Concert Blog

I got a lot of blogging to catch up on but blogging about concert weekend comes first. I will hopefully be able to tie up all the loose ends I left from last week later this week.

I think last night I had a dream where everyone I cared about and everything that meant something to me betrayed me and left me. So it was more of a nightmare. I only remember some of it, but it doesn't matter because I am going to write about the concerts now.

Concert Weekend!
I didn't have any school Thursday or Friday because of the snow storm. So Friday started out when we went to go pick Dean up. Then we went to the thrift store, then to Cub Foods and lastly to Blockbuster to rent Advent Children so the rest of the guys could watch it. When we got home we watched Final Fantasy: Advent Children. (I will no longer be using the shift button on this keyboard cause it sucks and my fingers hurt from having to push it so fucking hard). then we put in melee and turned on some concert tunes. i was really clicking in melee and i think advent children really motivated me to play differently, but i'm not going to get into that since this is the concert blog. sat started with a little church. then i got home and we went for a quick mcd's run. jon couldn't make it to the anberlin show because he had hockey plans so we tried to get someone to take his but failed. we get to st.paul probably 30 minutes before the door opens so we sat in the car for a little while. maybe with 10 minutes left we jump in line. we get stuck at the back of the line next to this garage with crazy graffiti written in it. "god is dead" was one thing written i believe. everyone is freezing their asses off out in the cold and 10 minutes seems like forever. mitch beings to turn into this weird purple color. the line starts moving up and when we get to the door there is a note on the door that says that meg and dia and jonezetta will not be playing tonight because they couldnt get here cause of the snow. which sucked hard because i was looking forward to seeing those two acts the most. get a tour bus losers! so we get in an check the place out since non of us had been to station4 before. its pretty much a little shit hole. its just a bar with an unfinished basement attached to it. we claim our little area center stage and 10 comfortable rows back. we sit there for an hour and a half with no action. a little over that mark the sound check beings. it was very frustrating. just because two acts are missing doesn't mean that you guys cant start early and sound check. bayside was now the opener. they had a very good set. i cant really listen to their music but they were really good live. thats how it is for most bands i cant listen to. i cant listen to their record but i enjoy live shows. bayside played a longer set to make up for meg&dia and jonezetta. they played a couple of really neat acoustic songs. sound check for anberlin begins shortly after bayside leaves. during the intermission i talked to the people around and ran into a maple grove citizen that i had met before. anberlin had really cool lighting and put on an amazing show. stephen has an amazing live voice and their guitars sound really good live. anberlin also played a longer set because of the absentees. they played a radiohead cover and played some acoustic tunes of their own. i was mostly just blown away by stephens voice and i had a lot more to write about anberlin but i totally forgot everything after sundays show. it was a nice little warm up concert.

sunday was the big day. it started out with a little old country buffet around 1-ish. then we went back home and listened to concert tunes while spanking out some more melee. i watched the last battle in advent children to inspire myself again and it worked. 5 o'clock rolls around and we dip out to what looked to be the greatest show ever. we get to the myth pretty easily since nick and peter knew where it was. we slip into the middle if the long line that snaked through the parking lot. everyone gave us these weird looks because we all wore our geek squad shirts. the line moved very very slowly. we get padded down and our tickets scanned and walked into the myth. right away i was amazed at how nice it was. we all had to piss so we looked for the bathroom which was also very fucking nice. after we got all that jazz done we went on to the floor which is very nice and claimed our spots. i could feel the bubble guts starting to jump in my tummy. just seemed like armor for sleep could jump on the stage at any moment. the pre-rush started a little early so we cramped for an unnecessary 10 minutes or so. we lost peter in the pre-rush and i didn't see him for the rest of the show. armor for sleep made their entrance and an explosion of relief blew up within me. they just kept cranking out amazing tune after amazing tune. i couldn't stop from jumping around and singing at the top of my lungs. i never know how it happens, but somehow jon and i always push our way to the front. i dont even remember who was with my for armor for sleep, i just know i was with jon the whole concert. the crowd surfing began and the circle pits opened up and the crowd began to sway from left to right. the people around us were really friendly and that makes the concert 100% more enjoyable. i think i fell once or twice during armor. falling down at shows is a big fear of mine after my chemical romance at warped tour a few years ago. armor ended with "the end of a fraud." it was such an amazing set and the best opener ever. i tried to pace my self but it was armor and i couldn't hold back. i didnt feel that drained though which was good since underoath was next. usually in between bands the crowd settles and there is room to breath, but for some reason the crowd remained cramped between armor and oath. it was okay cause the people around me were awesome. for some reason at shows i just talk to everyone around and can bond with them quickly. it doesn't matter who it is. i wish i could do this everywhere and not just shows. (this African girl just sat next to me and she fucking stinks! like cheese!) i met this incredibly beautiful girl between armor and oath. i asked her if she was okay since she was smaller and then things just clicked after. she was amazingly nice and good looking. she said she was alright but that her tits her from being smashed in between guys, and then made a joke about how she doesn't understand how they hurt so bad because they are small. that makes me sound like a fucking creep, but hey she said it. and it was a funny comment but i didn't know how to react to it. if i find it to amusing, i come as a freak and if i don't show any interest i might be offensive or dull. i just gave her a giggle. it did make me happy that she told me that though because it kind of showed that was comfortable enough around me to make jokes about herself like that. we just kept on talking for a little while then underoath had to ruin it haha. but i was soooo ready for underoath to play. i wanted to ask her for her myspace (haha, how romantic, how baller of me, myspace, *embarrassing*) but underoath came out with so much energy. i was going to ask her in between songs but she disappeared into the crowd. fucking shame. so if random chick to my left between sets comes across this blog...uhh...ya, friend me. but back to underoath. i just don't even know how to describe them. i have trouble describing any of my concerts because its all feeling and there is so much going on, but its impossible to explain underoath. after sunday, they have to be my favorite band. i'm not even going to attepmt to explain it cause it would just fail and let them down. but i do want to touch on one thing that happened to me during oath. it was the most supernatural experience i ever felt. i lost control over my whole body during one of their slower, deeper, darker breakdowns. it was sooooooooooooo fucking weird. i've never felt anything like it before. my body got so tense, but i felt so comfortable. my body started to twitch by itself and i couldn't control it. i started crying and i couldn't even choke back any tears. my eyes locked on spencer and aaron. i couldnt even sing alone. it felt like and probably looked like i was about to morph into a werewolf. i felt so empty but fulfilled at the same time. i felt like i was dying but never felt so alive. it is probably something i will never feel again. the craziest thing is i didn't hear or feel the people around me. i am in a crowded venue with crazy rock fans jumping around and i didn't feel a single body. I couldnt hear anything except for oaths music. everything turned to black except the stage and jon standing in front of me. i couldn't move and I wonder if people were running into me just bouncing off of me. my feet were a part of the ground. maybe i watch to much sci-fi or something, but i know what i felt and it is something i could never begin to explain. i never really believed in meditation, spirits, ghosts, ying and yang, and stuff like that, but after this, i may do some research. i really touched me in a way i've never been touched before. it changed my life. i need to understand my body more, because what if this is something we all have inside of his but we don't know how to tap into it? i sound like a mad man and i would never believe in something like this if it didn't happen to me. i just wish i could explain it so i can talk it over with people. but even if i could, who would believe me? maybe there is a book out there that knows what i'm talking about. i have to find out what happened to me.

i'll finish up on oath and do taking back sunday next time i blog. korean class now...yay...