We'd been excited about this since it was announced. Did the pre-sale thing and got great seats. Then Trent started tweeting contests for tickets and backstage passes. It seemed like we could never win. Some of our twitter peeps got passes and such. While I was happy for them I was also really jealous. I was getting ticked that we couldn't get any. I felt like a jerk for being jealous, but I was.
Well, a little less than a week before our show Trent announced an amazing opportunity. A chance to meet the band AND help someone who is fighting for their life. So, I donated $300 to save this man's life. In fact, a lot of people did. To the tune of over $800,000. So many that Trent had to stop the donations. Too many people to accommodate.
But we got ours in. So, we got to meet TR and have something signed. But what? 4 CDs survived my teen years. And only one CD jacket. I contemplated having them sign my tour shirt from '95. But, meh. I may want to wear it again. The day before the show we got two new CDs to be signed. Me: The Downward Spiral. Jaye: The Slip. It was so fitting. Old fan and new fan. *tear*
The day of the show we hopped into The Slip Car and headed to KC. No snafus. No bad directions. There were even fucking SIGNS this time. No ticket problems. We got to meet Deighe and Casee waiting to be let in. We even saw the dude from the Columbia show who was so low on sleep that he started hallucinating. He said he got more sleep this time.
The meet and greet.... OMG. I was able to make some small talk with Robin and Justin but I had things I was going to say to Trent and they all went out the window. Embarrassing. I said... "It's so amazing to meet you!" "Can you sign this?" "Thank you!" and that was fucking it. God. Jaye talked to TR more than I did, she even told him about The Slip Car. He asked her to send him a picture of it. While we were waiting for the signing to stop and the pictures to start I told Jaye what I wanted to say to TR for the pic. I chickened out. Jaye didn't...
Rob Sheridan walked in to take the pics. He's too cute. Anyway, when it was our turn we went up and Jaye said "Put Trent between the lesbians." Totally my joke. What I was going to say was "It's not like in the movies, huh?" but Justin, who was on my left started laughing so hard. I think that set TR off. He was trying to stay ready for the pic but a chuckle came out. There I am standing there next to him and he fucking chortled. It was seriously the most surreal thing that has ever happened to me.
I think we recovered nicely for the pic.. huh?
After the pics were taken and we were finally led back from backstage we got our merch, a funnel cake, and got to our seats. Amazing view. Tom Morello blew me away. Seriously. The things he can do with a guitar...
NIN was amazing, as always. I got some videos and pics. I was SOOOO happy that Jaye got to hear The Becoming. It's what she wanted most. I didn't get my song, but I had said before the show that I rather they play her song. ^_^ Thanks to the Ritalin I can remember songs(Maybe not in order, but I remember them without the aid of videos): Terrible Lie, Gave Up, Wish, The Way Out is Through, The Fragile, Echoplex, Physical, Hurt, March of the Pigs (I also remember that we got a flash of stomach too), Piggy, Now I'm Nothing, The Frail, The Wretched...
I was a little worn out by the time Jane's took the stage. I don't know much of their stuff. I was happy to go sit and relax up at the tables. I was getting tired of constantly having to move to let the couple next to us go to the bathroom and get more beer.
After the show we got to get some Waffle House with Deighe and Casee and their husbands and hang out and talk. It was cool to meet some twitterbitches. I want to meet you all! ^_^
So anyway.. Epic show. Amazing experience. And I'm a little worn out from writing three draining blogs in 3 hours or so. Maybe I'll edit this to make it better, but I'm sure you've all read Jaye's blog too to fill in the blanks.
