JFC
i still can't believe this actually fucking happened.
it was all too unreal and i wouldn't let myself get too excited or really talk about it until i was inside the venue, because up until that point anything and everything could have gone wrong. my flu, for instance, could have taken a major turn for the worse and what if i had to cancel and not go? ugh ugh possible devastation. but no! i've been steadily getting better with every passing hour, and lo the tickets that my GORGEOUS friends won from kroq were there and we got in and HOLY SHIT MCR AT THE ROXY!! \o/
omg, you guys, TINY VENUE IS TINY. un. fucking. real.
(hey, cortez, hey)
i didn't take very many photos this time. i tried, but they kept coming out like crap (the boys move too fast! the lighting was wonky! fists and arms kept getting in the way!), so for once i decided fuck it, i'm just going to ENJOY THIS SHIT because HOLY SHIT and put the camera DOWN. but here are the few that aren't entirely blurry messes?
BOB! i was so thrilled that i actually got one (semi)decent photo of him! i could barely see him most of the night.
fraaaaaaank.
umf umf. mikeyway was so fucking hot.
i can't even. seriously, i don't even understand how i got so lucky, but i'm so fucking grateful to my friends and the powers that be that i was able to go to this show. it was epic, and to share it with such amazing people meant so much to me. so much. ♥
and i was really fucking impressed with my body, i gotta tell you. seeing as i'm still technically getting over the flu, i thought for sure i'd bail out of the crowd at some point and just hang toward the back and breathe, but no! i made it through the whole fucking thing. and not only that, but i jumped up and down and rocked out harder than maybe i ever have? i don't even know how that was physically possible. pretty much every muscle in my body aches this morning, and i'm not getting out of this bed for anything today, but oh, oh it was worth it. ♥
when we were lining up, my friend saw lindsey walk in carrying flowers for gerard. <3 i didn't see her myself, but she said she look beyoootiful (obviously not hard to imagine). gerard then thanked lindsey from the stage for the flowers and for marrying him and for making their daughter with him. ♥______♥
the vip section was directly behind us and i only looked back a handful of times and quickly. there wasn't much to see, and honestly with mcr on stage in front of me, i couldn't really be bothered. so i didn't see any wives, but i did see craig aaronson (lol), jim lee, and jon rivera.
i don't even know what to say, i'm bad with ~anecdotes. gerard kept mentioning how he had all the lyrics printed out in case he needed cheat sheets, but yay he didn't need them afterall! the big dork. <3 he said he missed our ~jazz hands (i think he missed his jazz hands), and he asked us what the hell we've all been listening to while they've been gone? ;) he also mentioned how after msg he himself thought that might have been their very last show ever (i knew i wasn't imagining it! this was my biggest fear after that show :((( "if we never play another show again, keep yourself alive"), but noooooooo that isn't the fucking case, because they're not done yet! :D eta: apparently, his words were: "MSG felt like it might have been the last show ever. But it's not."
um, idk! my brain, along with my body, is mush! i will come back and add more as it comes maybe? it was an incredible night. they played a good mix from all three albums, and then came back at the encore with three new songs (!) and closed with helena (natch). i wish everyone who wanted to could have been there, but good news! there were apparently signs (i didn't see them myself, lol unobservant) that said they would be taping the show, so fingers crossed for a dvd of some sort in the future!
eta: other randoms... somehow mikeyway got hurt? gerard showed us his arm and said it looked like he got attacked by a kitten. a big angry kitten. mrowr. :p also it was hot as BALLS in there. we were all dripping and drenched in sweat. literally, soaked. also, at some point gerard said something about "bunch of cupcakes and fairy princesses running around up here," i missed some of it, but whatever, bc :DDDDD! and at one point bob and james (oh right! james was there!) switched places! :DDD oh, and they totally changed up the first half of i don't love you. slowed it down, made it really moody. i loved it. <3
eta2: the cupcake line: "What the fuck did you guys listen to while we were gone? Boring shit, right? You know, guys like a bunch of cupcakes running around. What do you have to listen to when you got no cupcakes and fairy princesses running around blastin' out the power pop metal? You got nothin'."
gah, i love this stupid band. ♥ ♥ ♥
eta3: epic post of media and quotes HERE!
it was all too unreal and i wouldn't let myself get too excited or really talk about it until i was inside the venue, because up until that point anything and everything could have gone wrong. my flu, for instance, could have taken a major turn for the worse and what if i had to cancel and not go? ugh ugh possible devastation. but no! i've been steadily getting better with every passing hour, and lo the tickets that my GORGEOUS friends won from kroq were there and we got in and HOLY SHIT MCR AT THE ROXY!! \o/
omg, you guys, TINY VENUE IS TINY. un. fucking. real.
(hey, cortez, hey)
i didn't take very many photos this time. i tried, but they kept coming out like crap (the boys move too fast! the lighting was wonky! fists and arms kept getting in the way!), so for once i decided fuck it, i'm just going to ENJOY THIS SHIT because HOLY SHIT and put the camera DOWN. but here are the few that aren't entirely blurry messes?
BOB! i was so thrilled that i actually got one (semi)decent photo of him! i could barely see him most of the night.
fraaaaaaank.
umf umf. mikeyway was so fucking hot.
i can't even. seriously, i don't even understand how i got so lucky, but i'm so fucking grateful to my friends and the powers that be that i was able to go to this show. it was epic, and to share it with such amazing people meant so much to me. so much. ♥
and i was really fucking impressed with my body, i gotta tell you. seeing as i'm still technically getting over the flu, i thought for sure i'd bail out of the crowd at some point and just hang toward the back and breathe, but no! i made it through the whole fucking thing. and not only that, but i jumped up and down and rocked out harder than maybe i ever have? i don't even know how that was physically possible. pretty much every muscle in my body aches this morning, and i'm not getting out of this bed for anything today, but oh, oh it was worth it. ♥
when we were lining up, my friend saw lindsey walk in carrying flowers for gerard. <3 i didn't see her myself, but she said she look beyoootiful (obviously not hard to imagine). gerard then thanked lindsey from the stage for the flowers and for marrying him and for making their daughter with him. ♥______♥
the vip section was directly behind us and i only looked back a handful of times and quickly. there wasn't much to see, and honestly with mcr on stage in front of me, i couldn't really be bothered. so i didn't see any wives, but i did see craig aaronson (lol), jim lee, and jon rivera.
i don't even know what to say, i'm bad with ~anecdotes. gerard kept mentioning how he had all the lyrics printed out in case he needed cheat sheets, but yay he didn't need them afterall! the big dork. <3 he said he missed our ~jazz hands (i think he missed his jazz hands), and he asked us what the hell we've all been listening to while they've been gone? ;) he also mentioned how after msg he himself thought that might have been their very last show ever (i knew i wasn't imagining it! this was my biggest fear after that show :((( "if we never play another show again, keep yourself alive"), but noooooooo that isn't the fucking case, because they're not done yet! :D eta: apparently, his words were: "MSG felt like it might have been the last show ever. But it's not."
um, idk! my brain, along with my body, is mush! i will come back and add more as it comes maybe? it was an incredible night. they played a good mix from all three albums, and then came back at the encore with three new songs (!) and closed with helena (natch). i wish everyone who wanted to could have been there, but good news! there were apparently signs (i didn't see them myself, lol unobservant) that said they would be taping the show, so fingers crossed for a dvd of some sort in the future!
eta: other randoms... somehow mikeyway got hurt? gerard showed us his arm and said it looked like he got attacked by a kitten. a big angry kitten. mrowr. :p also it was hot as BALLS in there. we were all dripping and drenched in sweat. literally, soaked. also, at some point gerard said something about "bunch of cupcakes and fairy princesses running around up here," i missed some of it, but whatever, bc :DDDDD! and at one point bob and james (oh right! james was there!) switched places! :DDD oh, and they totally changed up the first half of i don't love you. slowed it down, made it really moody. i loved it. <3
eta2: the cupcake line: "What the fuck did you guys listen to while we were gone? Boring shit, right? You know, guys like a bunch of cupcakes running around. What do you have to listen to when you got no cupcakes and fairy princesses running around blastin' out the power pop metal? You got nothin'."
gah, i love this stupid band. ♥ ♥ ♥
eta3: epic post of media and quotes HERE!