ok i have decided to caputure the whole of wednesday night right here. in this very blog.
*blog blog blog*
i'm trying to think where to begin. which would be like 5032958732057 months ago when i was watching mtv2 and they showed a little tour thingie and it was all like 'pete yorn (with ours)' nesses. (btw i'd seen the ours video several times and i thought the song was really cool and i liked the way the video was done) so i was like 'wow that sure is cool i wonder if he's coming anywhere near this vicinity' but mtv2 can sure be a bitch and they were like scrolling the stuff really really fast but my mom was like 'look nashville' and i went, in my little head, 'oh wow maybe i can make mom drive us' because i'd seen the video like three times and i loved it to death and brittany had seen it once but you know if i'd mentioned that to her that very day she wouldn't have remembered who he was or anything. and THEN mom was like 'look he's coming to memphis' and i went, out loudnesses, 'OMG REALLY....' and he was apparently playing newby's which i knew nothing about except for the name because its apparently a really cool place to go. the radio says so. ahahha never listen to those bastards. so i KEPT FORGETTING to tell brittany as it was. one day laylee was like 'incubus isn't coming to memphis.' and it was a sad sad day except that i remembered and i went 'BUT PETE YORN IS!!' which kicked so much ass because by that point i'd seen the video like.... seven times. even though it was just the IDEA of pete yorn coming to memphis that was so unbearably cool. NO one comes to memphis. therefore, pete yorn kicks ass!!!!!! which we all knew. i mean i didn't actually think i'd get to go. especially since that he was coming on a date after school started. even though it would be a lovely lovely name to add to my 'first five concerts' list. which, for your information, continues thus far:::
1) garrison starr
2) collective soul
3) bruce springstien
4) ani difranco
5) guess who this would be
even though i don't really start counting until 4. garrison starr was back in like..... 1990 and i don't remember it very well. so it was after that but that's not the point. it was more like.... 199...3 or 4 or 5 or i have no fucking idea don't ask me such complicated questions. and collective soul was an opening act for widespread panic and they did about five songs which i didn't know but like one and i couldn't even see. and bruce springstien, i was manually FORCED to go to that. it was a terrible night. and of course NO ONE TOLD ME THAT HE DOES 2 HOUR ENCORES....... i could die. but ani was great even though there was larry. WHO WON THE GAME.
so anyway laylee apparently hadn't heard pete yorn's single, "life on a chain." (<- look at this i'm practicing grammar) though i must say, later, when she finally heard a song she HATED it and she's calling him a woman! soooo where was i. anyway. i FINALLY remembered to tell brittany and this was like a month later, mind you. like early july i think. and brittany was basically like 'who' except that maybe she remembered him. that's completely and utterly beside the point. the point is that everyone loves pete yorn. well you better. but other than that, the point was, that after long hours of searching, we discovered that newby's was a bar and you could only get in if you were 18+. it was a sad sad day except not because we'd finally found out from brittany's mom, who knows the guy who runs the place. (todd. you need that information later. store it somewhere) so the whole idea of the pete yorn concert just basically slipped into a sad oblivion for a long long time....... and i kept reminding brittany it was coming up and on sunday i went 'pete yorn's gonna be here on wednesday....' and she was like 'OMG REALLY' because she's a fiend who remembers absolutely nothing. the date was easy to remember seeing as it was right before nick's birthday. oh and this is really random but happy birthday nick. and on another really random note the hissyfits were in town on tuesday night at the maproom but we didn't get to see them. sad sad sad sad sad day. anyway. ahem. but brittany had ordered the pete yorn cd online with a gift certificate thingie that katie got her for her birthday, but i had really really intended to buy that the second i got some money. brittany had only heard the one single, the hidden track thing which i think is available for download on her blog, and one that she didn't like. but she still bought it. and it came in the mail on like... monday or tuesday? monday i think. and she only listened to the first half of it twice. x_x poor sad brittany. *cough cough* so on that very wednesday brittany and i went through school like normal citizens and came home like normal citizens and practiced volleyball or the lack thereof like normal citizens. and then brittany called me around like 5 i guess or a little earlier and she was like 'guess what' and i was like '-_- what' and she proceeded to tell me that her mother had called todd at newby's and gotten the time for the show and everything and that todd had AGREED TO LET BRITTANY IN and I WAS INVITED. it was a big lovely surprise but i didn't get my hopes up just yet. i ran off and away to ask father puddintane if i could go. he was like 'have you finished your homework' and i was like 'YES YES YES' and he looked at me like a dad for a minute and then he went 'alright' and i went 'SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM OMG YAY' or whatever and i talked to nick and aj online a little and i read jane eyre for two seconds and i had to clean out the catbox and that was extremely gross and i had fake chicken for dinner and i didn't know what to wear so i just put on what i'd worn to school, which was like the plainest thing in the history of the world. woah i just read that over and i thought i said 'i am planning the history of the world.' ......... yeah you bet. so ANYWAY. i was amazingly hyped up and the thing started at 9 and brittany was supposed to call me at 8 and be here by 8:30. i got no call UNTIL 8:30 where she said they hadn't left yet, that her dad wasn't home yet. she and her mom couldn't leave until doc rob got home because he had to watch her sibs. so anyway she called me back like ... 10 minutes later and the conversation was as such:
phone: *ring ring*
alanna: hello
brittany: we're on our way
alanna: bye
................it was a beauteous thing.
by the by, 15 or so minutes later... well ok i'll make it 20. the point is there was a car honking outside the house and i dropped jane eyre and i grabbed the clothes brittany had left over here and ran outside, realising that i'd forgotten the lisa loeb cd i was supposed to return to her. x_X but that was ok because brittany was like 'gahh i hate you. i'm getting it when we come back' so i was like 'yeah yeah yeah' and then we drove to the drive-up atm machine thingie and brittany told me about the bring it on boy and we discussed the moulin rogue song and brittany was thereby missy elliot and she went 'UH UH UH UH UH UH UHHHH' and i was horrified. and brittany was harassed by some guy in a car with kids who ran into a fire hydrant while making skary stalker motions at brittany through the window. so then we drove to newby's which, you should know, is on highland, past the library, near tiger bookstore &amp;amp; happy days (which we intend to burn, mind you) and across the street from wherever frankie's dad works. so uhm. i'm really hungry. we had to park a ways away from the actual building and there was a massive line and brittany's mom was like 'i dont wanna waaaaait' so we walked up there and brittany and i were unbearably short so brittany's mom saw one of her friends from a college art class and she was talking to her and brittany and i got in line and there was these guys talking behind us about garrison star and i found it amazingly cool since she was my first concert, in a way. x_x but anyway.. it was still really cool. and i was trying to eavesdrop but then brittany started pointing at this huge tank thingie and she goes 'look. beer.' and then the guy in the line in FRONT of us went 'what do you think that is.' and brittany's mom is like 'helium' and we were looking at it and it was really gross. because they was trash and beer cans/bottles everywhere. and then on the wall there were these stickers on the wall for like bands and radio stations and stuff, like the kind you stick on your car because they were obviously water-resistant. and brittany was like 'when we have a band i'm gonna put our sticker up there' and i was like 'no way we'll still be in memphis' and she stood there for a second looking at the wall and she went 'well we'll tour here' and i was like 'this is a pretty crappy place to come on tour. 18 and older? blegh' and she went 'ok fine we'll play the new daisy and then we can come and put the sticker on the wall' and it was funny. and they had a lot more stickers inside, we realised later. and the guy in front of us was like 'so whos opening?' and we're like 'ooooouuuuursss' and he goes 'is it any good' and we're sorta like 'eh... its okay.' and he goes 'so its tolerable, eh?' so we got to the door and the guy was like looking at us like we were fucking crazy seeing as brittany is 15 and i am not and i was most definitely the youngest person there and then brittany's mom was asking the guy if she could talk to todd, except she called him .. what was it she called him? the owner, the manager. something. but anyway. the guy's like 'i'm sorry i can't do that.' and she's sort of like, she doesn't know what to do and she goes 'well i talked to him on the phone earlier and he just told me to ask for him here....' and then the guy's like '.................... is that your daughter' and she was like 'yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh' and he goes 'ok well he told me about you.' and it was like ohhh thank god because for a second we were all like X_X and as mrs. heather mcbride said, 'for a second there i thought we were s.o.l.' so we went in and it was like smoky bar type room and then we walked through this really tall door with a glowing neon sign over it that said 'TOO TALL TODD' and it was thereby dubbed funny. by me. so we went into another smoky bar type room and too tall todd was randomly there, his head 32705982 feet above everyone else's. he was standing by the bar so we walked over there and we shook his hand and whatnot and he bought us cokes and i tried to say thank you but the music was really loud and then suddenly it was gone and OURS RAN OUT ONTO THE STAGE AND EVERYONE WENT WOOWOOWOO. it was great. well just the feeling. yeah. and it was really loud and i was thinking about how mr. guy in front of us in the line was asking like if it was tolerable and thinking about how loud it was. and uhm then todd sort of beckoned to us, because brittany and i were the shortest youngest people there and everything and we went up like five or so stairs and we got to stand next to the little stuff that does the lighting and whatnot and.... it was great. we were standing next to some guy and next to this girl who was videotaping the concert who we later figured was the lead singer's girlfiend. that really did explain why she was focusing the camera on him the whole time. and anyway the guy we were standing to i think he was musical or at least wannabe musical. the point is he was there for the music. he wasn't like singing or anything but he was like rapping his knuckles on the wooden railing that surrounded the little lighting board thingie. and then he played air guitar and i found it funny. we couldnt see very well or anything in the dark. oh but i mean we weren't that far back from the stage. it was really pretty decent, considering. its a small venue as it is. i asked brittany how far back she would say we were but she had no clue. but uhm now comes the part where i get to try to remember everything i can about the way they played. live concerts are great for that very reason - you get to like see how the band plays and stuff. i mean yeah you can watch the music videos but you get to look at what you want to focus on and music videos (the ours one anyway) usually center on the lead singer. so let's try to remember things i wanted to remember to say about the band. the guitarist was like really energetic when he was like having a moment, you know? like when the singer stopped singing, and you were supposed to hear the mass guitarness. he would like move round and whatnot. and then like normally he did this thing which is hard to describe but he like... the hand that holds the neck of the guitar or whatever. the fingering one. he would like do this thing on time with the bass beat..... gahh this is impossible. but oh well. then uhm mr. lead singer ours guy was like singing usually of course. and playing the guitar. so his voice goes to these really high levels and if you know the song 'sometimes' he does like this really loud high-pitched scream which is more louder and higher and angrier in concert. and uhm at one point in the concert he was doing something similiar, maybe not like an ANGRY scream, but more like.. sad or something? but anyway. it made my ears vibrate and he sounded like a fucking dolphin. and then at one point when he did not have his guitar, he turned around and like shook his ass at the audience and it was .... lovely. let me tell you. well at least his pants weren't falling off....... YET. but that's later. so uhm. yeah and you know i always say that guitarist/singers never know what to do with their hands when you take their guitar away. like when they're not supposed to play and they just have to sing. but anyway. uhm. the keyboardist. i swear these guys had something agaisnt keyboardists or something because he was like not actually on the stage. or something. it was really weird. or he was hardly on there anyway. but anyway. you could hardly see him. but he was sooo into it. i love it when musicians are into the music. and he looked like 'beethoven' at some parts. or brittany's imitation at any rate. and i told her so and she laughed really loud because i could actually hear it over the massive music. and uhm the drummer was like at some points he was just hitting the drums so so hard i thought they were gonna burst or he was gonna break the thingies or something. he got really into it as well. i love that. i said that. yeah. the bassist. my yes. uhh. yeah. so apparently its like CLASSIC to have a bassist who's much more subdued than everyone else in the band which was like the example. well maybe not CLASSIC but its like part of the mold of the average band and we discussed this with dad and he was saying that the who was basically like the perfect example of that formation. but anyway. the point is, the bassist was the most reserved. i guess they know they're the ones who really aren't being watched as much, even though i watched him at points. i mean of course you watch him AT POINTS but you don't make a deal out of the bassists. i don't know. i mean i don't even remember him or the keyboardist from the music video. but anyway. there was one point where he sort of shined, you might say. the song i thought was gonna be the finale, but turned out to be the middle, of their set. it was like they had this big part with no vocals and just jamming and like the lead singer guy like was playing guitar with the lead guitarist, you know and whatnot like a duet thingie and then we went back to center stage and acted really cool and whatnot and then he actually went over to the bassist and like it was sort of like 'here you can play now and i'll stand here so that everyone watches you' i mean it wasnt like he was trying to hog it or anything but more like offering up the bassist to the audience as the eye candy. i dunno. but yeah. oh i now remember that i REALLY wanted to talk about one of my totally favorite things about a live concert. i mean even if the music's not so great or even BAD, you can still feel it, you know? like the huge bass beat is thumping in your legs and heart and its so amazingly cool and that's got to be the best part of a show. and you know its alllll in your head. because its sooooo very loud and it just fills every little crevice it could possess and its in you and its like literally feeling that phrase that musicians use so often about 'the music's in me' and you figure that's what it must be like. i mean listening to music normally gives you a different feel of 'the music's in me' but a live concert is a totally different experience. but uhm lemme continue on with whatever. i don't even remember what i've been babbling about. but anyway.... s a lot of the songs ours did were really really familiar, but i don't know if it was just the style or what. or his voice or something else crappy. but there was this one song and he was like 'I LIVE TO SEE YOUR CHILDREN DIE' and it was pretty frightening. and uhm uh they did a queen cover near the end of the concert. one of the ballads. i just looked on amazon.com for a forever and i couldnt find it still and i don't care to listen to anymore queen sound clips. *cough cough* laylee. but uhm it was sad because even though you KNEW like everybody had lighters, only one person was waving theres around. it was depressing. but it was really funny because there was like the one little flame floating around right next to the stage. ghawlkaka. but oh well. brittany was like 'i should've brought a lighter' and proceeded to tell me that doc rob had gotten mad at her for playing with his lighter and using up all the fluid whatnot. but uhm eventually ours left. after like 11 songs. geez they might have played like everything on their one album plus that one cover. so we sat around and talked FOREVER and we moved over to the corner sort of where there was a table and heather got our drinks refilled and they tasted sweeter and flatter and it was weird. but anyway the table was really wobby and sticky. and uhm we discovered that brittany's shirt was backwards when her tag suddenly stuck out the front of her shirt and i was like you know you should turn it around and she shrugs and she's like 'so what i don't care' and then a mighty 1.2 seconds later, she put on her overshirt thingie and turned it around and i laughed at her and she had great problems struggling inside that sweater. but uh i don't even remember where we were. so there was a wrestler-greased mullet roadie moving stuff round and round the stage and some other people and the lady who was video-taping mr. ours arse left and this other lady came and i didn't lik her as much because she wasn't as good at the lighting and she was smoking too and we had to stand next to her and she had this flaming lightbulb too. i didn't like that either. it was blinding. but uhm i keep getting off track. these things are way too long. no one shall ever read this. not my fault.