Thursday, November 3, 2005

Backtracking to last Friday
Okay, so I should've written this earlier, but I didn't, so I'm writing it now. ^^ Last Friday, with three other people, I went down to St. Pete to see Coheed and Cambria in concert. This was the first (real) concert I had ever been to. It started out not so fun. We didn't get to leave when we wanted to because our English class schedule got changed so we had to go to class. We stopped by my house on the way there, because I haven't been home since Labor Day weekend for my birthday and I needed to pick up a few things (and I was the one driving.) One thing was my passport, which my job needed to see because it's handles classified information and apparently I have to prove I'm a US citizen to pass security and I had no idea where my birth certificate was. (Luckily my mom later found my passport and sent it to me.)

Me searching for the passport and also forgetting that I was going through downtown Tampa during rush hour traffic caused us to be 15-20 minutes late. When we got there they hadn't even opened the doors yet. That was good.

There were three opening acts before Coheed and Cambria. MeWithoutYou went first. I had never heard them before. As a band, I don't like them at all, but as a spoken word/poetry slam type deal, I kinda do. The vocalist (who really just spoke everything) had a weird stage presence, but I liked the way he used his voice (again, not as a band.)

After MeWithoutYou was Dredge. I had heard one or two of their songs before, but I didn't connect it to them until after they started singing. I loved them. I would've been happy with them playing longer.

The last opening band was Blood Brothers (I think that's their name.) They're one of those bands that screams alot (which actually sounded better than when they tried to sing.) I didn't care for them too much, but I could deal. They announced their last song... and then sang for another 20 minutes (at least, it felt like forever.) I was not happy. Any positive feelings I had for them quickly diminished.

Coheed & Cambria came on sometime after ten (the gates were supposed to have opened at six.) Coheed and Dredge totally made the whole waiting and bad bands worth it. I enjoyed their singing immensely.

Like I had said, this was my first time to a real concert. I must say, the mosh pit (what's the verb that goes with mosh pit?) looked like it was a free-for-all. Arms and legs flying, being pushed back and forth. Crazy. And mosh pits kept forming right next to me, so I kept getting tussled. Not that I minded too much. I then just positioned myself behind the big guys that were standing around me.

I really like watching other people, and this concert was no exception. I didn't really jump up and down or dance alot, but I did watch the other audience members. It was so amusing watching everyone's reactions to the different bands and songs.

On the way back from the concert we stopped at my best friend's house. I had missed her. ;.; Along with getting to see her, her dog, and my hamster (yay!), she also gave me my belated birthday present, which was Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. She made me happy. ^^ I can't wait until the end of the semester, when I move back to my home and get to see her more often. At least I got a bf-fix until then.

...long. I'll stop with Friday and continue onto Saturday and the fun stuff that happenned on that day in a different post later.
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