Wednesday, November 16, 2005

 

So I guess I'll finally update about the show on Sunday. Mike and AJ didn't get to my place until like 1:30am on Saturday because someone broke into Mike's car during the Omaha show and took his Ipod and his stereo and ripped apart his dash so they had to stay in Omaha and fill out a police report and they were too tired to drive so they got a hotel room in Iowa and didn't leave until 6pm on Saturday. Kinda sucks that we couldn't really hang out. We stayed up until 5:30 talking and Mike and I tried to watch "Kinsey" but I started falling asleep so we turned it off and went to bed. Set my alarm for noon but I woke up a little bit before noon and had to make Mike wake up. Laid in bed and watched "Spies Like Us" for a long time until any of them decided to actually get up and start showering. We didn't leave until around 2 and went to Del Taco and got some food and then went to the Pageant. We walked around to the buses and saw Brendon in the van so we hung out back there and talked to him some. Went to the gas station down the street to get back the 20 dollars that I loaned Mike at Del Taco out of his debit account and ran into Adam and Deidre and company. Talked with them and walked back to the Pageant with them. Hung around in the back some more and two guys came up and were asking us were we got our Del Taco from and if we knew of a pharmacy nearby and since I'm the only one that's from here I told them how to get to both places and I didn't realize they didn't have a car so a while later they came back and found me and asked me if I could drive them so I did. Turns out they're friends of Andy's who got on the tour in Kansas City and in Minneapolis I think. They get off today in Milwaukee. They're basically just hanging out with Andy and whatnot. They're really nice guys. Got back to the venue and we walked back and I went and sat with Deidre and Adam and Dan told me he'd come over after he stopped by the tattoo shop. Dan came back and I went to willcall with him in case he had any trouble getting his ticket and I needed to call Dan. We were confused as to when willcall would actually open because there's a sign that says if there's a show on Sunday it'll open at 4 and then it says willcall opens an hour prior to the show. Well it was like 4:30 and it wasn't open so we were thinking maybe it would open at 5 since tickets were sold out they wouldn't need to be open at 4? So we were waiting around and all these people start coming up asking us if the door's locked. No, we enjoy standing out here. If the door was unlocked don't you think we'd be inside?! There was this one 14 year old in particular who was just running his mouth and being obnoxious and I told him to shut up a couple times but I don't think he got it. At 5 willcall opened and we got in and Dan got his ticket in what's been the easiest FOB willcall transaction I've seen in the past year. hahahaha What I don't understand is how he randomly got a photopass as well. He didn't tell Pete he wanted one and.....yea. I don't get it. I don't get why the Pageant had their own passes either. We went and waited in the Halo Bar to get in early since we're both over 21 (even though the dumbass security guard outside told us they wouldn't be doing the Halo Bar entrance?). They let us in 10 mins earlier than everyone else so we got spots right up front on the barricade. It was really nice to finally see the NFT in it's entirety for once. hahaha Panic! came on and everyone went nuts. I danced and I was surprised at how many kids were singing along. What's up with them not playing "Camisado" though? Boys Night Out came on next and no one was into them and I was really sad :( Conor kept coming over to my side and looking at me because I was singing along and he leaned over and touched the girl behind me's hand and she literally started convulsing like he was Pete Wentz or something. I don't see why she'd get that bent out of shape over some band she didn't even know. Apparently her and her friend really wanted to see MCS because they were like "Oh so it was Panic! at the Disco, The Starting Line, Boys Night Out and THEN MCS?" Um no, BNO just played. Like they can't tell that MCS is setting up? Give me a break. Idiots. So then they're like "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH. MY. GOD!" I got pulled out during MCS' second song because after Dan left and these girls took his space it wasn't the same. I had my keys and stuff in my front pockets and so when my hips were getting shoved into the barricade it hurt and these girls were trying to like squeeze in and I just didn't care so I got pulled out and went and found JoJo and freaked him and his gf out and then went upstairs and found AJ and Mike and jessie and hung out with them during MCS and TSL. When FOB was about to come on I went back downstairs and stood by the stairs. When they came out I wanted to cry because 2 years ago they were opening for Less Than Jake and everything that could go wrong did go wrong and it was just bad and they had to cut their set short but they've come so far in 2 years and I'm so proud of them. They're my boys. No one deserves this more than them. Seeing the girls freak out when anyone (Joe, Patrick (HE MOVED!) or Pete) came over on the side was weird. They're too old for you little ones. During "XO" I went into the crowd and found Deidre and her friends and we started dancing and got weird looks. During one of their songs Pete walked off the stage and onto one of the bars and into the audience and I started freaking out because I didn't think Pete would ever be coming back and Charlie was no where to be found. He didn't come out until the very last minute, after Pete had jumped into the crowd and was surfing back to the front. Way to be on the ball, Charlie. I waited around through "Dance Dance" so I could see Dirty do Pete's dance (which is hilarious btw). I left right at the start of "Saturday" to go get the stuff from my car to pass out. I saw Adam in the parking lot getting his stuff too and we set up shop next to eachother. I totally cheated and started handing out handfuls of Gorillaz postcards to kids because I wanted to get rid of them so bad. Adam is so half assed at his job. He basically just handed out some stuff (my friends helped him) and then ditched his box and left. Saw Adam Gardner and he told me he loved me. Blah blah. After I got everything passed out I went to the back and hung out with Mike and AJ and whatnot. Said hi to Dirty. Got to talk to Patrick which was nice because I haven't talked to him in so long. Talked to Pete. Most of my night was spent hanging around Panic! and watching them shoot eachother with Airsoft guns. Dan took several in the arm point blank with both the gun and the shotgun and he didn't flinch. He was more like "is that all you got?" Brendon is scary with those things. He just swings it around like it's nobody's business. You have to get out of his way. Brendon's so funny. I love being around him. He's so charismatic. We have fun with those kids. I hung around until 1am which was bus call (Panic! doesn't really have one because they're in a van but they have to go where everyone else does) and said goodbyes to everyone and to Mike and AJ and Dan and left.

Quote of the night
Security dude - You guys need to move away from that truck. It's not your car. Go stand by your bus or whatever.
Brendon - Hah. I wish I had a bus.

What's with guys I know dating horrible girls? Seriously. I would much rather have them go back with their old girlfriends and deal with all the fighting and the drama then see them with the people they're with now. It makes me sick. I can't help but wish I could choose their girlfriends. I can't help that I'm protective.

December 20th is the hole in my heart.

June was last night and I had to sit through 3 shitty bands before they came on. Talked to Bobby a lot. It was nice seeing him again. I filmed all but 2 songs from June's set. Woo.

Ashley bragged about her experience at 3:55 PM.

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