arienettelyn's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- something corporate show YAY! so i know you all just can't wait to hear the details about last night right? i get home from school and do various things.....shower, get dressed, do hair, put on....makeup! i picked up randy and kenny (who had decided to come i guess) from school at 2. they came here and did their homework. and i ate something, finally. we left around 3:50 because my mom is pretty stupid. we stopped at wendy's so they could eat there. then...we went to the train station and got a pretty good spot! there were some uhh....emo kids waiting for the train. and.....my brother was acting like a dork. and then the train came! and we got on...and i think we were all acting like dorks on the train. i screamed fuck you really loud to one of them, for some reason that escapes me now. hmm....yeah so we got to grand central and went potty...found the subway, got on it...there were people lugging an old tv around...that was kind of odd... we got off at 14th street and left the subway station...but at a different exit than we had the last time, therefore we were lost/confused. we walked awhile in the wrong direction, then turned back and realized it was basically where we had started from. haha! it was all good though. we got on a loooooong line (it was even a bit longer than the bright eyes line!) and...waited. watched the people in the restaurant again. and then randy REALLY started acting like a dork. i mean....yeah.....it's funny at first but it gets OLD very quickly. and i started to get pissed off. this guy with weird hair who looked like conor was umm soliciting us or whatever to buy cds and randy and kenny both bought one and randy told the guy he liked his hair. now, i know he meant that to be a compliment, but the way he said it sounded horribly sarcastic and the dude just kinda....stood there and said nothing. haha. then he said thanks and walked away. poor dude! 2 of the scary black scalpers got into a bit of a scuffle, and i think for a few minutes everyone on line feared that shots were about to be fired. it was frightening. i guess one guy sold a ticket to someone for less than they were supposed to? we get to the door, and my bag gets fondled, and randy and kenny are probed with a metal detector. then this guy tries to stop me from goin in, but then he says....oh wait are you with them? and he's pointing at randy and kenny and so i say yeah....and he says you're not lying are you? i was like....no...so then he let me in? i didnt get it. so i was like why would i lie about that? and some other guard guy laughed at me. so....yeah. the coat check line was long, therefore we did not wait on it! we went upstairs and looked at the merchandise tables, i got something corporate shirt. i've seen it before, it's green and it has the rolling rock logo, except it says piano rock and extra pale...and yeah something corporate. haha. i like it. randy got a black sc tour shirt, kenny got that too plus some juliana theory shirt. the first band that played was vendetta red, and i actually kinda liked them. they were LOUD and like...yeah. i think...the v.r. songs i downloaded were fake or something? cuz they sounded nothing like that. they were like a hardcore type band.....maybe. then a british band called fiction plane played. they werent bad but i didn't think they were anything special. kenny liked them. but the guy had that same creed/puddle of mudd/every modern rock singer voice. that really bothers me. during their set, the people right behind us were smokin weed and oh god it smelled bad. i really can't take the smell of that shit, and it burns my eyes and makes me feel sick to my stomach. i sound like such a loser but i was happy to hear that they got kicked out. we tried to get a bit closer for something corporate, or at least get out from behind the tall people and we succeeded somewhat. we weren't all that far back, i mean it's a really small place so any spot is good. and so....*drumroll* andrew walks out on stage alone and starts playin some piano and im thinking it sounds a lil like konstantine and i ask randy if he thinks it is and he says yes so.... well i screamed. loud. and randy and kenny didn't appreciate it. but see....everyone else was screaming too, just cuz andrew was on stage. so i don't see what the big deal was. can't i act like a teenybopper sometimes? is it so wrong?!?!? so anyway, then he starts with the actual song and it IS konstantine, and everyone realizes this and just flips out. (and of course i scream again) and then....he sings it. and its beautiful. i almost cried. and nearly everyone in that place was singing every word right back at him. ahhhh. ok so then thats done, and everyone's all YAY and happy because they sang it... and right now i'm gonna take a moment to describe andrews hair. it's long and blondish, but long in a very weird way...it's a little shorter than mine i guess, but its real poufy and he has no part so like....it is ALWAYS in his face. basically....it's atrocious. but when he was playin piano and somehow managed to get it to stay behind his ears for a few seconds, he looked really cute. like kevin! so anyway...then they sang fall, then straw dog. they completely fucking rocked. probably one of the best performances i've seen. i know you all probably don't like them, and that's cool...i mean they are a weird rock band that gets lumped in with that pop-punk/emo shit but they really aren't punk or emo. and when i say they arent punk....i dont just mean they aren't sex pistols punk, they're also not new found glory punk. (thank god for that) anyway....i forgot my point. oh yeah. they're really good live. andrew like....just oozes with this energy and it's fucking contagious. the place was...uhh...JUMPIN JUMPIN! of course, he still jumps from mic to mic like a madman and climbs up on his piano too many times to count. that poor piano must have been through a lot of shit! i love all the stickers on it...haha. at one point...as kenny put it, he played it with his ass. (meaning....he sat on it) and you know what...the noises he made sitting on the keys are probably more melodic than anything i could ever do on a piano. the people next to us were making out basically the whole time. they couldn't make it through one song without making out. it was sickening. hmmm ok....set list? 1. konstantine 2. fall 3. straw dog 4? hurricane 5? punk rock princess 6? i woke up in a car 7? i wanna save you 8? the astronaut 9. cavanaugh park 10. hurricane 11. i f u c jordan yeh....then he poured some sort of powder on top of his piano and lit it on fire. then he got on top of the piano and stomped it out. his lil piano stool was also flaming. it was...a spectacle. i think we may have gotten some pics. its about 10:45 when they're done, and we decide that we'll leave by 11:30 to make sure to catch the midnight train, since the 1:20 train involves switching trains and stuff...and yeah. so the juliana theory comes out a lil after 11 i guess. theyre playin some instrumental thing and the lead singer comes out and stands on the end of the stage, demanding for us to cheer for him. to clap. to hail him. i don't know if it's possible to explain in words how much i hate it when singers do that. he had gotten his hair cut, and was dressed like some fucking abercrombie and fitch model. he kept strutting around.....ahhh.....anyway they started the first song, (if i told you this was killing me would you stop.....the only one i wanted to hear) and he KEPT strutting around...a HUGE mosh pit erupted....i feared for my safety....the mosh pit during sc had been kinda small and far away....yeah. so anyway, back to the asshole, he was like a combination of elvis and hitler. this probably seems really blown out of proportion to you. if you had seen this guy, you would understand. i'm getting pissed off just thinking about it...grrr... i don't get it....i've seen this guy before...i just saw him back in october! i mean, you could tell he had an ego issue but it was nothing like this! anyway...randy and kenny were also disturbed by this. they played a few more songs.....into the dark, congratulations...and another one from emotion is dead....ahhhh......*thinks* the one that says we knew youd hate this before we wrote it. and then i just got really pissed and we left. it was a little earlier than we had planned but thats ok because the train left a little earlier than we had planned. we passed this huge stretch limo on the way to the subway and joked that it was the lead singer of the juliana theory's limo. haha. LOSER! this is getting long....so....we went to the train station, got drinks and snacks and then got on the train and came home. and froze! but it's all good. except i'm tired. and basically....the guy from the juliana theory...i dunno. maybe he's a nice guy. but....he really turned me off to their music. not that their new album is anything spectacular. the guys got that arena-rock mentality, and he really shouldnt have it since he's supposedly in an emo band, and also since his band cant sell out a tiny place in the fucking city without something corporate. i'm gonna stop bitching now:) 1:32 p.m. - 2003-02-12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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