posted on April 28, 2003 @ 7:37 pm
mannor house on pbs
holy jesus christ last night was so fucking amazing. bryan went to the schneider tm/les savy fav/faint show on friday in dallas, and sid of lsf said to email him to put him on the guest list. since laura couldn't go, guess who did? :beams:
so bryan and i went up to la zona rosa, but he wasn't on the guest list even though he emailed sid. he saw the drummer and asked him about it. so we followed him to the back of the place, he went inside to talk to sid, and then he walked us to the box office and told them to put us on the list. wee.
the first opening band, schneider tm, was so wonderful. the lead singer, schneider, is hot as hell, and they're the one who sing that cover of the smiths song that was on the radio last week, "the light 3000," their version of "there is a light that never goes out." one of chelsea's favorite smiths songs? yesss. ahhhh. it was so depressing because of the people i could see around me, i was the only one singing with him. twice during the show, he grabbed a handful of rose petals and dropped them on us. it was so great. i know there have been a few times i've tagged as feeling infinite, but this one is winning so far.
then the second band, les savy fav, was fucking insane. the lead singer, actually. he's got a receding hairline, big beard and mustache, and he stripped down to some shorts. he put on this bra a chick threw up there, and he kept getting into the crowd and stuff. right when he got up there, he had a knife and started cutting his hair and throwing it on us, and then he grabbed some of bryan's, cut it, and put it on his head. and he took off his shorts, took off his underwear, put his shorts back on and then threw his underwear in the crowd. this chick shoved a dollar down his pants, and he put it in his bra once he got it on. he got into the crowd, and this guy put it in his mouth and let him get it back with his mouth. i swear i saw tongue action. i've got that dollar now, some of his hair, and lots of rose petals. ^_^
the faint was fucking...i don't know. i can't even describe it. bryan was like, "you have to dance. are you going to dance?"
"does bouncing around count?"
"yeah."
but like, you can't be still. it's like a combination of dancing and headbanging. it was the most kick ass show i've been too. even better than mustard plug.
afterward, i went to buy schneider tm's new album and talked to the merch guy about them. i asked which album i should get, and he asked what song i wanted. i contemplated and picked the smiths one, and he said it's on an ep because they did it with another band. i was like, "god, i heard that song on the radio last week, and it melted my soul. and then of course they don't tell me who it is!"
"yeah i heard it like a year ago, and desprately searched forever to figure out who it was."
"i'd never even heard of these guys before. i can't believe it. it was fate that brought me here. i even have exactly $11 for the album."
":laughs: fate's awesome like that."
while i'm in line, before i got up there, i'm looking around and the lead singer of the faint (who is just...ahh) suddenly appears in front of me. he smiled at me. :dreamy sigh: as we were leaving, bryan was like, "hey, it's schneider. say something." he was talking to the faint guy, and i should have felt the beauty radiating a mere two feet from me. bryan was like, "just be like, 'hey schneider, what's up?"
schneider: "huh? hey!"
oh, and schneider, if you didn't pick up on it, is german. mmm. dresselhaus. what a great name. bryan talked to him, and i just listened and melted. bryan said he was the guy in dallas who didn't know the smiths song but said i did. schneider was like, "oh yeah? you like it?"
"it's the most beautiful thing i've ever heard in my life."
and he kinda laughed. like a chuckle. hehe.
we left after talking to him and saw the guitarist for les savy fav outside. i was opening schneider's cd and had the sticker on my hand, so when i told seth my name and he wanted to shake my hand, i didn't. he raised his hand and said, "aw, don't leave me hanging!" i tried to explain i had sticker on my hand, but he pretended to write on his palm, "chelsea. dissed." but when we left, i shook his hand, well actually just held it for a few seconds, and he was like, "see that wasn't so hard."