place: CULTURE ROOM

year: 2007

shirt worn: IRON MAIDEN

type of show: official

bands:

SONATA ARCTICA

the Agonist

ALEXANDRIA

went with: Chris Anchors, Carry, & Dapie

show was: enchanted

entry:

10/6/2007. Two little kids knock on my door to ask me to help them pump their bike. I said I don't know how....because I don't. Then Chris pulled up in my drive-way. I got in the car. We made way to Ft. Lauderdale. Chris is still full of shit but he's gotten a lot better and I know he's trying and that's all that matters. He's still melodramatic though. A heated debate came up cause Carry wanted to know why I don't do drugs and then it looked like she was trying to interrogate me and everyone was like "leave the kid alone, he does what he wants." We got down there. We ate at a bar in the same plaza as the CULTURE ROOM. It's one of those cliché bars you see in a movie where some guy learns a vital lesson in life from a drunk old guy, or a massive fight breaks out. The waitress was so hot. Somehow, Dapie continued to make her smile. His corny lines worked somehow, even looks like someone you really don't want to wake up next to in the forest. I actually really appreciate him now. H's a good guy. Actually, I can say now that I appreciate all these people. So, this local band ALEXANDRIA opened. They were a power-metal band with a chick singer. They sucked my ass hole. The chick looked like she had no idea what she should be doing besides singing. Like, she wasn't sure how to move. She's just like "ok, now look like you're really enjoying the music during the filler," *smiles, turns head, puts hand on hand* She kept looking back at the band like "Am I doing it right?" After them I was hanging out in the open air, lobby area. Carry and Chris were fighting. I ran into a really buff guy that I met at the Miami Film Race Screening that Fist Full of Yen participated in with our "Orange You Glad I Didn't Pick Golf?" video.. I remember his team did a really obscure film. Our lip sync video for NEUOROSONIC won by the way. We won a PS3. Anyways, after that the Agonist got on. I've never heard them on cd, but from what I heard at the show, this band sucked my ball sack. Their chick singer that looked exactly like a a goth version of my step sister (HOT), pure straight 100% rips off Angela Glossgow's stage presence. She thought it was cool to talk like Michelle Pfeifer's image of Catwoman in BATMAN RETURNS. I had no idea that many people were into SONATA ARCTICA. (I also had no idea I was the only out the people I went with who genuinely likes them. Why they went, I don't know, but I'm glad it gave me a ride) It was packed and they all knew the words to the songs. During the gallops the whole crowd was going (well, I can't really tell you how it sounded in text but I'll try) like waaaa hoooo ooooo uuuuuuu oooooooo. It was jolly. I felt like I was in Narnia. Dude this band enchants my face. They were all there, with fans blowing their hair that's as long as mine. with blank, enchanting, seducing looks on their face. They're like, ya, I slay dragons, I don't a give a damn. The singer, guitarist, and bassist are sons of man. The keyboardist is no doubt a wizard with his long bear and two teeth always showing. He was wearing a keytar and playing a keyboard at the same time! The drummer was obviously an elf, with his long straight blonde hair and perfectly hairless face. The singer would literally swing the mic stand around with both his arms like an ax and then stop it and sing into it. The guitarist and the keyboardist would enchant each others solos before they would perform them. Like, the guitarist would hit pitch harmonic and then point his guitar over to the keyboardist, and then that guy would start shredding up his keytar and his keyboard, and then he swing his keytar back over towards the guitarist, and then that shreddy mcshreddington would unload a barrage of shredding, tapping, and sweeping. Then every put their instruments together and fire a surge of lightning into the disco ball which fired it everywhere and destroyed the dragons that were trying to devour us.......well, that part didn't happen. I loved it. We got back in the car. Apparently out of the four of us, I was the only one who really enjoyed myself. We had a long discussion about how Bleak is a great guy because he's really really fucking sick and dying (not exaggerating) in the hospital. Chris cried. I just don't want my friend to die.