She points to the sign. "Your 2 dances are up. Get out."
I look at the sign stupidly. "What the FUCK????? What the fuck IS this shit?!" And storm off, followed for a bit by some trailing security, skanking through the aisles shaking my fists to the song on my way to the line to get back in. I stop above the front section and think, "wow, this is a nice spot. I'm not in anyone's way. I'll dance here for a bit." Different security woman tells me I can't dance there. So I move off to the dancefloor line and start dancing there. People in the seats next to me are staring and laughing but I don't care, I'm so fucking pissed. An enormous security guy turns around and grabs me, "You can't dance here!" I look around. "But why not? I'm not in anyone's way and–" "YOU CAN'T DANCE HERE!!!!" he roars. I cower. Fine. You win.
I stand in line, grooving my body around instead of dancing. He grabs me again, turns me around and says "line starts over THERE!" and points. I squint and see, miles and miles to the top of the stadium, a place where the line of people ended. "What the FUCK!!!!!" I scream again, and Big Security Man starts to come after me with a frightening look on his face and I take off to my seat, bitching and swearing as loud as I can on the way there.
Upon arriving, I get out my camera that I had stuffed in Katie's backpack. And stood up, with my foot on the gate to take a picture. Another security guy (I've never seen so many of these people in one place!) comes and stands directly in front of me. I bring the camera away from my face to see what he wants cuz I can see his mouth moving, but I can't hear what he's saying. "You're not planning on jumpin this gate, are you?" I'm not THAT stupid. "No, I just wanna take a picture, is that ok?" It was.
I get A picture from a million miles away of Steve singing Teenage Brainsurgeon (I think). I sit down, brooding. This was too much. I stand up to get in line.
I get in line behind Chris and Naomi, who are just as pissed as I am. Teenage Brainsurgeon was nearing its close and I screamed out the "your FUCKED UP WORLD!!!" right in time, only Steve decided not to use that line this time.
I can't fucking believe how far away I am. "This is the nicest song we've ever written," Steve says while strapping on his guitar. Naomi groans "oh noooooo!!!!" and sniffles. "It fucking better not be Soul Caddy or I'm going to scream!" Soul Caddy starts. Naomi sobs, Chris pouts, I kick the stone wall next to us and scream. "AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!"
"This song is about the fine arts," Steve says. "Ohhhhhh... Mona Lisa!" I exclaim just as it starts. Naomi gasps "NOOOOOO!!!" I'm actually shaking I'm so mad.
When I Change Your Mind starts and ends as we creep our way forward. Now I'm standing next to Big Security Man who tried to kill me earlier. He sees me and says smugly, "I see you made it here after all!" I resist the urge to punch him, and apologize, instead after seeing that he was not mocking me. "Sorry for yelling at you earlier. I know, you're just doin your job. Sorry." He smiled and shrugged. So I guess they aren't such heinous creatures after all.
Steve's mumbling about a love pact as we finally get our turn on the floor and Jack and Jill starts. We dance, have a good time, and plot our next moves, which is staying hidden in the middle from The Forces. The middle of this song is a break in which Steve emits the most hormone wrenching groans and then adds a little bit with a smirk "Ohh... my whole body feels like a butterball" I THINK he said ‘butterball', anyway. Maybe he didn't. Either way, I was laughing hard enough to bring tears to my eyes.
So Long Toots starts and ends and End Of the Night starts. Yay! Ska song! I smile again and dance and it was our turn to leave. Not in MY world, baby. I'm not leaving this dancefloor during another ska song whether you like it or not.
Halfway through Hi and Lo, they stop ushering people out, so I'm safe for a while again.
The creepy piano is playing. This is the first time I've seen Johnny on keys. It sounded great, from what I could hear, since we were all cheering for him.
Cosa Nostra. Brown Derby Jump. The people on the floor now really want to be there and they're making the most of their time, jumping and singing along. Zoot Suit Riot. Me and some people fly in the air with our fists for every "RIOT!!!" Ding Dong Daddy begins. This is my second favorite live Daddies song and they're starting to kick people out again. Doesn't look like I can escape this time. So I hold off long enough for the "eins... EINS! ....zwei ...ZWEI! einsEINS zweiZWEI" which has always been a highlight at Daddies shows for me.
Security was not having success with the previous method of shuffling people in and out, so they clear the whole dancefloor, forcing me to leave. I stop at the top of the aisle to watch Jason put forth that amazing solo of his. Made me shiver even from that far away.
Shake Your Lovemaker. Anxiously waiting in line with people just as impatient. We still sing along even though we're very upset at not being down in the middle of everythin. I watch from lightyears away Steve do his thing with the mic stand. ::pout::
We get to come on for the encore. I stand by the corner Dan's on to watch him a bit. Dan has just been rockin out this show! He's been running all over the stage, smiling, making faces. During the break in Hi and Lo Steve and the crowd were pogoing, Dan leapt up..... and landed again sometime halfway into the break. (the rest of us were going "boink boink boink" and Dan just went "woooo-OOOO" up and "WOOOOO-oooo" down.) Not only is he nine feet tall, that boy can JUMP! Whew!
Dan's looking at me funny, so I move away. Everyone seems to be laughing at me today, I don't want to add Dan to the list. CPD Strut finishes, but we're not worried. They'll do another encore. They always do! (ok, not ALWAYS, but they have done it in the past and since it's been soooo long...) We're doing the obligatory "daddIES daddIES daddIES" chant, but the stage crew comes out and dismantles the whole set and security ushers us away. We're screaming. Not to fear, good things are bound to happen. :)
