Food for thought.

Spring fling was yesterday, I didn’t spend much time at the day part though because I was completely K.O.ed by my allergies (which are thankfully gone now). I did manage to drag myself out two see two of the musical performances that night.

At 8 there was Matt Nathanson, (one of his songs was on Scrubs and it wasn’t too bad). The crowd was pretty thin at that point (and frankly cold and wet) but he did a good job of warming the crowd up. The best part of course was when he did his own rendition of “Don’t Stop Believing” with everyone singing along. That was fun. =]

Lifehouse was supposed to play at 9:15 but it took them a LONG time to set up after Matt Nathanson. At around 9ish the rain started pouring Binghamton-style so I started to get soaked. I kinda got lost from the other techies who pushed themselves into the center of the crowd so i stood with a bunch of other idiots who were getting as soaked as i was. Eventually Lifehouse got on and they were great. They saved their best songs for last and played a few that I’m sure no one in the crowd had ever even heard of. I have to admit, even though the hecklers next to me were annoying, they had some pretty funny jeers…

“I LOVE YOU LEAD-SINGER GUY!!!” (few people know the names of the guys in Lifehouse)

“PLAY A SONG WE’VE HEARD OF DAMMIT!” (since they rattled of three songs in a row no one had heard of)

etc…

The funniest part though was when one of the guys winked at a group of Long Island girls near me. Thier reactions were comical. They went to bitching about the rain and the fact that they were hating the concert to “OMG HE’S SO HOT, HE WAS TOTALLY LOOKING AT US”. Good stuff. Anyway, at around the middle after they had performed “Hanging by a Moment” I REALLY wanted to leave and go get dry, since I was shivering and very sore from jumping around and standing for two hours. I forced myself to stay until they played “First Time” (which turned out to be their last song) and I got back to my room as fast as I could.

All in all, my first concert ever was pretty awesome even if I was irresponsible and could have caught a pneumonia from being outside. With stuff like this I guess, you have to kille your inner rational voice that tells you to get out of the rain before you get sick and actually enjoy yourself. It’s only a matter of time before you yourself will have kids and will be scolding them for doing dumb things like what I did last night. When looking at life as a whole, this (somewhat) carefree portion of our lives will be over soon enough and I guess I don’t want to look back and say that “I should have gone to a concert” or “I should have had more friends”.

Well, back to Chinese homework now =_=;