Sunday, December 14, 2003

 

So my weekend has been pretty exciting. 3 concerts in two days. w00t! So here's how I break it down.

Friday night was SoCo. I left for Mississippi Nights at like 4:30 to beat the traffic and whatnot and ended up getting lost for half an hour. I crossed the river at one point and started freaking out because I didn't want to be in East St. Louis so I flipped a bitch and crossed back over the river and ended up in a not so nice part of downtown. I was driving around forever trying to find my way back onto the freeway. Damn one way streets. So I got back on the freeway and then tried all over again and didn't miss my exit this time and found MN just fine. I stood in line for an hour and a half next to some drunk girls and some nice college boys from across the river. The drunk girls kept coming and leaving and each time they came back they were more plastered than the time before. My boobs started hurting and my toes felt like they were bleeding and it hurt to bend my fingers. Definitely not a good sign. By the time I got inside and they x'd my hand I couldn't feel the marker on my skin. It took about half an hour or so for me to regain feeling in my toes. Definitely NOT good. So by the time I got inside and had paid and everything the front was already full so I settled for a spot on the wall which proved to be the best part in the house.

Number 1 Fan went first and they kicked ass. All the opening bands had keyboards and bands with keyboards rule if you know how to use em right.

Days Away was next and they were a little too slow for me. I felt like falling asleep. The drummer reminded me of Scott. He was cute cept he drank AND smoked. Ew.

Mae was the last band before SoCo and they blew the house down. I really liked them and I can see now where all the hype comes from.

Andrew's piano looked completely different from when I last saw them. It was painted like the North album cover with lyrics all over it. It was fucking sweet. They played all my favorite songs like "Hurricane", "Space", "Down", "Punk Rock Princess", and even "Forget December" which just made my night. I wanted them to play it last year and they never did. Grr. Not that many people knew the words to it. HAHAHA. And once again no one knew the little breakdown in "Drunk Girl" which surprised me because it's not that hard to learn. When they played "Konstantine" I actually started crying this time. Not tears in my eyes, I had tears streaming down my face. I felt like such a tool because here I am sitting there crying because the song has so much meaning to it. Bleh. That song usually makes me well up, but not to the point where I actually start crying. There was one point in the show where Andrew came over to my side. It was pretty cool. I think I got a completely different concert experience from everyone else there. It was like I was in my own little world. I was talking to JoJo about the concert and he thought it was horrible because of all the teenies but since I was up there by myself I didn't have to deal with any of that shit which is why I think I had an awesome time. I rocked pretty hard. I'm pissed that I dropped my purple Sharpie though :( Like I had it in my hoodie pocket and it fell out when I was sitting up there and I was too far up to be able to get down and grab it so it lays permanently on the floor of Mississippi Nights. A part of my heart goes with it :( Okay not really, but I'm still pretty mad about it. So then I saw JoJo leaving and I was hoping to catch him before he left so I could give him his present but no such luck. He called me later and we chatted for a while and I went to his house Saturday morning to give him his present and he liked it and he really liked the card too. SHABANG!

So I was at JoJo's house talking about the Planetfest show and how I wanted to get in for free and he was like, "why don't you call Pete now?" so I called Pete and I woke the poor kid up. He was really incoherent and sounded like he was coming down with something (which he wasn't, he was just tired) and he was babbling all this stuff that I couldn't understand and I was just agreeing with him and saying "yea, that's cool" and okay a lot. Then he was like "do you want me to call you back?" and I was like when? and he said "when I wake up". Haha. So I let him go after our 47 second conversation. The kid never called me back but that's okay cuz I got lots of Pete time that night.

I left JoJo's at about 1 and it took me about 45 mins to get to the 55. It was actively snowing on my way to Urbana and there was some snow on the ground and I had a few near death experiences. There was this one car slowing down to exit so I started slowing down and my brakes completely locked up and I lost my automatic steering, my 4 wheel drive...everything. I was freaking out. My car started fish tailing and I came thisclose to hitting another car. My car almost started spinning. So I tried to move on but I had no traction. My engine kept revving but my car wouldn't go anywhere. I finally got my car working again and I was calling Adam to calm me down and whatnot. Not the best experience of the night.

I pulled into Urbana around 5pm and got to the Phelps Recreational Center on time and without killing myself. My car kept freaking out in the residential streets because they hadn't been cleared off yet, so I just wanted to park and be through with driving. I got there as the first band started playing and I paid my 5 dollars and I heard a familiar voice coming from behind me and I turned around I saw Pete and he gave me a big hug. I saw Patrick standing by the bathroom and kinda snuck up on him and he turned around and said 'hey' and gave me a hug as well and asked me how I was doing and whatnot. Then I went inside the room and said hi to Jordan and he was like "where AREN'T you?" and I was like "Where ever you guys aren't." And I noticed that they had a new shirt in so I got it of course. I ended up getting the black design instead of the purple one because it looked better. I apologized to Pete for waking him up and he told me how it happens to him all the time and he never gets much sleep because of it. So I joked about him being a vampire. I asked Pete about getting me into Planetfest for free and it said it would depend on whether they got a guest list or not but if they got one he'd definitely put me on it. They played after the first band and played a great set including "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out". At one point in their set Pete tossed a guitar pick at me and almost hit me in the eye. Needless to say I caught it. Haha. I also ended up picking up either Joe or Pat's guitar pick (whoever uses purple ones) after their set. Pete and Joe kept jumping off the walls. Crazy kids. They couldn't hang around that much after their set because they had to leave and go to Planetfest so Pete told me that there was a 90% chance that he could get me in and to head down to the Canopy Club and call him when I get there and he'd meet me out front and get me in.

So I got to the Canopy Club with no trouble in like 5 mins and found a place to park and called Pete and he told me they were on their way and after I called him they drove right by me. So I walked to the front and waited for Pete and got approached by some kid wondering if I needed a ticket for Fuel. So I walked to the street corner where all the buses were parked and I saw a couple members and then I looked up and Pete was with the girl that I saw at the all ages show and so I followed them and Pete walked us in through the backdoor way where they load in all the equipment and whatnot. Once he got us out there he told us we're good for the night but we can't leave or anything and he said he'd be back and forth and stop and chat every now and then. So I was talking to her and found out that her name's Jeanet (I'm sure I spelled that wrong, it's pronounced Juh-neigh) and she's a pretty nice girl. She's from Chicago and met Pete at one of their New Year's parties. The boys kept walking back and forth and at one point Pete came and ruffled my hair. Hehe. I love that kid so much.

I missed Kill Hannah because we got there too late but we were lucky enough (sarcasm *cough*) to catch the local opening band that was like a bad Vanilla Ice/Limp Bizkit rip off. It was horrible. FOB came on next and tore up the house as always. They played a shorter set with different songs than the previous show. About halfway through the set Pete was swinging his bass around (as per usual) and hit one of Andy's mics and split his bass down the neck and then just smashed it and gave it away to some lucky dude in the audience. I missed the whole smashing of the guitar. All I saw was some kid getting Pete's guitar and the guitar tech fixing the mic. After they played Jeanet and I headed over to the merch stand and hung out with the boys. Pete was getting mobbed by the girls as usual. He was holding some girl's beer and I got this sick feeling in my stomach because the night before I had this dream that Pete broke Edge by drinking and becoming a slut and it was just horrible and I thought that my dream was going to come true, but it didn't. He kept sniffing the beer and commenting on how gross beer smells. That's my boy. :D So I sat down with Jeanet and Andy came and visited. As I was going to sit down in the chair Andy decided to take the chair away from me because he didn't think I was going to sit there and so I went to go sit down and fell on my ass...and my cell phone. It hurt so bad that I wanted to cry. Andy started apologizing profusely saying how his brain synapses aren't working as well because he's tired and he didn't think I was going to sit there. It was one of those moments that should be captured on their DVD. My ass hurt so bad for 5 mins that I couldn't sit down and I started freaking out because I thought my cell phone might be fucked but it's okay. My ass still hurts btw. Haha

So we just sat there talking to Andy and these two girls in the new Hot Topic shirts (which aren't all that great) came up to Andy and started talking to him and we saw Pete leaving and we were getting mad because there's no way in hell that Pete's going to leave without saying goodbye. Then I saw Jordan taking down their merch and leaving so I figured they must be going soon. So Jeanet called Pete and asked him where he was and she said that he was outside and there were getting ready to leave so I said goodbye to Andy and gave him a hug and then we met Pete outside. I told Pete that I wanted to give him his xmas prezzie so he was all "okay, we'll just walk to your car." So we all walked to my car and Pete was asking me about Bryan and I told him all the shit that happened and that I took Bryan's pictures down and he kinda chuckled and was like "that's cool." So we got to my car and I gave Pete his x-mas prezzie and I told him that he could open it now so he did and he just kinda looked at it for a minute and then was like "Dude, how did you find this?" and I told him that Burger King made them 10 years ago and he told me that he used to have one and that it broke and he gave me a big hug and I said how I tend to buy him everything that he loses or breaks. Haha. I asked him about whether he ever got around to reading my letter or not and he said yea and I asked him what he thought about it and he said that it was a very sweet letter and that he was having a bad week that week and that my letter cheered him up. I asked him what he thought of my concert reviews and he said that they were cute and he was going to show them to someone and then he lost them but someone said he could find them online. He gave me another big hug before I left and then told me that he was still planning on sending me a camo vinyl when they come back in (he didn't like the way the green swirl ones looked). So then him and Jeanet walked off and I was kinda jealous that she got alone Pete time but you can't win them all.

So that was my night.

Here are my pics:
SoCo
FOB

Ashley bragged about her experience at 10:56 PM.

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