Cool show

Last night Matt and I went to a concert - Sum 41. They are a punk band and were very good performers. It was energetic, loud, obnoxious, I got stepped on, sweat on, pushed around...yeah, it was great. Throughout the evening I noticed a phenomenon that I have seen at many other punk shows - the circle pit. For those of you not schooled in the ways of punk, this is when a large circle appears in the crowd and (mostly) boys begin to move within the circle. It gets very violent, people get knocked down and there is a lot of slamming into one another.

I remember a concert that Bret and I went to in Freeport, IL. We went to see Mest and it was the most insane crowd either of us have seen. It was in the upstairs of a building, and the crowd was jumping up and down, we could feel the floor giving way beneath our feet. Kids were hanging off the rafters. There really wasn't any security so it was totally out of control. I had been pushed a few rows in front of Bret, and all the sudden there was nobody around me. Instead of thinking, 'cool', I thought, 'uh oh' and then the pit started. I got pushed and shoved and couldn't really tell which way was which at that point. As fast as it started, Bret grabbed my arm and yanked me out of the pit. Yeah, it was great.

Part of what is so appealing about punk shows is how the energy builds and spreads. You begin to feel connected to everyone on the floor. I know that sounds cheesy but I guess you'd have to be there to understand what I mean. :)