I saw L`arc~en~ciel live and you didn't!
Well, that is unless you're one of the other 17,000 people that were also there...and I'm sure most of you who weren't there don't care that you missed it...but I'm gonna talk about it anyways.
Weeeeell, we left Huntsville around 7:30pm...made it to Baltimore at 9:30am...Just in time for check-in! We...by the way...is me, Porscha, Porscha's siblings Ryan and Toya, Cameron, and Josh. Thank the gods Porscha did pre-reg. The regular reg. line went on for blocks...pre-reg was a different story all together, and we had our badges and stickers for the concert (you had to stand in another line for the sticker to be able to get it) by 11:00. We hung out at the con and checked into the hotel and did all that good stuff. Showering never felt so good as it did that day.
The next morning, I'm getting a shower, and I can't turn the frickin' thing off...so YAY we get to move into a suite! That was pretty cool. I went to part of the J-pop panel and the J-rock panel. Pretty interesting. Watched some AMV's. Then I got ready for the reason I went....LARKU LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were told that no one was allowed to line up until 3:30. So we are like "haha, we'll get there at 3 and just mull around until we can line up." Well, Lesson #1 of going to conventions....if you come up with a great idea...so has everyone else. There was a line TO GET IN LINE! But it was okay, I got pretty damn close to the stage anyways. I didn't use my seat...hehe, I was getting as close as I could.
I'm talking that was like the best concert I've ever been to! And Hyde's Engrish could not have been more adorable. There were fireworks and flames shooting from the stage. And everyone was waving lighters and glowsticks during "Pieces"...last song of their encore.
Hyde: HELLO!
Audience: AAAAAAHHH!!!!
H: Hello America!!!!
A: AAAAHHHH!!!
H: Are you having fun?!
A: YYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
H: Me too! Did you eat craps?!
A: Huh?
H:Did you eat CRABS?
A: Uhm....YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
H: I eat too!
Later on...
H: Hey America! I am Evangelion!
A: *laughs*
H: You know? Evangelion...yes...it so beserk. C'mon America...get beserk!
A: AAAAHHHHH!
H: Get beserk!!!!
(this repeats several times)
Then after telling us they loved us abunch and blowing kisses, they played the final song. Then after like 10-15 minutes of screaming and stomping they came out for an encore. But first...Ken put on a little show. He was wearing a dolphin mask and making noises through a duck call. I thing the audience was supposed to scream back the same sound length that he was doing...or...something..I didn't quite figure it out. But then he was like "WHO AM I?" and we're like "KEN!" and he's like "WHO AM I?" and we're all like "KEEEEEEN" and he says "No. I Dolphin. Everyday people tell me jump, jump, jump..." and then I totaly lost what he was talking about and Hyde is sitting in the background with this "WTF?" face while Tetsu is play with...bananas? So then Tetsu goes "WHO WANTS TO EAT MY BANANA?" and everyone is like "MEEEEEEE" and he throws bananas into the audience...that was interesting. And Hyde begins throwing bottles of water, and I almost got killed by a fangirl who was trying to catch it.
Hyde is alot smaller than I thought he was. THe speakers were bigger than him.
Ok, well, anyways, you get the idea...concert was awesome. Stage presence=awesome....song set=awesome...and they sounded incredible. I love you Tofu Records.
By this point, some of the major otaku people are getting...not quite so fresh, and back at the con there was just this incredibly bad odor developing. Eh, I was clean. Cameron and I were all like "Lets go get beer and drink and then go watch that movie that will stain our souls!" Yeah, some movie called the Ebola Syndrome...I got pretty stained. But alas, we couldn't find a single place to get beer. We didn't even find the Baltimore night life until on the way back to the hotel at midnight. WTF? Baltimore kinda sucks. So after my lame attempt at dancing at the Rave (I told Cameron I wasn't used to that stuff...I go to ska shows...I just skank)we went to the staining movie. The people in front of us were eating chicken fingers. Cameron busts out "Oh my god, I am so glad their actually eating chicken fingers!" For a full two minutes he had thought that the BO was turning into a smell of food. He was really freaked out. We also found some water bubbling up out of some canal thing...it totally shouldn't have been bubbling. I was like "That is the most retarded fountain I have ever seen."
It was a fun day...and if you wanna be disgusted...see the Ebola Syndrome.
On the way back we learned that I-95 which goes through that whole Maryland, D.C., Virginia area is the worst strech of interstate ever. SOOOOO BUSY! We traveled like 10 miles in 2 hours. But it was ok...Porscha's dad lives in Virginia, we stopped there and had our first REAL meal in days. We ate sandwhiches (we brought stuff with us) and McDonalds...so we didn't starve ourselves, but real food was good. At least we weren't like that one girl we overheard say "Well, I ate yesterday, so I should be okay." And we didn't have to play the Sailor Moon song on the violin for money. We did alright.
Made it back at 9am Monday. Saw a reeeeally bad wreck up in Huntsville. Packed stuff up. I'll be 100% in my apartment by Saturday. I can't move the big stuff until then cause my parents can't take off work. But I'll be back and forth to t-town moving small stuffs. Trina and I set up cable today...power and water are on. I'm happy =)
Weeeeell, we left Huntsville around 7:30pm...made it to Baltimore at 9:30am...Just in time for check-in! We...by the way...is me, Porscha, Porscha's siblings Ryan and Toya, Cameron, and Josh. Thank the gods Porscha did pre-reg. The regular reg. line went on for blocks...pre-reg was a different story all together, and we had our badges and stickers for the concert (you had to stand in another line for the sticker to be able to get it) by 11:00. We hung out at the con and checked into the hotel and did all that good stuff. Showering never felt so good as it did that day.
The next morning, I'm getting a shower, and I can't turn the frickin' thing off...so YAY we get to move into a suite! That was pretty cool. I went to part of the J-pop panel and the J-rock panel. Pretty interesting. Watched some AMV's. Then I got ready for the reason I went....LARKU LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were told that no one was allowed to line up until 3:30. So we are like "haha, we'll get there at 3 and just mull around until we can line up." Well, Lesson #1 of going to conventions....if you come up with a great idea...so has everyone else. There was a line TO GET IN LINE! But it was okay, I got pretty damn close to the stage anyways. I didn't use my seat...hehe, I was getting as close as I could.
I'm talking that was like the best concert I've ever been to! And Hyde's Engrish could not have been more adorable. There were fireworks and flames shooting from the stage. And everyone was waving lighters and glowsticks during "Pieces"...last song of their encore.
Hyde: HELLO!
Audience: AAAAAAHHH!!!!
H: Hello America!!!!
A: AAAAHHHH!!!
H: Are you having fun?!
A: YYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
H: Me too! Did you eat craps?!
A: Huh?
H:Did you eat CRABS?
A: Uhm....YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
H: I eat too!
Later on...
H: Hey America! I am Evangelion!
A: *laughs*
H: You know? Evangelion...yes...it so beserk. C'mon America...get beserk!
A: AAAAHHHHH!
H: Get beserk!!!!
(this repeats several times)
Then after telling us they loved us abunch and blowing kisses, they played the final song. Then after like 10-15 minutes of screaming and stomping they came out for an encore. But first...Ken put on a little show. He was wearing a dolphin mask and making noises through a duck call. I thing the audience was supposed to scream back the same sound length that he was doing...or...something..I didn't quite figure it out. But then he was like "WHO AM I?" and we're like "KEN!" and he's like "WHO AM I?" and we're all like "KEEEEEEN" and he says "No. I Dolphin. Everyday people tell me jump, jump, jump..." and then I totaly lost what he was talking about and Hyde is sitting in the background with this "WTF?" face while Tetsu is play with...bananas? So then Tetsu goes "WHO WANTS TO EAT MY BANANA?" and everyone is like "MEEEEEEE" and he throws bananas into the audience...that was interesting. And Hyde begins throwing bottles of water, and I almost got killed by a fangirl who was trying to catch it.
Hyde is alot smaller than I thought he was. THe speakers were bigger than him.
Ok, well, anyways, you get the idea...concert was awesome. Stage presence=awesome....song set=awesome...and they sounded incredible. I love you Tofu Records.
By this point, some of the major otaku people are getting...not quite so fresh, and back at the con there was just this incredibly bad odor developing. Eh, I was clean. Cameron and I were all like "Lets go get beer and drink and then go watch that movie that will stain our souls!" Yeah, some movie called the Ebola Syndrome...I got pretty stained. But alas, we couldn't find a single place to get beer. We didn't even find the Baltimore night life until on the way back to the hotel at midnight. WTF? Baltimore kinda sucks. So after my lame attempt at dancing at the Rave (I told Cameron I wasn't used to that stuff...I go to ska shows...I just skank)we went to the staining movie. The people in front of us were eating chicken fingers. Cameron busts out "Oh my god, I am so glad their actually eating chicken fingers!" For a full two minutes he had thought that the BO was turning into a smell of food. He was really freaked out. We also found some water bubbling up out of some canal thing...it totally shouldn't have been bubbling. I was like "That is the most retarded fountain I have ever seen."
It was a fun day...and if you wanna be disgusted...see the Ebola Syndrome.
On the way back we learned that I-95 which goes through that whole Maryland, D.C., Virginia area is the worst strech of interstate ever. SOOOOO BUSY! We traveled like 10 miles in 2 hours. But it was ok...Porscha's dad lives in Virginia, we stopped there and had our first REAL meal in days. We ate sandwhiches (we brought stuff with us) and McDonalds...so we didn't starve ourselves, but real food was good. At least we weren't like that one girl we overheard say "Well, I ate yesterday, so I should be okay." And we didn't have to play the Sailor Moon song on the violin for money. We did alright.
Made it back at 9am Monday. Saw a reeeeally bad wreck up in Huntsville. Packed stuff up. I'll be 100% in my apartment by Saturday. I can't move the big stuff until then cause my parents can't take off work. But I'll be back and forth to t-town moving small stuffs. Trina and I set up cable today...power and water are on. I'm happy =)