Bright Eyes and a rant about "OH NOEZ BERT IZ GROSS!!!111"
Okay, so xstumbleine is a fan of Bright Eyes and she never had to opportunity to see them, so I will dig deep into my brain to try to recall the day I saw Bright Eyes back in 2006.
It was June 9, 2006, my mom's birthday and also the day Stace and I were going to see Bright Eyes. It was kind of a shock to us that Bright Eyes was actually going to play a show in Toontown b/c they usually just play shows in the USA. Anyway, I was pretty stoked b/c I was really into them at the time and I listened to the album, "Fevers & Mirrors" for like, a week before the day of the concert.
So we left Flake at like, idk, noonish(?) and headed off to Toontown. My mom drove us since we had no/little experience driving in the city.
We ate dinner at The Grainary and the waiters/waitresses/my dad, Stace and me sang my mom "Happy Birthday". OMG! And there was a really hot guy, the waiter! Remember that, Stace? And I kept flirting with him and my mom kept calling him, "young man". Hahaha. Anyway, I left my cell phone number on a napkin by the tip we left on the table so he could you know, call me. But then my dad found out when I was telling Stacey and he went over there and took the napkin... Grrrr.
We got dropped off at Prairieland Park where the concert was to be held. We saw lots of kids with converse shoes and it was sort of weird because I never went to a concert where it was General Admission. Keep in mind that I only saw like Paul McCartney before and we had seats and stuff. (I also saw shitty concerts too like Tom Jackson.)
So, it was not crowded at all, the people were just standing infront of the stage and at the time, I thought it was really weird. Some dude (Gruff Rhys) from Super Furry Animals opened and he had this guitar that looked....ugh..."different". The guitar was an acoustic and it had this yellow foam thing with black stripes on it attached (well, velcrowed) onto the guitar. He kept talking about birds and he had a bird cage on the stage as well. And when he started singing: "I don't give a fuck about anybody else", everyone started laughing and then he did too and he had to start the song over. The song was called: "The Man Don't Give A Fuck".
Bright Eyes came on after that. And they played a lot of stuff from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and LIFTED.... Everybody was singing to all the songs and sometimes you couldn't even hear Conor. He said something about being in the West Edmonton Mall and it was cute because he never looked that audience because his eyes were always closed. Oh yeah, and he wore really tight pants and that was at the time where I thought: WTF WHY R GUYS WEARING GIRLS PANTS?!?! O_o
People waved their lighters and sang "This Is The First Day of My Life". That was sweet. Oh yeah, it was cool because Maria Taylor was on the drums. Gah, I love her! And there was this dude on the fiddle and he kept getting really into it and was practically head-banging.... WITH A FIDDLE... head-banging WITH A FIDDLE! It looked hilarious!
I didn't bring my camera. :( But.... I used to talk to this chick on msn and she took pics at the show. I saved them on my comp a lonnnnggg time ago. So here's them:
So that's all I can recall, but it was pretty amazing since well, Conor could have signed to a major label. He got offers a lot but he decided to stay on his own indie label. Now, that's not selling out! And staying true to yourself. Bright Eyes could have made a lot of money and had more tours and had tour busses, but nope, Conor didn't want to get sucked in by the evilllll record executives. Okay, anyways...
Oh yeah, this pisses me off:
I hate when people don't want to listen to other band's music because they think that the singer of the band is "creepy" or "weird" or "needs to have a shower".
WTF?!?! I fucking love all of those qualities of Bert! That's what makes him all weird and an ass and hilarious and fucking crazy!
Anyway, some chick was like: OH NOEZ!! I THINK LIKE THE USED! BUT BRET IS SOOOO GROSSSSS!!!11111 How can he fit into my fanfic?
STFU. Who gives a shit what they look like? They make fucking awesome music and that's the whole point. Who cares if you can't pair Bert with your other band slash crap.
Whatever. I listen to bands where I don't find the band members attractive. But what the fuck? If you like a band you don't automatically have to write fic about them... Jesus. Do you see me writing about In Flames or Cradle of Filth or Machine Head? NO. Just GTFO.
/rant
It was June 9, 2006, my mom's birthday and also the day Stace and I were going to see Bright Eyes. It was kind of a shock to us that Bright Eyes was actually going to play a show in Toontown b/c they usually just play shows in the USA. Anyway, I was pretty stoked b/c I was really into them at the time and I listened to the album, "Fevers & Mirrors" for like, a week before the day of the concert.
So we left Flake at like, idk, noonish(?) and headed off to Toontown. My mom drove us since we had no/little experience driving in the city.
We ate dinner at The Grainary and the waiters/waitresses/my dad, Stace and me sang my mom "Happy Birthday". OMG! And there was a really hot guy, the waiter! Remember that, Stace? And I kept flirting with him and my mom kept calling him, "young man". Hahaha. Anyway, I left my cell phone number on a napkin by the tip we left on the table so he could you know, call me. But then my dad found out when I was telling Stacey and he went over there and took the napkin... Grrrr.
We got dropped off at Prairieland Park where the concert was to be held. We saw lots of kids with converse shoes and it was sort of weird because I never went to a concert where it was General Admission. Keep in mind that I only saw like Paul McCartney before and we had seats and stuff. (I also saw shitty concerts too like Tom Jackson.)
So, it was not crowded at all, the people were just standing infront of the stage and at the time, I thought it was really weird. Some dude (Gruff Rhys) from Super Furry Animals opened and he had this guitar that looked....ugh..."different". The guitar was an acoustic and it had this yellow foam thing with black stripes on it attached (well, velcrowed) onto the guitar. He kept talking about birds and he had a bird cage on the stage as well. And when he started singing: "I don't give a fuck about anybody else", everyone started laughing and then he did too and he had to start the song over. The song was called: "The Man Don't Give A Fuck".
Bright Eyes came on after that. And they played a lot of stuff from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and LIFTED.... Everybody was singing to all the songs and sometimes you couldn't even hear Conor. He said something about being in the West Edmonton Mall and it was cute because he never looked that audience because his eyes were always closed. Oh yeah, and he wore really tight pants and that was at the time where I thought: WTF WHY R GUYS WEARING GIRLS PANTS?!?! O_o
People waved their lighters and sang "This Is The First Day of My Life". That was sweet. Oh yeah, it was cool because Maria Taylor was on the drums. Gah, I love her! And there was this dude on the fiddle and he kept getting really into it and was practically head-banging.... WITH A FIDDLE... head-banging WITH A FIDDLE! It looked hilarious!
I didn't bring my camera. :( But.... I used to talk to this chick on msn and she took pics at the show. I saved them on my comp a lonnnnggg time ago. So here's them:
So that's all I can recall, but it was pretty amazing since well, Conor could have signed to a major label. He got offers a lot but he decided to stay on his own indie label. Now, that's not selling out! And staying true to yourself. Bright Eyes could have made a lot of money and had more tours and had tour busses, but nope, Conor didn't want to get sucked in by the evilllll record executives. Okay, anyways...
Oh yeah, this pisses me off:
I hate when people don't want to listen to other band's music because they think that the singer of the band is "creepy" or "weird" or "needs to have a shower".
WTF?!?! I fucking love all of those qualities of Bert! That's what makes him all weird and an ass and hilarious and fucking crazy!
Anyway, some chick was like: OH NOEZ!! I THINK LIKE THE USED! BUT BRET IS SOOOO GROSSSSS!!!11111 How can he fit into my fanfic?
STFU. Who gives a shit what they look like? They make fucking awesome music and that's the whole point. Who cares if you can't pair Bert with your other band slash crap.
Whatever. I listen to bands where I don't find the band members attractive. But what the fuck? If you like a band you don't automatically have to write fic about them... Jesus. Do you see me writing about In Flames or Cradle of Filth or Machine Head? NO. Just GTFO.
/rant