the mormon rock show

do you know what i'm not looking forward to this year? the freaking hurricane season. last year i welcomed it with open arms. hey i didn't know it would be that bad. but this year, at the slightest chance of a storm anywhere with a thousand mile radius of new orleans, the news is gonna go crazy and cover it night and day. those levies were there for like fifty years before last year's disaster. do you really think something like that will happen two years in a row? sure there might be close calls, but other than that it will just be annoying news casters making a big stink over nothing. not looking forward to it.

the real world's next city is going to be denver. that'll be pretty interesting but it only took them freaking 18 seasons before choosing denver. call me a loser, but i think i'll be tuning in to see my town.

the show last night was pretty good. luckily it was at my school because i had an exam at 5:30 and it started at 6. it was totally sold out and the line to get in was eternally long. kim and i had seats which was a first for me. i can’t remember ever going to a concert where i was assigned a seat. the closest was a =w=eezer show a long time ago at the shoreline amphitheater, but i sat in grass then. hawthorne heights was an opener and they were soooo amazing. easily my favorite of the night. i had so wished i was on the floor for this. next was the all-american rejects, who weren’t that bad. they are just a little too poppy sounding for my taste. the crowd was nuts for them though. last was fall out boy. i was really surprised because the audience just wasn’t digging them it seemed. the energy in the crowd was so minimal compared to all-american. i was rockin out but the rest of the audience seemed to only get their moneys worth when they had to be told what to do by the other band. i felt bad for fall out because when they had the audience sing the snippets of their songs, hardly anyone knew the words. there could be a few reasons for this. first off, the guy singing can be so unintelligible at times. he is an amazing singer with a crazy good voice and a great song writer, but i think the pitch of his voice and the way he sings makes him so hard to understand. that could be a reason. another is that maybe people just don’t like fall out boy that much. i noticed lots of people who left during their set, which is crazy since they headlined. i guess people could have gone just for the opening bands who were pretty big names, but paying all that money for a ticket just to leave during the main act boggles the mind. as tame as the crowd was during their set, the last song was total madness. the band told people to basically swarm into general admission and crowd surf like there was no tomorrow. and people did. i don’t think i’ve ever seen anything like that. it’s like those scenes where the crowd rushes the field after the underdogs win a bowl game in ot. the security was pretty tight throughout the show. they don’t allow moshing so in the mosh pit that existed, you could always see some random security guard with his flashlight on trying to break it up, usually to no avail. but it was there and the bands would usually just egg it on even more. during fall out, somehow someone from the audience got through security and got up on stage. it took about two seconds before one of fall out boy’s people grabbed the guy from behind, put him in a headlock, and dragged him off stage. it was a pretty sad spectacle on the part of fall out boy for having their people be so extreme. what happened to just letting loose and rocking out? maybe they think they are above that. i understand that you want to keep the show going and keep the band safe, but it was ridiculous. the guy was dancing around a little, but i thought the fall out crony was gonna break his neck or something. fall out boy, or at least the guitarist that was yappin the whole time during the show, is a little too hokey for me. they seem like pretty down to earth and humble guys, but they were going on and on about being an individual and not being mean to people and loving one another, etcetera, etcetera. basically, if your daughter is gonna date a rock star, you as a parent would want these guys in her life/pants. last night they decided they weren’t going to say a single swear word during the entire show because of where they were, which they successful accomplished. however i would have loved to see them talk all this talk, while swearing like sailors which is probably how they really are at non-mormon shows. the show had so many sponsors or whatever, from cell phones and mtv2 and stuff i’ve never heard of. i guess i don’t mind all of this because it takes money to put on such a large tour, but they had these massive cell phone banners that blocked parts of the stage to us nose-bleeders in the stands. all in all it was good and all the bands had really good stage presence and put on good shows. the no moshing policy was gay and the show started at 6, which are more reasons why utah sucks. go buy hawthorne heights though. good shit.