Last night was Weezer and here's what happened:
We got pretty drunk at Robbie's house before walking over to the show, Kevin and Allen being particularly smashed. Kevin's mom had given him 4 Grand Marnier tiny-bottles which were meant to be saved for the show but Kevin and Allen tore through them leaving only one which I was keeping in my pocket.
copper
When we arrived at the show in the American University Basketball gym we had to separate into boy and Girl lines and we got patted down by police. So, unsure of exactly what might happen should a small bottle of good alcohol be found by the dude who was about to feel me up, I chanced the rapids and sure enough he asked "What's that" as he felt my pocket. I took it out and said "Oh, it's a bottle." as straight-up as I could, and in return I was told I couldn't bring it into the show. I told him I'd go get rid of it and I walked around the buildings on the campus trying to find a way to get rid of the alcohol without losing it or chugging it. I wanted to stash it somewhere but I didn't want anyone to see me lest they steal its goodness for their own, so I had to be covert. I eventually found an Air COnditioning unit which I felt was pretty out of the way, so I stashed it there and headed back into the show. The same policeman started to pat me down and I said "Sorry about earlier" at which point he recognized me and started laughing and asking if I drank it. I told him no, but he said "yeah you did!" and laughed some more. So, in the end, he was cool enough to accuse me of drinking it outside, but still did is job. AT that point I wished I had drank it, but my stomach was glad I didn't.
go team W
Seeing the hordes of alternakids at the show was a bit unnerving. I had been expecting it to be crowded, but it was twice as big a place as I expected, and so there were twice as many people. We were able to find a good balcony-type place to watch the show from, and so we were prety far back and that made it feel sortof removed from the experience, but Weezer did play well and rocked it up. I was certainly glad I got to see them, though the people singing along with every song sounded like a crowd at a sporting event due to the poor acoustics of the gym and the sheer number of people in attendance.
yippee
At the back of the show they had plenty of booths set up where you could take your picture with cardboard cutouts of weezer and burn your own CDs of songs (also free) and a kiosk to take photos to be sent to you by email, and that made the show seem even more like a lollapalooza or warped-tour event. I saw Jose from the band Ozma in the back and I went up and said hello and sorry that I had missed his band (we arrived during the final few songs of the GEtupkids) because I really had wanted to see Ozma but this was no ordinary rock show and apparently they started promptly an hour earlier than I expected and I tried to explain this to him but HE seemed unimpressed or at least a little miffed. It was probably nothing but I left feeling like just another dude at a show, schmoozing, which I sure wasn't trying to do. I bought their CD, but I had planned on doing that anyways. While I was looking for a picture I had taken (see bottom of this post, the scan looks like total crap when I view it online, my face looks like a squishy turd, but you've seen my face) some girl came up to me and asked if I was a rock-n-roll Jew. I told her I wasn't and wondered what had prompted it. I wasn't wearing my yamuka at the time, so it was most likely my ogre-like nose or my obvious knowledge of hebrew culture shining through. It's hard to hide that kindof thing.
Resolution
Kevin really didn't get much enjoyment out of the show at all, because he was totally blasted and his mind had turned on him. But the show ended, they had played a lot of staple songs and of note "You gave your love to me softly" and "In dreams" (during which pictures of a goose flying were projected onto the backs of basketball hoops, looking real cheesy). The onstage banter was light, and the crowd getting to the door was tough to mavigate so we had trouble finding everyone afterwwards, but all in all it was a good experience. 4 stars. But don't take my word for it!
