So tuesday night around 9:00 calls me up and tells me that I can go to a Green Day concert at the Long Beach arena for free,
Of course, I want to, but first I have to convince my parents. Imagine asking your parents as they're going to bed (and you wont see them at all tommorow till 8PM) "hey mom, dad, can I go to a concert tommorow till around 1:00AM in the middle of downtown long beach? It took some serious convincing, but I got my parents to let me go. So yesterday I show up at Tyler Olsens house and we drive down the overly crouded 22 freeway to the Long Beach Arena, which is really near the aquarium.

Long Beach is such a bipolar city. One minute you're driving through the worst slums imaginable (well, maybe not as bad as LA) and then, all of a sudden you're at a place called "City Block" or something that looks exactly like downtown Seattle and all of a sudden you have no clue where the hell you are. (I seriously for a moment thought I was up in Washington when we shot out into the City Block). Me and my white bro's were laughing because while we were driving through the slums looking for food, there was actually a bunch of signs that pointed out how to get to a McDonalds. I mean, these were complex directions, and this McDonalds was sitting in the middle of nowhere. It was especially funny because there was a gigantic billboard that said "McDonalds HERE!" hehe. I guess you had to be there.

Anyhow, we got to the concert 20 minutes late, and had to wait in lines for about another 15 minutes. After we finally had gotten in, we learned we had missed the opening band, sugarcult (a real shame), and new found glory was playing. You know, I was severly disappointed by nfg's performance. They were ohhhhkayy... but half the time you couldnt even hear the singer and if I didnt know their songs so well, I wouldnt have liked it at all.

Then there was a half hour break. Then Green Day came onstage and made up for all the suckiness and waiting. Man they were good. I only knew three of the thirteen songs they played, but I was still yelling at the top of my lungs in shrill joy. They have some serious stage skill, and they are really good at getting the audience involved. What was really cool was they left the stage at around 11:00 and left me all depressed because they didnt play "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (my favorite song of theirs) but then the audience started calling out "GREEN DAY...GREEN DAY" and they ran out and pumped "Boulevard..." out. It was awesome. Then they followed it up by playing "We Are the Champions", which is a Queen song, but still cool because everyone knows it.

After the concert we tried to get out as fast as we could, but utterly failed because there were thousands (literally) of people and we were on the uppermost parking structure. So we ended up wasting an hour just waiting for the line of cars to clear. Pretty insane. I'll see if I can get pictures from Tyler O in the near future.


This entire week has been overly weird for me. As has last week. Aside from the various colds (3 of them in two weeks? WTF?), I've suffered through some cronic sleeping disease last week where I was restless and grumpy during the day. I didnt really complain then because I didnt want sympathy, but I still dont know what caused whatever that shit was. This week I get yet another cold (I've only had about 5 days in the past month where I wasnt sick). Fortunately, I've figured out how to deal with these bastardous diseases: lots of orange juice. All this isnt to mention the fact that I randomly get asked to a concert and have a day that seems to not end (tuesday->wednesday) because I fall to sleep so late, and the fact that school is ending early, yet today still seems like a friday.

To make stuff a little more weird and confusing, I feel like I've lost alot of the control I might have once had on my friendships. It seems like alot of my older, getting-boring friends "came back" to me this week, in a matter of putting it. All of a sudden I'm having fluent conversations with these people that I could barely talk to a month ago because of our differences. Weird weird weird.

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