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So I just watched Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen last night and oh my lord does that character Lola/Mary ever remind me of myself. Not necessarily her dramatic reactions to things, but more her drive. There was a couple scenes in particular that brought me back to my teenage days.....the first was when her and her friend were standing outside the doors of the SidArthur concert with their ears pressed up to the doors in the back alley listening hard, trying to catch an earful....they had no tickets, no money, but she'd be damned if she let that ruin her night. Her friend said "lets just go back to the hotel" and she said "And miss the concert? Are you kidding?!" Soooo reminds me of the time my friend and I went to see Econoline Crush play at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. It was 21 & over and we were only 15 0r 16, but to hell if I was going to let that stop me! After I had finally convinced her to come with me, (we had tickets, just no IDs (well I had one but it was pathetic, and there was no use for it if Candy didn't have one)), we finally get there and there's a big line out front, and the bouncer is checking EVERYONE'S ID's. So we get a little scared and decide to wait for the line to go down, to ease the embarassment if we don't get in....so we walk around Granville St for a bit and decide to head down the back alley OF the Commodore....and there are some girls back there standing on trash cans, pounding on the walls, screaming up at the top window "I Love You TREVOR!!" and what not.....apparently the band is up there doing soundcheck, as we hear once we get closer....Candy says "this is boring" and I say, "Lets just wait till they're done doing soundcheck and THEN we can devise a plan to get in..." So we stand in the back alley with the onsessed trash can girls, listening till we can hear no more, and than take another loop around Granville, and back into the alley again, where we started. This time the girls weren't there and Todd Kerns (who was also playing there that night) was in the alley also, unloading gear....as he walks back inside Candy runs and grabs onto the door as it slowly shuts behind him. She motions for me to follow and we quickly jet through the backstage door and run upstairs to the main floor.....once we get in we see trash can girls sitting at a table....we go up to them and say "Hey how did you girls get in (they were younger than us and very snotty)" they say "Oh, Todd let us in to watch their sound check, but we're gonna leave right after..." We say "Oh can we say we're with you?" and the little bitches are like "NO! We aren't gonna lie, we got in here honestly, we're not gonna disrespect Todd by letting you do that..." So me and Candy are like Okay, you little cunts we can fend for ourselves.....so we go walk around a bit and then go to the bathroom....where we decide to hang out until the show starts, cause we were getting a little nervous about sneaking in....but apparently one of the bouncers saw us go in and not come out because after about 25 minutes of hiding out, a waitress comes in tells us the bouncer would like to see us. We're like "Ohhh shit...." So we walk out for our tickets and IDs.....I hand him the tickets.....he says NO ID's No SHOW! And boots us out the front door. I run back saying no! arguing, pleading.....I'm all "Todd Kerns let us in!" And he's like "Well Todd Kerns doesn't sign my pay check...." and after arguing with him for about 5 minutes I realize I have finally failed. ANd we walk our freazing asses over to the bus stop on Robson where we sit in the freezing cold, ashamed, disappointed, and pissed off, waiting for the shame train to bring us back to our little town.
Haha, ah that was good times.
Haha, ah that was good times.