-TwentyOneRest, Rochelle Rochelle, Kimberly Kills, Hot Like A Robot-
Anyway, Erin, Jill and this bible-thumping freak Drew all went down to Cane's together. Now, mind you I have no problem with God, and I have no problem with anyone's religion, but when you start preaching it to me every second you get and then not having sufficient proof from the book itself to back up your statements, then I get pretty ticked. However, to all of you die-hard religious people out there, keep at what makes you happy, just don't preach to me.
Anyway, so we get down there, early as usual, and we headed over to Cane's to see if anyone was even there. It was six thirty and the show was supposed to start at seven, but typical to Cane's, they were running late for who knows what reason. Well, Off By One didn't show up, and they were supposed to have their CD release that night, so it was kinda lame, but whatever. So, since I still had.. thirty-four tickets left, I decided to sell them to everyone around Cane's. Good idea I must say. We ended up selling them all, but dumbass that I already said I was, I thought I had fifty tickets. So, I gave Weston the money for fifty tickets as opposed to the forty that I ended up with to sell. I ended up losing that money, but it's no biggie in all honesty.
Weston was pretty stoked that we sold them all, and I got my Epicentre flier from him for my wall. You see, I have all of the fliers from all of the shows I've gone to on my wall, and so I needed the one from the Epicentre show to put on my wall, and I got it, and all was well. :) Then, Aaron and Sean showed up, and were honking, and Brant showed up with the equipement, and bla bla bla. All of the typical. Weston gave us some more tickets he had to sell and thus we did. Erin said that Weston said we should work for a record label. I say no. I only have the time and moeny for two bands and one of which doesn't exist.
So, lets see. Oh, yes. Cane's opened, a bunch of people I told to go showed up like Alex, his girlfriend, Jackie, her boyfriend, this guy in my trig class, Raquel and her friend, and some others that I don't remember. Then, Kimberly Kills opened. I finally saw them considering I didn't stay to see them when thye played at the Scene. They aren't all that bad. The lead singer does this wierd gyrating hips thing like he's getting some ass on stage while he sings, but everyone had their thing, so it's ok. And, they have a good sound, the vocals are nice, but I dunno.. It doesn't have a good feel. It's hard to explain. They were good for a local band, but not super great. It didn't leave you mesmerized, it just left you like, "Yea, that was good, maybe we'll see them again."
After that TwentyOneRest was on. Yay! But, now as much as I love this band to death, this was probably the worst show in the history of the band. First off, they couldn't get the poster on the wall, again. Problems with the duct tape. No one ever listens to me. Then, Aaron's guitar wasn't in tune, so that caused more problems later on. For some dumb reason, the stage right monitors weren't picking up Sean's bass, so ultimately through the show he had to wander his way over to stage left to hear his bass. Otherwise it's like playing with cotton in your ears, you can't hear diddley-squat. And, sometime throughout the show, on more than one occassion, Aaron decided to forget his lyrics.. To his own songs.. That was interesting. And, then he broke stage character and started laughing because Erin and I knew all of the lyrics and were singing them as he was forgetting them.
The show wasn't too hot. I mean, if you knew the band, it sucked, if you didn't it was still awesome. People that I knew that had never seen them before thought they were the best thing since whatever was before sliced bread, but to me and to those who knew how good TwentyOneRest actually is in concert, it was sad. Especially, breaking stage character. It's like in theatre, in acting, you don't break your stage presence no matter what happens. You just play every little flaw off, walk it off, whatever. That's why good concerts are by bands who can keep everything together and just keep on going, no matter what happens.. That was where Aaron got a little sketchy that night. Weston wasn't too happy about it all.. You could tell from the audience, it wasn't just me that saw it either. But, hell, I don't blame him. If you want to be the most professional local band out there, you can't break stage character.
Ultimately, the show came back together when they played 'Know Me'.. The part in the song that goes 'Alright stop--Just look into these eyes girl'.. that went perfectly, yay! Weston untensed a little after that, and so did Aaron. That pause is hard to hit live, honestly, it's a feat. Almost as much of a feat as playing 'Moon-Calf Friend' live? Maybe. But, they hit the pause perfectly, so it went much better after that. 'Eating Tinfoil', 'LightShow', 'She Said' and 'Puddles' were all beautiful, despite the fact that Aaron forgot his lyrics in 'She Said'. 'Puddles' ended up stuck in my head for a week after that, and everyone wanted a copy of that song. So, to the band, get it recorded whenever you can, everyone wants it!
After they went off, we all headed outside, literally, everyone did. It was funny, as soon as TwentyOneRest went off, everyone left. Yay. They're that good. But, Erin and Jill decided to run off and talk to Sean, that was Jill's idea. Erin wants to have sex with Sean, she'll admit to that willingly. Jill wants a peice of Aaron. Drew was wandering around doing who knows what.. Preaching to someone for all I know. But, anyhow I went off to talk to Weston. No, I don't want a piece of Weston. He's hott, yes, I will agree to that, but he has a girlfriend, and our 'relationship' is pretty much business oriented. It's lets find out how we can spend whatever money Shannon has on the band. Yea, that's about it. They don't make me do it, I do it willingly, so it's really not all that dramatic in the least. And, I don't mind it, I love those guys to death. They've got something.. They really do.. I say it all the time, but I never lie. :)
As usual, we didn't stay to see Rochelle Rochelle or Hot Like A Robot.. TwentyOneRest played, and that was good enough for us. We all headed back to Erin's car, and I was changing tops, and then I saw Sean. So, I threw my shirt in Erin's car and put on my jacket and ran off to go talk to him. We had a brief conversation, and I met some guy named Matt who's fake ID got taken away from him. So sad. And, I told Sean about Erin and her desire to fuck him, and he was like, "..Oh..". It was funny. Jill wandered up to talk and then Erin, but they soon both left. So, Sean I said our goodbyes, had our hugs, I had to hug Matt too, he was there, and then we all left. Sean and Matt headed off to Agent 51's to party, and Jill, Erin, Drew and I headed back home. It was great.