Ozzfest review
So I got up early. Got shit together...come to find out my tire was FLAT. Had a nail in it. Well, dad was up early so he patched my tire for me before I left. Got there for 8am. Started drink a really strong Blue Hawaii that I had made last night. Halfway thru it I wasn't feeling good. And I was drunk before 8:30am. I hate drinking in the morning. So I figured I'd had enough after that (I hadn't eaten breakfest either), and walked thru the lot to the gates. Weren't many people there so I just sat down and spaced the fuck out. Called Ambre to see when she'd get there...left a message, called Mike, and he wasn't even on the highway yet.
So doors open, I go to the wristband booth so I could drink before the crowds got there...ran into...RYAN! this guy used to do work for Thirty Stones...so I hung out with him for a few hours b/c he didn't know anyone else there. Watched a few of the bands. First band - Bury Your Dead...I really liked them...they should have gone onstage AFTER Wicked Wisdom, because Jada may be married to Will Smith, but she should stick to fucking acting b/c she CANNOT growl, scream, or sing!
Arch Enemy was AMAZING! Their singer can really growl for a chick! Umm...other highlights were Mastodon, Trivium, KsE, Zombie...more but I had a brain fart
Missed the Haunted...
Ran into SOOOOO many people: Chris & Deena, Wes & the rest of Tempus Mori, Jeff, Rob the Leprechaun, Mark Of Velocity (I teased him about the music that Aaron & I played last week), Becca R., one of the Dunn kids, some dude named Paul I went to HRHS with, Mike from SIC, Cliff, etc.
MET: Joel from Blight (he found me in the crowd and recognized me from Myspace), 3/4 of the guys from Fallout (cannot remember their names, but they wore their band's shirts), guy from Suicide Dream, Opus' brother, Randy from Big ED.
Oh yea, AS I LAY DYING is fucking INSANE! I was in their pit and 2nd song into it, the crowd went nuts and people just starting flying over my head one by one! Kids went nuts on crowd surfing! By the time KsE went on, I was in the 2nd row and loving it. But some shaven asshole with three tiny little braids in the back of his head pushed his way in front of me and started whipping his head around so I got whipped in the face with his hair. He got nailed by me once or twice for it too. After "heartache" ended, he was kicking me and stepping on my infected toe obnoxiously and I had had enough. It took another 2 songs to get security's attention to get them to drag me out. By then I was shirtless with my bikini top on, so all these people would just stare at my boobs and yell at me to flash them. WHATEVER.
So I made it back to the Jager tent and harassed Shadow's Fall a lil...lol. Watched half of Zombie's set...went over to the other side to get some food, and while waiting in line for fries...I look over at the WCCC tent and there's this big guy in a kilt with a mohawk and a backpack slung over his front and he's whipping CDs into the crowd. It's OPUS!!!! So I lose my place in line and go after him! I love that guy. I got over there and he's offstage and I'm trying to get one of their interns to go find him for me! So he sees me from backstage and gestures "one moment" and walks off. So when he came back I got a big hug and everything and we talked about this Friday's show with Alcoholica and all. He couldn't talk long b/c he lost his brother somewhere...but at least his bassist Ron Zombie knows who the fuck I am now! I only knew him before thru Tony when I dated him...but now that he's in the Metallica Tribute band with Opus its like...drool. I love those guys (*can't wait for Friday now!*)
Walked around some more...it poured like a BITCH and all these assholes in the lawn area were throwing mud. I didn't want to get disgusting either...so I drank some of those SoCo mixed drinks and got hit on by the guy serving them...oy. Watched the Drown the Clown act for an hour or two...I missed Shadow's Fall, I was pissed. It was either get nailed by dirt clods or don't go up there. I found some spot up close in the Pavillion...right by the stage, but it was during Mudvayne's set and I had to watch thru the window in the door. It was better than nothing.
So during the Iron Maiden set, I noticed they knocked off the mud slinging so I went up to the lawn, walked around to see if I could find anyone I knew. Not really, I ran into Jody and Jeff for the 4th time that day but that was about it. So I was about to go watch the clown hurl more insults at people (he found a target out of me too, but I laughed it off anyway...the dude only stared at my boobs anyway...lol)...so as I was walking back down the hill, I hear a "DJ KISSY!!!" and its Chris from Bad Magick! So I told him I was just hanging around looking for people and he invited me to hang w/ him. So we went on a mission, he wanted beer. Well, at that time of the night, they shut down all the beer vendors so we wandered throughout the entire music center and could only come up with one place that was still selling alcohol. And that was all he got. So by then Maiden was still playing and that we had to go watch from the way back and meet up with Matt B. Couldnt' find Matt but we walked all the way up there and he downed his drink.
LONG LIVE IRON MAIDEN!! They were sooooo good! Plus, Chris was commenting on how the singer was ALL OVER THE PLACE...how he wouldn't be able to run around like that onstage without getting winded. lol...
So afterwards, we had to go on another beer search and had no luck this time. He ended up spending a good 15 minutes in a vendor trying to find a tshirt he liked...oy. Got back up to the lawn, actually found a rare grassy area and sat down while he got what he likes to call "nuked" (new term here for me!). Watched Sabbath...Ozzy was pretty cranked. This year I watched the whole set...a lot of people left early too....
But I had fun, Chris and his friends walked me thru the parking lot afterwards and I just went home...traffic wasn't bad by then and my lot was nearly empty already. Easily snuck onto the carpool lane (it was the only entrance I could find) for 91 and stopped at McDonald's in West Side for food.
By the time I was in Soho, I was ready to fall asleep at the wheel...it got bad b/c I started dozing off and started to swerve too. Ever be like, totally find one moment and then start not paying attention and then have to shake yourself outta it? Yea...every minute or two I'd start not recognizing the area I was in and would have to smarten the fuck up. I was sooooo tired. and 6am came too quickly today.
I nearly dozed all throughout work this morning...I couldn't keep my eyes open, so I just sat on the beltline and rested...I couldn't do shit. My toe hurt too....
So doors open, I go to the wristband booth so I could drink before the crowds got there...ran into...RYAN! this guy used to do work for Thirty Stones...so I hung out with him for a few hours b/c he didn't know anyone else there. Watched a few of the bands. First band - Bury Your Dead...I really liked them...they should have gone onstage AFTER Wicked Wisdom, because Jada may be married to Will Smith, but she should stick to fucking acting b/c she CANNOT growl, scream, or sing!
Arch Enemy was AMAZING! Their singer can really growl for a chick! Umm...other highlights were Mastodon, Trivium, KsE, Zombie...more but I had a brain fart
Missed the Haunted...
Ran into SOOOOO many people: Chris & Deena, Wes & the rest of Tempus Mori, Jeff, Rob the Leprechaun, Mark Of Velocity (I teased him about the music that Aaron & I played last week), Becca R., one of the Dunn kids, some dude named Paul I went to HRHS with, Mike from SIC, Cliff, etc.
MET: Joel from Blight (he found me in the crowd and recognized me from Myspace), 3/4 of the guys from Fallout (cannot remember their names, but they wore their band's shirts), guy from Suicide Dream, Opus' brother, Randy from Big ED.
Oh yea, AS I LAY DYING is fucking INSANE! I was in their pit and 2nd song into it, the crowd went nuts and people just starting flying over my head one by one! Kids went nuts on crowd surfing! By the time KsE went on, I was in the 2nd row and loving it. But some shaven asshole with three tiny little braids in the back of his head pushed his way in front of me and started whipping his head around so I got whipped in the face with his hair. He got nailed by me once or twice for it too. After "heartache" ended, he was kicking me and stepping on my infected toe obnoxiously and I had had enough. It took another 2 songs to get security's attention to get them to drag me out. By then I was shirtless with my bikini top on, so all these people would just stare at my boobs and yell at me to flash them. WHATEVER.
So I made it back to the Jager tent and harassed Shadow's Fall a lil...lol. Watched half of Zombie's set...went over to the other side to get some food, and while waiting in line for fries...I look over at the WCCC tent and there's this big guy in a kilt with a mohawk and a backpack slung over his front and he's whipping CDs into the crowd. It's OPUS!!!! So I lose my place in line and go after him! I love that guy. I got over there and he's offstage and I'm trying to get one of their interns to go find him for me! So he sees me from backstage and gestures "one moment" and walks off. So when he came back I got a big hug and everything and we talked about this Friday's show with Alcoholica and all. He couldn't talk long b/c he lost his brother somewhere...but at least his bassist Ron Zombie knows who the fuck I am now! I only knew him before thru Tony when I dated him...but now that he's in the Metallica Tribute band with Opus its like...drool. I love those guys (*can't wait for Friday now!*)
Walked around some more...it poured like a BITCH and all these assholes in the lawn area were throwing mud. I didn't want to get disgusting either...so I drank some of those SoCo mixed drinks and got hit on by the guy serving them...oy. Watched the Drown the Clown act for an hour or two...I missed Shadow's Fall, I was pissed. It was either get nailed by dirt clods or don't go up there. I found some spot up close in the Pavillion...right by the stage, but it was during Mudvayne's set and I had to watch thru the window in the door. It was better than nothing.
So during the Iron Maiden set, I noticed they knocked off the mud slinging so I went up to the lawn, walked around to see if I could find anyone I knew. Not really, I ran into Jody and Jeff for the 4th time that day but that was about it. So I was about to go watch the clown hurl more insults at people (he found a target out of me too, but I laughed it off anyway...the dude only stared at my boobs anyway...lol)...so as I was walking back down the hill, I hear a "DJ KISSY!!!" and its Chris from Bad Magick! So I told him I was just hanging around looking for people and he invited me to hang w/ him. So we went on a mission, he wanted beer. Well, at that time of the night, they shut down all the beer vendors so we wandered throughout the entire music center and could only come up with one place that was still selling alcohol. And that was all he got. So by then Maiden was still playing and that we had to go watch from the way back and meet up with Matt B. Couldnt' find Matt but we walked all the way up there and he downed his drink.
LONG LIVE IRON MAIDEN!! They were sooooo good! Plus, Chris was commenting on how the singer was ALL OVER THE PLACE...how he wouldn't be able to run around like that onstage without getting winded. lol...
So afterwards, we had to go on another beer search and had no luck this time. He ended up spending a good 15 minutes in a vendor trying to find a tshirt he liked...oy. Got back up to the lawn, actually found a rare grassy area and sat down while he got what he likes to call "nuked" (new term here for me!). Watched Sabbath...Ozzy was pretty cranked. This year I watched the whole set...a lot of people left early too....
But I had fun, Chris and his friends walked me thru the parking lot afterwards and I just went home...traffic wasn't bad by then and my lot was nearly empty already. Easily snuck onto the carpool lane (it was the only entrance I could find) for 91 and stopped at McDonald's in West Side for food.
By the time I was in Soho, I was ready to fall asleep at the wheel...it got bad b/c I started dozing off and started to swerve too. Ever be like, totally find one moment and then start not paying attention and then have to shake yourself outta it? Yea...every minute or two I'd start not recognizing the area I was in and would have to smarten the fuck up. I was sooooo tired. and 6am came too quickly today.
I nearly dozed all throughout work this morning...I couldn't keep my eyes open, so I just sat on the beltline and rested...I couldn't do shit. My toe hurt too....