Top Ten Teen-years Albums

This was floating around facebook the last few days.

List 10 albums that made a lasting impression on you as a TEENAGER, but only one per band/artist. In approximate chronological order of when I found them.

1. Aerosmith – Get a Grip (1993) – I wasn’t sure this fell into my teen years, until I looked up the release date, and saw that it had to. This is the first CD I remember wanting to buy on my own. My clique of friends all had it, and we were scandalized that there were nipple prints on the CD.
2. Salt n Pepa – Very Necessary (1993) – I loved this record, I listened to it a ton with headphones when I got my first portable CD player, in my room, doing my homework, even though I had a perfectly working stereo. Thinking of this record got “None Of Your Business” in my head last night. Awesome.
3. Stone Temple Pilots – Purple (1994) – While I still don’t really think of them as “grunge”, I guess this is the first grunge cd I loved and listened to all the time (I owned Pearl Jam’s “Ten” but never listened to it).
4. REM – Monster (1994) – I listened to this, and the STP record, all the time when I was playing my Super Nintendo. In retrospect I’m not really sure why I liked this record, but at the time it was great.
5. The Cranberries – No Need To Argue (1994) – Zombie still is a fantastic song. The rest is a bit mellow, but it holds up.
6. Elastica – Elastica (1995) – I heard the song “Connection” while hanging out in Media Play and bought the CD. I remember writing song lyrics on the desk in study hall, only to see that someone had written the next line after. Turns out that someone was Marney.
7. Michael Jackson – HIStory (1995) – 2 records have changed my life. This was the first. It led me to travel, spend a lot of money, and most importantly, led me to meet some of the best friends who I still have to this day. Awww.
8. U2 – Achtung Baby (1991) – Not discovered until I was at Geneseo, and not appreciated upon first listens, when I listened to it months later, it’s brilliance blinded me. So amazing.
9. Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (1999) – The 2nd life changing record. Even if it took 6 years for it to make a huge impact as far as leading me to travel and meet great people, this was an emotionally impactful record. I really don’t know what my life would be like if I had never fallen down the NIN-hole.
10. Orgy – Candyass (1998) – Orgy was the first band I met, and was the band responsible for getting me into seeing concerts, and following tours, and trying to meet bands and get autographs. They were fun, and super cute, yay boys in makeup.

Orgy Detroit

exactly 5 years ago danielle and i met orgy at water street in rochester…kinda neat…

tonight’s theme was found on a tshirt of one of the band members of one of the (5) opening bands. it said “welcome to detroit” it had a gun and bullet holes and then said “sorry we missed you last time”….but let’s start at the beginning

headed out around noon and got to detroit in very good time. took a slight detour once we got off the highway because we’re blind and missed the road. ended up at the city airport (not metro). adrienne called her friend to see if she knew where we were and where to go. turned around and turns out the street we wanted was pretty much right off the exit and we somehow missed it.

so we found harpos and yes it’s in a ghetto-esque neighborhood. parked in back of the venue, hung out by the bus but they seemed to be done inside and already getting on the bus. i’m a retard…we’re standing there and adr goes “hi!!” and i look and it’s this really attractive guy with spiked hair who i thought was johnny haro. fyi johnny haro was the drummer in econoline crush during the “season of econoline”. i was thinking, why is johnny haro here? yeah it was bobby. MY BAD. i’m a bad fan LOL.

anyway…went and had one of the scarier fast food moments of my life. went to KFC to use the bathroom. the entire counter was behind bulletproof glass, with those turn tables that you put your money in, they turn it and take it, and give you your food. the only time i had seen one of those before was in a gas station in niagara falls. so yeah…kfc was scary. went back to get in line. doors were at 6. talked to a few girls who were in line behind us, got inside and the venue was…weird.

they use harpos for metal shows and its a night club. so there were 3 levels with a bar, dance floor, and mosh pit. they had lovely signage saying “enter mosh pit at your own risk” and “Absolutely no stage diving”. wanted to steal but…that would have been tough. the stage was over 6 feet tall, with no barrier or any kind of railing. so if you wanted to be up front, you had your face to the stage. we hung back a bit through the FIVE openers….

yes FIVE. i thought there was going to be 2. wrong. 4 “no name” bands, then godhead, then orgy. the openers weren’t horrible, but they weren’t superstars either. godhead was great. enjoyed their set alot. it amuses me that people mosh to a beatles song (elenor rigby) and that most of those people probably don’t even know it’s a beatles song.

so then orgy. gah. the show was so fantastic. we started off in the middle, ended up in front of paige. ok someone please tell me when he learned to be so fucking sexy. like. o.m.g i always thought he was way cool, and hot, but daaaymn. he was like oozing sex. so hot. haha. same set list as the toronto show. 107 kills me every time. during blue monday it turned into an orgy dance party, and people started hoisting themselves up onto the stage. of course others followed and there were tons of people up there. then through that song and the following 1 or 2 people continued to go up on stage, hug/shake hands with whoever, go back down. by the time the club got people on stage to stop everyone from climbing up it felt as if we were the only people who didn’t go up LOL. the crowd was much more into the show and much more responsive than the toronto one it seemed. and the band seemed to like everyone coming up (to a point). the boys seemed to be having more fun than last week.

during the 5 openers we had talked to this girl from canada who was so boppery and adorable. she managed to get on stage a few times, so i was happy for her.

had a “moment” with paige which was lovely, cuz he’s the only one i didn’t get to meet years ago when this all began. i was totally looking forward to talking to them outside after the show.

so yeah. great fucking show. leighanne and adr hoisted me onstage after to rip a set list off. the roadie tried stepping on me twice, i’m like PLLEEAAASE I BEG! so he let me have it. haha i rock.

well…while roadies were setting up orgy’s stuff there had been a weird pop noise. the 2 girls we had talked to in line were next to us and she joked that it sounded like a gun shot. we laughed, no big deal. it was sorta high pitched, sounded like a child’s pop gun or fireworks….

midway through the set jay says for everyone to be careful on the way home tonight because there was a shooting behind the club…i thought he had said people were shooting up so i was like, well…whatever. the show ends and we leave, to find cops everywhere, police tape all around where the tour bus and equipment trucks for the bands were…they had shut down the highway next to the club…because there was a shooting. !!!!!!!!!! welcome to detroit. this really just made my night. it amuses me to no end because i kept asking people what the neighborhood was like, and i got “it’s not that bad, it’s not down town or anything…but it still is detroit” LOL. and there was a shooting.

so i took a bunch of pics of the crime scene, leighanne ripped a piece of police tape off for me. i loved it. seriously. it made my night. i can’t believe it LOL. poor orgy’s bus was trapped in the crime scene. there had been a limo in front of the club and we figured they left in that since they couldn’t take the bus and leave for ohio…who knows what will happen. have to remember to look in detroit newspapers tomorrow to see if there is an article about it. ROFL

i’m just so seriously amused. LOL. just perfect.

oh, and i got propositioned for sex by a passing car LOL. and before the show some cops pulled up and asked who was playing. he was hot so i invited him to the show. he said he had to work. bummer lol.

the girl from canada is going to send me copies of her pics (cuz they let ppl bring cams in, but figuring they weren’t going to i had put mine back in the car)

setlist from both shows:
suckerface
dissention
inside my head
107
fetisha
the obvious
blue monday
eva
opticon
vague
fiction
stitches

Pics!

from the detroit free press:

“Man killed, another hurt in shooting outside club

One man was killed and another wounded Wednesday night in a shooting in the
parking lot of an east-side Detroit nightclub, police said.

Officer Glen Woods said the shooting occurred shortly after 9 p.m. outside
Harpo’s Concert Theater, 14238 Harper.

An off-duty Detroit police officer told investigators he was at the nightclub
when shots were fired in the parking lot, Woods said. The officer went outside
and saw a man walking away from a gray vehicle.

The police officer identified himself, and the man pulled out a gun and began
firing, Woods said. The officer ducked behind a utility pole and fired back.
The man again shot at the officer before fleeing on a pedestrian bridge over
I-94.

The men who were shot were later found inside the gray vehicle. They were taken to St. John Hospital and Medical Center, where one was pronounced dead and the other was listed in temporary serious condition. By Cecil Angel”

seems like the “shooting” we heard inside was most likely not THE shooting…because godhead was playing around 9, so it wouldn’t be timed right. oh well. we can still pretend we heard it lol.

Orgy Toronto

wow yesterday was amazing!!!

i love orgy.

so…the show. i wore my fake hair and it only sorta hurt, and it didn’t get pulled out so it was wonderful….anyway, headed out around 5 with leighanne adr and james. we were meeting danielle and her friend erika at the show because they spent the day in toronto. i figured we’d eventually find them. turns out while driving down bloor someone walked right in front of my car…and it was danielle LOL. so we caught up with them, stopped at a restaurant/bar for some of us to eat, then headed to lee’s palace to wait in line for doors at 9. danielle met a bunch of the boys again while we were eating, which is totally cool for her.

lee’s palace is super super small. smaller than showplace. so it was fabulous. aphasia opened for orgy. they’re signed to jay’s label. they were really good. young too. james bought their cd after the show, gonna have to burn it for myself. the lead singer looked like a cross between james, ian, and tommy gnosis haha. so that was cool.

and orgy…gah. what to even say?!?! it has been far too long since we saw them. ended up in front of amir and paige. there was no space between the “barrier” and stage (it was a padded rail attached to the stage). the show was great. jay had some mic troubles, and apparently was a bit sick so paige and ryan were helping with vocals. it was paige’s birthday, so one of the roadies brought out a cake for him and everyone sang happy birthday. it was so fun. the set list was something like:
(the order is messed up)
suckerface
dissention
inside my head
107 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
fetisha (!!!!!!!!!!)
blue monday (jay’s mic stopped working during the “you spin me round” addition, unfortunately)
the obvious
eva (!!!!!!!!!!!)
opticon
vague
fiction
encore: stitches

the show made 2 more orgy converts, and james seems to have a good time too. gah. so great. they make me so happy. ryan looks like such trash though. bad bad hair. they’re such a fun band. i totally want to go see them again. gah love them.

headed home after the show. got hassled by the nazi border guy, got home around 2:30 and crashed. great great night. yay!

i am really amazed at my current utter contentment. i haven’t really felt this way since october 2001 – the post sept 11th, u2 induced delirium. i keep listening to songs, and no matter what song by what artist, i keep finding lines that feel so applicable for some reason. i’m resisting the urge to post tons of lyrics here haha. we’ll see how that works. the way i felt when nate was around was always laced with anxiety and insecurity over what was to happen with us. this is nothing like that. i get it, but at the same time, i don’t. and i don’t know what to do about the part that i get. but i’m not thinking/worrying about it. because i am enjoying how i feel.

if i wasn’t so tired lol.

i kept zoning out at work, day dreaming, and almost falling over cuz i’m so tired. but work was slow and boring, and when it was getting exciting i got moved hahah. was able to leave an hour early, which was nice. not like i’m going to get to bed any earlier however.

my dresser did not arrive on friday due to the weather, so they are bringing it today. which means they will call me 5 times this morning, like they did yesterday. and they better not do that, and not show up til 7pm like i’m expecting. oh well.

i want to say that i love all the friends i have right now. thank you for making my life wonderful as of late.

jenn comes home tomorrow finally. it’ll be good to see her again, and i need to talk to her about stuff. haha

 

orgy’s new website is finally up. they have all the lyrics from the new album posted. these are by far their best songs lyrically. and i just HAVE to post this hah

You couldn’t make me
Anymore crazy
Than I could stand to be

So won’t you just sympathize with me
And all the things I do to make you angry with me
What’s wrong with me today
You say, I leave you all alone
Every time you call me
As if you needed reason to fall down
I know this must be hard for you to understand
And all this waiting takes too long for me
Make up your mind

You don’t even know, what’s good for you
You better keep your eyes on me
Maybe you’re oblivious inside
And it’s scary that you don’t know
Your chances fade away
Fade away sometimes
Maybe you’re oblivious inside

No you can’t deny me
And I don’t want to see you go away

**

i can’t wait to see them live again. apparently bobby rejoined after leaving snake river conspiracy. all the new pictures include him, which is really rad. yay exciting.

Orgy (the band)

I was at a show, that was like, in a basement or something, and they did the show. Then it was over, and I was hanging out and there were these big round tables, like at a wedding. Jay was standing near one, and talking to people. Paige was in the background doing whatever, talking or something. I went to Jay, who was being extremely nice to everyone (and he frequently changed sizes as well) and I hugged him, and then I kissed him. he shoved his tongue down my throat. I think that was it.

I was chillin on their tour bus, and then me and Jay were at my house in my bedroom just chillin on my bed. Well he had to go someplace for something so I was alone and some chick appeared there and I was being all bitchy waiting for Jay to come back. So finally Jay comes back and chick disappears, but Jay came back with some guy and some other chick. Well they all sat on my bed (a twin bed) and Jay sat on my pillows which is where I always sit. So I was like dude where am I gonna go. So I laid on my bed on this tiny strip of space left with my head in Jay’s lap. Then this other dude like, tickled me or something and then Jay like attacked me, and was tickling me. He was wearing that pink/red kiss the future shirt. I was like, grabbing onto him and trying to get him back and we ended up on the floor

By my house , where my Mcdonalds is, there are like 4 other fast food restaurants and a shopping plaza. So I was there in the parking lot of the plaza, with my mom, and we were walking towards the street. So yada yada, there’s Jay and Ryan…Jay walked right past me, and I was like woah, that’s Jay. But he had like really bright red streaks in the front of his hair, and had them spiked up. So then I saw Ryan near Taco Bell. So me and my mom went over to him and asked him if he could take a picture of me and my mom(?) so he said yeah sure, and I’m like WHAT THE FUCK , why is he taking a pic of us. So then I was like, can I take a pic of you, so I took a few pics of him and my mom. He was being typical crazy Ry, and was posing and shit for the camera. So then I dunno where Jay went, I didn’t really care. So then I dunno, but I appeared at an orgy concert. It started outside, and I guess it was kinda like a campus invasion thing, but they were on this small stage on a kinda hill thing, and it was grassy. Me and Melinda were there and we were far back in the crowd. Then suddenly a big opening up front appeared and I jumped right in. Well there was this huge chain link fence separating us from the stage. So then Amir, Ry and Paige were on stage and they were playing their guitars and they were like acoustic or something, and were all singing dowop to some chick standing on stage. It was super gay shitty and I was like WTF, then Jay came onstage and they started playing Blur’s Song2. I was like OOOH they are just the openers covering Blur. So then they turned into Orgy I guess, but then suddenly Mir and Paige put down their guitars and ran off the stage to the grass in front of where I was. Now the fence was only like, waist high. So Paige came over to me and was talking to me about how he’s got a son named Angel, and his wife picked the name out and how he had a problem calling his son by a girl’s name or something, but he got used to it. I was like wtf and I’m like well Paige is a girls name too. It was weird, and I was thinking, boy, Paige is drunk. So I dunno where Amir went, but I didn’t care. I guess then they were playing more…and then Paige came off the stage to talk to me again and was just chillin at the fence talking to me … so the show ended and we were inside again and like I dunno, I guess we were like, just hanging around and Paige came out again and was talking to me, or no wait, he was talking to someone else, and I went over to him to see if I could take a pic of us, and he was like, yeah only if you kiss me. so I was like hell yeah sure LOL so I kissed Paige, and he was all hugging me and shit and we got our pic taken, and I guess that was it

9-23-99 There was an Orgy show, at a big stadium, and I wanted to go to it. It was the night of the show, and I didn’t have tickets because it was sold out. So my history professor called me up on the phone and said that her family had a bunch of tickets they weren’t going to use. The problem was that the show was starting in 15 minutes so she didn’t think we would want them. But I was so excited, and I’d only be missing the openers. So me and my roommate took the tickets and headed to the stadium. Well it turned out it was on the water. It was like sea world, where there are seats and they end where the water is. So there were boats on the water and stuff, and Jay was walking on the boats near the edge of the water. We took front row seats, although our tickets were for someplace else. Then we were going to take pictures, and I had one of my dad’s big cameras with a self focus lens, and I didn’t know how to use it. We were behind big things of glass, and then we were inside a car at the side of the road. Jay was on the grass near the road, and he was singing Christmas songs. We kept trying to take pictures of him through the car window. And then I had the bright idea of actually getting out of the car, to sit on the curb and watch, but we couldn’t get the car door open. Then it was over.

January 25, 2001- 2 Orgy dreams, both I was woken up from rather rudely, first by the phone at 3am, and then my alarm.

#1 Shit, now I can’t remember this one either. Damn it. Paige was in it. It was something to do with Paige, and then the phone rang, and I was pissed.

#2 Danielle and I were going to an orgy concert, and it was being held in the Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum. We were inside, and Bobby (who was not really Bobby) was walking around, with the other guys. I was taking pictures. There was a plaster statue of Jay, kneeling down singing, but he was bald with only a tuft of hair on his head, kinda like Hare Krishnas. So then we got inside where the show was going to be, and it was like a dining room… or a rec room in some kind of like, fire hall. We had to watch the show on a TV, because they were on Rosie. So we watched, but then they were back in the room because they had to go on trial. We were sitting in the front row of chairs in this “court”, and Bobby was sitting at the end, looking sad and angry about having to go on trial. Then Paige came and sat down, and he was talking to us about why they were on trial. I don’t remember what he said, but it was something to do with how they played a show in Minnesota, and they have such closed minds there. Then Jay came in, and he had to sit at this table that was against the wall, I guess because he was the singer, he had to represent the band. Bobby was really a little girl, Paige and Jay were normal, and Amir and Ryan weren’t really in the dream. Before court started, Danielle and I were back in my basement, because she wanted to see the pictures I took at the show (so apparently it was a different day that the trial was going on). So I had to turn on the computer. I had laundry in the washer, but for some reason Danielle had to do something to the washer, and she turned the dial and now the wash was going to be in there for another 14 minutes. I was actually washing Orgy. That is what I said was in there. So I showed her the pictures, as if she had never been there, telling her who they were, and about the Hare Krishna Jay statue thing. Then it was the trial again, and they were just about to start when I was woken up by my alarm.

February 14, 2001 – It was my birthday. There was some part of this dream about Orgy. But then it was my birthday and I was having a party, a pool party. It started really early in the morning, and Danielle and I went swimming because it was really hot. Then for some reason we went out to the front of my house, by the mailbox, and Ryan from Orgy drove by. I guess I had invited them to my party but they didn’t know where it was. Maybe that’s why we went in front. But we looked all gross because we had been swimming, but I guess everyone thought we looked fabulous. So then we went back to the backyard, and with everyone else. The pool was on my deck and it was more like the size of a hot tub. My parents were there too. So people kept arriving, and we had cake. Then someone came and asked if I was me, and I said yes. So they left, and a little while later this boy from high school showed up with a hot wheels toy for me. Then someone was talking about Denis Hamel from the Sabres, and about how he wasn’t doing good because his mom had diabetes and he wouldn’t accept the fact she was going to die. Then he arrived, and was talking to everyone. He looked different though, like an India Indian. So my mom brought him cake, but she didn’t know who he was or why he had an accent. He dropped some cake on his pants.

March 1st, 2001- dream about ryan shuck from orgy. I met him in a bar, and we were sitting at the end of the bar and I was asking him really stupid questions. I knew the questions were stupid, like “so, you like to play guitar?” but I couldn’t stop. It apparently didn’t matter because he wanted me. So then he went to talk to some people but I didn’t want him to forget that I was there, so I sorta followed him around, not really, but just kept an eye on where he was. He always kept looking for me in the crowd so he wouldn’t lose me either, and he’d come up to me and talk and kiss me. Then he started a conga line, and was dancing around. Then I left the bar, because he had left, and I had to go find him, and I was driving a tractor.

April 18, 2001 – My ex boyfriend had broken up with his girlfriend, and we had gotten back together. We lived in some town in the south I think, because it was hot. And it was by a river. So we had gone someplace else out of town, and we got back in town and our friend Bobby from Orgy had been arrested. We saw the arrest sheet(?) that had been made up for him, and the main offense he was arrested for was, I forget what it actually said, but it was like, for talking back to someone. But then he resisted arrest, and then was violent to the police officers, and then there was some driving law he broke, and all these other laws, but he was only arrested because he talked back to someone. So we were upset and trying to think of how to get him out of jail. Then we had to go somewhere in a school bus. So we got on the bus, and it was really full, and it was all little kids. So we took one of the last empty seats, and these two little girls in front of us turned around to talk to us. Then there was some part where people were talking about how he pronounced his name. And they said that he pronounced it a certain way, not the way I did, which meant all this time I’d been saying it wrong. But I was like, no I’m not wrong, I asked him how he said his name the first time we met. But apparantly he did say his name the other way, so I felt like a retard for saying his name wrong all this time.

July 10, 2001 – Dave Navarro was living at my house. Not sure why, he wasn’t a relative or anything. We were going to have visitors, friends of my parents, one night, and they were making Dave give up his bed for them. So since he was giving up his bed, he was going to have to share mine with me. Well I was going out that night with Danielle. So I left, and we went someplace, and I kept telling everyone that when I got home I’d be sleeping with Dave Navarro. Then Danielle and I remembered that we had tickets to an Orgy concert. We totally forgot that it was that night. So then we were rushing around to get ready for the show. But we had to go to McDonalds, because I had to work, or pick something up. So I was half dressed for the concert, in my vinyl pants, no shoes, and my hair wasn’t done. I was eating, and I was taking a long time, so Danielle and her brother showed up to get me (even tho I went to McDs with Danielle). They had her mom’s car, but it was red not black, and I had to drive. Then I realized I had no shoes, so I had to go back to my house. Now it’s 7 pm and doors were at 7 so I realized we were going to be late and we weren’t going to be up front. I also kept saying I wasn’t ready yet, that I needed to do my hair and makeup for the show.

August 2001 – i dreamed that i was sleeping, but heard orgy’s opticon playing and it woke me up (in the dream). I realized that the sound was coming from my mom watching tv, and that orgy was on some morning show. so i turned my tv on to find it, so i could watch. they were doing a different song then, something unreleased, but i knew what it was, and it wasn’t sonic. so i’m watching, and they look totally different. jay has really long hair, down to his butt, and its in braids. and he’s even taller than he is in real life. paige had long hair too, only shoulder length though, and half of it was pulled up onto the top of his head, like in the 80s. ryan looked the same, and i didn’t notice the others. i only notcied ryan because they did a huge close up of his head.

October 30, 2001 – i was at an outdoor concert. i’m not sure where it was. but it was supposed to rain so they had moved the concert from its original location to a place that was outdoors, but where the stage was set up, the band wouldn’t get wet if it rained. it was an orgy concert. i decided that i wasn’t going to go up front for the concert, i was going to go on the balcony, which wasn’t a balcony but it was my front porch and it was only slightly elevated so that i could see over the crowd. so orgy was playing, and jay gordon saw me and smiled. then throughout the show he kept gesturing to me and making motions where it was obvious he knew me. so there was a point in the show inbetween songs and jay started talking, and said everyone should turn around and look at me, because i had provided the totally awesome picture of Kirk. so everyone looked at me and everyone started clapping so i kinda bowed. this entire time, the members of econoline crush are sitting on chairs on the side of the stage as if they were on a talk show. and so i kept looking over at them too, and they recognized me as well. i guess they were on after orgy. so orgy finished, and the concert workers said they were moving locations again since it wasn’t going to rain anymore. so EC was like, dude, just let us play here, why move again. and i was like yeah, last time they played here it was 100 degrees outside, let them perform on a stage that’s in the shade. So trevor looked over at me talking, and he’s like Hi there, Sara right? and i’m like yeah, woah you know my name. and so i was talking to trevor who was still sitting with the rest of the band discussing what they were going to do for their show. so I said, you can play an all acoustic set, that’d be alright with me. i smiled at them and trevor and johnny laughed. johnny had cut all his hair off, like it was a brush cut, and i was like nooo i loved your hair before!! it was like, i was a very important person that entire day at the concert, everyone knew me, and i felt like i had the ability to tell people what to do. so i told EC again, that it’d be ok with me if they just did a whole acoustic set. and so Trevor gets a guitar and he comes up on the front porch and sits on the bench. no one else is up there with me anymore. so he’s like, well what do you want us to play, and I said Razorblades and Bandaids, and he’s like hmm, ok. I’m like yeah if you remember how to play it, and then he took out a lyric sheet and was going to play it.

then i was still dreaming, but it was like i woke up, and danielle was telling me her dream. i was really annoyed because her talking to me was making me forget my dream. so i was like dude, i gotta type this up on my site cuz it was so great. so then i went to type it up on my site, and somehow it turned into a U2 concert also. So i was typing out how it was a U2 concert, and that the 4 of them were sitting on chairs like they were on a talk show too. Then i was at another concert, which i guess was the opener for this whole string of concerts. It was a band with 3 people, and the song was familiar but i didn’t know who it was. At first i thought it was offspring, then i thought it was eve 6, but then as the drummer distroyed his drum kit, the announcers said it was Gob (?). then it was supposed to be EC.

and now i forgot the whole 2nd part of the dream, crap. there was a big part with u2, and another part with EC…crap. crap crap.

march 30, 2002 – i had all of the orgy boy’s screen names. we were at a party and I was IMming Jay and talking to him. I think i was supposed to be amir. then jay started getting all self pitying, about how he was lonely, and no one liked him. so i was like, cut the crap i’m really sick of you talking about how much you suck all the time

may 2, 2002 – i was at an orgy show with danielle, who was also my old best friend angela. the backstage was like a labrynth, so it was really weird. there were lots of hallways, and stuff. and the stage was someone’s back porch so we didn’t understand why the whole backstage part was so crazy. so we were hanging out in this big area right before the stage entrance, and we were talking to this woman who is the one who got us backstage. she worked for orgy, tour manager or something. i guess we knew her, that’s how she got us in. so we were waiting for orgy to come from their dressing rooms so we could talk to them. so i think paige came out and walked by and waved, then ryan came over. he put his arm around me, and was talking to me, and i put mine around his. he wasn’t any taller than me, so we were at eye level with eachother. i guess we actually knew the band too, because it wasn’t weird or anything. so i was talking to ryan, then they had to go on stage. so we walked onto this porch through the sliding glass door (the band went on from a side entrance). there were all kinds of people there to see the band. so there were a bunch of ppl hanging around this back area of the stage, because they all had passes, and we didn’t. but we figured, whatever, we know the tour manager, we know the band, we’re staying here. so there were 2 like 14 year old girls sitting there in plastic lawn chairs glaring at us, because we were going to stay there. they commented something like “oh 24 year old girls think they can do anything”. so we were like whatever. so the band came out, and jay saw us and waved. he was real light on the make up. so then he was motioning to us to come on stage, and we were like what?!?! then i saw that everyone had backed up and made this space at the barrier for us. so i ran and jumped off the stage, and into the hole in the crowd. for some reason, i guess she was scared, danielle/angela didn’t, and so she stayed on stage. but she was in front of the stage, not in back anymore. and i don’t know where orgy went. but there was some asshole in the crowd who kept walking back and forth, and making the entire crowd move back and forth over and over again. well his friends tried to make him stop, but he wouldn’t, so he got kicked out. and the whole thing pissed off Orgy who decided they weren’t going to play. but there was this big screen that came down and was playing orgy videos. so no one realized they weren’t actually playing anymore. then everyone started to disappear, so i was like what’s going on? to danielle/angela. and we figured out that they weren’t playing anymore and stuff. so we went back stage again to walk around and find the band. we found the tour manager and she was crying, cuz she was pissed off about the whole thing and told us that the band was pissed off at the kid who kept making the crowd move. so then we were walking around trying to find the band, but since it was all a bunch of hallways we got lost. i don’t know what happened to danielle, but i was walking down a staircase, and i heard someone say something about snakes. so i looked above me and there were snakes everywhere. but they were actually lizards. and where i was, was some part of a fear factor type game, to walk up the stairs with all these snakes/lizards on both sides of you. so there was this guy at the top of the stairs, who i guess was trying to help me. so he killed one of the snake/lizards which was a signal to all the other snake/lizards to go attack that guy… that would draw all the snake/lizards to him, so i could sucessfully go up the stairs. but they were all moving so slow, i was still scared to use the stairs. so i went back down, and out an emergency exit, and ended up in this ghetto ass shady looking street. there was someone there i was scared was going to attack me, so i went into a record store.

“where the streets have no name” has got to be one of the most hypnotic songs i’ve ever heard.

yah, i just finished my hour break from studying…i spent an hour doing nothing, but once i get back to studying i think of all kinds of things to do…like discuss the hypnotic effects of “streets”….

i was thinking… it’s weird that eric likes orgy’s vapor transmission better than candyass. eric tends to like the loud, no talent droning guitar sound…which is more like candyass than VT. VT is more musical than candyass was, many more different kinds of sounds and melodies…some critics said VT was very drum and bassy (i disagree)…but candyass is just definitely more like everything else eric listens to, yet he doesn’t like it…hmm weird…

yes i am studying 😛 shut up

something else for my wishlist: i want an old phrenology head. find me one. i found one on ebay, buy it for me

and see i AM studying for neuropsych, i’m at the phrenology part. lol

just so everyone knows, no, i am not insane. bono does indeed have 4 kids. just like i thought he did, but no… every damn u2 site i looked at for his bio said he had 3 kids, and that the youngest was around 2….but no, i was right afterall, he DID just have a baby in may, another boy…

yes i’m studying for neuropsych 😛

i take it back…. i do like most of this cd…it’s u2’s Pop… i don’t care for Miami as i stated, i HATE playboy mansion.. its one of the worst songs i’ve ever heard….velvet dress is ok, i don’t realize it’s even playing….Please is ok…wake up dead man is blah…ok so lemme start over. I like the cd songs 1-7…I dont like 8-whatever#…but i like PARTS of songs 8-whatever with the exception of playboy mansion which i just HATE.

something is wrong with me. i want clothes. i want to buy lots of clothes. i want to by clothes that i’d never wear. my clothes wishlist:
1. satin dragon jacket
2. lace up pants
3. the little shirt with fringe and black mini skirt with a black leather trench coat with fishnets and black whore boots like the outfit i tried on at Wet Seal.
4. the red furry jacket at Deb
5. the leather jacket for 400$ at Guess.
6. black dickies

i need to win a makeover and shopping spree.

i liked my hair today. yeah.

ok yeah so me and danielle went to the mall for dinner tonight. We went to eastview mall, which turns out is an hour away. yeah we’ve been there before, and I swear last time we went a different way and got there a hella lot faster. but i used eric’s directions, which were the same as yahoo directions, and it took like an hour. But we at dinner at Jack Astors, shopped for a while. she got the tea party transmission cd for 5 bucks at FYE. then we went to try on clothes at the Britney Spears slut store (aka Wet Seal). They actually had some cute, non slut stuff… ok yeah it’s still sorta slutty, but it was really cute. EVEN I LIKED IT!! I tried on this skirt, it was cream colored, knee length, with black crocheted lace over it. Tried on a medium I think, yeah, it was awful. it looked so bad, it was WAY too small. so then i tried on this little red shirt…it was like um…a tank top, but showed total stomach. it was red, black lace over it, and fringe. I could barely get it on, it was really small. Once it was on tho it fit. And I tried on this little black mini skirt. It was a LARGE and it fit perfectly. I looked cute 😛 I just need the whore boots and long black coat, mentioned above. Then I tried the shirt on with black “leather” pants. they were really cute too, and only 19$… but they were too small. like, i really had to suck my gut in to button them. would have needed a bigger size. BUT I REALLY LOVE THE SHIRT AND IT’S SO NOT ME!! When would I ever wear it? orgy concert probably… or a club, if i’m forced to go again. ahah

and yeah i had my exam today. total wrong answer for the 5 pt essay. it was something about discuss 2 of the 4 protective factors established by Rutter… I was like, who the hell is Rutter?? So i totally bullshitted an answer… i talked about intelligence, and social supports… neither of which were discussed by Rutter (i looked it up in the book)… so that answer is totally wrong. there were 4 multiple choice questions i was unsure of, 1 i totally didnt know, so i guessed. And i bullshited alot of the other 2 essays. whatever. we’ll see how badly i do.

all day yesterday i was like “where is adrienne? why isn’t she online? her net must be broken”… but then i remembered last night, that today was “the big day”… i hope everything went ok….

Orgy in Worcester

Orgy # 6 March 3, 2001 – Worcester, MA

Adrienne, Danielle and I woke up at Joe’s the next morning. We got ready to head to Worcester, and left around 2:30. The Palladium was easy to find, which was surprising. We had to wait outside for an hour, in the snow and cold. Stupid east coast winters. Doors were at 6, but they didn’t let us in until probably 6:30. We were frozen. They had the weirdest way of letting people in the venue. They picked people out of the crowd to go in, mostly from the front, but a few little kids with their parents were allowed in first. We got in, stood up front to wait through 3 bands blah. I hate openers.

We saw all of Tinfed this time. The crowd was rude as hell, telling them they sucked and to get off the stage. They aren’t bad. I don’t particularly think they fit in with an Orgy/Spineshank crowd, but whatever. They only play for a half hour or so, deal with it. Alien Ant Farm had microphone problems at first, then got settled. Crowd got rougher. Of the 3 shows, this crowd was the roughest… It was all little kids. I felt like a giant, because I was taller than everyone (except nomad girl next to/in front of Danielle). The little girl in front of me was probably 5 feet tall. I could rest my chin on her head (but that also meant, when she freaked out during Spineshank and Orgy, she could knock my teeth out). Spineshank was rough. It wasn’t too bad, because we were so squished, I didn’t really get hurt. Many more fans of them at this show than Albany. Same impression as before…The singer is hot, but still, the music is not my thing.

Orgy came on some time after that. This show was the best of the 3, but worst crowd. Little kids suck. The little girl in front of me, and her fat friend were really annoying. It was ok, since I could see over her head. But they freaked out when they got 2 of Amir’s picks. For some reason, they left with maybe 5 songs left. That was fine with me, because I got barrier for the rest of the show and the encore. Yes an encore this time. The set list was the same as the other 2 shows, except for the encore. They came back out and started Eva. Eva of all songs. I NEVER thought they’d do Eva live. It was awesome. After that they played Pantomime. It was way cool. I ended up with a pick Amir played with (half of the word “orgy” was rubbed off and its all chipped) and an Orgy condom ha ha. The whole show was just way cool. They seemed a lot happier than the night before, I guess Jay felt better. It was a lot cooler, because they’d open the doors of the theatre between each band to get the equipment out. Jay kissed Paige when they sang 107 together…um…there was just a bunch of way funny stuff they did.

Danielle had her Rough Cutt shirt on from 1984, and Amir saw it. He handed her a pick at one point. It would be an awesome show to have on video (so if you know of one, lemme know ha ha). During Blue Monday again, the Spineshank guy and Alien Ant Farm singer came on stage again. The Spineshank guy had a fur collared pimp coat on. After the show we stood around at the barrier again. The security was dumb about giving us stuff, saying they wouldn’t get the setlists for us. Whatever. We left after the show. We didn’t stick around for any of the shows because it’s too damn cold, and it’s really not that important for me to meet them. At least not that important that I’m willing to freeze to death. I was also getting sick at that point, blah. We drove back to Joe’s place, got back around 2, a lot earlier than we had thought, since doors were at 6, even with the encore the show was done earlier than the other 2.

Observations from the show

– Amir is so perfect. I noticed this at the other shows too, especially Albany. It was so hot but his makeup didn’t run, his hair was totally perfect even after the kept touching it to get it out of his face.

The weekend was awesome. Probably the best weekend of my life ha ha. How sad is that. It’s really weird that 5 people I don’t even know can make me so happy. Orgy is so addicting. People comment on the fact that they have the same setlist every night (which is technically not true). But every show is different, and they put on such a good show. I so need to see them again. YOU GUYS GOTTA COME BACK TO UPSTATE NEW YORK!

So in closing, thanks to Adrienne for agreeing to go (and you’re welcome for us converting you). Thanks to Joe for letting us stay with him in Troy. And thanks to Jay, Paige, Ryan, Amir and Bobby for making me so happy. Yeah yeah, sob sob, etc etc.

Orgy in Albany

Orgy # 5 March 2, 2001 – Albany, NY

After 2 classes a nap and another class, Adrienne, Danielle and I headed out to Albany for the 2nd Orgy concert in 2 nights. We were going to be late to this one too. We got to Joe’s house, picked him up and he drove to Northern Lights for the show. We got inside during Tinfed again. We got treated to some Alien Ant Farm again, this time assholes in the crowd started to mosh. Got pushed around a bit.

Then we got “treated” to Spineshank. Got pushed around a lot, ended up at the barrier. Good deal. Spineshank…blah. Totally unimpressed. Too hard, too annoying for me. Can’t even say I enjoyed one single song. But whatever, the pushing got me to the barrier so it’s all good. We were in front of Amir and Paige for this show. This show was better than Toronto. Same set list as Toronto. The setlist taped to the stage said Pantomime before Where’s Gerrold but they didn’t play it for some reason. It seemed from the show that Jay was sick. It was really hot in there, the guards went through 3 cases of water on both sides. Jay commented a few times on the heat, and how he didn’t know how we could stand it. During the interludes Jay went to the side to “rest”, cool off, wipe his face off etc. Amir came onto this speaker thing, and motioned that he was way hot and stuck his tongue out and laughed at everyone. It was cute ha ha.

During Blue Monday, the singer from Spineshank came out to sing in Ryan’s mic (oh, and Ryan took his shirt off cuz he was so hot, that was unexpected. Didn’t realize Orgy ever took their clothes off…always wearing damn long sleeves :P). Singer from Alien Ant Farm came onstage too. It was cool. No encore again after the show, we think because Jay was sick or whatever. We stuck around up front after the show to get “souvenirs” of the show. I got one of Amir’s picks. I think Danielle did too. Before the show I had seen Steph, who I’d been talking to online since I realized I had taken a picture of her at Orgy at Waterstreet 2 years ago. It turned out I was next to Tracy, who I also had talked to online, and Steph was right behind me the whole time with her other friends. I don’t think Tracy realized who I was, and although I said hi to Steph, not sure she realized either haha. Whatever. We had lost Joe during Spineshank, so we found him again and went to get food. Went to Denny’s like always. Our waiter was awesome, I commented on the different menu, and how I had stolen one from home. So he let me have it, and got me a Daytime menu. Ha ha. We headed back to Joe’s for the night to finally sleep.

Observations from the show:
– once again, can’t get over how huge Paige’s platforms are.
– Bobby’s drum solo is cool as hell.
– Ryan is ripped!

Orgy in Toronto

Orgy # 4 March 1, 2001 – Toronto, Ontario

After counting down the days, it was finally Thursday, and the Orgy weekend had begun. Adrienne came down during the day, and we waited around before going to pick Danielle up from class and head back home to NT. We picked up David and got our tix, and drove up to Toronto. It was an unusual experience, going across the border. The guard asked us why we were going to Toronto. David told him we were going to a concert. The guard asked who, and David said Orgy. After a strange look, he asked what kind of music to play. David came up with techno-metal. Good call. He shook his head, gave us another weird look and let us go.

We thought we were going to be later than we were, but doors were at 8, not 7 as we had thought, and we got there about quarter after 8 and had to wait in line in the cold snow and wind (since we were in the Great White North) for about half hour I guess. We found Carolyn easily, she had just gotten there too. Once inside we went to the bar area for the first bands. Carolyn, Adrienne and I stayed in the bar area because there was more room, and the floor looked really packed. I didn’t feel like fighting mean scary people to get up front. Danielle and David went into the crowd, and turns out people basically let them get to the barrier. Oh well, next time.

So when we got in, Tinfed was already playing. We thought they were Alien Ant Farm haha. They weren’t bad, but whatever. Alien Ant Farm came on after that, they were… entertaining. I spent most of their set staring at the balcony over the bar where various members of Orgy were watching the set. They played their “Smooth Criminal” Michael Jackson cover, which I thought was rad as hell, because I figured they wouldn’t play it. They asked the crowd if anyone liked Michael Jackson…Carolyn, Adrienne and I screamed haha, Danielle said she did too. They said they didn’t care if we didn’t like him, they were gonna play it anyway. It was cool.

Spineshank didn’t play that night, because they were finishing a video in California…no loss. Orgy didn’t go on until around 11, and played for about an hour. Set went something like this: vapor transmission intro, interlude, suckerface, dissention, chasing sirens, opticon, 107, fiction, gender, bobby drum solo (which sounds like Bjork’s “Army of Me”), stitches, where’s gerrold, blue monday… and another interlude thrown in there at some point. The show was great. Before Stitches, Jay asked the crowd if anyone had a bitch or asshole who they love and hate at the same time, when people screamed he said something like, you’re losers. I don’t really remember. At the end of the show, Jay said something about how we were the best fucking audience as always. They left the stage, and then Jay came back on and said something to the sound guy in back. Then he started talking to us, and told us that they were going to come out and do a few more songs, but the soundboard got fucked up and they couldn’t. He said something about how they’d be back with Papa Roach and to come see them again. Kinda pissed about no encore, because the other shows had no encores. Whatever. Danielle caught a towel which we thought was an unused one, but it turns out there’s makeup all over it.

We hung around for a few minutes inside, deciding what to do…leave or stay and wait around for them. We decided to leave, since by then it was after midnight and we had a 3-hour drive home. We left, got back to NT to drop off David, and drove back in a blizzard to Geneseo, got home at 4. We had another experience with the border guard, asking us who we saw, and more weird looks when we replied “orgy”. Ha ha. Anyway, we got back, and had to get up the next day at 7:30 for class… we’re good little students.

Observations from the show:
– Ryan is thoroughly entertaining. It was the first show that I got a good chance to watch him on stage. He is amusing as hell.
– I think that’s my only observation from that show.

Orgy @ Buffalo

December 5, 2000 – Orgy Show at 103.3 Misfit Xmas party

Oh my god. This was an amazing show. Danielle, Eric and I headed out to Buffalo in white out conditions to see Orgy play at the 103.3’s Misfit Xmas party. We got there around quarter to 7, had to wait outside in the freezing cold for 20-25 minutes. It was terrible. Once we got inside, it was fine, I could feel my feet again, it was all good. We got barrier thanks to Eric. Dust For Life played first, and it was more enjoyable this time than at Geneseo with 3 Doors Down (but being at barrier makes everything more enjoyable). The guitarist Jason was late coming on stage. We found out talking to him after the show that they had told him 8:30, so at 8:10 he went and took a piss, got a beer, and then saw the band was on stage. So he came in after the 1st song. We were on the other side of the stage from him this time, in front of the bassist. They’re a decent band, they put on a decent show. Better than Geneseo, like I said.

Between sets 103 did some lame ass stuff on stage, boring. Danielle and I had our pictures taken by 2 different photographers. One guy on a digital camera, I’m assuming for 103’s website, and one by a chick. I also had the skanky Chuck Norris wanna be security guard take a picture of us with my camera. After that was Lifehouse. Not impressed, but the absolutely beautiful lead singer helped a lot. The sound was bad, you couldn’t hear his vocals at all, but then again, I was having a good time just staring at him. Then after a forever wait, as per usual with Orgy, they finally came on.

The show was incredible! The set list went something like this: Suckerface, 107, Opticon, Fiction, Gender, Dissention, Stitches, Where’s Gerrold, Blue Monday/You Spin Me Round. Only 9 songs, which I was disappointed about that, but it was a radio show party thing. And they made up for it with the show. We were right in front of Paige the whole time. When they came out Amir gave us love, held out his hand for us to grab. Suckerface, not my favorite song off VT was a great opener. 107 kicked ass! I love that song, and it was awesome live. The new shit definitely is good live material, which some people might not think so cuz it’s not really as guitar driven like Candyass stuff was. Anyway, the whole show Danielle and I were singing, and we totally got Paige and Jay’s attention. They looked over at us all the time, Paige gave us tons of love. Jay looked over at us during songs that he had ad-libs too (Gender, Dissention, Blue Monday) to see if we knew them, which we did. At one point Jay came over and held his hand out to us for a while, which was rad. Then, I don’t even remember what song it was, but it must have been Blue Monday, he was having everyone sing, was holding the mic out to us and stuff. Then he came down off stage to the barriers and came right in front of me and Danielle. He walked by twice, and then stood up on the step right in front of us! Danielle’s face was right in his crotch (lol), he was getting totally molested (not ONLY by us LOL) and was loving it the whole time, big smile on his face lol. His shirt was soaked, but it was really rad material, it felt cool HAHA. I was surprised that we weren’t crushed when Jay was in front of us, or maybe we were and I just didn’t notice, I was too busy with Jay standing right in front of me.

So then he went back onstage, and they finished up Blue Monday (if that was the song they were doing at the time) with You Spin Me Round, which Jay looked at us to see if we knew that was next. We hung out at the barrier still after they left the stage, to get the setlists or picks or something. Someone had thrown flowers on the stage, so the stage people gave us parts of them. Then I asked the guard for the setlist but he gave it to this other 16 year old chick who had been flirting with him the whole time (it was an 18+ show). Then they got Amir’s extra pics and gave them to us. I got one with a G and I on it. (oh yeah, I also got a Dust For Life pick, and setlist.)

Then we walked around, I got a shirt, and we met the guys from Dust For Life. I got a pic with Jason the guitarist and the singer Chris. I got their autographs and the drummer Rich’s autograph. I was talking to Jason, and told him I had seen them at Geneseo, and he had no idea they had even played there HAHA. He said he liked my pants, and stuff, was all flirty. It was rad. Chris was talking about how it was the worst show they played, he got hit in the head with a drumstick when the drummer tried to throw it to the crowd. Then someone kept throwing Trident gum on stage. He was so funny, cuz he said something like how that guy was going to meet some girl and have bad breath and be like, damn I threw all my gum at that band! Rich was hitting on me, shook my hand all that stuff, and was like, yeah I saw you down in front. haha It was kinda funny. After that, we left to hang out by the busses. It was so damn cold we moved the cars to the side where we were standing, so we could sit in somewhat warmth until they came out. Eventually we left, after about a half hour probably, because it was cold, I had gross vinyl pants on and had to pee. The show was totally awesome, mad love from Paige and Jay, definitely better than the other 2 shows of theirs I’ve seen.

A few observations from the show:

– Jay has a really nice tongue… nice and pink and shiny. And he’s mad skinny. Small nipples as well,  not bad, just an observation.

– Paige’s platforms are huge

– When Amir comes on stage, he looks like a doll. Like a glam/goth Barbie

– Ryan has a really large head