HOLY Awesome, MY Lawnmower, THIS SHOW WAS INCREDIMAZINGLY SPECTACULORAMA. all i have to say is wow. this....im not sure, but could very well be my favorite band. though i listen to so many and like so many genres, its hard to tell if im ready to commit to the Aquabats being my favorite band. but they sure as hell are up there. so yeah, in the beginning, i called up taylor and david; luckily i got a ride from them. We all dressed up in costume, and headed down to chipotle before the show. the manager was so thrilled that he gave us all FREE LARGE DRINKS. and some random people stared and pointed at us. wow i love that feeling of awkwardness among complete strangers. so we are driving in davids volkswagon and we get to the show. thers already a line of people and a ton of loyal cadets dressed up. i finally feel at home, but i discover, some of these people are weirder than i am, so i feel amazing. then... Davids friends show up, and they are in costume too, wow, great nicknames were thought of. the Dark Quail, Shadow Ape, Anocondatron (me), and i forgot his friends names, silly me. anyway thats not the point. but we were all one massive aquabats cultgathering..well....not a cult, but you get the idea. yeah, people commented on our costumes, and we posed in pictures for more complete strangers. good times......great oldies..... so i bought my frist official T-shirt, and the Official GOGGLES worn by all cadets and the aquabats themselves. all i have to do now is sign up, become a cadet, and snag the belt and official helmet. wow. but the best part was my costume, only because of the cape....yeah i was batman in first grade, so the cape was hilariously short on me, it only goes down to my ass. but that was super rad, even if the true bats dont even wear capes in their performances. so, we all met up, bought our gear, and walked in. some random band played, their first show. the lead singer was gay, or extremely feminine, which is ok, but in the lobby he came up to us and said he great costumes, we told him our nicknames, and when i said mine he laughed. and did this wierd, snake hiss, with his fingers at his mouth....it was so gay, like litterally, the way he did it, we laughed our goggles off. (im not homophobic, its jsut really amusing sometimes.) then forebanger played, they sucked. and then Bad Credit played, wow, amazing plus one. this band was like a rock/rap group, it was just awsome. david bought their new cd and we listened to it on the way home. ya they go to every aquabats show, and the MC Bat Commander himself rapped some on their album. good times......great oldies..... so then, they played their last song, and said, here come the aquabats, seriously the best band in the world. and yeah, my heart exploded with happiness. they came out, busting out Super Rad as their first song. all of a sudden people were skanking, and moshing, and singing, and man it was hilariously wonderful. and between each song Commander would say funny shit, and then when they went of stage for a break, the screen in the background of the stage would play a commercial of the Aquabats. They advertized the amazing Pudding Despenser Belt, good stuff. and Rub-o-rama, cream, with medicinal leaches... haha funny stuff. And towards the end of the show, this kid held up his cell phone, and Commander picked it up, and talked to his mom, wow, hilarious. he told her "no you jump of a wake" haha, you had to be there. ahhhmazing... so the concert was just fabulous. (the Aquabats that is) because they played The Cat with Two heads, Pizza Day, Red Sweater, Martian Girl, and the Story of Nothing, my most favoritest of songs. and in the end, they sang the goodbye song. and we all cried. the lights dimmed. the Aquabats had left the stage..... BUT THEN.... we all started chanting....AQUABATS....AQUABATS....AQUABATS.... and after a minute, THEY CAME BACK. woo. and MC Bat Commander came on, and made more jokes, about how no one EVER gives an encore. and then he said he was going to the Usher concert soon. yeah, that was amusing, you had to be there. so, we all chanted more, but this time, the name of the last song POOL PARTY. and, wow, MC was confused, so....he called upon a huddle. and came back and said..."when hot, sweaty aquabats come together in a huddle, that can only mean one thing, we need to get clean, and what better way to get clean than A POOL PARTY".....or something like that happened.. and they started playing AND THE CROWD WENT WILD. AND THEY THREW OUT FLOATIES, AND A GIANT WHALE, AND A GIANT OCTOPUS, AND WATER BOTTLES FLEW AROUND.....THIS GRAND FINALLY WAS SPECTACULORAMA!!!!!!!!!! i was so happy. happy to be a lover of loving love....lol.....(thats part of a song) anyway. that was the concert, the most amazing, best, stupendiest, crazy show ever in the world. nothing will EVER comepare to an AQUABATS concert as long as i live. until of course, they do a BETTER show :) so boys n girls, thats it for today. wish you could have been there. tune into the fabulous life of Andy.....on "look into the life of a drifter" over and out kiddies.... :)