Sigur Rós

forty eight hour travesy

it all started someday in april when someone told me there was a webpage anouncing the possibility of sigur rós coming to mexico, i was like "no way, i gotta go" so, time was running and there was no further information @ the official sigur rós page, and time kept on running and then... finally, it was official, there were 3 dates for sigur rós in mexico, first, guadalajara (the place where i was born and where my soul belongs to) on june 5, tepoztlan morelos on june 7 and tijuana on june 8... so i thought the whole time about guadalajara, so i could be on the first tour date in mexico and at the same time be in the place where i belong, where i feel more comfortable breathing...

time passed by... and i had money issues... so i was frustrated by the idea of not going to the concert... didn't know what to do... couldnt do anything at all... but... on the night of june 4... i got impulsive so i told a friend of mine (who loves sigur rós too) to go... with nothing just $1000 and a lot of courage... that we will see what we can do but first we needed to be there... so we did... it was 10.30 pm... when i left home... i ran away just like that, i didnt ask for permission from my parents, nor have enough money, but i just had the nerves to do it, i tried not to think about how crazy this was, because then i will hessitate too much, and i surtainly didn't want to go back...

so, i started driving since 10.30 pm... i passed by my friends house to pick him up... he got $1200, and i got $480, my cell phone and my nintendo ds... so i could sell both of them to get money... because... we had no tickets, we had no place to stay, nor a lot of money... so i figured it out that i would have to get my tickets from re-sale... and a little more expensive...

so, it was 11.30 pm and we were heading our way to guadalajara.... at 3 am... i kind of got lost in the way, but still, with not sleep at all i just took 30 minutes when my eyes started shutting down... so i wouldn't lose time but at the same time reduce the risk of driving tired...

it was 10 am when we arrived to guadalajara, and after drivng and driving, i was hungry and tired... but still couldn't stop untill i have those tickets in my hands... so, we started searching for the places where tickets were sold... but suddendly, i had a little car crash... i hit a volkswaggen... it was a small hit, but still, i had to pay for it... so... now, we didnt have enough money not even for the normal price of the ticket... but we kept on searching for tickets... and i was upset, and sad, and i dont know, i had a lot of feelings, because tickets were sold out so i was stressed and angry and upset, had lots of feelings like those... so... after some times of desperation... we decided to go to the place where all the magic was going to happen... "zapopum"... we arrived there at 2.00 pm and there were some sigur rós fans making line... so... we decided that my friend will stay there lining up and i will go search for a place where i could sell my cell phone... so i went there and sold it... so that if the ticket prices were higher we could afford them... and i went back to zapopum, to the line... and suddendly... a guy came to us telling us he had extra tickets, and if we wanted to buy some from him... just to be sure we get original and not fake we checked them up and yup, there were original... and so we bought them and realized that our mission was completed... although i hadn't had any sleep and felt like crap because of that and hunger... i still was excited while i was watching all those guys and girls waiting for the gates to open... and the fan club taking pictures and being pictured... while i was just lying on the street, trying to get some energy... and wondering myself "why cant i talk to him, and just tell him how much being here means for me, and all that i've gone trought to be here... but nop, i had no courage... i though he wasnt going to listen to me... so i continued on lying on the floor...

finally... they opened the gates... we could get in... and all lined up, girls and boy separated, i felt like getting into jail or an "old school" school... and then is when i started running... yup... running towards the scenarium, so i could get a nice spot in the front... at this time... i hadn't sleept for about 36 hours... and drove 16 STRAIGHT, so i was starting to feel pretty bad... i got dizzy and i honestly thought i was going to have a black out... so i tell the boy by myside to save my spot, i'd be back, and i went to get some sugar (that means i bought a coke) but that wasnt helping me... it was very late, and we didnt know until when the concert was going to start...

and then... the opening band came out... and they really surprised me, i had no idea who they were, but i really enjoyed them... but still didnt feel great and was hoping i didnt have to leave the place because of how i felt at the moment, and then... they went down, and i realized that sigur rós will soon be with me....

and then.... magically... i just... i closed my eyes, and let the tears fall down... i let them flow... while i was listening jónsi's voice... and how my soul melted with "untitled 1"... i just couldnt believe it... i was standing there... sleepless, with my batteries all charged... in front of them.... it was... it was surreal... beautiful, it was just perfect, how the wind was blowing... everything was just perfect... the whole universe aligned to make this happen, to make this one life time experience...
and those who were lucky enough to be there, wether we liked or knew sigur rós or not... this concert changed our minds, our souls... nobody will ever be the same... u just... look at things differently... feel differently, it is impossible to not become a better soul by listening to sigur rós...

and then.... became hoppipolla.... it was... just... i cant describe it... i close my eyes and imagine all things back again... it is all coming back to me... i have no more words to describe how i feel, how i felt, and how it affected my life... it is just so heavenly...

it was close to midnight, when the band said good bye... i was in ecstasy... couldnt talk, couldnt walk, i was just, thrilled... but we started screaming for more... we wanted one last song, one last good bye... and there they came... with a song just perfect to close the concert... and then it was the final good bye...
i couldnt understand how could i be so close to them, but at the very same time so far away... i just wish i could had the opportunity to tell them how they touched me, how i appreciate life better, how i would live all this over just to be close to them... they just gave me back a lot of things that i had lost... self love, confidence in people, the willing to be a better person... i wish i could change my surround, change the world, just like they changed mine...
i had lived so many things... some good, some bad, and some worst, but i always take the possitive out of things... so i always keep on learning, keep on growing... and now... now i've grown A LOT!

for some people (who obviously have no idea of what sigur rós is about) tell me "oh, it's just a concert, don't get to intense on it" and i just go speachless... because, if they werent there they wont understand how strong and emotional a sigur rós concert is... i mean... befor june 5 i had no idea either... i thought i'd fall in love, maybe cry with hoppipolla and untitled 1, and have a great experience that's all, it never crossed my mind i would improve who i am... what i feel... i feel stronger, more beautiful, better, cleaner, and i'd die trying to change the world...

so... it was 1 am and instead of heading home and drive again, for 10-12 hours straigth we decided to get some sleep, i just couldnt drive right after all this emotions and feelings crawling through my sking, so we found the cheapes motel... $190, for 12 hours, and automatically we took it, i couldnt be awake anymore, we got some sleep, and at 10 am we headed to find some food, i wanted "tortas ahogadas" so we searched them... i was still ecstatic about the night before... it was just, amazing to be able to experience this, i mean, if i dye right now, i'm going straight to heave, because i just listened to angels' music... (i know it sounds cheesy, but it is what it is... there wont EVER be a concert where i can experience all my senses like i did with sigur rós... and if i could have gone to tepoztlan to listen to them i would have... but my friend had to come back home, and i wouldnt get a lot of money for selling the "nintendo ds" so, i figured it out that i couldnt make it happen...

when we were coming back... we got lost again... :S apparently i missunderstood a cross on the road and we lost again 2 hours... and when we were about 100 km from my hometown the car started to fail... it was making noises and starting to shut down... so i started to freak out... i coulndt do that... i mean... i had no permission from my parents, i had the best 2 hours of my life and i couldnt afford a new gas bomb for my car... as we kept on advancing it was getting worst... so i mannaged to keeping it working... and we arrived to torreon (my hometown) but as we entered the city... the car totally stoped working...i couldnt turn it on at all... so we pushed it over, and took a taxi to my home, and my friend to mine... i talk to my parents (3 in the morning) so we called to get a crane to get the car home, because the place where we left it is a place where a bridge is getting built... so, police department could take it with no problem, because it shouldnt be there... and just in time, the crane came, and while they were pulling my car up... a bulldozer was coming toward us... so... it all happen when it was meant to be...

now on... i listen to music and nothing is the same... there's nothing compared to listen to sigur rós.... and if it's live, it's so much better...
my whole life has changed... so... if u read this someday... i just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!
thank you for giving me new perspectives, new feelings, emotions i had inside me that i didnt know they existed, or i didnt want to... i dont know, but thanks for existing in my life, in my universe...

thanks for being sigur rós... "la rosa de la victoria"

takk a einhver fjöldi í gegnum einkakennari fyrir þykja leitt , þakka þú í gegnum vera til á minn lítill alheimur og taka burt með þú a hluti af mig

Caroll Sánchez