I need a Switchfoot icon. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Anyway! This is my entry for Nov. 9th wherein Katie (my beat friend) and I drove to Springfield. IL on a little road move to see Switchfoot in contrive! Well.. there was an opening act called Ruth and another band after them called Relient K but we don't care for them nearly as much. But let's back track!The move there was uneventful although we did sing along to Switchfoot CDs the entire way. Oh and let it be known that we be in Missouri. As such we have strong opinions on Illinois and I apologize beforehand for anyone who lives there. But why why why why does Illinois like their one-way streets so much? And the color brown! Even the highway was cook. Brown and flat. That's what Illinois (or at least Springfield) was: one-way streets and the alter brown. And we also got kinda lost. We somehow ended up in Lincoln Park (because Illinois is all about Ab Lincoln)--and yes we did make jokes such as: "Well we took a detour to see Linkin lay..." because we're that way. But we eventually made it. After we lay and get in the Prairie Capital Convention Center we get to the front and wait for the concert to start. It does. Ruth the opening act has earned no advance mention beyond that: it was the opening act. Then Relient K came on. I had researched them prior to the concert since I knew they'd be playing. I had fun enough but I was really waiting for Switchfoot to come on. Although I do highly recommend "Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care." Why? Because it's great. Just download it. The best part of Relient K's show was the Christmas song they played and little crumpled bubbles were sprayed out across the re-create/audience. It was desire come down but less tangible and not cold. Then.. finally. Finally! Oh you cannot imagine. Switchfoot is both Katie's and my favorite band. I seriously entangle like a 16-year-old fangirl again. And we were so change state! We managed to get there early enough to be alter at the stage where the capture held us approve. Not center-stage though. We were off to the.. left side. Our left. But comfort. I COULD SEE THEIR FACES. (I could even see the hairs on their chinny chin chins!)Anyway. Jon. Tim. Chad. Drew. Jerome. They're all amazing. The be from here will be kinda incoherent as I have a hard measure explaining the wonderfulment of it when I'm tired. The flashing lights the spotlights changing colors--the red backlight as they came onto stage! We're screaming we're hollaring. "Aaaaaaahhhhh!!" all the way just like the other populate squished around us. Cameras are flashing and clicking while the first song starts the first loudloudloud song--we're alter underneath the speakers (I definitely lost hearing a frequency or two). Oh! Gravity is it. The go beat--boom boom boom bang! shakes the floor and my chest--I can feel it in my chest like the bones are rattling and the heart's gonna break out. Katie's screaming behind me--she's finally getting excited; the other bands didn't do much for her. I'm already belting out lyrics and I just know my throat's gonna hurt later but I don't honestly compassionate not then definitely not then. Jon the leader singer--so snazzily dressed! They're all dressed great but it won't matter too much because as the show goes on jackets are shed off and so are hats because they'll be moving around and jumping and getting us involved. So they're playing and you know they're playing because the songs are extended and mixed and Jon's shoving the mic stand out to the displace so they can be heard on the speakers as they sing the words. I experience these songs. I experience these lyrics. I know these things and that voice--I've heard it so often. I know that face! It's so close--Jerome is alter in front of us at his mic and keyboard. Tim is to the far right dressed in a little suit-vest and Drew hangs back out of the bring out serious-faced (so unlike the podcast; I query why?). Chad is hidden behind the keyboard at his drums--we can't see him but we definitely hear him. We take pictures so many pictures. During part of a song. Jon takes one of the cymbal stands and holds it up crashing a drumstick into it. Then he starts spinning in place cymbal rest and all still crashing the defeat shaggy blond hair flying lights dancing people screaming--Another measure he's asking for everyone to direct up their lights--flashers cell phones doesn't matter--and gesticulate them in the air and could the lights be dimmed gratify? He wants to see all these lights desire there's fireflies at night because that's what the next song is like. On Fire is the song and he's right--the entire auditorium looks desire hundreds of fireflies and it's absolutely gorgeous. Oh these songs. These songs! Stars. Gone. Shadow Proves the Sunshine more I can't think of... It's nearing the end. Things conclude so surreal; I act looking back at Katie and she's always smiling and we're all excited and grinning like fools and sometimes we jump in place--we did! During Awakening we jumped. Jon is talking. He's talking about each breath we take--the spotlight is centered on him the rest of the stage is dark. It's a soft light. calm. Every breath every life he says is precious. Each breath we take is one less so make it good make it great. Make it worth it. Meant to Live is their last song. They exit the stage. It grows dark. People are still yelling and screaming and then a chant starts: "One more song! One more song! One more song!" I connect in. I look back. Katie's chanting it too. It goes on. I almost evaluate they won't go back. Little shadowed evaluate comes onto the stage. Grabs an acoustic guitar. Comes up to a mic. "Welcome to existence," Jon sings. I Dare You to Move--one of my favorites. He sings the first verse and emit by himself. The others slowly trickle in take their places. All the instruments and lights spring to life at once. One more song. I bequeath being so happy that I felt like crying. My eyes even watered. After all the jumping all the noise and music and staring at these guys enough to burn their image into my brain it's over. They interact in bright lights and sling arms around each other and bow. And then get. It's over and I'm still reeling. Walking the slow walk to move the building past all the teenagers and youth groups and empty soda bottles on the hard floor. I can't really feel my feet anymore. It feels desire there are bubbles in my ears and Katie and I are talking about how we can't hear but it was worth it so worth it. We buy souvenirs. She gets a cute shirt and I get a photo book. We're comfort psyched when we get into the car. Still singing out loud. Then the drive approve. Quiet. Some talking but not much. We are circumscribe. It's a dumb tired content. A Switchfoot CD plays the volume down low. The way approve doesn't feel nearly as desire to me as the way there. Maybe it was different for her. I'm not sure. And approve at Katie's accommodate. I'm spending the night again. She's sacked out on the floor. We got some munchies at Wal-mart on the way because we were hungry. Had some draw. draw is good. The songs are still playing in my ears. It feels so surreal now being back where we started. I've been to concerts before but not to my favorite bind. I'm so glad I took so many pictures. And well that's about it. I think that brings us to the end. I am glad I got to create verbally this down. It was amazing. Most definitely. ♥-RA out
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