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Honor Society August 15

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Although Katie graduated from college in 2006 and I graduated from college in 2007, we both decided to go back to school one more time on August 15th. Our teachers were none other than Honor Society. They performed in front of an all ages audience at the School of Rock East in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

The bus — er — car ride to New Jersey was no ordinary car ride. As we were driving into the city, I noticed that the sun was leaving us and we were heading into a storm. I got a little excited while we were driving over the George Washington Bridge because the sky was dark and greenish and there were bolts of lightning. In my eyes, it was gorgeous, so I had to take pictures:


Of course, the entire time we were driving over the bridge I was yelling to Katie “Look at that!,” “Do you see the color in the sky?!,” “It’s not even dark over Manhattan!” Did I mention that Katie was driving?

As soon as we passed over the bridge, the sky opened up. It was raining so hard that everyone reduced their speed by 20 mph. It was insane. We couldn’t even pull over because there wasn’t a shoulder.


When we hit South Hackensack, the rain had let up, but the sky was still dark and dreary-looking. We drove to McDonald’s to make a pit stop and to eat (well, I ate because I was starving). Then we headed to the School of Rock. We sat in the parking lot for awhile and watched as girls began to form a line. It began to rain again and a guy walked out (everyone was actually standing at a secondary door), looked at everyone and asked why they weren’t home, since there was a…… tornado warning!!!!!
That explains why the sky was so green. Anyway, after this guy told the girls that there was a tornado warning, the girls were allowed to go inside through the other door (the real entrance) in School of Rock.
Honor Society was the first band to perform. We got to see the guys set up, do a soundcheck and of course rock out!

The set list for the show was as follows:
This Bed Is An Ocean
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Why Didn’t I?
No Win Situation
Two Rebels
Nobody Has To Know
The Takeover
See U In The Dark

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Jonas Brothers August 10

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After being in the 3-D movie, and since we were already in the city (and it was raining – or we’d have done a double decker bus tour) we decided to see if we could get tickets for the “sold out” show that evening.

And we could! and they weren’t that bad of seats!

And then during Demi’s set a boy came and sat next to me!

 

And I thought, this is a weird, a 20something boy is sitting near me and he was not dragged here by a sister or a girlfriend… he is all alone.

Then a girl from a section over comes by and is like “Are you Silas from Weeds?” and he said “yes” and she said “I love that show! Can i get a picture!” (Although at the time I heard “Are you Cyrus from….”)

They took a picture and then he slouched down in his seat. (He is Hunter Parrish, currently in Spring Awakening) but he seemed to be into Demi’s set. After she was done, he left.

The set was basically the same as Hartford, except they were “filming” for the 3-D movie (but I didn’t see any cameras?) and therefore special guest Taylor Swift had to come out and she sang “Should Have Said No” with the boys.

We somehow managed to get out of MSG in like 5 seconds (how, I dont know) hopped in a cab and made our way back to CT. Our train car was FULL of girls who were at the show too so that was cool. (But none of them knew who Hunter was so that was a mystery for a day or so lol)

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Jonas Brothers 3-D Movie August 10

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Have you ever been on the freight elevator at Madison Square Garden? Or how about on the jumbo screens? I have!

Friday at work I entered a Jonas contest through their fanclub, Team Jonas. For some reason after I finished entering I IMed the intern (appropriately named Joe) and told him “I just entered a Jonas Brothers contest.. and I just KNOW I’m going to win it”

Well, I didn’t win. But I did get an email about a different event that I had “won” my way into. The email was vague and it was secretive. We had to meet at MSG on the 10th at noon, no later. We would see a special performance that would be filmed. and if we told anyone, Big Rob would be sent to destroy us.

We waited in line for a while and they sent us in in groups of like 25 or 30. We had a mom and daughter in front of us and for some reason that is when wristband guy decided to go from yellow to pink. We weren’t sure what that meant.

We waited in another line and then were taken through the depths of MSG to the freight elevator. We got out and went past the Family Room (no sign of Frankie though) and then were brought into the floor of MSG. First we were told to go up to the seats, but the section filled and a woman told us to go to the seats up front they were filling.

First we were in the 5th row like 2 people from the catwalk, but the director or whoever he was had us move to the second row of first row. (They packed in 2 rows of people) and I was right next to the cat walk. You could see our tiny heads on the jumbo screen but really if you weren’t there with us, you wouldn’t know it was us.

The guys went though a bunch of scenes 2 or 3 times. Which was cool because you could watch the first take, figure out where a good picture point would be and take it on the 2nd or 3rd. (As long as there was no flash. If not you’d get kicked out)

This seemed to take forever. Then for A Little Bit Longer we had to fill in the section behind Nick so it looked like people were there. After that, we were done.

All our stuff was still in the front row (we were told not to take it) and then when we went to get it – got yelled at. Everyone on set was flipping out that we HAD TO LEAVE! and I was like wtf.. we just gave you free labor and now you’re going to yell at us? But Kevin realized that they were being stupid and was like “Thank you guys for coming!” Good save Kevin, good save.

Some highlights..
“Fake Jonas” was taking photos in one of the upper sections and Kevin was like “FAKE JONAS!” and they waved. They looked good when they were way up there but later they came down and looked nothing like Jonas.

One one take before they introduced Demi – Joe said “give it up for our friend, snufflupagaus” (and i butchered that spelling, but it was funny just the same)

 

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Honor Society July 10

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Lauren and I went down to Westport to a teen center to see Honor Society! While the show was in CT we did still have to travel about a half an hour from my house.

We paid our lovely $6 admission (over the weekend it was $12 to see them. love it.) and went in and grabbed a seat.

After the first bands set Micheal came over to us to say hi and that we could go shopping and then come back to see them because they were supposed to be on at 9:30, but it might have been sooner. But we hung around to check out the other bands.

A couple of other bands played (The Suns, Fourth World Nation, The Blue Pages) and then it was time for Honor Society!

For their set, we moved to a table because all the girls went up close so we were taller than them on the stools. They had a ton of technical issues so the guy from Blue Pages was getting everyone to sign up for the Blue Pages email list. He asked if we were from CT and he didn’t believe us when we said yes! I asked if he wanted to check our IDs, and he said “I might!” haha but all the other girls were from NY/NJ and follow the band, he told us. (Little did he know, we do too! It just happened to be that the show was in Connecticut!)

The guys played a short set of:
In This Club (Intro)
This Bed Is An Ocean
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Why Didn’t I?
No Win Situation
Nobody Has To Know
The Takeover
See U In The Dark

After the show we talked with Jason, Andrew and Alex and got pictures! (We had already gotten pics with Michael earlier) We didn’t know when we’d be seeing them again, but hoped it would be soon!

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Honor Society July 5

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I’m not going to lie. I had no idea who Honor Society was when Lauren asked me to go see them. I had checked out their myspace briefly, but my computer has no sound so I had no idea what I was in for. I really only agreed because I can’t turn down a trip to the city and because I really wanted to find some more of those “Statues on Parade” that were promoting the All Star Game at Yankee Stadium.

I listened to their EP on Lauren’s iPod on the way to the show and it wasn’t half bad. But I still wasn’t sure if I was even going to count it as a concert – if I did, it would be my 100th show and that was a, well, honor… not for just anyone.

About halfway through the set, I fell in love. This band seemed to be everything I was looking for in that moment. I’m not sure if I even told Lauren “I love them” after the show, but if I didn’t say it out loud, I certainly was thinking it.

Usually I am really good about keeping a setlist (because I am a scrapbooker and need to include them in my layouts), but since I went into this show thinking I was just going to erase it from memory after it was over, I was totally unprepared. They played nearly an hour set though – so I would imagine it was most, if not all, of their songs. Look for setlists from here on out though, especially now since I know the names of most of the songs! ha.

Afterwards, we hung around a bit to try and say hi to the guys. Unfortunately, when it comes to shows in the city we are forced to plan the evening around the trains back home. While we could have taken a train an hour later – it would have put us back in CT really late (or really early, depending on how you look at it) and we decided we just weren’t up for that. But before we left we decided that we would absolutely be going to the show in CT the next week!

And with that… our journey officially began. And my first Honor Society show became my 100th concert ever.

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Blake Lewis June 24

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Lauren and I went to NYC to Blake Lewis in concert – but we were also going to be put to work by Real Magic TV . The site was going to be filming the show with 20 small flip cameras and 2 HD cameras so we had to man 2 of the flips out in the crowd!

News had broke a day or two before that Blake had been dropped from his record label. While we were waiting for Jonathan of Real Magic TV to show up, MTV News was outside filming interviews with fans about what they thought of him being dropped.

We were let inside early to set up, and MTV News was interviewing Blake about being dropped, so we just sat there and watched everything. Then Blake started setting up the stage and we started setting up cameras!

 

Blake put on a really good show, but unfortunately we couldn’t meet him afterwards because we had to catch a decent train so we weren’t getting home really late!

Brianna Taylor of The Real World opened.

 

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Hanson May 3

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May 3rd was my final Hanson show of The Walk Tour. It was in Lancaster, PA. I went with my friend Marisa, originally from Jersey but now living in PA.

We decided that we wanted to scope out where the buses were and perhaps hang out by them and miss Kate’s performance (but I didn’t want to miss SK6ers). We walked around the block and got to the buses, where there was a very small crowd also waiting.

Marisa decided she wanted to head across the street to get some chips and salsa. Of course, as she is waiting to cross the street with her back to me, Zac and Taylor walk by. She gets back and is mad that she missed them.

We eat our chips. The trash can is just beyond the bus door. Marisa goes to throw the trash out and Zac gets off the bus and is following her down the sidewalk, while I am having trouble containing myself because we knew that was going to happen!

All 3 guys end up going by several times and then we decide to head inside.

 

Except this venue is strange and only can let so many people on the main floor (and the balcony already had people all around it so you wouldnt be able to see a thing) and until someone else left you’d have to wait in the stairwell.

We talked to the guys to go in to buy merch and get my HNet card scanned. Then we got in line in the stairwell hoping that we wouldn’t miss too much of the SK6ers set.

This had to have been the strangest venue Ive ever been in. But we got a spot near a wall and could kind of see (When the 3 girls in front of us weren’t all taking pictures at the same time. wtf) and stayed there until the encore.

We left and went back to the bus, but it was raining. We had a prime spot, right in front of the bus doors. The guys all walked by us and got on the bus and the rain seemed to let up, but their tour manager, Tim, came out and said they wouldn’t be signing in this weather. We hung around for a little bit to chat with friends, but ultimately decided to believe Tim (which was the right thing to do) and headed out.

As we were leaving, we passed Kate Voegele and told her we enjoyed her set (even though we hadn’t seen it at all… but she did the same set every show so if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all) and she said thanks. Later we followed her bus (accidentally, i swear) down the street for a little bit.

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Hanson April 29

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I headed to New Jersey after work. I got to the parking lot across the street and took a quick nap. Marisa and her sister were going to the show too but coming late so I was going to wait for them. Once I realized they’d probably be missing SK6ers, I decided to head in. I caught the tail end of Kate’s set.

This night was one of my favorite SK6ers sets. Maybe because I was so far back by the bar no one could bother me and I could see over everyone and wasn’t getting pushed all over the place, I don’t know.

I never did find Marisa or Beckie for that matter during Hanson’s or anyone’s sets, and I didn’t stop by to say hi to SK6ers like I had hoped to.

 

Marisa and her sister left after the encore to secure us spots by the barricade. After the show I went out and met up with them. This show had started an hour earlier so it was only 11 when it was over as opposed to the usual 12 that seemed to be the norm.

But 12 rolled around and pizza got delivered to the bus and it was then we knew it was going to be awhile and we had stuff to do the next day like.. more fun times at work.

So we left. Turns out Taylor came out and took photos with everyone and Isaac came out as well. Not a huge deal since it was Zac I wanted another photo with…

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Hanson April 26

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The real story of this show is what happened after in the parking lot and not so much what happened during the show.

Natalie and I spent the night in the car in the parking lot. I didn’t feel like sleeping on the sidewalk (across the street from the beach) if I couldn’t do the walk and therefore couldn’t get stamped to get in early. So we stayed in the comfort of the lovely Randy Taylor (my car).

When we woke up, we headed to find a Dunkin Donuts. When we got back, our spot was gone and the bus had shown up. We found a new parking spot and just chilled in the car.

We got out so Natalie could go on the walk, and i had spotted some elongated penny machines so of course I had to get myself a set from them. So that is what I did while they were on the walk. Then I situated myself to get some great photos when the guys came back and Taylor gave another speech.

Natalie and I played some arcade games and then went back to the car to chill before the show.

And Zac decided the parking lot was his playground.

 

He was playing with air-soft rifles with some of the roadies and Boots from SK6ers. At one point he was RIGHT next to the car, so Natalie yells “GET ‘EM ZAC” and he looks at us SO CONFUSED. I was taking photos of Zac being all stealth.

Later, he comes back to the car and asks us what we are doing. We told him just chilling and asked him what HE was doing. “Blowing off steam before the show” he told us. We chatted a bit about the BBs that were in the gun. (They hurt. He got hit on his nail earlier and it was still stinging)

We introduced ourselves and he reached into the car to shake my hand. Yes, Zac Hanson was “in” my car. Natalie got a photo with him and I was too shocked to ask. At least I was able to speak in coherent sentences.

After that, we decided it would be a good time to head inside. Where I got yelled at because a guy saw a flash and assumed it was me. I assure you dude, I did not have my flash on.

Later, I got in trouble because my zoom was too big. Dude. I am in the BACK of the place my zoom is about equal to if I had a disposable in the front row at this point – and I need GOOD photos for my scrapbook! I asked him if I didn’t zoom if I could still take pictures and he said yes… so once he disappeared I zoomed in again. I dont know who I was hurting by zooming anyway. Maybe the guy was just jealous of my zoom.

 

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