Big Orange Crayonmusical thingsJuly 7th Show at Valentine's (Me and Jeremy, Missing Joe) This show was indesrcibably amazing. The energy level while Me and Jeremy was on approached the Poster Children. I mean, people were hanging from the bloody ceiling! I don't remember ever being more active during a show. It was so cool. Missing Joe was the first band on, and things weren't as nuts for them. People seemed kinda disinterested actually. I was in front and I wasn't really up close to the stage and the lead singer said something along the lines of everybody looking very solemn. They played mainstream alternative (eh?) music, and it was nice for what it was, but it didn't have much of a spark to it. I remember wishing for them to scream more. They weren't bad or anything, they did a good show and seemed like nice people, but it's hard to look good when you are followed by such an amazing show as what Me and Jeremy's turned out to be. Things started quietly enough when Me and Jeremy started, to the point where we got lightheartedly scolded for not dancing. After a while, Mark offered a free t-shirt to whoever jumped the highest during one of their songs and that seemed to break up that uncomforable feeling of wanting to jump and yell but not wanting to be the only one doing it. Then everything went crazy, in a good way. People were hanging from the ceiling and I'm sure that plaster was falling off the ceiling in the bar below. Everybody was into it. It was so amazing. And the band did one of the best shows I've ever seen them do. They had a wealth of energy for the energetic songs, but didn't overdo the softer ones. It was just perfect. I don't think I've ever jumped up and down so much in my life. If you've never been to one of their shows, shame on you! (If you live in this area, that is. If not, I can understand.) When Me and Jeremy finished, me and Matt decided to leave since we aren't really Conehead Buddha fans (they were the main act) and we were really tired. We stopped at an A+ mart on the way home and got soda and Matt got beverage-choice advice from a weird little kid who I'm still convinced was not a human child, but a small alien. Why else would a kid suggest plain iced tea over neon green soda? |