so, i went to the
DIESEL XXX party last night. i know there are a lot of people here who were trying to get tickets. if you weren't able to, don't worry, you didn't miss much. i suppose it was worth it for the free booze, funnel cake, and cotton candy, but the actual performances were kind of lacking in luster (except for
m.i.a. and
chaka kahn, they fucking killed it). i'll give you a rundown and pictures but you have to excuse my shitty writing style. i also might end up leaving stuff out because i'm really hung over and the place was such a huge clusterfuck so i could barely tell what the hell was going on most of the time.
first,
o fracas played... they were alright but i don't know who these people are so i'm just going to move on.
chaka kahn came on stage and the place went a little nuts. she was amazingly fierce but she was only up there for like 2 or 3 songs before she peaced out.
apparently
joel and benji madden dj'ed this thing. i didn't see them but they sucked so damn much i couldn't stand it. too much fucking techno, goddamn.
after the dj set and possibly some other random bands,
franz ferdinand played. this is where stuff started to get out of hand. people were being pumped full of liquor all night and pretty much deprived of good music for the entirety of the dj set, so when franz ferdinand got on, people started jumping around and generally beating each other senseless to get closer to the stage.
then... THEN
t.i. showed up. he was one of the special surprise performers. i decided to go outside to get some oxygen right before he came on. all of a sudden i hear "what you know" playing accompanied by the shouts of a million fangirls so i had to make my way back in and lie my way to the front of the stage. sorry i didn't get any pictures of him performing, idk what i was thinking. he performed for 15 minutes or so and had probably 10 pairs of crusty panties thrown at his face while he was up there. aaaand yes, he remained sexy while doing so.
next up was the fabulous, the incomparable
m.i.a. she just scurried her pregnant ass up on stage and stood right behind a keyboard so no one could see her stomach at first. then she started going crazy and gyrating her belly toward the crowd... it was adorable. i'm not an expert on how big pregnant ladies get at each stage, but i'm going to go ahead and estimate that m.i.a. is somewhere between 8 and 10.5 months pregnant. seriously. she's going to pop any day now. she still managed to dance around like a kid on sugar though. it was so loud that i couldn't even hear most of what she performed but she definitely did 'boyz'.
santogold, who i love, was on stage with her (she's the pink haired chick) but she didn't do SHIT. she was acting like a fucking cracked out background singer. i don't know why she didn't just perform a few of her own songs. it was just a little confusing. lolol, apparently, that isn't santogold. i'm sure she was still there in spirit.n.e.r.d came on while maya was still on stage. my love for
pharrell williams died on this night, my friends. after m.i.a.'s performance segwayed into n.e.r.d's, pharrell had the bright idea to suggest that everyone throw their drinks at each other. now, i'm going to just assume that pharrell williams has never actually been in a crowd at a concert, because if he had, he would probably know that telling a crowd of 5000 drunkass motherfuckers to throw their drinks at each other is a bad fucking idea. YOU OWE ME A BLOWOUT, PHARRELL! thanks to you, i got a cup full o' i don't even know what thrown right at the back of my fabulous head. ok, well, i didn't really care that much because i was more messed up than patsy stone at a rave by the time they got on stage. i'm slightly disappointed by the fact that they were one of the headliners and they performed a grand total of 3 songs... THREE! again, it was loud as hell in there and people were all drunk and soaked in alcohol/covered with powdered sugar and pretzel salt so i couldn't really pay very much attention to the actual performance.
if you managed to struggle your way through my incoherent babbling, you will be rewarded with pictures. shine on
( come into the cut my friends, my friends )