Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Currently: Listening to Rufus Wainwright and The Cure

We drove down to Minneapolis around 2 something but it didn't really hit me then that I was seeing THEM. I wasn't even all that hyper about it. We had some trouble finding First Avenue b/c we don't go down there very often but we found it without much trouble. We parked and my mom decide to wait in the car and then come in line later when it was time. On my way to the doors to wait in line I saw Bobby (the drummer) but I wasn't sure at first if it was him he smiled at me nicely and I tried not to stare to see if it was really him. I later figured out it was. I reached the line and just stood by the door not really thinking if it was the front or the back; I was just nervous as I'm really shy around people/situations I'm not used to. Most of the kids in the line were “goth” they were making fun of everyone getting into the Timberwolve’s playoff games and I couldn’t help thinking “who really gives a shit?” I also had to hear about how Brittany Spears uses her mouth to make money and Marilyn Manson uses it to say something. I wondered if they realized how stupid that last statement was. I listened to that shit for a good 2+ hours and noticing that no one was lining up behind me and that I might have budged in line, I asked a girl next to me if I had budged. She said “yes” but that “it was cool, I came with them, ssshhh”. Then I started to talk with the 4 of them and pretty soon a guy came by the door with a key. “Sweet shit” I thought, time for this to all start. We all stood up and then the guy walked away, WHAT THE HELL?? We all were confused and pretty disappointed and we stood there watching them eating cheese sticks and looking over every once-in-a-while, laughing. It was freezing and I wanted to just get in there my legs were already a little sore from standing so long. Bastards.
FINALLY, they open the door after a good 30 minutes of tempting us... “OMG” was all I could think but first I needed to get my ticket scanned. It wouldn’t go through at first so I was just standing there about to have a heart attack and the guy next to me said I had a cool shirt.
“Stolen huh?” He asked
“Yeah, it’s a clothing brand.” I said looking around frantic
“Is that their mascot?”
“No it’s just a design...”
“Badass.”
“Thanks.” I said back
I looked back at the lady trying to scan it getting nervous. “If I can’t get in I don’t know what I’m going to do” I said really nervous. “Don’t worry” the lady said back and then it finally went through. I walked right to the floor not even thinking of getting a shirt or something. I must have been the 4th one in there. I saw one of the girls that I had made friends with so I stood next to her, in the FRONT ROW CENTER. I was so fucking pumped that I had an awesome/best spot.
While we were waiting the girls and I talked more and she said that Jay came out earlier that afternoon and talked to the few there (the girls waited in line for 5 hours) but they said that he was kind of an asshole. Ryan and Amir also came out and they said they were really cool guys, as I figured. There was a screen right in front of the small stage playing some vampire movie with a lot of sex in it, I just wanted the 3 opening bands to get done with so I could see ORGY. If you tilted your head you could see under the screen that was kind of nice, at least later on it was.
First band was Vox Demona a.k.a fat forty year olds trying to be hip in their hot topic apparel. Try me 4 years ago. I tried to look at bored as I could, at first I thought the lead singer had some voice effect thing going on but it was just his accent which was very annoying when you could actually hear what the hell he was saying. The guitarist had his dumbass mouth hanging open the whole time looking like an idiot. I made eye contact with him once and I got this creepy pervert shiver that ran through me. Eeeew. Then to show what classy guys they were some chick in a backward wife beater (guys muscle shirt for those of you not hip with the times) came out “dancing”. Can we be more degrading? Yeah I’m sure they could have.
20 minutes later or so Society One came out and the lead singer’s long black hair was dripping wet. Shit, I’m going to get wet, not what I want right now. I did get wet but not a whole lot so that was good. Band was just stupid as shit though, the guy was a total idiot and kept telling people to suck his dick and shit; not to metion the boner he had the whole time. He was pretty hateful about everything in life so the girls I met and I gave him peace signs the whole time, this pissed him off a lot. He started to get even more retarded and climbed up all these amps and reached the balcony, my mom told me later that when he got up there he pushed up against her (can I cut his fucking balls off now??). He was walking all around the area and then came up next to me pushing me out of the way so he could get back in the stage. He stood with one leg on the stage and the other on the barricade (Did I mention there was a 2 foot space between the stage and I?? Hellz yeah!) so the girl next to me pulled on his strapies almost sending him backward. He also pulled 2 kids with him next to me so now I had another person next to me making it more cramped.
Godhead came on next, I didn’t like them very much but they didn’t come out looking/acting like idiots so I gave them props for that. Bassist was kind of cute from what I could see too.
IT WAS TIME FOR ORGY... and the wait for them seemed like 4 hours. The new kid next to me asked if his friend could take his place b/c this “is like the highlight of his life” I said yes of course, I mean I was as excited as hell too. We kept looking under the screen to see if we could see anyone and he saw Amir and Bobby and I missed them... SHIT. Didn’t matter though b/c soon they would be on.
THE LIGHTS WENT OUT AND THE SCREEN CAME UP... no one came on stage right away so everyone’s anticipation would build, me about to shit myself. You have no idea the emotion and excitement that went through me, I had been waiting/ wanting this for so fucking long you have no idea. They came out I was about to cry, no joke, I was that fucking happy. I have never in my life (except when I met Krist) been so fucking happy in my entire life. Jay was right in front of me literally, Ryan to my right about 3 feet away from Jay. Paige was off to my left about 5 feet from Jay and Amir was 3 feet away from Paige. Oh me. oh my. Amir... what can I say? Hot, sexy, amazing are all adjective that describe him. They kicked off the show with “The Odyssey”, amazing can’t describe how great they were or how awesome I felt. I’m at lost for words when it comes to that. Jay would kneel down and we would all hold out our hands, sometimes he would slap them always everyone to the right of me never touching me. All is good though b/c A.) he made eye contact with me 5+ times (I like that b/c it feels more personal) and B.) What I am about to tell you, is amazing. Before they played Blue Monday Jay asked if we were “going to fucking sing” and everyone screamed. Oh man they rocked that song like there was no tomorrow, and Jay would hold out the microphone for kids to sing certain parts. The new boy next to me did and so did my new friend next to me, I was not getting any love from Jay at all. THEN, omg, he puts both feet on the barricade and looks at me and says “Hold my leg” SO I HELD HIS FUCKING SHIN AND I TOUCHED HIS ULTRA SWEATY ARM... RAR!!!!!!!!!!! It was hot hot hot. I also touched Ryan’s shoe b/c I’m a nerd like that and an even more amazing thing happened after that. So Jay wasn’t giving me any hand slapping love but I was looking at Ryan and holding out my hand so he smiled at me and then GRABBED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY MOTHER OF SHIT! It was fucking awesome b/c he didn’t touch anyone else, I can be such a nerd sometimes but this all meant to so much to me I was hella pumped up. Jay announced that this would be there last song and asked what we wanted to hear, everyone yelling “Stitches”, they played “Dreams In Digital” instead. That was cool with me b/c I love that song, it was now over and I really wanted to get a pick and had been trying to the whole night with no luck. Amir never came over to our side either. Everyone was yelling Orgy and I was wooing, I never woo b/c I think it’s stupid but that night I wooed like there was no tomorrow.
So the red lights came back up and there they were... ENCORE. Everyone was screaming Stitches so Jay said they would try but they didn’t know if they knew how to play it anymore. They so did and it was amazing... but even more amazing was what happened next. After they were done Ryan, (with his shirt off RAR!! FUCKING HOT AS HELL!!! and best happy trail and lower back ever!!!) held up his guitar and then he looked at me winked and HANDED ME HIS FUCKING PICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I opened my hand and nothing was in it! The pick fell on the floor and I freaked out, pointing at the floor so the security guy would get it. He couldn’t find it and told me to wait until the lights went up, I screamed “NO” so he used a flashlight and got it. I thanked him later.
The show was done (I could barely walk b/c my legs hurt sooooo bad from standing sooooo long) and I got the phone numbers and e-mail addresses of the new girls I met also, finding out their names (Catherine and Sierra, the other girl was Katie but I didn‘t get her number or e-mail), I then went on a search for my mom. After like 20 minutes I saw her. She said that I had to follow her b/c Amir told her that they would be right back. She met 3 people from South Dakota that came and they were all really cool. They announced that kids under 21 needed to leave right away, I couldn’t. I was going to meet Orgy if I had to punch someone. We went up these flight of stairs and a guy stopped me, the girl from South Dakota gave me her ID to see if we could pull it off. I knew it wouldn’t work b/c I’m not 5’4 and I don’t have long hair. I don’t get why they stopped me but not the other girl she looked 16. I’m 6 foot, come on here. So we headed down the stairs and my mom said that she would get them to sign the poster for me, I was pissed I wanted to meet them. We got to the bottom and who was sitting at a table? ORGY! I walked up there and put my poster down I was the first one to get something signed. Paige signed it first, my mom told me later that Jay was at the other end of the table but he walked over to sign it (why he didn’t wait I don’t know) then Bobby, and Amir signed it. I didn’t look up once I was so nervous! I hate that I didn’t. My one chance to see Amir up close in person and I didn’t. I didn’t even say anything until I got to Ryan.
“Thanks for the pick.”
He smiled, gave me “the look” through his hot ass hair, winked (again!) and then said “No problem babe.”
OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WALKED AWAY AND WHEN I GOT TO THE CAR I SCREAMED “OH MY FUCKING GOD!” Then I called Christina screaming to her what happened while she was screaming too. Oh my god that was the greatest fucking night of my life. Nothing will ever top that. EVER.
And that’s my story.

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