A Concert that has been burned into My Retinas

Before I forget this hamAZING night I have had. A concert: RunnerRunner, Owl City, & Relient K. (Just for your info, this is going to be ME purely ME, maybe bragging here and there. I'll try and keep that to a minimum.. maybe. But nonetheless, ME talking about the concert I just got back from.)
So it started at about 8:00am today when I read reviews about The Glass House in Pomona that they had a 18 + venue... (I guess that means for that some concerts one must be 18 or over to get in.) My world suddenly came to a halt as I realized it was very possible that I might not be able to go. THAT would have been pretty bad as I have been waiting for this for much longer than a month. So, tried calling the Glass House and it was just information. Didn't say anything about age.
So, with hopes riding on the fence I left about 2pm with Christiana who would be dropping me off if I could stay. Got there fine and already there were about 10 people in line, sitting and lounging about, outside the concert hall. Walked up to the doors of the place and there's this big guy in black outside and asks, "what can I do for you?" I say, "I'm 17 and a half....Can I still get in please with this ticket?" Music to my ears: "Yep, open 'venue', all ages permitted." YES YES YEEAHH!!! One last thing, as I was talking to this guy, Matt Thiessen (Lead vocals for R. K) blows right by me and goes, "I'm with the band.." Walks in. I barely got a chance to say, "ohh don't I know him?!?!" Before he had disappeared. Checked out their (The GH's..) record store just about 50 ft. from the line, cause I thought the line wouldn't go anywhere. Yes it did. I stayed in the record store maybe 4 minutes when I came back out and 3 girls had slipped in. Well, let's just say they weren't THAT ugly... If you catch my drift..
Said some random things. Learned a good bit about how this was their 7th or so time seeing Relient K. How they were from San Diego and how they just went to Spirit Del Mar and Relient K was playing... This concert I had heard about maybe end of April. Thought it would be cool to go see R. K but then I found about this concert maybe 3 weeks ago and...... Just about jumped for joy. Actually I think I did. Much more than jump. As I was sitting there I got to meet John Warne and say I was a huge fan of them. He said, "Awesome! Well, we'll see you in there then!" grreat. Got to say hey to other members of the band, pretty neat.
The doors opened at 7pm for this thing and I got there at about a little before 3pm. So... Was there for quite a while. While there I saw what looked like RunnerRunner one of the other bands taking their equipment out of a trailor. HAH! What do you think I did? Yep, go up and say, "Hey! Are you guys RunnerRunner?" "yeah," one of them said, "I'm Nick. Nice to meet you." So of course, told him I was a big fan of theirs. That was pretty cool. So I see them later and I ask, "Hey Nick! You guys need help setting up? haha.." Of course all smiles, he says, "Umm, I think we're good..." Then I think he guessed that I knew what he was going to say and so he smiled to. wonderfull..
Fastforward a bit maybe 2 hours.. The girls from San Diego got pizza from one of their parents that had taken them all. Guess what? I guess I was just lucky. extremely. They offered me a piece. Oohh. So good. Pineapple, 'shrooms, and some great baken bits....(maybe it's just late...how do you spell baken??? the food...?!) Loved it. Wonderfull slice.
Well, finally the doors opened at 7. PHEW! The longest day of my life. The best part: RUNNING into the concert hall. Yeah since I was like number 20 in line I was. Totally. In front. For RunnerRunner I was one person from the railing. Wow. I was a little amazed myself. Thought surely I would get rammed and shoved and trampled to the back of the room. Almost did. You'll have to wait for that part. So I stood there, near the San Diego girls (hah, of course!...) and these other chicks, one high schooler and one jeunior in college....?! Definitely high schooler to me, but...That's America. Oh well. Then we waited. and waited. and waited. AND WAITED. WOW! That was the longest hour of my life. Then finally! RunnerRunner appears. Okay, so basically like I said, I was there. Just THERE!! In the front, singing along with almost all 4 or 5 of their songs they did. Pretty awesomeness as I had met one of them and a couple of them caught my eye. Okay, so maybe I am being rediculous. Maybe, I'm being a teenage drama queen and kinda freaked out that I was so close and got to sing WITH them. I mean, it was almost that way. A few of them looked at me quite a bit. Probably because of the fact that I just looked so strange and was singing with them. Oh well. That's Theo.
Gotta back track again. I found out there was another girl there that had 7 siblings like me. She brightened up when I said I had 7 as well and she asked, "Ohh! Are you Mormon? (sp..?)" I immediately retort, "NO! Nono.." And she goes, "Oh, well I am.." Oops.. Awkward for a second. Attempted to cover up my mistake and say something lame like, "Oh, well that's, coo l.." Not sure what to say there.. Anyway, she was interesting. IN LOVE with Adam Young (singer for Owl City). That was cool, standing next to people that knew Owl City as well as me, singing all the lyrics. Yes. awesome.
Now to keep on rolling. Owl City took a while to set up and it got scairy when they started to have technical difficulties. YIKES! But it was fine, OWL CITY WAS JUST....Incredible. And what makes it cooler? A girl gave me her spot cause she was just there for RunnerRunner. Friend of theirs or something. It was great, and then I guess some Aisian thought i was just skinny and said, "Can I come up too?" Kinda squished but, managed. So there I was, singing my life away with Owl City just 10 or 15 ft. away. Sadly, the girl that he normally has sing a few songs with him wasn't there. Oh well, it was still... GREAT!!!
Then...at 9:50 or 9:55 (supposed to be 9:45) R. K. Then. You. Know. What. Broke. Loose. Yes, Hell. OH my goodness gracious!!! Suddenly, out of the blue, a shoving and pushing like never before. Suddenly all these people around me (LIKE there was any room!!!) and pushing pushing me against a steel bar. It wasn't that bad, well.. Probably just because I got to sing WITH (there it is again...that, not really TRUE "with" but, it was kinda with..) R. K. Mainly Jon Schneck singing with me, but they all did. Great fun. But this was during: pushing and trampling. Not me, pushing, but getting pushed upon. At one point (no, that's a lie...several times this happened) I could have sworn there was a girl that had her arms basically around my waist. Not sure if that was because there was not room for her to put them down orr......... Um, anybody wanna help me with this?
Relient K's song just about... Rocked!!!! At one point Thiessen said, "Okay this song we're gonna play, just to play it." Sadly they didn't do the words, but they did the NICE intro for yes, that great show: The Office. Also did Subway $5 ft. long... Grreat silliness, but it was great!! The greatest was at the end when they go, "Okay last song." Of course we all "awwned" they walked off. That lasted.... Maybe 4 or 5 minutes, meanwhile we're all shouting at the top of our lungs, "ONE MORE SONG!" It worked. Came out and did Deathbed which is what I really wanted them to do. Wonderful.
After the amazing show, I walk kinda trample out of there to go buy a RunnerRunner CD for a buck. Pretty awesome. It has like 5 songs..? Yep, the band was selling the merchandise for their band (RunnerRunner that is..) and Peter (hah, the one that kinda looks like a Jonas.....HOWEVER, just a wee bit......better. Maybe.. OR not!! Maybe, LOADS better! Dumploads better!!!) sold one to me and after I said, "Really, awesome job tonight! Loved it!!!" He says, "Hey yeah, thanks for singing with us!" well.. yeah. I don't need to say what I feel. These periods I hope, speak for themselves.
Oh boy, it's late. Umm, found my mom okay, so that's good. Feel like there was some more happening that night....... OH!!!
So, as I was in the front with R. K I of course could hear the crowd as well and Relient K did a lot of their more Christian songs. So great because it got me to thinking. Do all these people really understand what Relient K is all about? Do they know what they mean and do they, themself, know what they sing when they sing with Relient K, "I, am the way. Follow me and Take my hand...etc." or how about, "I need you, I need you here, I need you now, I need security somehow, I need you, Like you would not believe, You're the only thing I want, Cause you're everything, everything I need.." Definitely saw some girls tonight singing it to the WRONG Man (Thiessen.... *sigh*) Course, there's nothing really wrong. But if you don't understand the song, yep, you're going to take it like it sounds at first.
So lastly, I'm going to end on a really positive note and that is that: I had a really great time tonight and not just being in the front and singing at the top of my lungs was the best part. Sure that was awesome. But what was so cool was the worship. I could definitely feel Christ working on me and in a really really good way. Makes me wish I could write lyrics as powerful and be a main singer for a band. In the meantime I'm continuing to listen for what God wants me to do. We shall see.
Hopefully this wasn't too much bragging, and if you have reached the end of this blog and have read it...Con stinkin' grats!!!! And.. You don't have a life now. BUT, thanks. Appreciate it. Starstruc. IS the word for me. I never thought this day would actually come. God definitely made It possible once again. "I need you! wooahh! I need you here I need you NOW!.."