Currently Listening: Bayside
4/24 - At around noon or something, Amber comes over. We chill for a bit, finish packing up, put everything in the car, and off ot Orlando we go! We get to the hotel, it's 4 something. Check in, check out the room....eh, whatever, it was only $100 for 2 nights, I'm not gonna complain. We then drive to House of Blues and have to wait til about 5 for the guest list to arrive to the box office. There's some quick rain, quick arguing, a bathroom break, and then I go to get my ticket. See, I got guest list via Fueled By Ramen, and I bought 2 tickets for Vik and Amber. So Mr. House of Blues employee checks Panic's list. Not on there. Hmmm, that's strange. Let's check all the lists then! Still nothing. Ok, what is going on? So I figure he's a moron, and go the the last a window down. Same result. Awesome, now what am I going to do? OH YEAH, cry. So the waterworks start. I felt really awful. Not only was I not on the list, not only was I going to not see the show, not only did I waste $100 on 2 tickets that I couldn't use, but there was NOTHING and NO ONE that could help fix any of it. So we walked around, rode the water ferry, watched Motion City walk in front of my face and did nothing about it (HORRIBLE MOVE ON MY PART), and ate some hob pizza. Amber and Vik finally went in and saw Panic's set and I cried the entire time. I couldn't help it, again. I felt so bad because A.) Those were my tickets B.) They didn't get to see the show. C) I STILL had to pass out FBR junk and that was the LAST thing I wanted to do then. So anyway, then Robert Morris (hah) comes up to me, we chat, and I'm put on the guest list for Friday's show. THANKS BOB, but I already spent my $100 on that show too! So far my weekend was going swell, wasn't it?! So we pass the stuff out, get sorta yelled at by HOB guards, and then leave. Amber and I ate some great nachos at Denny's, then we went to the hotel, slept til 3am.
4/25 - Finally rolled out of bed at around 3:30am. At 4:45 we were back at the House of Blues, FIRST IN LINE, if that needed to be added. It was so dark, and cold, and I'm not going to lie, I WAS SCARED. We vandalized property with Phantom stickers, sat and sat and sat, and then Amber and I went to the car and took a 45 minute nap. My mom and I went to McDonalds at around 7 or so, and when we came back a group of kids was sitting in front of the box office. Amber fed some ducks then and gave them names. I only remember Salamander. No one else came til about 8, and that's when we met our new friend, Lee. (Is that how boys spell Lee? I'm just assuming.) So we played Scattegories and had a grand time in the DEAD line (seriously, the last time I saw Panic there were TONS of kids in line by noon. This time there was like 20.) OFFICIAL PERSONNEL ONLY! Anyway, at around 2 is when the drama llama started. We ended up having to move caus stupid Northern Downpour was going to be there and blah blah blah, we hated everyone in line and they - including the security guard whores - hated us back. It was awesome on so many levels. I took a few walks on my own because I was too upset with everything continuing to go downhill in the first 2 days of my weekend. Finally went back to the line, sat and waited, and doors opened at 6. Went in to find the entire barricade filled with ND. Spectacular! So I stood behind the most annoying girl ever of course and was REALLY bummed for the hour wait. OH AND FYI - I know it got dissed, haha, but I totally sent the text to the jumbo-tron thing that read "Bayside is better" - ITS THE TRUTH! So after I got my giggles from that, Phantom Planet came on and only did 4 songs for unknown reasons. It's probably because Alex talks entirely too much, but who knows. The Hush Sound made me all sorts of happy, I'd missed them entirely too much. MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK STOLE THE SHOW. Jesus Christ in heaven, I love them so much. I belted the words out with everything in me and had a fabulous time watching them. Then Panic...oh Panic at the Disco. I cannot lie at the fact that I love them. I love listening to them, and seeing them, yes. But having to be with all their DUMB fans, and watch them put on an ACT on stage (yes, even without the stupid dancers) is just too much for me anymore. They are not the genuine band I saw in 2005 or even early 2006. I lost that a long time ago. The did good minus killing my favorite song and not playing my 2nd favorite, but whatever, they had my money already. I bought the Phantom hoodie I'd been wanting, then watched Alex play some acoustic songs in the parking lot. We left soon after that.
4/26 - Got up at around 9am. Packed all of our stuff up and drove to downtown Orlando. Found a Chipotle! Man, I haven't had some of that stuff in about 2 years, I missed it a LOT. After stuffing our faces we went to The Social and LOLed at the ridiculous kids out there. I swear to God we were the only sane ones. We went to Subway and saw a full throttle argument between customer and server, that was great. Then while filling my drink cup, this dude asked who I was seeing that night. "Breathe Carolina" was my response, and he looked at me like a retard. Wahtever. We went and got in the mile long line and waited for the 4 o'clock doors. (Early shows are so weird.) The kids there just got more and more obnoxious. The dude from subway comes up to me and asks for a pen. Like...seriously? You just randomly come out and ask me OUT OF EVERYONE for a pen? Ok bro. So we go in and stand on the back balcony thing. I have a 14 year old druggie pass out next to me, some crazy little gay boy talk about his orgasmic Circa shirt talk with us, and too many other dumb things happen including being bit by Amber. So Dr.Manhattan was first, and were quite a sight to say the least. People liked touching them. (And all the other bands for that matter.) Schoolyard Heroes were so good! That girl sure has some pipes on her, I swear. Breath Carolina has SO MANY Florida fans. I would have never thought kids knew them so well already. They were out of the shirt I wanted. bummer. They did really well though. And last but of course not least...Jeffree Star. You know, I don't care what anyone says - yeah, I paid $15 to see the internet tranny superstar. And you know what? He was really good live! And dear baby Jesus, he is SO BEAUTIFUL. We actually almost met him, but people do not know how to behave around "celebrities" so that ended really fast. Blackey made friends with Breathe Carolina and that was a really cute way to end the night. We drove back home to Jacksonville after this, and got home at around 11.
Today is Sunday. Today I am seeing someone I respect with all that is inside of me. I'll tell you how it goes.
Oh, and remember that milestone I mentioned? Tonight. 100th show. Epic.
