LIAH #1049

i went to go see green day for the 3rd time tonight. considering the shows before it were at giants stadium, and webster hall, could today possibly top them? a show somewhere deep in jersey? yes.
first of all, due to the entire state of new jersey's complete stupidity myself and Lord Vader completely took advantage of this venue. first they had everyone line up outside a gate, and the jersians were keeping track of who came first. some random dude was marking people. then word is we need to move to the box office, so we bounce way up front. for those keeping track, my "number" at first was 65. so we get slightly closer waiting at the box office because the lines split up into alphabetical? will call? once i again i don't know it's fucking new jersey. anyway, so we wait all day, but really we're waiting for this dude to come to pick up the tickets because we bought them from a broker. some dude almost at the front was buying his tickets from this guy to, so when it came time to get it our "party" had to be together. so boom. practically at the front. then we wait in some other line. pretty much, we got lucky, and i ended up getting the best spot in the entire venue. not an exaggeration at all, literally the best spot in the arena. dead center, on the gate, right across from billie joe armstrong. i went from "65" to 1. BOOM.
afi opened, eh. girl's not grey was cool. i guess? i lost interest in them about 5 years ago and it only took about 5 minutes for me to lose interest in their set. lame.
but then green day came on, and put on the best set i ever saw from them. they played about 4 songs from their new album and then just kicked into a 2 and a half hour dive through their collection. they played burnout, nice guys finish last, 2000 light years away, when i come around, she. FANTASTIC. they played a couple of american idiot songs but including give me novacaine and extraordinary girl. rarish songs. songs i really wanted to hear live.
i got billie joe's pick and his kazoo. not kidding. best green day concert. epic.