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AP TOUR :)
contentit was abosolutley amazing :) && the maine is slowly taking over my favorite band position :)
houston, texas 3/22/09
(sorry it's long the longest thing ever lol)
we got in line at about ten am, and i was expecting it to be a looonngg day, but we got in line by some cool people :) (no, we weren't first, the first people got their at six freakin am we were like tenth in fact they posted a picture on the ap tour website from outside, and it has me in it in line lol) but we made new concert buddies, including two people who drove all the way from new orleans to see the boys. at like eleven am the boys started coming out to go to sound check.
garrett walked off and was like "hey" when he saw me (because he ended up remembering me! ahhh!) and i was like "hey, i got something for you" and i pulled out this bag of sour patch kids and he was like woah, and the guys told him he had to come on to soundcheck, but he was said he would come out after and def talk.
jared ended up being the first one back from soundcheck though, and i freakin love him lol. we got out this bag of ginger bread cookies, and he laughed. then we took out the grill we got him, and then he remembered us :D we also had pizza delieved for lunch, and we offered him a slice and he actually took it lol. then we talked for a little while, and got a picture and stuff.
kennedy was next, we didn't get to talk to him much sadly. but he said he loved us for brining him captain crunch. we got a picture with him and stuff so it was cool :)
john was next, and we talked with im forever, he is such an easy person to talk to, and we talked to him about the most random stuff. but i got him to sign my phone (but it's already coming off! D:) and then we busted out with a jonas brothers poster (and it said f*ck the jonas brothers) and you could tell he was trying not to laugh, but then he was like whatever and started cracking up laughing. lol. he loved it and everyone around us started laughing too. we got a picture with him and the poster :)
next was pat, who didn't talk much when we first met him, but we talked to him a lot later (you'll see...) and i kinda got the feeling he was tired of the "cupcake/crossiant" thing. it was just a vibe, but he has also been sick (which is maybe why he didn't play south by south west and they just did and acoustic with john and jared???)
garrett came back out next, and it was pure awesomeness! he was eatting the sour patch kids when he walked up to us (yes, he came up to us because we were facing the other direction...but just the fact he approached us, and not us to him was great!) i turned around and like had this douchebag grin on my face lmao. but we talked...and talked...and talked, about tour and just life, it was one of the most down to earth conversations i've had in a long time, and it was just like us three (garrett, me, my friend) because everyone was by john ohh and pat for some reason....and i noticed his piercing, and i asked him and he said he got it yesterday (which was news to me because he didn't post that blog till later...) and i liked it! and i also loved his hair color (but he didn't know what color he died it) but it is gorgeous. we got a picture and i am seriously like in love (his girlfriend is a very lucky girl lol). he kept riding this electric scooter around around, and i was like "is it hard" and he was like "no...you wanna try?" and for like five minutes i rode on garrett daniel freakin nickelsen's scooter!!! lmao. it's big to me, sorry lol.
okay, so they eventually left to the tour bus one by one, and it was getting hot so we got our concert buddies to hold our spot and we went to go get something to drink at this sports bar/resturant like two places down, and as we go to buy something, guess who is right next to us, family force five dude! we like hung out with them (and later at the concert the drummer cruton gave us his drumsticks, like seriously bent down off stage and handed them to us because we saw them there). like i said awesomeness.
we eventually go back in line, and play uno and stuff with people in line, and we held the spots for the girls who held ours when we went to go get something to drink. but then like at three, we went back to the resturant thing to go cool off and stuff, and we sat down at a table and ordered a snack this time, and this is the amazing part...like five minutes after we sit down and stuff, pat walks in with aaron and some other crew members, and freakin sits down right next to us. and we were going to say hi, but then he acutally just started like a full on conversation with us. we had lunch with freakin pat kirch!!!! they ordered and everything and just like sat and talked with us for almost an hour dude! i almost got out my video camera and recorded it, but i didn't want to be creepish and stalkerish you know, so we just talked (but now i'm second guessing that i should have videoed it...) but out friends (jesus and john) who just arrived came to meet us in there and go their picture with pat and stuff, so we have proof if anyone doesn't believe us lol.
by the time we got back in line it was four, and we pretty much just talked about how freakin awesome this day was already. because we also met the hit the lights singer the guitarist of a rocket to the moon before the show as well.
at 5:40 they started taking tickets and letting us in, even though doors were suppose to open at 6. they had a "the maine" signing but i already met them, and i didn't want to take my chances of getting further back ya know so i just went to stand in the pit. i ended up getting second row, because they let will call people in at the same time too. but the pit was freaking insane the whole time, infact i was about to pass out during family force fives set, and i was like out of it the whole set. the only thing that kept me in their was knowin the maine was coming up... i ended up getting pushed to the exact center though by the time the maine got on..which was okay, but i also got pushed back to third row :/ i was so surprised at how many guys liked the maine i was seriously surronded by guys 2/3 of the concert lol, but i seriously didn't even have room to move my arms or anything it was insane. i have clips off all the acts, and i have ALL of the maine's set on video except the last two songs because after i recorded the whole thing the security gaurd decided to be a <b>****</b> and say i can't record anymore. i will post it on youtube and give you the link once it will let me upload it (it's under matinence right now)...and i will post the set list once i get the videos to remember....
all in all this was one of the best days of my life :DDD
and after the concert i met nick santino, but i looked like crap because i was freakin drenched in sweat and water the security gaurds sprayed. and my hair isn't curly, but for some reason it came out curly after getting out the pit lol. nick prob. didn't want to even touch me lol. i got a maine hoodie for $40, a rocket to the moon cd for $5, and hit the lights cd for $5. we left like at eleven i would say, and we were going to meet the boys again but their was like a million people waiting for them and we were like we met them enought earlier and left. (the buses were like right by the enterence dude, so everybody was there...)
i uploaded all the live pics, and pics of me meeting the boys to my myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/mariexclandestine
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