I don't think you're ready.
The last two days have been less than spectacular. I feel very broken and very blind. Whatever muscle is directly on the shin or extremely close is very sore. One of my knees has a decently sized bruise on it and a scrape. Both sides of my stomach-rib area are bruised. Those are why I feel broken. I feel very blind because my glasses are smashed and I cannot see anything.
If any two bands had to encompass me in ninth grade, they would be The Used and My Chemical Romance. After their respective junior albums, I moved forward with my appreciation for My Chemical Romance and felt entirely unimpressed by The Used. Regardless of my opinions on The Used's most recent two albums, Sydney and I went to see them at the House of Blues.
I feel as if this shouldn't have been my first (really) time seeing them, but it had been. It was awesome. Approximately two songs in, part of the crowd fell, and I happened to be the lucky one at the bottom. After nearly everyone got up, another wave fell down. A nice black guy helped me up, but I came up without glasses, a shoe, a headband, and an iPod. Luckily I found my iPod underneath myself and my glasses a second later. The shoe and the headband remained missing for the rest of the show.
Attempting to keep one foot from being trampled upon and stay upright is a highly difficult task and, apparently, very straining on my shin muscles.
The best part of the night was the setlist. I had gone into that show thinking they'd play out most of the newest albums. To my surprise and delight, that was not the case.
The opened with the first single off the most recent album ("Blood On My Hands"), which isn't bad, followed by the second song off the same album ("Empty With You"). Those might be the only two I remember in the order they appeared. I learned something in psychology about how people tend to remember the beginning of sequences and the ends, but not the middle, which is what happened to me.
Off of that same album, I know they played "The Best of Me" because Bert McCracken mentioned it before they played it (which reminded me of "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters) and instructed the audience to make a huge pit. If they had played another song off that album, I don't remember it, but it's a possibility.
Of their junior album, Lies for the Liars, only two songs were played, "Hospital" and "Pretty Handsome Awkward". Of all the songs on that album, those are probably my favorites. I think they put out another album after Lies for the Liars and before Artwork of b-sides and I remain unsure if they played anything from that because, if they did, it was only one song.
I feel the need to list the songs they preformed off of their first two albums, a self-titled and In Love and Death because I was extremely happy with the selections. From In Love and Death, "Take It Away", "I Caught Fire", "All That I've Got", and "Listening".That last one was a surprise because I don't think it's as good as "Light With a Sharpened Edge" or "Sound Effects and Overdramatics", but it was welcome nonetheless. From the self-titled, "The Taste of Ink", "Buried Myself Alive", "A Box Full of Sharp Objects", "Blue and Yellow", and "On My Own."
There are a few times, in crowds, where I feel extremely connected to everyone in the room. That happened during "On My Own" and it was crazy how much everyone meant the words when they were singing and how much everyone enjoyed attempting to make strangled yells at the end after singing, poorly, "I'm on my own."
Despite that bit of fun, the past two days haven't been the best. There's always tomorrow, even if the forecast is dim.
If any two bands had to encompass me in ninth grade, they would be The Used and My Chemical Romance. After their respective junior albums, I moved forward with my appreciation for My Chemical Romance and felt entirely unimpressed by The Used. Regardless of my opinions on The Used's most recent two albums, Sydney and I went to see them at the House of Blues.
I feel as if this shouldn't have been my first (really) time seeing them, but it had been. It was awesome. Approximately two songs in, part of the crowd fell, and I happened to be the lucky one at the bottom. After nearly everyone got up, another wave fell down. A nice black guy helped me up, but I came up without glasses, a shoe, a headband, and an iPod. Luckily I found my iPod underneath myself and my glasses a second later. The shoe and the headband remained missing for the rest of the show.
Attempting to keep one foot from being trampled upon and stay upright is a highly difficult task and, apparently, very straining on my shin muscles.
The best part of the night was the setlist. I had gone into that show thinking they'd play out most of the newest albums. To my surprise and delight, that was not the case.
The opened with the first single off the most recent album ("Blood On My Hands"), which isn't bad, followed by the second song off the same album ("Empty With You"). Those might be the only two I remember in the order they appeared. I learned something in psychology about how people tend to remember the beginning of sequences and the ends, but not the middle, which is what happened to me.
Off of that same album, I know they played "The Best of Me" because Bert McCracken mentioned it before they played it (which reminded me of "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters) and instructed the audience to make a huge pit. If they had played another song off that album, I don't remember it, but it's a possibility.
Of their junior album, Lies for the Liars, only two songs were played, "Hospital" and "Pretty Handsome Awkward". Of all the songs on that album, those are probably my favorites. I think they put out another album after Lies for the Liars and before Artwork of b-sides and I remain unsure if they played anything from that because, if they did, it was only one song.
I feel the need to list the songs they preformed off of their first two albums, a self-titled and In Love and Death because I was extremely happy with the selections. From In Love and Death, "Take It Away", "I Caught Fire", "All That I've Got", and "Listening".That last one was a surprise because I don't think it's as good as "Light With a Sharpened Edge" or "Sound Effects and Overdramatics", but it was welcome nonetheless. From the self-titled, "The Taste of Ink", "Buried Myself Alive", "A Box Full of Sharp Objects", "Blue and Yellow", and "On My Own."
There are a few times, in crowds, where I feel extremely connected to everyone in the room. That happened during "On My Own" and it was crazy how much everyone meant the words when they were singing and how much everyone enjoyed attempting to make strangled yells at the end after singing, poorly, "I'm on my own."
Despite that bit of fun, the past two days haven't been the best. There's always tomorrow, even if the forecast is dim.