Motion City Hangover of Epic Proportions

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Last night, my bestfriends Marz, Joy and I went to the Motion City Soundtrack concert at the SM North Edsa Sky Dome--and wow, that is how you put on a show. Even as I type this I'm still in shock at how awesome the show was last night--the set list was amazing, the music was amazing, the crowd was amazing. Wow. Wow.

Since I can't seem to find the words to actually describe the show, let me first put everything into context by explaining my MCS history. :)) When I was 16 (I was in college at a very young age--too young, maybe) I used to be absolutely in lurve with this guy who was a drug addict: I'm not even talking just weed, I'm talking powders and bitters and all that. Anyway, on one occasion that was supposed to be a date, I ended up at a let's-get-high session in a stranger's apartment. Druggie Lurve was high and had another girl sitting in his lap. So I hung out with the only other sober person in that room: who surprisingly, was the guy who owned the apartment.

The lights were out and the curtains were drawn so it felt like it was 7 pm even if it was in truth, around 4 in the afternoon. I was sitting on Sober Guy's bed and we started talking about music--at the time I was very, very into The Donnas and The Strokes and Sahara Hotnights and so I ended up pulling out my music player and letting him have a listen. In return, he lent me his iPod and asked me whether or not I'd heard of Motion City Soundtrack. I said I hadn't and he had me listen to The Future Freaks Me Out--I was sold at "I rock too fast for love, I'm footloose in my velcro shoes." 

When I got home that night, the first thing I did was look for more MCS music online and started listening to them non-stop. I fell in love with When You're Around and Hold Me Down and Feel Like Rain and Make Out Kids and L.G.F.U.A.D. and Everything Is Alright. 

Later in 2007, their Even If It Kills Me album came out and so the obsession ensued. My friends and I would sing along to songs like This Is For Real and It Had To Be You while staring at swimming pools (skipping gym) and when getting drunk and while braving the long commute from our University to home. I loved Calling All Cops and Antonia as well because they gave me so much hope that there could be guidance or love from the world--even if it's hard to find. I think that it was David Foster Wallace (or someone who my friend Ron likes to read, I can't remember) who mentioned something about the effect of good art or music or literature having to be two-fold: to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. 

I felt a lot of comfort from their albums during points in my life when I felt like I was teetering on the edge of despair. And on days when I feel absolutely mindless or am just in a state of non-thinking I give their latest album Go a listen and suddenly I'm thinking about people again--how could I not with songs like Timelines and Everyone Will Die?

Anyway, I digress. :)) I never saw Sober Guy again and I fell out of love with Druggie Lurve after that but the one good thing I did get out of that very unfortunate period in my life was this band and their wonderful music. 

Last night--from the start of the show (My Favorite Accident) up until the end of it (Hold Me Down), I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. I just couldn't believe that I was there, in the second row watching them play. I couldn't believe that they were real, these people who I'd only ever known from YouTube videos or from music listened to on my headphones. They were real and they were here and could hear us singing along and they knew that we loved their music. :) This made my year, pretty much. Currently re-listening to the entire discography. :D