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Here's the deal:
Projekt Revolution in two words: MOTHERFUCKING AMAZING.
I literally baked in the sun for 4 hours, nearly vomited, nearly passed out, nearly died, spent money on overpriced beverages, and came home with the worst headache ever..... But I would do it all over again, exactly the same, in a second.
Details under cut to spare your f-lists.
Sam, Brooke, and Jenny picked me up at about 11:15-ish and we were off to the venue. The ride there was long, but fun. We get there and we head inside. The second stage and a bunch of booths are set up in the parking lot so we spend some time walking around looking at booths and kinda watching the second stage. About 15-30 minutes after we arrive I notice that if you stand off to the side, you can see the side of the stage and backstage very well. And I see Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park (Please note: I don't give a fuck about Linkin Park) hanging out so I figure, "Hmm. Maybe someone from MCR will come out and I can see them." So I decide that I am not leaving this spot. This spot is not in the shade. It's about 90,000,000 degrees out and the sun is beating down on me. I start getting very hot and woozy. Sam, Brooke, and Jenny come by and I tell them of my plan. I tell them that I know Gerard usually comes out and stands off to the side to watch MSI so I am going to wait here until MSI comes on to see if I can see him. They think this is a good plan... Until about 2 hours later when MSI is not scheduled to be on for another half an hour or so and I look like death.
Sam trys to persuade me to come with them to their spot on the hill, sit down in the shade, and get something to drink because I look like I'm about to pass out. My response: "I am fucking seeing Gerard!" She continues to try to convince me but I am having none of it. Brooke and Jenny finally convince her that I will be okay and they leave for the hill. I promise to call them if I see Gerard. So MSI comes on, and I wait. And I wait. And I wait. And no Gerard. I start to get peeved because I am literally nearly dying just to catch a glimpse of this man. His ass better be out here. I look over to the other side of the stage and see a man who vaguely resembles him. I freak, push my way through the crowd to the other side. The man I noticed was not, in fact, Gerard. But as I arrive at the other side I see a blur of black hair and blue jean jacket take off running around the corner behind the stage. It is Gerard. I realize he is running back over to the side where I was at. I start shaking and I call Sam while pushing my way back through the crowd and going back to my original side. I am paraphrasing a bit, but the conversation when something like this,
Sam: Hello?
Me: I saw him. I fucking saw him.
Sam: What?
Me: GERARD! I FUCKING SAW GERARD!
Sam: WHAT?! WHERE ARE YOU?
Me: I'm still where I was when you left me, get your asses over here now! NOW!
So I get back to my original position and there he is, standing off to the side watching the set. Gerard MOTHERFUCKING Way. He's about 10-20 feet away from me. I literally couldn't feel my legs for a while (I'm not sure if that was Gerard or the heat to be honest XD) and I just stood there staring. Oh and I also snapped a few pictures. Gradually more people started noticing him and a crowd develops and we aren't allowed to take pictures anymore. Jimmy Urine (from MSI) noticed and was like: "*points over to where Gerard is standing* What the fuck is that, the VIP section? There is no VIP section, we're in a fucking parking lot!!" It was funny XD and Gee laughed. Some people start yelling at Gerard, which completely pisses me off. He's trying to watch a show. Leave him alone. He ignored us (which, in my opinion, was the best thing for him to do in that situation) and kept watching, which pissed some people off. After a while of staring and watching him sing/dance along (WHICH WAS ADORABLE! XD There is nothing better than seeing Gerard Way singing lines like "Bitches love me 'cause they know that I can rock!") I was about to die from heat so I got Sam to go with me to get water. This involved climbing stairs. I nearly died on those stairs. No joke.
So I get my water, and sit down, and Sam and I talk about how amazing everything is so far. After I feel like I can stand up without collapsing, we go back down to the parking lot. Sam buys an MSI shirt and we catch the last MSI song (MSI are -AMAZING- by the way) and then it's time to go inside to the main stage. As we are walking, Brooke tells me about how mad some of these people were getting at Gerard for not acknowledging them. Apparently someone was like, "He's such an asshole!" I am -pissed-. Dude. He's not out there to talk to fans, he's not performing, he is watching his friends play a set. That's it. He doesn't owe you a fucking thing. Go fuck yourselves.
We go inside and they go to their lawn seats and I go to my pavillion seats and we agree to meet up when Linkin Park comes on because none of us like Linkin Park that much so we're going to skip them and wait by the buses. My seats are pretty good! I am pleased. Julien-K plays and they're alright. Placebo plays and they are amazing! HIM plays and I was slightly disappointed. I thought they'd be better. Taking Back Sunday plays and I fall head over heels in love with Adam Lazarra yet again! The man is fucking adorable. Then it happens. The moment I have been waiting for since May. MCR TAKE THE MOTHERFUCKING STAGE.
The show was "OMFG" amazing. My only complaint is the lack of Mikeyway. I wanted him to be back. But life goes on, I suppose. I was disappointed by the lack of Frerard. During "The Sharpest Lives," Frank basically jumped on Gerard and Gerard very elaborately shoved him away. He seemed a little upset. Then afterwards he said something like, "Too far tonight. It went too far." I'm not sure exactly -what- he was referring to but I thought he meant Frank. So Frank and Gee pretty much do not interact the rest of the night. They kind of seem to ignore each other. It hurt my heart and I hope everything is okay with them. Frank and Ray had some cute moments though. Frank walked over and put his head against Ray's back for a minute or so and you could see them talking during pretty much every break. It was cute :)
So MCR goes off and I call Sam. We meet up and go out to the buses which are surprisingly very easy to access. Sam and Brooke go to the car to get cameras and markers and stuff while Jenny and I wait by the buses. We're waiting and waiting. There's a group of about twenty of us. We see dudes from some of the bands on the second stage (Madina Lake, I think, and we kept seeing Jimmy Urine). All of a sudden a gold cart rides by. Gee and Lyn Z (she is absolutely -GORGEOUS- by the way) are on the back of it and it's so CUTE! They were kinda snuggling. It made me happy. Then they went on the bus and Gerard pulled the blinds down so we couldn't see anymore than that. Brooke and Sam came back and we told them we saw Gerard but didn't meet him. We were then ushered by security to the other side of this little lane type-thingie. The buses are still -right- there so we're not upset by this move.
We meet these nice girls from Canada and we spend much of the night talking with them. Then there are these other stupid girls who do nothing but talk shit about Lyn Z and I want to hurt them. Anywho. Ray walks by with his hoodie up talking on his cell phone. Two girls try to approach him and are shut down by the coolest move ever. They start to walk up to him and all of a sudden this golf cart appears out of NO WHERE and drives alongside Ray and the people in the cart tell the girls to go away. It was fucking awesome. So people start yelling rudely at Ray to come over and I yell back at them, "Let him go, he's on the phone!" I hate people yelling at them and being rude.
So then we wait some more. And all of a sudden I see two people and an adorable puppy start walking up. This is me as it's happening, "... Is that Frank? Guys, is that Frank? Is that Frank? Holy shit that's Frank. THAT'S FRANK." It was Frank, Jamia, and their new puppy! He gets closer and I go, "Hi Frank!" and I wave at him. He smiles at me, waves back, and says, "Hi!" and I told him he had a cute dog and he smiled and waved again and they went to the bus. I am FREAKING OUT because Frank FUCKING Iero just waved, smiled, and said hello to me. I call Angie and start to tell her but as this is happening, I notice Frank coming out of the bus and coming over to us. This is my reaction, "Yeah he smiled and waved an- OH MY GOD HE'S COMING BACK! I HAVE TO GO I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER BYE." XD
So Frank comes over, says hello to everyone, and tells us all to get into a line and he'll sign stuff but he doesn't want to take pictures. So I have him sign my ticket, I tell him thank you, and I ask if I can have a hug (I WAS THE FIRST ONE HE HUGGED!). He says, "Of course!" and hugs me and thanks me for coming out to the show and I am going to melt because I am hugging FRANK IERO. I am shaking and I can't breathe a little and I need to sit down. I am flipping out. He goes down the line and I hear all these people having conversations with him and saying cool stuff and I realize I should have said something else. So I grab Brooke's silver Sharpie, get back in line, and ask him to sign my shirt too. He does and I tell him thank you for everything and he thanks me again for coming out and says "Without you, we're nothing. So thank -you-." and I give him another hug and I go into full fangirl mode and go, "I love you so much!" and he says thank you and he is the sweetest man ever and I love him. <333
He sticks around talking for a little bit and I lurk around him and he's talking to this girl about charities or something and I'm standing next to her and as he's talking to her, he looks over at me and gestures to me and randomly includes me in the conversation. I nearly melted. Someone mentions him not doing pictures because he's in a hurry and he says, "Well not really, I'm just not a picture guy. I don't like pictures of me." and he looks at me and shrugs. So I go, "Oh but you're so cute." And he smiled and kinda blushed and went, "Well thank you! I'm glad you think so." And then he said good-bye and went back to the bus. We spend the next few minutes FREAKING THE FUCK OUT BECAUSE WE JUST MET FRANK MOTHERFUCKING IERO. I call Angie again and tell her but once again, we are interuppted. Because Ray comes out.
Ray comes out and signs. He seems like he's in a hurry and he said he was sick so we didn't get to hug him. But he is -GORGEOUS- in person! I wanted to touch the Toro!Fro but he seemed in a hurry so I just let him sign my shirt and thanked him. He used Brooke's Sharpie because he didn't have one, and he went to give it back and I started to take it and he started to thank me for letting him use it and then Brooke goes, "WAIT! THAT WAS -MY- SHARPIE!" and Ray goes, "I THOUGHT it was yours!" and just kinda gives me this amused look. He walks back to the bus and I yell at Brooke for ruining my moment with Ray. XD
A little while later, Lyn Z walked out and I totally just wanted to run over and hug her but we settled for yelling nice things at her and waving. She smiled and waved back. :) I totally tried tracking her down to give her a hug, but I couldn't find her after that. Also, at some point in this adventure, Jenny paid Jimmy Urine (who was riding around on a bike the entire time XD) $5 to kiss her and he did and we were -all- amused. :)
We waited a little longer and then decided that no one else was probably coming out, especially because the Linkin Park set ended and the crowd was growing so we left. We got lost for about 3 hours (don't ask how that happened XD) but it was the BEST night of my life. I got hugged twice by Frank and I met Ray. I should be in school right now but fuck that. I am too tired and sore and still in awe.
Random notes from the evening: Frank is a tiny little man! He's pretty much as tall as me! I was surprised. And he's wicked adorable. He's also the biggest sweetheart ever. He was so gracious and so nice. And Ray is just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Lyn Z is gorgeous and the Canada girls met her and said she was an absolute sweetheart. I still can't get over the fact that I saw JAMIA too! I would have yelled "hi" to her too but I'm not entirely sure on the correct pronunciation of her name and I didn't want to look like an idiot if I got it wrong. I think it's "Ja-Me-Uh" but I'm not sure. Can anyone clarify for me?
In short: even though I nearly died for it and I now have the -WORST- case of sunburn ever (Srsly. Why did sunblock never even occur to me??) it was the best night of my life. Best. Night. Ever. <333333
Frank and Ray's autographs on my shirt
"I suck waaaaaaaay more dick than David Cassidy!" (Nothing to do with PR, I was just amused ^_^)
Projekt Revolution in two words: MOTHERFUCKING AMAZING.
I literally baked in the sun for 4 hours, nearly vomited, nearly passed out, nearly died, spent money on overpriced beverages, and came home with the worst headache ever..... But I would do it all over again, exactly the same, in a second.
Details under cut to spare your f-lists.
Sam, Brooke, and Jenny picked me up at about 11:15-ish and we were off to the venue. The ride there was long, but fun. We get there and we head inside. The second stage and a bunch of booths are set up in the parking lot so we spend some time walking around looking at booths and kinda watching the second stage. About 15-30 minutes after we arrive I notice that if you stand off to the side, you can see the side of the stage and backstage very well. And I see Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park (Please note: I don't give a fuck about Linkin Park) hanging out so I figure, "Hmm. Maybe someone from MCR will come out and I can see them." So I decide that I am not leaving this spot. This spot is not in the shade. It's about 90,000,000 degrees out and the sun is beating down on me. I start getting very hot and woozy. Sam, Brooke, and Jenny come by and I tell them of my plan. I tell them that I know Gerard usually comes out and stands off to the side to watch MSI so I am going to wait here until MSI comes on to see if I can see him. They think this is a good plan... Until about 2 hours later when MSI is not scheduled to be on for another half an hour or so and I look like death.
Sam trys to persuade me to come with them to their spot on the hill, sit down in the shade, and get something to drink because I look like I'm about to pass out. My response: "I am fucking seeing Gerard!" She continues to try to convince me but I am having none of it. Brooke and Jenny finally convince her that I will be okay and they leave for the hill. I promise to call them if I see Gerard. So MSI comes on, and I wait. And I wait. And I wait. And no Gerard. I start to get peeved because I am literally nearly dying just to catch a glimpse of this man. His ass better be out here. I look over to the other side of the stage and see a man who vaguely resembles him. I freak, push my way through the crowd to the other side. The man I noticed was not, in fact, Gerard. But as I arrive at the other side I see a blur of black hair and blue jean jacket take off running around the corner behind the stage. It is Gerard. I realize he is running back over to the side where I was at. I start shaking and I call Sam while pushing my way back through the crowd and going back to my original side. I am paraphrasing a bit, but the conversation when something like this,
Sam: Hello?
Me: I saw him. I fucking saw him.
Sam: What?
Me: GERARD! I FUCKING SAW GERARD!
Sam: WHAT?! WHERE ARE YOU?
Me: I'm still where I was when you left me, get your asses over here now! NOW!
So I get back to my original position and there he is, standing off to the side watching the set. Gerard MOTHERFUCKING Way. He's about 10-20 feet away from me. I literally couldn't feel my legs for a while (I'm not sure if that was Gerard or the heat to be honest XD) and I just stood there staring. Oh and I also snapped a few pictures. Gradually more people started noticing him and a crowd develops and we aren't allowed to take pictures anymore. Jimmy Urine (from MSI) noticed and was like: "*points over to where Gerard is standing* What the fuck is that, the VIP section? There is no VIP section, we're in a fucking parking lot!!" It was funny XD and Gee laughed. Some people start yelling at Gerard, which completely pisses me off. He's trying to watch a show. Leave him alone. He ignored us (which, in my opinion, was the best thing for him to do in that situation) and kept watching, which pissed some people off. After a while of staring and watching him sing/dance along (WHICH WAS ADORABLE! XD There is nothing better than seeing Gerard Way singing lines like "Bitches love me 'cause they know that I can rock!") I was about to die from heat so I got Sam to go with me to get water. This involved climbing stairs. I nearly died on those stairs. No joke.
So I get my water, and sit down, and Sam and I talk about how amazing everything is so far. After I feel like I can stand up without collapsing, we go back down to the parking lot. Sam buys an MSI shirt and we catch the last MSI song (MSI are -AMAZING- by the way) and then it's time to go inside to the main stage. As we are walking, Brooke tells me about how mad some of these people were getting at Gerard for not acknowledging them. Apparently someone was like, "He's such an asshole!" I am -pissed-. Dude. He's not out there to talk to fans, he's not performing, he is watching his friends play a set. That's it. He doesn't owe you a fucking thing. Go fuck yourselves.
We go inside and they go to their lawn seats and I go to my pavillion seats and we agree to meet up when Linkin Park comes on because none of us like Linkin Park that much so we're going to skip them and wait by the buses. My seats are pretty good! I am pleased. Julien-K plays and they're alright. Placebo plays and they are amazing! HIM plays and I was slightly disappointed. I thought they'd be better. Taking Back Sunday plays and I fall head over heels in love with Adam Lazarra yet again! The man is fucking adorable. Then it happens. The moment I have been waiting for since May. MCR TAKE THE MOTHERFUCKING STAGE.
The show was "OMFG" amazing. My only complaint is the lack of Mikeyway. I wanted him to be back. But life goes on, I suppose. I was disappointed by the lack of Frerard. During "The Sharpest Lives," Frank basically jumped on Gerard and Gerard very elaborately shoved him away. He seemed a little upset. Then afterwards he said something like, "Too far tonight. It went too far." I'm not sure exactly -what- he was referring to but I thought he meant Frank. So Frank and Gee pretty much do not interact the rest of the night. They kind of seem to ignore each other. It hurt my heart and I hope everything is okay with them. Frank and Ray had some cute moments though. Frank walked over and put his head against Ray's back for a minute or so and you could see them talking during pretty much every break. It was cute :)
So MCR goes off and I call Sam. We meet up and go out to the buses which are surprisingly very easy to access. Sam and Brooke go to the car to get cameras and markers and stuff while Jenny and I wait by the buses. We're waiting and waiting. There's a group of about twenty of us. We see dudes from some of the bands on the second stage (Madina Lake, I think, and we kept seeing Jimmy Urine). All of a sudden a gold cart rides by. Gee and Lyn Z (she is absolutely -GORGEOUS- by the way) are on the back of it and it's so CUTE! They were kinda snuggling. It made me happy. Then they went on the bus and Gerard pulled the blinds down so we couldn't see anymore than that. Brooke and Sam came back and we told them we saw Gerard but didn't meet him. We were then ushered by security to the other side of this little lane type-thingie. The buses are still -right- there so we're not upset by this move.
We meet these nice girls from Canada and we spend much of the night talking with them. Then there are these other stupid girls who do nothing but talk shit about Lyn Z and I want to hurt them. Anywho. Ray walks by with his hoodie up talking on his cell phone. Two girls try to approach him and are shut down by the coolest move ever. They start to walk up to him and all of a sudden this golf cart appears out of NO WHERE and drives alongside Ray and the people in the cart tell the girls to go away. It was fucking awesome. So people start yelling rudely at Ray to come over and I yell back at them, "Let him go, he's on the phone!" I hate people yelling at them and being rude.
So then we wait some more. And all of a sudden I see two people and an adorable puppy start walking up. This is me as it's happening, "... Is that Frank? Guys, is that Frank? Is that Frank? Holy shit that's Frank. THAT'S FRANK." It was Frank, Jamia, and their new puppy! He gets closer and I go, "Hi Frank!" and I wave at him. He smiles at me, waves back, and says, "Hi!" and I told him he had a cute dog and he smiled and waved again and they went to the bus. I am FREAKING OUT because Frank FUCKING Iero just waved, smiled, and said hello to me. I call Angie and start to tell her but as this is happening, I notice Frank coming out of the bus and coming over to us. This is my reaction, "Yeah he smiled and waved an- OH MY GOD HE'S COMING BACK! I HAVE TO GO I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER BYE." XD
So Frank comes over, says hello to everyone, and tells us all to get into a line and he'll sign stuff but he doesn't want to take pictures. So I have him sign my ticket, I tell him thank you, and I ask if I can have a hug (I WAS THE FIRST ONE HE HUGGED!). He says, "Of course!" and hugs me and thanks me for coming out to the show and I am going to melt because I am hugging FRANK IERO. I am shaking and I can't breathe a little and I need to sit down. I am flipping out. He goes down the line and I hear all these people having conversations with him and saying cool stuff and I realize I should have said something else. So I grab Brooke's silver Sharpie, get back in line, and ask him to sign my shirt too. He does and I tell him thank you for everything and he thanks me again for coming out and says "Without you, we're nothing. So thank -you-." and I give him another hug and I go into full fangirl mode and go, "I love you so much!" and he says thank you and he is the sweetest man ever and I love him. <333
He sticks around talking for a little bit and I lurk around him and he's talking to this girl about charities or something and I'm standing next to her and as he's talking to her, he looks over at me and gestures to me and randomly includes me in the conversation. I nearly melted. Someone mentions him not doing pictures because he's in a hurry and he says, "Well not really, I'm just not a picture guy. I don't like pictures of me." and he looks at me and shrugs. So I go, "Oh but you're so cute." And he smiled and kinda blushed and went, "Well thank you! I'm glad you think so." And then he said good-bye and went back to the bus. We spend the next few minutes FREAKING THE FUCK OUT BECAUSE WE JUST MET FRANK MOTHERFUCKING IERO. I call Angie again and tell her but once again, we are interuppted. Because Ray comes out.
Ray comes out and signs. He seems like he's in a hurry and he said he was sick so we didn't get to hug him. But he is -GORGEOUS- in person! I wanted to touch the Toro!Fro but he seemed in a hurry so I just let him sign my shirt and thanked him. He used Brooke's Sharpie because he didn't have one, and he went to give it back and I started to take it and he started to thank me for letting him use it and then Brooke goes, "WAIT! THAT WAS -MY- SHARPIE!" and Ray goes, "I THOUGHT it was yours!" and just kinda gives me this amused look. He walks back to the bus and I yell at Brooke for ruining my moment with Ray. XD
A little while later, Lyn Z walked out and I totally just wanted to run over and hug her but we settled for yelling nice things at her and waving. She smiled and waved back. :) I totally tried tracking her down to give her a hug, but I couldn't find her after that. Also, at some point in this adventure, Jenny paid Jimmy Urine (who was riding around on a bike the entire time XD) $5 to kiss her and he did and we were -all- amused. :)
We waited a little longer and then decided that no one else was probably coming out, especially because the Linkin Park set ended and the crowd was growing so we left. We got lost for about 3 hours (don't ask how that happened XD) but it was the BEST night of my life. I got hugged twice by Frank and I met Ray. I should be in school right now but fuck that. I am too tired and sore and still in awe.
Random notes from the evening: Frank is a tiny little man! He's pretty much as tall as me! I was surprised. And he's wicked adorable. He's also the biggest sweetheart ever. He was so gracious and so nice. And Ray is just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Lyn Z is gorgeous and the Canada girls met her and said she was an absolute sweetheart. I still can't get over the fact that I saw JAMIA too! I would have yelled "hi" to her too but I'm not entirely sure on the correct pronunciation of her name and I didn't want to look like an idiot if I got it wrong. I think it's "Ja-Me-Uh" but I'm not sure. Can anyone clarify for me?
In short: even though I nearly died for it and I now have the -WORST- case of sunburn ever (Srsly. Why did sunblock never even occur to me??) it was the best night of my life. Best. Night. Ever. <333333
Frank and Ray's autographs on my shirt
"I suck waaaaaaaay more dick than David Cassidy!" (Nothing to do with PR, I was just amused ^_^)