dashboard_confessional_live frAnk we were a bit torn. the white stripes were playing the same night at M, so dennis and jamie went there. beth, fyn, hilary, and i went to club laga on the university of pittsburgh campus to see chris carrabba. the show opened with a band called seafood from the u.k. they were already playing when we arrived. beth was immediately smitten, such a sucker for the british accent. they were very good, but the set was way too short. Ben Kweller from nyc was next. he reminded me somehow of beck, just out of the subway in the very earliest of days. his stage presence was interesting, like he was having the time of his life and he knew it. the show was sold-out, of course, and we were fucking sardines, but the crowd was tender. when The Anniversary came on the mosh was pitting, but minor. they kicked ass. i would go see them by themselves. and then dashboard confessional. fuck! i felt like i was in an Interactive Generation choir. every word from every song, i mean, EVERY SINGLE ONE, was sung by the crowd. he stood up there beaming with pride and warmth, sometimes just playing while his complicated broken-hearted choruses like, "don't you see/don't you see/that the charade is over?/and all the Best Deceptions and the Clever Cover Story awards/goto you/So kiss me hard 'cause this will be the klast time that i let you." were sung meticulously by the swelling, mesmerized, fixated crowd of worshippers. as the passionate songs of cracked romances twisted by clever imagery continued, carrabba soaked it in and seemed very comfortable. chicks were swooning and calling out, "i love you, chris!" and he was all, "i love you, too." i must admit i thought of yummy c and silentbob during the show. it twould have been very cool to have them there. by the way, sb, alkaline trio is coming to laga in a few weeks, and the dead kennedys in may. i'll definately be at both shows. 020331 ... ilovepatsajak that just made me want to go see him 020331 ... silentbob frank, i love your interests, and i love that you saw dashboard and that you had a good time, and i love that you are going to see alkaline trio, cuz they are fucking amazing... but when you go to the dead kennedys show you should know something. it isn't the same singer. it isn't jello biafra. he didn't want to go on tour and make money simply for a nostalgia tour. And none of the money for the show will go to the dead kennedys original label, it goes to the label the other members made up to spite jello because he didn't want to use a DK song in a jeans ad. If you go, i won't think any less of you, i'd in fact be envious that you were in the same room with the othe rmembers. I just wanted you to know, it's not going to be the same. 020331 ... bethany april 3 webster theatre $12.50 but... i'm relaly going coz ben kweller is opening 020331 ... fallen hero I was at the show as well Frank.... a little dissapointed from when I saw him there a few months back. He's grown arrogant- and that's no surprise. I would be to if 2,000 screaming fans all sung my music in perfect unison!! I Still have mad respect for the guy! and his music will always be a part of my life as it has been for the past few years. I feel so selfish that i hate Chris' new found fan base. Those darn MTV teenie boppers need to run back to N'SYNC, Brittany and Blink182. He deserves it so much though. Touring 235 days out of the year. I feel like the new fans who haven't been there with Chris all along are robbing him- and me and the rest of us who have felt his pains as he screams those notes that should and would blow out any other persons voice. It kind of angers me that all the people who asked me what kind of msuic I liked asked "What's EMO"?, now seem to be in love with this sensation called Dashboard COnfessional. I guess Chris isn't full of himself, he's just conquored his stage fright and now is more comfortable up there. Maybe I just want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he's turning into a rock star. Maybe I'm a bigger jerk than I thought. Chris still signed autographs but the crowd was so huge this time he coudln't get personal. way back when- I talked with him for half an hour after the concert. His merch costs more. Not his fault though ( I hope) Probably the silly record label. Chris is a great guy though. He's a Christian and that's cool. It's more thna cool.. it'ssuper cool. I hope some day he'll incorporate that into his concerts. Everybody needs to hear about Jesus!!! Alright Chris- I'm still with ya man. I'm with ya all the way. 020331 ... fallen hero i feel better now. hey frank- were you the fella i asked if he knew Zack, the guy who graduated from my school? The kid who made the Oakland Zoo shirts. 020331 ... frAnk i've made shirts, but not oakland zoo ones, although the highland park zoo is very cool, ever since they put in the aquarium. i was the one with the most beautiful girls beside me. 020401 ... so fucking lost driving in the dark all alone only thing to keep me company are the lights on the dashboard. the stars are too far away to speak to cold impersonal light busy with whatever they do not bothered by me or mine. out here, the radio splutters to a fiz and the songs echoing in my head dont seem right/ no wildlife out here this time of night only roadkill, and its toolate to meet up with them. dead splattered and still alone. i have nothing to confess now nothing particular, anyway. i guess im just not the person i thought i wouod be and even after all this time im not sure who i thought i was, who i think i am and some days i feel i shouldnt blather drunk. 020401 what's it to you? who go blather from