and stand with my mom a level up on the side of the stage to watch Fall Out Boy. It may not be in the pit, but it provides a really good view. And let me tell you, I don't really go out of my way to listen to Fall Out Boy, but seeing them live is always so amazing! Plus it doesn't hurt that I can see Cassadee sitting on the side of the stage watching and waiting for her turn to come out. They start with an introduction projected on the screen and come out in business attire and wigs. A little later on, they do another segue way video and change into another set of unified outfits. In total, I believe they play about an hour and a half, almost. They perform some songs from Take This To Your Grave (definitely Saturday and Grand Theft Autumn) and my favourite song from the news record: Headfirst Slide in Cooperstown. I was so thrilled when they played it; Alex came out during Grand Theft Autumn, and after, when they perform What A Catch, Donnie (which was really awesome, especially when Gabe came out to sing and the other members who sing in the song were projected on a screen; that was pretty BA), Alex leaves the stage, and I try to hunt him down from the back, but I don't find him. Not a big deal.
I head back to my mother and sister and continue to watch Fall Out Boy. They really are amazing performers; even that silly little Pete Wentz that drives me crazy sometimes (in a negative manner). Cassadee also comes out and performs a song with them towards the end... but I don't remember what it was. I have the worst memory ever! After Fall Out Boy's spectacular performance, we head back to the merch and spot Gabe Saporta off to the side being hounded by girls who have no idea who the hell he is! Fun! I decide that I want a picture with him just for memory's sake, so after a good while of waiting we get our pics. We also see Alex Suarez from Cobra, but we don't talk to him and instead head outside to the back where all the buses are.
We find Alex Suarez again and a shitload of people against the wire barricade waiting for someone "famous" to come that they could hound. Alex has a badass necklace of a Pokeball around his next, so I decide to get a picture with him at this time (my pictures with him always turn out so cute!) and ask him, "Where do you get necklaces like that?" He tells me that a fan had just given it to him. It was such a cool necklace; I couldn't even tell you. At that same moment, Alex Gaskarth hops off his tour bus and people freak out, so we freak out, too and head against the mob of people to get our turn. We hadn't realized it until then, but Rian, Jack, and Zack had all been out there meeting people already, and we missed out opportunity. Oh well.
Instead we have to focus on getting our time with Alex. We trace him back and forth behind the line of people, trying to find an empty space against the wire too jump in and talk to him. Eventually we make our way through, and after girls hound him for a good while, he turns in our direction, comes over - ignoring everyone else, mind you - and says hey... to Nora, mostly, but I'm trying to get over that. Way to remind myself. And I'm such a douchebag because I can't remember any of the conversation! =( I do remember that he was talking to Nora for a good while (maybe I'm just trying to block it), and I just stood there, only half listening. Randomly, Alex says to Nora, "I love you," all sincerely, which takes us both aback a little bit, but of course, she replies with, "I hate you." "Why?" He basically whimpers, but laughing, he adds, "I didn't do anything."
I know my mom joined in, he asked her how she was. I was standing there awkwardly, but Alex realized that I was with my sister, so he smiles, does a polite little wave, and says hi. We do all get pictures, but I really wish I remember more of what we talked about. =/ I know he gives Nora a farewell hug, then proceeds to hug my mother and I. He asks us if we're coming tomorrow, but we say that we don't know, but we'd definitely be going to the in-store at the Park Meadows Mall. He's glad we'll be going and says he doesn't know how many people are actually going to be there so they could hang out, but it'll be a good time. =) Content, we leave a little bit after, just as Trace Cyrus is walking off his bus (good timing) and head home.
That was basically the majority of the night. I didn't get to meet Cassadee, but it was okay because Alex knows who my sister is. Heh.
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