Last Night & Today
Holy shit man...last night fuckin rocked!!!
(for those of you who don't know what the hell I'm talkin about, I went to the In Flames, As I Lay Dying, and Killswitch Engage concert)
Mike, My sister, and I got to the Cajun House at around 7:00, hoping that the line wouldn't be way too long...Too bad for us, we had no such luck. The line really started moving at around 7:30 when the doors were opened -- it was still light out when we got there, mind you -- when we finally got up to the doors, it was about 8:10, and it was friggen dark! We went inside and found a place to chill, then the show started...this is where it got fun! As I Lay Dying, one of my favorite bands, played first. My sister didn't let me headbang =( damn her. They played 94 Hours, Elegy, Forever, Falling Upon Deaf Ears, Distance Is Darkness, A Thousand Steps, Undefined, and The Pain Of Separation. I tried to study their guitarrists' fingers in some of the songs, to see how they were really played...that didn't work too great, but I think I caught some of the chord positions, so I will mess around with that stuff later on. After their set was over, the three of us went up closer to the stage, it smelled like weed mixed with sweat. Up next was Killswitch Engage, which, I don't really care for, but their lead guitarrist is funnier than hell. He was making fun of some chick that was completely shitfaced not even half way through the show. He introduced In Flames, by saying "Those Swedish meatballs. Those guys are like riff wizards. They like, sit in their rooms, and cast magic spells." and then they played a few more songs. I was in the mosh pit through most of their set, moreso for their only good songs, Fixation on the Darkness, and My Last Serenade. Since I missed their show at Ozzfest last year, I made up for it by going fucking crazy during those two songs. My sister got pissed at me for headbanging so hard, lol. After Killswitch, we went closer to the stage, and chilled over by the bar waiting for In Flames to come on. My sister started to feel sick because she's a little claustrophobic sometimes, so she left to get some air and go take a nap, which was a shame, because she really went to see In Flames. In Flames finally started playing at like 10:50, which, didn't really give Mike and I enough time to hear their entire set...that kind of sucked. They played Episode 666, Cloud Connected, Touch Of Red, Like You Better Dead, Embody the Invisible, and somethin else, while we were there, and as we were leaving they started playing In Search For I. Then we went home...it sucked cuz I wanted to stay to see if they played The Quiet Place, but it was too late, I had to be home at midnight. So yeah, that was pretty much my entire weekend. Today, I got up at like 6:15 and took a shower since I was fuckin filthy from last night. I drank an energy drink, to see if it would help at all, since I was so fuckin tired and all, it didn't do a whole lot. So I have really been tired all day. I got to see Jen for a couple minutes before she went to class, and told her about the concert. I didn't really do much work, other than a test in history, and fixed some stuff on my tech web journal in StRUT...and then, made some test corrections in math. It was strange...Jessica got a better grade on the test than I did...and she now has a higher overall grade...lol. We were both pretty friggen amazed, lol. And yeah, that's all I really did today. I got to talk to Jen at lunch a little bit too =D! But yeah, now here I am...sitting in front of my computer, talking to peoples, and updating my journal! So uhh...maybe I will update later on tonight. If not, I will tomorrow!!! Until then, peace!
I love you Jen!
~Dan
P.S. Damn Jen, I wish you could have gone to the concert, you would have had lots of fun! lol
(for those of you who don't know what the hell I'm talkin about, I went to the In Flames, As I Lay Dying, and Killswitch Engage concert)
Mike, My sister, and I got to the Cajun House at around 7:00, hoping that the line wouldn't be way too long...Too bad for us, we had no such luck. The line really started moving at around 7:30 when the doors were opened -- it was still light out when we got there, mind you -- when we finally got up to the doors, it was about 8:10, and it was friggen dark! We went inside and found a place to chill, then the show started...this is where it got fun! As I Lay Dying, one of my favorite bands, played first. My sister didn't let me headbang =( damn her. They played 94 Hours, Elegy, Forever, Falling Upon Deaf Ears, Distance Is Darkness, A Thousand Steps, Undefined, and The Pain Of Separation. I tried to study their guitarrists' fingers in some of the songs, to see how they were really played...that didn't work too great, but I think I caught some of the chord positions, so I will mess around with that stuff later on. After their set was over, the three of us went up closer to the stage, it smelled like weed mixed with sweat. Up next was Killswitch Engage, which, I don't really care for, but their lead guitarrist is funnier than hell. He was making fun of some chick that was completely shitfaced not even half way through the show. He introduced In Flames, by saying "Those Swedish meatballs. Those guys are like riff wizards. They like, sit in their rooms, and cast magic spells." and then they played a few more songs. I was in the mosh pit through most of their set, moreso for their only good songs, Fixation on the Darkness, and My Last Serenade. Since I missed their show at Ozzfest last year, I made up for it by going fucking crazy during those two songs. My sister got pissed at me for headbanging so hard, lol. After Killswitch, we went closer to the stage, and chilled over by the bar waiting for In Flames to come on. My sister started to feel sick because she's a little claustrophobic sometimes, so she left to get some air and go take a nap, which was a shame, because she really went to see In Flames. In Flames finally started playing at like 10:50, which, didn't really give Mike and I enough time to hear their entire set...that kind of sucked. They played Episode 666, Cloud Connected, Touch Of Red, Like You Better Dead, Embody the Invisible, and somethin else, while we were there, and as we were leaving they started playing In Search For I. Then we went home...it sucked cuz I wanted to stay to see if they played The Quiet Place, but it was too late, I had to be home at midnight. So yeah, that was pretty much my entire weekend. Today, I got up at like 6:15 and took a shower since I was fuckin filthy from last night. I drank an energy drink, to see if it would help at all, since I was so fuckin tired and all, it didn't do a whole lot. So I have really been tired all day. I got to see Jen for a couple minutes before she went to class, and told her about the concert. I didn't really do much work, other than a test in history, and fixed some stuff on my tech web journal in StRUT...and then, made some test corrections in math. It was strange...Jessica got a better grade on the test than I did...and she now has a higher overall grade...lol. We were both pretty friggen amazed, lol. And yeah, that's all I really did today. I got to talk to Jen at lunch a little bit too =D! But yeah, now here I am...sitting in front of my computer, talking to peoples, and updating my journal! So uhh...maybe I will update later on tonight. If not, I will tomorrow!!! Until then, peace!
I love you Jen!
~Dan
P.S. Damn Jen, I wish you could have gone to the concert, you would have had lots of fun! lol