My Sept. 11 Story

i met up with Dawn at 1:30 (my ride, met her at the concert on the tenth, friends with tha band since way back when). so, she got a hotel room (she drove in from NY) and we started the voyage.

~bad traffic/ raod construction~

a few hours later, we arrrived at her aunts (very cool lady) and had dinner. i had two glasses of mt dew cuz i knew i'd be tired. very cool family, cute kids (read them stories, watched them play nintendo). anyway.

~driving to the university~

we finally arrive after searching the campus for the gym where the show's to be held. i see slug and jayce and get pics with them before the show, said hey to butch. we stop by the merch table to say hi to shocky, who was already glittered up. (he remebered me of course because he hung with me and issy for eons before the show started on the tenth) he gave me a sticker (the really cool silver one). when we get inside showoff is playing (grrr, they're mean) but of course their juvenille antics appeal to this college crowd. i met and hung out with a couple old school marvie (and pre-marvie incarnation) fans. which was cool, i like hearing about the band way back when... (but a lot of the info is top secret, very hush hush). anyway, the marvies went on, i wasn't as close to the stage as i was for the last show, but dawn had a photo pass, so hopefully the pics she got with my camera turned out (check the photos page to see). and i got a few too. the concert was great- the crowd got more into the music (they hadn't all heard of them, most were there for fuel) as it progressed... but i could tell the set was rushed (limited time as an opening band) running through the into monologues and stuff. still fab and funny.

~chilling (literally it was cold!) outside the bus, waiting for all the newbie marvie fans to diperse after getting their new shirts and posters all sharpied up~

talked to slug first, got hugs and such- remembered me from my dilemna after the sept 10 show. he was tired. saw fizz (the guy who runs the official web page) who's tres cool. saw jayce, remembered me for the holden tee shirt i made, and he read my poem and said he liked it (i'm clearly paraphrasing) so got hugs and such too. talked with butch (after his throng of adoring fans thinned out a bit). he mentioned the new years show, so i told him about the age thing and the price. then, using that as a segue, i mentioned the acorn dropping in raleigh (serously, on new years they drop and giant acorn from a crane. and this is the big event). and then i mentioned the brewery, i was there, he mentioned getting a tattoo ( a fish on his chest, i believe) before the show, so of course i remember him saying on stage how he was totally wired because of that, and then i made a comment about the pain involved in getting a tattoo and he agreed, saying when he's doing it he's always like "i'm never doing it again" and then of course he has a million (or twelve i say, cleverly referencing my email interview which can be found on the interview page- so now he knows that the weird question interview person is me) and i managed to mention that i was the one who wrote the "everything i needed to know i learned from the marvelous 3" which he said he loved and had saved cuz he thought it was funny and cool etc (which of course made me feel so very special).

~the crowd gradually thins, the bus prepares to leave (dawn and i have to follow it back to the hotel cuz she's staying at the same hotel as them and she's my ride and i had to get a cab)~

ok, jayce drives the bus, they stop after driving for about two minutes to pick up beer and pizza and snacks (which we found hilarious because the university show couldn't provide booze cuz and slug was complaining about the lack of beer on the bus). then they stopped at a gas station for a mello yello (which i assume was for jayce cuz he was driving). then we hit the road.

~dawn and i were tired as hell, so the drive, for me at least, was very surreal cuz my brain kept trying to be asleep and i was doing that thing where you say stuff, but you don't know if it makes sense because you don't know if you said the previous thoughts out loud or if you just thought them. it was weird.~

anyway, they got back to the hotel. butch looked like he was about to keel over from fatigue, as did everyone really, so i said my good byes, grabbed a cab, and went back to my dorm. it was fabulous!

i'm sad cuz i can't see em again til they get back on tour though- cuz they aren't playing near me before they take their sabbatical and cut the next album. oh well, i intend to bombard them with email! not really, just drop a line, say hi, fun interviews and what have you. look out for it!

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