remembering sunday...

first off, the start of daylight savings went well since i set my alarm clock back before bed (luckily, cell phone re-sets itself). though, my mom didn't do that and wroke me up an hour earlier. i just went back to sleep until it was the right time.

anyway, i ended up driving up to lakewood which is like an hour or so away to all time low's instore acoutic preformance/signing at the best buy over there at noon. since every concert is always at night and like an hour away i figure this might be the only time i could see them. i'm not really down with driving for an hour so late at night alone. so until i find someone to go with or i move somewhere closer this will have to do.

like always i got off to a late start but got there before they started. i don't know why i continue to put myself in these uncomfortable sistuations. so many youngin's and ugh, the scene kids. i think i'm getting too old for this stuff. i guess it's lucky that i look younger than i am (i've been told that a lot) otherwise i'd totally look at of place. the staff made us sit on the ground while we waited for them to start. i overheard one work saying how there was so many more people than when gym class heroes were there. she also said how she had no idea who the band was only that they have pictures in their underware. i ended up chatting a little with a girl next to me before it started. she liked my pants.

they had an opening band that played called eye alaska. i liked their songs, i wish i could remember the names of them. one of their members looked like a mixture of zack from atl and danny from np.

the guy in the tank with the beanie is that member. he had some nice arms.their new cd is called yellow elephant, two of my favorite things . i wanted to get it just for the name but i didn't get the chance.

then the atl boys come in. thank goodness the wait wasn't long. oh and nick (runner runner) was there! i sort of thought he might show up since zack and him are pretty much brothers. i wanted to yell out to him but i was kind of in the back and it was just too far. anyway, during their acoutic sets it is always alex that sings, of course, and zack, who plays guitar...which i always thought was weird since he's the bass player. jack and rian kind of just hung out in the back.

zach and alex take the "stage."
alex: "i will not take off my shirt. this is a family store."
zack: "i'm not taking off my shirt either. sorry."
alex: "don't do it. don't do it."
to which the guy in front of me loudly disapproved. no lie.
jack creeping in the background on zack's right. alex: "i'm clumsy...like fergie."
- there's rian creeping in the background now, watching alex. alex's new hair. shorter and darker. he played the last song, remembering sunday, solo.

atl's set list:
dear maria, count me in
six feet under the stars
jasey rae
remembering sunday

after they played they got set-up for the signing. it took awhile. of course getting people in line was a hard task. after waiting for what seemed like a long time in a non-moving line they said there was only 20 mintues left and i was still towards the back. however, if you bought their cd you could get to the front. i already had the cd but i thought since i drove all this way why not just get it again, i could always keep it in the plastic and re-sell it or something. though i can't seem to find the cd of my copy so maybe i'll just keep it.

signed cd cover.
i was one of the last few people to get in. we weren't suppose to take photos so we snuck this one in quickly. don't the boys look happy? at least i now i have a picture with rian.

after them was jack. i love jack! he was my favorite when they played in hawaii. anyway, he signed my cd and when i went to grab it he was still holding on to it so i said, "i guess you can have it if you really want it." he was like, "what?" i told him how he was still holding on to my cd. he looked down at it, apologized saying he was about to pass out. poor jack, i hope he got some rest before the show that night. then he held up his hand up like he wanted a high 5 so i put mines up too. then he press his hand against mines and locked fingers. so we held hands for awhile. it was cute but also confusing. reminded me of when i met jared leto and he made me give him a fist pound followed by a double fist pound.

zack was last. i asked him if nick was still there. he said he had to leave to get ready for the show (i really wish i could have gone). i asked him if he could tell nick i said hi. he said of course and then said "in fact, i'm going to text him right now." he already had his phone out. he has a white blackberry cruve. so i told him to tell nick "josie from hawaii said hi." to which jack perked up and said, "you're from hawaii?!" i told him how i saw them when they played there and jack said, "pipeline, right?" then zack was telling me how he was going to move out to california soon and he's hoping to do surf trips to hawaii and maybe we'll see each other there, though i think he'll probably make more trip out there than i will. zack asked if i was from oahu and i said i went to school there but i'm from maui. then we were talking about nick again and he told me how they're pretty much sharing a room right now, cute. i told him i had seen nick there earlier and was bummed i couldn't say hi. then this girl, who thought she was so cool, interupted and was all like "who?" so i said nick from runner runner and she said, "oh, i don't know who that is." um, i wasn't talking to her but whatever. i just told her he's zack's brother. to which zack smiled and said yeah. i did tell zack how i know the story behind that though. so, now i'm spreading that rumor around too, haha. i don't know why some people think zack's a douche, he's always been really nice to me the both times i've met him. he's just sort of shy and doesn't talk much to people. i just have an "in" because of nick, haha.

i guess it was good thing i was one of the last few since i got to talk to them for awhile. i didn't want to stay too long since they needed to go and had a couple more people to meet so i got a hug and left.

here's some short video clips i took during the instore:
they did a song of their ep and played jasey rae. yay, i love that song.

here's alex playing remembering sunday.

at one point he stops to listen to the store announcement.

"wait...wait...thanks debra!"

and pictures from when i met them in feb. at pipeline just because:alex with his old hair.jack!

zack and my over it shirt, haha.

till later.