Coheed and Cambria Myrtle Beach 8/09/08 - Road Blog

12:20 We stop at a Sheetz to put gas in the car, Erin nearly fills up using diesel. We order some nasty food from inside, my order takes about three years to make.

12:45 Pit stop at the Kinko's down the street so I can print out my ticket. I'm an idiot and forgot to do it in the office the day before. Have to pay a few bucks to use the internet and such. Erin and Maggie want to check their Facebook accounts.

1:14 Discussion of pet peeves arises. I tell the story of people I went to high school with, most notably the girl who always laughed at inside jokes that she did not understand, and another chick who "absorbed" things when she grabbed them. I demonstrate with a pack of cheese nips.

1:30 I ask Maggie what kind of music she listens to. Besides Phil Collins and Genesis, turns out she listens to a lot of modern British stuff. She likes the Arctic Monkeys, and I inform her about the Last Shadow Puppets and the Rascals.

1:40 "No Diggity" by Blackstreet comes on the radio. Erin and Maggie rock out accordingly. Somehow Prince and David Bowie enter the conversation, and I ask them why women are fascinated by them, especially Prince. Apparently being a huge rock god and standing at about five feet tall is hot.

1:45 Creed comes on the radio and we all laugh hysterically. I do my Scott Stapp impersonation.

1:56 I have to break the news to Maggie that Forrest Gump had AIDS, as did little Forrest. Erin says "Walker told me I have AIDS."

2:03 Erin and Maggie decide to take photos of themselves. They hold the camera out the window and the moonroof. "They're our MySpace pics!" they say. I doubt either of them even have a MySpace. We put on Consolers of the Lonely by the Raconteurs

2:07 We mock M. Night Shyamalan's movies.

2:20 I find a pair of Homer Simpson slippers in the back. Erin tells me that when you put them on, it looks like Homer is giving head to your leg.

2:27 We pass two billboards, one reads, "Don't read billboards? YOU JUST DID!" and the other is an advertisement for the U.S.S. North Carolina. Apparently seniors get a discount of one dollar. "But I served on this ship!" "Whatever, it's still only a dollar off, old man."

2:48 Erin and Maggie talk about their hatred of children and friends that have children.

2:54 We put in a mix CD. First song is "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies.

Mix CD Playlist:
1. Barenaked Ladies - One Week
2. My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
3. Death Cab For Cutie - No Sunlight
4. Feist - I Feel It All
5. The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
6. Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
7. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
8. The Raconteurs - Intimate Secretary
9. MGMT - Time to Pretend
10. Death Cab For Cutie - Cath...
11. Beck - Loser
12. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
13. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
15. MGMT - The Youth

3:11 "Anal bum cover," "The rapist," "Condom thing," "Jap anus relations," and other celebrity Jeopardy references. Erin then talks about Journey and the album cover that shows their bulges.

3:20 Stop at a gas station/Subway to get drinks and pee. Yes, we peed and then drank more.

3:39 We leave and start heading down the highway. Erin realizes that she's in first gear.

4:13 We pass by a colossal amount of mini golf courses. Erin is outraged at some of the themes the courses use, most notably one that makes light of plane wrecks. I mock her by being offended by a dinosaur-themed course. Why? The dinosaurs are all dead.

4:29 We find the House of Blues. Erin takes a photograph.

4:43 Stop at Logan's for dinner. We prepare for Coheed by ordering the Porterhouse 20oz raw and a bucket of blood.

6:00 We get in line and the doors open at 7:00. There is a weird guy in front of us who keeps staring and is trying to be part of our oh-so-funny conversations.

7:00 Doors open.

7:12 We finally get inside. We struggle to find a place to stand. Weird guy follows us up the stairs. We stand on the main floor on the stairs and have a really good view. Weird guy is off to the far side so we can keep an eye on his movements.

8:00 The opener, Russian Circles, comes out (on the stage, not of the closet).

9:00 Coheed starts to play and everyone goes nuts. There's a small Asian chick in front of us with her boyfriend and they never stop making out. There is a large sweaty chick next to me who can't sing.

Set List:
No World For Tomorrow (Epic intro with lights)
Gravemakers
Ten Speed
AFHA
The Suffering
Everything Evil>The Trooper>Devil in Jersey City
Feathers
Blood Red Summer
The Running Free
In Keeping Secrets

Encore:
Welcome Home (Claudio comes out with a white Gibson EDS-1275)
The Final Cut (Lasts nearly half an hour, fairly awesome)

10:44 Show ends and we head out. Looks like people enjoyed it but might be drained due to a ten minute drum solo on the last song.

11:01 Heading out of the parking lot. We see a car that has the words "Show Tits" duct taped on the door. Maggie takes a photograph and one of the guys talks to her through a megaphone.

11:16 On the road. We eventually stop at a gas station to fill up. The rest of the night is spent in deep conversation interspersed with dick jokes. Narrow Stairs plays the entire ride back.