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So. My two friends and I went to a Shinedown concert Sunday night. YEAH BABY.
First, we had to stand outside in a line waiting for the doors to open, and some guys carrying a cross that said R U Ready? on it stood up on a box thingie and started yelling things about Jesus to us. Just personally, I don't think a rock concert is the best place to convert people. We weren't even inside yet and already we were floating in clouds of marijuana. NOT OURS. Other stupid people. I'm fairly straight edge. No drugs, thank you.
ANYWAY.

We sat in the seats, not on the floor yet. The place was already packed, and as me and my buddies and Buddy Number One's mom were clinging to each other so we wouldn't get lost, some creep behind us said, "Look, people are holding onto each other so they won't get separated. Hey, hold on to me, I'll lead you the right way." Yeah, no thanks.

Warm-Up Band Numero Uno was some band called Sore Eyes. They were terrible; their lead singer sounded like a choir reject who was trying to sound like a rock star. He failed miserably. I felt bad for them, almost, because (to quote a book) "the air was half-conversation." It was three-fourths conversation. There were a couple tone deaf weirdos at the very front who were cheering, but I think they were just too high to care.

Warm-Up Band Numero Dos was another "some band" called Automatic Fire. They were better, but they still sounded like a boy band trying to be rockers. Basically, the warm-up bands did NOT warm up the crowd by any means.

Shinedown was next, so we linked arms and went to the floor. We got really close to the front, JUST inside the tape that marked where we were allowed to stand. But another creepy old guy asked Buddy Number Two if she had any pot, so we swung around to the other side, again, just inside the tape. It seemed like everything was happening where we were. The security guard people took a bunch of crazy people outside, and we were so closely packed together that when they had to forcefully drag people out, we'd all fall on top of each other because they'd shove us.

We looked up at the stage, and this light was shining on a white curtain. Behind it you could see the silhouette of the band. They started their first guitar riff and the crowd screamed. The curtain fell, and the music started. This is my favorite part of concerts; when everybody comes together as one writhing, screaming mass and lets the music move us.
However, there's always that one person that decided twelve beers was a good idea. Well, there's like a hundred of those people, but they only bother you one or two at a time. Like the lady that was dancing behind us...she was taller than me, so she was holding her beer above my head. She spilled it down both my sleeves in her drunken dancing. She also spilled it into this one lady's hair, but she didn't notice, and her hair kept hitting me. It was really long and felt like being hit with a beer-soaked towel.

Shinedown's lead singer talks way too much. He likes to talk about love a lot, too. He DID dedicate one song to all the women in the crowd, though (If You Only Knew). All the concerts I've been to, at least one band has. Sometimes it's a dirty song, like Addicted by Saving Abel or Dirty Little Thing by Adelitas Way (both of them, by the way, are FANTASTIC). It's kind of funny.

It was spectacular. And after we left, we went to Steak N'Shake, which was nearby and it seemed to be where all the post-concert hungry people went. And everything tastes better after inhaling the smoke of a concert. Plus, you're starving.

We got home around midnight, feeling very rebellious.

I'm sick today. It was weird. I woke up five times last night, shaking. Then I got up at six because my head hurt, and when I stood up the entire room spun and I almost fell, nearly impaling my feet on my high heels that were just lying on the floor. I went upstairs and drugged myself with IbuProfin and went into the bathroom to lie feebly beside the toilet.
I feel better now, though. IbuProfin is a MIRACLE.

I feel that this post was rather boring. Oh, well. Usually when I go places or do things I just like to document it. In case I lose my memory randomly or something.

I apologize. Here's a playlist to make up for it.

The "I Am Sick Today" Playlist:
1. Cry Me A River by Michael Buble.
2. Fallen by Sarah McLachlan.
3. I'm So Sick by Flyleaf.
4. It's The End Of The World As We Know It by R.E.M.
5. I Will Come Through by Sister Hazel.
6. Hot N Cold by Katy Perry.
7. No More by Drowning Pool.
8. Medicate by A.F.I.
9. Pony (It's O.K) by Erin McCarley.
10. Foreverandeverandever....etc. by David Crowder* Band.
11. How I Feel by Kelly Clarkson.
12. Run Runaway by Slade.
13. S.O.S by Rihanna.
14. Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees.
15. What Goes Around Comes Around by Justin Timberlake.
16. Rehab by the Glee Cast.
17. Goin' Down by Three Days Grace.
18. Overcome by Creed.
19. I Just Laugh by Nevershoutnever.
20. Learn My Lesson by Daughtry.

Love
Love
Love
Samm

Song Quote Of Note: "We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder."
Title: We Belong.
Artist; Pat Benatar.