Akron/Family Rant

When I got into college I was quite excited to get out of my hometown and meet people more attuned to my interests. My friends at home were cool and all, but I really was dying to find people more on my wavelength of constantly going to concerts. I’m from outside of NYC, and when I was in high school if ever there was a band playing that I wanted to see, I went to see them. I didn’t care if it was on a Monday night and I had a test the next day during first period, I still went. Finding a person to go to most of those concerts with was nearly impossible. I’d start searching months in advance and the search generally continued right up to the night of the show. I’d normally end up going with some random person I had in my phone book who was so desperate for anything to do that night that they ended up accompanying me to see some band they’d never heard of. But in the end I always got to see the show.
Now it’s February 8, 2007 and I’m at college! I’m sitting in my dorm room, it’s second semester, and I’ve made so many awesome friends. They listen to the same music, they’re into going to concerts, and they are basically everything I was hoping for. BUT, when the concerts actually roll around they never want to go! If I look out my second floor window of Court Hall I can see Appel, the place where Akron/Family will be playing tonight, at 9 pm. Most of my hall, including myself, is involved with Greek life, and most of them won’t dare to miss a mixer. Originally one of the other girls on my hall was going to attend this show with me, but sadly Theta calls. She doesn’t have to do homework, or rest because she’s sick; she has to go to a mixer, when she’s already gone to about fifteen in the last two weeks! A band who has gotten nothing but ecstatic reviews from everyone including pitchforkmedia.com to my best friend who just saw them play at NYU is playing in the building I can see from my dorm room window! And yet I can’t find a single friend to go with!
How about my other girlfriend who I asked this afternoon? She said she might be interested. Guess what? She’s not. Why? Because she has to watch Grey’s Anatomy at 9! She can download it on her computer the second we can get back. In fact she can probably even download it now, because DC++ is great like that. But god forbid at the same time as Grey’s Anatomy she tears herself a whole one hundred yards out of the dorm to Appel to witness a most likely incredible concert! Never!
There’s one more option, my friend in JAM. I scrambled around the dorm to find someone with his number, I get in touch with him, and what is he doing? Going to his stupid mixer! He lives in JAM, the only conversations I ever have with him are about music, and yet he’s going to a mixer over a concert!? I just don’t understand him, or any of my friends.
The people I’ve met at college are awesome and totally attuned to my interests. But, sometimes I just hate them! I can’t wait until tomorrow when I’ve gone to Akron/Family and had the best night ever and I can rub it in their stupid sorority, fraternity, Grey’s Anatomy watching faces!