The Concert Last Night

The concert last night was amazing. I will start out with the trip up there. We left Rice at 12:30. The trip takes about four hours without any traffic. We made it there a little quicker than that but we stopped at a Dairy Queen along the way so it ended up being about four hours. We got to the Lakewood Theater where the concert was to be held at 4:30 and there were eight people in line before us! So we sat down in line to wait for two and a half hours until the concert doors opened. The line got really long but it was great because we were guaranteed to get front row seats. The doors opened at about 7:20 and we all ran in and got a place right in front of the stage. It was awesome. The opening band was called My Brightest Diamond. The lead singer was a woman who was pretty good. She kind of sounded like Bjork. The music was pretty slow though, so it didn't make much sense to have a band that doesn't really warm up the crowd. She only played for about half an hour. Then we waited about twenty minutes for Sufjan to move around his stuff on the stage. At one point he actually came out during set up and was messing with a guitar and it took a little while for everyone to realize that it was him on stage. So a lot of people cheered and I got some photos. Then he went back stage again and then at around 9:25 the band came on stage. They all had these little uniforms that were kind of military-like and were wearing butterfly wings. It was really cool. Then Sufjan came out looking awesome. He had on the same uniform with eagle wings. He is so freaking awesome. When he came out I kept saying, "He is so freaking cool. I want to be like him." He got on the piano for the first song and played one of his more noisy songs. I don't really like any of those songs so I wasn't getting into it that much. Then he got up and introduced himself and started playing his guitar. He was literally three feet away from me. The concert was awesome. I wish that he had played more of the songs that I like. I really like one of his albums that is a lot more folk and not so noisy but he played a lot of the noisier ones. He did play my two favorite songs though, "The Predatory Wasp of The Palisades is Out to Get Us" and "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." The concert ended and sadly I didn't get to touch him. I was waving my hands around as he passed right in front of me but I didn't succeed.

I am going to update my photos later tonight, but now it is time to eat.