You may be asking yourself, how was Josh's halloween in Anchorage? And how was the concert?
My fellow reader/friend, prepare to get your mind guts disemboweled, Let me tell you.
My halloween was spent in Anchorage. It was quite laid back. I painted my face a little, had fun, went to a Holiday (gas station in Alaska only I think..) as the Joker from Batman, and wore an Angry Birds mask in a Fred Meyers. I have pics, I may post some, I may not. But it was a legit halloween.
That so called introduction, you can think of that as the cracking of your skull. Here comes the frantic disembowelment.
The concert is definitely the highlight of this trip. As you may have read in one of my previous blog posts, I mentioned of going to Anchorage for halloween for this concert. And I did.
The morning of the concert was quite a haze. As in I couldn't figure out what I needed or what I needed to do that day before the concert. Anyways, after all that was established, me, my mom, (yeah my mom went to a 36 CF concert. She is cool.) her boyfriend Jamie, and my Uncle Jeremy took a cab to the Egan Center in Anchorage. This was where the epic concert took place. After we all got to the Egan Center, my cousin Teddy called me and said that the cab driver ditched him and the cab company wouldn't pick him back up. He was at a Carrs store across town. He was not very happy but in the end, after I told my mom and Jamie to go inside while I wait for Teddy outside, he made it to the Egan Center. I then gave him his ticket so he can get in, and we entered the Egan Center. I was put on a list for free entry into the concert...
And a backstage pass.
The backstage pass was a total surprise. They put a yellow band on my wrist and said "Have fun."
I didn't find out I could go backstage with it until I asked the security guard standing in front of the door leading backstage. He was like "Yup." then stepped out of my way.
Me being a noob (Noob: [noun] Rookie that doesn't know anything.) about this backstage business I started walking towards the entrance backstage and expected to be tackled by some crazy security guard that just got done praying to another god in an angry fashion and hates his job. I have an irregular mind that makes me fear silly things. I was saying things like "yeah ok. here i go. walking backstage. im going in now."
I made it.
There was a bunch of things I did backstage I'm only naming a few. I hung out with one of the opening bands of Zombiefist. Their band name is Noise Brigade. They are pretty cool. I shook hands with all of them and bought an awesome Angry Birds mask from one of the band members. It was already signed by them. Another thing I did was meet 36 crazyfists. That was nothing short of AWESOME! I think I can cross that out on the bucket list. Along with another thing maybe.
But there was this one person that pretty much ruined the concert for me. Her name was "Annoying drunk or retarded 4 foot tall chick with nothing but a beach bikini on." She was convinced that the spot I was in was the best seat in the house and would not quit punching and biting my back. Or pulling my hair. And right when I had enough, I turned around and she was over some other guys shoulders and was tossed in the mosh pit. Her punishment was due but my revenge was not accomplished. I was mad.
And this is my second favorite moment of the concert. The first being me meeting 36, of course. But this moment felt like one of those "what in the world just happened" moments.
Here it goes.
I was in the mosh pit doing what everyone else was doing. Having fun and moshing obviously but in the middle of this awesomeness I noticed a little tiny looking figure. This thing looked like one of the members of the lollipop guild if one of the members took a time machine to the future. That thing couldn't have been more than 2 years old! And it was in a mosh pit of all places it should have been!! What the heck was it doing at a 36 Crazyfists concert you may ask? I don't know either. It truly amazed me to my core. I assumed it was a small child trying to be cute by dressing as a character from the Wizard of Oz. As I was creepin on this little elf looking fellow, someone finally took initiative and picked him up to escort him to a more appropriate place. I'm guessing. But as the "baby" got picked up by the dude, the thing yelled "PUT ME DOWN ***HOLE!"
It was a midgit dressed up as a baby.
O EM Goodness my friends, that was the best moment of my life aside from meeting 36. That is one for the books.
So that's how the concert was. Crazy 4 foot tall chicks in bikini's and little imposter midgets.
The rest of my trip was nice. I went to the movies with some friends, loitered at the malls, pretty basic stuff for a teenager like my self.
Overall I had fun. I never did get to go on a smashing pumpkin streak though... Mainly because where I stayed was in the ghetto part of town. Hearing gunshots was mandatory. It was so mandatory that my friend timed all the gunshots so when the gunshot at 3 PM goes off, it's time to go to work at the Holiday mini mart down the street. That's gangsta right there.
You can pick up the remains of your brain now.
