I just haven't slept enough, and now i'm making a real post...
First one in a long time... **Warning, this could be LONG** Lets start w/ THURSDAY... I wake up, and go to my hellhole of a job, Decide I hate it, and want to go home. I still sit here, and contemplate what to do. And in the process, clean my office. I make it through the day without murderizing anyone, and I go home to meet up w/ Nick to head to philly. Go there, to see Scarlet, the Black Dalhia Murder, As I Lay Dying and Everytime I Die. Review: Scarlettttt = end the life fruits... BDM = entertaining, but the sound system sucked for 80% of their set. but it's cool to see some decent metal, especially after watching that suckfest of scarlet. AILD = barely entertaining. the new song they played was quite good. ETID = too much beer before playing for singer, make for shitty show... they played VERY slow, and uninspired, I don't know why they even bothered. Maybe they were trying to stretch their set longer, w/out playing too many songs... who knows, but it sucked. big waste of 13$... I did see : ChrisX, Sheena, Nick, some other various Philly kids, and some NJ kids I don't know or care for. After the show, I go home and pass out... This is where the fun begins.. Wake up @ 8am, lounge for a moment, before washing clothes. I went to the laundromat to do them in a jiffy, and some toothless woman was in there, and didn't know how to work the machines, it was a riot. She was all up in my biz about these samplers I was putting together for the show in Georgia. Finish the clothes, and go home, pack my shit and catch a quick shower. then WAIT WAIT WAIT for the dudes to show up to head out... supposed to bounce @ 11am, don't leave till nearly 2pm... DISASTER!!! ride is smooth all the way through till chessepeak bay... Then, the shit hit the fan. There was RE-COCK-ULOUS traffic. so much so that we got off the road, and ate Pizza Hut with this dude Dean that Chree knows, and got back on the road an hour and 20 mins later, but still ended up ahead of the rest of the friends we had on the road... SO it's 9:30pm, and we're only in Virginia.. now you're thinking, WHERE in virgina, Well Fredericksberg, which is only about 4 hours from trenton NJ... so yes, traffic set us back about 4 hours at least... So we get some Waffle House, then head to Fridays so the rest of the crew can get what they want. In the process we see some Cheerleaders that smoogs wanted to steal. At fridays, we had a riot of a time, we learned about so many things, and saw the EGO CANOE. it was immense. so, at that point it was decided that we were going home, but Melissa wage of sin called me to let me know that they were leaving from Brooklyn @ 11:15 from their show to head to Georgia, so I knew we couldn't turn back. So I spent the next hour w/ Salerno convincing smoogs it was imperitive to push forward. We did, and he convinced Chree.. so we were back on the road by 12:30 am. DRIVING THROUGH THE NIIIIIIIIIITE! At somepoint Jeremy got sick of driving, so i took over for him, and landed us in Augusta by 8am. Mike only beat us by 15 mins, and he was doing 100 or more... I stuck with the 88mph, to just be at the edge of time travel. shame the honda didn't have the flux-capacitor. So we arrive @ 8am, meet up w/ Joe and Lindsey who got the hotel room. Rocked the showers, only to find out we're being moved to a new room to quickly destroy... Destroy another room and shower... and get ready to go to the show by 10am.. get there, check in only to find out that this beautiful Marina, is a busted old rusty metal boat house, with a slanted concrete pad behind it, that we're doing the show at. So we were all a bit discouraged, but made the best of it. Got some food, set up merch, and chilled out. The show was looking bleak, but at about 1pm, the kids really started rollin in. And we were glad the banner canceled, so we could jump on their spot! Saw Holly (in the back), Katie and the dude they brought( *note, I did not take this, I STOLE THE FUCKIN PIC FROM KATIE!!):
We went on @ 3:30. and rocked it. the kids were 2steppin, stomping, and singin along. there are pictures, and video, pictures below:
Pride Kills ^^^^ moshin it up for us
FloorPunch Cover ^^^^
I'm the fat dude! shit, i gotta drop a few pounds!^^^^
anyhow.. I saw: Pride Kills, Skaretactic, Shattered Realm, Bury Your Dead, The Distance, The Red Chord, Wage of Sin, and Full Blown Chaos. Hung out, sold merch and chilled out in the 75degree weather...
Finally passed out @ 12midnite..
Woke up, skipped showering, and headed home.
Stopped @ South of the Boarder to get fireworks for Wren, and didn't get home till midnite..
All in all, it was well worth the time and effort.