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so tonight was the last time that i will ever see the get up kids perform together. ever. do you know how much time that is?! that's a freakin' long time. after much debate over whether or not i'd be going to this show dateless (driving to philly alone? eww scariness), amanda stepped up and said that she'd go with me. it was hardcore girl time. if only kelly would have come too! boo on kelly for not coming. unfortunetly i'm not as great of a concert photographer as jeff always was, so my pictures are shitty...
just to give you an idea of what the whole experience looked like...
yeah we were in a really bad place to take pictures from...it was this weird little corner under the balcony. not bad to watch the show from, but not at all ideal for picture taking.
so, talk about a completely random thing to happen while at a show, listen to this. a bit after the get up kids go on, amanda is like "hey look at that guy on the side of the stage, he totally looks like chris carrabba! cuteness!" so we giggled about that for awhile and we decided to convince ourselves that it really was chris carrabba because...well how random is that? a little further into the show, james (the keyboard player) grabs this set list off the stage, and goes running around to all the guys on stage getting them to sign it. he's like "this is for our friend chris, cuz he's such a big fan of ours" and he runs over and gives it to the chris carrabba look-alike. at this point, amanda and i are like "wtf? that's weird..." so eventually james drags chris out on stage to play keyboard and sing with him AND IT SERIOUSLY WAS CHRIS CARRABBA!!! how random is that?!?!? haha that was sheer awesomeness. sadly this is the best picture that i could get of this event...
but wow, how weird, i love it. so the show was awesome, there wasn't any song that i was really looking forward to that they didn't play or anything. amanda was really looking forward to hearing "i'll catch you" and she was a little dissapointed that it didn't seem like they were going to play it, but they ended up closing with it (what better song is there to close with?). they even played "close to me". totally rock and roll.
not to ramble but...well i'm going to ramble. it was a really weird show for me. not just cuz of the chris carrabba thing, although that was weird. this was the first show that i've been to since jeff and i were no longer jeff and i. it was seriously tragic. i was on the verge of tears. there are some things that you can completely in every way share with a person, and i think music was one of those things to jeff and i. we just saw it the same way and it affected us the same way and i think that's an incredible thing to have. and even though the get up kids weren't one of his favorite bands, he would have come with me and probably had a great time and...i don't know, just understood it! that's what's important! aww nostalgia is totally stabbing me in the face right now. wow, i can't believe i just said that something was stabbing me in the face. what the hell does that mean? haha it was the first thing that came to mind, so i'm gonna stick with it.
ok enough of that. i can't believe i just wrote actual thoughts on an lj. that always ends badly. oh well, fuck it.
"don't worry, i'll catch you...don't ever worry"