Written on the 24/08/08
Hey all, just before i continue on with part 2 i want to just make a few quick announcements.
firstly… FUCK YOU! FUCKS!!!!!!!! the bloody KOOKS are coming to Australia and i found out like 103124e12 years to BLOODY late….. and yes i know i have no one to blame by myself….
secondly… YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESYESYESYES THE KOOKS ARE DOING A SECRET SHOW ON THURSDAY!! (28th) and its free!! and there is no competition or anything this time! its first come first served! SOOOOOOO does anyone want to come see them with me?
alright thats abut it… ive got this blog to write then a video blog to edit… so stay tuned!
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Tuesday… the day after the Death Cab concert and the day of the myspace secret show. Again, tuesday usually means another day at work… however this tuesday was different, tuesday was the day of the myspace secret show. Now, i dont know if i have told you this but the winner of the tickets to see death cab at the secret show receives a double pass, this means that you can take ONE friend with you. Also another thing that i havnt told you is that two of my friends (mark and suds) have also won the tickets.
And this is where it all began… earlier last week on friday (15th) my friend mark approached me and told me that we had won tickets to the secret show, (at this point in time i was completely unaware that i had also won) mark had come to tell me that he was not taking me and that he was taking suds. Surprisingly to mark, i didnt take this to heart as i had already told myself that it was my fault that i didnt win because of my crappy response to the competition question.
Later that night i checked my email and found out that i had also won tickets to the secret show, although i was extremely happy about this, it was also a cause of alot of problems… in other words… i had to choose someone to take… obviously the first person that i thought of and wanted to take was gino, however, that night a close friend joseph (jebbus), who i had informed about the competition, asked me if i had won and i had told him that i had indeed won.
Then something strange happened, jebbus asked me if i was taking him… i told him that i was taking gino, and then he attacked me, saying that we had made a deal that if i won i would take him and that if he had won he would take me… however when we made this deal i thought we were only joking… (mostly due to my excitement that i was going to have a chance to see death cab for cutie live and upclose) and then i was taken on the biggest guilt trip of my life… now unable to take gino i decided that i had to take jebbus… due to my stupid promises… however i didnt tell jebbus i was taking him straight away…
The next day mark informed me that his friend suds had also won the competition and that he was now able to take gino and suds could take an extra person… this was extremely good news and meant that i could take jebbus and everything would be fine HOWEVER what i did next was a big mistake… this is when i did something really stupid… im my mind i had this stupid idea that if i had invited this girl that i really liked (who doesn’t feel the same way about me) to the concert, she would some how fall in love with me and that everything would go back to how they used to be (long story) and so i msged her that night and asked if she wanted to come see them with me. Meaning that i had just ditched my long time childhood friend to invite some girl. (well actually not just some girl… but the girl of my dreams… the one girl who will forever have my heart…)anyways… she said yes… and that brings us back to tuesday…
Tuesday… the day after the Death Cab concert and the day of the myspace secret show. Again, tuesday usually means another day at work… however this tuesday was different, tuesday was the day of the myspace secret show. unlike monday i had already preplanned what to wear for the day which made getting ready in the morning alot quicker.
The day started off as usual… i caught the bus to work (stood the whole way) and then sat there in front of the computer at work and did some BAU (business as usual?) stuff. however unlike monday the hours dredged on for what felt like years… i think this was mostly due to the fact that i had taken the 2nd half of the day of to go see the band even though they started playing at 5.
the reason why i took the 2nd half of the day off was to meet up with noorjan (the girl of my dreams) so that i could hang out with her before we went to go see the band
After finishing off at work i walked all the way to uni met up with a friend then caught the train to museum and walked to the oxford art factory.
There i met up with mark, suds and gino… and this is where the real story begins… (told from my point of view)
Earlier that day while i was at work, mark and gino headed over to oxford art factory early. unsure if the band was already inside, the two walked into the venue and thats when they saw the band eating chinese!! before mark had the chance to yell out “BEN” (mark regretted not doing this soo bad…) one of the bouncers approached them and yelled “beat it kids” scaring the two away.
Later on suds arrived, and the three ran around the back of the oxford art factory and tried to get inside so that they could see the band. suds being the person he is was dressed nicely for the occasion and was the one who would have the best chance of not being questioned whilst attempting to get inside the premises, and so he walked inside. once inside suds looked around to find the band unable to find the band he asked someone if they could take his album cover and get it signed by the band and he was…
Successful…
Yep… he was the only person to actually actually get something signed by the band… lucky…
And so, i had finally arrived, quickly called around to the back entrance by mark and gino, i was also informed that i was dressed “nicely”. “nicely” enough (since i had come from work) to walk in to the art factory from the back entrance. nervous that i would get kicked out, i slowly stepped in through the double doors… and much like suds… i could not locate the band… which resulted in me giving up and choosing to get a good spot in the line rather then spending time walking around the complex aimlessly…
The actual concert was GREAT! although they only played for 30 minutes, these 30 minutes were magical as i stood almost right in front of the band and listen to their incredible ability… to manipulate their instruments to create such beautiful melodies.
- Chim
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Written on the 11/09/08
I’ve come to a sad realisation that i have an inability to describe my day in the form of text (recount format? im not sure…) and aslo that i detest doing so… so do not expect alot of “recounting my day” blogs entry in the future.
I consider this entry to be one of the worst i have ever written.
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