summer sonic report, short version: OW.
longer version after i shower. i stink. XP
[edit - 1.23am]
much better now. gyah. and i'm too tired, sore, and lazy to type it all up again, so i'll just be copying my flail to![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
pixeled about the show on im, k?
so i fail and didn't realize the snooze function on my phone doesn't work if i leave it open and didn't get there til after 2. 1. something. i so lost track of time. but i missed 10years and ellegarden.swtjemz is going to kill me. a couple inches to the left and she would fly to japan to do it.
so i caught the end of one group, then was looking at the schedule, and since the stages i was at had completely run out of shirts i made my way the 10 minute walk to the other stadium. had chocolate ice cream for lunch, got the only tshirt design they had left which isn't too bad, but it's big on me, and an lp shirt. looked at the time and realized if i'm gonna go see bands i've never heard of, i might as well do it where i can get in a good spot for fort minor.
the kooks were okay, when they finished i moved up, ended up about halfway between the sound booth and the stage. arctic monkeys were.... a blur of sweaty bodies omg. not quite moshing, but at least i could breathe. them and the kooks were britpunkpop so everyone left when they were done. so i dived in and made my way towards the front again.
there was one person between me and the front railing for fort minor. :x
(see exhibit a: a very bad and very blurry picture of mike from where i was standing)
and they were awesome. XD sound was really mumbly since i was so close and OMG. mike was having so much fun, he had this huge smile the entire show. there was a rail set up, with a track for a camera in front so there was like 10-15 feet between the railing and the stage. the guy in front of me was short so i could actually see.
they goofed around and did some random shit, and some stuff off of the rising tied. started with remember the name. ended with believe me. cigarette, high road, petrified, in stereo, and feel like home were scattered throughout. as was another song i know i've hear lp do, but i can't remember what the hell it was now. they didn't do kenji, which didn't surprise me too much. not really the appropriate place... was hoping for slip out the back, but alas, no. at one point mike's like... (and this is after they had the percussionist from cypress hill come out and do a thing with them) oh! and they had a string group. it was pwn. but back to mike. he was like 'i've got a friend *looks around the stage* where'd he go?! oh, over there... *wrong side* come on out! cyooooome on *makes silly grabby motion*'.
and then CHESTER COMES OUT and the place goes NUTS. and i was all WOOOOOOOOOOO. because omg chester. and he did where'd you go with them which normally has a female vocalist. there's approx. 4586537547 guests on their cd. rap, yeah. but its a really pretty song. and it was fjdfgdjfdjfkgfkhjgfjygdjfdjyykj. *____*
but i was getting so frigging smushed. AND AT THE END. i though i was in one of those press torture thingies. japanese people are short, but so am i. and there was this really tall guy next to me. and at the end mike JUMPS OFF STAGE AND ONTO THE RAILING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. AND IS LEANING OVER AND LOOKING STRAIGHT DOWN AT ME. and of course everyone FLIPPED. and crowded even more. i was so freaking smushed, i barely managed to hang on to my glasses.
but d00d, mike shinoda a foot away. *SQUEE* and the guy right next to me caught a shirt he threw out, which was the inches comment earlier.
[random flailing that is somewhat pertinent] OMFG. GUESS WHERE THE LP AFTER SHOW IS ON THE 15TH. IN FUCKING SENDAI. WHERE I WILL BE WATCHING W-INDS. RSJRSJYRDJKTDJYRSDJYRDJYDJYFDJYFRSJYDK. i will lmao if ryu mentions it. cos you there's at least a tiny part of him that'd be thinking. 'ooooooh linkin park'. chester is so his role model. NOT COMPLAINING. chester is a very good role model for hawt asian wannabe rocker boys.[/random]
and tool. fucking hell. i thought i was squished earlier.
after fort minor i waited half an hour to potty and then headed over to the stage tool was at, and still hadn't eaten anything substantial all day.
[tmi] and d00d. japanese toilets = fail. especially that time of the month in really really baggy jeans that are soaked in sweat. and there were all these girls in there doing their makeup wtf. hello. ROCK CONCERT. *whaps* anyways. [/tmi]
so i went to the othr stage, where buck-tick was still onstage and all the visual kei jrocker fans in the audience were doing the wrist thing. *immediately thinks ofrawkstarr23, reila, and theshiz* made my way as far towards the front as i could, about halfway again. not a buck-tick fan. and you could tell there were a bunch of guys doing the same thing i was doing. :D
and here ends the copypasteediting and begins an actual entry for the rest. ^^b
so buck-tick ends and there's this MASSIVE rush towards the stage by an almost entirely male mass at least 8 inches taller than me. x.x the people that were leaving had to shove their way out, and these guys were not making it easy for them. lots of other gaijin, too. tall fuckers. -_- managed to get an okay spot about 10 people or so from the front. standing there waiting for sound check and realizing i can't see a damn thing over all these guys.
and then this total fucktard comes shoving his way through, making me incrediby ashamed to be a foreigner at this show. there was another white chick with him, and a couple other people i didn't get a good look at and they were probably drunk, high, or stupid. or all of the above. but definitely the last one. and he's shoving the hell out of people trying to get to the front but this other white guy in front of him that's like a foot taller kept him from doing do. which dipshit responded to by making like he was going to pout beer over his head. and then got distracted long enough to light a joint. and generally be obnoxious for the next 30 minutes.
soundcheck took forever, no big surprise, show didn't start til 20 minutes after it was scheduled to. and then it finally starts off with 'stinkfist'. which is one of my favourite songs, and unfortunately, i don't remember any of it because i was completely getting shoved and squeezed behind people. hanging onto the glasses was even more difficult this time around; barely being able to breathe was not helping matters AT ALL. tried to at least direct myself over towards the side where there were a couple other girls, this guy behind me managed to keep me upright. after discovering my body will, in fact, fold into a less than 1x1 foot area, one of the security guys finally pulled me out and i pretty much collapsed in the middle aisle around the time the next song started. sat there for a few seconds and remembered how to breathe. then they brought me up around the front between the stage and the railing and to the side.
where i happily enjoyed the rest of the show with a good five feet between me and the next person and had a clear view of everyone. ^^v
don't even ask me what the order was cos i couldn't tell you. opened with stinkfist and closed with ænima. i vagely remember the beginning of the pot, it was right after that that i got yanked out. thankfully. so that was second.
i wanna say next it was forty-six & 2, jambi, schism, in that order. i just started crying during forty-six & 2, tears just pouring down my face and i don't think i stopped until schism was over. and then again during ænima. just. wow.
forty-six & 2 was... well. yeah. no words. jambi was incredible. schism seemed... a bit fast. *scratches head* vicarious was awesome live, and sober, lateralus, and ænima always are. was totally not expecting to hear opiate though, so that was a very shiny surprise. fdjfdjgfdjtdssklutdshdskyrj maynard. *_*
and danny. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. and justin, too. and adam. mmmmm, tool.
*goes to bed sore and tired but happy*
longer version after i shower. i stink. XP
[edit - 1.23am]
much better now. gyah. and i'm too tired, sore, and lazy to type it all up again, so i'll just be copying my flail to
pixeled about the show on im, k?so i fail and didn't realize the snooze function on my phone doesn't work if i leave it open and didn't get there til after 2. 1. something. i so lost track of time. but i missed 10years and ellegarden.
swtjemz is going to kill me. a couple inches to the left and she would fly to japan to do it. so i caught the end of one group, then was looking at the schedule, and since the stages i was at had completely run out of shirts i made my way the 10 minute walk to the other stadium. had chocolate ice cream for lunch, got the only tshirt design they had left which isn't too bad, but it's big on me, and an lp shirt. looked at the time and realized if i'm gonna go see bands i've never heard of, i might as well do it where i can get in a good spot for fort minor.
the kooks were okay, when they finished i moved up, ended up about halfway between the sound booth and the stage. arctic monkeys were.... a blur of sweaty bodies omg. not quite moshing, but at least i could breathe. them and the kooks were britpunkpop so everyone left when they were done. so i dived in and made my way towards the front again.
there was one person between me and the front railing for fort minor. :x
(see exhibit a: a very bad and very blurry picture of mike from where i was standing)
and they were awesome. XD sound was really mumbly since i was so close and OMG. mike was having so much fun, he had this huge smile the entire show. there was a rail set up, with a track for a camera in front so there was like 10-15 feet between the railing and the stage. the guy in front of me was short so i could actually see.
they goofed around and did some random shit, and some stuff off of the rising tied. started with remember the name. ended with believe me. cigarette, high road, petrified, in stereo, and feel like home were scattered throughout. as was another song i know i've hear lp do, but i can't remember what the hell it was now. they didn't do kenji, which didn't surprise me too much. not really the appropriate place... was hoping for slip out the back, but alas, no. at one point mike's like... (and this is after they had the percussionist from cypress hill come out and do a thing with them) oh! and they had a string group. it was pwn. but back to mike. he was like 'i've got a friend *looks around the stage* where'd he go?! oh, over there... *wrong side* come on out! cyooooome on *makes silly grabby motion*'.
and then CHESTER COMES OUT and the place goes NUTS. and i was all WOOOOOOOOOOO. because omg chester. and he did where'd you go with them which normally has a female vocalist. there's approx. 4586537547 guests on their cd. rap, yeah. but its a really pretty song. and it was fjdfgdjfdjfkgfkhjgfjygdjfdjyykj. *____*
but i was getting so frigging smushed. AND AT THE END. i though i was in one of those press torture thingies. japanese people are short, but so am i. and there was this really tall guy next to me. and at the end mike JUMPS OFF STAGE AND ONTO THE RAILING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. AND IS LEANING OVER AND LOOKING STRAIGHT DOWN AT ME. and of course everyone FLIPPED. and crowded even more. i was so freaking smushed, i barely managed to hang on to my glasses.
but d00d, mike shinoda a foot away. *SQUEE* and the guy right next to me caught a shirt he threw out, which was the inches comment earlier.
[random flailing that is somewhat pertinent] OMFG. GUESS WHERE THE LP AFTER SHOW IS ON THE 15TH. IN FUCKING SENDAI. WHERE I WILL BE WATCHING W-INDS. RSJRSJYRDJKTDJYRSDJYRDJYDJYFDJYFRSJYDK. i will lmao if ryu mentions it. cos you there's at least a tiny part of him that'd be thinking. 'ooooooh linkin park'. chester is so his role model. NOT COMPLAINING. chester is a very good role model for hawt asian wannabe rocker boys.[/random]
and tool. fucking hell. i thought i was squished earlier.
after fort minor i waited half an hour to potty and then headed over to the stage tool was at, and still hadn't eaten anything substantial all day.
[tmi] and d00d. japanese toilets = fail. especially that time of the month in really really baggy jeans that are soaked in sweat. and there were all these girls in there doing their makeup wtf. hello. ROCK CONCERT. *whaps* anyways. [/tmi]
so i went to the othr stage, where buck-tick was still onstage and all the visual kei jrocker fans in the audience were doing the wrist thing. *immediately thinks of
rawkstarr23, reila, and theshiz* made my way as far towards the front as i could, about halfway again. not a buck-tick fan. and you could tell there were a bunch of guys doing the same thing i was doing. :Dand here ends the copypasteediting and begins an actual entry for the rest. ^^b
so buck-tick ends and there's this MASSIVE rush towards the stage by an almost entirely male mass at least 8 inches taller than me. x.x the people that were leaving had to shove their way out, and these guys were not making it easy for them. lots of other gaijin, too. tall fuckers. -_- managed to get an okay spot about 10 people or so from the front. standing there waiting for sound check and realizing i can't see a damn thing over all these guys.
and then this total fucktard comes shoving his way through, making me incrediby ashamed to be a foreigner at this show. there was another white chick with him, and a couple other people i didn't get a good look at and they were probably drunk, high, or stupid. or all of the above. but definitely the last one. and he's shoving the hell out of people trying to get to the front but this other white guy in front of him that's like a foot taller kept him from doing do. which dipshit responded to by making like he was going to pout beer over his head. and then got distracted long enough to light a joint. and generally be obnoxious for the next 30 minutes.
soundcheck took forever, no big surprise, show didn't start til 20 minutes after it was scheduled to. and then it finally starts off with 'stinkfist'. which is one of my favourite songs, and unfortunately, i don't remember any of it because i was completely getting shoved and squeezed behind people. hanging onto the glasses was even more difficult this time around; barely being able to breathe was not helping matters AT ALL. tried to at least direct myself over towards the side where there were a couple other girls, this guy behind me managed to keep me upright. after discovering my body will, in fact, fold into a less than 1x1 foot area, one of the security guys finally pulled me out and i pretty much collapsed in the middle aisle around the time the next song started. sat there for a few seconds and remembered how to breathe. then they brought me up around the front between the stage and the railing and to the side.
where i happily enjoyed the rest of the show with a good five feet between me and the next person and had a clear view of everyone. ^^v
don't even ask me what the order was cos i couldn't tell you. opened with stinkfist and closed with ænima. i vagely remember the beginning of the pot, it was right after that that i got yanked out. thankfully. so that was second.
i wanna say next it was forty-six & 2, jambi, schism, in that order. i just started crying during forty-six & 2, tears just pouring down my face and i don't think i stopped until schism was over. and then again during ænima. just. wow.
forty-six & 2 was... well. yeah. no words. jambi was incredible. schism seemed... a bit fast. *scratches head* vicarious was awesome live, and sober, lateralus, and ænima always are. was totally not expecting to hear opiate though, so that was a very shiny surprise. fdjfdjgfdjtdssklutdshdskyrj maynard. *_*
and danny. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. and justin, too. and adam. mmmmm, tool.
*goes to bed sore and tired but happy*
♪: fort minor - where'd you go [in my head... mm, chester]
15 locked in a place... | ...where no one goes
