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sooooo... last night was the mistletoe jam sponsored by 99x atlanta radio station. and the lineup was pretty amazing..... the silversun pickups, the shins, silverchair, and modest mouse. i went with my friends molly, katie, kyle and bryan. also, we met up with pam (bohemianlullaby) and her boyfriend mikey. i was glad we met up with pam and mikey, cause they got there two hours before we did, and we sneakily cut in line with them. now, normally i dont condone that type of behavior, but what can i say? because my car is a gas guzzler, molly was the one driving me and i couldnt really have made her leave earlier. thus we got a really great spot, against the barrier, in the middle rightish. and since we were in the front, the camera guy would always turn and get us on the big screens projected to the whole stadium. our friends katie and bryan unfortunately had seats, and didnt get to stand with us on the floor. (it was general admission there). katie texted me the first time we got on the big screen and said "gah you're all the way in the front! i hate you, you lucky bitch!" the first band up was the silversun pickups. they got the crowd pumped and dancing and singing along. i am very seriously shocked that their drummer did not get whiplash, he was head banging and swinging his hair every which way. they lead us for about thrity/fourty odd minutes in a set that i never stopped dancing to. their female bassist obviously liked my dancing, because she kept looking at me and smiling. and i will admit to being fairly clueless about their lead singer being an actual, umm, man. i honestly didnt know that until like last may, when id been listening to them to for a while already. (taken from my iphone, since my digital camera is too big and awesome to be allowed in that venue without a press pass.)

then was the shins...... they only played a nine song set..... but then again they could have played forever and i still wouldnt have been satisfied until id heard every song they ever wrote and some covers to boot. but i did get their setlist! whoo! and their lead singer, james, looked very scrumptious in a fedora hat. i happen to have a thing for fedora hats. the setlist had several song i liked on it:

but still, i had hoped to hear more off of chutes too narrow, and i also wanted to hear new slang! oh well, maybe next time..... the shins:

then, silverchair took the stage, in what was arguably the best PERFORMANCE of the night. they were the band i was least familiar with their music, but the amazing aussies interacted with the crowd (most of whom were obviously there to see them, from the amount of pushing and shoving and holding on to the barrier for dear life i endured) in a way that was unparalleled all night. the lead singers strip action that flaunted his pierced nipples and chiseled chest to the world did nothing to hamper their performance. later, his growling into the microphone "i want to hear a sexually frustrated moan atlanta" in his australian accent created the loudest, most sexually frusrated moan im sure atlanta has ever heard. sure, he might have been a little drunk, but it only added to his charm.

after an incendiary set by silverchair, modest mouse took the stage to close the show for the night. the roadies set up a ton of instruments, including what looked like (in the words of some chick standing behind me) an anorexic cello. modest mouse is very, very good at what they do. an it might have just been me, but when their lead singer issac spoke it appeared he had a lisp. still, my favorite song by modest mouse had to be the song they closed with, the view. i just love this song, and modest mouse certainly did it justice. they played it with a passion, and it really cemented it in my memory. after that was over, the rowd stood around cheering for an encore, which we never got. it made me sad, because i kinda felt cheated after that. i almost always expect an encore, it was weird not having one. but then they passed out setlists, and i caught one! but so did pam, and we struggled for a while over it until she was like "ivey! you have the shins one!" and i was like "oh, i didnt know i was fighting you over it! i thought i was fighting the girl next to you!" and i let pam have it. cause really, im glad i got then shins one. also cause the shins one was the lead singers hehehehe. actually, i think pams was too. but the night ended with both of us being VERY HAPPY.

modest mouse:

MM setlist: