![]() ![]() At the front of the line, an older punk (probably in his 20s, but some of us were still teenagers) looked back on us, sporting his denim jacket with a full back patch of the Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose cover.Ī couple of alcoholic energy drinks, hours in line and opening bands later, I was ready to do my part. I was to lift Pat over the barricade sometime during the drum intro between the opening guitar chord and first line - and then follow him myself. Frankly, I wish I could remember what he said, but here’s the takeaway: His name was Pat, and he needed my help starting a mutiny as soon as the band launched into “We Laugh at Danger (And Break All the Rules).” ![]() ![]() It’s the last West Coast stop of their fall tour behind New Wave, and my dorm neighbor has kindly driven me from the Inland Empire to the venue (I didn’t have a car for my first semester of college) hours before doors opened, sticking around to see a band she’s never heard of.Īs I sip my original recipe Four Loko (I did have a fake ID my first semester of college) and avoid making eye contact with the handful of other punk kids who don’t have to work on a Tuesday afternoon, the skinny kid in front of me strikes up a conversation. (Alan Powell, Keith Everette Smith) © 2011 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing / Oomoo Music (BMI) All rights on behalf of Sony/ATV Tree Publishing and Oomoo Music administered by Sony/ATV.It’s October 28, 2008, and 18-year-old me is roughly third in line for Against Me!’s show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. So I'm running to you just as fast as I can I speak the language but still I can't understand I know that I will be on my way real soon I am a stranger in this world, just passing through ![]() Is the distance that remains between you and I Somewhere between where I started and right now Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main). ![]()
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