A widowed writer, torn apart by chains of Hell
One last perfect verse Is still the same old song
Oh Christ, how I hate what I have become
Take me home
Getaway, runaway, fly away
Lead me astray, to dreamer’s hideaway
I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
Forgive me, I have but two faces
One for the world, One for God
Save me I cannot cry ’cause the shoulder cries more
I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world
My home was there and then
Those meadows of heaven
Adventure-filled days One with every smiling face
Please, no more words
Thoughts from a severed head
No more praise
Tell me once my heart goes right"
- The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish
First off, let me say Happy Birthday to Anette Olzon.
The lead singer of the Finnish band, Nightwish(she's Swedish just to clear that,
because someone ALWAYS says to me,
she doesn't look Finnish, well to hell with you because she's not).
Next, I want to explain my blog titles-since no one seems to get them.
The title is always the name of an episode Torri Higginson was
in of Stargate: Atlantis,
starting from her last episode and eventually I'll get to the first.
Why didn't I go beginning to end? No idea,
but usually the title seems to go with what I'm feeling or blogging about.
Which today's works because it's Sunday.
And I knew I wanted to do one today because it's Anette's birthday,
and she's a part of one of the big things I'll be writing about today.
But yes, Sunday is an episode name of Stargate: Atlantis.
It's season 3 and Carson dies. Sorry if I spoiled that for anyone,
but don't feel bad he comes back...Torri didn't after she was killed off...stupid.
Anyway, so I haven't blogged in awhile, a little over a month to be exact.
And in a month, a lot of things happen.
BIG THINGS. Two to be exact. Both occurring on what would have been the
happiest day of my life: May 6, 2009.
On May 6th I had it planned to be going with a couple of my two best friends,
Erin and Alex, to go see mine and Alex's ALL TIME FAVORITE band- Nightwish.
This was a HUGE deal. Nightwish is like I said,
a Finnish symphonic metal band. If you don't get what that means,
it means that they don't come to the U.S. that often.
They apparently never center much of their tour to coming to America.
Then with getting a new singer, and with that comes a little bit of a different style of music,
it was quoted that they were going to focus a lot more of
their 3 year long Dark Passion Play Tour, on the U.S.
They did, they came to at least 5 states in 2007, 2008, and then now 2009.
One such state in 2009 was to be Kentucky.
They were coming to Louisville, Kentucky to play at Club Oasis.
They were that close to Ohio, and me and Alex saw
the best and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
For 5 months, we planned and asked for ways to make it happen.
Not until 4 days before the concert did someone volunteer to take us
that Wednesday- Erin's mum who would be getting out of the hospital that day
from delivering her second child.
Yeah, probably not a good idea, but I think I can safely say we were desperate.
So, back to May 6th, we were totally pumped,
I think I was pretty crazy at school- I know Alex and I both were yelling,
"PRAISE NIGHTWISH!!!"
in the school hallways...we also did that at
the mall three days before...good times.
So I get home after school, 2:50, Erin is supposed to be coming
with her mum around 3:00. It's almost a 3 hour drive, and we wanted to get there early.
The doors opened at 7:00, and with the concert starting at 8:00.
Anyway, I got home and my step-dad was at the table and announced
that my great grandma Claire, a two year sufferer of cancer, had passed that morning...
So safe to say that after that, I really needed this concert...well it's also
safe to say that I was pissed that Erin didn't get to my house until after 5:00...WTH?!?
An almost three hour drive and plus getting
Alex who lives 45 minutes away. Yeah, crap were we gonna be late.
We may miss the opening band, no big deal,
but if we missed Nightwish I cannot tell you what I would have done.
So, speeding down the highway, I think we got there around 8:30 and man
were me and Alex psyched.
NIGHTWISH HADN'T PLAYED YET!!!
Hell, the opening band hadn't even gone on yet; not that it was so great,
some band called Volbeat, and I'm totally never becoming a fan,
it's like bad sreamo 80's wanna-be.
So we link hands, with Alex leading and me in the middle,
and head into the crowd in front of the stage...somehow we managed to lose Erin...
I think she didn't want to pass the guy who as we passed kept on
muttering, "Naw man, there ain't no room up there" in his annoying hick voice.
Where she went, I can honestly say I don't know,
because we were sure as hell not moving.
At around 9:30 Volbeat stopped and the crew started to set-up Nightwish.
Then Alex got a call from Erin on her cell, from her mum's car,
that she went back to might I add(probably right when we got separated I'm thinking)and
you wouldn't believe what she said...that we were leaving at 10:30.
NIGHTWISH CAME ON AT 10:00!!!
Counting opening conversation with the crowd,
we would have only heard two songs- 7 Days to the Wolves and Dead to the World.
But as the clock came time to go, Amaranth came on.
That was at the time my favorite Nightwish
song(considering I hadn't heard very much off their new CD yet),
and there was not a chance in hell I was missing it.
But yes, after it was over we left...3 songs I heard...out of 10 plus 2 encores...
*Setlist for Concert*
7 Days to the Wolves
Dead to the World
Amaranth
Romanticide
The Islander
The Poet And The Pendulum
Nemo
Sahara
While Your Lips Are Still Red
Dark Chest Of Wonders
Encore:
Creek Mary's Blood (w/ special guest John Two Hawks)
Wish I Had An Angel
I think what pissed me off the most was that played what are now some of my favorite songs
and the fact that I found out that there was a Meet and Greet before the concert...
and if we hadn't been running late Alex would have met Tuomas(writer/keys),
her role model for his amazing lyrics...and
I would have meet Anette Olzon.
You have no idea how much I hate this...that woman's voice is amazing
and her singing is like story telling and she has such a god-sent gifted voice...
and I missed that...and I hate that I missed it.
Neither me nor Alex went to school the next day...never got
a clear answer on why we had to leave- I was told different then my mum,
who was told that it was because it was the drinking.
IT WAS AT CLUB OASIS! What do you think they're serving?!?
Not like we 16 year old's could pass for 21 with the big black permanent "X"s on our arms
and no I.D.'s. Anyway why drink?!?
So I could forget what should have been the most amazing day of my life???
Didn't seem like a good idea then, but by now, with thinking about it everyday,
listening to the music over and over, it looks like a good idea now...
So the two big things have moved to three-
#1- My grandma died...enough said...
#2- I missed the best band in the world
#3- I missed meeting the person who has the
most inspiring voice
I've heard, that has been
a role model
for me and my continuation of music in my future...
Here's some video clips of two of the songs we heard-
7 DAYS TO THE WOLVES
DEAD TO THE WORLD
Then I recorded all of the other song-
Amaranth
*Warning-it was my other friend's camera,
and during 7 Days to the Wolves, I was just learning how to use it.
I have tons of photos, just let me know
if you guys want to see them, they're also in my MySpace photo album.
