BEST WEEK EVAR
Ok, so I had the BEST WEEK EVAR. Buckle your seatbelts, cos this is gonna be a really really long entry!
>>NOTE! THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS ENTRY!!! IF YOU WANT THE WHOLE THING CHECK BACK LATER!!!! IT IS NOT DONE YET!!!!<<<
Sunday-Water fight
Monday- FOUNDERS DAY
Tuesday- Special schedule
Wednesday- Nose piercing
Thursday *byebye to nose piercing*
aaaaannndd.... the crowning glory of the BEST WEEK EVAR. I went to a show of a little band called MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and THE BLACK PARADE. (The band seems to have an identity crisis, and doesn't know which to call themselves, as they played one set as The Black Parade and one as My Chemical Romance. [read: they played TWO SETS]
On friday after school I got dressed as a scene kid. Black&White nail polish, hard rock copenhagen T-shirt, tight jeans with zippers all over them, and lotsa CBRs in my ears. I grabbed Sabeen and Kristine, and Kristine's mom was kind enough to drive us to a little town called cumberland maryland. There we dined on Subway and made our way to the Merriwether Post Pavillion. I didn't know what to expect, but I knew there would be a looong line.
Ohhh boy. Long lines got nothing on this. Airports got nothing on this. Amusment parks got nothing on this. It was a fucking MASSIVE line. 2-5 people thick, and litterally longer than the eye could see...... FUCK! We were gonna have to wait in line for like a YEAR!!! After amusing ourselves with... actually I don't remember... for about 10 to 15 minutes, Kristine saw some people going down a path to our left, so she was like "let's see where they're going!!" Sabs and I didn't want to leave our place in line, so we let Kristine scout it out. 2 minutes later- phone call. "Get up here! NOW!!!" Turns out a baby line had started next to the MASSIVE one, and we were in in less than 2 minutes. Follow streams of people. Where's the actual stage? No one really knows. We go under this huuge tarp thing..... and find the stage. Do we take seats? WTF? I thought we had general admission. Doesn't that mean mosh pit? Overhear obese goth girls talking about wristbands. What? You need a wristband to get into the pit. How does one get one of these wristbands? Then a stream of people gets into the pit and immediately attaches itself to the bar. ohhhkayyy..... follow line of people. See people handing out wristbands. Must. Get. Wristbands. NOT SETTLING FOR A SEAT!!! Get wristbands. Go into pit. Front&Center, biotch, and about 7-8 people away from the bar.
AAAAGHHHHH!!!! Finally it hits me. I'm going to see My Chemical Romance. Today. I'm going to see GERARD WAY onstage, TODAY.
>>But first we have to wait in the growing and sardine-y pit. For an hour until Muse comes on. During this hour, we
~ Met some 8th graders behind us named Jada and Maya... talk about junk with them, play animal concentration with them, establish myself as an experienced concert-goer (HA) with them, then promptly lose them.
~Squirm forward in crowd until only 4-5 people from bar. Get waaaay too close to that kid with the pimples. Like... woah.
~Lots of push wars going on. The back of the crowd would push towards the front to try to move forward {think about it guys, it doesn't work that way.} so the front of the crowd would push back.Then the left side of the crowd would push towards the right, and the right would push towards the left. We got ~almost~ knocked over like 405989823 times.
Muse played. Blahblahblahblah. I don't know ANY of their songs, so I concentrated on surviving and getting my body temprature down and getting used to the pit. It was... not exactly brutal, but not a cake-walk.
Sometime during Muse, Kristine got in front of pimple-man, and a guy named "Large" gets in front of me. Like no shit it said "Large 6" on the back of his shirt. He was REALLY SWEATY. I mean, yeah, we were all sweaty, but he smellled like a goddamn sea-salt factory. Oh yeah did I mention he was FAT? and LARGE? and stepped on my feet?
Between Muse and MCR, we met a girl who groped me. A lot. Like, she rested her hand in where my cleavage would be if I had any, and just sort of rested it there. "Um, excuse me?" Turns out she was wearing flip-flops. WHAT THE HELL???? WHO WEARS FLIP-FLOPS IN A MOSH PIT??
THE BLACK PARADE (the part you've been waiting for!!!)
SoOoOoO, the pit lights went out. Actually, all the lights went out. SCREAMING!!! SCREAMING!!!! WAAAAAHHH!!!! OOOHHH!!!! SQUEEEELLLL!!! WE LOOVEE YOU GERARDDDD!!! EMM CEE AREEEE!!!! EEEEEEEHHHH!!!!! AAH GET OFF MY FEET!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!
The End. "So come one, come all to this tragic affair, wipe of your makeup, what's in is despair...."
Lights come up and there's a hospital bed on the stage. Someone crawls off it, dressed in a white hospital gown... this someone has short black hair, and WHITE skin. Not pale, but WHITE, as in vampire-white, chalk-white, stage-makeup white. He's holding a microphone and it's obvious that the haunting voice coming through the speakers is his.... we're so close we can see him clearly... it's GERARD WAY!
"I DISCOURAGE YOUR SMILES! I EXPECT YOU ALL CRY!!!"
The curtain falls, the hospital gown falls, the bed dissappears, the Dorrie gets pummled and groped, The Black Parade is onstage and ROCKING OUT.
Dead! Either between The End and Dead!, or after Dead!, Gerard goes "Hello Maryland! Marilyn! Actually I think I'll call you Marilyn, because... I LIKE THAT NAME. HOW ARE YOU, MARILYN???" [[then later, when I can't remember, he goes "Marilyn, sweet sweet Marilyn!"]]
This is how I dissappear
The Sharpest Lives The mosh action was really really intense.
Welcome to the Black Parade You could tell that this was a single, it was one of the few songs for which everyone in the pit knew every word. It was like we were in church or something, except screaming in unison "I'm just a man, I'm not a hero, I'm just a boy, who had to sing this song!" Instead of saying demurely "amen" but it had a similar feel. Also, push wars happened a lot during this!
I don't love you
House of Wolves
Cancer Dorrie's ultimate emo moment!!! I cried!!! YES!! I shed tears in the pit during this song! It's already an emotional song for me, but after hearing Gerard say "This is a song about a disease that affects so many people not just in america, but all over the world, and I'm sure it's affected some of you..." I just couldn't take it. To hear his voice sing the words, "All my hair's abandoned all my body, all my agony" It made me think of Mrs. Spahn, and how strong she is in spite of it all, "Know that I will never marry, baby I'm just soggy from the chemo, but countin down the days to go..." I just stood there, cell phone aloft, and cried. I'm also pretty sure Gerard made eye contact with me. "Oh yeah, fangirl crying in the pit, again..." But... it was... soooo amazing.... wow.....
Mama Gerard def. strutted around at the beginning of this song, sexy as hell... and there were flamethrowers behind the drum risers that came on near the end, scorching all of us, really intense...
Sleep
Teenagers Oh yeah, did I mention I CROWDSURFED during this song?
"The Black Parade only has 2 songs left now, and then you'll have to put up with the likes of MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE. Quite frankly? Their language is ATROCIOUS, they're horrible dressers!!!"
Disenchanted
Famous Last Words
My Chemical Romance
I'm Not OK
Cemetary Drive
Give 'Em Hell Kid
This is What They Do To Guys Like Us in Prison
Helena "Marilyn, you've been a bad bad girl...." I also crowdsurfed here, in fact, that's how all 3 of us got out of the pit. Yeah you read that right, Sabeen crowdsurfed!!! But I got flipped over, it was really freaky, one moment I could see my feet in front of me then I was face down and my head was over a blank space where there was no crowd, it was a total "omg I'm about to die and someone's hand is on my boob" moment". But then the security guard grabbed me and yanked me out of there. I can't wait to surf a larger crowd, this was over way too fast!
After all this we went to kathsan's house and craaashed. I didn't throw up, miraculously, but I threw up the morning after. W00t w00t.
Back to school. Back to bed.
Wake up. Computer. Ellllljay.
MORE LATER!!! I PROMISES!
>>NOTE! THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS ENTRY!!! IF YOU WANT THE WHOLE THING CHECK BACK LATER!!!! IT IS NOT DONE YET!!!!<<<
Sunday-Water fight
Monday- FOUNDERS DAY
Tuesday- Special schedule
Wednesday- Nose piercing
Thursday *byebye to nose piercing*
aaaaannndd.... the crowning glory of the BEST WEEK EVAR. I went to a show of a little band called MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and THE BLACK PARADE. (The band seems to have an identity crisis, and doesn't know which to call themselves, as they played one set as The Black Parade and one as My Chemical Romance. [read: they played TWO SETS]
On friday after school I got dressed as a scene kid. Black&White nail polish, hard rock copenhagen T-shirt, tight jeans with zippers all over them, and lotsa CBRs in my ears. I grabbed Sabeen and Kristine, and Kristine's mom was kind enough to drive us to a little town called cumberland maryland. There we dined on Subway and made our way to the Merriwether Post Pavillion. I didn't know what to expect, but I knew there would be a looong line.
Ohhh boy. Long lines got nothing on this. Airports got nothing on this. Amusment parks got nothing on this. It was a fucking MASSIVE line. 2-5 people thick, and litterally longer than the eye could see...... FUCK! We were gonna have to wait in line for like a YEAR!!! After amusing ourselves with... actually I don't remember... for about 10 to 15 minutes, Kristine saw some people going down a path to our left, so she was like "let's see where they're going!!" Sabs and I didn't want to leave our place in line, so we let Kristine scout it out. 2 minutes later- phone call. "Get up here! NOW!!!" Turns out a baby line had started next to the MASSIVE one, and we were in in less than 2 minutes. Follow streams of people. Where's the actual stage? No one really knows. We go under this huuge tarp thing..... and find the stage. Do we take seats? WTF? I thought we had general admission. Doesn't that mean mosh pit? Overhear obese goth girls talking about wristbands. What? You need a wristband to get into the pit. How does one get one of these wristbands? Then a stream of people gets into the pit and immediately attaches itself to the bar. ohhhkayyy..... follow line of people. See people handing out wristbands. Must. Get. Wristbands. NOT SETTLING FOR A SEAT!!! Get wristbands. Go into pit. Front&Center, biotch, and about 7-8 people away from the bar.
AAAAGHHHHH!!!! Finally it hits me. I'm going to see My Chemical Romance. Today. I'm going to see GERARD WAY onstage, TODAY.
>>But first we have to wait in the growing and sardine-y pit. For an hour until Muse comes on. During this hour, we
~ Met some 8th graders behind us named Jada and Maya... talk about junk with them, play animal concentration with them, establish myself as an experienced concert-goer (HA) with them, then promptly lose them.
~Squirm forward in crowd until only 4-5 people from bar. Get waaaay too close to that kid with the pimples. Like... woah.
~Lots of push wars going on. The back of the crowd would push towards the front to try to move forward {think about it guys, it doesn't work that way.} so the front of the crowd would push back.Then the left side of the crowd would push towards the right, and the right would push towards the left. We got ~almost~ knocked over like 405989823 times.
Muse played. Blahblahblahblah. I don't know ANY of their songs, so I concentrated on surviving and getting my body temprature down and getting used to the pit. It was... not exactly brutal, but not a cake-walk.
Sometime during Muse, Kristine got in front of pimple-man, and a guy named "Large" gets in front of me. Like no shit it said "Large 6" on the back of his shirt. He was REALLY SWEATY. I mean, yeah, we were all sweaty, but he smellled like a goddamn sea-salt factory. Oh yeah did I mention he was FAT? and LARGE? and stepped on my feet?
Between Muse and MCR, we met a girl who groped me. A lot. Like, she rested her hand in where my cleavage would be if I had any, and just sort of rested it there. "Um, excuse me?" Turns out she was wearing flip-flops. WHAT THE HELL???? WHO WEARS FLIP-FLOPS IN A MOSH PIT??
THE BLACK PARADE (the part you've been waiting for!!!)
SoOoOoO, the pit lights went out. Actually, all the lights went out. SCREAMING!!! SCREAMING!!!! WAAAAAHHH!!!! OOOHHH!!!! SQUEEEELLLL!!! WE LOOVEE YOU GERARDDDD!!! EMM CEE AREEEE!!!! EEEEEEEHHHH!!!!! AAH GET OFF MY FEET!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!
The End. "So come one, come all to this tragic affair, wipe of your makeup, what's in is despair...."
Lights come up and there's a hospital bed on the stage. Someone crawls off it, dressed in a white hospital gown... this someone has short black hair, and WHITE skin. Not pale, but WHITE, as in vampire-white, chalk-white, stage-makeup white. He's holding a microphone and it's obvious that the haunting voice coming through the speakers is his.... we're so close we can see him clearly... it's GERARD WAY!
"I DISCOURAGE YOUR SMILES! I EXPECT YOU ALL CRY!!!"
The curtain falls, the hospital gown falls, the bed dissappears, the Dorrie gets pummled and groped, The Black Parade is onstage and ROCKING OUT.
Dead! Either between The End and Dead!, or after Dead!, Gerard goes "Hello Maryland! Marilyn! Actually I think I'll call you Marilyn, because... I LIKE THAT NAME. HOW ARE YOU, MARILYN???" [[then later, when I can't remember, he goes "Marilyn, sweet sweet Marilyn!"]]
This is how I dissappear
The Sharpest Lives The mosh action was really really intense.
Welcome to the Black Parade You could tell that this was a single, it was one of the few songs for which everyone in the pit knew every word. It was like we were in church or something, except screaming in unison "I'm just a man, I'm not a hero, I'm just a boy, who had to sing this song!" Instead of saying demurely "amen" but it had a similar feel. Also, push wars happened a lot during this!
I don't love you
House of Wolves
Cancer Dorrie's ultimate emo moment!!! I cried!!! YES!! I shed tears in the pit during this song! It's already an emotional song for me, but after hearing Gerard say "This is a song about a disease that affects so many people not just in america, but all over the world, and I'm sure it's affected some of you..." I just couldn't take it. To hear his voice sing the words, "All my hair's abandoned all my body, all my agony" It made me think of Mrs. Spahn, and how strong she is in spite of it all, "Know that I will never marry, baby I'm just soggy from the chemo, but countin down the days to go..." I just stood there, cell phone aloft, and cried. I'm also pretty sure Gerard made eye contact with me. "Oh yeah, fangirl crying in the pit, again..." But... it was... soooo amazing.... wow.....
Mama Gerard def. strutted around at the beginning of this song, sexy as hell... and there were flamethrowers behind the drum risers that came on near the end, scorching all of us, really intense...
Sleep
Teenagers Oh yeah, did I mention I CROWDSURFED during this song?
"The Black Parade only has 2 songs left now, and then you'll have to put up with the likes of MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE. Quite frankly? Their language is ATROCIOUS, they're horrible dressers!!!"
Disenchanted
Famous Last Words
My Chemical Romance
I'm Not OK
Cemetary Drive
Give 'Em Hell Kid
This is What They Do To Guys Like Us in Prison
Helena "Marilyn, you've been a bad bad girl...." I also crowdsurfed here, in fact, that's how all 3 of us got out of the pit. Yeah you read that right, Sabeen crowdsurfed!!! But I got flipped over, it was really freaky, one moment I could see my feet in front of me then I was face down and my head was over a blank space where there was no crowd, it was a total "omg I'm about to die and someone's hand is on my boob" moment". But then the security guard grabbed me and yanked me out of there. I can't wait to surf a larger crowd, this was over way too fast!
After all this we went to kathsan's house and craaashed. I didn't throw up, miraculously, but I threw up the morning after. W00t w00t.
Back to school. Back to bed.
Wake up. Computer. Ellllljay.
MORE LATER!!! I PROMISES!