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Dont use the same picture twice!

1.What was your first concert?

[I had this poster on my wall]

2.What was your last concert?


3.Who is your current favorite band?



4. Who was your favorite band in middle school?



5.Who was your favorite band in elementary school?


6.If you could create the best looking band who would you use in each position?
Singer:


Bass:


Keyboard:


Drums:

[he knows drums, right? im not on crack in thinking that....]

Guitar:


7.Whats the next concert you'll be going to?


8.What are some bands you've never seen that you want to?




9.What band do you want to just disappear?


10.What band has the best live show?



11.What band sounded most like their cd live?

[hmm i wonder why that could be. actually the first time i saw them{with mcs} they were a lot better live]

12.What band have you seen the most live?


13.What band has your favorite lyrics?


14.What band made the best song for a movie?

[they did a song for the Soundtrack Of Superman] or something like that, so I'm coutning them XD]

15.Who is your favorite musician/actor?

[Hexidermy is the best thing I've ever seen]

16.Who made the worst crossover?

[not really, but his ego is huge, and i just wanted an excuse to post this picture XDXDXD]

17.Who are you listening to right now?


18.Who were you most excited to meet in person for the first time?


19.
What band sings the theme song to your favorite tv show?
?

20.What band has influenced your life the most?

Mmk, so originally for this, you're supposed to use photobucket, but I don't like photobucket ande it takes to long to load on my computer, so I just used images from google. :D

1. Post a picture of your name.


2. Post a picture of your age.
 Note: I def need fashion tips, to learn how to kiss, the best but, avril, cute stuff under $20, and I need to quit school so I'll stop being fat!

3. Post a picture of what you're listening to.

4.Post a picture of the city you live by,


5. Post a picture of your favorite color.


6. Post a picture of your favorite movie.


7. Post a picture of what you last ate.


8. Post a picture of one thing you love.


9. Post a picture of one thing you hate.


10. Post a picture of the candidate you want to win the election.


11. Post a picture of yourself.


12. Post a picture of an object you'd like to own.


13. Post a picture of your favorite drink.


14. Post a picture of the type of computer you're using.


15. Post a picture of the type of underwear you're wearing.


16. Post a picture of the last shoes you wore.


17. Post a picture of your favorite food.

I'm gonna take a shot, and post this request everywhere. Does anyone have the song "Stuck In The Morning" by Motion City Soundtrack, or do you know where I can find it???

I have every single MCS song known to man, besides this one. They're my favorite band ever in the world. I need this song. I would pretty much owe you my soul if you could help me out with this.

I've searched far and wide, across the interent, and in small holes I find in the ground and have yet to find it. I came close with one LiveJournal account, but the link was uploaded in 05 and reuploaded in July 07 - both are expired now. Yes and Yes.

Help me, please :D

SHUFFLE 15 RANDOM SONGS.
#1    Anything But Ordinary - Avril Lavigne
#2    Long Promised Road - Envy On The Coast(Beach Boys Cover)
#3    Hangover Song - Say Anything
#4    Go Alone - The Offspring
#5    Macys Day Parade - Green Day
#6    The Seed(2.1) - Person L( The Roots cover)
#7    It Wasn't Enough - Good Charlotte
#8    Umbrella - All Time Low(Rihanna cover)
#9    Sugar Skulls (accoustic) - Envy On The Coast
#10    Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Green Day
#11    Hey She Say - The Gay Blades
#12    Young Americans(single version) - David Bowie
#13    Heroine - From First To Last
#14    Quarantine - Phantom Planet
#15   Stand Inside Your Love - The Smashing Pumpkins

NOW ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SONGS...
What does song #1 remind you of?   
End of elementry school. My mom asking me how I liked the Avril Lavigne cd Steph got me for my birthday before I had opened i tyet.
Who sings song #2?   
Mostly Ryan Hunter
Why do you have song #3 on your music player?   
Cuz Say Anything is the best ever!
Does song #4 remind you of anyone? If so, then who and why?   
It reminds me of The Offspring?
When was the first time you heard song #5?   
Psh, I duno.
Do you even like song #6?   
It's okay :)
Is song #7 one of the songs you like to turn up very loud when you hear it?   
Eh, not really
Would you dedicate song #8 to the one you like/love?   
I would dedicate to my friends, becuase I really love that song, no matter who sings it.
What are the first 7 words of song #9?   
"Isabella stand a little bit taller"
What are the last 3 words of song #10?   
Probably dont wanna fall in love, i cant remember
What is your favorite part of song #11?  
that it's by The Gay Blades :)
Who told you about song #12?   
Well, I bought the cd and heard it, but I got into Bowie through my mom forever ago
What's one reason you like to listen to song #13?   
I don't really anymore.
Do you go crazy when you hear song #14 on the radio or anywhere?   
I don't think it would be on the radio?
Could song #15 relate to your life?   
I duno, I haven't listened to it in forever

PART 3: SOUNDTRACK OF A DAY IN YOUR LIFE.
Opening credits.    All That He Wants(American Jetset) - Kill Hannah
When you wake up and get ready for school.    My Moves Are White - Cobra Starship
When you're on your way to school.    Paint It Black - Vanessa Carlton
When you're in your first class.    The Magnetic Norht - System and Station
Second class.    Don't Ask Me - Ok Go [i hate being called on in class, haha]
Third class.    The Fourth Drink Instinct - Cute Is What We Aim For
Fourth class.    Classifieds - The Academy Is...
Lunchtime.     The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Lion King
Fifth class.    Getaways Turned Holidays - Meg and Dia
Going home from school.    Most Beautiful Plauge - Say Anything
When you do whatever you do once you get home.    Untitled Track - Patent Pending
When you go somewhere.    Eye -  The Smashing Pumpkins
On your way home from that place.    Such As It Ends - Ludo
When you eat dinner.    Bruised - Jacks Mannequin
When you're about to go to bed.    You Went Away - Tegan and Sara
When you're asleep.       Our Lady Sorrows - My Chemical Romance

Andi, Vicky, Erica and I began our journey to Chicago at around 12:30.  The ride there was pretty chill, nothing too exciting, until we thought we were lost and some creepy guys were looking at and smiling at Andi XD. Eventually we found where we were supposed to be and blocked 2 blocks down from the venue. So, it wasn't a horrible place to be, but it was a pretty bad area. We oober locked the car and Andi and I walked as fast as possible the 2 blocks, Erica and Vicky trying to keep up. People were asking us for stuff and saying stuff and asking us to buy stuff and were were all kinda like, uhnmm hurry up, no thanks.

There weren't too many people in line, but eventually a few more people lined up. We got asked for change, and Vicky gave a guy some, then the owner of Reggies(or maybe just someone who worked there, but he looked familar from something I've seen on youtube while searching for stuff about the venue) came out and told him he had to leave. Later another guy came and asked us to buy bus tickets becuase he needed one beer. Erica told him that she thinks that he had enough beers. Vicky and I went inside because the guy kept coming back and she was going to ask for the guy to come out and tell him to stop. I went to the bathroom while she did that, and zomg, the bathroom was blacklite it was crazy cool, it was the coolest place I've ever peed! XDXD So yeah, then when we got back out I told Erica and Andi how cool the bathroom was(I'm weird, yes) and the whole line kinda looked at me like, uhhh..freek. They just don't know what's cool.

While waiting I at some point mentioned that I wished one of the guys from Envy would come out and start swearing and just leave. Not even 3 minutes later, a guy walked out yelling "Fuckin Cocksucker!" and got in his rent a van and left. I have powers, yes!

After that the guy came and bothered us again and just like stood there staring at us, it was horrible, and when he finally walked away he dropped the bus pass he was trying to sell us in the first place. Relatively soon after that the doors open and we got second row. I would say I love Reggie's if it weren't for the location and the horrible lighting.

The Gay Blades opened with a high pitched scream type thing. Those guys are hilarious. They spoke of how they hated touring in the south, being Jewish(as Vicky loved) and other magical things. I knew most of the songs they played but only knew a lot of the words from a few of them. I really love their music and would love to see them again. At one point, the singer stood on the amp touching the barrier in front of us and the girl in front of us was like "please dont fall on me" and he was like "I'll fall on you if I fucking feel like it!"

The Secret Lives! Of The Freemasons played next. They were really good live, and again, I knew most of their songs but not most of the lyrics. A group of guys pushed there way through the crowd a song or two in and were jumping and seemed kinda buzzed. After the set the guys were like "No, just play one more song we drove all the way here just for you!" And a guy in the band was gonna give him a beer off stage but it was gone. They're songs were a lot more screamo live than on the cd, but they were really good.

Envy played next. Before starting, Ryan introduced the band and explained why Brian wasn't there. Brian not being there made it a notably different performance. A song or two in, Ryan mentioned that they were camping with The Gay Blades and he smelled horrible, the crowd cheered this and he was like "No, dont applaud that, I need to take a shower" Vicky responded with "You can shower at my house!" since it was a small venue, he heard her and told her "No I cant, you're twelve, and I'd get arrested". Ryan was really aggitated with having to play guitar the whole time, he ended up breaking a string and talking about how Brian was a better guitar player than he was like, "That kids a fuckin genious" it was cute, but I dont think many people caught it. While Ryan was getting a different guitar, or changing the string or something, Sal tried to entertain the crowd becuase it was unusually quiet, in that awkward silence kinda way. He announced that since Brian couldn't do the stencil things that they were raffeling off 2 tote bags with the designs on them for $2 a ticket. At one point in the set, Ryan was talking more about Brian and said "Well, I guess you don't know what you got til it's gone" the whole crowd seemed to agree and say yeah, and he replied with "Yah" but really really sarcastically and kinda pissed off. He was kind of an ass about Brian being gone, I understand why but still.

After their set, we left the crowd and bought merch, I bought the orange Envy shirt that says "EOTC SAVES" and a white v neck shirt with a zebra on it saying "We Shudda Hadda Lotta Fun"  on it from The Gay Blades. When I went to look at their stuff the singer was like, "This one looks good for you" about one, I asked what it said and he said I had to read it. It was in an awkward font with weird colors so it was hard to read but it said something along the lines of "I know it's wrong, but I lie a lot" Oh, gee, thanks. Haha. Since Larry wasn't there, Sal was working their merch and he looked like he was doing a trillino things at once. But then he ate like 2 cheeseburgers and things of fries and told us we should get some.

We felt like we were crowding the merch area, so we went back to watch The Sleeping from back. I went up to second row again for a little while to take pictures. The singer was in the crowd almost the whole time, he was very very very sweaty, and you could tell he definetly put his all into the performance. They had great stage presence just becuase of how hard it seemed like they were trying and how much he connected with the fans.

After their set ended we kinda hung out and tried to meet Ryan, but he was chatting with people so we didnt. We did end up meeting Jer and Dan and I got a pic with Jer. When I asked him to sign the polaroid, he did, and then Dan asked if they were from tonight and Jer said no, I told them that they were and he looked confused and tried studying the picture to prove me wrong or something. He passed the picture to Dan,but I asked Dan to sign a different one that actually had him on it and he was like "Oh, fine, whatever I was gonna sign this for Ryan but I guess not" haha. Also, Dan and Sal were both sitting at a table thing taht was facing Erica and Vicky and they just kinda ate at them. Jer was doing the raffle and kept calling off numbers that were like, 2 numbers off from mine and no one was showing up so he would be like; "1785634" and I'd be like "...32?" and this happened like 3 times, and each time he would look at me for a few seconds with a confused kinda face like he was actually considering just giving me it, haha.

After that we left and rushed back to the car. It was actually much less sketchy and scary on the way back to the car, which was weird. On the way home we stopped at the Oasis again and I got ketchup all up and down my shirt cuz I'm a freekin 2 year old and am very messy. The way home was again, pretty boring, it rained for a while, otherwise it was just nice to be sitting cuz for some reason my feet were killing me.

This wasn't the best Envy show, but I don't think it was the worst either, though I did miss Brian. Good stuff still :)
I posted most of the pictures in a new gallery so go check em out. I posted a bunch of black and white ones of Envy but for some reason they didn't all show up and I'm not going to reupload them, but check the rest out. Yes.

Warning; This blog is me being rather depressed, if that's a downer for you...don't bother. Ohz and I just kinda needed to get it out of my system, that's why I wrote it.

To start this blog off with the correct mood; *over exaggerated sigh*
I didn't do much today, at 8 I left and walked around with Nikki and Erica and got home a little before 11. About 10 minutes after getting home my heart kinda dropped and I got the sudden feeling of hopelessness, I have no clue why.

I really don't feel like being myself right now, and I can't seem to shake this sudden depressed feeling. It's stuff like this that makes me think I could be bipolar, but I'm pretty sure that's me overreacting. Seriously, I've been so good for so long, I've been happy and carefree all summer, and I haven't been depressed in a long time and now I suddenly feel like I'm back in two summers ago when I was oober depressed. I have no clue why. But I guess, that's life.

I'm not really someone who begs for or seeks out attention for myself, I mean, of course I do sometimes, but not often. But sometimes I think about what would happen if I killed myself or was killed and what my town's reaction would be. This town is so small, and everything is so closed in that when anything happens; everyone knows about it. I don't really plan on killing myself or anything, but I still wonder what people's reaction would be. It would probably just be like a rumor through the hallways at school, no one really knows me but my friends, they're might be a story in the local and school paper and that's it, maybe a small mention on the news(since they love depressing things). I'm sure someone would remark about me being emo, or blame the music I listen to, my friends and family would think they never knew me and wish they could have stopped it. I don't think it would really make too much of a difference in too many peoples lives, but the shock would. I duno why I think about that kinda stuff, it's pretty fucked up, in my opinion.

Bleh, I doubt I'll be getting much sleep tonight. I'm not ready for school to start in, well, I guess exactly 2 weeks. I'm not ready for it to be tomarrow, I'm not ready to grow a day older. If I could just be someone else for a little while. Someone who has it kinda figured out and life is working out for them enough right now, that would be a nice break, that's the vacation I want.

Fast Times At Barrington High – The Academy Is… Review

I should start off by saying, I am in no way a huge mega super Santi’s Little Helper, life long fan or anything of the sort. I enjoy TAI… and the music they create, but I don’t know all of it, I have Almost Here and know most of those songs, I don’t have Santi, but I know a few songs from that. I don’t know much about the band members besides what I read on here or what I hear the ever so fabulous Andi mention. So this is pretty much just my reaction to each song. Yes and Yes. Oh, and Nataliegray just posted something like this, and I swear I’m not stealing it from here, I’m just….also doing it? Haha.

• About A Girl: The intro is nice for an opening to the cd. I love Williams’s voice, as usual, it’s just so nice XD Oh, and the title is nice and fitting for the lyrics.
• Summer Hair Forever Young: I like the beginning to this one too, it’s all fast and gets me into it. I’ve heard this one before, so I suppose this part isn’t an instant reaction, but I do like the song. The lyrics are so cute, and I absolutely love them.
• His Girl Friday:  I see what nataliegray meant when she said the first few start out the same, yep…this one yea…haha. I’m not sure about this song yet….hmmm I don’t think I like it that much.
• The Test: I enjoy the intro and opening vocals on this one a lot. It kind of seems to get into the fast part a little soon, but I like how it goes back and forth between a slower and more upbeat tempo. “Let’s imagine the end before we even begin” I really like that line, just saying. The ending was a little like the last, kind of typical though.
• Rumored Nights: Ohh, I like this one! I like the fast/slow thing again…
• Automatic Room: I’m really digging the guitar in this one. And William, I would like you to stay J
• Crowded Nights: The into is … interesting…but it’s attention grabbing and fun so I like it. I love the lyrics to this song and the way it sounds and such haha. This one or Rumored Nights is my favorite so far.
• Coppertown: Fantastic opening and I’m in love with Beckett’s beautiful voice…yes. Oh ho ho, I found the title track! It’s like Where’s Waldo!!!
• After The Last Midtown Show: I like it, but I kind of zoned out during it. Haha.
• Beware! Cougar!: this ones okay, it feels like it could be a single. I like the last little bit of it.
• Paper Chase:  I immediately like this one. I really love his voice and how he’s singing on this one, and the guitars and the intro and the lyrics and all of it.  I think this was my favorite song off of the cd. Yes and yes and yes
• One More Weekend: this one is gooooooooood, Paper Chase is still my favorite, but this is a nice one to end on :)

Overall: It's a good cd, I enjoy it. It's nothing genius, but it's better than  a lot of the stuff out there. It's definetly different then the typical album released in the seen lately,but at the same time it's really typical. It feels kinda like they just wanted to make a perfect FBR record, which I guess I understand, but I duno. I like it enough, and I cant wait to see the boys again on November 1st!

Andi and I arrived at Alpine Valley in East Troy and got in line by 12:50. I made the last chance decision to leave my camera with Andi's mom becuase I am too chicken to bring it into a show and risking losing it...just to find out we could have them, but security was a bitch.

We got in and went to the Revolution Stage. We were second row. Armor For Sleep started off the day. I like them a lot and I have Smile For Them but I don't really have many of their songs memorized but I had fun in the crowd. When the singer(Ben Jorgenson?) came into the crowd a little to the right of us, we were pushed to the right and I ended up against the barrier. After their set I caught a drumstick and Andi caught a set list. SUCCESS!

Hawthorne Heights played next, I was still barrier, and Andi was right behind me. They opened with Niki FM and suprisingly played almost all old songs. It was soo empty with out Casey Calvert. I knew it would be different, but I never realized how much he really screamed and pulled those songs through. It was so sad to hear a song and not hear him screaming along, it was very empty and I had tears in my eyes for all of the old songs. They also played 3,2,1 and Rescue Me from Fragile Future. They really played a great set, and the girl behind me, who we were kind of talking to, caught a drumstick. It was lame that they didn't hand out set lists, I would have loved one from them.

Afterwords, we left the crowd and got in line to meet them. I had them sign their picture in the Projekt Rev booklet. I didn't say much to any of the band members except for the Micah) because he was the last one and yeah, so I told him that they were one of my first real shows when I saw them on the Black Clouds & Underdogs Tour, he said it was cool, he has lovely eyes.

After that we bought water(which ended up $3 a cup, but you had to buy a bottle which was two cups...? Haha, then we kinda hung out and sat around. We said hi to Anthony and Derrick. When we were walking around all the sudden some guy jumped at me and yelled in my face, I freeked out and realized it was Erica's dad so him and her mom were laughing their asses off and I ended up yelling "I Hate You!" at him, which is kinda akward cuz I barely know Erica's dad. Hahaha...so then we texted Erica and told her that her parents were smoking pot(they weren't).

At 5ish they opened the gates to the main stage which is on a ginormous hill(which is Alpine Valley, you may know it as the last show Stevie Ray Vaughn played, and they have a memorial for him in the woodsish where the plane crashed, now that is some music history, tragic though). We had lawn seats so we found a spot which was almost dead center and pretty close to the front of the lawn(which was still forever away). Alpine is set up strangely because of the hill and such so it was akward. We didn't really watch any of the bands until Chris Cornell, however we people watched. I saw the 2 most adorable emo boys in the entire world, I want to kidnap them and put them ina snowglobe and watch them play all day long! We also watched this tall bald guy(who looked like an akward version of a kid at our school) who was very drunk, and assumably high, dance nx with his friend and it was hilarryous.

We finally stood up when Chris Cornell came out, and they played a pretty good set, everyone was way into it, but I had no clue who he was until they played Black Hole Sun, or whatever. The singer of Linkin Park also came out and sang with him.

We sat down again until Linkin Park started and watched the messages go by. Squavy <3 and Bohica Baby came up every other message? Also, becuase there were people from Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Michicagan and Minnisota there, there was a lot of sports contraversy on the boards XD

So Linkin Park came out and pretty much played all their radio hits and singles and a few other songs. They're really good live, but I barely know any words to any of their songs but they were really energetic, fun, and intense on stage so it was pretty sweet. We had to depend on the big screens to see them because they looked tinier than cellphones from where we were. They came out for an encore and played some more songs. Then they came out for another encore. Yes, a double encore, they're Linkin Park, they've been around forever and own a concert, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Well, for the second encore they came out wearing what looked like Cher wigs and announced that you can't take things too seriously. They then said they would play the rest of the show as Guns N Roses and did a cover and ended, of course, with Bleed It Out. Then out of no where, they pulled something on stage covered up and left. Then Street Drum Corps came out and played for a while, and then Linkin Park came back out and finished Bleed It Out.

After that we hurried over the hill(horrible placement in my opinion) and called my mom. She made things so much more difficult than they had to be but we ended up having to walk like,a mile all together to find her across the street from the Alpine Valley Resort. We drove home and that leaves me here and now, writing this review. Expect a more professional review in the near future, since I need to do one for Newspaper class in a few weeks, since that is how I obtained said free tickets in the first place.

PS; Larger Than Life, by Backstreet Boys just came on  my zune shuffle. :D

Why didn't anyone tell me that Almost Famous is pretty much the best movie in the world???
I finally just saw it, and it was incredible, I want to be there, I want to be that journalist who has a great time...even if he did get fucked over but it magically still works out!

Man, that movie, no words....it was incredible.

I have decided that Patrick Fugit has to be my favorite actor. He has starred in 3 of my favorite movies(Saved, Wrist Cutters, and Almost Famous) and I know declare him my favorite actor. I can't even believe he was 18 when he was in that movie. He looked so much younger, and he still seems to play younger roles(yes?) but oh my goodness, I love him. Jeezez, I reallly really really love this movie. Woah. Yes.

1) How are you at the moment?
I am quite delightful
2) Why?
Becuase, I just got home from bummin' around with my mom, gramma, and sister and I got a pretty red dress for homecoming for only $12, and I'm in love with it, "I like the red dressssss"
3) give me 5 bestest persons at buzz.
all of them!
4) Do you like yourself?
Most of the time :)
5) What do you like to do in your free time?
Listen to music, be on Buzznet, walk around.
6)Do you think you're able to do everything you'd like to[right now, from that place, are you confident enough //not in future]?
Eh, not really, but whatever.
7) Do  you think fighting make any sense?
No
8) Was last question clever?
Not really...?
9) Which places you'd like to visit?
Germany, Ireland, Japan, and Brazil
10)Honestly, give me one person from buzz, who made you feel special, like their friend? why?
Hum, there are a few, but I'm gonna say John(ounceofwentz) cuz I loverz him <3 :D
11) what's your mobile phone?
I don't have one.
12) would you like to have (new) one?
I don't like phones, but I guess if I had one I'd want one with nice texting or internet or something...like a sidkick.
13)Do you like to smile?
I do, but I love to laugh more!
14) write poems?
I do write poems.....
15) eat?
I also eat....
16) english?
I attempt to speak English, but mostly it just comes out as jibberish..and I'm ok with that!
17) french?
Nope
18)slovene?
Mmm no.
19) polish?
Nope, but I am actually a little bit Polish on my mom's side.
20) sports?
I'm horrible at sports. I love this question though, when I was interviewing people before Warped(for tix) I had to ask them what sports the played or would like to learn. One guy said he plays and would like to learn how to play Quidittch and another boy said that he wishes he were better at Pickleball XD
21) internet?
Yesyesyes. :D
22) Do you think life gets better or worse day by day?
Currently, it's getting better, but I know sometimes it's worse.
23) Are you nervous or calm person?
Nervous, but I seem pretty calm....and maybe I am. Haha
24) Is there any message you'd like to tell the world?
Why So Serious??!?!?!?!?!?!
25) What's your favourite line in the song?
In the song? What is the song? I have lots of favorite lines in lots of favorite songs, but right now I'm diggin "Just dance if you're caught up in the holy ghost trance, if you stop, I'll put the killer ants in your pants" - Got Your Money(Say Anything cover) and more seriously, "They say that what doesn't kill us makes us who we are" from Motion City Soundtrack
26) The cutest thing you've ever heard?
Hmmm, I duno.
27) Do you love your parents?
Indeed
28)What would you do if tomorrow is the last day of your life?
If I knew that I would die tomarrow I would leave, I would take a plan to wherever Warped is currently and watch Motion City Soundtrack. I might I would bring all my friends with me :) I would say bye to my family. Then maybe when I'm close to dying I would do some acid, and go out trippin'.
29)Do you often think about death?
Yea
30) is this the last question?
You Tell Me.

I tag you!

"Yo dudes. I've been making a bunch of stencils of some weird stuff and whatnot and I figured that I'd extend an offer to all of you who plan on coming to the shows in the next few weeks! If any of you want to bring blank t shirts, hoodies, bags, OTHER BANDS T SHIRTS!, ANYTHING, to the shows, I'll spray em up and make you your own custom EOTC merch. No two shirts will be the same!!! And the price for each item will be just $10!! (not a bad price for all the fumes I'm going to be inhaling). Just bring your blank to the merch table and we'll have some kind of system in place for you to retrieve them. Since we're co-headlining I'm not going to have ALL the time in the world to do this during the show so the earlier you bring them there, the better.


<3 Brian"

Yay, Envy On The Coast!
I am sooooooooo doing that when we go see them on the 21st(we hafta) becuase that's awesome!
This is especially great becuase they usually use a shitty brand for their tshirts, haha.

I have been anxious for the new Hawthorne Heights cd for quite a while. From the opening lyrics of "The Business of Paper Stars" (a could be single, obviously based on their experiance in the music industry) to the final track, "Come Back Home" reprised and better than ever, I fell in love.  Even the cover is a refreshing change from the past, dark, very rather typical emo covers(along with most other covers I've seen lately).

I've heard the same two things over and over when Hawthorne Heights is mentioned. Of course, love for Casey, and secondly how much more mature they have gotten with their new album. I agree with both. They sound like they have grown so much and really found their own true sound(and still managing to sound like Hawthorne Heights, not a completly different band) It's new and it's different for them, but it definetly works.

"Rescue Me" is instantly a favorite from the cd. It's catchy but personal and meaninful at the same time, not to mention the incredible guitar work (okay, so I mentioned it...).

So, the first time I listened to the cd I wasn't paying too much attention until it got to "Sugar In The Engine" which caught my attention in the end. The chilling whispers over the spoken words of
"On November 24th I woke up just like any other day
Beginning of another tour just another city I’ve already seen before
If I only knew that last night was the last night I would ever see you
I would have said goodnight
I would have said I loved you
I would have said goodbye (x12)"

stood out, and I was about ready to cry. It's obvious to anyone what these lyrics are about and it's incredible how truthful and honest these lyrics are. Every cd this day has an obvious tone and feeling, every song has a meaning, but this song really puts exactly what needs to be said out there.

A few songs later comes "Four Become One" which is also about the loss of Casey. I started crying right away listening to it. Again, the honestly and openess of the song struck me. It is a song the band, the family, and all of the fans will be able to connect with and is incredibly touching.

The reprised "Come Back Home" is awesome as well. A great song to end on.

I was never a huge mega fan of Hawthorne Heights, I had seen them live once(on the Black Clouds and Underdogs tour) and had a few songs. This cd has definetly made me more of a fan :)

Warped Tour/Buzzmob Scavenger Hunt
Milwaukee, WI
August 1st, 2008

1. The biggest/tallest/craziest mohawk / 19. A person with Buzznet-Blue hair

4. The coolest home-made warped tour band tshirt

6. Someone wearing all white (the girl on the rirght was wearing all white, even her hair was pretty bleached)

11. Photos of your creative (AND LEGAL) Buzznet promotion (sorry for the bad quality, my camera died 3 mins into the Say Anything set)

13. A photo of you at the tour holding your warped tour ticket stub next to your face (again, sorry for the bad quality, camera died and this was the best i could get. also this isn't my ticket, it's my friends. i didn't have a ticket because i got in free with that purplish wristband i have for a warped contest i won. i hope that works)

14. Somebody wearing a Jeffree Star or Jac Vanek bracelet

20. a person with autographs on his or her body (i could honestly not tell if this was a really cool autograph or a really akward tattoo. it looked like it was with permenent marker but it kinda looked to neat to be a signiture. im not sure. you can decide haha)

And I saw a tent thing with a similar looking thing to the symbol we were supposed to get, but i don't think it was it. haha.

((ps. the journal before this is my warped recap blog))

Okay, so to start off I have read many blogs on here about people's Warped and I was like "Ah, win!" but I had someone low expectations for my own day, only because the only other time I went to Warped, 2 years ago, it kinda sucked. So now, you can follow me on my day of adventure and judge for yourself how cool it was (aha).

Derrick picked me up at 7:30, becuase we had to be there by 9:10 for our Warped Reporter things. We got there around 8, when no one else was there besides a few people. We watched them set up the Hurley Stage and I saw a guy walking to a Port-a-Potty and some other guy run up and steal it as he was reaching for the door, it made me laugh. Eventually 9:10 came around and we texted Lisa, from the Warped Reporter thing. We each completed a survey on a palm pilot, not too much fun. Then we had to have 4 guys and 2 girls do the survey. No one wanted to take it! Eventually I found a boy and a girl who wanted to. I found out through the survey that the boy was only 15, as he smoked in my face for what seemed like a half hour, but was probably around 10 minutes. He actually put his cigarette out half way through becuase he was having so much fun. He told me "You're learning so much about me, I think we should date *laughs*...ah just kidding :)" Then he made his friend take it becuase he liked it so much. Weirdo but kinda cute. Then I had some kid fill it out, he was uninteresting, then I saw Catlin so I had her fill it out, I was looking for the last 2 older guys I needed and found 2 that were pretty okay. One of them was really cute, they were 19 and 20. They kinda made fun of the survey but when the found out that I was doing it so I could see either Motion City Soundtrack or Say Anything on stage, they liked me a little more. We finished up and headed on it at 10:50ish.

We decided who got to see what bands. We had to be in groups of 3/4 people, Say Anything was after four, so I chose Motion City Soundtrack. I of course, took a typical(yet helpful) schedule pic.

So after that I went to look around, I duno what Derrick did, but the kid who was also seeing Motion City Soundtrack decided we were friends and followed me around becuase we both needed go get our Music Saves Lives backstage pass(which I never ended up using, becuase by the time we felt like seeing what we could do, it was over) so this weird kid wouldn't leave me alone and he was such a creeper and so annoying.  I finally escaped the kid and somehow found Liz.

Before I found Liz I ran into some Monk guy, from India, who 'gave me' to weird books and asked for a donation so I was like, whatever, right, and gave him the change I had which probably totaled in $2. Then he was like, "can i have $5?" and i was like "uh no" so he took the books and gave me one smaller one about somethign else and walked away. That's right, I got ripped off by a Monk.

 I then found Derrick and ran to him to explain my creeper troubles. Derrick and I walked around a bit  and visited the Keep a Breast tent(i made him)

and then Liz talked us into going to the major merch area tent thing where we ran into Nikki, Lemke, and Adam. I told those kids about my adventures thus far and went inside. Inside, I got the "This Sh**t is too Legit" shirt, and then found Andi and Erica. We looked around the band merch area for a while and then bugged The Frantic over and over again for autographs, pictures, and just to chat. I missed there set, which kinda sucks, but I love those boys none the less, and I even got a picture with Mr Smilyz (Brett) cuz I love him! (I look weird in the pic cuz I'm laughing after lookin at him making that face XD)

So we wandered a while more around merch and ended up going to watch We The Kings. They're better live than on cd, I don't really have a great love for them or anything, but they're fun to see. The huge crowd was easy to get into and I ended up 2/3 people back,  becuase it was all fangirl types(besides the group of guys mockinly moshing) I got some pretty good pictures of there set, but I left fourish songs in at 1:30 to make sure I would meet Lisa again by 1:50.



Yeah, so I got to the Vans tent way earlier than I expected, so I went to go get water from the bubblers I found (yay free water, i spent 0 money on food/drink) and got back withen 10 mins. Then, like, half a second before Lisa got there, the one, Guy Ripley, walks past and we're like shit! And I went to go see what was up and hurried back before finding out becuase I hada be at the tent to go on stage.

So Lisa took me, 2 girls(who were nice) and the weird creeper dude, Mike, on stage and told us not to stand in a certain spot becuase it needed to be open and that after we could try to hang around and meet them, but we might get kicked out.We got to watch the band warm up and watched Tony do jumpjacks before going on stage, it was cute. I have seen Motion City Soundtrack  5 times before this, but I have never seen them like that. I've gone to shows where I can feel the music pulsing, but the drum beat was literally running through my entire body and mind and everything(as we were right to the left of Tony, and right behind Matt). I didn't really get to see too much of Justin's face, but I saw Jesse, Josh, and Tony perfectly and saw pretty much of Matt(and a lotta the back of his head). I was kind of disapointed becuase some girls somehow got backstage and were trying to sneak their friends with them and were standing in front of me, not even watching, just talking. It was still incredible, I have never been on stage for a band and it was a really surreal experience. It was like seeing the "Making Of" a movie or something, I got to see what everyone in the crowd didn't. Jesse kept on looking over at us, and Tony, and making faces, and at one point someone in the crowd must have gotten their shirt ripped off and Matt tried to discretly show Jesse from across the stage. It was quite a humurous imitation and I enjoyed it.



We were taken off stage with a minute left of the last song, the 2 girls, Mike, and I decided we would wait for the band. They came down the ramp and said hey to us. A few minutes later they kinda lead us back by their tent thingie backstage with their storage and stuff. I usually don't freek out about meeting bands. As I mentioned I've seen MCS 5 times previous to this, and met them 3 times. Something came over me, the whole day of Warped, just being on stage, them being my favorite band, I freeked out. I was kind hyperventilatiing as we talked and somewhat hung out with the band. My voice and body was shakey and I was like ah the whole time I talked to Justin. I almost started crying, and I don't know why, I never get like that meeting bands (not even when I met 3/5ths of MCR, my other fave band) I really, I was ready to pass out, I duno why I was so weird but yea. When I told Justin this was my 6th time seeing them he was like "woah thats a long time..wait what am i talking about, thats a long time? thats a lot of times!" and someone else said they were bad ass and he was like "I dont think that's the word for us, Against Me, theyy're bad ass...we're just....nerds..." aah. I hugged Matt and got a picture with him, Justin, and Tony(as I said, I was out of it and wasn't sure what I was doing so lost track of Josh and Jesse{I just realized I have never gotten a picture with Josh}) The pictures obviously need to be retoutched becuase we were under their red tent in the sun :)

Before Justin took a picture with another girl, he was like, "Oh, *reaches for altoids* just in case, ya know, I don't wanna kill you with my stage breath" It was really cute, and he fixed his hair akwardly before takin the picture with me. (I'm not sure how that sticker ended up inside my shirt on the left side, when{if you look at my picture with Mr Smilyz] it started out on the right side over my shirt...woah actually the one with Brett is a The Classic Crime sticker and this one is a TeenSceneDead sticker..WTF?!?!?!)

So, yeah. After we were kinda kicked out of their tent by securirty we went out and our seperate ways. I was oober freeking out and still breathing weird. I didn't feel like trying to find anyone at this point so I just went to the Hurley.com stage to wait for Ludo. I ended up seein the end of Every Aveneue's set becuase the Smart Punk stage was really the same stage as the Hurley.com stage only with amps seperating it, it was strange. Okay, so yeah, I went in the floor area(becuase they were in an arena) and waited for them to start.

Ludo is so sexually akward on stage, I don't even know. Seriously, their singer(who's name escapes me) is hilarious, he's not attractive but he IS sexy(that is so possible). They are so fun live and they played their standard set but shorter. They opened with Go Getter Greg and ended with Love Me Dead, and they played the weird break up song again :) Afterwords teh singer stressed teh fact that immediatly after the set he was leading an Idiot Parade from the stage to their merch tent, he put on a hat and got a boombox and did so. He walked really fast and I didn't get a picture of such act but it was hilarious.

So after their set Adam and Erica found me and we followed the idiot parade. Adam left while Erica and I waited in line to meet Ludo, it took quite a while but whatever.While waiting, Chris(The Frantic) took advantage of the huge crowd and tired to sell their cd wish such marketing calls as "If you buy this cd Jesus Christ will rise from the dead!". Some people behind me were reall offended, I thought it was funny. All the guys in the Ludo were really nice, I enjoy them. Oh and MAJOR PROPS to their merch guy, the deserve it. The last few shows I've been too, merch people have been suspicousally low on change so we have to buy more things, however, I handed him an $100 bill for a $20 shirt and he came up with the change(mostly in 1's and 5's) I made sure to tip him, like $3, which got me a Ludo Kazoo :) Noice.

After that, Erica and I wandered around for a while and she got some food. Then we went to get in the crowd for The Academy Is.... We caught the last 2 Cobra Starship songs(becuase the stages were right next to eachother) and I got some okay pictures from a distance. They're not great live, but they're fun live


We got to the stage for TAI... way last second but somehow worked our way really close to the stage. I would stay 4 to 6 people back right in front of Mike Carden. I got a lot of good pictures of them, and despite me not really knowing too much TAI music, I knew all songs besides one of the new ones(that wasn't "About A Girl") So the last song they played was Checkmarks, and halfway through the song the huge dark gray storm clouds rushed forward adn wind started blowing like nuts, everyones hair was everywhere, the flap of the back of the stage was going, tents were knocking over, and leaves somehow ended up near the stage. The crowd was going wild and not only was the performance great but the atmosphere was incredible in that last song. It was almost a surreal experience because it seemed so unreal. It was perfectly timed and seemed like something a band would love to have for effects but would kinda be impossible. It was awesome!

As we were leaving the crowd after TAI, Erica and I found Adam and we went to a grassy area between tents and sat down and chilled out. Andi and Liz found us soon after and we all just sat there and said how amazing it was. None of us really had any other bands to see until 7:30 so we just chilled out for a while. A bird almost pooped on Adam and as immature as that sounds, it was hilarious. Then Adam decided that to get back at the Seagul he would kidnap and taunt it and poop on it, but we saw Ricky and he said that it was a federel offence to harass seagulls. Stupid. haha.

So yeah, we hung out, looked at merch and looked around some more. Then at 7ish we went to where Say Anything was supposed to play in a half hour, and Angels and Airwaves were still playing. I dont really like them so we just kinda sat down til the end of their set then as all their fans were leaving we went into the crowd. I had heard the crowd would be brutal so Andi and I left our bags with Erica who didn't feel liek going. We were behind a group of people smoking both cigarettes and joints, which lead Andi and I to invent the Joint/Cigarette, corndog style  XD They boy behind us looked like he could be the long lost brother of John(ounceofwentz) and I freeked out and helped Andi take an inconspicuous picture. It was a scary resembelence. So we turned around and saw Erica in the crowd and asked her what was going on, she had Andi's  bag and she had found Shaefer, who had mine. We started yelling at Shaefer so one of the guys between us and them yelled "SHAEFER (to mock us) Wait, ohmygod SHAEFER's HERE" becuase he actually knew Shaefer, who knows everyone. It was an interesting wait for Say Anything, simply becuase he was there.(ps I have no clue how to spell his name haha)

So, Say Anything came on stage and everyoen simmotanously moved forward. I got so far forward, we started out near teh back and I was soon 2/3 people back rockin out. It was a pretty tough crowd, especially during Molly, but woah it was fun. I seriously thought I would be passing out before and Andi would have to carry me out Superbad style("are you carrying me? / "no, im saving you") but I didnt' i hung in there and had 2 guy crowd surfers going together land on my neck and only me and I was ahhh and some girl was standing on my foot and when i got home i found my big toe on my left foot to be quite smashed up and slightly bloody. AWESOME BATTLE WOUND XD. Say Anything were soooooooooo good live, I expected Mr Max Bemis(who is of a godly status in my eyes) would have a deeper maybe more raspy voice live, but he was pitch perfect, it was amazing. The were one band on Warped who I hadn't seen before. Unfortuantly my camera died 5 mins into there set.(this picture is from before I got close)


After Say Anything, Erica and I walked and rested while Andi watched the final set, Gym Class Heros. We met up with Amber so the three of us messed around while listening to their set from a short distance. It's so depressing to see all the tents going down and everyone cleaning up and breaking down createable stages. We met up with Andi and Liz afterwords and left soon after. It was a pretty incredible day, not what I expected at all and I saw many interesting things. I also saw way too many guys wearing bootyshorts, seriously, why do bootyshorts have to be the new skinny jeans????

I think I probably spend more time alone there than with any one person, although I spent the second half with Erica and Andi a lot so that was nice. Nothing better than a day with you're favorite bands and best friends &hearts;


That's it for this (LONG) recap.
Buzzmob Scavenger Hunt thing tomarrow, I'm sure.