June 22, 2009Meeting Taking Back SundayAfter the show, Heather, Nicole and I were hanging out and some older gentleman started talking to us and thanking us for coming out to the show. We said thank you, and we were all wondering who he was, thanking us and all and we started talking about Oklahoma City and I asked where he was from and he said North Carolina. I asked if he drove all the way to Oklahoma to see Taking Back Sunday and he said, "Adam is my son." We were like, "Oh!" We chatted with him for the longest time, until security chased us out of the venue. He was very nice, and he is also very proud of his son, as he should be. While we were talking to him Matt walked by and we got the picture and talked to him for a little while. We talked about so much with him, but one thing I remember, of all things, was that he was talking about what a nice guy wiLL from Aiden was. When we went outside the first person we saw was Ed, and we talked and the funny thing is--he rubbed Heather's belly when we mentioned her being pregnant. We then talked to Mark awhile. They are both very nice, as are all the guys! Nobody was the least bit rude or annoyed by us talking to them. Then we spotted Matt Fazzi. He ran over to us like we were long lost friends and gave us a great big hug. I swear, he's the nicest guy! We talked forever. Where most people, you talk awhile, then there's a bit of awkward silence and they move on, well Fazzi just hangs around and a new conversation starts up. We were told by Mark that they will be touring again and hitting everywhere in the Fall but he can't tell us who they are touring with (its not the Blink 182 thing--we don't get TBS in Dallas for that)--then we mentioned it to Fazzi and he told us who he thought they were touring with but we told him that we will keep it a secret. I just hope Dallas gets a headlining show and not a stupid festival like Edgefest. Talking to the guys they sound like they are not too crazy about those festivals either--limited set and all. Anyway, the guy who is playing guitar during the tour, Issac came over and we talked to him forever too. We mentioned how much we loved his dance on stage and he said that he got online and looked up "ghetto dances" and learned those moves. Then he demonstrated the moves for us again. We talked to those too for a good long time, just like talking to an old friend you haven't seen in a while. Later we spotted Adam heading to the bar. I asked him if that's his only choice for entertainment around there was a redneck bar and he laughed and said that's all they do at home too. We remembered us from the last time we saw him on Lubbock too. He was genuinely sweet. When we pointed out that Heather was expecting a baby he got all excited and said, "Your life is about to get gnarly!" It was cute how he said it. When he complained about the heat a little I told him how I prefer the heat so much over the cold and how it was so cold when we were waiting for them at the Tulsa show Nicole got this injury in her leg that now hurts every time she gets cold. Then he said, "Was it like that priorly? Is priorly even a word?" We all laughed and I told him "it is now." It was so nice talking to him, as well as the other guys too. We apologized for bothering Adam when he was about to leave and he said "No problem at all. If it wasn't for you guys we wouldn't be who we are today. We'd be nobody if not for you." (or something to that affect) One more conversation I remember. I was educating Issac after reading some of his twitters that Texas isn't all what it is stereotyped to be, and I told him "We are from Texas and we are not hicks." And Matt Fazzi said, "Of course you are not hicks. If you were hicks you wouldn't be at a Taking Back Sunday show." True that---hahahaha. Before I go--I'd like to give a shout-out to my BESTIE Vanessa who showed Fazzi my picture at the Florida show and had him send me a note and let me talk on her phone to both Fazzi and Issac. I wanted to be there too but couldn't. You rock Vanessa!
Posted on 06/22/2009 12:07 PM Comments (2)
June 19, 2009Taking Back Sunday in Oklahoma CitySeems like the only time I get to leave town lately is to see my favorite band--Taking Back Sunday. Well, my recent trip to Oklahoma City was certainly worth it! We got barricade, over to the side which was perfect because it always gets a bit rough in the middle anyway. It was 45,000 degrees in that place and people were passing out which gave us an opportunity to move closer to the center. So, when they finally come out they start out with You Know How I Do. Matt Rubano came right over and sang to Nicole and I and we sang back--so the night was already starting out on a high! I'm not one of those people who can list every song song by song, but I can tell you that they started out with that song and finished with Make Damn Sure. Adam came out and made major eye contact like he does lots and lots of times, and I was proud that every time he did I knew all the words to the song he was singing and sang right back to him. He smiled each time. Ok, there was a small part during Set Phasers To Stun that I didn't know the words when he was looking at me, but that's cool--I knew all the other ones. One of my favorite moments was when he was singing MakeDamnSure and the line "You are so cool" he was squatted down singing right at me and I pointed to him and sang that line to him and he smiled.
Even though it was 45,000 degrees in this sold out non-air conditioned place that didn't stop their extreme energy level. Matt Rubano was all over the place like crazy, and Issac and Matt Fazzi's "ghetto dance" was the most awesome thing ever! Adam told us that his best friend from Tyler Texas was there and he requested Adam's favorite song, Miami, so he played that song. From the new album they played my favorite, Carpathia, which is named after, as Adam put it, "The ship that got the first signal when the Titantic was sinking" and he went on about Leo DiCaprio saying that he would never let go right before he let go and sank to the bottom. They also performed my other favorite song from New Again, Swing, which is Nicole's favorite too. Of course, they did the awesome Sink Into Me (that I'm listening to right now as I write this) and New Again, as well as old favorites like Cute Without The E, You're So Last Summer, Timberwolves In New Jersey, Bonus Mosh, Ghost, and of course Liar Liar. The crowd was great at singing along and for once I didn't feel like murdering the person standing next to me--she was really nice. The person at Edgefest kept trying to elbow me out of my place even though I was just trying to see and enjoy the show. Stay tuned for my account of meeting all the guys after the show.....
Posted on 06/19/2009 1:28 PM Comments (3)
May 4, 2009New music gameUsing only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me. Try not to repeat a song title.
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Posted on 02/16/2009 11:19 PM Comments (5)
December 12, 2008
Taking Back Sunday--Lubbock Texas and Tulsa Oklahoma
Let me start by saying that with all the rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma and all the tacky things I've said in the past about Oklahoma, the people that we met while we were at the Tulsa show were some of the sweetest people ever and I take back every bad thing I've said about Oklahoma. We stood for HOURS in the freezing cold waiting to get in to see Taking Back Sunday, and I lost all feeling in my toes, and this nice young guy sent his wife out to get hot cocoa for the little group of people around me--I just thought that was the sweetest thing! I feel I was able to repay them after the show because I spotted Matt Fazzi and I pointed him out to them so that they could talk to him too, and get him to sign their setlist. OMG--I had front row center barricade in Tulsa, and as soon as Adam walked out on stage he pointed at me and waved, because we had talked to him the 3 nights before in Lubbock. That made my night. Then Matt Rubano saw me as he was playing and I saw that look of recognition on his face and he smiled at me and nodded. And, after talking to Mark in Lubbock, he came out and handed my friend Heather his drumstick after the show.
Ok--lets go back to Lubbock, shall we? The fans in Oklahoma were a million times friendlier than the ones in Lubbock, by the way. Just saying. The nicest people we met were actually from Roswell, New Mexico. But, back to the show. So, after the show we are in the bathroom and I hear Randy's voice shouting, Gina, get out here quick! So I rushed out and Matt Rubano was just hanging out. We went and talked to him for a very very long time--he was super sweet and easy to talk to. Ok--so here's the funny part. Randy saw him and asked him to wait around and he told him "My wife has the biggest crush on you and really wants to meet you." I mean--HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! I swear to God I have the most amazing husband on the planet. And during the show I heard some guy behind me singing really loud and jumping up and down to the song Decade Under the Influence. When I turned around and saw that it was Randy I fell in love with that man all over again! He's awesome.
Ok, lets move on... so, security was trying to make us leave but Heather wanted to check out the merch, so Heather and I walked back into the merch area and as soon as she walked in she started saying There's Adam There's Adam, and I'm like "Go get Randy and Nicole and tell them to get their butts in here!" Nearby was Matt Fazzi and we told him what a wonderful job he did and I told him that he was a great addition to the band and he was all smiles and very appreciate and genuinely sweet. Then I saw Mark O' Connell and walked up and gave him a hug which I think kind of surprised him actually, and we talked a while, then there was awkward silence and Mark said, "So.....what else is new?" Heather and I just kind of said "not much" and he said "I got married a couple of weeks ago." And we were like "oh yeah?" and we talked about where he honeymooned in Mexico and various other stuff. Then it was Adam's turn.
OMG--Adam Lazzara was hilarious! You know how most people wait for you to say something to them? Not Adam, he just started talking immediately. He told Heather how beautiful her wedding ring was and her husband did a great job picking it out, he told Nicole she had a beautiful smile, he told us he got married 6 months exactly on that day, he told us about living in Tyler Texas and I told him my BFF lives there--of course we told all the guys how we drove 5 hours from Dallas to see them and that we are actually flying to Tulsa to see them to, first time ever to fly to see a concert and they were all like "Wow. Thank you." So---we were talking about the venues that we had seen them in before, and I mentioned how we saw them once with 30 Seconds To Mars. He told us that they've toured with them alot because they used to share the same record label, and he said "Let me tell you a little something about Jared Leto. Let me tell you a little something about Jared Leto." He repeated himself for drama, I guess. We were waiting to hear what he had to say, and he continued, "Jared Leto is so dreamy. I know I shouldn't be saying this because I'm married and all, but that man is just so dreamy." We were laughing so hard at that, and Heather said that she didn't think that he knew he was that good looking and Adam nodded his head and rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, he knows...oh yeah...he knows." Then Heather explained how he uglies himself up for movies and then we started talking about him gaining so much weight for Chapter 27, and he just stood there and chatted about Jared Leto forever. The people behind us were kind of getting pissed I think because we just stayed there and talked and they were waiting for their turn, but, hey, he kept talking to us so we didn't want to leave! Heather bought the card that benefitted charity and the guy forgot to get her money and she was getting Adam to sign it and the guy was trying to get her money and Heather said, "I'm not going to pay you until he signs this" and Adam laughed and said, "I like you." Let me tell you, Heather was just in heaven. The merch guy was packing the stuff up and she was like "hey, I wanted a shirt" and Adam told him to get a shirt out for her and he kind of rolled his eyes and Heather was like "I'm sorry" and Adam said, "Oh, ignore him. His life really isn't that hard. I mean, how difficult is it to open a box and grab a shirt." He was so sweet and funny!
Damn---I've written way too much again, and I'm not finished. Last time I did this it didn't stay and I lost it, so this time I'm saving it. Wish me luck--and I'll get on again and talk a little about Tulsa, and more about the actual shows and all..
Ok--lets go back to Lubbock, shall we? The fans in Oklahoma were a million times friendlier than the ones in Lubbock, by the way. Just saying. The nicest people we met were actually from Roswell, New Mexico. But, back to the show. So, after the show we are in the bathroom and I hear Randy's voice shouting, Gina, get out here quick! So I rushed out and Matt Rubano was just hanging out. We went and talked to him for a very very long time--he was super sweet and easy to talk to. Ok--so here's the funny part. Randy saw him and asked him to wait around and he told him "My wife has the biggest crush on you and really wants to meet you." I mean--HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! I swear to God I have the most amazing husband on the planet. And during the show I heard some guy behind me singing really loud and jumping up and down to the song Decade Under the Influence. When I turned around and saw that it was Randy I fell in love with that man all over again! He's awesome.
Ok, lets move on... so, security was trying to make us leave but Heather wanted to check out the merch, so Heather and I walked back into the merch area and as soon as she walked in she started saying There's Adam There's Adam, and I'm like "Go get Randy and Nicole and tell them to get their butts in here!" Nearby was Matt Fazzi and we told him what a wonderful job he did and I told him that he was a great addition to the band and he was all smiles and very appreciate and genuinely sweet. Then I saw Mark O' Connell and walked up and gave him a hug which I think kind of surprised him actually, and we talked a while, then there was awkward silence and Mark said, "So.....what else is new?" Heather and I just kind of said "not much" and he said "I got married a couple of weeks ago." And we were like "oh yeah?" and we talked about where he honeymooned in Mexico and various other stuff. Then it was Adam's turn.
OMG--Adam Lazzara was hilarious! You know how most people wait for you to say something to them? Not Adam, he just started talking immediately. He told Heather how beautiful her wedding ring was and her husband did a great job picking it out, he told Nicole she had a beautiful smile, he told us he got married 6 months exactly on that day, he told us about living in Tyler Texas and I told him my BFF lives there--of course we told all the guys how we drove 5 hours from Dallas to see them and that we are actually flying to Tulsa to see them to, first time ever to fly to see a concert and they were all like "Wow. Thank you." So---we were talking about the venues that we had seen them in before, and I mentioned how we saw them once with 30 Seconds To Mars. He told us that they've toured with them alot because they used to share the same record label, and he said "Let me tell you a little something about Jared Leto. Let me tell you a little something about Jared Leto." He repeated himself for drama, I guess. We were waiting to hear what he had to say, and he continued, "Jared Leto is so dreamy. I know I shouldn't be saying this because I'm married and all, but that man is just so dreamy." We were laughing so hard at that, and Heather said that she didn't think that he knew he was that good looking and Adam nodded his head and rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, he knows...oh yeah...he knows." Then Heather explained how he uglies himself up for movies and then we started talking about him gaining so much weight for Chapter 27, and he just stood there and chatted about Jared Leto forever. The people behind us were kind of getting pissed I think because we just stayed there and talked and they were waiting for their turn, but, hey, he kept talking to us so we didn't want to leave! Heather bought the card that benefitted charity and the guy forgot to get her money and she was getting Adam to sign it and the guy was trying to get her money and Heather said, "I'm not going to pay you until he signs this" and Adam laughed and said, "I like you." Let me tell you, Heather was just in heaven. The merch guy was packing the stuff up and she was like "hey, I wanted a shirt" and Adam told him to get a shirt out for her and he kind of rolled his eyes and Heather was like "I'm sorry" and Adam said, "Oh, ignore him. His life really isn't that hard. I mean, how difficult is it to open a box and grab a shirt." He was so sweet and funny!
Damn---I've written way too much again, and I'm not finished. Last time I did this it didn't stay and I lost it, so this time I'm saving it. Wish me luck--and I'll get on again and talk a little about Tulsa, and more about the actual shows and all..
Posted on 12/12/2008 11:47 AM Comments (5)
October 30, 2008
Message from Bob of My Chemical Romance
Bob left this message in their myspace blog, possibly on their website too, and I'm posting it here for my friends who don't have myspace. Its very interesting, and possibly the most I've ever heard Bob say. Well, technically I didn't HEAR him say anything, the most I've read from him:
it's been a long time since since we have talked. i just wanted to say hi and fill people in on what has been happening with us. as a whole we are all getting ready to get rolling again. we really needed this break but enough is enough already. i cant wait to see the refreshed and excited MCR again. no more falling asleep at 5pm, no more drinking 20 red bulls, just good times coming up.
i will start with myself. my weird zoro scar on my wrist is going down finally. i have been doing physical therapy every few days now which is helping out a ton. i have to sit and lift tiny weights over and over again until i cant anymore, then i play with putty, then i stack cups, sometimes i squeeze plastic, play with rice, etc. It kinda feels like when i was in kindergarten day care except it hurts. my favorite part is hearing the stories of the other patients. one lady fell down her stairs because she tripped on her cat and broke her shoulder. i try not to laugh but i cant help it. i was actually sitting with a player from the bears last week too. that guy was about 20 feet tall and as big as a house. i didn't look him in the eye. i think i have a couple months before i am back to playing again. i am always going to have pain in my hand so i will be changing my playing a bit. i have to rearrange my drums and i will need to play waaay lighter. dont call me a p@$^y when you see me.
Other then that i am just hanging out. i got another dog! i now have two black german shepherds. they rule. they are my buddies. i am going to bring them everywhere with me. toro got a new puppy too. frank has 19 dogs now. i shot up up my garage with a pistol and the cops came. that was fun..... i also have been playing halo again. halo and legos is actually part of therapy for me. i just hit level 35 which is awesome for me. i would love to challenge anybody to a duel. my xbox name is dixiediarrhea (long story, my dogs name is dixie, she had diarrhea). if anyone knows souljaboy personally please let him know i challenge him. that guy seems like an awesome dude and i want to play against him. he says he can beat anyone. dixiediarrhea says differently. i will bet 2 dollars that i whoop him.
anyway, i see that im rambling. im tired. i was going to fill you in on everyone else but i dont want to anymore. hahaha. which actually brings me to a point. we are soon going to launch a new website. its going to be very simple and to the point. one of the new features will be us typing in on our phones straight to the site so everyone can tell you themselves what they are up to. now that we are coming out of MCR hibernation we want to keep everyone informed and to maybe have some fun. blogathon 5000. i will type in all the juicy details like perez hilton.
ok. im going to bed. me and my friend, the sanch, and dixie are about to drive from chicago to los angeles to hang with gerard and friends. come hang out.
gerard's address is 2800 E Observatory Rd Los Angeles, CA 90027. see you there. bring fun.
see everyone soon or on halo
bcbryar
dixiediarrhea
MESSAGE FROM BOB
hi! its bobit's been a long time since since we have talked. i just wanted to say hi and fill people in on what has been happening with us. as a whole we are all getting ready to get rolling again. we really needed this break but enough is enough already. i cant wait to see the refreshed and excited MCR again. no more falling asleep at 5pm, no more drinking 20 red bulls, just good times coming up.
i will start with myself. my weird zoro scar on my wrist is going down finally. i have been doing physical therapy every few days now which is helping out a ton. i have to sit and lift tiny weights over and over again until i cant anymore, then i play with putty, then i stack cups, sometimes i squeeze plastic, play with rice, etc. It kinda feels like when i was in kindergarten day care except it hurts. my favorite part is hearing the stories of the other patients. one lady fell down her stairs because she tripped on her cat and broke her shoulder. i try not to laugh but i cant help it. i was actually sitting with a player from the bears last week too. that guy was about 20 feet tall and as big as a house. i didn't look him in the eye. i think i have a couple months before i am back to playing again. i am always going to have pain in my hand so i will be changing my playing a bit. i have to rearrange my drums and i will need to play waaay lighter. dont call me a p@$^y when you see me.
Other then that i am just hanging out. i got another dog! i now have two black german shepherds. they rule. they are my buddies. i am going to bring them everywhere with me. toro got a new puppy too. frank has 19 dogs now. i shot up up my garage with a pistol and the cops came. that was fun..... i also have been playing halo again. halo and legos is actually part of therapy for me. i just hit level 35 which is awesome for me. i would love to challenge anybody to a duel. my xbox name is dixiediarrhea (long story, my dogs name is dixie, she had diarrhea). if anyone knows souljaboy personally please let him know i challenge him. that guy seems like an awesome dude and i want to play against him. he says he can beat anyone. dixiediarrhea says differently. i will bet 2 dollars that i whoop him.
anyway, i see that im rambling. im tired. i was going to fill you in on everyone else but i dont want to anymore. hahaha. which actually brings me to a point. we are soon going to launch a new website. its going to be very simple and to the point. one of the new features will be us typing in on our phones straight to the site so everyone can tell you themselves what they are up to. now that we are coming out of MCR hibernation we want to keep everyone informed and to maybe have some fun. blogathon 5000. i will type in all the juicy details like perez hilton.
ok. im going to bed. me and my friend, the sanch, and dixie are about to drive from chicago to los angeles to hang with gerard and friends. come hang out.
gerard's address is 2800 E Observatory Rd Los Angeles, CA 90027. see you there. bring fun.
see everyone soon or on halo
bcbryar
dixiediarrhea
Posted on 10/30/2008 12:15 PM Comments (7)
October 14, 2008
The Academy Is pt 2--Emo's-Austin
Ok, after an incredible show in Dallas Nicole and I traveled to Austin to see The Academy Is again. Took about 4 hours to get there, after stopping to eat and the horrific traffic in Austin. But we arrived, found Jack the Camera Guy again before the show, and were taken to the area to meet the band again. Let me say a little something about the people first. In Dallas, everybody kind of stuck to themselves, didn't really want to talk to anyone other than their group of friends. In Austin, everybody came up and introduced themselves and started a conversation with you. I really liked the group of Santi's Little Helpers that I met in Austin. There were more fanclubs members in Austin, so there was no standing in a room alone with any of the guys this time. But our first goal was to get another picture with Mike Carden and see if he remembered our names. As I said before, yes, yes he did remember our names, and I was impressed and high fived him for that. And to William. Well, you see, Nicole's friend Amber teases her for knowing every little detail about the members of the bands we love, like, as she put it "William Beckett's favorite ice cream flavor." So, Nicole had to make it a point to ask William what his favorite ice cream flavor was. Its some Baskin Robbins yellow ribbon something-or-another. You'd think if Mike can remember our names the least we could do is remember what William Beckett said was his favorite ice cream flavor. Next time I go into a Baskin Robbins I'm going to look for some yellow ribbon something-or-another. He also loves Ben and Jerry's Phish Food. I'll look for that next time I'm at the store. Anyway, so William told me that they changed the set list up a little since a few people were going to both the Austin and Dallas shows, and I told him that I hoped that they'd do Beware Cougar this time since it's my favorite song. They didn't do it in Dallas. Well, guess what--THE DID IT in Austin! And he grabbed my hand and sang part of it to me too during the show.
So, before the show and the signings, we were wandering around aimlessly not knowing where to go and ended up in this backstage area where I ran into the lead singer of Carolina Liar. I recommend listening to their song "I'm Not Over." Its really good. Anyway, I told him how much I loved his guitar with the wolf on it--being a big wolf lover myself! He told me that was his last name and he has all this wolf stuff. We were talking about the Dallas show and I told him I was kind of scared about the Austin one because there was no barricade and nothing to hold onto and I was afraid the crowd was going to be vicious and he said something about if it gets to rough to find somebody to help me out and I told him that I was hoping for the very front. Well, when he came out on stage before his set he looked at me and said "I see you did get the front after all." He was really a nice person too, I told him that I hoped he was enjoying his first visit to Texas and he said that he really really was.
Anyway, so, yeah, we got right up against the stage, first row again and it was so incredibly close that we were staring straight up at the bands. As the lead singer for Hey Monday was propping her leg up on the monitor and singing I was thinking to myself that I was really glad that she was wearing shorts instead of a skirt. William came out and sang with her during one of her songs too, and the crowd went wild. I was kind of leaning on the monitor during most of the sets, but the monitor was gone during TAI's set so our arms were on the stage and we had to move our hands when the performers walked by. Speaking of monitor's Tina---tee hee--remember that video with Gerard humping the monitor? Can you imagine being right there leaning against the monitor for that?!
Anyway--William's stage antics! OMG--he was so adorable! He was all over the place in Dallas, jumping from the speakers doing all kinds of stunts with his microphone stand. Well Austin's stage was much much smaller, so he swung from the rafters several times. And he grabbed a lot of hands and sang directly to people. Like, the moment he grabbed Nicole's hand with one hand and mine with the other and sang the lines from About A Girl "To be loved, to be loved, what more could you ask for." I looked over at Nicole after that, and, yes, as you guessed she had the biggest smile a person could possibly have. And during the song Beware Cougar, he came over and leaned down and grabbed my hand and sang a line to me. Of course, I was singing back every line. It was AMAZING!
Then, after the show, William told us "I was so glad to see the two of you together there in the very front." Sisky Business told me that he was impressed how I knew every word to every song. Well, of course I do. So, I guess they do notice those things. He said he was watching out for us because he was afraid he was going to kick us or something. I mean--they were all RIGHT THERE---so close. When We The Kings were playing when Travis, the lead singer would swing his head his sweat would fall all over me. I'm glad none of the singers or other musicians were spitters---that's all I have to say! Michael Guy Chislett says that he prefers it that way, with no barricades because he can see the audience, where the other way you can't really see the people because of the lights and all. Before both shows, both Michael and Adam told us that they would look for us in the audience. Coolness!
Thanks to some super cool girl standing nearby, for the first time ever I got the setlist! I was trying to get it but couldn't quite reach it, and she grabbed it and handed it to me. I'm very grateful for that--she didn't have to do that, she could have grabbed it and kept it for herself, but she gave it to me instead! Thank you--whoever you are. You also handed us a water bottle during the set too--thank you for that too! Anyway, after the show, when the guys were hanging out by the buses, I asked them to sign the set list by their favorite song. William said "Well, I know Cougar is your favorite so I'll sign by that." Michael Guy signed by that song too, and he looked at where Sisky Business signed and he said, "I knew he'd pick that song." He picked Seed. Which is my favorite song from that album, and was my all time fav by them until Cougar came along. Both those songs were performed in Austin and not in Dallas. A good argument to go to more than one show when I band you like is touring, if at all possible.
Well, if you've read all of this congratulations--you've been reading a while and your eyes probably need a rest now! It was a blast!
So, before the show and the signings, we were wandering around aimlessly not knowing where to go and ended up in this backstage area where I ran into the lead singer of Carolina Liar. I recommend listening to their song "I'm Not Over." Its really good. Anyway, I told him how much I loved his guitar with the wolf on it--being a big wolf lover myself! He told me that was his last name and he has all this wolf stuff. We were talking about the Dallas show and I told him I was kind of scared about the Austin one because there was no barricade and nothing to hold onto and I was afraid the crowd was going to be vicious and he said something about if it gets to rough to find somebody to help me out and I told him that I was hoping for the very front. Well, when he came out on stage before his set he looked at me and said "I see you did get the front after all." He was really a nice person too, I told him that I hoped he was enjoying his first visit to Texas and he said that he really really was.
Anyway, so, yeah, we got right up against the stage, first row again and it was so incredibly close that we were staring straight up at the bands. As the lead singer for Hey Monday was propping her leg up on the monitor and singing I was thinking to myself that I was really glad that she was wearing shorts instead of a skirt. William came out and sang with her during one of her songs too, and the crowd went wild. I was kind of leaning on the monitor during most of the sets, but the monitor was gone during TAI's set so our arms were on the stage and we had to move our hands when the performers walked by. Speaking of monitor's Tina---tee hee--remember that video with Gerard humping the monitor? Can you imagine being right there leaning against the monitor for that?!
Anyway--William's stage antics! OMG--he was so adorable! He was all over the place in Dallas, jumping from the speakers doing all kinds of stunts with his microphone stand. Well Austin's stage was much much smaller, so he swung from the rafters several times. And he grabbed a lot of hands and sang directly to people. Like, the moment he grabbed Nicole's hand with one hand and mine with the other and sang the lines from About A Girl "To be loved, to be loved, what more could you ask for." I looked over at Nicole after that, and, yes, as you guessed she had the biggest smile a person could possibly have. And during the song Beware Cougar, he came over and leaned down and grabbed my hand and sang a line to me. Of course, I was singing back every line. It was AMAZING!
Then, after the show, William told us "I was so glad to see the two of you together there in the very front." Sisky Business told me that he was impressed how I knew every word to every song. Well, of course I do. So, I guess they do notice those things. He said he was watching out for us because he was afraid he was going to kick us or something. I mean--they were all RIGHT THERE---so close. When We The Kings were playing when Travis, the lead singer would swing his head his sweat would fall all over me. I'm glad none of the singers or other musicians were spitters---that's all I have to say! Michael Guy Chislett says that he prefers it that way, with no barricades because he can see the audience, where the other way you can't really see the people because of the lights and all. Before both shows, both Michael and Adam told us that they would look for us in the audience. Coolness!
Thanks to some super cool girl standing nearby, for the first time ever I got the setlist! I was trying to get it but couldn't quite reach it, and she grabbed it and handed it to me. I'm very grateful for that--she didn't have to do that, she could have grabbed it and kept it for herself, but she gave it to me instead! Thank you--whoever you are. You also handed us a water bottle during the set too--thank you for that too! Anyway, after the show, when the guys were hanging out by the buses, I asked them to sign the set list by their favorite song. William said "Well, I know Cougar is your favorite so I'll sign by that." Michael Guy signed by that song too, and he looked at where Sisky Business signed and he said, "I knew he'd pick that song." He picked Seed. Which is my favorite song from that album, and was my all time fav by them until Cougar came along. Both those songs were performed in Austin and not in Dallas. A good argument to go to more than one show when I band you like is touring, if at all possible.
Well, if you've read all of this congratulations--you've been reading a while and your eyes probably need a rest now! It was a blast!
Posted on 10/14/2008 1:41 PM Comments (5)
The Academy Is--October 8 and 9
Ok, are you ready for this. Here's my account on the two The Academy Is show we went to last week--October 8 at The House of Blues in Dallas, Texas and October 9 at Emo's in Austin, Texas. Little side note first--driving home after the Austin show we counted 19 deer along the road. Alive, of course.
Lets start with Dallas shall we--I'll change colors when I move on to Austin. So, Jack the Camera guy, the wonderful little person that I'll say runs the fanclub whether he actually does or not, he led us to the beautiful little Pontiac Garage room at The House of Blues to meet the guys from the band. William Beckett, who is has just as beautiful a personality as his outward appearance once again told us that he was glad to see us again. It was our 5th time to meet him. I told Nicole that I didn't know what I was going to say to Mike Carden, and it turns out all I had to say was a little bit then he talked and talked and talked. I never pictured him as the talkative type, but he was. Chatted with all the guys a while, then next thing you know, everybody had left the room except me, Nicole, Adam Siska and William Beckett. That's right--Nicole and I were ALONE in a room with nobody else but William Beckett and Adam Siska. How cool is that?! Pretty damn cool I tell ya! Anyway, Sisky mentioned that they were probably going to tour again in spring, and Nicole had this sad expression and I said, "Oh yeah, she'll be in college then." Then William walked over and I told him, "She's leaving me and going to college in the spring." He was like, "awwww" then he looked at her and said, "I bet you are excited though." and they chatted awhile about that. Siska asked how far away it was and I told him and Jack the Camera Guy walked in and Siska said that it was only a quick trip away by helicopter then he asked Jack The Camera Guy, "How fast do helicopters travel anyway?" Jack said, "A thousand." We all laughed at that and said, "A thousand what?" Then Sisky Business kept telling us that she can fly back and forth by helicopter and it won't take long at all.
I told all the guys that we'd be seeing them again in Austin the next night, and they all told me how they appreciated us driving down there to see them too. Mike Carden had us introduce ourself, and I told him that I'd quiz him the next night in Austin to see if he remembers our names. By the way--he did! And, as Nicole will be quick to point out--he remembered her name first. He said her name right away, and knew mine began with a G and thought about it a little, then said "Gina." I was stoked that he actually remembered our names.
So, after Jack said "I'm need to get you into the line" we went out and stood in a separate line for early entry into the venue, and because of the WONDERFUL fanclub, Santi's Little Helpers we got barricade--center barricade. It was a perfect concert experience! Barricade without having to wait outside 765 hours. The concert was WONDERFUL--perfect. The supporting bands were all great too--Hey Monday, Carolina Liar (I chatted with the lead singer a while in Austin--I'll get to that later), We The Kings, and of course the always wonderful The Academy Is.
I'll start a new journal for our Austin experience!
One more side note. To all the mothers of daughters out there, you know how the moms always say stupid things and do really embarrassing stuff in the eyes of their daughters. Well, I'm noting here that I actually did and said something RIGHT for once! As we were waiting for the band to come out between sets, Nicole told me that she was glad that I mentioned the college thing to William because she was afraid that he thought she was 15 years old or something. Now he knows she's 18. HAHAHAHAHA! Ok, so I actually did something RIGHT--and I'm pretty happy about that! I'm sure she'll have a smartass comment about that right down there in the comment section of this journal--just you wait and see.....
Lets start with Dallas shall we--I'll change colors when I move on to Austin. So, Jack the Camera guy, the wonderful little person that I'll say runs the fanclub whether he actually does or not, he led us to the beautiful little Pontiac Garage room at The House of Blues to meet the guys from the band. William Beckett, who is has just as beautiful a personality as his outward appearance once again told us that he was glad to see us again. It was our 5th time to meet him. I told Nicole that I didn't know what I was going to say to Mike Carden, and it turns out all I had to say was a little bit then he talked and talked and talked. I never pictured him as the talkative type, but he was. Chatted with all the guys a while, then next thing you know, everybody had left the room except me, Nicole, Adam Siska and William Beckett. That's right--Nicole and I were ALONE in a room with nobody else but William Beckett and Adam Siska. How cool is that?! Pretty damn cool I tell ya! Anyway, Sisky mentioned that they were probably going to tour again in spring, and Nicole had this sad expression and I said, "Oh yeah, she'll be in college then." Then William walked over and I told him, "She's leaving me and going to college in the spring." He was like, "awwww" then he looked at her and said, "I bet you are excited though." and they chatted awhile about that. Siska asked how far away it was and I told him and Jack the Camera Guy walked in and Siska said that it was only a quick trip away by helicopter then he asked Jack The Camera Guy, "How fast do helicopters travel anyway?" Jack said, "A thousand." We all laughed at that and said, "A thousand what?" Then Sisky Business kept telling us that she can fly back and forth by helicopter and it won't take long at all.
I told all the guys that we'd be seeing them again in Austin the next night, and they all told me how they appreciated us driving down there to see them too. Mike Carden had us introduce ourself, and I told him that I'd quiz him the next night in Austin to see if he remembers our names. By the way--he did! And, as Nicole will be quick to point out--he remembered her name first. He said her name right away, and knew mine began with a G and thought about it a little, then said "Gina." I was stoked that he actually remembered our names.
So, after Jack said "I'm need to get you into the line" we went out and stood in a separate line for early entry into the venue, and because of the WONDERFUL fanclub, Santi's Little Helpers we got barricade--center barricade. It was a perfect concert experience! Barricade without having to wait outside 765 hours. The concert was WONDERFUL--perfect. The supporting bands were all great too--Hey Monday, Carolina Liar (I chatted with the lead singer a while in Austin--I'll get to that later), We The Kings, and of course the always wonderful The Academy Is.
I'll start a new journal for our Austin experience!
One more side note. To all the mothers of daughters out there, you know how the moms always say stupid things and do really embarrassing stuff in the eyes of their daughters. Well, I'm noting here that I actually did and said something RIGHT for once! As we were waiting for the band to come out between sets, Nicole told me that she was glad that I mentioned the college thing to William because she was afraid that he thought she was 15 years old or something. Now he knows she's 18. HAHAHAHAHA! Ok, so I actually did something RIGHT--and I'm pretty happy about that! I'm sure she'll have a smartass comment about that right down there in the comment section of this journal--just you wait and see.....
Posted on 10/14/2008 12:36 PM Comments (6)
July 17, 2008
Warped--part 2
Ok, took me long enough to get around to writing the 2nd part of our Warped experience. First of all, I have been corrected by someone reading my first journal. First of all--Nicole was not on Michael Guy's side--she was smack dab in the middle in front of William during their set, right behind the people holding on to the barricade. Second, I said always said that "we" discovered we were at the wrong stage, etc etc, when in fact it was always Nicole that realized we were in the wrong place. And, most importantly, I didn't stress enough the DRAMA that we went through in order to catch Cobra Starship's set! Ok, our lives depended in it! We were running through the crowd, sweat pouring down our,--wherever sweat pours when its 197 degrees outside, weaving in and out, dramatic music playing as we feverishly---um--where's the thesaurus?---BOLTED (ha! I didn't need it) from one end of the 7,000 mile concert area to the other. Barely catching our breath, we just managed in the nick of time, to make it by 1:30, or 1:20, or whenever it was. I think they actually started a little early because it felt like we missed a song or two. That incomplete set feeling, you know what that's like. Anyway....
The Academy Is. They were so awesome! When they came out the first song they played was Attention Attention may I have all your eyes and ears, to the front of the room if only, only for a second. I realize you don't want me to sing the whole song. They ended their set with Checkmarks, where (and I didn't re-read my first journal before writing this so I hope I don't repeat myself) he got up on the barricades and crawled into the audience. Right on top of where Nicole was. The crowd all rushed over to where he was, and Nicole said, "Everybody was on top of me, including William Beckett, and that was ok." He pointed and smiled at her at several times during the set. He pointed and smiled at me a time or two also. I can't stress enough what an incredibly nice person he is! And as they were performing he got the crowd really into it, having them jump, asking them to do their best 80's dance as they performed their brand new song, "About A Girl", having everyone wave their hands back and forth and clap. The crowd was so great for their set. That was the best position I've been in, to the stage at any concert since Projekt Revolution, and it was even slightly better than PR because I was a little closer to the center here, but Gerard would come to the side of the stage occasionally right in front of me during PR, as did Adam Lazarra, so that was like Heaven! Ok, now Nicole will complain that I mentioned Gerard when I was supposed to be talking about The Academy Is. Well, I will say that their set was the highlight of any Warped set I've been to--I had the best time there, and I have really enjoyed other sets too, but theirs was the best! They performed 2 songs from their new album too, that comes out August 19. I should get some kind of royalties for that plug.
As for other highlights and facts about the day that I may not have mentioned earlier. Well, we met the lead singer of The Audition, who I think Sam told me was named Danny Sullivan--right? Anyway he was very nice, got Nicole's picture taken with him and he told her that he liked her shoes. Angels and Airwaves? Well, they were at the stage right by The Academy Is, and they were performing when we were getting our spots up front for TAI, but I did get to hear their entire set, and sang along to some songs, and the girl behind me did too. I bet Nicole is now glad that she wasn't standing by me, and if she was she would have told me to shut up. But anyway, where I was, I could see Matt! YAY Matt! I saw him sing too. I could see Matt the entire time and Tom when he went up to the front of the stage to sing. Then, after TAI's set, we were really hot and the crowd started getting shovey, but not until the very end, which I'm SO grateful for, but they started shoving their way up to where we were to get a spot for Paramore, and I decided I didn't want to fight the crowd so I somehow managed to get out, and so did Nicole, but they actually lifted Nicole up and put her over the barricades so she could leave. So we decided to go to the one place where you can sit and watch whoever was on stage. Well, that happened to be Kate Perry. We joked about seeing her, because the I Kissed A Girl and I Liked It song irritates us to no end. I mean, its a catchy song, but we don't love the lyrics, and the damn thing stays in your head and won't leave! UG--its going to be in my head right now from me just mentioning it! Ok, Ludo's Love Me Dead can get any other song that stuck in my head out immediately! Ok....better.
Other bands we saw briefly--well we caught the very last Audition song. Saw some of Jack's Manniquin. Saw a little of The Pink Spiders, although the only original member from the time we met them at Warped 2 years ago was the lead singer. Heard some Family Force 5. Saw a little of The Devil Wears Prada. Heard some of Gym Class Heroes after the The Academy Is singing excitement. Ok, there's probably more, but it has been 2 weeks now.
The Academy Is. They were so awesome! When they came out the first song they played was Attention Attention may I have all your eyes and ears, to the front of the room if only, only for a second. I realize you don't want me to sing the whole song. They ended their set with Checkmarks, where (and I didn't re-read my first journal before writing this so I hope I don't repeat myself) he got up on the barricades and crawled into the audience. Right on top of where Nicole was. The crowd all rushed over to where he was, and Nicole said, "Everybody was on top of me, including William Beckett, and that was ok." He pointed and smiled at her at several times during the set. He pointed and smiled at me a time or two also. I can't stress enough what an incredibly nice person he is! And as they were performing he got the crowd really into it, having them jump, asking them to do their best 80's dance as they performed their brand new song, "About A Girl", having everyone wave their hands back and forth and clap. The crowd was so great for their set. That was the best position I've been in, to the stage at any concert since Projekt Revolution, and it was even slightly better than PR because I was a little closer to the center here, but Gerard would come to the side of the stage occasionally right in front of me during PR, as did Adam Lazarra, so that was like Heaven! Ok, now Nicole will complain that I mentioned Gerard when I was supposed to be talking about The Academy Is. Well, I will say that their set was the highlight of any Warped set I've been to--I had the best time there, and I have really enjoyed other sets too, but theirs was the best! They performed 2 songs from their new album too, that comes out August 19. I should get some kind of royalties for that plug.
As for other highlights and facts about the day that I may not have mentioned earlier. Well, we met the lead singer of The Audition, who I think Sam told me was named Danny Sullivan--right? Anyway he was very nice, got Nicole's picture taken with him and he told her that he liked her shoes. Angels and Airwaves? Well, they were at the stage right by The Academy Is, and they were performing when we were getting our spots up front for TAI, but I did get to hear their entire set, and sang along to some songs, and the girl behind me did too. I bet Nicole is now glad that she wasn't standing by me, and if she was she would have told me to shut up. But anyway, where I was, I could see Matt! YAY Matt! I saw him sing too. I could see Matt the entire time and Tom when he went up to the front of the stage to sing. Then, after TAI's set, we were really hot and the crowd started getting shovey, but not until the very end, which I'm SO grateful for, but they started shoving their way up to where we were to get a spot for Paramore, and I decided I didn't want to fight the crowd so I somehow managed to get out, and so did Nicole, but they actually lifted Nicole up and put her over the barricades so she could leave. So we decided to go to the one place where you can sit and watch whoever was on stage. Well, that happened to be Kate Perry. We joked about seeing her, because the I Kissed A Girl and I Liked It song irritates us to no end. I mean, its a catchy song, but we don't love the lyrics, and the damn thing stays in your head and won't leave! UG--its going to be in my head right now from me just mentioning it! Ok, Ludo's Love Me Dead can get any other song that stuck in my head out immediately! Ok....better.
Other bands we saw briefly--well we caught the very last Audition song. Saw some of Jack's Manniquin. Saw a little of The Pink Spiders, although the only original member from the time we met them at Warped 2 years ago was the lead singer. Heard some Family Force 5. Saw a little of The Devil Wears Prada. Heard some of Gym Class Heroes after the The Academy Is singing excitement. Ok, there's probably more, but it has been 2 weeks now.
Posted on 07/17/2008 1:08 PM Comments (6)
July 6, 2008
Warped 2008
Ok--July 3, 2008, on a hot steamy day in Dallas, Texas. Nicole and my warped tour experience was totally AWESOME! I'm going to start with the most exciting part of the day, then back up.
So--we are waiting to meet William Beckett from The Academy Is. We met him at Warped back in 2006, and after their headlining shows in both Dallas and Austin at the end of last September. We chatted with all the band members a while after both headlining shows. So back to July 3--we are waiting in a group of people to go up and get our picture with William, and he looks at me and smiles and says hi, and I smile and say hi back. Then he said "Its good to see you again." I'm like, "wow, he really does remember us each time! That's so awesome!" So when we finally get up there to see him, after giving him 2 hugs I tell him how flattered we are that he actually remembers us and he says, "Why, of course I do," in the sweetest voice. Wow--that totally made our day, that's for sure. When we were leaving he said, "Are you going to watch us at 5:30" and I say, "Of course--you are the reason we are here." and he smiled and said, "Thank you."
Anyway--lets go back to the beginning. Our first goal is to find the big blow up thing that says when all the bands are playing. We find that, and see that Cobra Starship is playing in 10 minutes on what I saw as "the main stage". After writing down the bands we wanted to see we rushed over to what we thought was the main stage, only to find out that was the wrong place, so we followed these girls in Cobra Starship t-shirts to where they were actually playing. Turns out it was right by where we started out. As always, their set was very upbeat, and fun and good. We weren't very close, but could see and we still had a good time.
After their set we wanted to see The Color Fred, featuring Fred Mascherino, formerly of Taking Back Sunday. We went back to the place we tried to see Cobra Starship first, because it said The Hurley Stage. We were there awhile, and I had bought a $2 schedule and map to make things easier, and we were looking at that and were wondering why the bands were going to play two stages right by each other at the exact same time. Then we realized we were at the hurley.com stage, and we needed to be at the hurley stage. So, off we go again, rushing through the hot sweaty crowd to find the hurley stage. I can't say we didn't get any exercise that day. Well, we found it in time and saw his entire set, and it was great too. The night before I had listened to his songs on myspace so I'd know some. Then he did some signings after the show. There were some people with microphones rapping loudly and annoyingly right behind where his booth was, so he was having a hard time hearing. I asked him if his dog was on tour with him. His dog, Roxanne is in his music video, and she also has a myspace page and I added her as one of my friends. Well, Fred couldn't hear me well and here's how it went:
"Welcome to Texas. We turned up the heat for you." Fred: I can tell. Me: So is your dog Roxie on tour with you? Fred: What? You want me to take you with me? Me: (laughs) No, I was wondering if you took your little dog Roxie across the country with you when you tour. Fred: (laughs) You want me to take you with me? I'm sorry, I can't hear you. ---ok, this goes on for a while, but finally he heard me and he laughed and said, "No, she stays at home. This would be too much for you. But thank you for asking about her." Well, anybody who knows me personally knows that I would ask about his dog, because I'm totally a dog person and I'm always talking about dogs.
So, Nicole and I decided that we had to find The Academy Is's booth. We looked all over the place, walked all around, and FINALLY found it, it was purple. There was a sign that said they weren't going to do signings. I asked if the guy if Nicole got anything since she was wearing their special fanclub shirt. (They had emailed to wear your fanclub shirts to Warped and if a band member spotted you in your shirt you'd get a wacky surprise.) I told Nicole her wacky surprise would be an engagement ring from William Beckett. :) The guy at the booth said to just wait a couple of more minutes. Then, here comes William Beckett and Adam Siska. Adam strolled up to us and started chatting, and we took his picture and I talked to him about his brother, Jason, who was on the American reality show/game show thingy, Survivor. And, you all know the William Beckett part now too. Then, Jack the Camera guy told Nicole that she could listen to their brand new song in headphones and tell him if she liked it or not. Well, of course she loved it! And that was cool too, because people were coming and going and she was standing there beside William listening to their new song, About A Girl.
So, we missed Gym Class Heroes set while all this was happening, but we had to get us a spot in order to see The Academy Is, so we got there in time for As I Lay Dieing, which is a hardcore band and we were just trying not to get hurt. On the other stage we caught some of Jack's Manniquin's set, then after AILD's set we quickly made our way to the front. I told Nicole not to worry about me, just get as close as possible and we'd meet up after their set, and we were both fortunate enough to get one row behind the barricade, me on Mike Cardin's side and Nicole on Michael Guy Chislett's side.
Since this is pretty long and I have to go now--I will start a new journal starting with The Academy Is's set.
So--we are waiting to meet William Beckett from The Academy Is. We met him at Warped back in 2006, and after their headlining shows in both Dallas and Austin at the end of last September. We chatted with all the band members a while after both headlining shows. So back to July 3--we are waiting in a group of people to go up and get our picture with William, and he looks at me and smiles and says hi, and I smile and say hi back. Then he said "Its good to see you again." I'm like, "wow, he really does remember us each time! That's so awesome!" So when we finally get up there to see him, after giving him 2 hugs I tell him how flattered we are that he actually remembers us and he says, "Why, of course I do," in the sweetest voice. Wow--that totally made our day, that's for sure. When we were leaving he said, "Are you going to watch us at 5:30" and I say, "Of course--you are the reason we are here." and he smiled and said, "Thank you."
Anyway--lets go back to the beginning. Our first goal is to find the big blow up thing that says when all the bands are playing. We find that, and see that Cobra Starship is playing in 10 minutes on what I saw as "the main stage". After writing down the bands we wanted to see we rushed over to what we thought was the main stage, only to find out that was the wrong place, so we followed these girls in Cobra Starship t-shirts to where they were actually playing. Turns out it was right by where we started out. As always, their set was very upbeat, and fun and good. We weren't very close, but could see and we still had a good time.
After their set we wanted to see The Color Fred, featuring Fred Mascherino, formerly of Taking Back Sunday. We went back to the place we tried to see Cobra Starship first, because it said The Hurley Stage. We were there awhile, and I had bought a $2 schedule and map to make things easier, and we were looking at that and were wondering why the bands were going to play two stages right by each other at the exact same time. Then we realized we were at the hurley.com stage, and we needed to be at the hurley stage. So, off we go again, rushing through the hot sweaty crowd to find the hurley stage. I can't say we didn't get any exercise that day. Well, we found it in time and saw his entire set, and it was great too. The night before I had listened to his songs on myspace so I'd know some. Then he did some signings after the show. There were some people with microphones rapping loudly and annoyingly right behind where his booth was, so he was having a hard time hearing. I asked him if his dog was on tour with him. His dog, Roxanne is in his music video, and she also has a myspace page and I added her as one of my friends. Well, Fred couldn't hear me well and here's how it went:
"Welcome to Texas. We turned up the heat for you." Fred: I can tell. Me: So is your dog Roxie on tour with you? Fred: What? You want me to take you with me? Me: (laughs) No, I was wondering if you took your little dog Roxie across the country with you when you tour. Fred: (laughs) You want me to take you with me? I'm sorry, I can't hear you. ---ok, this goes on for a while, but finally he heard me and he laughed and said, "No, she stays at home. This would be too much for you. But thank you for asking about her." Well, anybody who knows me personally knows that I would ask about his dog, because I'm totally a dog person and I'm always talking about dogs.
So, Nicole and I decided that we had to find The Academy Is's booth. We looked all over the place, walked all around, and FINALLY found it, it was purple. There was a sign that said they weren't going to do signings. I asked if the guy if Nicole got anything since she was wearing their special fanclub shirt. (They had emailed to wear your fanclub shirts to Warped and if a band member spotted you in your shirt you'd get a wacky surprise.) I told Nicole her wacky surprise would be an engagement ring from William Beckett. :) The guy at the booth said to just wait a couple of more minutes. Then, here comes William Beckett and Adam Siska. Adam strolled up to us and started chatting, and we took his picture and I talked to him about his brother, Jason, who was on the American reality show/game show thingy, Survivor. And, you all know the William Beckett part now too. Then, Jack the Camera guy told Nicole that she could listen to their brand new song in headphones and tell him if she liked it or not. Well, of course she loved it! And that was cool too, because people were coming and going and she was standing there beside William listening to their new song, About A Girl.
So, we missed Gym Class Heroes set while all this was happening, but we had to get us a spot in order to see The Academy Is, so we got there in time for As I Lay Dieing, which is a hardcore band and we were just trying not to get hurt. On the other stage we caught some of Jack's Manniquin's set, then after AILD's set we quickly made our way to the front. I told Nicole not to worry about me, just get as close as possible and we'd meet up after their set, and we were both fortunate enough to get one row behind the barricade, me on Mike Cardin's side and Nicole on Michael Guy Chislett's side.
Since this is pretty long and I have to go now--I will start a new journal starting with The Academy Is's set.
Posted on 07/06/2008 11:45 AM Comments (5)
May 27, 2008
Attention 30 Seconds to Mars fans: (revised)
Hello to all my Echelon friends. Fingers recovered from the last voting opportunity for 30 Seconds to Mars yet? Well, here's another opportunity. Fuse is having some #1 countdown show, and one of the videos to choose from is A Beautiful Lie. Lets show Fuse what the Echelon is made of and vote for A Beautiful Lie as our #1 video. The best part (for me anyways) is that you don't have to choose between 30 Seconds to Mars and My Chemical Romance. I hate it when that happens. I don't know how long you have to vote, or when this episode airs or anything yet, but I do know that you can vote as many times as you wish.
Here's the link:
http://www.fuse.tv/ontv/shows/no-1-countdown/
And here's another opportunity to vote--Sexiest Vegetarian! Go here and vote for Frank Iero or Jared Leto. Frank is ahead right now, with Jared a close 2nd.
http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-sexyveg08.asp
You have to vote for a girl too, and I didn't know who to vote for so I voted for Hayden Pantierre, or whatever her name is. I'm a big Heroes fan. Leave me a comment and let me know who you voted for. I love Frank, I really do, but I had to go with Jared Leto!
Here's the link:
http://www.fuse.tv/ontv/shows/no-1-countdown/
And here's another opportunity to vote--Sexiest Vegetarian! Go here and vote for Frank Iero or Jared Leto. Frank is ahead right now, with Jared a close 2nd.
http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-sexyveg08.asp
You have to vote for a girl too, and I didn't know who to vote for so I voted for Hayden Pantierre, or whatever her name is. I'm a big Heroes fan. Leave me a comment and let me know who you voted for. I love Frank, I really do, but I had to go with Jared Leto!
Posted on 05/27/2008 9:12 PM Comments (1)
April 30, 2008
More About the Dallas and Austin MCR shows
Ok, now I'm trying to remember more and more details about the two recent shows! OMG I do remember they were so amazing! Gee did a lot of interaction with the audience. And his facial expressions, and his SMILE, just so incredible. I almost lost my voice entirely during the Dallas show, and I'd scream bloody murder every time Gerard would do that thing where he licks his hands. (Tina---I wish I was his hand---LOL) Sexy man, let me tell you. And before Prison he asked who all went to jail and he talked about going to prison and "You know what would happen to a cupcake like me in prison." CUPCAKE---LOL---I'll be referring to him as Cupcake from now on! Then he demonstrated what would happen to him by sticking his cute little butt up in the air and bouncing it up and down while making that noise he always makes before going into the Prison song. He actually did that in Austin too, without the cupcake comment. Let me tell you, Dallas had so much more cooler stuff--like the football stuff I mentioned in the previous journal. I mean, seriously, who would have expected them to come out in football jackets with black marks under their eyes. I didn't even realize Frank and Ray were wearing shorts until I saw the pictures that Lorraine posted--but later I noticed that Frank was wearing jeans under those shorts. Speaking of Frank, I hope he felt ok, because he wasn't all wild and crazy and all over the place like he was at Projekt Revolution. During some parts of the Austin set he was leaning against the speakers as he played.
In Dallas he told us that they were going to do cowboy songs, all cowboy songs for their next album. Then he said they were going to play a cowboy song right now, a song by Johnny Cash, then he started playing Hang Em High. LOL. Both shows he had the crowd howl with him right before busting into House of Wolves. OMG--ok, this is going to be so randomly scattered because I'm typing as I'm remembering things---but I've never seen Ray so crazy as he was in Dallas. That boy was all over the place--with that 'fro swinging! Oh, and guess who was at the side-stage in Dallas during their set? None other than the legendary Tommy Lee. Didn't even know they were friends. He waved at us, and did this bow thing. It wasn't as if he were trying to go unnoticed or blend in or anything, because he was wearing this very bright red hat.
In Austin Gerard told us to all back up, and just like in Houston he said "We're not that pretty." But this time I shouted out as loud as I could "Yes you are!" Oh--but during Give Em' Hell Kid, you know the part where he says "You're beautiful", well he just smiled and held his hand to his ear and listened to the audience scream "You're beautiful" to him and had the most gorgeous sexy smile in the universe and nodded and said "Thank you." I tell you what, even though the crowd was so pushy at both shows (Austin was worse though) I'd sacrifice my comfort to get to see those facial expressions because the expressions totally made my night! Both nights they finished with the song Helena. Both shows he told us they won't be touring again for 2 years. **sob***
Ok, so if the football outfits weren't bizarre enough, since Austin was such a small venue the buses were right there, and as Gerard was walking to the bus he was wearing a cowboy hat! Never expected to ever see that either! Football outfits Sunday and a cowboy hat Monday? Wow--wasn't expecting that at all. During Billy Talent's set we were right in front of the speakers over to the side and Gerard peeked out and he was RIGHT THERE--really close and looking just too gorgeous to be a real person. And cute little Frankie peeked out and smiled and waved too--such a cutie! He also smiled and waved before getting on the bus! I actually got shoved from the very front by the speaker back to the middle in the middle in front of Gerard, but as long as I could see him I was ok. I actually could see Gee and Mikey good a majority of the time.
Security in Austin though, they literally ripped the cameras out of the hands of anybody taking pictures! I don't know why--that was pretty stupid and I've never seen them so redneck about that kind of thing before! I see online that some people managed to get some pictures though. This venue in Austin was part of a barbeque resturant and the smell was really strong, and I've been a vegetarian since February. In Dallas all you could smell was pot, lots and lots of that. I swear my friends and I were the only ones out of however many thousands of people who were there who weren't smoking. Contact high?! The Austin show was on dirt and gravel too, and my high top Converse somehow got filled with rocks, so I was jumping up and down with rocks in my shoes during most of the show. When I could jump that is--part of the time I was standing on one foot because there wasn't a place to put my other foot down. The crowd in Austin made me very miserable during the show but I wasn't going to let that distract me from enjoying that incredible cupcake on stage--LOL.
So, some surprise outfits, surprise songs (mentioned in the other journal) high energy show--they never ever disappoint!!! If I think of any other details that I temporarily forgot I'll let you know, I know he said so much and did the cutest things, and the band's performance was totally flawless.
In Dallas he told us that they were going to do cowboy songs, all cowboy songs for their next album. Then he said they were going to play a cowboy song right now, a song by Johnny Cash, then he started playing Hang Em High. LOL. Both shows he had the crowd howl with him right before busting into House of Wolves. OMG--ok, this is going to be so randomly scattered because I'm typing as I'm remembering things---but I've never seen Ray so crazy as he was in Dallas. That boy was all over the place--with that 'fro swinging! Oh, and guess who was at the side-stage in Dallas during their set? None other than the legendary Tommy Lee. Didn't even know they were friends. He waved at us, and did this bow thing. It wasn't as if he were trying to go unnoticed or blend in or anything, because he was wearing this very bright red hat.
In Austin Gerard told us to all back up, and just like in Houston he said "We're not that pretty." But this time I shouted out as loud as I could "Yes you are!" Oh--but during Give Em' Hell Kid, you know the part where he says "You're beautiful", well he just smiled and held his hand to his ear and listened to the audience scream "You're beautiful" to him and had the most gorgeous sexy smile in the universe and nodded and said "Thank you." I tell you what, even though the crowd was so pushy at both shows (Austin was worse though) I'd sacrifice my comfort to get to see those facial expressions because the expressions totally made my night! Both nights they finished with the song Helena. Both shows he told us they won't be touring again for 2 years. **sob***
Ok, so if the football outfits weren't bizarre enough, since Austin was such a small venue the buses were right there, and as Gerard was walking to the bus he was wearing a cowboy hat! Never expected to ever see that either! Football outfits Sunday and a cowboy hat Monday? Wow--wasn't expecting that at all. During Billy Talent's set we were right in front of the speakers over to the side and Gerard peeked out and he was RIGHT THERE--really close and looking just too gorgeous to be a real person. And cute little Frankie peeked out and smiled and waved too--such a cutie! He also smiled and waved before getting on the bus! I actually got shoved from the very front by the speaker back to the middle in the middle in front of Gerard, but as long as I could see him I was ok. I actually could see Gee and Mikey good a majority of the time.
Security in Austin though, they literally ripped the cameras out of the hands of anybody taking pictures! I don't know why--that was pretty stupid and I've never seen them so redneck about that kind of thing before! I see online that some people managed to get some pictures though. This venue in Austin was part of a barbeque resturant and the smell was really strong, and I've been a vegetarian since February. In Dallas all you could smell was pot, lots and lots of that. I swear my friends and I were the only ones out of however many thousands of people who were there who weren't smoking. Contact high?! The Austin show was on dirt and gravel too, and my high top Converse somehow got filled with rocks, so I was jumping up and down with rocks in my shoes during most of the show. When I could jump that is--part of the time I was standing on one foot because there wasn't a place to put my other foot down. The crowd in Austin made me very miserable during the show but I wasn't going to let that distract me from enjoying that incredible cupcake on stage--LOL.
So, some surprise outfits, surprise songs (mentioned in the other journal) high energy show--they never ever disappoint!!! If I think of any other details that I temporarily forgot I'll let you know, I know he said so much and did the cutest things, and the band's performance was totally flawless.
Posted on 04/30/2008 11:11 AM Comments (10)
April 29, 2008
My Chemical Romance @ Edgefest
I really want to post all about Sunday's show in Dallas but I've had so little sleep that I hope I can do this and make some kind of sense!!
Anyway---so we are waiting for them to take the stage FINALLY and there's this big paper sign on the stage that says Eat Shit. I'm thinking--what's that about? Then some music starts and people come running through the sign like they do at high school football games, all dressed in football jock jackets (see photo I posted) and the black lines under their eyes that football players have. And one guy was wearing a bear head, like a mascot, you know. Anyway, I was like, "Who are those people?" then I spotted Gerard and started screaming, "OMG---that's them! That's Them!" It was all these football themed stuff, with pictures of football players at their backdrop and Nicole said to me, "When I think of My Chemical Romance I never think of football!" She may have said it the other way around, but you get the idea. I was looking at them and trying to figure out who was missing to find out who was the bear, then when the bear started playing the keyboards I figured out who the bear was!
Anyway--the show was FREAKING AWESOME as always! So much energy---so magical!! Seriously, it was magical. Gerard soon shed that jacket and showed off his sexy arms too--LOL. Ok, lets fast forward to Austin real quick--they played several songs there that I haven't heard them do live before--Headfirst for Halos, DESERT SONG!!!, Kill All Your Friends. And they also did Heaven Help Us, but I've seen them do that before.
I gotta run now---I'll post more later!
Anyway---so we are waiting for them to take the stage FINALLY and there's this big paper sign on the stage that says Eat Shit. I'm thinking--what's that about? Then some music starts and people come running through the sign like they do at high school football games, all dressed in football jock jackets (see photo I posted) and the black lines under their eyes that football players have. And one guy was wearing a bear head, like a mascot, you know. Anyway, I was like, "Who are those people?" then I spotted Gerard and started screaming, "OMG---that's them! That's Them!" It was all these football themed stuff, with pictures of football players at their backdrop and Nicole said to me, "When I think of My Chemical Romance I never think of football!" She may have said it the other way around, but you get the idea. I was looking at them and trying to figure out who was missing to find out who was the bear, then when the bear started playing the keyboards I figured out who the bear was!
Anyway--the show was FREAKING AWESOME as always! So much energy---so magical!! Seriously, it was magical. Gerard soon shed that jacket and showed off his sexy arms too--LOL. Ok, lets fast forward to Austin real quick--they played several songs there that I haven't heard them do live before--Headfirst for Halos, DESERT SONG!!!, Kill All Your Friends. And they also did Heaven Help Us, but I've seen them do that before.
I gotta run now---I'll post more later!
Posted on 04/29/2008 3:50 PM Comments (13)
April 24, 2008
Lost article--part 3--with a look into the future
Again, this is the article from April 18th's Entertainment Weekly, written by Jeff Jensen, and I'm skipping ahead to where it tells what to expect the remainder of this season:
And what they'll be doing is kicking things off with a meaty sweep of a story. In addition to being a flash-forward adventure for globe-trotting Ben, in which his war with British billionaire Charles Widmore (Alan Dale) over control of the Island will intensify, episode 9 revisits a long-simmering subplot: Sayid's romance with Iraqi love Nadia (Andrea Gabriel). According to Lindelof, a new dimension of Smokey the monster's mercurial nature will also be revealed, per the Lost rule that "you learn something new about the monster whenever it appears." And Cuse says a major story line will begin for Claire (Emilie de Ravin),Aaron's Aussie mommy, who lost boyfriend Charlie in last year's finale: "Mysterious things are happening to Claire that set up the next few episodes--and the next few years too."
"The Shape of Things to Come" will be followed by a flash-forward installment for Jack. "We're starting to close the loop on the end of last season, "says Fox. "Jack in the future is a man marked by weakness, but the Jack of the present is strong. You're going to understand how he made that transition." The last 3 episodes include only one flashback, which the producers say will be a mythically significant outing for.....someone. The rumor: Locke (Terry O'Quinn) Fans will also see a new Dharma station called the Orchid--all three levels of it---that might shed more light on the Island's time-warping properties. Periphieral faves like Penelop, ageless Other Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell), and off Island mystery man Matthew Abaddon (Lance Reddick) will pop up. But due to the strike, the two breakout freighter newbies--frazzled physicist Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davis) and ghost whispering hustler Miles Straume (Ken Leung)--won't be getting their spotlights until next year. The May 22 finale will complicate the Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle by featuring "a spectacular kiss" and elaborate on Jack's flash-forward ambition to journey back to the Island. "This year's finale will sum up exactly how difficult it may be to accomplish that," says Lindelof, who adds cryptic response to speculation that flash-forwards will vanish once Island present meets off-Island future: "There could easily be a time when the word flash becomes irrelevant."
While fans wait to see what form of Lost's future takes, the cast waits to see whether they'll be part of it: peril abounds for the castaways in the next five episodes. During EW's stay on the set, Garcia prepared for an encounter with Smokey, and Holloway was spritzed with fake sweat and a touch of blood in advance of a raging gunfight. After fishing that mystery corpse form the surf, Daniel Dae Kim addressed a reporter's question about Jin's uncertain flash-forward fate (he seemingly died in the March 13 episode) with a mock frantic cry: "I don't know!" As it was at the start, Lost is once more the show where anything can happen. Drying out in the sun after scurrying away from a big wave that washed out the scene, Yunjin Kim sits in the tall grass of the beach and sums it up: "It feels like season 1. And I love it."
And what they'll be doing is kicking things off with a meaty sweep of a story. In addition to being a flash-forward adventure for globe-trotting Ben, in which his war with British billionaire Charles Widmore (Alan Dale) over control of the Island will intensify, episode 9 revisits a long-simmering subplot: Sayid's romance with Iraqi love Nadia (Andrea Gabriel). According to Lindelof, a new dimension of Smokey the monster's mercurial nature will also be revealed, per the Lost rule that "you learn something new about the monster whenever it appears." And Cuse says a major story line will begin for Claire (Emilie de Ravin),Aaron's Aussie mommy, who lost boyfriend Charlie in last year's finale: "Mysterious things are happening to Claire that set up the next few episodes--and the next few years too."
"The Shape of Things to Come" will be followed by a flash-forward installment for Jack. "We're starting to close the loop on the end of last season, "says Fox. "Jack in the future is a man marked by weakness, but the Jack of the present is strong. You're going to understand how he made that transition." The last 3 episodes include only one flashback, which the producers say will be a mythically significant outing for.....someone. The rumor: Locke (Terry O'Quinn) Fans will also see a new Dharma station called the Orchid--all three levels of it---that might shed more light on the Island's time-warping properties. Periphieral faves like Penelop, ageless Other Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell), and off Island mystery man Matthew Abaddon (Lance Reddick) will pop up. But due to the strike, the two breakout freighter newbies--frazzled physicist Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davis) and ghost whispering hustler Miles Straume (Ken Leung)--won't be getting their spotlights until next year. The May 22 finale will complicate the Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle by featuring "a spectacular kiss" and elaborate on Jack's flash-forward ambition to journey back to the Island. "This year's finale will sum up exactly how difficult it may be to accomplish that," says Lindelof, who adds cryptic response to speculation that flash-forwards will vanish once Island present meets off-Island future: "There could easily be a time when the word flash becomes irrelevant."
While fans wait to see what form of Lost's future takes, the cast waits to see whether they'll be part of it: peril abounds for the castaways in the next five episodes. During EW's stay on the set, Garcia prepared for an encounter with Smokey, and Holloway was spritzed with fake sweat and a touch of blood in advance of a raging gunfight. After fishing that mystery corpse form the surf, Daniel Dae Kim addressed a reporter's question about Jin's uncertain flash-forward fate (he seemingly died in the March 13 episode) with a mock frantic cry: "I don't know!" As it was at the start, Lost is once more the show where anything can happen. Drying out in the sun after scurrying away from a big wave that washed out the scene, Yunjin Kim sits in the tall grass of the beach and sums it up: "It feels like season 1. And I love it."
Posted on 04/24/2008 7:15 AM Comments (1)
Article about Lost--part 2
Camp Locke is actually Camp Erdman in real life, a YMCA facility on Oahu's North Shore. On this rain-splashed afternoon, a cuople dozen day campers sit on the grass, waiting to watch Lost blow up one of their cabins. As the explosives get rigged, the man who plays con-artist bad boy Sawyer, Josh Holloway, gamely takes questions. One boy shares how his mother, a big Lost fan, talks about the show so incessantly taht he has to cover his ears and beg her to stop. The kids laugh, and so does Holloway, but the camp counselor is embarrassed. "Now, remember," she scolds. "Respectful questions."
The stars of Lost have heard worse, especially last year when they were put in the awkward position of answering harsh criticism about how Lost had lost its way. "When you came out here last season, I remember I didn't talk to," Andrews (Sayid) tells and EW writer, "because if all you have to say is something negative, why talk at all?" Asked where he thought season 3 went wrong, Andrews smiles, "Well, I wasn't in it much, so that's flaw number one, without sounding ridiculously arrogant," laughs the actor, whose Sayid was truly underutilized. "A lot of us didn't know which was the show was going, and I'm not sure the writers did, either. They seemed to be meandering in the dark. But its's good now. We're on track."
So how did they find the light? By negotiating the death of Lost itself. Last May, the show's guiding hands, Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, reached a deal with ABC to end the series in 2010 after three 16-episode seasons; as a result, Lost's storytellers have been able to bring structure and focus to their saga. It began with last year's bravura finale, which brought the promise of rescue and introduced "flash-foward" storytelling into the mix. Fox--who was the only actor besides Evangeline Lilly (Kate) privy to the episode's its-not-a-flashback twist--recalls barely being able to keep the secret from the rest of the cast. "I knew it would take Lost to the next level," he says.
Season 4 has gone even further with new twists, new characters, and a new forward-moving, future-revealing mythology. Front and center are the Oceanic 6, a privileged clutch of castaways--Jack, Kate, Sayid, Sun (Yunjin Kim), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), and baby Aaron--who have somehow, someway escaped the island. "I think this flash-forward business is a stroke of genius," says Emerson. "I think everybody here feels that we are now a more mature show, that we are now a show for grown-ups, because we're going to see that like in life, there may not be happy endings for many of us on this Island.
The stars of Lost have heard worse, especially last year when they were put in the awkward position of answering harsh criticism about how Lost had lost its way. "When you came out here last season, I remember I didn't talk to," Andrews (Sayid) tells and EW writer, "because if all you have to say is something negative, why talk at all?" Asked where he thought season 3 went wrong, Andrews smiles, "Well, I wasn't in it much, so that's flaw number one, without sounding ridiculously arrogant," laughs the actor, whose Sayid was truly underutilized. "A lot of us didn't know which was the show was going, and I'm not sure the writers did, either. They seemed to be meandering in the dark. But its's good now. We're on track."
So how did they find the light? By negotiating the death of Lost itself. Last May, the show's guiding hands, Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, reached a deal with ABC to end the series in 2010 after three 16-episode seasons; as a result, Lost's storytellers have been able to bring structure and focus to their saga. It began with last year's bravura finale, which brought the promise of rescue and introduced "flash-foward" storytelling into the mix. Fox--who was the only actor besides Evangeline Lilly (Kate) privy to the episode's its-not-a-flashback twist--recalls barely being able to keep the secret from the rest of the cast. "I knew it would take Lost to the next level," he says.
Season 4 has gone even further with new twists, new characters, and a new forward-moving, future-revealing mythology. Front and center are the Oceanic 6, a privileged clutch of castaways--Jack, Kate, Sayid, Sun (Yunjin Kim), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), and baby Aaron--who have somehow, someway escaped the island. "I think this flash-forward business is a stroke of genius," says Emerson. "I think everybody here feels that we are now a more mature show, that we are now a show for grown-ups, because we're going to see that like in life, there may not be happy endings for many of us on this Island.
Posted on 04/24/2008 6:50 AM Comments (2)
April 23, 2008
Paradise Lost--part 1
In the April 18 version of Entertainment Weekly (#987) there was an interesting article about Lost, and I have a lot of friends in the UK who watch the show but don't get this magazine, so I am going to attempt to type up the article here for them to read. Hope ya'll appreciate this! I tried to scan it but you couldn't even begin to read it. I'll probably do this in 2 or 3 parts---so here is part 1:
Life on the Oahu set of Lost isn't always a day at the beach. On this sweltering March afternoon, for example, ABC's cult hit about castaways on a time-warped tropical isle has chosen to shoot in...a rock quarry. Amount of fun currently being had: Zero. The horses are jumpy from machine-gun fire. Executive producer Jack Bender is directing with an ice pack to his face after walking into a crane. And MIchael Emerson---aka. Benjamin Linus, the show's villainous uber-Other--is broiled, thanks to his curious wardrode requirement: a wooly winter parka.
"DEfinitely a no-glamour zone," says Emerson during a brief respite from shooting Lost's first episode since the writer's strike interrupted production last November. "I thought we would ease into things. Instead, I get this all-Ben extravaganza: combat, riding horses,foreign languages. And piano playing! All waaaay outside my comfort zone. How can you work two weeks and feel like you need a vacation already?"
Some sympathy of Lost's biggest devil? Not a polar bear's chance in Tunisia. Besides, there's crucial work to be done. You'll start seeing it on April 24, when Lost returns with the first of five fresh episodes taht will wrap up its buzzy, strike-abbreviated fourth season. EW spent three days on the set of the drama, and judging form the looks of things--like the corpse that washes up on the sandy shores of Camp Jack and the raging gunfight that will decimate Camp Locke--the first episode back, ominously titled "the Shape of Things to come" will launch the enedgame with downright apocalyptic thunder. The ensuing four installments will answer some of the season's biggest questions: How did the much vaunted Oceanic 6 leave the Island? What happened to those left behind? Why is Sayid (Naveen Andrews) killing people for Ben in the future? And who's rotting inside that darn coffin? "It's big and epic," promises Matthew Fox (Jack). "Our first eight episodes, by design, were all set up for these episodes to come. That we're doing just 5 instead of 8 means they're even more packed with plot. It's payoff time." More momentously, the finale--whose Big Twist is code-named "Frozen Donkey Wheel"--will set the stage for another series reinvention. Citing the 7th Harry Potter book, in which J.K. Rowling broke her usual year-at-Hogwart's template, executive producer Damon Lindelof says, "We're taking the same approach. You think the show is, 'Okay, they're on the Island, and then---whoosh--you're in the past or the future.' By the end of Season 4, I think the audience is going to go, 'How can the show continue to be that?' And they are absolutely right."
More tomorrow.........This article was written by Jeff Jensen.
Life on the Oahu set of Lost isn't always a day at the beach. On this sweltering March afternoon, for example, ABC's cult hit about castaways on a time-warped tropical isle has chosen to shoot in...a rock quarry. Amount of fun currently being had: Zero. The horses are jumpy from machine-gun fire. Executive producer Jack Bender is directing with an ice pack to his face after walking into a crane. And MIchael Emerson---aka. Benjamin Linus, the show's villainous uber-Other--is broiled, thanks to his curious wardrode requirement: a wooly winter parka.
"DEfinitely a no-glamour zone," says Emerson during a brief respite from shooting Lost's first episode since the writer's strike interrupted production last November. "I thought we would ease into things. Instead, I get this all-Ben extravaganza: combat, riding horses,foreign languages. And piano playing! All waaaay outside my comfort zone. How can you work two weeks and feel like you need a vacation already?"
Some sympathy of Lost's biggest devil? Not a polar bear's chance in Tunisia. Besides, there's crucial work to be done. You'll start seeing it on April 24, when Lost returns with the first of five fresh episodes taht will wrap up its buzzy, strike-abbreviated fourth season. EW spent three days on the set of the drama, and judging form the looks of things--like the corpse that washes up on the sandy shores of Camp Jack and the raging gunfight that will decimate Camp Locke--the first episode back, ominously titled "the Shape of Things to come" will launch the enedgame with downright apocalyptic thunder. The ensuing four installments will answer some of the season's biggest questions: How did the much vaunted Oceanic 6 leave the Island? What happened to those left behind? Why is Sayid (Naveen Andrews) killing people for Ben in the future? And who's rotting inside that darn coffin? "It's big and epic," promises Matthew Fox (Jack). "Our first eight episodes, by design, were all set up for these episodes to come. That we're doing just 5 instead of 8 means they're even more packed with plot. It's payoff time." More momentously, the finale--whose Big Twist is code-named "Frozen Donkey Wheel"--will set the stage for another series reinvention. Citing the 7th Harry Potter book, in which J.K. Rowling broke her usual year-at-Hogwart's template, executive producer Damon Lindelof says, "We're taking the same approach. You think the show is, 'Okay, they're on the Island, and then---whoosh--you're in the past or the future.' By the end of Season 4, I think the audience is going to go, 'How can the show continue to be that?' And they are absolutely right."
More tomorrow.........This article was written by Jeff Jensen.
Posted on 04/23/2008 7:23 AM Comments (0)
April 17, 2008
Taking Back Sunday's bulletin
Ok, I'm saving this bulletin before it disappears, but I wrote a comment under Taking Back Sunday's blog about my worst concert experience, and they liked my story so much that they posted a bulletin about it. I was so excited about that, but more excited about how they referred to us as "their friends." LOL. Anyway, here's the bulletin, short but sweet, and its a long story about what happened on the way to the Journey concert on my 19th birthday, but they enjoyed it.
| From: |  Taking Back Sunday |
|---|---|
| Date: | Apr 8, 2008 3:35 PM |
| Subject: | Check our Blog |
| Body: | You know you want to read about our friends who got arrested on the way to a Journey concert and then had the same cop in their lamaze class a bunch of years later! |
Posted on 04/17/2008 11:29 AM Comments (5)
April 4, 2008
Please write a letter and save Fuse!
Hey,
This was in Steven (of Steven's Untitled Rock Show's blog). Everyone, please write a letter to him and say how much you love Fuse you that you don't want it to start sucking like MTV does. I mean, its the ONLY place to watch good music videos. That's where I discovered My Chemical Romance, and just about every other band that I listen to also. If you live in England, write a letter anyway--LOL--tell them that you wish that they would broadcast Fuse over there--because Steven ROCKS!
Here's the blog:
WHAT'S UP WITH FUSE?
I get this question a lot lately. Actually, I’ve gotten it since the channel was called MuchMusicUSA. Everyone wants to know why there’s changes. Why the channel shows movies and not as much rock. Well, I’ll tell you and get ready for some hard truths people.
Music videos don’t rate.
WHAT? NO WAY? Sadly, it’s true. Television is rated on an antiquated system called the Nielsen’s and music videos never add up. This is why the other music video channel doesn’t play music anymore.
"But Steven, MTV’s been around for over twenty years? Why was it so popular?" Simple. There weren’t as many cable channels and there wasn’t satellite or digital cable. Now look at your cable box. There are over one thousand channels.
it’s bonkers? How can Fuse compete?
The answer is simple - with fans like you writing us and telling us why you like Fuse.
Not everyone has a Nielsen box (I’ve only met two people in my lifetime who have) and obviously you guys are our fans, so here’s what I need you to do:
Write a letter. An actual physical letter (no emails, no blogs, no myspace comments) telling why you love Fuse. Give me a list of your favorite bands and sign the damn thing with your real name and where you’re from.
Get five of your friends who might not be on friends on the SURS myspace to do the same. Then we’ll have some crazy numbers and the powers that be will have to listen to your plight.
Mail them to me:
Steven Smith
Fuse 11 Penn Plaza
17th Floor
New York, NY 10009
Got it? Excelllent!
Now put pen to paper and write a letter.
Spread the word!
your friend,
Steven
This was in Steven (of Steven's Untitled Rock Show's blog). Everyone, please write a letter to him and say how much you love Fuse you that you don't want it to start sucking like MTV does. I mean, its the ONLY place to watch good music videos. That's where I discovered My Chemical Romance, and just about every other band that I listen to also. If you live in England, write a letter anyway--LOL--tell them that you wish that they would broadcast Fuse over there--because Steven ROCKS!
Here's the blog:
WHAT'S UP WITH FUSE?
I get this question a lot lately. Actually, I’ve gotten it since the channel was called MuchMusicUSA. Everyone wants to know why there’s changes. Why the channel shows movies and not as much rock. Well, I’ll tell you and get ready for some hard truths people.
Music videos don’t rate.
WHAT? NO WAY? Sadly, it’s true. Television is rated on an antiquated system called the Nielsen’s and music videos never add up. This is why the other music video channel doesn’t play music anymore.
"But Steven, MTV’s been around for over twenty years? Why was it so popular?" Simple. There weren’t as many cable channels and there wasn’t satellite or digital cable. Now look at your cable box. There are over one thousand channels.
it’s bonkers? How can Fuse compete?
The answer is simple - with fans like you writing us and telling us why you like Fuse.
Not everyone has a Nielsen box (I’ve only met two people in my lifetime who have) and obviously you guys are our fans, so here’s what I need you to do:
Write a letter. An actual physical letter (no emails, no blogs, no myspace comments) telling why you love Fuse. Give me a list of your favorite bands and sign the damn thing with your real name and where you’re from.
Get five of your friends who might not be on friends on the SURS myspace to do the same. Then we’ll have some crazy numbers and the powers that be will have to listen to your plight.
Mail them to me:
Steven Smith
Fuse 11 Penn Plaza
17th Floor
New York, NY 10009
Got it? Excelllent!
Now put pen to paper and write a letter.
Spread the word!
your friend,
Steven
Posted on 04/04/2008 10:41 AM Comments (7)
January 24, 2008
The Foo Fighters Rock Dallas!!
Last night--January 23 the Foo Fighters totally ROCKED the city of Dallas! What an amazing concert--what an amazing band! They came out on stage and performed the song Let It Die, then Dave told us that "I hope you took a piss before we came out on stage because this is going to be a long fucking show." And he was right! They rocked for 2 hours! So awesome. That's what's great about that venue that they performed in, the other two big venues have rules that you have to end the shows at 11:00, but American Airlines Center, while its always more expensive to see shows there, let the bands rock all night long if they want to. He asked the crowd, "When was the last time we were here in Dallas? Was it the Weezer show?" Yes, it was--I was at that one too. "Well, this one is going to be better. No little hour and 10 minute bullshit show. We are going to rock this place all night".
After Let It Die they followed with The Pretender, and the place totally came alive. Dave Grohl shredded that guitar the entire set, and Taylor was flawless on the drums as always. Dave was all over the place. There was a catwalk than ran to the back of the stadium where a stage later came down and they performed their acoustic set out there so the people in the back wouldn't feel left out. The band was sometimes joined on stage by this girl named Jessie who played the violin, and Pat Smear helped on the guitar some. During the set they played songs from all their albums, including This Is A Call from the first one, with Big Me in the encore (but I'll get to the encore later--it was funny how he did that). From The Color and the Shape they performed Monkey Wrench, and on the acoustic stage they did My Hero and Everlong, which he started out doing it acoustic by himself then walked back to the regular stage and finished by playing the rock out version that I love so dearly. I was hoping he would do that, because although I like the acoustic version I LOVE the real version. They did rocking versions of Stacked Actors, Breakout, and Learn To Fly, and Times Like These. On the acoustic stage they were also joined by some guy on the percussion that I can't remember his name and some guy named Ronnie also who Dave said is a wild man and "every time I smell pot I think of Ronnie." Then he went on to say "Speaking of that--that section over there smells like a coffee shop in Amsterdam. You really shouldn't smoke weed. It makes you...." Then everybody was cheering and he continued, "I mean, I haven't smoked pot in years and look at me." "Ok, I'm just fucking with you--the last time I smoked it was like 3 days ago".
He was so funny--lots of banter with the audience. He introduced Taylor (a Dallas native) and kept telling us if it weren't for Dallas, Texas we wouldn't have Taylor Hawkins. Taylor talked to us a little bit then he performed the song that he sings from the In Your Honor cd--Cold Day In The Sun. They also did Skin and Bones and Marigold on that other stage. Even the acoustic set rocked too--especially Hero. When he introduced Nate (the bass player) he said he was "mixing it up a little by wearing that red shirt". Everyone else was in all black. He said, "It seems like the theme of this show--every band is wearing all black. Like a bunch of...a bunch of... a bunch of fucking roadies or something. I'm just kidding, we love our roadies." He ran to the catwalk many times throughout the whole show and had a "guitar-off with Chris Shiflett".
I thought it was so funny when he asked the crowd "How many first timers do we have out here? Come on, tell me, how many of you are at your first Foo Fighters concert? Come on, don't be shy." Then when a bunch of people raised their hands he acted all mad and said, "Where the hell have you all been for the last 13 years?!! Seriously! Its a good thing we didn't break up!" Then he started laughing and said he was just kidding, and he appreciates all his fans and that he'll keep coming as long as we keep coming to their shows. (It was my 4th Foo Fighter show, by the way--so I've BEEN THERE the past 13 years.)
Then after the last song of the set, they left the stage, and on the screen you saw a copy of their set list. Then you saw a finger pointing at the songs. Then you saw a close up of Dave's face, and everybody cheered. He was smiling, and he motioned, asking us if we wanted one more song. And the crowd went wild. He kept holding one finger up, then he would go "Nah," and shake his head and leave. Then a few seconds later he was back, and he was motioning for 2 more songs. That went on a while, with the crowd cheering, and with him shaking his head and going "nah" and leaving. Then later, he came back offering 3 more songs, making the crowd go nuts. He teased us for a while, acting like he wasn't going to do that, that he was just going to leave, but he finally nodded his head and came out on stage with the violin player and was saying that he was not going to dedicate the next song to all the "hot chicks", that he was going to dedicate it to, as he put it, "ugly motherfuckers like me". And he went on to say, "It doesn't matter what you look like, how ugly you are.....when you pick up a guitar....you're going to get a whoooole lot of ass. You don't have to be Eddie Van Halen. Because this song has only 5 chords." And he started playing Big Me, and the violin girl sang it with him. I'm thinking Long Road to Ruin was also part of their 3 song encore, I know they played it, but I guess all those years of burning brain cells made me forget if it was part of the regular set or part of the encore. I know they played All My Life in the encore, and Times Like These. Ok, since that's 3 songs that tells me that Long Road To Ruin wasn't part of the encore--but it was close to the end.
To sum it all up--YES THE FOO FIGHTERS ROCKED! Dave Grohl is not a mere man--he is a legend--a rock and roll God. And he didn't disappoint. Sorry--didn't bring a camera this time, so no pictures.
After Let It Die they followed with The Pretender, and the place totally came alive. Dave Grohl shredded that guitar the entire set, and Taylor was flawless on the drums as always. Dave was all over the place. There was a catwalk than ran to the back of the stadium where a stage later came down and they performed their acoustic set out there so the people in the back wouldn't feel left out. The band was sometimes joined on stage by this girl named Jessie who played the violin, and Pat Smear helped on the guitar some. During the set they played songs from all their albums, including This Is A Call from the first one, with Big Me in the encore (but I'll get to the encore later--it was funny how he did that). From The Color and the Shape they performed Monkey Wrench, and on the acoustic stage they did My Hero and Everlong, which he started out doing it acoustic by himself then walked back to the regular stage and finished by playing the rock out version that I love so dearly. I was hoping he would do that, because although I like the acoustic version I LOVE the real version. They did rocking versions of Stacked Actors, Breakout, and Learn To Fly, and Times Like These. On the acoustic stage they were also joined by some guy on the percussion that I can't remember his name and some guy named Ronnie also who Dave said is a wild man and "every time I smell pot I think of Ronnie." Then he went on to say "Speaking of that--that section over there smells like a coffee shop in Amsterdam. You really shouldn't smoke weed. It makes you...." Then everybody was cheering and he continued, "I mean, I haven't smoked pot in years and look at me." "Ok, I'm just fucking with you--the last time I smoked it was like 3 days ago".
He was so funny--lots of banter with the audience. He introduced Taylor (a Dallas native) and kept telling us if it weren't for Dallas, Texas we wouldn't have Taylor Hawkins. Taylor talked to us a little bit then he performed the song that he sings from the In Your Honor cd--Cold Day In The Sun. They also did Skin and Bones and Marigold on that other stage. Even the acoustic set rocked too--especially Hero. When he introduced Nate (the bass player) he said he was "mixing it up a little by wearing that red shirt". Everyone else was in all black. He said, "It seems like the theme of this show--every band is wearing all black. Like a bunch of...a bunch of... a bunch of fucking roadies or something. I'm just kidding, we love our roadies." He ran to the catwalk many times throughout the whole show and had a "guitar-off with Chris Shiflett".
I thought it was so funny when he asked the crowd "How many first timers do we have out here? Come on, tell me, how many of you are at your first Foo Fighters concert? Come on, don't be shy." Then when a bunch of people raised their hands he acted all mad and said, "Where the hell have you all been for the last 13 years?!! Seriously! Its a good thing we didn't break up!" Then he started laughing and said he was just kidding, and he appreciates all his fans and that he'll keep coming as long as we keep coming to their shows. (It was my 4th Foo Fighter show, by the way--so I've BEEN THERE the past 13 years.)
Then after the last song of the set, they left the stage, and on the screen you saw a copy of their set list. Then you saw a finger pointing at the songs. Then you saw a close up of Dave's face, and everybody cheered. He was smiling, and he motioned, asking us if we wanted one more song. And the crowd went wild. He kept holding one finger up, then he would go "Nah," and shake his head and leave. Then a few seconds later he was back, and he was motioning for 2 more songs. That went on a while, with the crowd cheering, and with him shaking his head and going "nah" and leaving. Then later, he came back offering 3 more songs, making the crowd go nuts. He teased us for a while, acting like he wasn't going to do that, that he was just going to leave, but he finally nodded his head and came out on stage with the violin player and was saying that he was not going to dedicate the next song to all the "hot chicks", that he was going to dedicate it to, as he put it, "ugly motherfuckers like me". And he went on to say, "It doesn't matter what you look like, how ugly you are.....when you pick up a guitar....you're going to get a whoooole lot of ass. You don't have to be Eddie Van Halen. Because this song has only 5 chords." And he started playing Big Me, and the violin girl sang it with him. I'm thinking Long Road to Ruin was also part of their 3 song encore, I know they played it, but I guess all those years of burning brain cells made me forget if it was part of the regular set or part of the encore. I know they played All My Life in the encore, and Times Like These. Ok, since that's 3 songs that tells me that Long Road To Ruin wasn't part of the encore--but it was close to the end.
To sum it all up--YES THE FOO FIGHTERS ROCKED! Dave Grohl is not a mere man--he is a legend--a rock and roll God. And he didn't disappoint. Sorry--didn't bring a camera this time, so no pictures.
Posted on 01/24/2008 9:34 AM Comments (8)
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