February 19th, 2004 has been the best day of my life so far. Why, you ask? Spontaneous Combustion. It's a variety show type thing with tons of awesome bands and performers and such, and I did stand-up in it. Beforehand, for like 2 hours, I pretty much just hung out with the guys from The Makeshift, and they were pretty cool. We ate pizza and had a fun time. The Michigan Theatre is pretty awesome. It can seat 1700, but it wasn't too full, maybe between 1200-1400. Which still totally kicked ass. There were a couple acts that started it off. Third was Tokyo's Pyramid, who were good but didn't really fit my style. However, Emily played the guitar and the harmonica. AT THE SAME TIME. And, alas, I had to go on right after this harmonica-guitar fusion. And, well, it kicked ass. I came out really relaxed and pretty confident, did my thing for about 5 minutes, got the laughs, and went off. It was awesome, I did so much better than I thought. To put it in stand-up lingo, I "killed". Some other bands went on and did pretty well, as well as one guy who played the harmonica, then beatboxed, then did both at the same time. It was all a competition, and the first prize was $500. I didn't expect to win, but I still got lots of crowd noise, which was how they judged it. Who won? Why, The Ninjas, of course! They threw a party. Then came the headliner. Andrew WK. Maybe you've heard of him, cause he's all famous and stuff. He rocked the house. One guy jumped on stage and hugged/tackled him, so security carried him offstage right past where I was standing, and it was awesome. Then, for the last song, he brought all of the performers onstage, and we had a mini-mosh pit. That's another one of my life goals accomplished: being in a mosh pit. Even though it was a pretty tame mosh pit, it was still awesome. We lifted Andrew WK up and everything. This is the funny part. Afterwards, I went backstage to do some stuff, then when I came back, they said we couldn't go throught the sidestage area to our seats, and kicked us out, so we had to go all the way outside and around the place. It was cool. So, then I went to bed pretty late, but I was so happy. It was amazing.