likebluecup: angel ir3 review

�For like the fourth time ever. Again, awesomeness was had. I shouldapos;ve blogged about it last night when it was fresh in my mind but it was 3am and I had to go to bed. Srsly.

It was at Club Firestone in Orlando. I heard from some people that it was old and rickety, but when I�got there it was the exact opposite. Very slick, clean, modern. Strobelights, disco ball, even little mirrors in the bathroom with things like hearts and arrows cut into them. Iapos;d definitely go back, nice atmosphere. The only complaints I have are the smoke. Not just people smoking inside, but this smoke machine that would go off every five minutes or so. Irritating.

The first band was this band called These�Green Eyes, who I didnapos;t know about until I got there. They werenapos;t bad, they were actually kinda good. I always say that about the opening bands. I never know what theyapos;re going to be like, but I�quite liked them. I just didnapos;t have enough money to buy their CD afterwards...(I need to buy my $30 chorus shoes...priorities) But still good, still enjoyed it.

Then was about a half-hour wait for HH. During that wait,�this random lady compliments me on my Harajuku Lovers bag�(I later found out her name was Adrienne). We get into this long winded conversation about Gwen Stefani and how much we love her up until HH�take the stage. At least it wasnapos;t awkward haha.

HH�Setlist:
321
Niki FM
Saying Sorry
The Transition
Somewhere In Between (acoustic)
Screenwriting an Apology (acoustic)
Four Become One (acoustic)
Pens and Needles
Rescue Me
Ohio is for Lovers

Nothing too eventful, but still a good HH�show. Micah being a card as usual (JT on the smoke machine:�"Thereapos;s a lot of smoke in here." Micah:�"Is that the room or just us?" Oh Micah, you try.). Eron completely disappearing during the acoustic set, and mysteriously popping back up for Pens and Needles. Matt talking to a guy backstage. JT�urging everyone to vote ("I�see a lot of 72-year-old rich guys in the room..."). Playing Four Become�One for Casey (very sweet). It was awkward to go to that show without Casey. It was just off. It didnapos;t exactly feel like an HH�show to me�(probably because it was at 9pm). But I�got over it quickly.

Then I actually got to meet the band. First JT. Heapos;s such a cool guy. He looks even better in person than he does in pictures (hell, they all do). He didnapos;t even care how blinding the flash on my cameraphone is. Or how long it took to set my flash up. Damn phone.

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Then while Iapos;m getting set up with JT, Eron suddenly pops up next to me (and you know how I�feel about him) and�I think to myself, "Whoa�How did he get there?�I�didnapos;t even see him come out...". He mustapos;ve gotten off the bus, instead of using what I�call "the commoner doors"�where everyone else got out. I think JT and Micah did too�(Matt never came out...hmm. Eron couldnapos;t even explain why he wasnapos;t out there). So once Adrienne and I�are done with JT, we get pics with Eron. I guess Adrienne doesnapos;t have the steadiest hand so it turned out a big pile of motion blur. I didnapos;t see it though until I got to talking to Micah.

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Oh Micah Micah Micah. Heapos;s a regular Chatty Cathy. He is the absolute nicest guy on the face of the planet. THE�nicest person�Iapos;ve ever met (next to Jon in front ensemble, or Alisonapos;s brother Andrew in the trombone section). So gracious. I remember trying to turn my flash on and accidentally taking a picture of the floor doing so. He then asks me, "Did you just take a picture of the floor?"�Then he offers to take the picture for us, saying he "has longer arms"�(is that the secret to MySpace angles?). Didnapos;t work out totally well.

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so someone else took the pic for us and all was well and good.

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Then I�went back to Eron, as he was chatting up a guy about stuff. The guy asked where they were going�("Fort Lauderdale, then Tallahassee). He asked if his wife came along, to which he replied that she only goes to the cool places�(LA, NY, etc). I said Iapos;d do the same thing. May as well take advantage of the opportunity, I guess�(does that make me a bad person?). After the guy left, I asked Eron if I�could get another pic with him after the last pic was botched. He kindly accepted and someone took the pic for us. Fortunately it turned out well. Yay

Did I mention heapos;s gorgeous? Oh, yeah.

So after that I�went back to talk to Micah some more, because Eron and JT had left, and again, Micahapos;s a talker. I felt awkward sitting by myself. He didnapos;t mind my eavesdropping. After a while he had to leave too, which meant I�had to leave. I�said my goodbyes and called Brandon to pick me up. Afterward I was doomed to listen to Kanye West all the way home (I couldnapos;t have my iPod on because I needed to be able to hear when Brandon needed toll money). What a pretentious prick, that Kanye.

Regardless, quite a night. It all happened so fast though. I�wish I couldapos;ve gotten home that fast...damn 3am.

Alex.
[and you will live on]