Well it seems that I did not do a very good job of holding to my word about updating this thing more often. Though unlike before its not because I am tired of it anymore its more of I keep forgetting about it because I keep getting side tracked.
Anyway in this post I thought I would talk about the
Projekt Revolution Concert that I went to on Wednesday. I sat around expecting Niki and Jamie to get to the house around 2pm when they got off work (which is when they told me they would get there) instead it was closer to 3:30pm. Another girl, who is a friend of Niki and Jamie, named Amy(though Niki and Jamie call her "The Yeti" because she is tall) got here around 3:45. Then the three of them preceded to take 45 minutes to get ready, I asked them what was the point because all the work they were doing was going to be completely undone within 10 minutes of being out in the 100+ degree temps. All I got was the evil eye from them. So I sat at my computer and waited for them to finish. Finally around 4:30
ish Niki walks into the room and tells me they are ready. So I grab my hat, the four of us pile in to Jamie's car and head off to Wendy's were they decided they wanted to get something to eat really quick before heading to the concert. After eating we left and Niki and I had to give Jamie directions to the concert as she had no idea how to get there. Once there she (being Jamie) started freaking out because she didn't know where to park. She finally figured it out and we parked and walked across the street to the venue.
Once inside we made our way up to the lawn and found a good spot to sit, laid down some towels and took a seat just as Placebo finished their set. Niki saw a sign that said we could upgrade our lawn seats for $10 so she and Jamie walked over to check it out. On their way back to us they got lost and walked right past us so I had to get up and go after them. They decided they wanted to upgrade our seats but Niki said we should wait until Daniel (a guy who was going to met us there) arrives. Daniel is the assistant manager at a store that Niki and Jamie work at, just in case you were wondering how he fit into the equation. So at this point it was time for HIM to take the stage. Besides
Linkin Park they were probably the band I was most wanting to see. Unfortunately I was quite disappointed in them. I mean I like some of their music but their live show was quite dull and boring.
Towards the end of
HIM's set we decided we wanted to get some water as we were already become dehydrated. So we all walked over to the concession stand and got some water. One the way back to our seats I could have sworn I heard someone yell my name, even Niki heard it as she said "did someone just yell your name?" But, I couldn't see were it came from so I figured it wasn't directed towards me. At this same time a big fight between like three or four people broke out not far from us. From my perspective it looked more like some drunks having fun than people who were mad at each other as none of them looked pissed off to me. We got back to our towel at which point HIM played their last song and left the stage. Almost at that exact moment Daniel showed up.
So we got up and headed over to the upgrading lawn seats tent and got new tickets up in the actual seating section. Since it was still going to be a while before Taking Back Sunday took the stage we got up and wondered around the whole venue for while. We made it back to our seats just as Taking Back Sunday was starting. TBS really isn't my style of music so I wasn't really into them but their stage show was
alittle better than
HIM's was. TBS finished and this time we just stayed in our seats, talking until My Chemical Romance took the stage.
Like TBS, My Chemical Romance really isn't my style of music, though I do like them better than TBS. So music wise they were just
ok, but I have to admit out of all the bands we saw that night they had the best live show, partially because they used a lot of
pyro which is always a plus. Only thing I couldn't understand is why the lead singer laid down on the stage through the last 2 or 3 songs.
MCR was the main band that Amy and Jamie had come to see, as a matter of fact Jamie even had an
MCR shirt on.
MCR finished and left the stage and this time Amy, Jamie and I got up and headed to the concessions to get some soda's as we were all getting thirsty again but were not in the mood for water. We then headed back to our seats and like before sat, talked and waited except this time for
Linkin Park.
Linkin Park was the band that Daniel had come to see and was also one that I had come to see as well. Overall they put on a really good show but I am sure a lot of that was due to the fact I knew almost all the songs that they played, plus it's more my style of music. Now when My Chemical Romance was on the stage, Niki and Jamie stood on the chairs so they could see the stage (they are both fairly short, Niki is 4'11'' and Jamie is probably about 5'1" or 5'2"). Therefore when
Linkin Park took the stage they again stood on the chairs. They were not the only ones doing this as there were some people behind and in front of us doing the same thing. But, about two songs into
Linkin Park's set someone who works at the venue came by and made everyone get down from the chairs. Which
ment neither Niki nor Jamie could see now. I felt sorry for them but there wasn't anything any of us could do about it. So Jamie ended up just sitting in her chair watching the video screens and Niki moved up a row to a spot were she could see better. So anyway,
Linkin Park played for about an hour and a half before leaving the stage. They came back for an
encore but we decided to go ahead and leave anyway. The five of us then made our way out and back to our cars.
We were all hungry so we decided to go get something to eat at Steak N' Shake. Niki and I went and washed our hands while the others got a table. After giving our orders we preceded to play hangman until Niki came up with "Macho Man" and Jamie then sang it about every 30 seconds causing Amy to lose her appetite because the whole story behind "Macho Man" is because her father was caught doing pelvic thrusts to the song. Now, all Jamie ordered was a milk shake while the rest of us actually ordered food. So while the rest of us ate our food (or in Amy's case attempted to eat food), Jamie got the brilliant idea of making a smiley face out of our food. It started out fairly simple but eventually everyone else started pitching in and next thing you knew she had a entire face made of food. It consisted of two tomatoes with round grapes with a dot of ranch dressing for the eyes. Another much smaller grape for the nose an apple which Jamie cut out to look like a smiley face a thing of lettuce for the hair (which looked like a
mohawk) and she put salt and pepper on the lettuce to make it look like the hair had multi colors to it, she used a long french fry to give it a
unibrow and also used pepper to give it a mustache that reminded me of the type of mustache that Charlie Chaplin had. She then cut out two tomatoes for the ears and then got two small yellowish colored peppers (they reminded me of maggots)and used one as a earring and the other as a tooth. She then circled the head, called it Theodore and took a picture (which we have but its on a cell phone and we do not have the cords to hook it up to this computer or otherwise I would have posted it up here for you to see). Finally once everyone was done eating and once Jamie's masterpiece was finished we paid our bills and made our way out.
This is were we separated from Daniel as he left and went home. The rest of us piled into Jamie's car. Amy had wanted to drive but, Niki is deathly afraid of Amy's driving and did not want her to drive. But, Niki felt bad and told Amy she could drive but that this was her last chance. While by this time Jamie was already in the drivers seat and was not willing to give it up. Despite the fact Niki kept telling her to pull over and let Amy drive. So in protest Jamie nailed the gas not once but twice out of intersections scaring both Niki and Amy half to death while I laughed my head off as I thought the whole thing was quite funny.
We finally arrived back at the house at 12:30am. Amy and Jamie were spending the night since they both live 30+ minutes away from here. So the three of them (including Niki) got ready for bed and headed off to their room and closed the door. So me, thinking they were done for the night began my normal night time, before bed, ritual of checking my e-mail, fantasy leagues, etc... as I had to get up at 7am for a final in my
Diffy Eq. class. Next thing I know Niki calls me over and and asked me if I knew about the game were you can supposedly connect any actor or actress to Kevin Bacon in six movies or less. I said that I had and she told me they were trying to connect Reese
Witherspoon to him but couldn't figure out how to do it. I couldn't think of how to do it either so I came back into the room and tried looking up the game online. I found it on the University of Virginia
webpage. I put in Reese
Witherspoon and it connected her to Kevin Bacon in only two movies. At this point all three of them had piled into the room and began reeling off names of different actors and actresses determined to find one who did not connect to Kevin Bacon. We tried people from the very first movie ever made to even people on current Disney channel shows figuring they would not have done enough to connect to him. To our surprise every single one of them connected in four movies or less. For about half of this whole thing Jamie pretended to be Stitch from "Lilo & Stitch". Finally about 2:30am Niki made the comment about me having to get up early in the morning so the three of them headed out and back to their room letting me get to bed, only to get up four and half hours later at 7am. Overall, It was really fun night. Amazingly I never really got tired the whole next day and actually even had to half force myself to go to bed at 2:30am the next night.
