Concert Round-Up For June: The Decemberists & Dispatch

It was a dark and stormy night on Tuesday June 14th until The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy demanded the rain g-ds stop the storms (even if they wanted to take a couple of minutes to do so) and low and behold the storms ceased and the show played on. It was a great evening filled with violin solos, glockenspiels, and of course, mass mind-controlled crowd manipulation. Both here and at the Dispatch concert on the 18th the lead singers went into the audience for some intimate crowdsurfing and guitar picking. We met a whole slew of mangotastic friends along the way, starting at the Rocks Off Party Bus, all the way down to the random seats we sat in. Dispatch was also advocating for an excellent cause Amplifying Education which aims to restock decimated libraries all across New Orleans. Each concert brought in a total of 75 MangoUnits, equaling a total of 150 MangoUnits across the 2-day mango spectrum!


 Go 30 seconds in to witness why this video zipped across our consciousness.

Also: This ^ happened at The Decemberists concert. When approached with the question of how they were able to control this many people at once, The Decemberists responded with, "ALL GLORY TO THE DECEMBERISTS. KNEEL BEFORE US!"

(It Was Not) Raining On Prom Night

 It was a bloody hot day but with a little extra deodorant I got through it. The Glen Island Harbour Club was great (good food, nice location [on the water], and attentive staff considering the large group we were). All was good until the extensively planned part ended.

Our party bus was pretty cool and had everything you could imagine, seating for 30, drinks, crazy disco lights--even a stripper pole--and trust me, we milked our money's worth out of it. Sadly, I cannot say that about the club we ended up at. Initially we were supposed to go to a place called the Copacabana (yes, as in the Rod Stewart song). However, the club was not open so we were told our tickets were good for this crappy club called the Playhouse where the bouncer gave me a rougher rubdown than airport security. (Seriously, I'm gonna need therapy cause that guy touched me in places that should not be explored by strangers.) We went in, stayed 10 minutes, left and went to our next stop. Chelsea Piers was our final destination that we planned on going to around 4-something AM and staying at until the sunrise (around 6ish). However, about 5 minutes after putting down my bag, an undercover cop puts on his flashing lights and gets on the bullhorn and tells our group of 20-something to leave the premises. Back on the bus we go back home--defeated--but after hearing about fails from other groups (like being kicked out of other clubs for excessive puking) we felt slightly better to hear that we weren't the only ones to not have everything go according to plan... Partied with 60 MangoUnits and even got one of their numbers!

The Luxurious Copacabana

The Pitiful Playhouse

Senior Prank

Past senior pranks at our school (while I've been in this school) have not been the greatest... In fact, they've only gone downhill since my freshman year. From water guns and talcum powder filled balloons 3 years ago all the way to the 5 ft stuffed animal gorilla on the roof and fox urine in the vents last year. They caused either discomfort or boredom and nothing in between and unfortunately, ours went bad too. Here's why...


Planned: Hundreds of Dixie Cups each filled with water lining the stairwells, forming a maze with desks in a hallway, blocking off the Juniors' parking lot, placing hundreds of pictures of a particular student on everything and anything around the school, spelling out "Seniors 11" with forks in the courtyard and Saran wrapping trees together, "Out of Order" signs on ALL the bathroom doors and LOTS OF OF OTHER LITTLE HILARIOUS ANECDOTES

Achieved: The maze (part of it--the cops showed up), the pictures strangely obsessed over kid, forked courtyard, towed over bleachers place in the middle of the Junior parking lot, "Out of Order" signs (until the principal and assistant principal saw me putting them up and took them down at the same rate...)

Still there when students arrived at 9 AM: Forked courtyard

Thoughts: Damn you cops; damn you janitors. You rue me again!

MangoUnits: Tricked 65 MangoUnits into getting caught for me so I could escape the cops

Out Of Order
Come Back Next Year

These bleachers were towed from a playing field all the way to the middle of the Juniors' parking lot

Six Flags (Great) Adventure!

What a (great) adventure indeed! Our chorus won first place in the Music in the Parks Competition (along with best soloist and best accompanist)! Even with arriving at 10AM, (when the park opens) there were a ridiculous amount of people, all trying to go on every ride. You can see the dilemma this causes. So despite the 11:326 ratio of minutes on a ride:minutes waiting for a ride, we got on most of the exciting attractions. However, I needed a way to occupy myself on these lines (both ride and food)  for the 326 minutes, so I made new friends....

Can you tell which is the guy and which is the girl? (A majority of my friends either got it wrong or had no clue.) I figured it would be funny to ask who's ponytail was longer, but the girl takes out her whiplash and begins to sarcastically laugh--and then rant for 3 minutes in (what appeared to be) a completely thought out monologue she was reading off of a notecard. I played along to hear the entire thing because it amused me and then walked away to go on the Batman roller coaster. Many more pictures and funny stories below! I walked miles of amusement park and rode on 70 MangoUnits (then puked them up on Kingda Ka).

It appears Six Flags is opening up to new markets!

Indeed it is.

There were tons of these face-eating squid hats!

Money saver: use your map as a hat

 

His real name: Chris--average name. His name tag: Neico--some curse word in Arabic.

Hello! My name is New.

For some odd reason, Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman seem to be much better suited for a movie called "Black Swan"...

This mohawk/dreadlocks hair style is redonkulous!

Saw Rasta hats with this hair style but this looked oddly real...