Tonight, I went to The BrickHouse in Phoenix to see my all time favorite band, Jimmy Eat World. The tickets were free with the pre-order of their new CD, Futures. It took me a while to find the place, and I had to make a pit stop at a really shady Circle K in Phoenix to get money. Phoenix is just a bad city. I mean that in the nicest of way, but it still sucks. In what kind of city can you drive down the street, hell, an AVENUE, at 7 pm, on a monday night, and NOT SEE ANYONE? Restaraunts, Bars, Stores, all there, but sans people. Plus, instead of defaulting to a layout like new york and using streets and avenues, Phoenix had to be patriotic. Phoenix had to name a street after every president. Nothing is as frustrating as trying to figure out which president comes after Taft, and where “Central Ave” intersects it. I’ll leave out the obscenity filled sentence I yelled after finding out Van Buren was one way.
Once I got to the Brickhouse, I found a place to park that was only 5 bucks. Knowing full well what parking can cost in New York, I was super happy with how that went. I stood on a line for a while with a lot of people. It’s weird standing in a line of people alone. Not bad, just weird. After what seemed forever, they let us in. I managed to get a spot up by the stage, just a few feet from the ledge. I’m talking close. Super close. Watch out for sweat close. The band that opened was called Ruben’s Accomplice. They were good, but I was just too amped for Jimmy to enjoy it. They played like 7 songs.
Jimmy came on shortly after. They opened with what is probably my favorite song by them, “Get it faster”. God damn, it was just amazing. I was so close, and it was so loud, and I was so into it. After that, it was just a medley of my favorite songs.They also played some of the songs off of their new album. It was just unbelievable. I’m in Phoenix. I’m at an exclusive Jimmy Eat World Concert. I’m feet from the stage. I always kind of thought I’d go to my first Jimmy in concert with Molly, but that just wasn’t the case. I’m kind of thankful to her that she commandeered my computer and downloaded some of their stuff. She opened me up to a ton of new stuff, but I think of it all, Jimmy was the best. It always brings back really good memories of her when I listen to them. It brings back memories of a better time. I really kind of miss that.
Nevertheless, they played an excellent encore. Unforunately some retards thought it’d be cool to ‘mosh’ during a really slow song. I feel bad saying retard, but not really. When I refer to a person who’s mentally ill, I say challenged. However, these kids, were in fact retards.
The last song they played was “Sweetness”. I was yelling at the top of my lungs, “If you’re listening…..Whoaaaaa-oooo-ooo-oooo-ooooo”.
On the way out I picked up my advance copy of their new CD. It’s great.
I feel pretty god damn good right now.
Joshua Ziering