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Can't make a cohesive description of my day. Bullets, ahoy.
Arrived around 9 AM to get in line early to get free shit. The sun was horribly, blisteringly hot until around three. I couldn't muster the motivation to move from the mist tent, much less rock out, UNTIL during Dropkick Murphys (which i forced myself to energize for), the sun went behind a cloud! Whereupon the weather progressively became darker and cooler until it was raining. And i was soaked. And cold. But i had my new Offspring hoodie so it was all good.
~ DKM were excellent, i would have loved their set more if i hadn't had to spend half the time fending off large, overenthusiastic, tattooed men from crushing me to death.
~ Avenged Sevenfold surprised me hugely. I had thought they were just another shitty hardcore band, but julia liiiiike. Although they were kind of theatrical for my taste.
~ Sort of spent most of the time between DKM at 2:30 and The Offspring at 7:30 bouncing around between people i kept running into. John, Keith, Phil, Randy&girlfriend, Suzanne, Dusty, Justin&Rebecca, or any combination you could make.
~ There was this guy who sort of became my buddy/protector at Earthday Birthday, and i bumped into him at Warped!!! How awesome. He remembered me!
~ There was an awesome guy with a cardboard sign giving out free high fives. As opposed to charging for them i guess...
~ I couldn't eat anything all day because of the initial heat. I ended up spending like 20 bucks on water because i was drinking constantly to avoid heat exhaustion and whatever other crap. I mainly just didn't want to puke.
THE OFFSPRING... OMGoddddd
I was front and fucking center. Like prime position RIGHT IN FRONT OF DEXTER against the barricade, and i've discovered that it's farrr more comfortable than the couple rows after it. The view is crazy. The only thing interrupting the ecstasy of hearing the songs i've always loved live and up close was that people kept landing on me but eh. The big security guy in front of me was awesome. He kept singing along and playing air guitar when he wasn't busy saving me from being squashed. I so totally high fived him.
And when i finally get out of the crowd, giddy and exhilerated, and meet up with John and Keith, what do i find out? KEITH CAUGHT ME A DRUMSTICK!!! One the drummer actually just used, broken and beat up and awesome! I don't even fucking care if my pictures don't come out. Everything is perfectperfectperfect
I did, however, lose my voice. Entirely. I saved all my screaming for The Offspring, but apparently that was enough. I have to whisper now, and even that hurts.
Afterwards, me john and keith went to the hard rock cafe and ate food and chilled out and were tired. Somehow we ended up taking the scenic route back home, but it's all good. I'm finally showered and CLEAN and will go to bed soon.
Wheeeee Chevelle tomorrow! Yeah Phiiiiil!!!
Arrived around 9 AM to get in line early to get free shit. The sun was horribly, blisteringly hot until around three. I couldn't muster the motivation to move from the mist tent, much less rock out, UNTIL during Dropkick Murphys (which i forced myself to energize for), the sun went behind a cloud! Whereupon the weather progressively became darker and cooler until it was raining. And i was soaked. And cold. But i had my new Offspring hoodie so it was all good.
~ DKM were excellent, i would have loved their set more if i hadn't had to spend half the time fending off large, overenthusiastic, tattooed men from crushing me to death.
~ Avenged Sevenfold surprised me hugely. I had thought they were just another shitty hardcore band, but julia liiiiike. Although they were kind of theatrical for my taste.
~ Sort of spent most of the time between DKM at 2:30 and The Offspring at 7:30 bouncing around between people i kept running into. John, Keith, Phil, Randy&girlfriend, Suzanne, Dusty, Justin&Rebecca, or any combination you could make.
~ There was this guy who sort of became my buddy/protector at Earthday Birthday, and i bumped into him at Warped!!! How awesome. He remembered me!
~ There was an awesome guy with a cardboard sign giving out free high fives. As opposed to charging for them i guess...
~ I couldn't eat anything all day because of the initial heat. I ended up spending like 20 bucks on water because i was drinking constantly to avoid heat exhaustion and whatever other crap. I mainly just didn't want to puke.
THE OFFSPRING... OMGoddddd
I was front and fucking center. Like prime position RIGHT IN FRONT OF DEXTER against the barricade, and i've discovered that it's farrr more comfortable than the couple rows after it. The view is crazy. The only thing interrupting the ecstasy of hearing the songs i've always loved live and up close was that people kept landing on me but eh. The big security guy in front of me was awesome. He kept singing along and playing air guitar when he wasn't busy saving me from being squashed. I so totally high fived him.
And when i finally get out of the crowd, giddy and exhilerated, and meet up with John and Keith, what do i find out? KEITH CAUGHT ME A DRUMSTICK!!! One the drummer actually just used, broken and beat up and awesome! I don't even fucking care if my pictures don't come out. Everything is perfectperfectperfect
I did, however, lose my voice. Entirely. I saved all my screaming for The Offspring, but apparently that was enough. I have to whisper now, and even that hurts.
Afterwards, me john and keith went to the hard rock cafe and ate food and chilled out and were tired. Somehow we ended up taking the scenic route back home, but it's all good. I'm finally showered and CLEAN and will go to bed soon.
Wheeeee Chevelle tomorrow! Yeah Phiiiiil!!!