A Tale of Three Cities

It's officially summer now!! I have been waiting for this for what seems like an eternity and...I'm already sick of it. Kidding. But I could do without the humidity. Anyway, my sister and I have already had a nice little mini-concert tour to start the summer off in preparation for the real deal in August. We saw HURT in Springfield, Mo, Kansas City, and tiny little shithole called Algona, Iowa. If you ever get the chance to visit this village, don't. But in all seriousness we had a fun time and made some interesting memories. We got introduced to a great new opening band that we actually liked which surprisingly doesn't happen that often. Check out Righteous Vendetta if you have the chance! Their music is great and the guys are even greater! Springfield and KC were fun...but Algona proved to be really awkward considering there were approximately 10 people at the venue including me, my sister, and the bands so.......

We got caught chatting in the moshpit by RV...oops ;)

However, this awkwardness could have been worse and now Amanda and I are ready for our KV13 trip in August. I've mentioned KV13 a few times throughout this blog and now it's finally happening. Don't ask me what it means 'cause I ain't gonna tell ya...all I can tell you is that it is going to be amazing!! Luckily a tour has finally been announced too so we can work our way to KV13 in Boston while also going to a thousand concerts. It's an SP tour which probably sounds dumb since everyone thinks we hate them now. For the record, we don't. We're just....disappointed. But it will be a blast nonetheless. Our plan tentatively now is some magical route to Richmond; then we have a few days to fuck around in Richmond, DC, and Annapolis. Then it's something like Delaware, Rhode Island, Boston, a couple places in Upstate NY and blah blah blah. Essentially we're going to be gone for 13 days so if anyone has a place to offer us to stay we wouldn't be opposed hahah. I'm so excited!

In other news, I finally finished the first season of Revolution and it was awesome! I officially am enrolled in Vanderbilt now! And my last 2 silly bands broke from Summer 2010...boo. Hopefully this was at least somewhat entertaining for you. Adios

Accents and Carnival of Madness

I'm home from what has been a fun past couple of weeks. After the whole Fair to Midland fiasco, my sister and I were ready for a different, better concert experience. We were originally planning to hit up Atlantic City for the Carnival of Madness show at HOB (Chevelle is the only reason we wanted to go). Instead, as fate would have it, we ended up going to the Springfield, IL show. In summation, New Medicine literally counts to 4 in every song. Cavo was slightly lackluster. And Lzzy of Halestorm wore a spandex suit so...anyway, Chevelle was perfect. I'm so glad that was how we ended our concert run this summer.  The new stage set up is amazing.

We obviously didn't stay for Evanescence. Our last sight onstage was something to remember. The whole night was a blast with a lot of details that I want to just keep inside my own head for now. Amanda and I found out some things that are sure to keep our minds hyper for a few months at least.

Now, we're both waiting for the show we have planned in Chicago on 9/15. I'm flying in from school in NYC for one day to see Sick Puppies and she is driving up 8 hours to meet me there. Did I mention that today marks one year since we've seen Sick Puppies? So weird.

Amanda and I spent this final weekend  in Springfield, MO. Between watching thunderstorms on a couch in front of the hotel window and making fun of people at Art Walk, we spent 72 hours speaking to everyone we encountered in our best Australian accents. "Ya knowr?" Everyone was a little surprised when we would respond, but we knew it was hilarious. At this point, we pretty much do everything in sync and I'm having a hard time believing we aren't identical twins.

Other random stuff:
            Currently obsessed with the song "Blood" by In This Moment
            Sheldon the bull is following both, Amanda and I now.
            I'm over the world crew.
            KV13 will occur in Summer 2013 in the midst of a mega tour.

Drama-rama

I'm so seriously over this it's not even funny, but I'm obligated to blog about what happened. This is the last time I'm going to talk about what happened with Fair to Midland, so read it here.

Last night my sister, Amanda, and I went to the 10 Years show at Pop's in St. Louis. We really needed a concert to go to and we've always liked 10 Years shows. The first band was local. They weren't anything special. Then, Kyng played. We weren't really into them either but we sat through their set. Then Fair to Midland came on. Besides the fact that they were probably on acid and cocaine, they were rude and arrogant people. The lead singer was stumbling around onstage acting like he didn't give a shit. After the first song, he told the crowd that they were "the worst crowd they'd ever played for and they didn't even want to finish their show." Then he continued to call the crowd stupid motherfuckers at every chance he got. Obviously, this didn't make me like them.

I'd like to point out that there were probably 3 people in the venue that gave a shit that FTM was even there so everyone else in the crowd was silently staring at the stage, just like Amanda and I were. But about halfway through the set, the drummer started mimicking how Amanda was standing and began to make fun of the two of us. We started playing around back just to pass the time. We were jokingly flipping each other off and smiling throughout the entire set. Then the bassist and guitarist came down into our faces and made fun of us too because we weren't smiling. After the set, the drummer bent down over the stage as he was taking apart his drum kit and told Amanda and I that we were "so ridiculously unattractive that it's embarrassing to look at." I told him to come down to the barricade jokingly and he flipped me off and said "Fuck you, I'm too embarrassed to even look at you." This is the point when we realized this guy was actually pissed. Then a guy from Kyng walked by and flipped us off too. (WTF did he have to do with any of this??) 

Ten Years finally came on and their set was amazing. The show was great, (Wasteland acoustic). After the set we hung around waiting to talk to Jesse from 10 Years and we saw the guy from Kyng making eye contact with Amanda and me while telling some random people how terrible we are and how much we suck. After we got home, we told some people what had been said to us and a good friend made us realize how ridiculous the whole situation was. (Thanks Amir). Then we went on twitter and facebook and people were posting to FTM about how sorry they were for our behavior. People were literally up in arms about us being rude? A few people said they couldn't believe how mainstream we were and how funny it was that two girls got yelled at by FTM. Are you kidding me?? After responding to one person's post about how stupid we were, Amanda received a message from the bassist of FTM telling her to kill herself and jump of a bridge because she was a stupid cunt.

I realize that was long and dramatic, but I had to tell the story from my point of view. I guess the whole thing was a little more serious to the band than we thought it was. But now I've had my fill of STL for awhile and Amanda and I can happily go to Springfield, IL next week to see our friends in Chevelle one last time before summer's end.

So who wants to go see Fair to Midland with us again?