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October 16, 2008
Yesterday.. Gogol Bordello. Super pissed. All the minors got to sit up in the balcony, opposite side of the stage. Totally great. Why should I have to pay $30 to see nothing, when adults pay the same amount to actually enjoy the show? Fucking stupid. So Rachel and I went down there to talk to buy merch for Adriana and Sara. Oh, no. Minors can buy merch once the show's done. So Rachel starts getting into a fight with him because there's never any merch left at the end of the show. Ever. It's all XL sizes and what not. So, Rachel asks if she can ever go wait in line and buy a shirt for me, because she's 18. The guys all "Well you have an underage wristband on, I don't think you're allowed to" blah blah blah shit. But he did let her in after she kinda got mad and asked to speak to a manager because it's bullshit, and he said to call back. So I had to stand outside and just tell adriana what the shirts looked like. I spent more or less the whole opening band trying to find a way in. Two people we went to school with asked the guy if they could look at merch and he said yes, and they just walked in. I ran into someone from school and her friends had markers. So Rachel went and got an 18+ stamp on her wrist and they copied it. I gave one to Adriana and she went down to the same security guard, showed her wrist and got in. I was too scared to cause I figured he'd probably recognize me. But seriously. If they're gonna do that, the need to either lower the prices for minor's tickets, or make it an 18+ venue. It was bullshit. And it changes from show to show, so who knows what it's gonna be like until you're actually there. I hate it. Bedouin's next weekend and I'm not standing up in the fucking balcony again. Anyways, it wasn't the greatest show ever. They're incredibly entertaining and I did have a lot of fun, but the 45 minute encore of random noise kinda got boring after a while. Even then, Adriana was on the floor and she was saying that she kept getting beer spilt on her and that you shouldn't be allowed to bring beer into the stage area because when you're dancing you're spilling everything. Therefore, make it an all ages, open floor, show.