Sugar+Peanut Butter+Bread=Pure Genius

i love peanut butter sugar sandwiches. especially after a long evening of standing in a dimly lit room with lots of loud music and sweaty people jumping around for three hours.

tonight i had the wonderful opportunity to see my all time favorite band, relient k, in concert. live, even!! but really, it was some of the most fun i have had in a very long time. probably the most fun since the last concert i was at...
unfortunately, relient k was not the only band performing. after standing in the midst of several rioting teenagers for forty-five minutes, i was very ready for the music to start, so at least then they would have a reason to be rioting. slowly, bushy-haired men began to fill the stage, each occupying a microphone/instrument that had been previously set out for them. puzzled, i noticed that these strange men did not look at all like the incredibly cute guys that make up relient k. in fact, the appearance of these men was downright frightening.
those were my thoughts, until the music started playing. eventually i grew to love and appreciate the band known as sherwood, although the synthesizer cracked me up. (i prefer to think of him as the organist, though, because that was his main instrument, but since he was the one who made all the other weird noises, i suppose his correct title would have to be 'synthesizer'.) anyways, he would spontaneously burst into wild eruptions of dancing, (and i use that term very, very loosely). leaping three feet into the air, he would descend with a thud onto his organ, bringing his face perilously close to the edge, so close that several times, i feared he would smash his face in. soon after his organ-crashings, he seemingly tired of that dull pursuit; there was just no thrill anymore in face-smashings. clambering on top of the drum set, he stood posed for several seconds, as a ballerina, or a fountain, i never could figure out which. twirling suddenly, he flew off the drums and began playing the tambourines while whirling in a mad dervish about the stage. now, typically, i would have no problem with a performer doing this, but, he had hair in his face, sweat literally dripping off of him, and his eyes were closed!! i was very afraid for his well-being, as well as the well-being of his band-mates who came close to being collided with. thankfully, though, tambourine-man survived his performance, and really did quite well.
the second band i was not so fond of. needless to say, i was ready for relient k to come on stage, and they were still painfully absent. the second band screamed a lot. which is fine, if they sing well, but alas, they did not have a handle on this second, key ingredient to a successful band. sadly, they played about twice as long as sherwood did, so by this time, i had been standing for about two hours, firmly squished in the throngs of moshers.
finally, they were finished. i breathed a huge sigh of relief, and eagerly awaited the coming of relient k. ten minutes passed by, and then twenty, and thirty. now slightly annoyed, i wondered just how long it took to set up microphones.
then, the moment we had all been waiting for. deafening cheers shook the halls of the center as the 'hunky' matt thiessen sauntered onto the stage. as he smirked his hello, every girl in the auditorium visibly swooned, as their boyfriends looked on, frowning.
however, soon, the hunkiness of thiessen was forgotten as the music began. 'must have done something right' at 120 decibels is an experience that everyone should have at least once. when one's jaw is shaking with the force of the bass, you know the music is finally loud enough to truly enjoy it.
i think i shall bring this post to a screeching halt now. i just realized how late it is, and how early i have to be up tomorrow. so if i wanna write more about how awesome relient k is tomorrow, i shall. if not, listen to them for yourself. :)

~M.R.P.