Friday, September 19, 2008

its too cold to sleep tonight

i always wake up at the same time every night because my room doesnt heat up as well as the rest of the house and i am too cold to sleep. so i just watched american hardcore today/tonight. i know it came out 3 years ago but i watched it now. SPOILER ALERT!!! HARDCORE DIES AT THE END!! yeah. my car smells really weird when you turn on the heater. and by weird i mean bad. i did gaithersburg food not bombs today. i remember why people dont like folk kids. because they are annoying. thats why. so today there was the senior sweep and stuff but we werent even allowed to hit people with the brooms. i am almost positive that that is the whole point of senior sweep. this school is just getting lamer and lamer. ian keeps asking me about butt beads and laughing. if he is going to be a father he needs to start taking things alot more seriously. if you want to check out a sweet straightedge hardcore band you should check out xONE WAYx. they sing about ebay and generic hardcore songs and shit i forget. i just remembered that i went to warped tour. here is my written account of this.
Alright since so many people want to here the epic tale of my warped tour adventure, and i really wanna tell it in person so it gives off a more epic persona, i dont see alotta u guys now, so i'll just put it in note form!Alright so its July 16th, i woke up @ around 5:30 that morning cause once again for the 5th time in my life i was about to experience one of the greatest days of my life!.....warped tour! i was ready, i kinda laid there in bed until about 7:30 ans then got up and showered and started my caffine intact. Eileen came over around 8:30ish so my aunt wouldnt havent to drive everywhere and pick up people, even though everyone we were picking up lives in g-burg. ok so she came over i had already had 2 cups of coffee, and i was starting on a monster, and i ws moshing in my living room and was already sweating and tired, WE HADNT EVEN LEFT YET!...but oh well. so my aunt came and then we went to pick up Keera and we were on our way.so we get there @ 10:30ish and the line was already very long and i immediatly started applying suntan lotion knowing that the day was only gonna get hotter. so waiting in line theres always people promting their bands, and peta2 people w/ petitions, and other crap. Oreskaband walks by promoting what time they were playing and i yell "oreskaband" and start skankin' in line! they had a good laugh. i wouldve been off promoting but Andrew wasnt there yet and i didnt feel like walking by myself.ok so we get inside (finally) and we go to the ginat inflatable schedule with all the times that the bands are playing. so i write down all the ones im gonna defiantly see and Against Me! was like 2nd to play right after As I Lay Dying (and they were basically finished when we got there) on the main stage, and right as i finished writing all the times i hear "New Wave" playng so i rush over to see Against Me!. They were really good, but im not as much into there newer stuff but its still very good, but thats mostly what they palyed, but it was stil an awesome set. Half way through i leave to see if my aunt was near by and then i see Andrew, Erin (wait i think she was with them), and Kyle+Erin's cousin Micheal walking over. So i was like guys lets go catch the rest of Against Me! and then walk aorund and look for merch. I feel like such a dick but Against Me! played some old stuff so i had Micheal hold my bag and stuff as i went into the pit, even though it wasnt that type of pit (not really any shoving more groovin' and dancin')So Aginst Me! finishes and we go to look for merch all the way on the otherside of the venue, this is were you can find out if bands were signing and stuff, so we found Reel Big Fishes tent and they were gonna be signing @ 2:15. so we made a mental note, and went to were all the other merch stuff was, after getting some free stuff @ the Hellcat Records tent! (warped tours got bunches of free stuff) so we go to the Street Dogs tent (they were signing @ 6:20 so pretty much right after they played!), and Horrorpops werent signing but the merch lady did remind me a lot of Patricia Day, except she was wearing pants, but she was nice! so we walk around the merch circus find the ones we want and label out the emo/crap tents! then we meet up with Kyle and Emma! and suddenly Erin i remember appeared and Eileen.....and then i hear Oreskaband starting up! (for those that dont know, Oreskaband's a ska band, but there from Japan, so mix those 2 together and you get pure happiness!!!!) they werent on my list of bands to desperatly see but no one else was really playing, and they were right there in the pavillion, so i rush down there and start skankin' on the side of the crowd. i put my stuff down next to the barricade and Erin joins in for some skankin', some other ladies found it very attractive and joined in, so i started a skank circle!!! other people kept looking over and were like that dudes cool he knows what he's doing, and they took a cue from me and started skankin'! after about 10 mins, i felt like puking,i felt like passing out, and my heart felt like it was just gonna STOP! and i asked Erin if she could come woth me to get some water, and she did and then i felt better. i decided no more sknakin until Reel Big Fish!so off we went to find out exactly where Reel Big Fish was signing. and then we made a game paln with Kyle of what bands all of us dudes were gonna go see. so Andrew had a full time sheet, so we circled the bands we defiantly were seeing, and wrote down the times of signing! so we got to were RBF was signing and i thought the Horrorpops were playing @ the Hurley stage right next to it, not the fuckng Hurley.com stage were we just were. so fighting our way back we get there just as the Horrorpops start playing "Freaks In Uniforms" so i eventually go into the Horropops pit and like last time it was pretty fun, and violent. except this time i didnt slip on beer like when i saw them back with Dropkick Murphys in Sept! so the pit dies down for "Misstake" and i see this girl with a mohawk skankin' so i decide to go join her (she was pretty cute....just throwing that out there........) (Horrorpops for those that dont know are a punk/psychobilly band. some of there songs have a little skank/ska to them, but the lead singer Patricia Day plays the upright bass and she pretty much slaps the shit outta that thing! they also have a pretty seductive set, but this one wasnt as good as the one back in sept) anyways parts of "Misstake" get a little fast, so this really tough guy enters the pit, now when im in a circle pit i know what to expect. people are shoving and crap and your gonna get a little scufted up, but personally i dont think people go to intentionally hurt people, you kow you go shov some people, pick 'em up if they fall cause its part of the whole brotherhood thing, and have fun, and this guy seemed like hurting people was the only thing on his mind. so i tried making my way outta there as fast as i could before i became that greasers lunch!....lolso we left the Horrorpops set like 10 mins early to go get some RBF sigs! :( but at the same time :) (ok my story is a little messed up, cause i cant remember everything, but sometime beforeor after this I actaully met up with Tom of Against Me! and Erin took a pic of us). and then Oreskaband (well 2 members) were at there merch booth and i took a pic Erin and them (she was scared...lol) anyways so we waited in line for RBF. we get some sigs, Micheal got Matt's t-shirt signed that i got for him and me and Aaron of RBF took an awesome Rock'n'roll pic! pretty bitchin'!!!!ok so blah blah blah, we go back to the pavillion casue were burning up, and Beat Union was playing and they were actually really good. i really saw alotta Clash influences from them. so we then went to go see RBF!!! and by everyone i mean everyone, they almost beat Paramores crowd from last year! (and its funny cause on the way to WT Keera i dont think was that big of of a RBF fan, but after hearing a couple of songs on the way there, and seeing them live, thats about enough to make anyone a fan!) so they come out and are like "Hey guys!....were Metallica!" and start playing "Enter Sandman" (this is not the 1st time ive seen them do this, actually ive seen them do that every time theyve played) yep that made the metalheads fall in love....lol and then after playing for a min. Aaron was like "Just kidding, hey everybody were the Reel Big Fish!" and they start playing "Sell Out" a that moment the pit opens up and of course i go in (leaving my stuff with the Andrew, Mike, and Eileen) and i skank my ass off, and then KEERA pushes me, but w.e. ever it was so much fun i didnt care, i pushed her back a tad, and the skankin' continued from there!......all the girls wanted to go crowd surfing so me, Mike, and Andrew were incharge of giving them lifts. Emma and Kyle were up front enjoying the magic that RBF has during there live set! then they played "I Want Your Girlfriend To Be My Girlfriend Too" (my siganture song) so now i wanted to go crowd surfing. i did but i fell. and then i got another lift but fell again. (i never made it to the end :(....) but after i fell another girl was falling and her head was bending back and i had just fallen so i was trying to save her from breaking her neck....which i did.....i rawk! Keera, Eileen, and Erin all made it to the end at different points and kept crowd surfing. Keera fell and ened up near me so we went back around to find the others and partied!...kinda (there was a cool dude with a Screeching Weasel tattoo next to me, i told him his tattoo kicked ass! cause Screeching Weasel kicks ass!) Reel Big Fish ended with there classic cover of Ah-Ha's "Take On Me" and were gonna be signing again. (thats when you girls shouldve gone back over!)ok so from what i remember the girls went off somewhere and me, Mike, and Andrew sat infront of the Hellcat Records tent until the Bouncing Souls played. Kyle and Emma went to the where the Steet Dogs were gonna play in an hour. so the Bouncing Souls start playing and it was pretty good, but the Street Dogs might of done a tad better (no actually Street Dogs and Reel Big Fish stole warped tour away with there sets!!!!) (Bouncing Souls still rawk!!!) but ok so all of us head over to the Street Dogs who luckly are playign the other main stage right across from the Bouncing Souls, so once again we haev to leave 5-10mins early. and i saw a person in the crowd, someone oddly familiar,......it was Robby. yes Robby went with his other friends and was actaully watchinf the Street Dogs. but yeah we found Kyle, Emma, Eileen, and Keera up front and aman that was the perfect place!!! The Street Dogs come one and start playing "Mean Fist" (1st song off the new cd) and me and Kyle were getting into it, and then they played "Not Without A Purpose" and me Kyle were REALLY into it......then "Tobes Got A Drinking Problem", "Two Angry Kids", and i then me and Kyle went in that giant circle pit for "In Defense Of Dorchester" and when i was runing i was able to dodge that mud puddle by not very much...lol. and outta nowhere they say "weve got one of our friends here to help us sing this next one" to my surprise it was Mark from The Unseen!! YES Mark from THE UNSEEN!!!!! and they sang "Rise Above" by Black Flag!!! THATS TRUE PUNK RIGHT THERE!!!!! and i was pissedi left my awesome spot, but oh well.....and then i screamed at Keera and was like "ITS MARK FROM THE UNSEEN" and like a girl she started spazzing.......anyways they ended with "Fighter" and we were all in amazement by there set. The Street Dogs AND Reel Big Fish in my opinion made warped tour!!!!so we go to there merch booth to get some sigs, meet them, take pics, and hang. plus mike from The Unseen walked by and i shoke his hand, told him good job, and that i wish i stayed for the full Unseen set last year, but i liked what i saw. oh and then Aaron and Johnny of RBF walked by and Keera wantedme to chase after them and get there sigs for her shirt which she shouldve gotten earlier, but they walk to fast, and i felt bad afterwards, but i didnt want to be that nnoying fan....but i still felt bad :( but anyways, Street Dogs, they are so awesome and i cant wait for when they come back to the Ottobar Sept. 23rd w/ Time Again!!!! oh man what a day we were wiped! so Emma, Kyle, Andrew, Erin, and Micheal all left, and me and Eileen had to wait for Keera to finish watching her preciuos Settings, no they were ok.........and then i Keera took a pic with the lead guy and we went to California Tortilla to finsih another magnificant day of warped tour!!!!

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