Screaming, "ANBERLIN ANBERLIN"

So yes, Monday, October 27th, 2008. AMAZING CONCERT! My goodness Anberlin never fails to amaze me.

There For Tomorrow, Straylight Run, and Scary Kids Scaring Kids opened up for them. They were all pretty good in their own way. Although it was weird when my friends were obsessing over the boys. Hahaha. Same human flesh, just better looking apparently. HAHA.

Anberlin came up, and I swear the moment I started to see band members pop up on the stage, I was going to freak out! They are so good live.

But, I must say, one thing almost killed the concert for me. I was standing up front, beside a girl and her friend. During the song "Adelaide" I noticed that the girl's friend had started to bleed everywhere from her head. She was pulled out from the audience and rushed out. The girl I was standing beside started to cry, and I didn't know what to say, nor sing. Literally, I was speechless, and for those few brief minutes, I couldn't sing. All I could tell her was "She'll be alright, I know it." I question now if I was telling the truth that I hope was true, or if I was lying to her, not even knowing how serious the situation may have been. The girl was pulled out to be with her friend, and all I said was, "good luck." Luck... why luck? Why'd I say luck? All I could've said, it was. I prayed for a moment, just for God to simply be with her and her friend. So if by chance, that girl is reading this blog, I sincerely hope and pray that you and your friend are alright, and I pray that God would just be there for you, no matter what happens.

But show must go on right? The rest of the concert was amazing, and they played FIN. My absolute favourite song of all time, next to Paperthin Hymn, and a few others.

We met with the band members of some of the bands a little later after the concert. Met up with Stephen Christian, and amazingly, he remembered the email I sent him from a few weeks ago! I thought with the flood of emails he receives all the time, he wouldn't remember me at all, and he did. Stephen, you are the man. Hope you don't mind if I keep sending you song lyrics for your personal input!

God, thank you for creating such amazing bands and calling them to what they're doing now. Heck, God, thanks for MUSIC in general. Who would have thought that music would take up this much of my time and life? Of course, God will continue to occupy my life, but music is one of the ways that I get to have a nice cup of hot chocolate with Him. Awesome sauce.

"Patron saint, aren't we all lost to you?" - [*Fin] - Anberlin.

Well, anyways, I gotta get to bed, and learn to sleep earlier.

"Se despierta, el alma!"