Sing, Until Your Lungs Give Out. (Because I pretty much did, last night.)

So tired after last night.
It was just so perfect, except for one thing, but I'll get to that after because
first I need to try and describe just how it was.

Doors were supposed to open at 5:30.
We got to the UBC campus sometime around 3.
Parked (on the fifth level of this one parkade
THAT WAS ACTUALLY SUPER FAR AWAY FROM THE VENUE,
even though we followed this stupid sign that told us to park there.
AND, there was no elevator so we had to walk up and down all those stairs, and it sucked.)
and then walked to Starbucks and got some baked goods,
and some frapp-ey things with 'whip' on them.
Mine was a strawberry flavour.
Extremely sweet, and probably my new favourite thing from
there, because a vanilla latte just doesn't measure up.

So, we stood in line for what turned out to be more like 2 hours then 1 hour and 30 mins.
There were two lines, one for the people in seats and one for the floor,
and we didn't know that at first and were at this long-ish line being like "well, shit."
And laughing at this appreantly drunk man who had a beer and was just LOLing about random shit and talking to himself. We got a video, you'll be able to see it was funny.
Anyway. So we eventually found out about the other line, and then went into it.
And told these other people and then they knew too.
SO, we got into the other line.
And we're continuing on, doing the shit we were doing before, except we couldn't see drunk-dude anymore and eventually he left/maybe got escorted away by security.
And then Jenn is reading the signs on the door from afar (because there were a few people in front of us and the door was a bit away) AND SHE SAW ONE THAT ALMOST RUINED MY WHOLE ENTIRE DAY. "Due to illness, COBRA STARSHIP will not be playing tonight."
or something along those lines.
And it's a tiny-ass sign, and they only had them on the door.
And there was just this SEA of people wearing purple and CS shirts
(I even had mine on) who obviously didn't know about it, because we didn't until
just then. And it was just ridiculous.
And you know whos fault it is?
GABE.
He was puking.
Supposedly for 2 hours straight, the night before or in the morning of something,
so they 'suggested' he go to the hospital, so he did. He'll be fine and everything,
and it's just a short sickness and he'll be better before the next venue, probably.
BUT IT FUCKING SUCKED.
Because I wanted to see them,
I really did.
The show was great, but it was just lacking so much because they weren't there.
THE REST OF THE BAND DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO MAKE ANY APPEARANCE,
THE BASTARDS. They could've done ONE song without him.
Like, I'm sure SOMEBODY ELSE COULD'VE SANG!
Or they could've just popped in and said 'hey', or one of them could've
came out for one of the other bands songs or something!
And really, I was just expecting more from Fall Out Boy.
It felt really rushed. And I saw a video of an American Boy cover they were doing,
at least in europe and asia, etc. but they never played it here.
It was a very toned-down show from the last one I went to, which had all the crazy
graphics and shit on the screen. They had these screen things on the stage,
but I couldn't really see them at all because they were low and a lot of people
in the crowd were tall, so I couldn't see things below the level of peoples heads.

But, enough of complaints.


Hey Monday came on first.
We had to wait forever after we came in to the venue for them to be playing,
because there was still tech shit being done.
But anyway. They came on. I could barely tell what Cassadee was saying,
it was either too loud or too slurred/muddled together.
Not a bad performance, though. They did all their hits.
Pete came out during the second song they played, and everyone went wild.
Even me, just because I knew that soon I would get to see my favourite.

So, anyway.
Hey Monday was on.
And I danced around, jumped some.
Tried to just listen to the music and
enjoy being in the crowd.
We were really close, so it was good.

After them came Metro Station.
And seriously, Miley Cyrus's brother looks totally different in person.
He looks taller on TV, he's kind of short.
And extremely skinny.
Dude, he took his shirt off and he looked like a starving person,
all his ribs were poking out and it was just not attractive at all.
Anyway. They were okay.
Very high energy, but also all over the place
and just very....I don't know. There didn't seem to be any certain direction they were going with anything, they were just kind of like "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."
And stuff. And the dude would always be like "SCREAM IT," and like, expect everyone to sing along but I didn't know the words.

It was funny, because in those parts I was like "I DON'T KNOW THE WORDS, BUT, I LIKE TO SING ALONG!" and everyone around me LOL'd. It was like that whenever we were waiting, I made jokes and it was funny. One ugly chick got pissed off at my jokes and said I was being bitchy,
and it was funny because I just made her look stupid.

So, after Metro Station came All Time Low.
They played the one song I like a lot from them,
Six Feet Under The Stars or something.
It was good, they sound pretty good live.
I sang along to the parts I knew, and just danced around and had fun, w/e.
They played what would be most of their normal set. But then they had extra time because Cobra wasn't there (like, wtf. give the extra time to FOB, thanks. =/ )
and they asked what song they should sing. One guy raised his hand, and they were like "okay, dude in the purple sweater!" and he was like "A BLOWJOB SONG."
And they were like "WTF SONG IS THAT!"
and it was amusing, the guy that sings or whatever kept making jokes the whole time and stuff.
so they made up a song about that right on the spot.
I taped most of it, and just LOL'd.

AND GUESS WHO I SAW IN THE CROWD. During Metro Stations set, I think, I noticed someone familiar near me.
It was Nick Stanley, who I was in theatre company with.
And then I looked beside him, and I saw MATT.
Who I had a crush on, remember?
YES, HIM.
Did I mention I saw him a few months back?
We were at the guildford wal-mart and i guess he works there.
Anyway.
YES, HIM.
And I couldn't even help but stare a little bit, it was just so weird
and out of the blue and he is just cute.
And so whatever.
I went back to enjoying the show and whatever, but later I was looking out of the corner of my eye and saw Matt nodding over to me, telling his brother or whatever.
I almost didn't see them, because Nick got as tall as Matt (before he was only a little bit taller then me) and he was wearing his hair differently.
I should've known they would've been there, they both love FOB.
So anyway. I tell jenn "I know those guys there, from school."
And then later, while we were waiting for All Time Low, the crowd had shifted and Nick was no where to be seen, and Matt had ended up so he was on the other side of us, with Jenn basically beside him and me behind Jenn.
And I like whispered to her, I'm like "Dude, I've had a crush on him for like ever."
And SHE TOLD HIM. And he didn't even so much as look at me,
I wanted to die for a few minutes there.

But anyway. We met this chick from Alberta, probably my age or a year older.
She flew in for the show, and we found out she flys all over for shows all the time.
Close places, at least. Her parents take her, and I thought that was just so cool.
Like a while ago she saw Lady Gaga in seattle and said the show was good.
I told her about seeing Marianas Trench a coupld weeks back, and she seemed impressed by that. We kept talking to her all the time and stuff, but during All Time Low, the moshing started getting more ferocious. We were on the back end of the pit, trying to stay out of it but they kept smashing into us, and everyone just kept pushing them far away into other people.
Some stupid bitch kept stepping on jenns foot/ankle and ended up really hurting it.
Jenn was wearing flats, and her feet kept getting stepped on and she ended up spraining her ankle and she was in a lot of pain and had to go sit down, so for a long while I was by myself in the crowd. Hoda was there (chick from alberta), so I had someone to talk to at least.

Umm.
OH, and All Time Low, talked a bit about how
great it was Blink-182 was reuniting, and played a song by them.
I don't remember which one, but i know the words to it because I sang along.
I sang along to every song. More or less screaming the words then anything else.
I was honestly trying to lose my voice, because i never have but I didn't.
My lungs are sore, though.
Because during all the dancing/jumping/screaming I just couldn't get enough air and my heart was pounding. I couldn't feel it though, couldn't really feel anything at all I was just completely consumed by the music.
ESPECIALLY WHEN FOB CAME ON.
I screamed and screamed and screamed when the intro video was on that they always have, and then they came out and they were playing...and I don't even remember what song was first.
I just remember how perfect it was. How I could FEEL the music. It was so loud, it made the baggy part of my jeans vibrate against my legs. It was so loud, I could hear it thumping in my chest and pressing into my ears. And the crowd was all around me, and they were RIGHT there, on the stage, so close...so, so close. And I was so happy.
It felt like home, it felt like everything I want to be, everything I want to think about, everything I want to feel. Everything that was crap about the past few months, just didn't exist.
I remember, they opened with Disloyal Order, and I'm pretty sure they played Thriller next.
And because of an inside joke I have with jenn, I was jumping and my hand was in a peace sign, instead of the trademarked other thing that I don't even know the meaning of. But anyway, I had been doing that the entire time. But I did it more for FOB, because I wanted them to notice me. To see me, and somehow just know. Just know how much I loved them and their music and how there isn't even a word for how I felt at the show. I took a ton of videos. Mostly just snippets, but I got Headfirst Slide in full, for dollface. I got Jenn to tape it, actually, though.
I'm pretty sure I got some of beat it on video, but my camera battery was at like nothing when I was taping that, and the camera ended up DYING right before I had a chance to stop recording, so I don't have any idea.

And it was just so much fun.
Here's a rough version of the songs they played, some in order but some I didn't remember their placement because by that time in the night, I was exhausted from standing up for 7 hours straight and from all the jumping around/ dancing.

Disloyal Order of Buffaloes/ Thriller/ I Dont Care/ A Little Less 16 Candles/Grand Theft Autumn/ Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet/I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy.../Sugar were goin down/ The Takeover The breaksover/ This aint a scene/ Beat It/America's Suite Hearts/ Dance Dance/ Saturday/

Jenn made a heart with her hands at Joe, and he pointed right at her.
I kept making peace signs through the whole thing,
and during Saturday, Patrick did them a couple times.
It could've been because there's a couple times in that song where there is the word 'two', but I'd like to think it's more that it wasn't just my imagination seeing him looking right at me for a split second at times through out the show, and that he had noticed me while i was jumping as high as I could (I'm actually a high jumper when I want to be, and I had my head above others and my arms waay up in the air)...and so, I'm going to think like that because I want to.

Will post pics and videos later.
I will make sure to actually upload the videos, etc.
I'm just so tired. And sore.
Every thing is sore, but I don't care.
I was so happy yesterday, I could've cried.
Everything was just perfect.

OH.
And, even though there was a huge lacking of Cobra Starship,
I know Gabey was there in spirit.
Because someone threw a bra up on stage before Metro Station.
And it actually looked a bit like one I have, LOL.













Also: I wonder where Dollface is.
Hmm.