current song: offspring - self esteem
current mood: still stuck in last night's

offspring fucking rocked!
k, so as many of you know i got two free offspring tickets for last nights show at the toronto opera house. i gave the other one to paul, a buddy from university. so we left around 6:45 in the cold with 4 t-shirts on and nothing else. got there about 7:30, we were late due to subway delays. apparently some dude jumped on the track or something. so we stood in line shivering cold for quite a long time. there was some guy in front of us who was a complete loser. he was drinking some mixture out of a coke bottle, smoking a lot of pot and looked like a bum. not to mention he was missing at least one tooth. the doors were supposed to open around 8 but didn't open till around 8:20 or so.

once we got inside, we evaded coat check because it was a loooong line and waste of time and we didn't bring costs for this exact reason. so we walked up to almost the front, where we saw stoner guy standing there screaming like the idiot he was. we waited, and waited while the roadies did there thing. and finally the offspring came on.

now, i am a big fan of offspring's old stuff and don't really like there new stuff. which is good, because they only played ONE song from their past two albums.

before they started playing, dexter, the lead singer and he plays guitar as well, had a sip of his beer, and i decided to shout 'why you drinking that budweiser crap? get a canadian beer!"... he had a little snicker and then proceeded to play 'All I want', which kicked ass.

did i mention that there was no barrier between the crowd and the band? i spoke with head of security, and he told me the band requested not to have it. so if you get over the crowd you could get on stage. so did i take full advantage of this? hell yeh i did. i went up like 3-4 times per song and then proceeded to jump into the crowd and body surf. I would just get up there, jump up and down next to one of the band memebers, playing some guitar with him and then find a suitable place to jump on a bunch of people. man it kicked some serious ass.

and now i know you are all wondering, you must've been drunk. hellll no. i went to this thing sober as fuck. no way i was going to let alcohol ruin this for me. i remember the whole thing.

so the night went on like this allll night, me running up on stage, staying up for 30 seconds and then jumping in the crowd every chance i could get. it kicked ass, seriouslly.

so some of the more memorable things:

at one point dexter laid his beer down in front of the crowd and said "now you won't touch that will ya?" fuck no dude i grabbed that shit had a sip and tossed it on the audience.

another point some weird-o jumped up on stage after a song, i think he had a pick or something and asked dexter to sign it. dexter told him later and noodles (the other guitar player) said "dude we don't come bother you at burger king while you're working" lol .....

all in all they played all my favorite songs plus two crappy ones which i don't really like. pretty fly for a white guy and hit that (the latter being from their new album which comes out dec 9 in north america).

at some point in the night i started talking to head of security, who was the biggest guy there. he was like 6'8". i asked him "dude do you actually do so-called 'security'?" he said no, he just causes shit. at one point he launched me into the fucking crowd. wow that was fun...

so did i have a good time 'dancing' (i quoted that becuase it is not dancing by any stretch of an imagination), crowd surfing, drinking dexter's beer, and having a good time?? well FUCK YES I DID. that was prolly one of the best concerts I ever went to. anywho, back to work....