So yesterday my family did something that I will remember for the rest of my life. Something that I feel everyone should do, because it will give you an awesome memory you will carry for the rest of your life, remembering it long after the event occurred. Yesterday Jeremy, Mom, Dad, and I went to a rolling stones concert!
So we left the house at around 6:30, which was a tad late. Mom had agreed to let the church women’s organization to host a dinner party in our home, so we had to wait for the first couple of guests to arrive before we got there. So we set off to Giant’s stadium, ready to see the Stones. The ride there was a piece of cake. No traffic or anything. However while it only takes half an hour to get from my house to giants stadium, it takes an hour to get from the exit off the highway to the stadium itself. Yes, I don’t know why New Jersey designed their economic hot spot to have more roundabouts then an English racetrack, but they did. And the one mile strip of highway from the exit to the stadium parking lot was backed up unbelievably. Normally this would be a pain, but one word made it quite fun....hustlers.
Yes hustlers, as my brother calls them. Unlicenced vendors selling stuff ranging from ice cream, unofficial rolling stones t shirts, spare tickets, and whatever else. These people amused me quite a deal, especially the way they were standing in the middle of the road trying to sell their goods to passing cars. It was, creepy, but neat at the same time.
So we got to Giants Stadium after just missing the opening act by some other band (which I didn’t really care about anyway ) and everyone said we should get dinner. In an effort to get out of the house in time, we had left without getting dinner. I wasn’t going to get anything, seeing everything they serve at those places are always loaded with more grease than New York autoshop. However my mom always get freaked whenever I said I didn’t eat anything, so I got a giant pretzel in the end. Well when all of our cheap grease fast food was rung up by the cashier, it was $40 . Truly overpricing. And the beers my parents got costed $7 too, and they bought those separately.
But the food was the only thing that could have possibly annoyed me that whole evening. After we took our food to our seat and sat down, we waited for about 10 minutes before the diamond before the lights went dark, the crowd cheered, the diamond vision played a cool video with the rolling stones logo. Then two massive fireworks went off and you heard Mick Jagger sing, “Start it up!” and then the crowd cheered even louder as the show began.
Oh my the whole concert was awesome. They sang for two and a half hours, and nailed every song they played. They played some old stuff, some new stuff, and some stuff they would have to play no matter what. They sang Shattered pretty early on, and I’ve had that stuck in my head all day. And then they played Tumbling Dice, which will always be one of my favorites of theirs. When they introduced all the backup singers playing with them, they decided to humor us by introducing the actual members of the rolling stones as if they needed an introduction. Me and my brother went crazy when they introduced Watts (he’s our favorite ^^). And by went crazy, I mean WENT CRAZY. We were screaming and yelling (Jeremy was actually yelling, “I love you Charlie!”), mom was afraid we’d fall over the balcony, and dad was sooooo embarrassed (but when girls started throwing their bras onto the stage he realized that our spaz attack was nothing compared to what some stones fans do). When they were playing Rough Justice from their new album, a small section of the stage actually moved forward, taking the entire band into the center of the audience! And even better, when they were playing Honkie Tonk Women, the stage rolled back, and they inflated a giant rolling stones logo behind them! And then they played sympathy for the devil (my favorites stones song) and the stage was pumping out massive amounts of fire while shooting off red fireworks and sending smoke everywhere. It was AAAAAAAAWWWWWWSSSSSOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEE!!!!!!!
And later they played Jumping Back Flash, and the audience went nuts (my dad included ), and everyone was dancing and singing along. I was quite surprised when they sang I Can’t get No Satisfaction. But my mom was hoping for that song, so she went nuts when they played it. And they pretended like the show was over, before playing I Know It’s Only Rock n Roll But I Like It. They then shot off the fireworks, Charlie threw his drumsticks to the audience, and they left, leaving all of us in awe.
Afterwards, mom bought us some Long sleeve t shirts and posters, then I got some sleep on the car ride home, still hearing them playing in my dreams....
I'll never do that again.....wait, what did I do?
Then I came home and carried out the highlight of my Saturday...seeing Naruto premier on Toonami!!!!! I swear it was awesome. They kept nearly all of translations (turns out they decided to NOT call the Hokage "head leaf ninja"), kept the violence (Iruka got stabbed twice, and they only censored out a little bit of the blood XD), and they kept the sexy no jutsu (which to me is the most surprising). The voice acting was on perfect in my opinion, and the theme song was left as uncorny as possible (just a bunch of awesome battle scenes from the show accompanied by some guys screaming "unleash your soul!" every now and again). I <3 this series more than I ever did!
