Isabel's Storyso right after my last class got out, i started walking towards my dorm, and i talked to my crush for a minute :) he was checking me out lol! i knew it had to be a sign of something good.....so i came in and finished packing my packpack, it seemed kinda light but i had a ton of stuff in it, go fig.....called a cab and went to the bus station where i got charged for 2 tickets instead of one roundtrip ticket just because the salesperson didn't hear me right the first time. bitch. waited about 45 minutes at the station, wrote in my journal, fended off the flies (icky)......got on the bus to dc, feeling really excited and jumpy and all that of course. so i get to dc, like 15 minutes late, and meet katherine (she rocks!)(<- not my parentheses but i sure do!) for the first time ever....we take the metro over to the area of the venue, go to wendy's, then go stake out the garage. first we walk in like we know people or something, i ask if neil is around but the guy i talk to doesn't know. then i ask whose soundcheck is going on and he says it's marvies, but he won't let us in. i tell him to tell them i'm there but i don't think he did. so we go outside and sit on a step next door to the garage, watching stuff (falling ladders, etc.) and playing mad libs :) the lead singer of showoff came over and talked to us for a long time and took pictures of me and katherine and showed us some of his really kool tattoos. after that we went back to mad libs, and we made a sign that said "18th st. lounge --->" because everyone kept asking where it was. so then shocky comes up and sits with us (he's so cool!), and we hang out for like forever, then butch and jayce come out and walk up to us. i didn't even really register that it was them, but butch was like, "hey" and he held our hands and laughed at the "18th st. lounge" sign :) (he was wearing some really slick blue and yellow pumas) jayce hugged us and kissed our cheeks (even shocky's hehehe!)(<-- again, not me. but i told j&b that i had stuff for them, just to be sure we'd see em after the show), and butch said they were going to dinner (sushi) and they would love for us to come except that the car was too small (he only mentioned it cuz i was tryin to be all slick and invite myself along- i'm so bad!). damn. shocky and me and katherine talk some more, it was a weird conversation but whatever (it's cuz they were saying all this stuff with mad freudian subconscious overtones, and cuz shocky was totally hitting on her). he asked what i had in my backpack, and i said a bunch of stuff and underwear (always listen to your mum lol)(<-- not me... but shocky apparently has a thing for panties...), so he asked to see it. i have no shame, so here's shocky holding up my favourite leopard print underwear on a street in dc. random! a line started to form, but we were first! yes! bouncers came out in really kool shirts. they were these kool gas station attendant type shirts, but the names on them weren't their real names, so "dave" talked to us, and he thought katherine was an undercover cop, lol (cuz apprently i look like gillian anderson- see the photos page and judge for yourself). then we talked to "michael" who is a marine and talked to us about military stuff. boring. (and freaky- he was all gung ho about the military and following orders and it scared me cuz when i asked about the whole 'following orders' thing, he said that it wasn't his job to question! HELLO! you're a human being! it's always your job, especially if you're shooting at people and you don't know why. brainwashed, i swear) shocky kept coming around and poking me in the sides, what can i say, it's just not a day unless i get tickled. they let us in late, it was a new club and they had *just* finished painting it and stuff. we went in and left our bags at the merch booth, found a place to sit, i went back to tell the lead singer of showoff that i hoped he had a good show, and hugged him twice and he asked me if i was horny (from the "legal and horny" sign)(<- not me), to which i said, "i'm not saying i'm not" and then something about him being in the safe age range......too bad he's shorter than me. and then i went back to where katherine and her friends were and we hung out waiting for the bands to come on. self was okay. fuzzy pink equipment, and an obsession with the f-word (really cute song that goes "i have a truck full of amps mother f*r). showoff would have been good except that the other guitarist and bassist (the lead singer/guitarist and drummer were kool) were major assholes. we got spit on! icky! (total jerks, i hated them) then after great anticipation, marvies came on! we were singing and dancing and fending off this guy and this chick who were high or something and kept hitting us (throwing themselves into us is more like it, i mean, ow!), who butch and jayce kicked out of the pit later on. grrr. i can't remember the set list at all, but i held up my "i (heart) marvies" sign during mrs. jackson and butch waved and blew me a kiss :) then it was time for the encore, and i held up "legal and horny" and butch cracked up and made an interesting gesture (points at izzy, points at himself, little pelvic thrust, very cute) .....yeah. it was a great show to be sure! i got 2 pics, one red and one white (i only got one! and it wuz my third show!). so then we got our stuff back from shocky and sat down with this chick who's known marvies forever (like since 10 years ago)(<- once more, not me, but she's the one who took me to the marvies concert on the 11th- it was random but very very kool and spontaneous) and then went upstairs to see the guys. we just kinda waved and said hey, there were flocks of fans around and stuff. then we went outside and waited by their new vehicle (like a really big winnebago)(<- not me) and they came over to us and i made butch sign 4 things (one for me and for each of my 3 friends who weren't there)(<- not me), gave him the song rewrites my friends and i did, and he said the signs totally made his day :) and i asked him what was up, since we were supposed to hang with them until like 6 am! they were in a rush, on their way to a rave where moby was in the sketchiest part of dc. but i told butch that he promised and he said he was really sorry and hugged me so many times and grabbed my hand as he was leaving. jayce went to the rave too, but slug didn't so we hung out with him for a semi-long time and met fizz (hehe)(<- not me, but fizz is very kool). slug was sad that katherine and i didn't have anywhere to go, but it was like 3 something am and he needed to sleep so he just suggested that we go to the rave, which we didn't do. he hugged me and kissed my cheek, and i said hi for kissy (from a few of my lists) which made him really happy :) we went with that chick who knows them to try to find the hotel they were at or something, i can't remember, but we got lost so she dropped us off at the garage and katherine and i took a cab to the bus station, where we wrote a sad letter to marvies (didn't give it to em - sorry iz, but it was really just us tired and venting, we don't wanna make em feel bad just cuz they wanted to see a show). then we just talked and got sad and made up bad limericks about the experience. we read the horoscopes and they were right. butch's said something about the golden rule. it was scarily appropriate. had breakfast, and then my bus finally came. i got back and walked from the station to my dorm (it isn't far but i was totally exhausted)(<- obviously not me), and totally crashed (by this time i had been up from 7am friday till 9:30 saturday) (<- i went to sleep at 7:30 and got up at 10, no sleep for me! can we say caffeine?) until 3pm. that's my story and it may not have had the best ending but that's life. unfortunately we're just not as kool as moby.
come on baby, eat my heart....
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