'You profaner of Isis. I will avenge thy torment.'

[uberreiniger]

So at the Iced Earth concert I did indeed run into my ex-bandmates. I didn't really believe I would yet there they were. They were about twenty feet in front of me the whole time. When Iced Earth's set ended they walked right past me, and I mean within inches. One of them looked directly at me, I nodded and she instantly did the whole "look away really fast and pretend I didn't see you" thing. Later I ran into the other one out in the lobby. I said hi to her and she just stared into space like a wooden Indian, pretending she couldn't see or hear me. I can't decide if I feel pissed at being ignored like that or proud that I'm apparently worth that much effort to ignore.

I also saw my ex-boss who ran me out of my job as a security supervisor years ago. He too looked right at me but I could tell he genuinely didn't recognize me. I have long hair and a beard now so perhaps that's understandable. Plus he always was kind of a clueless douche.

I readily admit that I don't move on from things very well. So spending an evening with a few yards away from three people who've backstabbed me wasn't very fun.

I am trying to focus on the positive, namely that Iced Earth were AWESOME. John Schaeffer, Stu Block, and the gang totally ripped the room apart. I've seen a lot of really good live metal acts these last few years but I think I'm going to have to put Iced Earth in the top five. (The other four being Nightwish, Kreator, Eluveitie, and Nile in case you're wondering.) Most of the songs were from their newest album Dystopia but they played a good selection of older material too such as their self-titled song "Iced Earth" and "Damien" which is my personal favorite song of theirs. Hearing that one live was every bit as amazing as I knew it would be. They also have a ten minute musical interpretation of Dante's Inferno and they played that in its entirety too. And it was freaking SCARY. Color me impressed.

The opening act was a thrash band called Warbringer and they actually weren't too bad. I've listened to a few of their songs online and thought they were just alright but they come off as way stronger live. It might make me go back and re-evaluate what I listened to before.

Iced Earth are co-headlining this tour with Symphony-X who are a progressive metal band. They are very good at what they do but I just have a hard time getting into them for some reason. That and because I have to be up early in the morning, I left a few songs into their set.

There are a lot of selfish, cowardly people and people who just plain have no integrity and I don't know why I keep expecting them to be different, or think they might miss me or regret their bad treatment of me, or even think about it at all. But experiencing really amazing music live I think is worth having to see people you'd rather not see again.

Comments

[batchix.livejournal.com]

You have a beard!? I... I somehow can't imagine that!

those people are all douche bags. :<

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I'll try and post a pic.

[cygny.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time moving on from things as well. I tend to want to hang on to people I had a good time with, even if they don't want to hang on to me anymore. I hope you can put it all behind you quickly though. Glad the music made up for a lot of it :D

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I find I'm putting it behind me in stages. With this I'm one step closer *hugs*

[flame-song.livejournal.com]

Iced Earth and Symphony X make quite an unusual pairing, even though I actually love them both.

Wow, your ex-bandmates are such douchebags. How old are they? Five and six? Shouldn't one be quite above that kind of "pretend not to see you and you will disappear" thing after that age?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Seeing the two bands together last night I thought they fit quite well.

As for the ex-bandmates, I think after this incident all evidence gathered points to one conclusion which is that the two of them are indeed five and six.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Some people just aren't worth your time.

Let THEM spend the energy on 'ignoring' you. You get to focus on the real world.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

If they had ignored me any louder it would have drowned out the music.

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

You're not alone when it comes to that "not letting go of things easily" thing. Me too-- you may have noticed. =^)

But I'm glad you had such a great time at the concert regardless and that your ex-bandmates were apparently too ashamed to even meet your gaze.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I spent much of the evening being very tempted to get all up in their face and be like "HI how are YOU?" But I figured that would have been petty and vengeful. Plus I was there to see Iced Earth and not stalk losers who have no integrity.

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

Good for you.

(Although of course I understand the temptation!!)

[helgaleenas.livejournal.com]

Civility was not in evidence. That is ill of them. Congrats on experiencing Iced Earth live. This is when you desperately need to give them the horns on their way past you into the future.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

My wife put it very well, summing them up as having no integrity. And they don't. Kind of hypocritical with them being such obsessive Iced Earth fans and personal integrity being a big theme in Iced Earth's music.

[armageddonriver.livejournal.com]

Well, if nothing else, you've certainly learnt that you're the bigger person (though I imagine you knew that well enough already). I mean, I can understand not wanting to see someone you had a bad parting with, but you had the good grace to be polite, and if you're willing to do that, the least they could do is return the favour.

Once again, I have to say you are so much better off without them.

And great to hear Iced Earth slayed it! They're touring here in April, and I really hope I'll have the money to see them. A two-week holiday in London has rather left me struggling, though. Missing a lot of gigs, though Erin and I have been keeping up with Amanda Palmer / The Dresden Dolls. We know Amanda quite well, having attended so many shows and done the catering for several. On Sunday night Amanda even pulled Erin up on stage and sat her at the piano while she ran off to get the setlist she forgot to bring out. "You! Come up and sit here! I know you don't play piano, but it's really easy, I'll show you! Just do this for like thirty seconds!"

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Wow that's awesome, and something I can totally see AFP doing, too.

[redstar826.livejournal.com]

As others have said, you don't need those losers. I'm glad that you otherwise enjoyed the show.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I really don't. I had a great time without them despite the fact they were there.

[whiskeychick.livejournal.com]

Sounds to me like you're just the bigger person and have a higher emotional intelligence.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I try to be.