Let me start by saying that Cobra Starship is perfection in the form of a group of people who play instruments (sometimes referred to as a “band”)! They are at the perfect stage in their career, and they are the nicest guys on the face of this stupid planet! (Maybe not the nicest guys on the face of this planet, but probably the nicest in a band.) They are always awesome on stage! The way they interact with each other and the audience just makes it all worthwhile. And then they sigh autographs outside. See, I walked by the line (that you had to wait in to get their autographs), and they weren’t there yet, but I thought the line was for an espresso machine or something. And I ignored the line, but then when I came back I saw that the line was longer even though Paul Wall had started his act. For a while I was just like “These people either really like coffee or really hate Paul Wall . . . maybe both,” but then I walked past the front of the line and saw Gabe and Victoria there! Omigosh! O.O I was soooo peeved! I could have been toward the front of the line if I had just freakin’ known what the line was for! So I got in the line ‘cause there was no way I was gong to miss the chance to have Gabe sign my shirt or whatever. But they cut off the line so that Paul Wall could start signing things and mingling with the fans after his act was through. And Cobra Starship was taking forever to sign stuff. It turns out that they’re so sweet! They weren’t just signing stuff, they were talking on people’s phones to like their friends or family, and taking pictures and videos and actually TALKING to their fans! I didn’t get to stand in line any more. =( So, instead I hung out around the front of the line, not in the line, but toward the front, and this one lady kept shooing me away because I wasn’t supposed to be there, and she kept getting more and more angry because she had told me like twenty times to go away, and all I would do was back up a few steps, and then act like I was talking to someone. But really, I was plotting (I’m such an evil little genius, aren’t I?)! I figured that as soon as everyone had gone, I would run up to Gabe and be like “PLEASE, JUST GIVE ME A HUG! THAT’S ALL!” So, finally everyone was through the line, but a few more people kept coming up (boy, did that get the security lady mad, especially when they kept taking pictures with the people and signing autographs ^-^), but I was smarter than them. Gabe started walking toward the door to exit, and I waited for the security lady to turn her back, so she couldn’t stop me and I rushed forward and yelled “GABE! JUST A HUG!” and he hugged me! Let me tell you, that man is tall, I came up to just below his chest! I’m short, but he HAS to be over six foot! Then I went back to my seat, and I just started bawling! I always thought it was stupid that people cry when they meet their idols and stuff, but when it happened to me, oh, it was so wonderful, no, TOO wonderful. But I think it might also have to do with the little rush I got from sneaking behind the security person’s back, and I think we may have formed a bond, me and the security person I mean. You know the kind where I’m like, “hey, you’re kinda cool,” and where she’s like “you suck, go away”? Anyway, I was so happy, I was crying, and let me tell you it was pathetic, but I was smiling so big and crying so hard. It was unusual to say the least. After +44 performed, Cobra Starship’s video for Bring It (Snakes on a Plane) came on and it was so awesome because I was like “I hugged that man!” First to my father who actually brought me to the concert than to the man who was sitting on my other side whom I didn’t know. Ah, well, that’s pretty much the end. Actually +44 is pretty awesome, or Mark Hoppus is a fantastic front man. He’s pretty funny. During Make You Smile he started singing to a security guard on the ground level. Mark was lying down on the stage, looking right at the guy, singing and swinging his legs like a little girl. It was hilarious. When he stood up, he said something like “You know I love you, Kenny.” Then Pete Wentz came out and he was dumb. He isn’t very funny, not entertaining at all. I could barely understand a word that came out of his mouth. At one point I think he said something about a song being written by or about Harry Potter, but then he said it wasn’t and I was disappointed. And Patrick started singing that Akon song (“ . . . nobody wanna see us together, but it don’t matter, no. ‘Cause I got you, babe . . .”), and Pete stopped him which I guess was kind of funny. The most awesome part was when Joe and Pete disappeared somewhere under the stage and then came up over by a car (Honda Civic is sponsoring their tour) and they were standing on the car playing guitar and bass together. That was during Dance, Dance and Andy finally got to come up to the front of the stage, before this point they had stuck him all up in the back (not in a dirty way!) and you couldn’t see him very well. And this one guy-who I guess is just a weird roadie of their’s-started dancing, it was a lot more funny than Pete ever was (except maybe during one concert when someone threw a glass bottle at him and he said “Who do you think I am, Brendon Urie!?”) At one point Pete took off his shirt, and I think only drummers should be allowed to do that on stage, or guys that are actually cute. Pete’s only cute if . . . You know, you’re blind and stuff.

To wrap it up, here’s the performers in order from greatest to worst.

Cobra Starship (Fantastic with their fans, and great stage presence!)

The Academy Is . . . (William Beckett may be a girly man, but they sound great live)

+44 (It took a while to warm up to the way Mark was working the crowd)

Fall Out Boy (Pete’s an idiot, and he was the only one who spoke)

I’m going to leave out Paul Wall because he was bad even by rap standards. On the talent scale he is definitely a zero. He doesn’t even deserve to be on this list, that’s why he isn’t.