Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome, September 25th, 2005

Me, Kay (sister), Jordin (best friend), Sarah (brother's girlfriend), Brandon (brother in law), and Brian (brother) all went and we were so freakin' excited when we were driving in a piece of shit van that Brian had borrowed from his friend's dad. We couldn't stop talking about how awesome it was gonna be. We got lost for a few minutes 'cause my brother is a dumbass and doesn’t know the Tacoma area that much. Pretty trashy area, I must say. So when we get there, we get in this huuugely long line (even though we cut a few people) and we're walking, walking, walking, and about 20 mins later we're where they search you and then they tell us we're in the wrong line for general admission. How fun. So we search for the line for GA and when we got there, THERE WASN'T ANY LINE! And they didn't even search us! I was all "well this sucks... I could brought my camera...". They only asked "you don't have any cameras right?".

We get inside and Jimmy Eat World was playing. Jordin and I seriously wanted to get to the front so bad. So I tell Brandon that we wanna get closer and he tells us to go to the sides and cut through everyone. We do that, and we got so fucking close to the stage. I saw the girl I met at olive garden and wow, she does a horrible job on her eyeliner. Haha. We say hi, yadda, yadda. And then after about 2 more songs Jimmy Eat World goes off. So then the lights come on and after about 10 minutes of reading funny messages on a big screen people were sending from their phones, Jordin wants to get a shirt so my brother takes her to get a shirt for me and herself. They were gone for like... 45 minutes. Then when they came back, I put my awesome shirt on and like... 10-20 minutes later, green day comes on.

That's when the show finally fucking starts.

Now, when Green Day comes on, I could see Billie Joe PERFECTLY I saw Tre standing on his stool thingy too. I didn't see Mike, though. They start playing American Idiot and the crowd frickin goes insane. Everyone's jumping and singing along. I'm pretty sure Billie did the "HEYY OHHH" thing during American Idiot. Can't remember too clearly, though. Then they start playing Jesus Of Suburbia, then Holiday and at one point during the concert, Billie Joe told a little story about their first time in Washington and that he named Longview after Longview, Washington. They played 2000 Light Years Away and I could seriously hear myself singing. Pshhhh, the people I was standing next to sucked. During Wake Me Up When September Ends, I asked Sarah for her cell phone and secretly called my parents. Haha. My mom said she could hear everyone singing along and stuff. Wake Me Up When September Ends is her favorite song so I thought it'd be a nice surprise.

During Knowledge, Billie seriously can hold a fucking note for a long ass time. When he was picking people for the parts, he picked this sorta chubby guy for the drums, he was awesome. He picked this sorta scrawny dude for bass. He fucked up when he started playing and Billie had this "WTF?" look. Haha. But then he got it right after a couple seconds on making a fool of himself. THEN Billie picked the guitarist. Holy shit, he was awesome! It was his 20th birthday and stuff I think. He was pretty hot, too. He was seriously amazing. And then after they were done, the guitarist asked if he could keep the guitar (oh yeah... Billie kissed him before he started playing. The guy was like.. A head taller than Billie Joe) and Billie Joe said "You wanna keep the guitar?" Guy: "Yeah. Can I?" (Something along those lines). Billie: "Yeah, happy birthday!".

During We Are the Champions, Billie had everyone hold up their lighters and cell phones. I thought it looked really pretty. And yeah... towards the end of the song, confetti was fucking everywhere. I got 4 pieces of it. Yay.

Set list (not in order. well some of it is..):

American Idiot
Jesus of Suburbia
Holiday
Are We The Waiting
St. Jimmy
Maria
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
2000 Light Years Away
Knowledge
Shout
Stand By Me
She
We Are The Champions
Minority
Basket Case
Longview
Hitchin' A Ride
Brain Stew
Jaded
King For A Day
Good Riddance


Quotes and highlights:

- Billie Joe (introducing himself): And I'm.... (insert cheers here) George W. Bush! (insert boos here). But my friends call me Asshole!"
- Billie Joe jacking off on stage: first, he was doing the 'hey-o' thing and then he started saying 'o' and we kept repeating til we all realized what he was doing. That was hilarious. 'Course, the o's kept getting worse and worse. Haha. My brother in law was laughing his ass off.
- during Holiday Billie Joe said that it was a big fuck you to George W. bush.
- Billie Joe mooning everyone during King for a Day.
- Billie played the harmonica in Minority

There were tons more but that's all I can remember.

And there was this smelly guy next to me. He was short and he tried to get passed me but I elbowed him saying "Nuh uh. Ain't happening."

Yeah, so it was the best night ever.

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