Green Day/Jimmy Eat World

In response to Shaw's comment on my last post, sadly Christian Slater has not swept me off my feet and taken me away. I am still here, still searching for jobs and getting no responses, trying to enjoy the last days of sunshine before autumn hits us and volunteering for random causes.

Last night was the long-awaited Jimmy Eat World and Green Day gig. I had forgotten how much I like Jimmy Eat World, so their opening act was much appreciated. I'm not entirely sure what I thought of Green Day. They were energetic and able to whip up the crowd as always, generous with their thanks and nice to members of the audience. They brought a young boy on stage to hose down the crowd with water cannons, probably making his year, and they also picked three people to come on stage and play bass, guitar and drums. This seemed to be something that people knew about, as there were many signs being carried which read things like 'Pick Me For Drums'. The kids they eventually picked were damn good, the guitarist running on the stage and hugging Billy for about 15 seconds straight, until I thought they were going to have to get security to rip them apart. So they played a song, and Billy sung to it, and at the end he called the guitarist back and said, "You can keep the guitar." The kid nearly fainted and the crowd went mad. Not a bad thing to come out with at the end of the night.

Apart from that, their songs were of course catchy and high energy, but at times it was like being at a political rally, or an anarchist group meeting twenty years ago, when you felt like you were 'anti-establishment'. Of course George Bush was mentioned a few times, as was Hurricane Katrina, personal freedom, civil liberties etc. Singing 'We Are The Champions' as the last song really made me feel like I should be wearing a pledge badge and swearing in a presidential candidate. But if you took that part out of the night, it was a very entertaining gig. If only the screaming girl behind me hadn't had such an ear-splitting scream.

In other news, I've been called for lots of filming and have always been busy, I volunteered for the Aids Walk for Life and persuaded my housemate to walk around the park just to visit me, I've done a half day course on emergency registration of evacuees, have registered as a Disaster & Rescue volunteer with the Red Cross, have been mega busy with computer work (for once) and have singularly failed to clean my room or do my house chore for this week. I did jump in the swimming pool last Friday with one of my housemates, because we felt like we should, seeing as it was fixed. The photos from that experience are not good! Tonight we are going to a free salsa class as a house (hopefully 5 or 6 of us) and Gilles is giving us champagne because today is his 1 month anniversary of being here. This may seem slightly over the top, but his father works for a champagne company, so the man knows his wine. We drove round town for an hour and a half yesterday looking for it, so it had better be good!