kill the drama.

concert review a few days late. i had a really good day today probably cause my freakishly good mood is still lasting from the ACCEPTANCE/GATSBY'S AMERICAN DREAM show at the continental on sunday.

after some confusion over tima picking up me and aisha, and haifa not wanting to get to the venue early, aisha and i left around 2 and got to the continental a bit later. tranette, haifa, and tima were already there with amanda and her friend who drove us to amandas bday in july. it was like a freaking punchline party without punchline. we all kinda hung out and randomly saw christian, kaylan, nick, and ryan (we had this huge debate over whether it was him or not cuz he didnt have his double liprings; i thought it was him but other ppl didnt). when i saw nick i spontaneously point and it was weird cuz it was like slo-mo before i realized i was pointing and so i turned around and refused to see how he reacted. we saw kaylan and he lost so much weight. daamn. and he had this huge gallon thing of water with him lol. no, waterbottles wont do, MANLY GALLONS WILL!

they let us in around 3 and we got up to the stage and sat on it cuz were freaks and thats just what we do. this band called ghost town symphony was supposed to play as an opening band but they never played, either cuz they got their late or cuz the first band took so damn long to set up they got cut out. aisha let me hear them today and i almost cried i loved it so much. the first band up was on my signal. there wasnt anything THAT special about them.

the snake the cross the crown were up next. lol the lead singer reminded me of fat mike from NoFX. and a bit of andrew. it was weird cuz thats what we all thought. their guitarist had really tight jeans on. and pretty toes in his flipflops. it was nice. they were good i guess. my favorite song that they did was the last one. at first it sounded like country or folk music, and it was kinda pathetic cuz the guitarist had rattles with him lol. then it became a slight bit 'rock-ier' and nick from acceptance and gatsbys drummer came up and did solos. it was AWESOME.

gatsby;s american dream played after TSTCTC. i love them. i knew like 2 songs that i dont know if they played, but loved the set nonetheless. nic the lead singer kept doing these awesome little dances that were SO AMUSING. lol and the guy outside of the venue that haifa said looked like he hadnt taken a shower in years was actually their hot bassist kirk. aka lovechild of alexander greenwald and ben jelen. we noted that they had the most diverse bands of the tour cuz their drummer was indian or arab (god i dont know. help me aishahaifatima), their guitarist was black, and their other guitarist was a leprecaun. lol no i kid, he had auburn hair but yeah. kirk was insane and tima and i both got pix of him screaming and his hair sticking straight up. i had a crotch gyrating in my face many a time.

and then was ACCEPTANCE. aaaaaaahhhhhh. aaaaaahhhhh. i hadnt seen them since freaking december with yellowcard when ppl still didnt know who they were, and i really missed them. so when i saw jason come onstage and ryan come on with his crazy zwielfelhofer pants i had the biggest smile on my face. christian glared at tima because of their perpetual hatred lmao. jason got so skinny. like hes still tall and godly but he cut off his emo hair (we almost cried when that happened) and got much paler and he looks a slight bit... frail? godly nonetheless lol aisha.

tima and i had put silicon ear plugs into our ears for all the sets but decided to take them out during acceptance to get the "full experience". i looked behind me and the urban outfitter cheerleading team was gone but the crowd behind us (aisha haifa tima amanda tranette etc) was like a foot away from us. weird. so acceptance starting playing. they opened with 'permanent' and i was clever and started taping it with my camera, so basically ive got jason singing really close to us and it looks like hes gyrating with the mic stand (its awesome lol) and then the camera flips horizontally as he spins around to nick and comes back to the mic. ahhhh. he was wearing flannel so we all loved it even more. if he still had the emo hair aisha wouldve taken him down. tima and i were screaming words into his face cuz he comes inches away from you and is def one of the best frontman out there. alot of the time his crotch was in my face so most of the time my back was being bent backwards as i screamed words up words at him. GOOD TIMES. the sore back on monday was totally worth it. they did in addition to
permanent,
blacklines to battlefields
bleeding heart
this is only a test
3 new songs
seeing is believing

between one of the songs, jason started talking about how it was such a beautiful day in nyc and kept profusely thanking all of us for coming to see them and how usually when they come to nyc the weathers pretty bad. he also sed his parent had flown in to see them (we all exchanged looks of 'i knew it.. damnit it always happens' cuz every time weve seen them hes always disappeared after the show blah blah blah). during that pause, or maybe at another pause, he pointed at me and was like 'YOU [probably] SAW US WITH FALL OUT BOY RIGHT?'. isaugdaigfbiudf. i nodded and was like 'yeah' with a big. ass. grin. and i almost fell over. aaaahhhhhhh. i took tons of pictures and sang along and tima and i both yelled words into the mic a few times cuz were twins and it was inevitable being attached at the hipcleavage...lol. i enjoy eye contact way too much.

=D: 'please bring your smiling faces to the colgate university show...' *look at everyone next to me and we all have big ass smiles showing pearly whites*

'I MISS YOU I MISS YOU (etc)' haifa: when i sang that i really meant it!

after the set was over we were all kinda mingling near the stage and jason thanked us for coming to the show again. i randomly asked jason as he was wrapping up a cord really close to us if we could ahve a picture and hes like 'yeah!' and got down from the stage and ahh it was awesome. it was funny cuz he kept making little remarks then laughing at himself and he was ADORABLE. i got my picture and i totally molested his side. gah he got so small in the middle. and hes nice and tall. ok ill shut up now. just know hes lovely and god-like. anyway so we all scuttled over at differnt times and got pictures and jason made some remark about al the pictures and stuff. haifa started telling them how great they were and he stuck out his hand and was like 'hi, im jason.' and i exploded with laughter and collapsed on tima. AS IF HAIFA DOESNT KNOW WHO YOU ARE. and aisha wanted haifa to be like 'nice to meet u jason vena of seattle.' we asked when they were coming back to the area and he was like 'october with dead poetic probably...' and we hung out with him for a few more minutes then it got a bit awkward and he thought he should go back and pack so he thanked us again and we left.

its kind of fulfilling that i finally got a picture with him for the first time after loving them for well over a year. we found kaylan and got pictures. aisha told him he hit her on the head with his guitar and he became profusely apologetic and was thinking up of ways to make it up to her. he came up with free merch and took her with him to the merch area and dragged her around like VIP and it made her ahppy. while everyone else was lost at the continental i got a picture with christian and he was like i saw u in front of me! and it made me happy. i asked him how tall he was cuz he was significantly taller than me. he thought it over for a sec and guessed he was like 6'3 and i sed i thought he was taller. christian: 'hmm maybe its just the stage.. making us all look like giants...' i looked over at jason and asked christian how tall jason was an he guessed about 6'2.

i swear he was taller. its a good height but my god, hes getting shorter too.
i found nick and got a picture with him cuz i loove nick lol. i sed i was sorry for pointing at him outside and i started babbling about how its impulsive and he started laughing and was like 'no! its cool i saw you standing outside before the show!' and it was a relief.

god this entry will be long. went to the merch booth where i found everyone else.. got a picture with ryan. he looks really different. kinda grungy or disheveled. dunno. i asked him about the liprings right after haifa (i didnt hear her ask), and he sed he just decided to take them out but since everyones been asking about them he just might have to put them back in for the next tour lol. got a picture with nic from gatsbys and he amused me by saying he was 6'1. why must people lie about their height? i told him to keep dream. but i loved him, he was awesome and when we complimented his dancing he started talking so we kinda had a 5-way chat going lol. got a gatsbys shirt and we all left.

then midway home, tranette called aisha to tell her kirk was out and she was stalling him. so we zoomed back and i was coerced into being the first to break the ice and get pix and rape him. i did and we all got pix and shook hands and all that good, good stuff. we chatted with him for a bit and then left and congregated at a corner. i tried to be artsy and take a stalker picture of jason when he came out but he looked up and i had to cover it up by pretending to take a picture of aisha. lol. then i saw nick go past us and he did a double take with our group and turned around and pointed at me. haha yay. i pointed back and sed bye. i was one happy mofo. i really needed that concert.

pictures in case you missed them.

posted by Jennie @ 9:05 PM