mmm, macdonalds breakfast. the only reason to be out of bed before the sun is warm. shall i tell you about my flogging molly trip? ok i shall.
we gathered at my house, we intrepid exploreres 7. lavana, sean, neil, ej, cale, pork, and myself. we set out with high hopes and cold beer in the trunk. life was looking up.
the trip was pretty easy and uneventful except for the sighting of THE Wienie Mobile. that's right damnit, we saw the oscar meyer wienie mobile! i had to get closer, maybe even to touch it. but the thning was doing damned near 90 through canton. the closest i got was a couple cars back from it before it took a seperate exit. *sniffle* but we kept on.
the show was in the agora theatre in cleveland which is a really nice venue.
the first band that played was some piece of shit boston punk band called "the road dogs" who kept telling the crowd what a bunch of poseurs they were. i may not be in a big band, or a band at all, but even i know this is not the way to win a crowd's heart. "authority zero" played next and they were alright. reggae/punk/stuff. he really talked too fast to understand him though so i found myself zoning out constantly.
then flogging molly came on stage with us chanting "ole". the singer had grown a beard since i had last seen him, reinforcing his already blatant irish appearance. i tell you i've never been in a friendlier crowd. there were no mosh pits, no skinny little teen fucks kicking you in the back. you jigged around and if you got jostled, you got jostled. nobody was taking anything personally. it was uber wonderful. they played the best version of "black friday rule" i've yet to hear from them. all in all one of the best shows i've ever been to. maybe the best. and when i'm comparing the best shows i've ever been to you must know that i'm only comparing it to other flogging molly shows i've been to.
after the show is where things kinda went wrong. my car had somehow eaten the directions i had left in there, as my car is want to do at times. fucking car. so we had to ask directions...a few times, and sean ended up having to call his stalker to tell us where to go. we got to the hotel around 1:30, we left the show at midnight. we checked in and took our showers and drank our beerses and me and sean shared a little green, which we blew at ej since he didn't seem to mind.
on the way back out of the cleveland we had an irish rock radio show to listen to and we found a macdonalds with no dining room. crazyness. i made cale drive on the way home so lavana could braid my hair and so i could read. just an awesomely super show.
music:fountains of wayne, the donnas
