Not a Single Damn of the Day: Ridiculously Photogenic Jiujitsu Athlete
Jiu-Jitsu master and competitor Clark Gracie looks relaxed even as he is about to get slammed to the ground.
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Believers Never Die
The lights went down, the stage was set and in some capacity i knew they where coming. I thought it was the kind of all encompassing knowing one simply has after 9 hours of waiting in line on concrete and 3 hours sleep. However when the light flooded the stage again and they stormed into the glow it was only then that i realised how distant they had become. It was almost as if over those 3 years they became something i remembered that had passed from being real into a myth or a dream. I thought when they announced their return, the album and the singles started coming out that i knew they where back.
But in that instant they where more flesh and blood and real then i thought could ever be possible and my legs almost gave out. You see this black and white footage of these girls in Beatles and Elvis documentaries crying and fainting and you think ‘jeez, that’s a bit of an over reaction’. I was gripping the bar so tight for the first half of that song everyone around me was jumping and dancing and singing and screaming and i swayed and cried because they where real and they where there.
The concert itself was amazing. One of the very best i’ve been to in years. Everyone knew the lyrics, everyone danced and moshed and went spastic for every song. It was like every song was a hit to us. It was the soundtrack of our number 1’s and screw everyone else’s. Their performance was perfect even if they joked they might not remember the words. Patrick’s stage presence has come up a hundred fold since i last saw them but there would be these moments where he’d look down and just get this super genuine grin on his face and you could just FEEL how stoked he was. Pete gave a little speech about how important believing is and how much it means to them and he was so serious when he said it it touched my heart. That kid jokes about everything. But not this. Not how much it meant to them. Andy and Joe are never not in tip top form and where just absolutely shredding it. A lot of the songs where old songs, a lot where ones i’d never gotten to hear live before. A Little Less Sixteen Candles a Little More Touch Me was a great moment (its close to number one for me. it’s my go to number one but i love all thier stuff so much it used to change on a near weekly basis). As was Sophomore Slump and Bang the Doldrums (who am i kidding everything was great).
I hope after they release the album they come back because i need that euphoric feeling in my life. That feeling of being in a room with a bunch of psychopaths as crazy as you for all the same reasons just abso-fucking-lutely mirthful at hearing those beautiful angry riproaringly good songs. And of coarse mirthful to be in the presence of our heroes.
Celebrity
Beauteous glory
Kings in black ivory
Slam the Calvary
With thundering melody
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