march of the pigs
Remember that song, kiddos. I nearly died during it, or at least passed out.
Does that make sense? Well, you know what I mean.
Last night was... jesus.
The Dresden Dolls were soooo good. SO GOOD! One minute, Brian (I could see a lot more of him from where I was, which was in the middle/center of the pit, whenever the tall guys in front of me shifted some) he had on a cute black suit and red tie, and the next minute, whoa!shirtless!
Like I minded. :P
The crowd wasn't very nice to the Dolls, though. My brother said he heard some bitch behind him say: "Oh, the have fans?" when they came out and a few of us cheered for them. Pfft.
The minute, nay, the very second Amanda and Brian walked off stage, this... all these... people just pushed forward out of fucking nowhere and my brother and I were stuck like sardines, sans oil, though. My arms were stuck at my sides, and I could NOT for the life of me move them. Still, I thought I had a good spot cos despite the tall guys in front of me, I could still see the mic stand in the middle of the stage between their two heads. Yeah well... not for long. The minute Trent Reznor came out, of course everyone went crazy, but it was a level of madness I'd never been in the pit of. Before this show, Saves the Day was the worst crowd I'd ever been around, because not only did my glasses fall off, but once I got shoved off to the edge and could no longer see anything, some jerk kept shoving me off his-- I digress.
Anyway, I was freaking out about my brother cos some guy next to us had his elbow dangerously close to his neck but I could NOT bring my hands up to put them on his shoulders. That, and I put myself in a position where I wasn't directly behind him, and so, his shoulderblade conveniently shoved into my chest everytime EVERYONE pushed me every which way. Which was, constantly. Apparently, this all happened in the span of four songs, though I only heard the difference between two songs and it felt like forever. The crowd was swaying from left to right, which is NOT good. I seriously felt I was thisclose to falling flat on my face. A crowd surfer during the first song nearly knocked my glasses off. If they'd gotten knocked off during this show, that would have been the end of them. Anyway, the fear of falling among all those feet and the fact that, hello, I COULDN'T BREATHE! made me lose my cool entirely and I just went crazy. I was just screaming bloody murder. I think I started screaming around the second song, and by the third one, the people around me started asking me if I was okay. I kept saying I was, and then eventually I admitted I couldn't breathe. Cos I couldn't! I seriously was getting very little air in my lungs. They hurt like they've never hurt before. Hell, I got deeper breaths when I was out of breath and marching, during those last stretches of the parade route where I felt like I was so close to collapsing. I lost it when Trent pointed out at the crowd during "March of the Pigs" and screamed out: "MARCH!!" cos everyone started jumping up and down, five different feet landed on my right foot, and I couldn't take it anymore. I was lightheaded, taking short, shallow breaths, and according to my brother, I was hella red. (I get red easily though, AND the lights during this song were kinda orange-ish, so...) Again, the people around me offered to lift me up and pass me to the front to get me out of there, but I yelled at them that I couldn't leave without my brother. I probably scared the shit out of the poor kid cos he just told me to go, so about three or four guys lifted me up and I ended up rolling around on the tops of people's heads. It reminds me now of the time when I was first learning to swim, how I'd just claw at the water with my arms in an attempt to keep my head above water. It was like I was swimming in a sea of heads, but instead of my goal being my swimming teacher's arms, it was the security guy's hand. I grabbed it, not caring that my shirt somehow got lifted up or that I was as close to Trent Reznor as I'll probably ever be. Hell, I just wanted to breathe. I pulled a Tonks walking off to the right side of the crowd, through that passageway between the stage and the crowd, cos I tripped on the edge of a barricade.
Once I was safe on the right side of the crowd, by the ginormous speakers, everyone was a LOT calmer. The crowd there consisted mostly of younger kids and older fans who were calmly watching the show. I was literally shaking and just gasping for air. I got a lot of "are you okays?" again, but this time I was, although now I had my brother to worry about. He was fine, by the way. He followed a girl behind us who also couldn't breathe. She, however, kept her cool and shoved her way to the back of the crowd. Took a crapload of pictures, and I seriously regret giving my digital camera to my mother. The security guys kept telling us, whilst we were in line, that only disposable cameras would be allowed at the show, so I gave her mine in case they demanded to open up the second zipper of my concert bag. of COURSE they didn't, I so could have sneaked it in and taken all the super-zoomed pictures I wanted. Dammit.
In retrospect: OMFGTRENTREZNOR!! SO GOOD!! SOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!1!1111ELEVENTYBILLION!!1
+ Nearly cried during "Hurt"
+ Screamed my lungs out during "Starfuckers, Inc." (my favorite!! :D) and "Head Like a Hole", the two encore songs.
+ Am alive and I didn't pass out!
+ Got to crowdsurf, something I never thought I'd do, cos I think it's stupid just cos twice I've had my glasses knocked off by a crowdsurfer's foot/hand/bodypart/whatever.
Trent scared the crap out of me when, during that little musical bridge in "Closer" he jumped into the crowd. He jumped right were I figured I left my brother, and in my head I freaked out, thinking he was probably getting smashed by everyone trying to get to Trent and AHH! I just freaked out.
+ Oh yeah, and my Starfucker shirt. I love it so... so soft... heeee!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!
:D :D :D
Omfg, finals next week... my brain is still on vacation. Lack of oxygen? All I know, is that I'm very, VERY sore.
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Omfg, his arms... they're so... GUH!! They're huge, in a very nice way... like... he's got good muscles, not all annoying and ginormous-like... and my god his butt... I saw so much of him from the side, I couldn't NOT notice... AHHHH! I love him so....
GUH!!
HEEEEE!!!
*dies*
eta: I WANT THIS!!!!
edit 2:
more highlights from the show, taken from posts on the ets.org message boards:
2.) Trentism's:
a.) "Look at all the little piggies.... ALLLLLLL the piggies.."
b.) Trent jumped in the pit during Closer (of all songs)
c.) Trent after a lack luster applause: "Is that all you got?"
d.) During the interlude of 'Starfuckers' ... during the 'don't you' repetition... Trent chimes in after about 10 times.. "I can do this all fucking night!" - to which the crowd roared. This was met by a feverish chant of "Don't You!" by the fans until Trent jokingly replied "This sounds like a FUCKING rock show.
setlist:
Wish
Sin
The Line Begins to Blur
March of the Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
The Hand that Feeds
Terrible Lie
Burn
Closer
Home
Even Deeper
Reptile
Love is Not Enough
Suck
Gave Up
The Day the World Went Away
Hurt
Starfuckers, Inc
Head Like a Hole
heeee!
Does that make sense? Well, you know what I mean.
Last night was... jesus.
The Dresden Dolls were soooo good. SO GOOD! One minute, Brian (I could see a lot more of him from where I was, which was in the middle/center of the pit, whenever the tall guys in front of me shifted some) he had on a cute black suit and red tie, and the next minute, whoa!shirtless!
Like I minded. :P
The crowd wasn't very nice to the Dolls, though. My brother said he heard some bitch behind him say: "Oh, the have fans?" when they came out and a few of us cheered for them. Pfft.
The minute, nay, the very second Amanda and Brian walked off stage, this... all these... people just pushed forward out of fucking nowhere and my brother and I were stuck like sardines, sans oil, though. My arms were stuck at my sides, and I could NOT for the life of me move them. Still, I thought I had a good spot cos despite the tall guys in front of me, I could still see the mic stand in the middle of the stage between their two heads. Yeah well... not for long. The minute Trent Reznor came out, of course everyone went crazy, but it was a level of madness I'd never been in the pit of. Before this show, Saves the Day was the worst crowd I'd ever been around, because not only did my glasses fall off, but once I got shoved off to the edge and could no longer see anything, some jerk kept shoving me off his-- I digress.
Anyway, I was freaking out about my brother cos some guy next to us had his elbow dangerously close to his neck but I could NOT bring my hands up to put them on his shoulders. That, and I put myself in a position where I wasn't directly behind him, and so, his shoulderblade conveniently shoved into my chest everytime EVERYONE pushed me every which way. Which was, constantly. Apparently, this all happened in the span of four songs, though I only heard the difference between two songs and it felt like forever. The crowd was swaying from left to right, which is NOT good. I seriously felt I was thisclose to falling flat on my face. A crowd surfer during the first song nearly knocked my glasses off. If they'd gotten knocked off during this show, that would have been the end of them. Anyway, the fear of falling among all those feet and the fact that, hello, I COULDN'T BREATHE! made me lose my cool entirely and I just went crazy. I was just screaming bloody murder. I think I started screaming around the second song, and by the third one, the people around me started asking me if I was okay. I kept saying I was, and then eventually I admitted I couldn't breathe. Cos I couldn't! I seriously was getting very little air in my lungs. They hurt like they've never hurt before. Hell, I got deeper breaths when I was out of breath and marching, during those last stretches of the parade route where I felt like I was so close to collapsing. I lost it when Trent pointed out at the crowd during "March of the Pigs" and screamed out: "MARCH!!" cos everyone started jumping up and down, five different feet landed on my right foot, and I couldn't take it anymore. I was lightheaded, taking short, shallow breaths, and according to my brother, I was hella red. (I get red easily though, AND the lights during this song were kinda orange-ish, so...) Again, the people around me offered to lift me up and pass me to the front to get me out of there, but I yelled at them that I couldn't leave without my brother. I probably scared the shit out of the poor kid cos he just told me to go, so about three or four guys lifted me up and I ended up rolling around on the tops of people's heads. It reminds me now of the time when I was first learning to swim, how I'd just claw at the water with my arms in an attempt to keep my head above water. It was like I was swimming in a sea of heads, but instead of my goal being my swimming teacher's arms, it was the security guy's hand. I grabbed it, not caring that my shirt somehow got lifted up or that I was as close to Trent Reznor as I'll probably ever be. Hell, I just wanted to breathe. I pulled a Tonks walking off to the right side of the crowd, through that passageway between the stage and the crowd, cos I tripped on the edge of a barricade.
Once I was safe on the right side of the crowd, by the ginormous speakers, everyone was a LOT calmer. The crowd there consisted mostly of younger kids and older fans who were calmly watching the show. I was literally shaking and just gasping for air. I got a lot of "are you okays?" again, but this time I was, although now I had my brother to worry about. He was fine, by the way. He followed a girl behind us who also couldn't breathe. She, however, kept her cool and shoved her way to the back of the crowd. Took a crapload of pictures, and I seriously regret giving my digital camera to my mother. The security guys kept telling us, whilst we were in line, that only disposable cameras would be allowed at the show, so I gave her mine in case they demanded to open up the second zipper of my concert bag. of COURSE they didn't, I so could have sneaked it in and taken all the super-zoomed pictures I wanted. Dammit.
In retrospect: OMFGTRENTREZNOR!! SO GOOD!! SOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!1!1111ELEVENTYBILLION!!1
+ Nearly cried during "Hurt"
+ Screamed my lungs out during "Starfuckers, Inc." (my favorite!! :D) and "Head Like a Hole", the two encore songs.
+ Am alive and I didn't pass out!
+ Got to crowdsurf, something I never thought I'd do, cos I think it's stupid just cos twice I've had my glasses knocked off by a crowdsurfer's foot/hand/bodypart/whatever.
Trent scared the crap out of me when, during that little musical bridge in "Closer" he jumped into the crowd. He jumped right were I figured I left my brother, and in my head I freaked out, thinking he was probably getting smashed by everyone trying to get to Trent and AHH! I just freaked out.
+ Oh yeah, and my Starfucker shirt. I love it so... so soft... heeee!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!
:D :D :D
Omfg, finals next week... my brain is still on vacation. Lack of oxygen? All I know, is that I'm very, VERY sore.
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Omfg, his arms... they're so... GUH!! They're huge, in a very nice way... like... he's got good muscles, not all annoying and ginormous-like... and my god his butt... I saw so much of him from the side, I couldn't NOT notice... AHHHH! I love him so....
GUH!!
HEEEEE!!!
*dies*
eta: I WANT THIS!!!!
edit 2:
more highlights from the show, taken from posts on the ets.org message boards:
2.) Trentism's:
a.) "Look at all the little piggies.... ALLLLLLL the piggies.."
b.) Trent jumped in the pit during Closer (of all songs)
c.) Trent after a lack luster applause: "Is that all you got?"
d.) During the interlude of 'Starfuckers' ... during the 'don't you' repetition... Trent chimes in after about 10 times.. "I can do this all fucking night!" - to which the crowd roared. This was met by a feverish chant of "Don't You!" by the fans until Trent jokingly replied "This sounds like a FUCKING rock show.
setlist:
Wish
Sin
The Line Begins to Blur
March of the Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
The Hand that Feeds
Terrible Lie
Burn
Closer
Home
Even Deeper
Reptile
Love is Not Enough
Suck
Gave Up
The Day the World Went Away
Hurt
Starfuckers, Inc
Head Like a Hole
heeee!