arienettelyn's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- boy sets fire - protest is patriotism oh wow...i'm kinda dreading writing about this....i have many details! but here we go... actually....before i start...i wanna write something cuz i know most of you will probably like....umm...peter out or something before i finish this entry because you probably really don't care about me seeing boy sets fire last night. but...after the show, i bought their new cd at their merch table. it's wrapped in plastic, and on the plastic is a sticker with a message from the record label. it says something like....wind up records supports the rights of its artists to voice their opinions blah blah blah blah blah blah HOWEVER the view expressed by boy sets fire are their own views and NOT the views of wind up records or any of its affiliates or sponsors. jesus fucking christ. as if they're mass murderers leading a cult of...i dunno. ahh. this pissed me off more than you can imagine. first of all, i have NEVER seen a warning like that on a cd. and plenty of artists have views that the general public doesn't have. we shouldn't have to be WARNED that some people may have different opinions than us, should we? it's pathetic. i mean...creed's on wind up records. why don't they have a fucking label? like, just because scott stapp is an ugly ass bible humper doesnt mean that we here at wind up or the people who give us money are! and...boy sets fire doesn't even have a BAD message. i don't see how ANYONE could even think that. of course not everyone agrees with their message, but their main thing is no violence and tolerance. no violence, tolerance. this is a GOOD message. what the hell are we teaching people? ok enough with the rant...let's get on to the good stuff! we managed to move my dead car out of the way so i could drive the piece of shit car. me and my brother left around...7:40 or something to go to the chance. then we waited on line. and the chick in front of us was in my orientation group last summer. hah. but we acted like we didn't know each other. (maybe she really didn't know me) cuz we're cool like that. her friend seemed friendly though. the bastards let us in late which sucked since it was sleeting out and quite chilly. we went up to the balcony first, and sat on one of the ledges, but memories of ass pains after a night on one of those fuckers made us move to the edge of the balcony, right on side of the stage. of course, i managed to horribly fuck up my knee while getting off the ledge. like...holy shit it hurt. and it's not like i took a plunge or anything....it was like a foot. MAYBE. but i just landed wrong and my knee went all twisty and collapsed on me. at the time i thought the horrible pain was because my legs had been basically frozen, and now they were starting to thaw. not the case. anyway, the new spot was much better. a lot closer, and a fabulous view of the pit, for when the bands get boring! the first band that played was called divest...and...well...i'm not a fan. hmm...the second band was called vaux and wowie! i liked them a whole lot. it was crazy, we saw em setting up and they were the emo-est kids on the planet and then they start playing and they're this totally hardcore screaming shit. it was GREAT. except....mr. ass crack who, everytime he bent over...well, you can guess i suppose. it was like a car wreck....so gross and disgusting and yet i couldn't look away. haha.... the next band was hope conspiracy. umm...didn't really like them too much, but i thought it was really awesome the way they responded to the crowd. reminded me of thursday. they weren't bad or anything, just not my thing i guess. after the hope conspiracy, i decide i have to pee, so i go downstairs to the bathroom. there's 4 stalls in the bathroom. 2 of them have missing doors, the other 2 are almost totally clogged with toilet paper. it was quite gross. but everyone was using them anyway, so i did as well. i really had to go. i still feel dirty eww... when i returned, some evil bitch in a red tanktop had thiefed my spot on the balcony. i was pissed! i think it was my brothers evil plan to get me back after i kinda lost his spot at the bright eyes show in november. so yeah...i was pissed but she removed herself before boy sets fire came out. and then.....boy sets fire came out!! haha...oh man. they were amazing and fabulous and the sweetest guys in the world. really! their lead singer kinda looks like dave grohl, but with the kinda hair brian my manager used to have. (for those of you who don't know brian...he used to have this...thinning....black...stuff....i dunno. yeah...) it's nice to be able to put a face to the voice now but...i still can't. weird. i should have been able to do that when i saw them in september. but...i'm retarded. and when i see this smiley hippie let's-all-hug-each-other dude i can't picture him singing for boy sets fire. anyway...they only sang 3 songs i knew. because they have a new album. which i obviously am totally out of the loop about!! but i bought it so it's all good. the ones i knew were....haha i don't know the titles. the one where he says trade my life for a barrel of gold, find someone else before i get too old. I LOVE THAT SONG! cuz it's different for them. and...they also did after the eulogy, which i used to hate but now love. its soooo great live. and they closed with rookie, like last time. the lead singer was such a sweetheart. i wanna hug him. i don't know why, but i have this crazy desire to. anyway...after the first song he said he was so happy that there were actually people there, they were afraid that with the war and everything, no one would come see them, because of what they stand for and stuff. and he was smiling, so happy about it. aww! they had a big banner in back of them that said their name and then protest is patriotism, which i thought was really awesome. and...i can't remember many details, dammit. the lead singer saw two guys in the mosh pit (which, by the way, was the most insane fucking pit i have ever seen in my life) hit each other and then almost get in a scuffle, but talk it out. he was SO fucking happy about that. again....he was just the cutest little thing. he didn't talk too too much about politics and stuff...he said it's bullshit that they're trying to stop us from protesting, since that's our right, that's what this country's all about. and then he said..."so without apology, i would like to say fuck george bush and fuck this war." mmm no need to apologize for that one! he thanked everyone who shared their views and came out to support them, then he said they were even more grateful for the people that came out that DIDN'T support their views and listened anyway. he also said something about how terrorism is terrorism no matter who's the one doing it. right on. people kept getting on stage, and some of them wanted hugs (which he was very happy to give), some of them whispered things in his ear (which he smiled at), and one dude in particular thought it was necessary to grab his face and scream the lyrics at him. now, if i was the lead singer, that would've have pissed me off. but not him! he fuckin loved it. when the band finished, he just jumped down onto the floor and talked to everyone. what a cool guy! ahh.... so me and randy went to the merch tables where we both got shirts that say boy sets fire on the front and protest is patriotism on the back, plus a quote from abraham lincoln that i guess i can type out... "this country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it, whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." yeah i really like it... then when we were coming home we saw one of the guys that we saw boy sets fire with last time! crazy motherfucker. i didn't remember him being so incredibly gay though... i can't remember any more details...so...i guess that's good. i got about one hour of sleep last night, then i had to work until 3, so i just got home a little while ago. i want to die. but we're getting a snowstorm tomorrow so maybe no school? 3:31 p.m. - 2003-04-06 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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