There aren't enough words for this...
So much has happened over the past couple of days, that I don't even know where to begin.
WEST MEMPHIS FREE!!!!! That's a pretty damn good start. It was announced that the boys would have a court appearance for a plea Friday on Thursday and by Noon Friday it happened! They're finally finally FINALLY FREE!!!!! It's been 18 long years, but they're free. Not proven innocent yet,but they'll be out of that jail cell hell! Best fucking news!
I have the greatest friends on the entire Earth. I was having the worst week with my old job still screwing me over and denying my unemployment. I started stressing over bills. I was going to use the first check for bills and to swing getting to Orlando Friday to see Alkaline Trio during their 15th Anniversary tour, which would also be my 15h show(funny, for someone who isn't good with numbers, I do like significant ones). I wasn't going to be able to go and it was a bummer. A bummer that kept growing. They've been advocates for the West Memphis Three forever and were super stoked on the pending news as well. They were even relearning "Prevent This Tragedy" for the Friday show. It's a song they wrote about the West Memphis Three. A great song I might add! I also knew a good amount of people from all over FL that would be there as well. I went to bed at 3am Friday, not thinking I was going. I woke up a little before 9am to text messages from my Bestest friend Olivia, saying she'd give me gas money to Orlando as a birthday/xmas gift!!!!!!! Holy shit! I then scammbled to get ready. I had to attend a job fair in Estero before I could head over to Orlando. All I can say is job fairs for Game Stop are effing weird. I was the only girl for the longest time aha.
Then drive,drive,drive to Orlando!!!!! They upped Pas the Line to 20 bucks now,lame! i still did it though. Gabe ended up being 4 people in front of me. The 3 girls between us did Pass the Line wrong so I ended up by Gabe...and was number 7 in line again.... crazy ass "7" wasn't there this time thank goodness! The people we were in line with ruled. My phone was dying so if you tried to get ahold of me...my bad. We get in and claim our spots. Can someone tell me when the fuck House of Blues started letting in cameras? Because for the past 8 years I've gone, no cameras EVER. But West Memphis Free and being at this show trumped anything else! Some dude tried to talk us out of our spots by letting us up to some VIP shit by the bar upstairs. Seriously? the Drowing Men(aka the Gentlemen) ruled! They all have amazing beards and mustaches. People come out and dance and sing with them. One guy looked sooo much like Jordan, I couldn't turn away from him aha. meiwthoutyou is fucking amazing live. See them. NOW!
"Don't Lose Touch" played while we waited for Alkaline Trio, fuck yeah! Oh fuck! Back to Thursday! Tom announced the free show in Brooklyn would be live streamed. All my NY/NJ/PA friends were in attendance! I got to see it too! And my buddy Chris got on stage for me!!!!
And back to Friday! I wore my praying hands Trio shirt along with a West Memphis Free decal to pray for their release/celebrate it!!!! Within 2 songs Matt spotted it and got stoked! it was awesome! Me and Gabe went nuts. Singing and dancing to every song. A few songs in, Matt hands his guitar off and talks about the court news and goes to his "Free the West Memphis Three" cabinet and goes' I finally get to do this' and rips it off! I've never clapped as loud or celebrated more then that moment. All the excitment of the day was displayed right there. We were all like kids at Christmas! It's hard to put into the words, all the emotions in that room. After"Prevent This Tragedy" they played "Goodbye Forever" in memory of Ryan Dunn. So fitting. At one point Matt and Derek leave and Dan plays " I Remember a Rooftop" for his wife, awwwwwwww! Then they come back out and do Damnesia songs! Acoustic sets rules. I used the rest of my battery life to get some quick pics in.
Cringe
San Francisco
This is Getting Over You
In Vein
Old School Reasons
Mercy Me
Prevent This Tragedy(West Memphis FREE)
Goodbye Forever(for Ryan Dunn)
Private Eye
Mr Chainsaw
This Could Be Love
Clavicle
You've Got So Far to Go
I Remember a Rooftop
I Lied My Face Off
Nose Over Tail
Radio
Blue in the Face
Lead Poisoning
Olde English
97
Crawl(as per Twitter request)
Afterwards I grabbed my camera and Gabe his vinyl and we hung around to see everyone. Ashley and thier 2 friends met up with us too. I hadn't seen Ashley in over a year! Disney had stolen her voice :( I got to say a quick hello to Dan and told him about it being the 15th show during the 15th annivesary in which we high fived! He was trying to leave with his family and people were chasing him down, poor guy. I can't do that to anyone. Gabe got his vinyl singed by everyone and I got stoked about WMF with Derek and Matt. Aha Derek said he saw us going nuts up front, good times. I was so excited i started jumping and speed talking.
I didn't end up getting home until 5am. I went to bed at 6:30 am and was up by 8:30 am. I was doing stuff around the house and then found at noon that I was then going to get ready and get my butt over to Miami for Mitzucon to see my friends in the 3000 Brigade. This time they had done 2 shows! Friday and Saturday night! I speed packed and put together a " from my closet Dr Who" get up, complete with sonic screwdriver! I got a fancy Tate's badge when I got there! It was soo great seeing everyone! It's been months and months is too long! Andreanna made all the girls the cutest I-Up hair clips <3. It was a straight up anime con, so I was out of my element. It was fun,but I knew nothing. I was helping record the show so I went to the costume/skit contest to claim and spot and still ended up 4th row. I didn't know any of the costumes. I used my camera. Hopefully my footage is usable, kids in the walkway getting in my way. There's soo much footage from the shows now! I won't spoil anything,but the show was great. Hilarious as usual! Bravo,bravo! Afterwards we all hung out in the various rooms. it was a blast. it was a good unwinding to such a crazy filled weekend for everyone. Sundays at cons are always interesting. Everyone's winding down or getting final bursts of energy. We crashed the props panel and there were some dance offs and sing-a-longs. And hugs for miles. Definetley hard leaving Miami. Worst.Driving.Storm.Ever. when I hit Naples all the way home too.
To everyone who made the weekend happen and were apart of it, thank you and I love you all!
WEST MEMPHIS FREE!!!!! That's a pretty damn good start. It was announced that the boys would have a court appearance for a plea Friday on Thursday and by Noon Friday it happened! They're finally finally FINALLY FREE!!!!! It's been 18 long years, but they're free. Not proven innocent yet,but they'll be out of that jail cell hell! Best fucking news!
I have the greatest friends on the entire Earth. I was having the worst week with my old job still screwing me over and denying my unemployment. I started stressing over bills. I was going to use the first check for bills and to swing getting to Orlando Friday to see Alkaline Trio during their 15th Anniversary tour, which would also be my 15h show(funny, for someone who isn't good with numbers, I do like significant ones). I wasn't going to be able to go and it was a bummer. A bummer that kept growing. They've been advocates for the West Memphis Three forever and were super stoked on the pending news as well. They were even relearning "Prevent This Tragedy" for the Friday show. It's a song they wrote about the West Memphis Three. A great song I might add! I also knew a good amount of people from all over FL that would be there as well. I went to bed at 3am Friday, not thinking I was going. I woke up a little before 9am to text messages from my Bestest friend Olivia, saying she'd give me gas money to Orlando as a birthday/xmas gift!!!!!!! Holy shit! I then scammbled to get ready. I had to attend a job fair in Estero before I could head over to Orlando. All I can say is job fairs for Game Stop are effing weird. I was the only girl for the longest time aha.
Then drive,drive,drive to Orlando!!!!! They upped Pas the Line to 20 bucks now,lame! i still did it though. Gabe ended up being 4 people in front of me. The 3 girls between us did Pass the Line wrong so I ended up by Gabe...and was number 7 in line again.... crazy ass "7" wasn't there this time thank goodness! The people we were in line with ruled. My phone was dying so if you tried to get ahold of me...my bad. We get in and claim our spots. Can someone tell me when the fuck House of Blues started letting in cameras? Because for the past 8 years I've gone, no cameras EVER. But West Memphis Free and being at this show trumped anything else! Some dude tried to talk us out of our spots by letting us up to some VIP shit by the bar upstairs. Seriously? the Drowing Men(aka the Gentlemen) ruled! They all have amazing beards and mustaches. People come out and dance and sing with them. One guy looked sooo much like Jordan, I couldn't turn away from him aha. meiwthoutyou is fucking amazing live. See them. NOW!
"Don't Lose Touch" played while we waited for Alkaline Trio, fuck yeah! Oh fuck! Back to Thursday! Tom announced the free show in Brooklyn would be live streamed. All my NY/NJ/PA friends were in attendance! I got to see it too! And my buddy Chris got on stage for me!!!!
And back to Friday! I wore my praying hands Trio shirt along with a West Memphis Free decal to pray for their release/celebrate it!!!! Within 2 songs Matt spotted it and got stoked! it was awesome! Me and Gabe went nuts. Singing and dancing to every song. A few songs in, Matt hands his guitar off and talks about the court news and goes to his "Free the West Memphis Three" cabinet and goes' I finally get to do this' and rips it off! I've never clapped as loud or celebrated more then that moment. All the excitment of the day was displayed right there. We were all like kids at Christmas! It's hard to put into the words, all the emotions in that room. After"Prevent This Tragedy" they played "Goodbye Forever" in memory of Ryan Dunn. So fitting. At one point Matt and Derek leave and Dan plays " I Remember a Rooftop" for his wife, awwwwwwww! Then they come back out and do Damnesia songs! Acoustic sets rules. I used the rest of my battery life to get some quick pics in.
Cringe
San Francisco
This is Getting Over You
In Vein
Old School Reasons
Mercy Me
Prevent This Tragedy(West Memphis FREE)
Goodbye Forever(for Ryan Dunn)
Private Eye
Mr Chainsaw
This Could Be Love
Clavicle
You've Got So Far to Go
I Remember a Rooftop
I Lied My Face Off
Nose Over Tail
Radio
Blue in the Face
Lead Poisoning
Olde English
97
Crawl(as per Twitter request)
Afterwards I grabbed my camera and Gabe his vinyl and we hung around to see everyone. Ashley and thier 2 friends met up with us too. I hadn't seen Ashley in over a year! Disney had stolen her voice :( I got to say a quick hello to Dan and told him about it being the 15th show during the 15th annivesary in which we high fived! He was trying to leave with his family and people were chasing him down, poor guy. I can't do that to anyone. Gabe got his vinyl singed by everyone and I got stoked about WMF with Derek and Matt. Aha Derek said he saw us going nuts up front, good times. I was so excited i started jumping and speed talking.
I didn't end up getting home until 5am. I went to bed at 6:30 am and was up by 8:30 am. I was doing stuff around the house and then found at noon that I was then going to get ready and get my butt over to Miami for Mitzucon to see my friends in the 3000 Brigade. This time they had done 2 shows! Friday and Saturday night! I speed packed and put together a " from my closet Dr Who" get up, complete with sonic screwdriver! I got a fancy Tate's badge when I got there! It was soo great seeing everyone! It's been months and months is too long! Andreanna made all the girls the cutest I-Up hair clips <3. It was a straight up anime con, so I was out of my element. It was fun,but I knew nothing. I was helping record the show so I went to the costume/skit contest to claim and spot and still ended up 4th row. I didn't know any of the costumes. I used my camera. Hopefully my footage is usable, kids in the walkway getting in my way. There's soo much footage from the shows now! I won't spoil anything,but the show was great. Hilarious as usual! Bravo,bravo! Afterwards we all hung out in the various rooms. it was a blast. it was a good unwinding to such a crazy filled weekend for everyone. Sundays at cons are always interesting. Everyone's winding down or getting final bursts of energy. We crashed the props panel and there were some dance offs and sing-a-longs. And hugs for miles. Definetley hard leaving Miami. Worst.Driving.Storm.Ever. when I hit Naples all the way home too.
To everyone who made the weekend happen and were apart of it, thank you and I love you all!