well, its been awhile since i've really updated this thing with something kinda worthwhile, so i guess i'll add something here. on monday i asked for the day off to go see Zwan, which i technically didnt have off because the guy in charge of making our schedules forgot to give me that day off even after i reminded him of it on a semi-daily basis. so i had to work something out to get monday off, so i had to sacrifice my thursday off, which i now have to work. anyways.... i cant remember much of anything before the show besides going to visit sandy pryncessandy at her house and holding her cute new kitty :) (hell, i cant remember much of anything, PERIOD, cuz of this funk i've been in) but i do recall that i went to walmart a few hours before the show to try and buy a small digital camera to take with me. i didnt have much cash on me at the time so i ended up with a Vivitar digital camera that was marked down to $55. so before i left for the show i was chatting with my new friend sara saerie for quite some time then i got pretty nervous about the show for a few reasons, but i was mostly nervous because i was gonna go alone.
i hate going alone to places where i think its best to go with a friend or group of friends. so i get there a little early and i happen to see billy corgan for just a tad before the show. he was hanging out in the little park before the doors opened and he was asking people not to take pictures of him, cuz he didnt want to be noticed and get mobbed. he's one TALL muthafucka, like 6'5" if i remember right. and he seems to have lost some weight from last time i remember seeing his pics but the thing i noticed the most was how much he smiled. the man has a great smile when he's happy and it kinda made me feel like i was watching myself smile, when i make faces in the mirror after a long shower. i saw most of the band (minus david pajo) hanging out by the exit door of the theater, billy was just chatting with everyone that was around, including the roadies, matt sweeney and jimmy chamberland were sittin on top of some crate and talkin to these two blonde girls (groupies?) that were just laughing the whole time. its kinda funny, cuz one of the girls reminded me of my old friend and co-worker, kelly, who i miss. but then it wasnt funny to me anymore, cuz it reminded me that the last time i saw her, she was back on heroin and crack.... anyways... i also saw paz lenchantin sitting on something and talkin on her cell phone to someone while she was wearing a long pretty dress, nothing fancy, just a casual summer dress.
so after awhile they all go inside and i decide to go thru the front, get in and get myself a good place to stand by the stage then i remembered that i had to sneak my new digicam inside with me, which got me all nervous, so i was gonna wait until alot of people passed by security, in hopes that security would get lax and not notice, but that never happend. so i just say 'fuck it' and go towards security, and they tell me to empty out my pockets, which i do, exposing my camera out for EVERYONE to see, and the guy just looks at me and says 'is that everything?" and im like 'yeah', and he's like 'ok, you're clear" and i walk in like a villian :D so i get inside, look at the merchandise for a bit and head for the stage. there already was quite a few people when i got there, so my chances of getting front and center were ruined...but i still got to be in front, just to the right side, but that was still very cool :) i waited there for awhile before the opening band, the childrens hour, came on. i felt sooooo alone and i kept on looking everywhere like a madman for Fyza noscenerio , who i havent seen in what seems like ages (more like about 5 months, since last time i saw her was in my intro to computers class last semester). she had told me she was gonna go to the show with her bro (hehe, that rhymed. "im a poet, and i didnt even know it, silent bob. snooogans" :) ). i basically stop looking after awhile because 1.) the childrens hour started to perform and 2.) cuz the people around me started to give me these weird looks because i was looking around soo much for fyza. the childrens hour performed for about 40 minutes and they were pretty good, but i dont think their band should have opened up for Zwan, especially in hindsight of Zwan's performance.
its not that they were bad, but they were really laid back, folk-rocksy and mellow. not bad, again, but not even close on any musical level to the kinda band zwan is. whats funny is that i've had insomnia for what seems like ages, and while listening to them, i actually felt the need to sleep. lol. so they get off stage and the roadies or whatever begin to assemble the stage together for zwan, so i go back to lookin for fyza, and i thought i saw her out by the bleachers in the back because the girl seemed to have the same hairstyle and body physique i remembered fyza having but i couldnt tell cuz it was a little too far away for me to see clearly with my glasses and then who do i hear call me out behind me, but fyza herself :P sure made me feel like an idiot, so i decided to feel like less of an idiot and not tell her i thought i saw her over yonder (hehe... i said yonder). so she comes up to where im at (and i think we hug, i cant remember if we do or not, cuz my memory bank just crashed at that moment) and we talk for a little bit, she passes out some zwan stickers that she was given from the streetteam.com and we both whip out our new digital cameras that we got hours before the show. i thought mine was already pretty 'ok' until i saw that BADASS MUTHAFUCKA that she had in her hands. she had gotten a fujifilms 2.0megapixel camera with a nice high powered lens and lots of bells and whistles. i remembered that camera cuz i'd seen it before and i knew it was nice..... then i showed her my lousy 1.3 megapixel vivitar camera, which looked more like one of those cheapass cameras you can buy in a cheap plastic container for about $10. i felt like she had the 91' ford mustang GT 5.0 liter all tricked out... while i had the 81' amc gremlin with the rust colored exterior and the draggin exhaust pipe.
so after getting my camera's ego bashed, we talked awhile longer then zwan came on stage. :):):):):) they came on and it was MUTHAFUCKING LOUD!!!!!!!!! and im not exaggerating on this either, i've been to some very loud rock, hiphop, metal and punk shows and stood exactly 3-5 feet away from the speakers and didnt have a problem hearing afterwards... this show left me almost deaf-like and i couldnt hear everything until 11pm THE NEXT DAY. fyza and i took quite a few pictures when the band got on and i was struggling to get some good photos because some cock gobbler was up in front row with a big ass poster he made, which was just blocking up everyone's view, plus i had this guy in front of me who had his hands up the whole time, making it harder for me to get some good pix. everything was going all smooth and cool for fyza and me until they were finished performing 'honestly' when one of the security people there (who looked like a mexican version of Fat Bastard, only greasier) was yelling something at me that i couldnt quite make out since the show was fucking loud and my ears were already ringing, but i saw that he was pointing at my digicam and shaking his head 'no' and he pointed for me and fyza to get out of the crowd. so he escorts us to where this lady is and she says something about we cant use digital cameras, just disposable, but i was barely able to hear her, and we both just said that we didnt know... blah blah blah, got threatened to get kicked out, blah blah blah, confiscate our cameras, blah blah blah... and next thing i knew, they allowed us back to the show without taking our cameras, as long as we didnt take anymore pics. so we got off scott free, thankfully.
so fyz and i try to get back to where we were, only to be met with an big girl which i at first thought was a heffer, only to later find out that she was more like a bull and she wouldnt move to let us get back, so we ended up standing not too far away from where we were, but in a shittier position, because we had lots of tall people in front of us, which made me feel really bad, because fyza is a few inches shorter than me and the whole time i felt guilty that i was taller than her and could see more. any time i saw an open space that was good for her to see more of the stage and band, i offered it to her. so anyways.... the rest of the show rocked hardcore, this was not a typical rock concert, and if you listened to just the zwan cd, you'd have no idea the power this band posseses. this was a METAL concert, and they are more of a psychadelic metal band, i didnt realize that until i heard them live in person. it was funny cuz the other day i was having a conversation with some people in a chat room (which i RARELY get into) and they were tellin me how billy corgan isnt that great of a guitarist, and that he's overrated. of course i'd defended him since i knew he could rock harder than most people know, and i saw him perform live with the pumpkins years ago, but the billy corgan i saw at monday's concert was fucking possessed by some otherworldly god of metal, cuz he was playing like a man possessed. IN-FUCKING-CREDIBLE!!! at one point his guitar was sooo much for me that it was literally making me dizzy, which i heard jimi hendrix used to do to people when he performed. well, i've already made this long enough, but needless to say that the rest of the show rocked hardcore and they gave us a triple (maybe double?? i guess fyza would remember that better than me) encore and performed a few songs from their new cd thats coming out later this year. after the show i walked along with fyza to look for her brother, and said our goodbyes, then i went to try and get me some good pics or an autograph from zwan. i manaaged to shake their hands and get a few pics, but most of them were shitty. all in all, it was a great nite..... even though i couldnt hear anything afterwards. oh yeah... during the whole show i was basically hypnotized by paz on stage. she was shakin her ass and bendin all sorts of ways while wearing these small 'ho' shorts (as i've called them) that reminded me of a certain someone who knows what im talkin about ;) and now... for pics!!!
here is a pic of the group performing
this one is of them all singing i believe during 'honestly'
this is billy and paz jamming out together. they make a great duo and she was actually bending back alot more than that before i took the pic
this is during one of their songs, obviously, i just cant remember which one, but i do recall paz was shakin her ass :D looking at her in this pic actually reminded me of showmelove because of the hair and sexiness. (btw, thats the idiot's thumb in the pic)
guess what? another pic of the band :P
here's billy AFTER the show. the man has a firm hard hand and handshake. *cant believe he shook hands with a rock god*
and this is jimmy after the show too, after he walked down the ramp with his ho's, i mean groupies, i mean... 'friends' :P
and these are the 'groupies' i was talkin about. i only took this pic, cuz by the time the camera took it, jimmy had already moved outta my way, thats part of his arm on the right. btw, the girl in the white is the one that reminded me of my old friend, kelly.
if yall cant see the pics for some reason, then here is the links to see them....in no particular order. http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/__hr_billy+and+paz.jpg?bcU7on.AAM.Hi5Xn http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/01.jpg?bcU7on.AqMOjMoXp http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/02.jpg?bcU7on.AaquOzn0J http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/03.jpg?bcU7on.AmFtZwHgE http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/04.jpg?bcU7on.AvsPZk9Y9 http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/05.jpg?bcU7on.AI9EHMCKp http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/06.jpg?bcU7on.Ail5gL9Cq http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/cd29c32a/bc/zwan+concert/07.jpg?bcU7on.AaSbWCvh8
i'll post about today probably later after i get back from work. now im off to try and get some sleep again before i do go into work... *zooms away*
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