Why I Love Concerts So Gosh Darn Much

I am a lucky girl.

My sister Angela paid for me and my roommate Kenzie to go to the Imagine Dragons concert in St. Geezy {St. George} on Thursday.

Needless to say, I loved it.

A few reasons why concerts rock my socks:

One. When else do you get to scream at the top of your lungs when someone asks you how you're doing? Never just concerts.

Two. Concerts are the only place where instant friends are made because you and another person decided to team up against that meany pants that is trying to steal your front row spot.
Three. You get to dance like a crazy person and people think you are cool.
Four. You get to scream your favorite songs and strain your vocal chords and blow your ears out.
Five. Being at a concert is pure bliss.

Exactly.

Concerts rock.

The two bands that opened for them were kinda...

um...

Sketchy??

But having said that I didn't have to like them to appreciate them.

Meaning...

The first band was like one of those high school garage bands that makes so much noise the neighbors move away.

Hard on the ears right?

But the bass guy had AWESOME dance moves that I plan to use freely at any time of my life.

Second even though my ears were bleeding his fingers moved up and down the fret board with incredible speed.

So even though it wasn't my cup of cocoa, he was talented.

The second band started playing and I thought spirits were rising out of the ground.

Freaky music I tell ya!!

Their last song was somewhat decent and then all of a sudden the guy picked up a megaphone and started screaming into it.

I was thinking 'Hide your kids, hide your wives, their killin everyone's ear drums up in here!'

But the thing I could appreciate was in one song their drummer did this really cool thing that I have never seen before...

He played the drums with a tamberine!

Well done creepy band. Well done.

*A clap from me*

Then the fire works went off when Imagine Dragons came out.

{figuratively of course}

They were phomenal!

Their opening song was "Round and Round"

Dan Reynolds is the singer and he has this HUGE drum...

Every time he started to play it there was so much passion emanating from him.

It was tangible and you could feel it.

Seriously amazing.

They did a song called Radio Active, again just great.

Dan was going crazy on his drum and he ended up splitting his finger open.

When the song was over he laughed and said "St. George you guys are CRAZY! I will never forget you. I will always think of you when I see the blood spatter on my drum."

Dan wrote the song It's Time.

He told us it was inspired by a period in his life that was difficult and he was trying to decided what path he would be taking in life; that is when he chose music. 

This song was my favorite.

He stopped singing the lyrics and the crowd sang the chores back to him.

Those are my favorite concert moments, because everyone is united through the words of the song.

At one point he yelled out "St. George what do you like to do for fun?"

and some kid said "go to the temple!"

Dan laughed for a very long time and said "oh man I love you guys St. George!"

 

For one of the songs Dan came out in the crowd and was dancing with everyone.

That was fun.

Look 'em up they are great.

It's Time

Jenny Phillips

Came to Cedar City yesterday.

She is amazing and inspirational.

She shared some stories from her life and her testimony.

She is a strong daughter of God and has a tangible spirit about her.

Listening to her beautiful music made me want to strive to be the best I can be.

Sample some of her music here and be uplifted.

Also this little video is amazing and makes me smile.

It's called moments that matter most.

Watch it and let your heart be touched.

I just wanted to share these things because they make me happy and give me the strength to stand as a witness of God at all time, in all things, and in all places.

I hope they can bring a little peace and happiness to you today too.

Now on the the funny stuff.
Yesterday.
What a wild goose chase of a day it was.
Let's begin with communications class.
That is always a good place to start.
I walked into the class room and Bill Clinton was staring me dowwwwwwn!
Ok he had sun glasses on so I couldn't really tell if he was looking at me.
But whatev's.
Oh and he was holding a saxophone and he was made of 100% cardboard.
Class was great yada yada yada...
When Brogan and I were leaving class and he swept good ol' Billy right off his feet and away the three of us went... to Arctic Circle.
Needless to say we got plenty of odd looks;
which didn't bother either of us because Brogan and I like to do social experiments and weird people out just a bit.

Check it our guys, I'm a vampire!

Later that night I went to the stake talent show and Nsync came on stage.
They rocked my world.
Ali and I had a blast and sang our little hearts out.
They SHOULD have won, they were a crowd pleaser.

The night ended with chilling at the rock wall, riding in the back of a truck in the freezing cold, making French toast, blowing up Mark's house {joking}, a dance party, Call of Duty, and walking home and seeing scary drunk guys.
"Ladies get your keys ready to gouge their eyes out if we have too!"
We made it safely home, no worries.

Shout Out

to the man, not boy, man who was rocking out to his headphones at breakfast today.

He had a jig in his step while he got his cereal and had some serious head banging going on.

I've always wanted to sing and dance with my iPod in public.

Oh wait... I do.

When I work out I mouth the words to the songs I'm listening to {facial expressions included} and bob my head a bit.

I get strange looks.

But HEY whatever gets me to the gym and working out is a good thing.

K peeps!

Sometimes I see people leaning over on their treadmills to tell their friends to look at me.
They point, they giggle.
and in my mind they lean a little too far and the treadmill belt carries them away, then I'M pointing and giggling.
Now what chica's?

Back to the subject...

This happy man is my hero.

He brightened my day and I just can't help but wonder what song he was listening to.

I wanna hear it.

If you saw someone who couldn't bear to keep their music to themselves because it was just so gosh darn great wouldn't you want to hear that song too?

Yep, yep, yep.

SOOOOOO do me a little favor and leave me the title of your favorite song in a comment box below.

Pretty please with an ice cream sundae on top.

You will be rewarded tenfold.

I can say that because if you do someone else will too and then there will be an abundance of good songs to listen to.

I guess I'll start with Between Sundays.
Happy song sharing dear frienders :)

Neverland

Today I am in Neverland.

I can't focus my attention on anything for longer than 2 seconds.

I keep falling into a state daydream limbo.

I figure maybe if i sit down and type it out I'll be able to be somewhat productive today.

Music is the language of the heart.

When I hear a song that touches me down to the core I walk around in a Daze for days, pondering the words that penetrated my soul so deeply.

This happen to me last night.

I went to a benefit concert for Camp Kesem, a week long summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer.

I think the cause is heroic.

Sometimes life hands out the most bitter of lemons that force you to grow up and be responsible for things way over your head.

This camp is a beautiful thing.

These kids get to forget their problems for a week and JUST be kids.

Stunningly beautiful.

So as you can see my heart was very open to be touched when the local band Little Big Heart put me in the this state of contemplation.

Before this life changing song came to life they said to let all the people in your life that you care about know how you feel. Life moves too fast and sometimes we forget the people we love.

I knew the tears were coming.

The music filled the room and I squeezed my eyes shut.

I don't remember any of the words... BUT I remember that the words caused me to think and to feel overwhelming love in my heart.

When a song has the magnitude to move you to tears you otta think about heading its message.
This is me doing just that.

You know those people that you love with your whole heart?

The ones that you love SO much it hurts.

and you know when distance and time has separated you from those people?

Well there are some people in my life like that.

When a friend comes into my life they will always be a part of it in some way.

Even if we haven't talked in eon's they cross my mind every now and then and I hope with all of my being that they are happy.

Every person I've been close to has changed me with their love.

I am the sum of the parts of the people who have shaped me, and I will never forget them.

Life takes us down different paths,

but no matter the path taken, I can make a promise, if there ever comes a time in your life when you need a friend I will move heaven and earth for you.

I mean what I say, and I say what I feel.

When I give my word it's better than a contract etched into stone.

I know there is a person that popped into your mind when you read this.

Pick up the phone and call them.

I know that's a scary thought when it's someone you've lost touch with, but isn't that our purpose here?

To take care and love one another.

Today is the day to conquer fear of the unknown.

Stalked

First and foremost I wanna get some thoughts out of my mind.

Where do house cats go when they roam around the neighborhood?

Do they have their favorite hangout spots?

The first thing I’m going to do when I get home: duct tape a video camera to a cat.

Don't y'all think that would be so interesting?

Almost as cool as finding life on mars?

Personally, I think so.

But not as cool as what I am about to disclose to you in 2.2 seconds.

Last night…

I stalked David Archuleta.

He came to Cedar for a Christmas show.

Yes, my cute little town of almost nothingness!!

My sister that lives in Chicago informed me of this.

It’s lame that SUU didn’t advertise it :(

The first thing I did when I found out was text Mark:

"Wanna try to stalk someone with Kenz and me tonight??"

"Ummmmm yes!! who?"

"David Archuleta."

"Riiiiiight.... care to explain?"

Can you believe he doubted me???

I am appalled!

But he made up for it when he waited outside the Heritage Center with us for four hours.

We jammed out to Taylor Swift, ate Hot 'n Ready Pizza, and played the face game.

Kenz and I vowed that when he came out we wouldn't turn into crazed girls and scream our lungs out.

HAAAA!

Yeah right!! That lasted about 5.2 seconds.

A ton of girls jumped on the poor guy and he scrambled onto his bus and drove away.

So since we're not crazed fans at all, we followed his bus.

Almost to St. George.

But Mark turned around, which I don't wanna talk about because I'm still upset about it.

Can you believe I ALMOST met Davey!!!

Be jealous Mamma!! :)

Stake out

A few photo's from the face game

Poor guy, stuck with us crazies for four hours

This is the only picture we got, we waited an etenity for this :) not to mention, he didn't even sign Mark's receipt for me :(

I jumped in this lady's photo, if anyone see's a similar one floating around on Facebook {with David's face in it} let me know. I'd like a copy.

I am also at http://myloveaffairwithcountry.blogspot.com/

Dearest Jason Aldean

I am kinda POed at you.
Like, really.
On cyber Monday I bought an $8 shirt because you promised it would come with a FREE wide open DVD.
That was false and my heart is broken.
You owe me BIG brotha!!
Like free backstage passes to one of your concerts.
Or a kiss on the cheek?
Maybe that one is pushin it a little.
Regardless, I will be expecting something so pay up!
Thanks, I love you :)

-Your slightly angry fan :)

p.s. the shirt is pretty cute... so I'm slightly happy too :)