Sunday, April 16, 2006

 

So FOB on Thursday. Let here pretty soon after getting out of class. just grabbed a pretzel and some water. No traffic on 270 but traffic on 70 getting out of St. Louis. I hate traffic. I ran into random traffic in the middle of nowhere because we had to merge over to the left lane and the right lane was closed off with cones but NOTHING WAS GOING ON. It was so pointless. Like construction in PA. Got to Kansas City practically on time....7:30. Drove around trying to find parking. Randomly found a lot where there were spaces and so I parked there for free and prayed my car wouldn't be towed. Got my photo pass without any trouble. Got in and found Karissa. Found Ben and waited for HH to end so I could use my photo pass. We found Dirty walking around and he gave me big hugs and I complimented him on his grill. haha Then we found Jim who I haven't talked to in a while and talked to him about vendors. I had to leave the conversation so I could go into the photo pit for AAR. Saw Ben and talked to Michelle and Melissa while I was waiting for AAR to start. Security kept thinking I was a crowdsurfer who got pulled out and I had to keep showing them my pass. One dude asked how old I was and thought I was 12. WTF? Tyson is uber creepy. Taking pictures in the photo pit of a big stage where the stage is way taller than you isn't much fun. I have to lift my camera over the stage and take pictures. haha I got amps and speakers in half my pictures. I wnet over and sat with Ben in the "VIP" area which they let us in with our photo passes. haha Security didn't fucking care. Hung out until FOB was about to come on. I realized they didn't have any of their backdrops with them. They didn't have that big white curtain that dropped while they set up so their intro music was playing as me and Ben went up there. They came on to "Livin On A Prayer" which they haven't come on to in over a year. It was reminsicent of old FOB days. I feel kinda bad that the KC kids got cheated without there being no pyro or backdrops, but I don't think it would have been safe outside with all the wind. Once FOB came on I realized why my heart beats. They make me feel electric. Being in the photo pit at a place that big is totally different. I was on Pete's side at first and Pete fucking moves so I moved over to Joe's side so I have ALL these pics of Joe and Andy and hardly any of Pete because he wouldn't stay still. Like he'd come over to Joe's side and he saw me and came down and smiled at me but then he stayed on his side and I couldn't move over there because they were pulling too many crowd surfers out and there's very little room between the end of the catwalk and where they had the barricade. After the first 3 songs me and Ben went and stood on the platform where they had the spotlights because you can see directly to the stage. He left after a couple of songs to go hang out with his friends. Pete said a lot of stuff on stage he hadn't said in STL. I liked the anti-gay speeech. "If you're a homophobic racist asshole then return our cd." Pete can blow a lot of hot air sometimes but he makes some good points. Afterwards I called Ben and found out he already left so I called Michelle and Karissa to try and meet up with them. Afterwards we went back to Karissa's car and got the Chex Mix and warm Fresca which never tasted so good. haha Beer would have tasted good then. So we grabbed our kumbaya materials and walked back over to the buses. Sat around for a while and realized that we were waiting by the wrong bus. haha The bus I thought was FOB's was HH's. Um yea... So I see this line forming on the other side of the street and kids are raising their hands and I'm like "Wtf is going on?" I start walking over and I notice it's Pete. So we get in the back of the line and wait for our turn. haha Right as I do that I hear Charlie say "anyone got a black marker?" so I scream out that I do and I start walking to to the front of the line and grabbing through my purse for the Sharpie Mini off my key fchain. Pete sees me and says "well look who it is" and gives me a big smile. I ask if green is okay and hand my sharpie to Pete. Charlie asks me if I want to cut in line and I was like "uhh" and I look at Pete and Pete's like "no it's Ashley. I know her. She's cool." He had to keep telling Charlie this to get him to chill out. "it's Ashley. It's okay." He acted like Charlie should know who I am. haha After all the girls that wanted shit signed got it signed Charlie handed me back my sharpie and started ushering Pete away but he couldn't leave without talking to me or at least give me a hug! Pete gave me a big hug and I asked him if he liked my hair and he was like "YEA! I really like it! I wanted to tell you that earlier but..." and I told him jeanae did it and he was like "when did she do it? did she do it when she was out in LA or in Chicago?" haha He told me that he really liked it and that he was gonna have to tell her that he really liked it and that she did a really good job. He asked me if I was going to anymore shows and I said Chicago and then he got pulled away by Charlie. He was still talking to us as Charlie was taking him away. Fucking ridiculous. So we left and I decided to stay at Melissa's because I was beat and there was no way I could drive 4 hours home. Karissa drove me back to my car which was there and happily intact. I parked for free! :D I followed Melissa back to her house and crashed and then woke up at 9 to drive back. The only good thing about getting up that early is being able to get McDonald's breakfast :D I got dressed and brushed my teeth, leaving in the same clothes as the night before, got on the freeway and stopped at the first Mickey D's I saw. I got two McGriddles which I haven't been able to eat in a while since I'm never up early enough to make Mickey D's breakfast. They're so yummy and syrupy. MMM. HTL and Third Eye Blind made for my trip home. Saw a billboard that had been destroyed by a tornado. It had cracked in half and basically fallen over. Ridiculous. Got back to my apartment at 2 so I missed Biochem. Showered and headed over to TBS. Went to will call to get my ticket I ordered presale a while ago and like what happened with the ticket I ordered through the TBS presale like 3 years ago (even though that was through Music Today) they couldn't find my name on the list. I had my receipt saying that I bought and purchased it myself and they were all confused and I kept waiting and I didn't understand why if I had this receipt my photo ID proving it was me that they couldn't just give me a ticket? Eventually they just gave me this piece of paper that said "one admission" on it and had a picture of TBS on it. We could have gone to Kinkos and run off 20 copies and they wouldn't have known. While I was up at willcall like 20 more people got in line placing me at the very back :( michelle showed up and got in line wth me. I really wanted to be in the front but that wasn't going to happen. We got in and there were too many people in already so we went upstairs and there were too many people up there too! So we were sitting on this bar table and got yelled at so then we just stood and did whatever we could. Michelle got made fun of by these nasty hoosier trannies that didn't know ANY bands. I mean, they were too old to know TBS and they definitely didn't. So why the fuck were they there? UGH. I hate people that bitch about needing to see but don't even know any of the bands. I let kids get in front of me for bands I don't care about or if I'm at a show just checking out bands I'll let kids get in front of me because I don't want to deprive some kid that's a fan of seeing their favorite band when I'm just experiencing them or checking them out. Ya know? So I get this spot upstairs by these 16 year old spazzes who start bitching and complaining about EVERYTHING. After Tokyo Rose ended their set they were like "It didn't take the last band that long to set up" and I'm like "that's because they were an opener. opener's soundcheck before the headliners and all their shit is set up on stage so nothing has to be moved." Apparently he doesn't go to shows that often. When TBS came on him and his friends went into epileptic seizures and about died. It was ridiculous. I liked the lights they had set up but I still wish I was in front :(

Afterwards we all went to Denny's and that night I woke up at 5am with a charlie horse and stomach cramps.

Did nothing this weekend. I have FOB on Wed.

Karissa and I are pretty much insane. I keep adding shows to May. We're going to see Hit the Lights in PA the day before Bamboozle and going to NY. We're basically going to be living with Hit the Lights for 3 or 4 days. If they hate us/her/me or get sick of us we're going to be in trouble. haah

I'm also planning on going to see them in Ohio before I leave for AZ.
I may also be making a roadtrip to Dallas on my way back to AZ to see Mike and Stan who I pretty much haven't seen in a year. I would still go up to Albuquerque to see Katy though.

AAR and FOB pics will be up eventually. IM me and ask and you'll get yelled at. haha There's 122 pics and I'm not through AAR. I'm still trying to get my interviews from Feb. done. Who knew transcribing something word for word would take so fucking long?

Ashley bragged about her experience at 11:05 PM.

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