columbia: the spill canvas and lifeinjersey [the goodbye summer/back to school edition]

the annual fall welcome concert - a first for me since i was sick and confined to my bed with a fever last year. but it was quite the spectacular event. eye alaska opened for the spill canvas, and both bands put on a good show. i'd seen eye alaska open for ludo last fall, and distinctly remembered how strange they were... good, but strange. lead singer wears this nerdy little backpack 24/7, usually has some hideous hipster glasses on, constantly gives death/sexy-time stares to the audience, and this time came on stage non-chalantly eating an apple. and continued to munch on it during the entirety of their first song. what. the. fuck. but whatever, the sounded great and i broke down and bought their ep. spill canvas was up next and man oh man was i a giddy fan girl. first time seeing a band will do that to ya. they sounded fantastic, besides being a little out of shape. you could tell they hadn't played a show in a while; nick kept apologizing for the massive amounts of sweat he was dripping on us and told us they were trying their best to come up with cool stories to buy time to rest, haha. i was literally bursting from excitement, but the crowd didn't seem nearly as ecstatic as me; i was one of only a few singing along. they of course closed with 'all over you' though, and the crowd suddenly sprang to life. i don't think i realized just how mainstream that song had become.

day two of "just how many shows can devon squeeze in before classes start?" - starring we are voices, highland fall, and the always amazing lifeinjersey. AND it was at the cherry street artisan which is always a plus. arrived at eight, talked to carson briefly and watched a great show. we are voices opened, highland fall was next, and then finally lifeinjersey. there seemed to be a few people there besides the usual band members + girlfriends/wives, so that was nice to see. i ducked out pretty quick though, since it's sunday and classes start tomorrow. so that was it. the last show of summer; the last show for, oh... four days, haha. treaty of paris is playing at mojo's on thursday. but that was it, the grand finale of my summer. here's a short list to put things in perspective:

13 weeks of summer.
24 shows.
8 different cities.

countless new friends made, and countless memories made as well. here's to fall, and here's to new things. the amount of shows and promoting abilites will ineveitably slow down due to classes and studying, but not too much if i can help it. september and october are already filling up and i couldn't be more excited. thanks for a fantastic summer and i love you all; every single one of you that made me smile this summer. you know who you are.