Rhyme and Reason

Ok, you can bang my head against the wall if you like; I haven't written in what feels like fo-eva, but I have a good reason, I swear! See I've had finals all this last week. No lie. BS right!? Cause I'm done my program in 14 months everything is smushed together, aka everything is quick-timed. I had one on Monday, and Wednesday and then two on Thursday and Friday. AND to round house kick finals in the face, The Cat Empire just so happened to fall on the Friday (last night). Perfect way to end hell week :) I knew that they were coming since September but it just made the night taht much better to not have to think about homework/studying!

Sidenote: This was my first "real" concert in almost a year (Since Kanye/Rihanna) and my first general admission concert in TWO YEARS. Wtf right?

So it was at the Starlite Room, which I had never been to before. WAIT, rewiiiindd. Ashley picked me up and we got there around 8, to hopefully avoid the long-(expletive) line. Unfortunately we didnt. So, the SL-room entrance is in a half-arm span wide alley, which just adds to it's indie cool facter. And then it leads up to these stairs (all of this is outside still though). So, flashback a bit, to get into the Starlite Room at any time you need a membership, which is $5 and good for the yr. So all these people, while we were in line, kept "forgetting" to get their membership (and I don't see how since the girl stands at the entrance to the alley saying "MEMBERSHIPS!". Anyway these ignorant peeps would go get their membership, saying "excuse me, pardon me" all the while. AND then what was really rude and annoying, was that after getting the membership these same people would come BACK through the line to get to the front. AS if somehow their entitled to go back to the front of the line, because they are forgetful/don't pay attention. And there were these awesome people behind us in life who were so hilarious and well let's face it pure be-otches. Even though one was a guy, they were just funny.

SO we finally get it, go to coat check and then the bathroom (which was down a big set of stairs and pretty grungy). Then we went to sit down near the back of the place, which had all the booths and the bar. But no booths were available, so we sat on bar stools near coat check, and a pool table. We sat there for like a few hrs even through the opening act. But it was just so chill and awesome. And more and more people just kept piling in the place. It was an 18+ show, and it was nice to finally not have a bunch on pre-teen or 14 yr old girls ruining the mood. But I do think we were some of the youngest people there...We were the 14 yr olds to everyone's us...LOL

So once Cat Empire was about to start Ashley and I got off our high stools, and walked down to the main "music" area. It was like 10 steps down from the bar and whatnot. It was packed! The only good thing about being small is being able to get through tiny spaces between people haha. We eventually got down pretty far, about halfway between the back and front of the "pit", as I like to call it. But somehow no matter which side, or where we went, the tallest guys in the place always seemed to push their way ahead of us. Ugh. I hate that about being small! For for the first half of the show we were about 1/4 of a ways back from the stage, and it was pretty ok. Don't get me wrong, the band was amazing just as I thought but I just wasn't feelin "it". So as people started jumping up and down during a song we saw our chance! With Ashley leading the way we "jumped" our way to the front, about 3 people from the front. And let me tell you, it became *itch city! It seems like the chill indie peeps were back where we had been...and the arrogant, pompous, obnoxious ones were up at the front. There was the typical "girl-who's-boyfriend-has-to-step-in-and-give-her-'personal space'-even-though-she's-at-a-concert", and the token "girl-who's-super-tall-but-separated-from-her-friends-even-though-she-still-has-more-but-finds-the-need-to-shove-and-stare-down-Ashley-anyway". BUT very surprisingly there was also many of the "older" (30-50) generation there. And one lady actually allowed me to go in front of her which was so so nice. And two other ladies (mid-40's?) were totally rocking our and screaming the lead singer's name like they were teenagers! It was awesome!

Eventually we got the the very very front, and bliss. This is gonna sound so lame, and don't worry I so know it. But I swear the lead singer looked right at me at times <3 style="font-weight: bold;">Part 2: The most exciting part of the rendezvous

(that rhymed!!!)

I promise fo realsies that I will do it tonight too :0 Swear. Bible.