kill the drama.

today. anwars 16th bday party. so much fun. watched 'somethings gotta give' which was the longest movie in my life. i love keanu reeves.

yesterday. FALL OUT BOY, punchline, anberlin, don't look down show @ the KF. it was probably one of the most intense shows ive ever been to, and the most fun even if we were dying of the heat. so aisha, misha, maria, and i got to the KF around 4ish. @ school, neither aisha nor i ate lunch cuz we were finishing our 'franken-pete' doll (a ken doll of pete w/ his clothes). the first person we saw was pete. we sed hi, and gave him the doll. he was pretty speechless and seemed shocked, but i dont know exactly what he thought of it. aisha told him i made the belt out of only duct tape and sharpie and i got a big hug. i got the guys little poppers and firecracker type things to play with if they got bored. pete gave misha a hug "because youre hot" (he sed to her) and he remembered maria becuse of the bat she gave him (the bat that i saw first but decided not to get cuz i didnt wanna seem like i was overdoing the Clan stuff). we got more hugs and stuff, and he invited us to hang out inside the venue cuz it was fucking boiling outside cuz of NYC's damn humidity. went inside, talked to PJ for a bit, asked for amanda the head of the PL street team, then got kicked out by employees of the KF. hung around outside, sed hi to steve, chris, paul, andy, joe, and pete again. paul kept on lighting up, like everytime i looked at him he was lighting another cigarette. maria started lighting up too, and i have a picture i compulsively took (and commanded paul to return the cigarette to his mouth for the pic lol) of both of them smoking. i think maria thinks they bonded over the cigs. chris and pj came out and we chatted with them about necco wafers and other random stuff. i got a call from amanda and had to go out and get her. lol it looked like i was stalking FOB on their way to IMX but i was just trying to get amanda.

got amanda, went back to the venue, hung out some more. handed out postcards, tima and zooz showed up and they got pix with paul blah blah blah. misha developed a huuge crush on paul lol. we had a random convo about how many cigarettes he smokes in an hour, and he and tima talked about the cure. it was cool. when the anberlin trailer pulled up, my eyes popped. theyre alot like lostprophets in the sense that theyre all freakishly good looking, even more so in person. jeez. misha freaked when she saw them. steve said hi to me on the line. alot of kids showed up, and the bastard security guards let us in 45 minutes early. we basically stood aorund watching the same 5 music videos for 45 minutes. see how fun that is. its like brainwashing us. aisha and i didnt eat the whole day. i had a bit of cereal, a can of mountain dew, and drops of water from random bottles. we kept leaning on each other for strength. i will never ever to that again.

finally punchline came onstage. we were really lucky we got more-or-less front and center. they did
-open up
-heart transplant
-not afraid
-play
-the world
-battlescars.
i was determined to get a picture/footage of steve and his little jig dance. paul kept on looking over in our general area as he sang, which was awesome. and i was covered in chris' spit and sweat by the end (he started talking to the crowd about his massive recent slobbering). i wanted them to play 'getting there is getting by' but they didnt get a chance. bah.

don't look down was up next. the only song i know from them is 'on my own' which is pretty old. sighs. they were really great live, tho. the only general problem for all the bands was the middle (main) mike was dead. like u couldnt hear the lead singer for any one. the lead singer reminded me of ben jelen as a rock star. so funny. their guitarist was insanely good.

anberlin. the first thing u notice is that theyre all strikingly good looking. and we all had little crushes on stephen, deon, nate, and jim (?) the 'new guy'. it was sad seeing us oogle as nate set up. definant dorkus moment. so they did
-autobahn (went insane)
-foreign language
-readyfuels
-change the world
-2 new songs
-naive orleans (did they...? i think thye did)
-love song
-cadence (lol im pretty sure)
-glass to the arson
i really wanted them to do 'undeveloped story' so we could yell "dance all night, dance all night" cuz im a dork like that. mmm. the new guitarist was all over the place, but u couldnt hear stephen cuz of the goddamn micorphone. after a bit it became REALLY frustrating, but we sang along anyway. one second, nates shirt was on, the next second u see its taken off in slow-mo. it was bad. lol im tempted to make jokes about banging [something] like nobodys business. they finished their awesome set, and my that point, things were beginning to heat up pretty badly. we made it right next to the stage. nate was walking around the stage packing up and i was clever and turned off my flash and got a semi porno picture of him. RAWR to the fullest extent.

fall out boy normally takes seconds to set up, but this time it took them so long we began to wilt in the pit. their roadie put up setlists and ppl began to chant for flal out boy. they came on and did (according to the setlist i got after the show)
-rock version of nobodys puts baby in the corner
-dead on arrival
-chicago is so two years ago
-grenade jumper (which he dedicated to the fans who saw them wen they played tiny venues like the continental. -cough- yours truly :) )
-calm before the storm
-homesick
-new song: bitches and talkers get stiches and walkers
-patron saint
-another new song
at that point, i was about to die or something. i have NEVER, EVER sweat so much in my LIFE. like sweat was pouring out of my pores like a waterfall. i was soaked, sweating, and compressed like a shit against the stage. it was completely ridiculous. i was really grateful for pete cuz he kept telling ppl to "step back a foot for the girls in the front row" and told everyone else that "the guys in front are so much more hardcore than the rest of you" cuz we were putting up with the most pressure. LOL. we love pete. fall out boy stopped their set cuz they sed they had to cool down. they sed it was definantely the hottest show theyve done (on this tour i think they sed). we were dying of sweat and heat. i ripped off aishas damn beanie cuz it was absurd to think she'd keep it on then. we were in horrible conditions. it was SO HOT and HUMID it was like being under dozens people in a sauna, but we kept our spots and made friends with other delirious ppl behind us.

fall out boy came back on stage and played
-gtf/where is your boy
-love will tear us apart
-saturday
they encouraged anyone who couldnt take the heat of the pit to leave or get onstage and get off the side exit. it was weird how we were so dead yet somehow we got pumped enough to give all we had during the last three songs. pete: "make this the best sing along on the tour" for where is your boy. for a bunch of broiled kids, we were so fucking loud. pete took off his shirt after saturday and threw his pink bat clan shirt into the crowd. then he bent down and gave me and aisha a HUGE half lingering hug. then ppl shoved and he ended up giving ppl who wanted hugs high fives..

my camera underwent so much damage but its still perfectly fine. it had water poured on by pete wen he tried to relieve us by pouring water on us, it got stepped on by the anberlin guitarist, and got smashed against the stage as i was being straddled for dear life by a damn crowdsurfer.

all my weigh was focused on my right heel, and when the crowd dispersed and i started walking i almost fell down. it was horrible. and today i discovered bruises on my side, hip, ankle, and right arm. owww. its not half as bad as the SoCo/YC bruises but theyre a bitch. i remember thinking i had a nosebleed for half of FOB's set. i was completely wet with sweat and water that pete poured on us, and i didnt give a shit how i looked anymore. aisha and i sat on the stage taking in all of what just happened. we hung around the merch area and hallway, waiting for ppl to leave, then badag and effie said hi but i didnt recognize them at first lolol (yay for seeing u two). we walked back to the stage and a almost collapsed on steve (it became a huge hug) and started talking to him and stuff. got nate to come and take a picture with me, deon, and stephen. such hotness. deon sold me a shirt. we lingered around, bought a shirt from nightbeast and chatted with him for a while. jordan was being really unpleasant and irritable to aisha. :-/ we went outside to wait for ppl, then aisha discovered i had cuts on my neck from either a crowdsurfer or myself from rubbing sweat off my neck.

paul and steve said hi to us outside, and i didnt get a chance to get them for the picture. andy came out, and we waited for ppl to get autographs and pix, then we chatted with him and got pix. joe sed hi to us wen he was going to the FOB van. watched the anberlin guys walk past me so many times. drool. patrick came out and he was surrounded in seconds by like ten girls. he handled it really well. patrick did his little rambling thing i love so much, wen he keeps on talking about random stuff and it makes (no)sense most of the time. we talked to patrick for a while, and got pix. it was mishas first show, aishas second, and my fifth (seventh time seeing them). he started talking about how he doesnt want to seem boring in pictures so he makes strange faces and when he sees them he thinks he looks like an asshole. patrick is awesome. then we saw pete come out (with the frankenpete box in hand :) ) and nearly EVERYONE gravitated over to him. we again waited till all the ppl got their pix and autographs before we talked to him. wow its a blur right now...we talked to him about the heat during the show, thanked him for 'taking care' of ppl in the front, etc. got pix. chatted more. about what, i dont remember. he told us he was gonna put stuff away in the van, and then came back and we resumed talking to him. aisha remarked alot of ppl thought he and aisha looked like each other in pix and he sed "you should tell them we are" lol. we left to get food then came back. more talking to pete and random pix with joe. and nightbeast who we found out lives in the city. weirdd...so we decided to take a picture with him and he shouted to patrick "hey patrick! they want a picture with me!" and patrick laughed. i invited patrick into the picture so uve got me and patrick looking like nightbeast superdorks. we told pete we were going to be @ the show in jersey and he sed he'd see us there. yay.

somehow we ended up walking about to the KF after trying to find mishas car. i remembered me and julies little deal thing, and so i went back to pete and told him that she pinched his bum in cleveland and now i was supposed to do the same. he laughed and turned around.

pete: wait a sec, what do i get in return?
me: uh, u get to pinch mine.
pete; haha ok cool -turns around-
pete: should i make a face?
me: haha go ahead.
-pinch-
misha: no! do it again so i can get a pic
me: ohno
pete: -laughs, stays in position-
me: jeez -pinch-
-picture taken-
all laugh. brilliance. superdork moment. im seeing them tomorrow in new jersey. im excited. more details to come..

posted by Jennie @ 11:18 PM