Saturday, April 30, 2005
Well yesterday i wrote about how i felt so emo listening to the Used's All That I've Got live in Soma San Diego and got all emo about it and blogged a post about the memories of the wonderful time i had here with my friends and bands and going for shows...
And well today, i actually found the live video of it which is even more amazing! Cause it's in Soma, you know... and Soma gives me good memories... The video i embeded is abit small sized but, well my browser won't support the windows media file and i don't know why... so i embeded this one instead.
So anyway, here's The Used, live in Soma, San Diego....
Actually Soma is a venue next to the sports center in San Diego. It's the only venue i've been to in San Diego (besides the music festival i went for) because it's quiet a convenient place to get to. What i mean by that is that it's very well connected to get to it by public transportation (from here to LA by train, then Amtrak to San Diego, then local trolley in San Diego to get to near the venue and then bus to get from the trolley stops to the sports center)
It's also quite a cool place cause it's "small"... But i don't like the pit there cause it's LONGGGGGGGG. Soma is not wide cause it's rectangular in shape, it's LONGGGGGGGG. So the pit is massive cause you have the whole mass of the crowd pushing in front towards the stage. You can imagine, 700 people packed into the floor and all pushing towards the front. It's quite mad... THe only pit i've been into was for Taking Back Sunday. It was abit crazy but i wasn't going to risk it for Blink 182 (HOMETOWN SHOW, and the first SMALL VENUE since they became so big) and also for Finch. But still...
I had alot of good memories at Soma. It was one of the first shows i went for when i came here. It was for Finch/A Static Lullaby/Senses Fail/Movielife show.... ANd it was also the first time i met Luis (yeap!!! i actually still have the moment in my head!).... And then going there after that shitty week for Taking Back Sunday. I didn't even felt like going because of alot of shit but i knew i was gonna have a good time so i went against everything else, and man...... it was one of the best weekends of my life.... happiness, just being so stupidly smiling and happy and you don't even know why, you know... waiting outside parking lots with friends for bands, taking a ride through the In and Out drive thru to get animal fries.. yeahhhh.. those we such simple yet so... happy times, you know.... And then there was of course Blink 182 and the utter surrealism and a dream come true, you know... seeing them FINALLY in SAN DIEGO, such a dream such a dream... all those days dreaming in Taylors' College!!!
ouh man... watching the video hurts so muchhhh.... i hope that there will be a good show at Soma before i leave when i leave, so that i can go there and cherish every bit of it and remember the sensations of the rest of the hundred concerts i've been to since i came here whether it was in Hollywood, or Sunset or Santa Monica, or pomona, or Irvine, or Anaheim or FUllerton, or San Diego, or Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahasse, Baltimore or even Japan...... you have all become a part of my life's experience, that has become what i am today...
that's what Soma means to me, you know...
and thank you The Used... for this song... and for this show...
anyway.... anyone who wants to watch a LARGER and better quality version of the show can do so here.
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