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By Amalia Sandine<\/h1>\n

If there’s one thing I\u2019m going to do, it\u2019s trip and fall in the pit. I don\u2019t know what it is about live music, but the minute I start dancing, or even just entering the venue, I\u2019ll fall over or find some other creative way to get injured. There\u2019s no better way of doing it than in a mosh pit. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s Oct. 2023, 6:50 p.m. on a particularly cold Saturday night in Brookline and I\u2019m nearly 100% sure we\u2019ve gotten to the \u201chouse show\u201d too early. I say house show, even though we’re in a church basement, and because we’re in a basement, I’ve already fallen down the first stair landing. To be clear, I tripped over a few steps but still managed to land on my feet. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s late August 2023 at the end of a heatwave. I\u2019m at the Alvvays\/Alex G outdoor show, at the outdoor concert series Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park.  My friends and I were running around the empty pit because my friend lost her fake ID, and I\u2019m freaking out because someone started a rumor, on Twitter of course, that everyone there should be checked for lice.  
It\u2019s May 2023, and while it\u2019s nice outside the venue is sweltering.  I\u2019m leaving the Front Bottoms\u2019 10 Years of Talon of the Hawk<\/em> show pit in New Haven, and in the bathroom post-show, I notice that my ear is bleeding. My best friend and I joke that Midwest emo will make your ears bleed, even if you love it as much as we do. On the two-hour car ride home I noticed the jewelry for my cartilage cartilage piercing had fallen out. It feels cheesy to say, but I did leave a piece of myself at that show. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s Feb. 2023, and the rain has quickly turned into hail and I am so so cold.  I\u2019m in Allston waiting for the bathroom after miraculously not falling at a house show.  I won’t shut up about how hungry I am, and in the most beautiful moment of my life, one of the people who lives there gives me a piece from a freshly baked loaf of bread. I practically skip back down the stairs into the basement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 2023, still August. This time I\u2019m in Queens, trying to avoid someone who ghosted me at a backyard show. I\u2019m moving so fast that I nearly roll my ankle on the steps to the building. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s July, still 2023 I\u2019m leaving a basement set for a DJ in Park Slope, and I notice scratches covering my arm when we get upstairs. \u201cWho the hell is scratching people at the club?\u201d yells my friend as she waits for her Uber. We never found out who or what felt the need to scratch people in this hipster revival set that was probably just the same LCD Soundsystem song over and over again.   <\/p>\n

It\u2019s 2019, month unknown, spring. I\u2019m 17 and it\u2019s my second time ever attending a DIY show,  in a \u201crotating modern art space\u201d in Brooklyn. I\u2019m slightly pissed because I wanted to crowdsurf but was too scared to ask the tall people there to help me up. The last time I went, I fell down moshing immediately, and while people helped me up, I was trying to prove that I didn\u2019t need t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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