punks and preps, natural born enemies

anything that involves straylight runs turns out fantastic. thursday night my bro and i headed up to fon du lac (funny name stupid place) for a concert. hellogoodbye, straylight run, and motion city soundtrack. we headed up without tickets (we were told we could get em at the door) to a show that we weren't quite sure how to get to. i made jamin drive there so i could sleep, cuz well, i needed sleep. only problem was that everytime i'd start to get comfortable and drift off we'd hit a bump and the stupid glove compartment would fall open and hit my legs and then i'd jump up wide awake. stupid jetta. anyways, our friend spencer from sturgeon bay (way up north) was meeting us there. and naturally we were kinda late so he beat us there and called with the news that we couldn't get tix at the door. crap man!
we were like 15 minutes away at that point so there was no way we were turning back. plan b: start looking for scalpers. so we find the place and meet up with spencer and start our search for scalpers. there were cops and security everywhere so this proved to be very hard to do (mainly becuz i'm not so sure its entirely legal). we found one drunken guy who said he'd give us some for $100 each. so i'm like "screw u" and we continue on. our search revealed spoiled preppy brats everywhere, when we asked if anyone had extra tix they would say no and rub it in that they would get in and we wouldn't. we did this for about an hour. we met up with some other friends who did have tix and hung out until it was time for them to go in....and us to not. haha! jamin tried to conga line his way in saying "i don't have a ticket! i don't have a ticket!" believe it or not it didn't work. so we just waited and watched all these stupid college brats walk in. oh yeah, this was mtvu's college tour, gross i know, but these bands r too good to pass up. when we heard hellogoodbye start it actually hurt, knowing we weren't in there and having met some of the jerks who were. most of them didn't even know the bands they just got free tix for going to that stupid college.
plan c: rush the security or sneak in. so we decided to take another lap around the gym and scout out the security and look for doors that weren't locked. we found one door but didn't know if security was right by it so we kept looking. the door to back stage was wide open and u could see everything from behind and hear things perfect. so we stood off and watched through there for a bit from aways away. then jamin and spencer got the bright idea to go and wave at the tours buses to see if any of the bands were in there and could get us in. i stayed and watched hellogoodbye play from afar. they waved for a couple minutes and the guys in the bus just closed the blinds on them, lol. so they came back. by that time i had decided i was gonna talk to one of the "rent a cops" and see if he could get us in. so i go to talk to this guy and he has a lazy eye...or two lazy eyes, i couldn't tell they were soooooo crazy! so i start swaying a lil while talking becuz i'm never sure when he actually can see me. he said he couldn't let us in backtsage but we could chill right by the door and probably meet all the bands becuz they all went in and out of that door. SCORE!!!
so we ended up being like 20 feet from the stage and saw everything on stage and behind the scenes. th security there rocked! they kept asking us how we liked the show and giving high fives, not at all concerned that we were hanging out were ppl weren't supposed to be, haha! great! hellogoodbye ended and started coming out by us with their gear and what not. so there we were standing in the middle of hellogoodbye and all their stuff! who needs tickets?! HA! stupid college kids take that!! we actually got to be roadies and helped them load the trailer and everything, that was soooooooooo cool! if u ever have seen them, i got to load up the raft and banana suites!! oh too great! then chris the drummer hung out with us for awhile and i have it all set up to fufill one of my life long dreams at warped tour! thanx chris!!
next was straylight run. best live band ever. they played everything i wanted them to and even added a cello. hott! by this time of the security gaurds had offered us free tix to get in for the show, and we had seriously considered turning him down becuz we were having such a blast! i said yes finally becuz i wanted to go in and buy some merch. and then headed right back out for the rest of the show. the dude saved us each $25! told u the security guys rocked there! straylight run was absolutely amazing. too bad the crowd was sooooooooooo awful, they did nothing for any of the bands. losers. so when we met them we apologized for how lame the crowd was, michelle (girl from straylight run who i've wanted to meet ever since i knew they existed) said that was typical of college tours. poor bands!! to have to go out there give it ur all and get nothing but some off beat clapping and drunken college kids shouting crap. so we chatted for awhile with michelle and john. they were sooooooo nice. we apologized for jamin and spencer scaring them earlier with the waving. haha they thought it was funny when they knew it was some super crazy ppl. man this is a ridiculously long post and if ur not into music like me u prob won't appreciate it the same. sorry if i bored u, i'll end it here. theres more to th story but this is soooooo l ong haha u can ask me sometime if u want. "sing me something soft, sad and delicate, loud and outta key, sing me anything"