kill the drama.

edit: after warped, in the parking lot, this dude named justin snow ran up to us and started begging us to buy his band maverick's cd and it was hilarious. like he kept begging me and wen i was about to buy it jenn did. it was funny stuff. 'were being fed by yellowcard tonight, but we need money to feed ourselves!" after buying: "you guys are kinda cute.." me: dude shush not now. justin- 'you guys dont want to party with yellowcard???"

soo friday, after columbia i went to uncle rays office to get a ride to jersey with them. while i waited, i popped by marthas and we hung out for a total of 5 mins cuz i had to leave and she was going to kanukland.

satuday. spent the whole day online and bored shitless. watched forensic files and almost shit on ourselves after watching this one on fundamentalist man john list and his fucking scary homicidal self. Amy and i were cowering in the corner and couldnt even move to turn off the light cuz we kept scaring each other by repeating quotes. "mother is still upstairs...she was too heavy to carry downstairs..." kjdfksjbdfk -shudder twtich-

sunday. waaarrrrpppeeddd tooouurrr. amy and i left the house around 8 or 9 and went to jenns. her dad drove us to the place and we got on line..and almost froze to death. amy and jenn started slapping each other and making squeaky noises. i pretended i didnt know them until amy slapped me and slapping ensued three ways. i called riana and we met up near the front of the line. goooood stuff. riana and her friend went off to get tix, so amy, jenn, and i conversed with her two friends as we all died of inhalation of cigarette smoke + pot + essence of porta potty.

after an hour and i half, they let us in and we walked across the HUGE parking lot. checked out the big fat inflatatble schedule and i being a freak i am wrote down the stages, times, and bands in order that i wanted to see. that piece of paper saved our asses.

we saw RUFIO first (they were awesome). i only knew 'in my eyes' 'above me' and i think one or two more from the 'perhaps...' album. the rest were from their most recent album i dont have :-/

made our way over to the maurice stage to see ALLISTER. my love-band. amy and jenn were pushed back by a mini circle pitt while i soved my way to the front barrier. hells yes. yelled along to 'somehere down in fullerton', 'flypaper', etc. that was the start of my sunburn.

Taking back sunday had a signing at 3:30 but we figured it was hopeless anyway, so we went to the Story of the Year stage. that pitt was fucking. insane. we were really close to the front, and when they came out people shoved like there was no tomorrow. i stayed up the whole time and got spun around a million times and lost jenn and amy. crowdsurfers kept FALLING ON ME (tall guys arent always dependable...) and it was so hot a couldnt breathe at a point cuz my face was in someones back. i made a split second decision to get out during 'anthem of our dying day' cuz i coincidently didnt want to die for a band thats not even in my top 20. :X there were SO MANY PEOPLE at soty's set! it took me so long to get out and the sea of people never ended. i had to shove and this one guy was really cool and yelled 'GUYS LET HER THE FUCK THRU!!!!" and went with me thru for a bit. good guy. and this bastard was like 'suck it up, pussy!' so i made a point of jabbing him in the rib as a passed.

i SOMEHOW found amy and we went to see matchbook (jenn was still in the soty pitt). i was surprised alot of ppl were at their set. judas wasnt there cuz he had tonsillitus/laryngitus, so andy, aaron, and ryan ended up doing an acoustic set. a girl behind us passed out from heat stroke and her eyes rolled back and it was freaking scary. they threw water into her mouth and she was revived but i was still kinda shaky. i was wondering why some guy didnt pick her up and carry her out or something. whatever. they did a really great set. there was this dude that looked exactly like jason vena sitting next to aaron and amy and i culdve sworn it was his cousin or something.

went to the allister signing at the slim jim tent. amy ate so much slim jim it was sick. thank god winterfresh was giving out free samples.
jenn: amy look! theres a slim jim down there between that guys feet!
amy: what?! where???
jenn: over there! and its UNWRAPPED!
amy: ahh! (lunged) (ate it)
saddest thing in my life.we got pix (i think i have like 3 of the same cuz we didnt hhink the camera worked...but it did) and kyle and scottie were really nice.

we split up after we found jenn cuz i wanted to see Motion City soundtrack and jenn and amy wanted to see sugarcult (i did too but was in more of a mood for MCS). i caught three songs and discovered the cute jason vena lookalike is their keyboardist who is fucking insane. i knew two songs thanks to aishas iPod lol. i ran over to the sugarcult stage and caught half of pretty girl before running to the tent to see the SOTY signing and MAtchbook signing.
"i love matchbox!" girl 1: 'wheres the lead singer!?"
girl two: "he has laryngitus you idiot!"
us: well gosh he mustve had that to sing fine thru the entire set...fuckers...

i couldnt be bothered to stay on the HUGE soty line, so i snapped pix of Lips and co. (lol timaaa) and ran to the matchbook line. yeah i was running around like a chicken without its head. i was a nervous wreck cuz i didnt know which of two rolls was a blank roll of film, and was worried i was taking pix over tom cruise pix. amy and jenn met me on the line and we waiting for a while for the line to move (and amy oogled her bum off at ryan). so we got stuff signed...talked to ryan about judas and the TBS west coast tour for 0.23498 seconds. it was nice.

the saturday call wentz nicely. all one minute of it.

saw part of new found glorys set...arkham...i loved all the bands i saw on the volcom stage. which BTW FOB PLAYED in PA. more later tho. think think who else did i see..mhm. i saw the lead singer from sugarcult and nobody else noticed till i was like 'LOOK ITS THE SINGER FROM SUGARCULT!' i rule at life. i saw guys from hipv. amy oogled at spencer. bought $80 worth of merch. dan from transistion best have not been lying to me. it was a good cd, tho.

amy and jenn wanted to get to the TBS stage early (see anti-flag before them, too), and i desperately wanted to see hidden in plain view, so we split up. i ended up catching the LAST SONG OF UNDEROATH b4 hidden in plain view. diiieee. i love them. watched hipv set up...i was right up from. knew the words to songs i d/l-ed lol. 2 were new and sounded really good. i hated these 3 or 4 girls behind me who screamed at ANYTHING ALL THE TIME. eg. joe: 'we love' (screeeaaam) 'jersey cuz' (screeaaamm) etc. i was murderous. i elbowed one. shamans witch magic and bleed for you rule my life. and an american classic.

when i got to the tbs stage it was comepltey surrounded and i made my way back to the pit and not the boring as fuck outer ring area. good times. jenn and amy were like 3 ppl from the front and amy had to get pulled out as jenn was ass humped by a fatass. no pun intended much. adam was smaller than anything but i did see the swinging mic so that was lovely. i caught the whole set contrary to what i thought before that i missed half of it. i had mass amounts of fun there...

after that, we sat on the ground, got hipv merch where chris and i had a little convo about FOB and got pix. i complained to like three bands about that lol. saw some of NoFXs set, and went to see some of Yellowcard's also. amy and jenn were having scenester moments but we went anyway.

i didnt eat anything the entire day. i had 2 bottles of watter, 2 of gatorade, and a brownie. i dont know how i survived. its like the FOB KF show, when i had a mountain dew and nothing else, and sweat more than i ever havein my life.

and i lost my cell phone. but found it after one awesome girl picked up, two freakishly nice security guards helped me get it, and one nervous breakdown. goood stuff. we passed by joe from hipv and all of underoath. but i was starstruck and went by them in slo-mo with huge eyes. i wanted to say hi but ddint. we passed by hipv rob and his gf and he waved to me. :)

overall, good good times.

posted by Jennie @ 10:31 PM