place: thesocial

year: 2007

shirt worn: FEaR FactORY

type of show: official

bands:

dark tranquility

THE HAUNTED

into eternity

SCAR SYMMETRY

went with: Anna De Maio

show was: the only show I've been to, and not been to at the same time. fuck this place

entry:

*sigh* Anna's never had a good birthday. It was during my second semester of college and she asked me one night on the way home from band practice to take her to see into eternity when they come by near her birthday. into eternity is like her favorite band now. So, on the first day of March, I went to the mall after classes, and got two tickets for the dark tranquility tour featuring THE HAUNTED, into eternity, and SCAR SYMMETRY. So, when I got home, I walked to Ail House. I walked in and asked for Anna. She came over and I was like "I know your birthday is twenty-four days from now, but I decided I'd give you this present now, in case you might end up getting it before then, yourself," and she was like "Why?" So, I handed her the ticket. She looks at it, confused, and I'm like "It's into eternity." She jumped on me and got all these hugs and kisses. It was so cool. So, the show was on 3/19. As that time was closing in, we were having trouble finding a ride to Orlando. So, I realize, if no one's gonna help us get there, fuck em, we'll do it on our own. So, I decide that we take the train. Yes, it's expensive as hell. Yes, I'm willing to do it for her. So, on 3/19, Joe Triana picks me and Anna up and drops us off at the train station on his way to FAU. We get to the ticket booth, and they need two forms of identification, which I have, but Anna does not. So, I call my step dad. He drives to Sean's house and gets one of Anna's wallets from him and brings it to us. So, then they let us get our train tickets. YEY! As we're waiting for the train to get there, Anna finds a piece of cardboard and writes on it "i <3 iNTO ETRNiTY! (i WiLL SHOW MY BOOBiES! TAKE A PIC W/ ME!)" So, our train comes. We get on it. We eat their shitty, yet expensive food the second we take off. We slept on each other but it was really comfortable. When we weren't sleeping we were having really good bonding time which I am glad that we had. There was a weird guy who told us that we were wild. It was pretty funny the first time. The second and third so forth times were just annoying and then the last time he called Anna hot and then it was just creepy. The train got to Orlando two hours late. We got in a taxi at the train station and went straight to the venue. We walked across the street to Subway. We both had meatball subs. They were really good. Then we go back to thesocial and wait in line. As we're waiting in line, eventually, some guy tells everyone that SCAR SYMMETRY cancelled. Ah fuck. We get further down the line and a guy asks for our IDs. Anna doesn't have a photo ID. He tells us we can't come in. You've got to be kidding me. Once he noticed that Anna was crying, he was like "Do you guys already have your tickets?" and we're like "yeah," so, he's like "get back in line." We're safe right? We get to the door, and they go through our shit. Of course, they find seven pill bottles in Anna's purse and she doesn't have a photo ID to prove that they're hers. We can see into eternity playing through the door as they're telling us we can't come in. We can't get in. We just walk off to the side and sit against the while and she cries while we can hear them playing. This sucks so bad. I guarantee one hundred percent, you can not find one thing in this entire concert journal of mine, up to this point, that sucks more than this. If you can and you can prove it, I'll give you ten dollars, cause nothing sucks this bad. We went walking and we ran into Chris Anchors's girlfriend. We talked to her and her friend for a while. I guess she was there cause she was staying with her friend who goes to UCF. I called Eric Carmodey, and I was like "Get Us as soon as you can." He said it'd be an hour. So, we walked around down town. There is fucking nothing to do. There is absolutely nothing. We sat on like a little wall in front of a fountain and I just started crying. I was like "I just wanted to make you happy." She grabbed my hand and said "You did make me happy. I know you busted your balls and you went through everything you could to get me here. It's not your fault." We found some museum or some shit. We played on these statues of alligators that were in front of it. We just chilled there, looked at the stars, took pictures of each other, and played with the stone alligators. Eric finally pick us up. It was a long ass drive back to his apartment which is on campus I guess. It was like an hour or some shit. So, he and Franky have a really nice place up there. It's really big. It's really clean It's really nice. Eric has a crazy ass calico cat that attacks everything but loves Anna, like every other god damn cat in the world. I stayed up late catchin up with Eric. Eric and Franky's rooms are really big, and the living room down stairs is really big, and blah blag blah. Anna and I slept in their guest room. Anna's red hair blended in with the bed perfectly. I was like hey where'd you go. Franky drove us to the train station the next morning. We ate at some Mexican place across the street first. It was really good. The train consisted again of sleeping, bonding, and eating expensive, shitty food. The train got to West Palm two hours late. Bleak picked us up. Sean was with him. To make things up, I decided we'd take Anna to go get the new piercings she wanted. We went to Inksters cause she gets discounts there. They were closed. We went to Ink Link and they're like "we need a photo ID."