girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money.

Today was the Good Charlotte show. We took a train to Bukit Jalil and when we got there at about 5ish, there were all these people just sitting down and hanging out in front of the gates (it was held in a car park area), and from where we were, we could see the stage. There weren't any lines, so we managed to get right up to the entrance, where we had to wait for maybe an hour before they let us in. What sucked was the took our really nice tickets and ripped them, and that was it. They were proper tickets and all, nice and shiny, and all we got in return was a wrist band. Pfft.

So then, we made our way to the very front of the section we were in. We had a pretty decent view. At the entrance, we were given these inflatable thingies that make a really loud clanging sorta noise when you whack them together. My brother and my cousins decided to inflate theirs and that kept them occupied for a while...that is, when they weren't bitching about the RM5 they had to pay for a paper cup-full of Pepsi (yuk) or Sprite.

What seemed like aaaages later, Colby and...I think it was Fazura or something, from MTV came out (later on it was Utt and Denise. Or maybe it was Colby and Denise...yeah, that makes more sense...) and it was time for the opening acts. Which were really, really good - One Buck Short, Estranged and Lo. I'd definitely say these are the better bands in the country. I can't even remember the names of the bands who opened for INXS or Simple Plan, and Too Phat got boo-ed when they opened for Linkin Park. One Buck Short had oodles of energy, and even though I had absolutely no idea what they were saying, they were fun. One of the guys in the band is the brother of one of the lecturers at HELP, so that was fun too. Estranged is new, I think, and they're famous for this one song, Itu Kamu. The funny thing is, none of their other songs sound anything like this one, they're so much more heavier! But they were good too. Then was Lo, who did that really strange 'Old Newspaper' song, and the nice Operator one. During his last song though, we decided to leave the area we were in cuz we noticed that suddenly, a lot of people were entering the so-called VIP area. It took a while, but we managed to make it out, and we breezed into the VIP area, getting quite close to the stage.

At about 10ish, finally, Good Charlotte came on stage. They opened with some random song (there were a few of these), and they played The Anthem, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Girls and Boys, I Just Wanna Live, Predictable, We Believe, Keep Your Hands Off My Girl, The River and a bunch of other songs I didn't know. Like Dance Floor Anthem, which is really cute it goes "put up your hands, say I don't wanna be in love". They're quite good live, and they're very, very nice people. Joel kept talking about how he wants to move here. The other two, the bassist and Billy, they don't talk at all. It was just Benji and Joel, but somehow they made it work.

After the show, we were supposed to take the train back to Masjid Jamek, and we had made plans to go to the McDonald's there and all, but when we got to the train station, there was a huge crowd of people standing outside, and we found out that they had closed. It was 12, and the tickets said the trains were running till 12.30. The stuffy security people said something like the organizers hadn't informed them, so we had to wait to be picked up. Now, my back is killing me, so I think this is it.


*The title is a line from Girls and Boys ;)