tiesto

met up with gene, dave, vy and dave at gene's place in san carlos and then headed up to the city. the civic center turned out to be a great place for a tiesto concert! i had never been there before. there were at least 5 huge screens displaying artistic videos to complement the music. although one note from linh's andy - they really could use better looking guys for the videos. andy suggests chip and dales over the scrawny excuses of men that they had. andy says he will contact the concert organizers and remedy this problem for future concerts. haha. andy is completely straight by the way.

the music was awesome since he played a lot of his old stuff. however i kinda felt that i had way more fun with diana's crowd at armin. none of them were there at tiesto because they didn't buy tickets at the cheaper rate and last minute tix were 75 bux. diana would have gone but she had to work sat nite. i really missed her at the concert. :( at armin we were all jumping around and putting our hands in the air together. at tiesto the group got all split up and the energy was totally dif. people were just kinda doing their own thing and enjoying the music.

there were also a few downers of the nite. since i wasn't really feelin the energy and i didn't want to stay out too late, i tried to leave early with cindy at 1:30AM. (concert goes until 3:30AM) but stupid me, as we were driving out of the parking garage i remember that my purse is still in gene's car - with my keys - and so i have to go back inside and just go home with gene. but then at the door, i discover there are no ins and outs! wtf! so i beg and a security guard says that if i can remember how to find my ride, then she will escort me to him, i can then get his keys, get my purse and then return his keys. in my head i know this is too much trouble since cindy and DC are waiting for me to go inside so they can drive home and i don't want to make them wait 30 more min while i find gene, get his keys, retrieve my purse and return his keys. however, i play along with the guard hoping i can beg my way into getting back in shortly. however, she doesn't let me in even after initial begging. "cmon - i was trying to be good and go home early. i'm not drunk and not on drugs like some other people here. i made a stupid mistake, please can u let this go just the once and let me back in? prettyyyy pullllleeeeezzzzz??"
however she says she can't because her supervisor saw her let me in while being escorted so she will get into trouble if she doesn't escort me out.
so i continue playing along...
we go through the crowd on the main floor. she asks me what gene is wearing - i lie and say he's an asian guy with a black shirt cuz there are a million asian guys with black shirts. in actuality, gene is really noticeable with his long hair(longer than mine) and gray hurley shirt. i see gene but pretend i don't. the thought crosses my mind to just run into the crowd because she would never find me if i did. but i don't want to get her into trouble cuz that would suck if i were her.
so i continue playing along...
i say i can't find him and she says she has to check in upstairs. i follow her and do more pleading all along the way - "i'm a good girl, i just wanted to go home early but i was stupid and forgot my purse."
she still doesn't budge and says she needs to escort me out. i think to myself - sheesh! she's so heartless! there are so many people here, nobody will notice that i didn't pay to stay for only 2 more hours of concert! afterall it started at 8pm and it's now 1:45AM. she then says she will escort me to the smoking section and she tells a guard not to let me back in. *&^#*&^! what to do now?
but then....i go outside, walk around a little, and notice there is another entrance on the other side of the smoking section. so...was she nice and is giving me a way back in? or was she mean and told all the guards what i look like and not to let me back in. (tall asian girl in a green shirt is pretty easy to spot). i wait...see dave and gene. gene scopes out the entrance and sees no guard fitting her description. then the boys crowd around me and we quickly make our way in hoping not to be stopped. we got back in with no problems! turned out she was nice and gave me a way back in. boy was i glad i didn't make a run for it earlier since, knowing me, i probably would have been caught somehow.

the rest of the concert was ok. i would have enjoyed it better if i wasn't feeling so bad for troubling everyone over my stupidity. also i wasn't really feeling it without diana and friends. the energy was just different. the music was still really good, but i almost felt like if i just went into the crowd without my friends that i would have had more fun. we are all older nowadays and nobody wanted to get all gross and sweaty in front of the DJ. but to me, that's the perfect place to be at these concerts! ah well. i think i'm retired now - got the trance outta my system. well...maybe until wmc. hehe.

another bad thing that happened though. after we parked gene's car, dave noted how there was broken glass and that someone must have had their window broken into in the past. but we didn't think it would happen again since those things are random rite? wrong. when we got back to the car, gene's window was smashed and a jacket with keys and a bag of pennies was taken. luckily nobody left any money and my purse was locked safely int he trunk. hooray for lexus safety mechanisms which prevent burglars from opening the doors and trunk without the key close to the car. and you know how for some reason i always get flat tires? (as in i will almost always get at least 1 or 2 flat tires each year - and no i'm not driving over construction sites.) well gene always has people break his windows of his cars. it can be a crappy car, a expensive car, safe neighborhood, doesn't matter. he gets his car broken into once a year. guess those weird things just happen. either that or someone is following me around putting nails in my tires and someone is following him around smashing his car windows. but i really doubt anyone has the energy and time to follow me around since i'm always driving to far far away places likes union city.