buffalo rocks!!

firstly, happy birthday shiv (when you buying out amazon?), and happy birthday malvika (you shall always be 21)!! hope you have a completely awesome year!!

woke up dazed and confused around 10.. then we all went to the temple. yes my doubting and atheistic friends, i went to the temple. and i don't mean Third Base either.. though that is also a pilgrimage site for me of sorts!! ;-)) had a nice lunch there, then we just hung out since the weather was kinda crappy.. the concert was at 6.30.. nickelback and three doors down were the headliners, puddle of mudd and 12 stones opening. this had to be amazing since i really liked 3 of the big bands playing today!! i was planning to get good and done before that.. so had some three smirnoff double screwdrivers.. then vip and i smoked up too.. by the time we got there at 5.30 i was totally tripping!! we had a pair of vodka shots each to fortify against the rain, then out we went!! wooha!!

12 Stones were ok.. i remember just one song of theirs 'broken'.. but at least they got the heads bouncing! then came on puddle of mudd!! they had some lights and fireworks, but their music was what totally rocked.. they played stuff from both their albums.. 'control', 'drift & die', 'nobody told me', 'she f**kin' hates me', 'blurry', 'away from me', 'heel over head', 'spin you around'.. they did an awesome jam during 'control', going into black sab's 'war pigs' in it!! my throat was already gone by the time they were finishing up!!

people were smoking up all around us.. it was such an awesome concert atmosphere.. then the lasers came on.. and with them were 3 Doors Down!! now this band kicked serious ass, when everyone thought they were all about soppy ballad-rock.. they had the on-stage split-screens, flame-throwers and fireworks.. along with the lasers too.. it was amazing!! 'kryptonite', 'loser', 'be like that', 'the better life', 'when i'm gone', 'away from the sun', 'the road i'm on', 'here without you', 'changes', 'this time'.. in the middle when the band was taking a break, the drummer did this amazing solo.. giving it all he had.. crrrazy!! when they were done everyone was wondering how nickelback would top that performance!

they did, oh yes they did!! these freaking canadians (nickelback that is!) were jumping around the stage like monkeys on magic mushrooms!! chad kroeger kept telling the crowd to take out their joints and smoke them up.. NOW!! they were a loud band.. and even though chad sometimes went into scream mode.. it still kicked even more serious ass.. they had mindblowing pyros on stage.. which were perfectly synced with the music.. very very cool!! they didn't play too much from their first two albums, giving more coverage to 'Silver Side Up' and 'The Long Road'.. 'leader of men', 'worthy to say', 'breathe', 'never again', 'how you remind me', 'too bad', 'someday', 'figured you out', 'feelin' way too damn good' and of course 'hero' from the spiderman soundtrack!

we got stuck in bad traffic getting out of darien lakes, but got home around 1-ish.. met nats (she came in around 7 in the evening), then went home, had a couple of drinks with vip, smoked up and slept.. with the amps still blaring in our ears and rock burning in our brains!! :-)) this is becoming one very very memorable summer, and this weekend was definitely one of the best ever in my life!!