"YOU GOTTA MOVE YA BUNS!" - Brian
This is the beginning of my really long post about Warped Tour:
Sagers and I left around 12ish and encountered much traffic; tried to find parking but couldn't so we had to fork up $15 to park in an area with a bunch of drunken tailgaters. Gah, it was alright, though. The ride there was cool because he brought his mp3 player and such and we listened to music. Once we actually entered the Tweeter we went to check out the line up and I wrote the times and such on my hand (which wasn't very useful because it was practically invisible after 20 minutes). But yeah then we saw Kim, her friend Bill, Danielle, Brian, Jon and Dave and basically hung around with them the rest of the day. Okay, the first band I watched was Flogging Molly, and I was considering not going into the pit because of last time, but Danielle just said we'd have to find a good pit, so I was reassured a little and went. BAD, bad idea. I lost Danielle three seconds into the first song they played, and then we got splashed with beer (gross), and it was insane. I couldn't help but think, "Yeah, okay, I really shouldn't have come in here because this is not my idea of a good pit." I think the funniest part about it was when I finally saw Danielle again somewhere within the crowd of hot sweaty bodies and she screamed, "DUDE, THIS PIT FUCKING SUCKS!" and I screamed back, "YEAH!" and then we lost each other again, haha. Some guy started strangling me, whether it was purposely done or on accident you'd think that a 6ft, 200lb man would back off of a tiny girl but NO he did not.Anyway, so I decided I needed to get out of there before I was killed, but before I did I somehow found myself on the ground, and I wound up scraping my knee which wasn't that much fun because it stung (stang?) the rest of the day. Some guy pulled me up from the ground, though, and I got myself the hell out of there and listened to the rest of Flogging Molly's set from afar. They were still good even though I wasn't caught up in all of the action. Towards the end of their set I saw Rachel and Jess for a second or two, glad to see they were having fun, and then I walked over to the Teal stage and met up with Danielle, Sagers (who hurt his arm pretty bad), Jon, Dave and Brian again and then we split up in various spots around the stage to watch the Bouncing Souls, and they were really great; I had never seen a show of theirs before Friday, so for my first time seeing them I thought they were awesome. It was nice to sing along, lol. Hm after we saw the Souls I don't really remember what happened. I think Sagers and I went to get water and some food. I had to splash some water on my knee because it was dirty and disgusting, lol.Well we met up with everyone again and walked around for a while, which is basically half of what you do at Warped Tour, haha. I went with Danielle to see Rise Against (she said they were good so I tagged along), and they were playing at the Maurice stage which was actually in the venue. When we walked inside past the pit area, we were in awe at the destruction and mess. The entire front row of seats was smashed, turned over, broken, it was horrible. So yeah I met up with Rachel and Jess and we talked for a few and then Jess left for something and it was just me, Danielle, Rachel and Sagers. Danielle decided she wanted to go in the pit and the rest of us stayed in the seats. But it sucked because a bad fight broke out, to the point where the one guy was on top of the other guy whaling the crap out of him, it was sick. The band actually stopped playing and told the guy he should leave, and I thought that was awesome. I was really worried about Danielle at that point because those fights can get kind of crazy and all over the place and I thought she got caught up in it, but when we saw her afterwards she just got elbowed in the lip, which isn’t good, but it’s better than a black eye/bloody nose/broken limb. After Rise Against, we all (except Rachel) walked back and listened to Coheed and Cambria from afar, cause Danielle and I decided that "A Favor House Atlantic" is kind of like our guilty pleasure, haha. Since that was like the last band we really wanted to see, we kind of walked around a whole lot after that. OH YEAH and we poked a great deal of fun at Billy Talent, who we renamed the "Oh-my-God-I-just-shit-my-pants" band. All they did was scream, like, "ROAR!" We went inside the Tweeter and sat on the ramp and just talked about a bunch of stuff. And after that we walked around some more and we went on a wild search for programs, saw someone’s puke, and then we all left. Sagers and I went to Wendy’s and got some food because we were bitchin’ hungry. And then we went back to Danielle’s where we spent the night. Seriously, I forgot how much fun it was to hang out with all of those guys again (Jon, Dave "D-Schnat", Brian, Kim and Danielle). They’re such fun people (oh yeah Sagers, it was cool chillin’ with you, too lol). We hung out, ate pizza and talked all night and didn’t get any more than 15 minutes of sleep. HAHA there was this one point in the night where Brian was messing around, inching around on the floor with his sleeping bag and then found out how to move backwards. He says, "YOU JUST GOTTA MOVE YA BUNS!" I think at that point Danielle and I almost wet ourselves, because it’s not so much what he said, it’s how he said it, lol. We played the Penis Movie Title game. In case you aren’t familiar with that game, it’s where you take random movie titles and replace a word in the title with the word "penis." Here are some we’ve came up with, that night and the few other times we’ve played:
Penis in Translation
Requiem for a Penis
Scary Penis
Pen1s (from the movie Se7en)
My Big Fat Greek Penis
Dead Penis Society
Willy Wonka and the Penis Factory
James and the Giant Penis
The Shawshank Penis (or The Penis Redemption)
Schindler’s Penis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Penis
Raiders of the Lost Penis
American Penis
Monty Python and the Holy Penis
The Manchurian Penis (or The Penis Candidate)
Full Metal Penis (or Full Penis Jacket)
Butch Penis and the Sundance Kid
Mystic Penis
The Green Penis
Streetcar Named Penis (or Penis Named Desire)
So much fun, that game. Anyway, later on that night Chris called Danielle and they were on the phone for hours, haha. OH YEAH and then Dave fell off the chair, haha. That was a more of a "you just had to be there" moment. We planned out our futures, too. We decided that Danielle was going to marry Chris, and Brian will provide the entertainment, Kim and I are going to take care of invitations and assorted stuff, Jon’s going to do the food, and I don’t think we decided on what Dave’s going to do but he’ll pitch in. And, if Danielle doesn’t marry Chris, she’ll marry Dave, but only if she’s 35 and single, lol. In fact, if we’re all 35 and single, Kim is going to marry Jon, Danielle’s going to marry Dave, and I’m going to marry Brian. When we’re 35, we’ll be thinking about it, and when we turn 40, we’ll actually do it. So look out for Mrs. Ashley Hayes in the year 2030, haha.
I was reading the journals of Danielle, Kim, Brian and Jon (Dave hasn‘t written anything), and I was reminded of how much I love those guys. I was seriously thinking of the closest circle of friends I have and I have to admit it’d have to be them. Kim said it best when she said, "We have watched each other grow up." We always have so much fun when we just hang out, they’re such a fun group of people. We have so many inside jokes. And not only do we have the jokes, we can tack on a few years of inside jokes. We all just know each other so well and have so much fun when we’re all together. Any bad times there may have been I just completely forgot about after last night. If you’re reading this, I really do just genuinely love you guys. There are so many good things to say about each of you, and you mean a hell-of-a-lot to me.
Thanks for making Friday so great, you guys. It wasn’t even Warped Tour that really made it great, it was you.
And this is the end of my really long post about Warped Tour.
Sagers and I left around 12ish and encountered much traffic; tried to find parking but couldn't so we had to fork up $15 to park in an area with a bunch of drunken tailgaters. Gah, it was alright, though. The ride there was cool because he brought his mp3 player and such and we listened to music. Once we actually entered the Tweeter we went to check out the line up and I wrote the times and such on my hand (which wasn't very useful because it was practically invisible after 20 minutes). But yeah then we saw Kim, her friend Bill, Danielle, Brian, Jon and Dave and basically hung around with them the rest of the day. Okay, the first band I watched was Flogging Molly, and I was considering not going into the pit because of last time, but Danielle just said we'd have to find a good pit, so I was reassured a little and went. BAD, bad idea. I lost Danielle three seconds into the first song they played, and then we got splashed with beer (gross), and it was insane. I couldn't help but think, "Yeah, okay, I really shouldn't have come in here because this is not my idea of a good pit." I think the funniest part about it was when I finally saw Danielle again somewhere within the crowd of hot sweaty bodies and she screamed, "DUDE, THIS PIT FUCKING SUCKS!" and I screamed back, "YEAH!" and then we lost each other again, haha. Some guy started strangling me, whether it was purposely done or on accident you'd think that a 6ft, 200lb man would back off of a tiny girl but NO he did not.Anyway, so I decided I needed to get out of there before I was killed, but before I did I somehow found myself on the ground, and I wound up scraping my knee which wasn't that much fun because it stung (stang?) the rest of the day. Some guy pulled me up from the ground, though, and I got myself the hell out of there and listened to the rest of Flogging Molly's set from afar. They were still good even though I wasn't caught up in all of the action. Towards the end of their set I saw Rachel and Jess for a second or two, glad to see they were having fun, and then I walked over to the Teal stage and met up with Danielle, Sagers (who hurt his arm pretty bad), Jon, Dave and Brian again and then we split up in various spots around the stage to watch the Bouncing Souls, and they were really great; I had never seen a show of theirs before Friday, so for my first time seeing them I thought they were awesome. It was nice to sing along, lol. Hm after we saw the Souls I don't really remember what happened. I think Sagers and I went to get water and some food. I had to splash some water on my knee because it was dirty and disgusting, lol.Well we met up with everyone again and walked around for a while, which is basically half of what you do at Warped Tour, haha. I went with Danielle to see Rise Against (she said they were good so I tagged along), and they were playing at the Maurice stage which was actually in the venue. When we walked inside past the pit area, we were in awe at the destruction and mess. The entire front row of seats was smashed, turned over, broken, it was horrible. So yeah I met up with Rachel and Jess and we talked for a few and then Jess left for something and it was just me, Danielle, Rachel and Sagers. Danielle decided she wanted to go in the pit and the rest of us stayed in the seats. But it sucked because a bad fight broke out, to the point where the one guy was on top of the other guy whaling the crap out of him, it was sick. The band actually stopped playing and told the guy he should leave, and I thought that was awesome. I was really worried about Danielle at that point because those fights can get kind of crazy and all over the place and I thought she got caught up in it, but when we saw her afterwards she just got elbowed in the lip, which isn’t good, but it’s better than a black eye/bloody nose/broken limb. After Rise Against, we all (except Rachel) walked back and listened to Coheed and Cambria from afar, cause Danielle and I decided that "A Favor House Atlantic" is kind of like our guilty pleasure, haha. Since that was like the last band we really wanted to see, we kind of walked around a whole lot after that. OH YEAH and we poked a great deal of fun at Billy Talent, who we renamed the "Oh-my-God-I-just-shit-my-pants" band. All they did was scream, like, "ROAR!" We went inside the Tweeter and sat on the ramp and just talked about a bunch of stuff. And after that we walked around some more and we went on a wild search for programs, saw someone’s puke, and then we all left. Sagers and I went to Wendy’s and got some food because we were bitchin’ hungry. And then we went back to Danielle’s where we spent the night. Seriously, I forgot how much fun it was to hang out with all of those guys again (Jon, Dave "D-Schnat", Brian, Kim and Danielle). They’re such fun people (oh yeah Sagers, it was cool chillin’ with you, too lol). We hung out, ate pizza and talked all night and didn’t get any more than 15 minutes of sleep. HAHA there was this one point in the night where Brian was messing around, inching around on the floor with his sleeping bag and then found out how to move backwards. He says, "YOU JUST GOTTA MOVE YA BUNS!" I think at that point Danielle and I almost wet ourselves, because it’s not so much what he said, it’s how he said it, lol. We played the Penis Movie Title game. In case you aren’t familiar with that game, it’s where you take random movie titles and replace a word in the title with the word "penis." Here are some we’ve came up with, that night and the few other times we’ve played:
Penis in Translation
Requiem for a Penis
Scary Penis
Pen1s (from the movie Se7en)
My Big Fat Greek Penis
Dead Penis Society
Willy Wonka and the Penis Factory
James and the Giant Penis
The Shawshank Penis (or The Penis Redemption)
Schindler’s Penis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Penis
Raiders of the Lost Penis
American Penis
Monty Python and the Holy Penis
The Manchurian Penis (or The Penis Candidate)
Full Metal Penis (or Full Penis Jacket)
Butch Penis and the Sundance Kid
Mystic Penis
The Green Penis
Streetcar Named Penis (or Penis Named Desire)
So much fun, that game. Anyway, later on that night Chris called Danielle and they were on the phone for hours, haha. OH YEAH and then Dave fell off the chair, haha. That was a more of a "you just had to be there" moment. We planned out our futures, too. We decided that Danielle was going to marry Chris, and Brian will provide the entertainment, Kim and I are going to take care of invitations and assorted stuff, Jon’s going to do the food, and I don’t think we decided on what Dave’s going to do but he’ll pitch in. And, if Danielle doesn’t marry Chris, she’ll marry Dave, but only if she’s 35 and single, lol. In fact, if we’re all 35 and single, Kim is going to marry Jon, Danielle’s going to marry Dave, and I’m going to marry Brian. When we’re 35, we’ll be thinking about it, and when we turn 40, we’ll actually do it. So look out for Mrs. Ashley Hayes in the year 2030, haha.
I was reading the journals of Danielle, Kim, Brian and Jon (Dave hasn‘t written anything), and I was reminded of how much I love those guys. I was seriously thinking of the closest circle of friends I have and I have to admit it’d have to be them. Kim said it best when she said, "We have watched each other grow up." We always have so much fun when we just hang out, they’re such a fun group of people. We have so many inside jokes. And not only do we have the jokes, we can tack on a few years of inside jokes. We all just know each other so well and have so much fun when we’re all together. Any bad times there may have been I just completely forgot about after last night. If you’re reading this, I really do just genuinely love you guys. There are so many good things to say about each of you, and you mean a hell-of-a-lot to me.
Thanks for making Friday so great, you guys. It wasn’t even Warped Tour that really made it great, it was you.
And this is the end of my really long post about Warped Tour.