Saturday, May 01, 2004

 

Last night was FUCKING amazing. I left STL around noon and got into Normal around 3 or so. Mapquest got me lost and turned around. I ended up figuring out where to go by following Pete. Got into the parking lot and saw Emily and her friends there. Got a hug from Pete. Pete called Hurley "little buddy" which made me go "Awww" so badly. Saw Kaitlyn. Hung out with her until it starting raining which I decided it would be best to go inside and it was a good decision because then it started fucking pouring. Sat down in the cushy chairs and chilled with Emily and her friends until the doors opened. We went and got our tickets (aka wristbands) and I saw Anna there. While we were waiting for the doors to open we were joking about how we should get chewed gum wads from the guys and sell them on Ebay for a billion dollars. haha

When doors opened we ran up to the front and got a good spot. The first band sucked, Blame Twilight was better, The Junior Varsity was pretty good and of course Fall Out Bizzle owned.

They opened with "Tell Mick" and all the kids went fucking nuts. When they played "Dead on Arrival" Pete came over to my spot smiling and handed me off his pick. It's the second one of his I have :D They played GTA and "Calm Before the Storm" and all the security guards were freaking out. This chick came on stage and was yelling at the boys while they were fucking playing and pointing at people because they were all anal about not wanting kids to mosh or stagedive or crowdsurf but those weren't even issues. No one was getting hurt and everyone was taking care of eachother. The only time people started crowd surfing was after they started yelling. Them some douche cop came on stage and starting yelling and threatened to keep the lights on (how is that a threat?) if we didn't calm down. Pete said something like "...but don't let some motherfucker who's not part of this scene tell you guys what the fuck to do!" and that pissed the cop off and excited everyone. They went into "Patron Saint" and then played "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner", "Chicago" (sorry I didn't call you Fabi. I couldn't reach my cell phone due to be surrounded by lots of sweaty people.), "Grenade Jumper" (during which Emily and I were pointing to Hey Chris on the other side of the stage. I tried to get a picture of him singing with Patrick but it was at a weird angle so I couldn't get one :( ). They "ended" with Saturday and all these kids (aka friends of theirs) were stage diving and going fucking nuts and some random kid came and grabbed Joe's mic and was putting it in the crowd and came over by me and I FINALLY got to scream into it (it took me 14 shows but it was so worth it). They ended up playing "Honorable Mention" after that (sans full band) and Pete went and sat at Andy's drums and pretending to play them and then Joe ran across the stage pretending to hit the symbols. haha it was cute. Then they really ended up "Homesick at Space Camp" and this kid behind me was wanting to hear that song all along and went fucking nuts and almost tore my shoe off so I turned around and started punching him and I think he got the idea ;) Pete gave away one of Andy's bass pedals after Saturday. It was fucking nuts. Joe broke strings on both of his guitars. haha He's so effing crazy.

Afterwards me and all the girls hung around and talked to Pete and Andy. Emily had an interesting conversation with Andy about what they all smelled like. You can find it at her LJ (username ranciddistiller).

I told Pete that I was going to see them when they came to STL with Blink and that we have to hang out because we never get to hang out and he promised me that we'd finally get to hang out so I made him pinky swear and I kissed my thumb and made him kiss his thumb too and he was all like "did we just kiss?"

Kaitlyn agrees that pinky swears with thumb kisses are the best things ever. ;)

Some of the best Wentz quotes from last night

Some kid - What's your favorite candy bar? (in reference what to get Wentz for his birthday)
Pete - What's my favorite candy bar.....what IS my favorite candy bar?
Another kid - WHATCHAMACALLIT!
Pete - DUDE!! YESS!! WHATCHAMACALLITS ARE AWESOME! And the best thing is that they're a second tier candy bar but they're really a first tier candy bar but they're so underrated but they're soo good unless you get a stale one. That sucks.

Some kid - Dude, why didn't you guys play "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out"?
Pete - Dude, that's a fucking Christmas song! Okay, here's a story, so we're in Florida during the summer and it's really fucking hot and some kid's all like "dude, why didn't you play YSYEO?" and I'm like "that's a Christmas song dude." and the kid's all "I'm Jewish. it's never fucking Christmas for me!"

Pete - So we toured with Yellowcard and I hung out with Sean a lot during the tour and this was when I had the faux hawk and brown hair and sometimes I'd be walking around by myself and people would come up to me and they'd be like "dude! your flips are fucking sick!" and I'd be all confused but didn't pay attention to it and then I realized that they saw some short brown haired dude and just figured I was the violinist.

(I was talking to this girl from the message board/LJ community that kissed Judas at the show in Florida about how nasty his gf is and how they're attached at the hip and Pete chimes in)
Pete - The funny thing is that at the beginning of the tour she was all over everyone and went to like all our shows in Texas and stuff and then somehow, halfway through the tour she's Judas' gf.

The fact that he was shittalking her was the best thing ever.

Pete kept telling kids that he was into dudes and I was like "haven't you seen the pics of him and Hey Chris?" and he's like "serrriously. You know how I roll!" haha

Some kid mentioned how some band FOB played with hates them and Pete was all "dude, so like I get this email from some girl and she's all like "you guys are a bunch of fucking assholes. your music sucks. I hate you blah blah blah" and so I was like, either I can be a spaz or be a brat and piss her off more, so I wrote her back and was like "thanks for the fan mail. We really appreciate your support. It means a lot to us."

Me and Cassandra were talking about how we were gonna sell Pete's signed water bottle on Ebay for 500 bucks and he was like "No seriously, I was on Ebay one day and I wasn't even purposelly looking and I saw some of our stuff and I swear to you that it's only selling for like a cent." He lies so bad. haha

All these kids were passing stuff over me to get signed because I'm short and all and I just offered to pass their stuff forward for them and they were thinking I was going to steal it and I'm like "dude, I already have this shirt (everrryone was getting the FOB is for lovers shirt signed) and 2 copies of the CD. I'm not gonna jack it" and Pete's like "why am I signing all this for you?" and I told him that people were passing it over me. haha

After that we decided to leave and I said "goodbye to Pete" and got a hug and then all of us girls + Emily's lovely dad went to Steak and Shake because we were fucking starving. I went out to my car to discover it had been attacked by chalk. Pink chalk. I was like "WHAT THE FUCK?!!" They scribbled all over my windows and all over my car. I was so pissed. Emily and her friends helped me get it off. We had a great time at Steak and Shake. The waitress was 10x better than the one Adam and I had last time we went. haha Emily's dad paid for everything and then we said our goodbyes and left and here I am.

Alicia and her friends are rolling into STL around 6 or so and then I gotta jet down to Busch Stadium to pick her up.

Pictures are getting developed tomorrow. Watch out.

Here's the one of all of us with the nerd to tide you over until then.

Ashley bragged about her experience at 2:56 PM.

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