August 10th, 2005, best day of my life;

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Well, that song speaks the truth.

STEVE MITCHELL PRO PICTURES AND A DUMBASS REVIEW.

This is going to be edited little by little as I remember every other little thing.

(5/13/06 - You can tell I'm shaking all the way while I typed this, before I joined favorite_son, and then knew nothing at all about their shows before, haha. Teenie moments, here man. )

Fuck. I. Am at. A loss for words, here. It was just... too amazing for words, at my perspective.

Intro; I don't care if no one reads this, or if no one comments, or if people hate Green Day, or if people hate me, or if I have to rely on these amazing internet friends because my other friends can't support me. I don't care. No, I didn't cry, which I was surprised at. I think Nick went, but I'm not sure. That's what Alexis said. Thank you Danielleeee for bringing me and letting me stay over and everything.♥ You are awesome to the max. I'm sure you'll post an update too, haha. But if you do happen to read this, which I'm predicting will be a very rare thing, I must warn you it will be very corny, very emo, and such. I am very very very very tired right now. Hangovers suck. ;] If I get tickets to next months... SHANTAL AND ERIN ARE COMING WITH MEEEEEE.

Afternoon; I went to Danielle's house, spent a while looking for it when it was right in front of us. But I got there, we played video games, and her dad picked us up. We ate at McDonalds, then drove to Rosemont, with some very amusing billboards.. hah. At the end of the concert we blasted some of their songs so loud and I was waving idiotically to people outside the window.

At the arena; We arrived at the Allstate about 6-6:30. Security a hassle as always, the studded belt thing like always. I didn't get a shirt but I'm okay with that. I bought a rubber-silicone-livestrong like bracelet with Green Day on it, and I never take it off, hah. I'm laaaame. Then, I mean, you expect that more than half the people coming would have studded belts. They let other people in, so we complained and I got it back. Done and done. Took a picture at this x-box thingy, walked around, got food, whatever. Every sort of person was there, I swear. Every age, every personality, etc... The funniest thing was when, we saw this open table. Danielle's dad made her brother sit in a chair, and he would go up to girls and say, 'Hey, this is Brendan from MTV, say hi!' and oh my God. Such gullible kids. Danielle and I were laughing so hard, &they were looking at us like wtf. Hah. Q101 was there, if anyone listens to it, 'Live at Green Day' yesterday, we were there, requesting some songs, etc., saw the guy I alwayyys hear. Then this girl that works there says, 'Hey I like your shirt. (I was wearing an AC/DC shit...) and your shoelaces!' I'm like um, thanks... Danielle's dad was joking around if he could get me onstage but all she could give us was stickers. Lol, thanks lady. Then we found our seats, and the show started. But don't worry, I'm just getting started.

Opening / Seats; First stop of the American Idiot Fall Tour '05. Jimmy Eat World opened, I don't listen to their stuff that much but I knew the songs. Work, Pain, Bleed American, Sweetness, and The Middle. They weren't too bad, but not a lot of people were too hyped up yet, of course. THE DRUNKEN PINK BUNNY! Apparently if you read the concert reviews on GDA, they give you some interesting stuff. Hooray. I think they weren't ready or something, so this guy in a pink bunny costume comes out with a few beers, chugs 'em down, and amuses the crowd ever so much when he gets wasted to 'Blitzkrieg Bop.' Seats. 8th row at the corner / side stage, aisle row. How awesome? Totally awesome. Some 10-year old blonde chicks shaking their heads in front of us... they were in the wrong seats, so this big fat drunken 40-year old man was in front of me. =| Great. Smoke wasn't a surprise, but almost everyone around us was smoking like marijuana or something in the arena. The beer stand was practically sold out, there were a couple of blond college kids getting high across my seat. But they left, so it was all good. Very amusing though. These 2 guys behind us... omg haha, we started making conversation... Danielle's brother was like 'Yeah I'm friends with Andy Milonakis!' &The canadian guy's like... 'Well.. I think that show is stupid, but I'll watch it since you're on it. I called the network up and we're thinking of a show like 'Pimp My Ride' or something.' Fucking hilarious.

Main show; Where. Do I start. Oh, God. The guys were there, along with both Jasons, and a guy named Ronnie. I knew there was that other guy.. huh.. anyways. I forgot Mike had his hair dyed black already. He wore what he does all the time, made the faces he makes all the time, and kept sticking his tongue out to some kid on our side... Tre... what to say about Tre.. well, he's Tre. Same look, just like always. Same personality, haha he's the best. The funniest. He threw his sticks back all the time, as I heard he does often... did his little tie-pull-choke stunt. And Billie. Billie. He knows how to work a crowd. I've heard that multiple times. But I saw it for myself. Amazing. Just amazing. Didn't surprise me at most things he did... the only thing was that I wanted to see him dance the propoganda! Haha. But he did the 'Heeeeyyyyy ooooohhh' thing he constantly does lately... got everyone throwing their hands in the air, singing to songs, not sure if he signed the cross during Holiday, but I'm sure he did, held the mic up in the air, did the splits and breakdanced which I also just remembered, that was the best during St. Jimmy haha. Danielle and I were ever so amused at his awesome-ness random mad skills. Lol, played his guitar on his back, did a shoot-to-the-head gesture in St. Jimmy... I'm giving you a really detailed play-by-play here... He was wearing the long-sleeve black shirt with the white bands around the upper arms.. he wasn't wearing any underwear, why was I not surprised... XD I wanted to see more of Jason White, he's awesome but it's a shame he doesn't like the spotlight... and where I was sitting I barely saw the top of his head. =[ They opened with American Idiot.... I never do this, but I went CRAZY. I swear. It was so upbeat, and everyone else was moving... Stood up on my chair,, hah no point in chairs... and I sung along, threw my fists in the air, and it was only the first song I was so scared to wake up from all of it... haha. Next they did 'Jesus of Suburbia'. That was THE BEST. My favorite part. I love 9 minute songs. Obviously it was longer, all the parts in between, but that was the song I was really really into. I can't even explain it, hah. Someone threw a water bottle at Billie Joe while he was performing, random silver balloons going around, lmao. Stopped many many times in between songs to get the crowd up. That's normal though, but it was great. Just great, I cannot tell you. Urghh! Hahh. The effects. They were cool, not too special. We were sooo close to the fire you could intensely feel the heat from it. At one point they turned off all the lights and put up a disco ball, and everyone held up their cell-phones for light. Omg haha, I have this image in my head of an old man saying, 'Kids these days and their damn technology!' Hahaha. Wooow. Letterbomb, which Billie sang the girl's part himself... Tre sang 5 seconds of randomness. OH. This probably wasn't all just about me, considering a thousand other people there, I was so close to the stage, when Billie or Mike came up by us, (which was the best, because I was in clear sight, and even if he didn't look at me etc., I was less than 30 feet away from that...) or when Tre kept looking our way, I looked each of them in the eye, yelled, and gave a huge smile, like I said it was probably to the whole place, but hah. Everytime they would smile back. That's great, it's the greatest feeling in the world. You feed off their energy so much. They really are known to be the top most energetic-crowd going band... and they are, one day you'll have to just see it for youself, live and not TV. They did 'Holiday', which was also really good... In the middle Billie stopped and he goes, (in a Texas accent) 'Hey ya'll, my name is George W. Bush... - nah, I'm just kidding, my name's asshole!' And everyone booed, haha. The crowd just does everything he wants them to do, wow. They booed when he told them too, cheered when he strung just one note, cheered when he stood there doing nothing. Played 'Are We The Waiting / St. Jimmy' which was pretty good. He mentioned the song was just 'St. Jimmy' when they started 'Are We The Waiting'... but it's a transitional song, so who cares. Mike almost fell off the stage when he came to our side, or atleast I was told. They mentioned Chicago about a million times and I'm just thinking, hey man, save it, don't lie to us, we know you practically do that everywhere you go.. don't try it. Hah. But we still cheered, they changed most of the songs to 'Chicago' in the lyrics where they mentioned places (i.e. Anaheim to the Middle East - Chicago to the Middle East). Just kept telling how awesome we were, but I was still thinking save it man. Mentioned the start, opened for a raw punk underground band back in the '80s.. mentioned Screeching Weasel, that our concerts are the best, get better every time blah blah.. I SAID, SAVE IT MAN! But it was cool. You gotta represent bitchhh. He kept mentioning sports teams too, haha moron. <3 There was some songs I wanted to see them play, but otherwise they did 'Wake Me Up When September Ends', Billie always mentions that he has a hard time getting through it, because it's partially about his dad, he was a bit solemn but I didn't see much... Played 'She', 'Longview', 'Basketcase', 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', 'Knowledge', which was the Op Ivy cover, 'Platypus I Hate You'... or maybe it was 'Jaded', I'm not sure the riffs are pretty similar, but eh, 'Minority', which was another one I lost myself in and probably the only one where everyone was jumping around... Billie played his harmonica too, 'Brain Stew', 'Shout / King for A Day' in which they wore their usual hats, lol and Billie laid down on stage... XD ... 'Hitchin' A Ride', and most of the songs that started with bass I could barely hear even if it was so damn loud... and 'Maria', which it was kind of sad I didn't know the words too well... =/ They also brought up 3 fucking lucky bastards up on stage, which they also do a lot... Erin told me that happened at that last one in Chicago, so I expected it. At one point Danielle was talking about how we should start the wave, and in the middle of it somewhere, he actually made the whole place do it! Hah. Pretty awesome. There was this one kid in the front (we were going to go up to the pit, but helllll no way it was crowded... next time we'll just camp out for God's sakes..) and Billie goes, 'How old are you? YOU'RE 12?! So you're gonna be in 7th grade next year?!' I laughed, I just laughed, that kid was only a year younger than me and I'm thinking, hah like any of us kids have a chance... I'm like Billie! Your oldest son is 10 years old! Wtf! But the 3 were 18... (as if they really were 18) - Fuck I just had deja vu - Erin told me in the last one they only got one guy to play guitar, but this time it was drums, bass, and guitar. The bass playerr was a girl, she got to keep the guitar which I also wasn't surprised at, and I guess she was wearing a Ramones shirt? I think he was proud of that or something he had to mention, but I was still very envious... The drummer, hah, lost his shoe, but then he had to do a stage dive, and it was pretty awesome. The security made us get off our seats when we were standing on them, and they didn't make the pit as crazy as it wanted... minor crowd surfing.. but the guitarist.. Billie says to the kid, 'Hey you! How old are you? 18? Can you play the guitar? HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN RAPED? YOU'RE GONNA GET RAPED TONIGHT, GET YOUR ASS UP HERE!' Hah oh God. I think he always changes that around. And when he got up there, he was like a head taller than Billie, wrapped his arms around him, and Billie kissed him, haha. (which also reminds me, as Billie always shouts the rest of the bands names to give cred because he's awesome, at the mention of Tre he goes... 'Tre's friends with Michael Jackson.' The other guys didn't get much cheering, I did though, lol, for Tre especially I'm luck WOOO! YEAH! I'M FUCKING LOUDER THAN ALL OF YOU! SHOW SOME LOVEEE!! &these other 2 blonde girls thought they were too cool to have a good time... Jason White actually waved at the mention of his name.. he barely does, so that did surprise me... Shot water guns at the front of the crowd, he got a kid about my age to go up and help him, I think Danielle knew her... Billie kept banging on Tre's drums for no reason at all, and I wonder how many drumsticks he gets... heh. At the end of the show, he gave that 'You are the people you have the voice you have the power to change the world, don't let any fucking scumbags ruin it for you, let all the fucking rednecks in America hear you!' speech thing, also mentioned something I don't remember... my memory is getting weary at the second... Then the last song they played as a band was 'We Are The Champions', I didn't think they'd play that at all, the Queen cover... but it was really good, my arms were tired holding them up in the air all the time, my voice was raspy from screaming and yelling and cheering and going wild and singing, and my legs were tired from when that man was in my face. They threw confetti out, a whirlwind it was pure white and red from where I saw it... the effects were loud, and stood out, and amazing. Then I thought it was the last song, but the final, last song Billie came out by himself, one guitar, one amp, and did 'Good Riddance Time of Your Life'. It was a good ending, solid smooth guitar along with it, I felt like a hippie man! Hah kidding. But you know, it was one of those end-sad songs at the end of it all. I tell you it was so surreal, and like I said I truly was terrified to wake up and find it a dream, but it wasn't... I come home to reality, haha. Now the best part...

OMFGBONDAGE; I kept this out of that because I wanted it to make it a different section. When Billie gets the crowd to copy what he says.. making random sounds, the 'Heyyy ohh' thing and he added in 'Whoaa' 'Whoooo' 'Yeeeahh' and 'Ahhhhh'. I think you know where I'm getting with this... on 'King for A Day' he laid down on the stage, got up slowly, God help me but that wasn't the part. He went to our side and mooned us (where I found out he wasn't wearing anything else underneath there.... ) When he was in the center at the end of the walkway in the middle of the stage, he bent down to shake hands with the fans.... XD... but then. THE GREATEST PART THAT MADE MY WHOLE NIGHT... as he was making us copy his sounds, he went from 'Ahh' to 'Aahhhhhhhh' to 'Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhohhhhhh' to 'Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhh' to some awesomely fucking dirty sounds HAHA. Wow. Yeah, he went there. I wasn't sure but I knew he was masturbating up on stage, and just making dirty sounds, and doing too many pelvic thrusts and I remembered Adrienne, hahahha that woman... AHHADIE [SLASHSLASHSLASHSLASH] Alright, this is part of my edit, I just read in the_lampshade's post that she was there, I could've sworn I saw her at the side of the stage and I guess I was right! Haha. Awww. I love her. She's probably just as awesome as the band. Yes. And a very very lucky girl... and then, finally... after like 5 purely pure beautiful minutes... he yells
'SOMEBODY FUCK ME!'
I lose my fucking mind. Oh my God. I bet if any of you are reading this, you're probably like wtf to yourself, but wow... oh god. my god. for the love of god. oh my god. oh my god.oh my god. oh my god.oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. you get it. lord. BLESS THAT MAN'S SOUL... Everyone screamed haha, I screamed so loud my scream wasn't a scream.

The Worst Part; The worst part. Was the end. I wanted it to last forever. But nothing lasts forever. I wanted to stay in that moment, right there, forever and always. And the thing is, I did stay in the moment. That's the only time, only 2 hours, I stayed in a moment without thinking about the next day. or what would happen next week, or what would happen when I got home, when I saw everyone again, what I looked like, what I worked for, what people thought about me and what I thought about them... I didn't care. I said it'd be corny. And emo-ish. It's amazing, really... how 3 guys can be so amazing, have so much energy on-stage... but when you watch those fucking biography things on TV they make you cry. You see the videos and they're sad and meaningful. They write amazing songs but when you see them... it's not like that at all! Maybe it's just press. Whatever. But you know? That really did give me a kick in the ass, just one concert. But one amazing band. 3 amazing people... I don't know how they do it. It won't seem like it, but I am a different person now. Okay I'm being all emo and crap I warned you, but when it's so overwhelming and thinking through it you are. When you're in the moment you're just in the moment and you're happy and pumped and just lost inside yourself. You don't even think about what you're experiencing. You don't have time to cry and be emo even though you'll be just that afterwards. I didn't even cry. I was just... so, so overwhelmed by joy. And just watching it... whoever gets me to meet them I will marry and give them everything they want in the world... but still, even if it wasn't much.. that moment... Like Katie and Good Charlotte. Jess and The Used. Actually, it was more than that. To me, it was. But those people are awesome, and they have their own minds, so what would I know? And I don't care if no one believes me, knows about me, if I forgot anything which I probably forgot a million other things... what happens to me next, if I get to see them again next month, know what I'm all about... When I'm alone. I can't stop smiling to myself. Corny, yes I told you! But really. My memory is fading away already, and that's why I have this. But if no one read this? I wouldn't care if I spent more than an hour typing it.. I wouldn't care, because I know who I am, what I've done, and what I'm capable of. My excited-ness of this will wear out soon, I expect, and the memories in my head will as well... though I don't want it to fade away, haha. I suppose that's okay though... I'll go see them again soon hopefully. ;] Because at that moment, right there... I felt like it was...

ONLY GREEN DAY AND I.

It's corny! Whatever. You hate them. Whateverrrr. There's a billion people in this world and a thousand and more fans that were there. But this is for me, and that's how I felt. That's how you feel. And I know that no one cares about this right now. But there's not a SINGLE soul in this universe who could understand how I feel this moment.

So thanks, guys. For just... everything. For being who you are.
When you see the passion that burns in Billie's eyes, whether you're in the 8th row, you feel it...
Seeing them live, and everything, just all the things... makes me love them more and more, haha.
I suppose my summer didn't turn out to be so bad after all.

=]♥