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the following is very long and full of fun stuff. much like a story it has its downpoints followed by very highpoints. enjoy...
Show Starting time 8
Location: Palladium. Worcester MA
so yea, brandon is supposed to get out of work at noon....ie he showed up at my house at 3 and picked me and ken up. we head up to TGI fridays to see bri and grab food. left there and went back to my house (not like i forgot the tickets on my cabinet) and we were on the highway blasting Styx and singing "I'm Sailing Away" by 5. we get off of 95 onto 146 and brandon changes gears and guns it, but the car studders so he pulls into the breakdown lane, waits a bit, then we keep going. but a short way down the road it happens again....sept this time the car starts to smoke. we pull into the breakdown lane right after an exit that is about 25ft long. the engine was overheated like it blew something, and then the oil started leaking out the bottom. so brandon calls AAA and talks to them for a half hour. then he starts calling around to find another ride up. he talks to burley and he says he can give us a ride. we waited on the side of the highway in freezing cold winds for and hour and a half.... lets say i thought i had to amputate my toes. couldnt sit inside the car cuz the carbon monoixde from the engine smoke can kill ya (that and every car that passed was inched away from you) we played with a frisbee that we found in his trunk. its now dark out and its 630. state troopers pull over and talk to us about the incident, thenask us to try and start the car, doesnt work. then we put it in neutral then the cop pushes us up further to get in a bigger breakdown lane, then they leave. towtruck shows up and hooks up to brandons car and tells us that he couldnt bring us the Palladium, only to a mechanic or his house. that and he could only take two of us to brandons house. so, brandon stays at this sunoco station up the road and me and ken go to his us to drop off the car. once we get there i called up burley and he picked us up and we went and picked up brandon, then sped to the show just to make it in the middle of scars of tomorrow's set, but it was ok cuz they werent amazing.
when we got there the bottom floor was blocked off (too many people) so we couldnt even get close. they forced us up to the balcony to see SOT. we were bummed cuz we didnt just go thru all this shit to watch a show from the balcony. once SOT finished we went back down with all the kids from there to see if we could get thru. a riot almost broke out so 5 cops show up and started being cocky assholes.
Norma Jean started so we went back up to watch their first song (my favorite too...fuckers) and then we heard they were letting kids in. so we all ran full speed downstairs just as the guards came back and we headed into the crowd. norma jean was amazing. so much energy and genious. highlight: last song, the entire audiance yelling at the top of their lungs "YOUR BRINGING A KNIFE TO A GUN FIGHT!!!" didnt get into the pit for norma jean, dissappointed, but it wouldnt matter by the next band.
Unearth was up next so we closed in on the stage. as close as u can go, then this guy with the handlebar stache comes out and did some funny shit, then told us they were recording their music video tonite. the crowd goes nuts. intro track starts and the pit is anxious for them to start. band walks out and goes right into "Great Dividers" pur chaos. not one person there wasnt in the pit swinging. god it was so great. every song was perfect. the pit was a war zone, bodies flying everywhere. so much fun. some kid kept pushign me so i went into the pit then exited by spin kicking right into his chest. haha. unearth was the best of the night def. never had that much fun in the crowd. once it all was over we went to get red bull and water (kid who saw me "great idea!") and brandon was in a chair cuz he twisted his ankle. i went to buy bri a norma jean hoodie and there they were....norma jean was sitting there signing autographs....a guy was looking for people who just wanted to buy stuff so i raised my hand, bought the hoodie then cut the whole line and met the whole band and they signed my ticket:
great bunch of guys, its cool to meet a band u look up to and find out theyre dudes u could hang out with on a daily basis. then i walked back over to brandon and then to the unearth booth and bought a hat which i am wearing as i type:
brandon wasnt gonna go in the pits for atreyu cuz of his ankle so he told me to avenge his injuries in the pit (in a Brando voice too). so i was by myself in the atreyu pits kicking people and singing along. punched some chick in the face because she went behind me and i couldnt see her. felt bad, but its ok cuz she thought it was someone else lol. went crazy when they played "Deanne the Arsonist" and "Lip Gloss And Black" lots of fun. then they left and i knew they were gonna come back and play an encore so i went up and watched with brandon and ken up by the bar. they finished with "You Give Love A Bad Name" which was amazing.
we all filed out to see an ambulence outside (figures, the beatdown was there). then brandon drove us home as we blasted Animosity and Caliban.
all in all, fun times.