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Mean Girl Music Journal: Jack & Sally

Chasing Destino
3 min readNov 7, 2019

It has been awhile since we went to a live show. When the boyfriend asked if I wanted to go see John 5 on Halloween, it seemed like the thing to do. If you know who John 5 is, you know that I could not say no. He could have escaped from a Tim Burton movie in the past.

So we went to Cleveland. The weather was crap but this is Ohio so it is expected.

I really thought that the crowd would be younger. I was prepared to be the old lady in the crowd but thankfully that was not the case. There were a couple of people that were old enough to be my parents.

The stage was really low so it was extremely difficult to see anyone on stage. There weren’t any drum risers either. The boyfriend and I are short so it’s an issue when tall people are in the front. I took one or two good photos. Most of the time, I just looked at what photos the giant next to me was taking. That’s how I got to see anything on stage.

Honestly, we were just happy to be there and not outside trick or treating so everything was cool for a while.

Then Jack and Sally plus another drunk couple and a guy that wanted to mosh came into the picture.

The drunk couple was constantly going from their spot to wherever they went — probably the bar. Then it’s like they were chasing each other and could never…

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