Saturday, July 12, 2003

 

So yea, FOB last night totally rocked my face. I went to the acoustic set/signing at Karma Records before the show at the Mason Jar. Patrick broke out his acoustic car and played most of the songs on the album. Then Jen and her punk rockin friends showed up and basically ignored me the entire time. Then the rest of the band showed up and they were passing out posters for them to sign and they ran out before I got one so I just went and had them sign my CD and my trading card. I gave Pete the bracelet I made him and he totally loved it so he gave me two of his (a black and red one) as a trade. When he signed my cd cover it signed it as "thanks for the bracelet." AWWW! Then I decided to leave and head off to the Mason Jar so I could be in the front. There weren't that many people there at all. Maybe about 30 at most? Definitely one of the smallest shows I've ever been to. I went and bought the hoodie I had been wanting for a while. It's hot ass shit. I also bought the car shirt that says "get out of my dreams and into my car" and I bought Bryan this shirt. I would have bought it for myself too but they only had it in a youth large. Pete and Andrew and Patrick all remembered me from the signing earlier and said hi and whatnot. The first band to play, "Parkway Wretch", was so fucking horrible. I swear, it was like the longest half hour of my life. I think I've seen them before. The lead singer dude looks familiar. BLECH. Then FMF (15 minutes fast) came on and they were pretty good. It was kinda funny how into it the keyboard player got. I saw my friend Shaun that I met back at the Midtown show in Tempe in October that I see at practically every show that I go to. We stood next to eachother when FOB came on we were rocking out together like no tomorrow. I was shaking after they finished their sets. I sang harder than I've ever sang before. Pete came over to my side of the stage alot and when he sang "you were the last good thing about this town" he pointed to me. EEEP! haha I was like a giddy little schoolgirl. He kept smiling at me. w00t w00t! After their set I was standing over by the merch tables and Pete was all shaking Shaun's hand and then he came up to me and was all "you, come here" and gave me a big hug and then he was all "you rule". EEP! Then Patrick thanked me for coming out. AWW! Hehe. Then I decided to go outside and mingle with everyone. I got to talk to Pete alot when he wasn't on his cell phone. Shaun and I got a picture with him and Andy and Pete even let me have a sip of his Sprite. w00t! Then Jen and I were talking about Rapheala and I invited Pete to sit on my car and we talked about him being homesick and whatnot. Then this roadie for (and I forget what band) kept agreeing with me on stuff and kept giving me high fives and then he started telling this story and whipped out his dick and made me look at it. Blech. Pete came back from being inside and I was all "you missed him whipping out his dick" and Pete was like "that's the first time on this tour that I've missed it." Haha. So after The Reunion Show finished their set I went to In and Out with Fall Out Boy and got to know Joe better. We were talking about chocolate cokes and asthma and the "secret" menu of In and Out. Does anyone know if it actually exists? Then they had to leave and drive to Cali so we said our goodbyes and that was my fantastic night with Fall Out Boy. I'm gonna go get my pics developed tomorrow.

Ashley bragged about her experience at 7:50 PM.

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Thursday, July 10, 2003

 

Warped Tour in Pomona rocked both our faces.

The Used had such a big crowd but Bryan put me on his shoulders for 2 songs so that made me happy. Then we went to the AP tent and met Simple Plan and got sigs and whatnot. Then Rufio started so I went over there and saw them. So many people were in love with them. It made me really happy. I saw Scott as I was walking into the Fairplex and I said hi and introduced him to Bryan and whatnot. I think Bryan was amazed that I know a rockstar. Haha. Then we walked around and got loads of free shit. I bought a Simple Plan poster, a Used heartcore tank, a "not my president" shirt from Fat Wreck Chords that I had been wanting for a while, the Senses Fail cd, and I made 3 buttons, a Timmy from Allister one, a Tony one and a Jere one. They rock my face hardcore. Bryan ended up getting the FOB cd, some Simple Plan and Role Model shirts and a sxe shirt amongst other things. I was really pissed off that they switched the Simple Plan and Ataris time slots around. Because of it I missed most of there set and had to settle and watch them from fuckin BFE. Got to hear most of Pennywise's set. Saw all of Mest's set and couldn't help but feel sorry for Tony. He was in so much pain but he performed anyways. I got to see the gnarly bulge on his back. His hair was like neon green and he had eyeliner on. He looked a little bit sickly and according to Bryan his singing started to get worse as the set was finishing up. Poor Tony :( He wasn't at the signing either because he was in too much pain. While I was waiting in line to meet Mest for the bajillionth time, I heard Sum 41's set. Then we went and did a Truth video in the Truth booth. We talked about being straight edge and what it meant to us. I looked/sounded really hot. I'd make a great actress :D hehe Hmm, what else? We ended up leaving after I got Mest's sigs because Bryan had really bad pains. I hate seeing him suffer.

Ashley bragged about her experience at 11:41 PM.

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