I did the most irresponsible thing that I’ve done a long time on Wednesday.

I rented a car and went to the presets concert in San Francisco and blew all my money. It was the best decision I’ve made in months… the concert was fucking amazing. I mean, the Dresden dolls concert was amazing, but this was incredible in a totally different way. At Dresden dolls, everyone was freaking out, but at the Presets show everyone was crazily dancing and jumping up and down…the crowd was just so INTO IT.

Their music has so much energy and I thought that that would translate well to a stage show, but I had no idea. I was expecting a DJ set, but they played an actual concert. They played like every song I ever wanted to hear…it was so fucking amazing.

The show was at the Mezzanine, which we found out is a really great venue. It’s the biggest nightclub looking thing I’ve ever been inside. It has DJ booths and a huge stage and an upstairs with a bar…the place was huge and totally filled up by the time the Presets started playing.

ero and I got there are rather early (doors opened at nine and they didn’t end up going on until about 11:40) so we went out to the large smoking area and were chatting when this girl came up to me. I looked over at her and realized that she was a friend of mine from my AP English class at my high school. We used to be friends on MySpace or Facebook but she was giving us the whole lecture about how she’s just beyond MySpace or whenever. I would’ve given her my card, but I’m used to living in the MySpace age where you can just look somebody up later since she had told me where she lived. I tried to find her after the show, but she had left.

We had a really great conversation about never going back to Crescent City and what had happened to a bunch of our old friends and her whole thing about not using MySpace anymore was that she had already reconnected with everyone she wanted to reconnect with (which I guess at the time should have set off alarm bells, but I guess I didn’t notice). I loved her in class though she had such a way about her… and she told me that she was a lesbian but just didn’t want to come out because everyone at the high school was really crazy and lame.

And now every time I listen to Apocalypto (their new album) I see him going crazy and belting out the lyrics and everyone around me screaming and dancing. It was like a mini-mosh pit… there was so much contact that it seemed like moshing was going to happen, but everyone was just so happy and on this high…so fucking incredible.

We were right in front, as usual:

In retrospect, all the pictures look really tame but I couldn’t exactly take out my camera when everyone was freaking out.

The highlight of the trip was that I totally HAD A CAR! I rented it from enterprise, and it was like a brand-new 2007 Hundai Elantra, with power locks and windows and a/c and everything…it was like being an adult for an entire day. It even had the wireless locks! lol

I was so exhausted after the concert… they kept up this level of energy that I never thought a band could keep up… I think it was because they moved seamlessly from one song to the next… and the singer’s belting out of the lyrics. They are so electro-punk.

So after the concert we went over to Zero’s friend Ashley’s house at San Francisco State… where we ended up staying until about 4 AM. I was totally exhausted when we got back onto the freeway (thank you Google maps or I would’ve been driving around for days).

It was about when we got to Fairfield that I noticed a strange blue tinge to the horizon and and that horrible sinking feeling where you realize you’ve stayed up all night.

We continued on, past Vacaville, past Davis… we stopped at the In-N-Out there, but it was closed since it was about 6 AM at this point. When we finally drove up to Zero’s house, it was 6:30 AM. I tried to stay awake until the car rental place opened at 7:30, but I was totally unsuccessful. Thank the gods I woke up at 11 and was able to get down there in time. I was expecting some kind of turmoil because I really didn’t have enough credit to rent it… she put a $200 hold on my card which really only had about $120 worth of credit on it, but it all worked out fine (the rental cost $70 or so including insurance). As of today (Saturday) it all went through and I have about $70 worth of credit left on my card.

I hopped on my scooter, went to work, worked for about three hours but couldn’t stop coughing, so I went home.

Reason that I haven’t been writing lately is because my voice was just completely destroyed by screaming at the concerts and being in the smoking room at the Powerhouse for like five hours the Saturday of the Dresden Dolls show.

I don’t remember much from the few days after that… I was away, then asleep, I remember waking up at like 3 AM and I guess going to work the next day or something. Today’s the first day that I woke up and I actually feel awake and not completely and totally exhausted.

This this was the week of shows, and I am not disappointed. Anyway, I should head out. It just stopped raining and I need to pick up a few things from the store.