kill the director
fuck these blogs. i wish i could articulate myself online the way i can in my head. here i just sound unintelligent and babbling, in my brain though, i'm a fucking mastermind. so, latest revelation, i am so fucking done with being a teenager. so fucking done with it. i'm fucking done with hormones, mood swings, and being such a sappy fucking girl. i want to grow up and get out.
so, recap of warped. got in on beat union's guest list. the place was ridiculously overcrowded, but my massive critiscisms of warped can be saved for a different blog. Academy did first set of the day, they were great and i felt really shitty for being so down on them all summer. Post TAI I went to Street Dogs, and they were fucking great! I love those crazy old dudes! Being at their shows is such a great enviroment too. It's like, a billy talent show or an antiflag show, it's not one of those damn punk shows where you feel like your fighting for your life and your cussing yourself out for not being able to fully appreciate the music, it's just somewhere to have fun and know that the person behind you has your back. I love Street Dogs. Oh and, they got a circle pit around the sound booth, and it was amazing.
The Aggrolites were OK, but pretty boring. Broadway Calls was subpar, as usual, but i fucking adore their song Suffer the Kids, i think the lyrics are so spot on. Nothing special or enlightening, but ballsy and truth ridden.
At Motion City's set there were way too many people, and well.. it was MCS at Warped Tour. Nothing special. A very average set on the MCS front. Man, I fucking ache for another show like the one they played at the Roxy last summer. Against Me! was awesome, I like them more and more everytime I see them, but I don't think I'll ever be able to see from the Fat Wreck/WBR switch. 'Cause I'm an elitist pig.
Oreskaband was amazing and ska dance-tastic, as usual! I'm positive, they're the catch of the summer. Everything about that band is great, and the crowds they eminate blow my mind as much as it blows theirs. They really have something great building. I'm excited to watch it.
By the time GBH played I was dead tired. It was a pretty low point in the day and I was just dripping with exhaustion, so I had a pretty hard time keeping up with anything, I ended up just feeling dead next to Sarah for most of the set, but I went in and had a good time when they covered White Riot. Right after they're set The Vandals were on on the stage next to them, but there was a MASSIVE crowd I had to get around! Unfortunately, Vandals opened with Oi to the World, my favorite Vandals song. So I sprinted straight through the entire crowd and got into the pit in a impressive like.. half minute. Haha, at one point during my sprint some girl behind me is all FUCKING RUN and we're both sprinting our asses off to get there in time to really enjoy the amazingness that is The Vandals. They were fucking awesome and old and amazing. They covered the Ramones and DON'T STOP ME NOW, a song i consider one of the best of all time. It was hilarious as hell, refreshing, just fucking great. I adore them more than ever.
Ohso, rewind! Right when I got in, I was wandering the tour, and I see that Whole Wheat Bread has a table set up. I become wildly excited and pretty much scream "YOU GUYS ARE PLAYING TODAY! HOLY SHIT WHENNNN." They played the Skate Ramp stage and fucking rocked it! Seriously, when I think of them a slurry of fucking adjectives have a big clusterfuck in my head. That band is fucking great.
The Briggs put on a pretty good show, I was impressed, it was fun, they had a good power to them. Every day since I first saw them, I love them more. I saw a little of Relient K then tryed to get a decent spot for Rise Against. It's Relient K, yknow? Nothing special. The Rise Against crowd was packed. I swear everyone there was there for them. It was stupid on many different levels, but once again, that's a different blog. I had a hard time appreciating most of the set because I was doing my best not to fall on everyone, but it was just a line of singles, which was my main criticsm of Motion City's set. Still, it's Rise Against, so it had to be good. They finally opened up a pit on the last song, Prayer, and at the very end, I ate SHITTTTTT in the pit on the fucking asphalt parking lot. Like seriously, I was bleeding on people, it was fucking gross! But I had to haul ass ALL THE WAY ACROSS WARPED to see Four Year Strong the second RA ended, so instead of going to first aid, I dumped some water over it and tied my bandana around my elbow. It worked, but it fucking hurt. I have a NASSSSTY scab too, it's all green now.
Four Year Strong was... it was weird. You know when you see a band, and you don't really know how much you like that band until you see how you react when you feel them live? Suddenly I was watching Four Year Strong and just screaming my heart out, I was screaming and spinning and jumping and kicking and yelling and puking my heart at them. I didn't know I had that enthusiasm for FYS, but being there with them was so much fucking fun. It was great.
Right after FYS fucking Katy fuckshit Parry played on the stage next to them, so getting past that crowd was fucking hellish. Fucking Katy Parry and Shwayze and how they fuck up Warped Tour. Man, I need to go start my own damn tour. Once more, different blog. I caught some of Reel Big Fish's set, and got a few teeshirts, then I went home and that was the end of Warped. It was great, tiring, and relatively perfect. There were some great bands. I loved the Old School Punk Stage, that was an act of brilliancy.
Haha, so I was just checking my email and I got an email from some girl who works for Hurley which teamed up with Beat Union and gave me the guest list spot for Warped. She sent me an email that was kinda requesting feedback on what I thought of Warped Tour and just being a generally good.. host, seeing my thoughts, I of course took that as an opportunity to rant about my elitist, grassroots opinions. It went like this: "Once any scene is sponsored by a clothing line, it's not about the music, and it's not about the kids, it's about the commodity, and that's not something I can respect. While that statement is neither constructive criticism or a thesis, it's what makes Warped tour seem more and more ironic with each year, however, things like Hurley is what festivals are rooted in. While I can never support Hurley having a hand in what used to be considered a 'punk festival', I can not come to an absolute consensus on wether or not Hurley's involvement is a productive, though certainly not constructive, influence on music of today. If you really want to know what I think of Hurley I'd give it two swear fingers and a kick in the ass back to Pac Sun, because I don't think music is the place for empty advertisment, but since Warped Tour can never be considered untainted meat, and it's certainly the teenager clusterfuck of the summer, maybe that's what marketing's evolved to."
Maybe some food for thought? Hell if I know.
I have shows coming up. They'll be fun.
OH SO. i've been in band camp all week, and will be for all of next week. It's from noon until nine at night, i've been getting home around nine fourty five [fuck the bus!!!]. i'm realllllly sunburnt, and pretty burnt out on fucking single stroke rolls!
life's been weird, but at least it's been new. i'm finding shit for me to waste time on at school that at least makes me feel worth something. i'm finding things that work.
for once, i don't feel hopeless.
and for the first time in awhile, i feel like things could work out.
meanwhile, everyone around me is falling down, but then again, that's my life.
i hope you'll hear from me soon. i still want that masterpiece to fall out of my one day.
so, recap of warped. got in on beat union's guest list. the place was ridiculously overcrowded, but my massive critiscisms of warped can be saved for a different blog. Academy did first set of the day, they were great and i felt really shitty for being so down on them all summer. Post TAI I went to Street Dogs, and they were fucking great! I love those crazy old dudes! Being at their shows is such a great enviroment too. It's like, a billy talent show or an antiflag show, it's not one of those damn punk shows where you feel like your fighting for your life and your cussing yourself out for not being able to fully appreciate the music, it's just somewhere to have fun and know that the person behind you has your back. I love Street Dogs. Oh and, they got a circle pit around the sound booth, and it was amazing.
The Aggrolites were OK, but pretty boring. Broadway Calls was subpar, as usual, but i fucking adore their song Suffer the Kids, i think the lyrics are so spot on. Nothing special or enlightening, but ballsy and truth ridden.
At Motion City's set there were way too many people, and well.. it was MCS at Warped Tour. Nothing special. A very average set on the MCS front. Man, I fucking ache for another show like the one they played at the Roxy last summer. Against Me! was awesome, I like them more and more everytime I see them, but I don't think I'll ever be able to see from the Fat Wreck/WBR switch. 'Cause I'm an elitist pig.
Oreskaband was amazing and ska dance-tastic, as usual! I'm positive, they're the catch of the summer. Everything about that band is great, and the crowds they eminate blow my mind as much as it blows theirs. They really have something great building. I'm excited to watch it.
By the time GBH played I was dead tired. It was a pretty low point in the day and I was just dripping with exhaustion, so I had a pretty hard time keeping up with anything, I ended up just feeling dead next to Sarah for most of the set, but I went in and had a good time when they covered White Riot. Right after they're set The Vandals were on on the stage next to them, but there was a MASSIVE crowd I had to get around! Unfortunately, Vandals opened with Oi to the World, my favorite Vandals song. So I sprinted straight through the entire crowd and got into the pit in a impressive like.. half minute. Haha, at one point during my sprint some girl behind me is all FUCKING RUN and we're both sprinting our asses off to get there in time to really enjoy the amazingness that is The Vandals. They were fucking awesome and old and amazing. They covered the Ramones and DON'T STOP ME NOW, a song i consider one of the best of all time. It was hilarious as hell, refreshing, just fucking great. I adore them more than ever.
Ohso, rewind! Right when I got in, I was wandering the tour, and I see that Whole Wheat Bread has a table set up. I become wildly excited and pretty much scream "YOU GUYS ARE PLAYING TODAY! HOLY SHIT WHENNNN." They played the Skate Ramp stage and fucking rocked it! Seriously, when I think of them a slurry of fucking adjectives have a big clusterfuck in my head. That band is fucking great.
The Briggs put on a pretty good show, I was impressed, it was fun, they had a good power to them. Every day since I first saw them, I love them more. I saw a little of Relient K then tryed to get a decent spot for Rise Against. It's Relient K, yknow? Nothing special. The Rise Against crowd was packed. I swear everyone there was there for them. It was stupid on many different levels, but once again, that's a different blog. I had a hard time appreciating most of the set because I was doing my best not to fall on everyone, but it was just a line of singles, which was my main criticsm of Motion City's set. Still, it's Rise Against, so it had to be good. They finally opened up a pit on the last song, Prayer, and at the very end, I ate SHITTTTTT in the pit on the fucking asphalt parking lot. Like seriously, I was bleeding on people, it was fucking gross! But I had to haul ass ALL THE WAY ACROSS WARPED to see Four Year Strong the second RA ended, so instead of going to first aid, I dumped some water over it and tied my bandana around my elbow. It worked, but it fucking hurt. I have a NASSSSTY scab too, it's all green now.
Four Year Strong was... it was weird. You know when you see a band, and you don't really know how much you like that band until you see how you react when you feel them live? Suddenly I was watching Four Year Strong and just screaming my heart out, I was screaming and spinning and jumping and kicking and yelling and puking my heart at them. I didn't know I had that enthusiasm for FYS, but being there with them was so much fucking fun. It was great.
Right after FYS fucking Katy fuckshit Parry played on the stage next to them, so getting past that crowd was fucking hellish. Fucking Katy Parry and Shwayze and how they fuck up Warped Tour. Man, I need to go start my own damn tour. Once more, different blog. I caught some of Reel Big Fish's set, and got a few teeshirts, then I went home and that was the end of Warped. It was great, tiring, and relatively perfect. There were some great bands. I loved the Old School Punk Stage, that was an act of brilliancy.
Haha, so I was just checking my email and I got an email from some girl who works for Hurley which teamed up with Beat Union and gave me the guest list spot for Warped. She sent me an email that was kinda requesting feedback on what I thought of Warped Tour and just being a generally good.. host, seeing my thoughts, I of course took that as an opportunity to rant about my elitist, grassroots opinions. It went like this: "Once any scene is sponsored by a clothing line, it's not about the music, and it's not about the kids, it's about the commodity, and that's not something I can respect. While that statement is neither constructive criticism or a thesis, it's what makes Warped tour seem more and more ironic with each year, however, things like Hurley is what festivals are rooted in. While I can never support Hurley having a hand in what used to be considered a 'punk festival', I can not come to an absolute consensus on wether or not Hurley's involvement is a productive, though certainly not constructive, influence on music of today. If you really want to know what I think of Hurley I'd give it two swear fingers and a kick in the ass back to Pac Sun, because I don't think music is the place for empty advertisment, but since Warped Tour can never be considered untainted meat, and it's certainly the teenager clusterfuck of the summer, maybe that's what marketing's evolved to."
Maybe some food for thought? Hell if I know.
I have shows coming up. They'll be fun.
OH SO. i've been in band camp all week, and will be for all of next week. It's from noon until nine at night, i've been getting home around nine fourty five [fuck the bus!!!]. i'm realllllly sunburnt, and pretty burnt out on fucking single stroke rolls!
life's been weird, but at least it's been new. i'm finding shit for me to waste time on at school that at least makes me feel worth something. i'm finding things that work.
for once, i don't feel hopeless.
and for the first time in awhile, i feel like things could work out.
meanwhile, everyone around me is falling down, but then again, that's my life.
i hope you'll hear from me soon. i still want that masterpiece to fall out of my one day.