Warning, bad grammer galor. Enough to give a headache but it imrpoves a little bit towards the end.


Forgive me if I sound like a valley girl slash n00b 1337 person. Also see how many “LOL” I have in here.


Today totally r0xx3rz meh s0xx3rz.

This morning I went to run errands with mama and we went to the Target next to it. I bought a MASH shirt over there. I had to get ready for the concert when I went home. I wore my MASH shirt, a pair of jeans and wore my hair down as usual. The clothes were sooo totally not me. LOL. I usually don’t wear shirts like my MASH shirt. Earlier this week I bought some fake glasses that looked similar to IS, so that is cool. When I went to the living room, ma told me to wear a thick jacket, preferably my trench coat kinds. So I went to my room and find the trench coat. The problem is that I left all my trench coat in Irvine. But I did see a green wannabe cardigan. LOL. So I wore it. SO when I put my ensemble together, I looked like Christine. But I decided to wear makeup to the event even though I am not there to dress to impress. I caught Christine off guard with my outfit. It was funny because Crispy told me that she wasn’t allowing me in the car. LOL. How interesting that it took Cammzie awhile to realize I was wearing different glasses. LOL.

The seating wasn’t too bad. The Home Depot center isn’t as big as I thought it would be. Besides the floor sittings, our section was the best. Samurai Chrispy and Ninja Styx was sitting in row H seats 1-2, while me and Cammzie where sitting in Row M seats 18-19. We had a really good view. I am glad we didn’t get those private seating nor the nosebleed section or the grass area. That would totally suxx0rz. If we got any of those seats that are mentioned above, we would be looking at the concert sideways and that would be totally not cool.

We arrived over there around 6:15ish and there was this band playing that hardly anyone was paying attention to. I was cold and numb. In the intermission between that band and Jimmy Eat World, Camil went up and bought some Nachos. This is when we realized that the reception sucks because off the interference around us. She be tryin to call me on her celly but me no get. I was kinda stressing because she didn’t have her ticket with her, and they be checkin ur ticket when u enter ur section. But being Camzzie, she could sneak her way in. While the dude was checkin the other dude’s tix, She zipped pass by him and got to the seats.

Jimmy Eat World totally r0xx3rz. They played there popular songs and then sum. How interesting when they introduce themselves, they be sayin that some of us prolly not heard of them. I’m like WTF? They be on KIIS before, and usually when u land on KIIS, you are a mainstream hit. These teenyboppers behind us knew the lyrics of the songs to Jimmy Eat World. Dats cool though. So yeah, we enjoyed it. Jimmy Eat World played for like 7:20-8:30. The producers of the concert kept us entertained. There was the 2 Jumbo-trons to keep us entertained with different messages. Apparently when you txt a certain number, it might appear on the screen. There were so many marriage proposals on there. There was an interesting marriage proposal between a guy named Frank who asked another guy named Jason to marry him. I thought I was an odd person but the others took the cake. For example, somebody text “I love horses” or “ Shout if you like bananas.” There were a lot of “I love olga” on. What was an interesting one is everyone mentioning a guy with a pink Mohawk to the point someone text “The guy with the pink Mohawk is really popular.” And “STOP TALKING ABOUT THE GUY WITH THE PINK MOWHAWK. What was totally cool was Camzzie’s message was on the board. She said “MOO!!” Not before sending it on massive txt to her friends instead of the number given to us. I thought Christine txt something on the board because on the board said “MORE COWBELL”. That is totally what she would said. I asked if she did, she said, sadly no. Then I noticed there was a lot of text that mentions something about giving a pink bunny a lot of luvin. It made sense later on. There was a DRUNK pink bunny getting tipsy/ throwing stuff at the audience/ dancing across the stage till he passes out. But he led us through the dance of YMCA and that one 80s song. HEY HO, LETS GO!!!!!1!1

Man when Green Day came out a la SPACE ODESSEY theme, I felt giddy as a teeny bopper on X-tacy. I wasn’t sure if he was holding his arms out or he was just flicking everyone off. The opening song was no other than AMERICAN IDIOT. By the end of the song, my throat was raw already. And this is only the first song *_*; The background looked like something when you watch a Hitler Jamboree. But it was totally cool.

During the break in American Idiot, Billie Joe had to pause and address a part of the audience because a fight broke out in the Pitt. He was like:

“Hey you, turn around and pay attention to me. I said turn around, turn the fuck around. This is not some fucking war, this is rock and roll :the crowd cheers at this:: Now shake hands. I said shake hands. Good. If you want to continue this, might as well get out of the pit.”

That totally rocked.

Afterwards the song they played Jesus of Suburbia. That was totally cool. It is known to be 9 minutes long on the CD, after the show, I found out that Ninja Stx and IS timed it, it was like 15 min. long because of the long breaks the guy took.

After “Jesus of Suburbia,” he played “On Holiday” and it was dedicated to George W. Fucking Bush. I came to the conclusion that they were just going to play the songs from the American Idiot album since they played 3 songs in a row. They proved me wrong. They played songs from their previous CDs like “Maria,” “Welcome to Paradise,” “Basket Case,” “When I Come Around,” “SHE,” “Brain Stew,: and others I can’t remember because it has become a blur of euphoria. The erection song by the Drummer was funny. I couldn’t stop giggling. LOL.


What totally rocked my socks off was they played some old school songs from the Kerplunk cd like “2000 light years away.” Everyone around me were either standing their or bobbing their heads to the music. Probably because they didn’t know the lyrics to it. “2000 light years away” holds a lot of memories for me because that was the first song I heard from Green Day. Back in the days ( dude, I’m old) when Iused to take swimming lessons while I was in elementary school. Manong Daryl let me listen to them.

The use of pyrotechnics was totally awesome. The flares, the explosions (Which I can totally do without) and the flames. I wonder how hot it was on the floor or the pit because I could feel the heat of the flames all the way to my seat.

They sure know how to keep the crowd going. He practically has us wrapped around his pinky. He just has to yell “LOS ANGELES!” and we go wild. I also loved when we had the cheering competition when he did his Heil Hitler salutes. I guess they had enough experience. Billie Joe said that the three has been together for 17 years this month.

Before he did his improve siession, he hosed down the audience and grabbed this kid from the pit to hose down the other side. This is prolly a filler to give the band and the singer a break. Understandable, they needed it.

The interaction between the band and the audience was totally awesome. To give his bad members a break, he made an improve band using the audience. He picked out a drummer (he showed off a bit), a teen (pre-teen?) on the bass (He was a smartass). Then he had to find a guitarist. He picked this 5 year old with a Mohawk. The problem is the guitar was too big for him so he was told to go to the side. Everyone went aww. Then he picked this uber-dork, a really uber-dork to play the guitar. I can’t believe the uber-dork actually had the balls to give Billie Joe a kiss on the face.

The improve drummer and the base were pretty good. The guitarist… well that was another story. In the beginning he was nervous and didn’t sound clean at all. The audience were probably like me and Cindy, putting a hand on our forehead and groaning. But he got better as the song (Arghhh I forgot the name of the song, help me out here Is and SinD). When the song ended, the improve drummer got drum sticks. I have no idea what the others got. As for the little boy, he got Billie Joe’s guitar. The crowd went WILD. He was like “Here is to the youngest punk rocker ever. Now beat it brat.” Awesome.

Everything seems to be a blur. Everybody is happy. I wonder if people in Woodstock in the 60’s and 70’s felt like this.

They did not only play their own songs, they played cover songs like “SHOUT!” (while the singer humps the floor thank you). He did the whole James Brown thing when he wore his king hat and Dirnst put a cape on him. In the middle of “SHOUT,” He inserted another song “Stand By Me.” He did that song while lying on the floor then he went super ass hyper when he continued “Shout”. The other band members also had goofy hats on. The second guitarist (I forgot his name!) had a pirates hat on while a wizard puppet was next to him. Tres Cool looked Tres Sexy wearing the oversized white church hat. Dirst was just a fuddy-duddy not wearing a hat at all.

Afterwards, he played “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” It was so amazing, it took my breath away. Everyone was waving their lit cell phones and lighters. Looking at the audience was like looking at the clear night sky with thousands of bright stars. It looked beautiful because they added pyrotechnics over the stage like in their music video.

[Help me out here Is, Camzie and SinD, I’m forgetting the line up now.]

They ended with the song “We are the Champions.” There were even more cell phones and lighters out because Billie Joe asked everyone to take them out. Of course the majority of the people knew that song. Everyone was singing it. Everyone was waving their hands. It felt like the closing ceremony of the Olymic games, cheesy as it might sound.

At the end of “We Are the Champions” they said good night and left. Then on the stage the sign flashes the word “GREEN” then “DAY” and the tempo of the flashes were getting faster and faster till they came back. They played the song “Minority.” The crowd went wild. They MUST play this song. Like how a certain butterfly said about a Yellow Card concert in her area, “There would be a riot if Yellow Card doesn’t play Ocean Avenue. There probably a riot if they didn’t play “Minority.”

Billie Joel went up to the mic to give us a final message before playing his last song. He told us to never be enslaved. Even though we voted people to run the United States, we should never let them take our power of freedom away.

The last song he played was no other than “Time of Your Life.” It was so beautiful. The lighting, everybody singing, people holding out their cell phones and lighters.

The whole concert was beautiful, I can’t stop talking about the lights. Everyone is having a good time, seeing two or three mosh pits going at the same time, people leaping around the floor like idiots, people bouncing at their seats. Except for the people on the left of me and the right of Camil, the dude actually went to sleep. o.0 And the couple next to me were either standing or just sitting down.

Then it was over. They are gone. The lights go up, and everyone leaves. My throat felt really raw but I didn’t care because I was still riding on a wave of euphoria. When I tried to shout to get Christine’s attention, I sound like a guy going through puberty. Christine and I were determined to get a souvenir from this awesome event. But the lines (What lines?) were crowded. Camzie suggest that we give her the money and she will push to the front saying that her mommy is up there and to let her through. People would believe her because she looks like a little girl. It actually worked and she got the shirts. The shirts were a little too big for us so we traded them in at another booth. That booth had shoter lines. We should have went there the first place. > <

Then we went back on our track to the parking lot. We didn’t care that we were one of the last ones back to the car at midnight. We were too busy recapping the events of the night. When we went to the parking lot, we were met by these guys with Mohawks promoting their band. After that we zipped out of the parking lot in search of food. We were about to go to Denny’s but it was crowded and it looked kinda ghetto. Also Camil said it was ghetto. I suggested the Denny’s in Torrance but we ended up going to the In-And-Out near my mom’s work. I was going to talk to Eunice to wish her a happy B-0day but the adrenaline rush was going away and my throat hurts like hell. S I ended up txting her later on.

We then dropped Camil home then they dropped me off. I was so exhausted but I went straight to typing up what I remembered that night before giving up at 3AM. I continued this the next couple of days. Hopefully I didn’t leave anything out or if anything is inaccurate.

This is Catherine Insong, reporting with ABC World News Tonight.
Goodnight.