i arrived at chez planetcom on thursday and coyote made me a bday cake! it was soooooooo awesoem! (i took pix) it's the ANTICAKE SUPERSTAR! it had the shock symbol on it and all i could think was: "anti-frosting, now you've gone too far, it's yer anticake superstar" on we plow. =D
YEP! it was my bday show! i was very much excited. i arrived the day before all pumped and ready for hte show. we drive down, me and p-com. it was kinda odd. it rained somewhat....started down rilly bad, but then like a minute later we drove out of the rain into sunshine. freaked out weather. so we arrived at the boathouse. it was the shittiest place i'd ever seen. it looked like a barn. the ceiling was too low for the props so i knew not to expect an entire show from manson. anyway, we get there, and i spy brijitte and danny (NYL) out back smoking cigarettes. EVB and i went to rent a motel room and then returned to join Coyote and Angelynx in line. Soon afterwards, Danny comes out and says to me, "hey, yer a long way from home" to which i replied, "it's my bday! this is my bday present to myself!" to which he said something to the effect of "happy birthday! yer bday present to yerself is going to get smushed in a crowd and kicked int he head by crowdsurfers?" hey, i never said i was sane!!!!! i'm very not close to sane. but the shocking thing was: danny was sober! i'd never spoken to him when he was, he's rilly nuts when he's not stoned/drunk/out of his mind. it was cool though. all of ny loose came out and said happy bday to me, and it was just so neato! then marc brought out his guitars...the ones that had sort of survived the fire...one was so messed up, it was the 666 one. it was totally ruined. the other one had some damage, but marc was in the process of fixing it. it wasn't too bad, it was just....you could tell it was in a fire. mainly cuz of the way it smelled. he gave me a souvenir though...one of hte melted knobs off of the 666 guitar. poor marc, he would have been more crushed about his guitars had he not been so happy to have survived it. turns out, him and danny and some roadie were on the bus. danny was able to crawl out of the emergency window but nott hem so marc used another guitar to smash out a window in the back of the bus so he and the other guy could get out. nearly all of their stuff was ruined. it was so funny. someone mentioned that there was a tornado watch in effect and i think danny said, "with our luck, it'd hit the bus and throw it into the water" (we were right next to like....a big body of water. it wasn't the ocean though) so i got pix with all of NYL and i was a happy goose.
so time goes by, and i spent most of the time chatting with danny or marc. manson showed up eventually, and did their soundcheck. very good soundcheck imho. excellent. sounded wonderful. so then nyl does theirs and i think after the soundcheck is when the temp. dropped about 15 degrees and we were attacked by a horrible burst of rain. it was not happy. cold, wet and shivering outside, we waited patiently to get into the boathouse. so we finally go in. yippee. the place looks like a barn. it was cool cuz nyl put me on their guest list and gave me an aftershow pass. so fast forward, nyl comes on, they sound great. then third song into it, brijitte goes "this one's for tina! happy birthday! it's call 'detonator'" and according to p-com, my face lit up. i was in shock, i was just liek, "no way! no way!" it was cool. i was a happy puppy. then danny mouthed "happy bday tina!" to me and then gave me a banana about 2 songs later. it was rilly funny. all i could think about was "devil in my lunchbox" and hte line about hte banana. that was rilly funny. so they had a great set. they go off.
so then they're setting up for manson. poor maxie! the kid broke his foot and was scheduled to go home tomorrow, so this was his last time getting to talk into the microphone and walk around looking pretty. *pout* i was upset about that. maxie was nice to me! so mwg's keyboard is out there, (the one on the keyboard) and i'm hoping he ditches his handheld one (no such luck there) so manson comes on. they were very good. unfortunately, due to the fact that i had like 800 lbs of pressure against me, i couldn't rilly enjoy it as much cuz i was too busy trying to breathe. but! i did manage to get 2 of mr manson's picks during "dried up" it was awesoem. the first one nearly got to me, but hit hte security guy and fell. so i got him to give it to me. then the next one came at the end of the song and mr manson threw it right at me. hit me right on the chest. i was a happy goose cuz now i don't have to go out and buy new picks. =)
THEN! this part rocks. they went into SD. it was the best version of SD i've ever heard! it went something like this:

zim zum played hte intro to SD. the crowd goes insane and starts singing and stuff. manson stands there staring at the audience with this look on his face. he goes up to the mic....he grabs it and screams "FUCK IT!" launches full force into IHA.

it was fucking beautiful.
so they do most of the set. um. yeah. i don't remember what was left out though. *pout* but! they did most of hte set. no "man that you fear" though. that was kinda....expected though. mike came out with the mic stand covered in flowers and the lights go on and apple of sodom starts playing. he picks the mic stand back up and walks away. show is over. i was happy. i was able to breathe again. p-com and i regroup. it was a good show...considering how shitty the place was. i went to the aftershow. spent most of the time talking to the guys from NYL cuz i didn't rilly know anyone else there and well, i didn't feel like speaking to manson but most of all i was just in shock and went to thank them all for making my bday show so neato. =) NYL also gave me mucho stickers and records and cds. it was cool. i was signing up for the NYL mailing list and i noticed that Sean Beavan's name was on there. (note: i always wondered who the hell sean beavan was, and i was just convinced that he was a computer) i said to brijitte: "sean beavan's here?!?!?!?" and she says, yeah, i'll introduce ya to him. which was rilly neato. i was like, "cool. i get to meet sean beavan" =D so i started talking to pete (drummer fer NYL) and he asked me what happened to the banana. well, it's probably permanently smashed to the floor in the boathouse, so pete left to go get me another piece of fruit. he returned with an apple. it is now called "the apple of sodom" and is sitting on my desk. =) i spotted ginger and ya know i couldn't resist speaking to my favorite member of manson so i popped over to him and spoke to him fer a while. *sigh* ginger was nice to me. =D then i returned to where brijitte danny and some other people were, and we started talking, then someone (i forget who) said, something like, "sean, blah blah blah" and brijitte goes 'oh yeah! sean! this is tina! tina this is sean beavan." so then we shook hands and i explained why i had wanted to meet him, i probably made him feel like a rock star cuz i was so excited to meet him. so i talked to him fer a while, about music of course, about just what he did rilly, since i had no clue, i just remembered the name. he told me alot about prick. that was cool. so then zepp comes over and kidnaps me (the list sibs were hungry) so i trotted over to where manson had been fer about 30 min, just to say a quick hi and bye sort of thing. and we shook hands and he told me happy bday. and i was happy, but i rilly had ot go so i told him i just wanted to come say hi, then i trottedb ack over to nyl and bid them farewell, then we (p-com, wake, tumbleweed and sharptooth) went on to dinner. dennys! that was fun. =) would have been more fun had sharptooth and tumbleweed had sat at the table with us. it was cool though. wake turned the santa claus' on the table into satan claus'. =) so then we trot back to motel and go sleepyhead. we had a full day ahead of us - off to raleigh north carolina...mmslavgrl and babyjenks....it was going to be *alot* of fun. *evil grin*.

Sara Lee Lucas (Saraesque)