Fall Out Boy - Young Wild Things Tour - Orlando - November 1, 2007

I was pretty bummed the other day when I found out that Pete Wentz broke his ankle at Voodoo Fest in New Orleans.
I was bummed because I knew Pete wasn't going to be able to do his normal antics during their show when they played in Orlando.
Pete Wentz never lets me down though.
Last night was the best Fall Out Boy show ever, even with Pete's broken ankle.

I must begin by referencing the dimwitted nitwits that were behind us.

Her: "Hey, there's a big gap in front of you. Can I stand in it?"
Me: *thinking* Can I punch you in the face?
Me: "No."
Her: "Well can you stand in it?"
Me: "No. If there was space, I would already be standing in it."
Her: "Well, (she gets all snooty) you don't have to get attitude with me."
Me: *thinking* Well you don't have to get stupid with me. Dumbass. Do you really think that I am going to let you stand in front of me, when I'm on the second row? I think not.


There's really not much to say about the opening bands.
Cute Is What We Aim For was great.
Jeff Czum still looks like a puppy, and Shaant still has weird hair. No surprises there.
Plain White T's - Mom thinks one of the guys raided Patrick Stump's wardrobe.
I wanted to gouge my fucking eyes out. No surprises there.
My definition of "Hell" is being forced to listen to "Hey There Delilah"
If you ever want to torture me, just start singing that.
Gym Class Heroes - The girls standing in front of us obviously wanted to have Travis McCoy's babies.
Disashi doesn't look right with hair.
The bassist cut off his hair, and Mom thinks he looks like Tom Cruise.
Mom thinks the keyboardist raided Patrick Stump's wardrobe.
It's always fun watching GCH.


This is where I randomly mention the fact that JR from Less Than Jake and Chris from There For Tomorrow were at the show. More about JR later though.


I can't do justice to the feeling that I get when the lights go out and I know my heroes/idols/insert better term *here*/ are about to walk out on stage.
I always seem to think one thing as soon as they walk out on stage...
"They're real."
12 times seeing them, and I still don't believe it sometimes.
But they're still real.


They came out and started with "Sugar We're Goin Down".
Whenever I hear the song on the radio, I always end up singing "We're goin down tuu in a luuleelurah..."
But when I hear it live, I always manage to sing the right words ; )
I also see it as somewhat of a crime for people not to do the *lick lick salute* at the proper time.
I don't care how stupid I look, I always do the *lick lick salute*.


Major jaw-droppage when I realized they had moving platforms on stage.
That's not a good description.
Moving platforms...as in, those moving sidewalks like they have in airports...or....moving floor as in Jamiraqui's "Virtual Insanity" music video (well, not THAT high tech, but you catch my drift)

I can't even describe how big my smile gets when I see Pete raise his hands in the air and hear him say "Put your diamonds up, and stand for your national anthem" and they launch into "Grand Theft Autumn".
It's hard to think there was ever a time when we didn't put our diamonds up.
They've been doing that for so long now.
I remember the first time I ever put my diamonds up. I thought it was the coolest fucking thing in the world. I still think it is.
For anyone who doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about when I say "put your diamonds up", google the phrase, and you should find some pics.

I don't remember the order they did all the songs in, and I'm referring to an earlier setlist someone has posted, and the set in Orlando doesn't match that one, but whatever. I'll remember what I can...

They played one of my favorite songs from Cork Tree... "I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy, And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me"

I love it when they play "Thriller". I think that should be our national anthem 2.0

Everyone but Patrick disappeared for "Golden". The stage was dark, and all eyes were on Patrick. Afterwards, the whole band sat down and did an acoustic version of *can't remember which* "Gin Joints" or "Noboby puts baby...". Either way, it was a sit-down acoustic song. I felt like I was watching the B-Sides DVD. I love the footage of their acoustic house-party set on that DVD. I never thought I'd see them do anything like that live. Pete was all smiles during the song. It made my heart melt just a tad bit to see him so happy.

I was getting frustrated with the people in front of me. 4 kids on the front row, who weren't singing a single word to a single song (I'm teling you, they were only there because they wanted to have Travis McCoy's babies!). I kind of wanted to claw their eyes out and tell them to leave. I think I might have anger issues. But it pisses me off when people aren't real fans, and they just stay on the front row for bragging rights.

Pete mentioned that Less Than Jake was one of the first bands to ever support FOB, and that JR was at the show. Heck yes for LTJ. They know how to pick 'em.
At another point, Pete got one of the crew members to come out into the crowd to get a circle pit going. Big crowd surge about 30 seconds later. Only crowd surge of the night, but hey, what can ya do?

When they started playing "Chicago Is So Two Years Ago", I think I might have squeaked out loud because of my excitement. It's one of my favorite songs from Take This To Your Grave. No one else around us was singing the words. It breaks my heart that people don't know these songs.

This is the part where I sound naive. I hear people all the time at concerts saying "OMG he just looked at me!" or "OMG he was sooo posing for my camera!". I'll be the first to say that people just sound naive when they say things like that. But me and Mom both agree, we were being watched last night.
We swear, we felt like Joe and Pete were looking at us. No eye contact or anything, but you could just feel it. And no one else around us was taking pictures, and Joe and Pete were posing for long stretches of time. Joe never stays still, and he stood long enough for pictures to get taken. Pete wasn't as mobile as usual (duh, ankle), but seriously, he was posing, and he would be "working" our section of the crowd when he did it too.
Maybe I sound naive and stupid for thinking it, but I have never felt like I was being watched that much.
Mom and I were the only people in our area singing "Chicago" and Pete looked over in our direction and started smiling. I just got that feeling.
Maybe I'm wrong. But if that feeling is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Cover song time.
Pete said something along the lines of "Do you ever hear a song, and think that's it's so good, and you wish you had wrote that song?"
Cue "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers.
Unlikely? Yes. Amazing? Yes.
Mom didn't like it too much, but I did.
I'm not used to seeing them do covers.
I demand more in the future.

One of the girls on the front row (AKA useless-waste-of-matter-that-doesn't-know-any-Fall-Out-Boy-songs) decided she had had enough, and got pulled over the barricade. I shifted to the left to close up the gap. I ended up behind this GIANTESS of a woman, who felt the need to FLAIL her arms wildly during the entire set. She was relentless! I think she ruined about 30 of my pictures. Her gaudy-fake-nails are in just about every one of Mom's video clips that she took.
FYI - one of my pet peeves is people who flail their arms in the air at concerts.
I want to seriously smack them in the face just so they'll put their arms down.
I am a terrible person. No surprises there.

This girl that was over behind the left half of the GIANTESS was giving me creepy looks for the rest of the show.
Like, she was just flat out STARING at me. She wasn't singing any of the songs either. FREAK.

When they played "This Ain't A Scene", I started dancing and doing the ridiculous arm movements that Patrick does in the video. I was seriously freaking out the girl who was staring at me. I thought it was kind of funny. She was thinking I was the FREAK, but no, it was definitely her.

They did a brief little break, and Pete took off his leather jacket, and came back out wearing a thin black hoodie. He looked like a little emo kid. I wanted to hug him
: )

*remembers that she forgot about the signs*
OH! Pete had signs taped to the back of each of his Bass'sssssssssss' .
One said "Beer me some new bones"
One said "The Universe talks to her"
And I couldn't quite read the other one, but it looked like it said
"This machine kills faschists" which would make sense, because that's the name of an Anti-Flag song, but Faschists didn't have a "C" in it, so it looked like the word "Fashion", And I remember it looking like it said "Fashion" during the show.
If anyone knows what it said, get back at me.
If anyone knows what the signs mean, get back at me.
I'm curious and nosy.

I love "Dance Dance".
I do.
You want to know a fun fact?
"Dance Dance" was my favorite song, BEFORE it was ever released as a single.
It was my favorite song the first time I ever heard it.
On a side-note, "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" by Panic! At The Disco, was also my favorite song, BEFORE it was ever released as a single.
Damn, I know how to pick 'em don't I?

Any Fall Out Boy fan who has been to a Fall Out Boy show will tell you that they ALWAYS end with "Saturday".
They started playing that song, and it started raining crowdsurfers. It was like they had all been waiting for this one song.
There was so much energy in that crowd by this point. It was electric.
One of the reasons I was so bummed when I heard about Pete's broken ankle, was the fact that he normally jumps down onto the barricade and sings during "Saturday", and I thought he wouldn't be able to do it.
Lo and behold the shit-eating grin that developed on my face when I saw Pete toss his bass to a tech during the guitar interlude, and all I could think was
"HOLY SHIT, HE'S GONNA DO IT."
Sure enough, Bad-Ass Wentz got down on the barricade and started screaming "I read about the afterlife, but I never really lived!"
And the confetti cannons erupted.
The confetti was so thick, we couldn't even see.
I knew Pete was over on the barricade somewhere, but I couldn't see him through the confetti.
You all know about my obsession with confetti, so you can imagine how much I look forward to this moment at a FOB show.
The confetti thinned out a bit, so I could see Wentz, and we saw him finish singing and get back onstage.
Pete gets so many Kudos for the fact that he still got down on the barricade, with a broken ankle, to sing his part.
He knows we all look forward to that.
Then Pete decided to take off his shirt off and throw it in the crowd.
And then my heart decided to melt completely.
The perfect way to end a FOB show is with Pete, half naked, limping away in his rocker boot.
Not that I want him to be limping, but....awww shucks, you know what I mean : )