Day 8 - One moment

It took me forever to decide on what to write for this. I've had a lot of "moments" but not many were that out of the ordinary or interesting, so I decided to write about the Against Me! concert which is a somewhat unique experience.

So, I planned ahead and bought the tickets to surprise Cody since Against Me! happens to be his favorite band. I bought them with money I was supposed to be saving, but oh well it was worth it. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to wait until the tickets came in to tell him or if I was just going to go ahead and tell him, the latter one because I'm horrible with surprises. I called him expecting him to be all excited, but all I got was "Really? Yes!" ha.

Codys parents decided he could drive the van and we skipped Bio lab on April 21st to drive up to Louisville to see them. Cody hardly ever talks ever, so the way up there was exciting but there was more of me talking and listening to music than him talking. We got lost a few times and almost got hit before we figured out where Headliners music hall was. We get lost everywhere we go, so this was not new. We were an hour early so we stood around for a bit, then stood in a line for longer. When we got in the bar, I grabbed a place in the front and told Cody that we weren't moving from there because I wanted him to be up front when Against Me! played.

Three bands played before Against Me! and the first one definitely wasn't good, the other two were really good though. During Dead to Me's performance the singer cut his hand on his guitar strings but kept playing until their set was done. There was blood all over his guitar and it looked extremely painful which means he's a tough man.

Then Against Me! finally came out and Cody FINALLY got excited,ha. It was cute. He yelled for all of them and knew every lyric to every song. I knew some of them, but haven't listened to Against Me! enough to know all of them. They did play Don't Lose Touch, which was amazing and the drummer looked at me and sung with me while they were playing. I took tons of pictures because that's what I do and Cody sung until his voice hurt. We were in the first row so we were up close to them since the venue was really small. Tom Gabel hardly talked at all which was a lot different from the Nine Inch Nails concert and they powered through all of the songs, but it was really good. Overall, the concert was really fun and definitely worth skipping Bio lab for. Against Me! played really well and seemed to enjoy the crowd.So fun times!

On the way home we got lost twice, went the wrong way and got some hot dogs and drinks. Cody didn't talk any at all on the way home either which was irritating because I was trying to get a conversation going so he wouldn't get too tired while driving because we had been up since 8 am. A conversation never really happened though so I just got frustrated and slept some,ha. We came away with two records, two t-shirts, and good memories :)