OH how much there is to tell today! Yesterday Jay and I got up at 7...well Jay got up at 7 because he wanted to shower before we left. I got to sleep in till 7:30 haha! Anyway, we went to leave just after 8 and realized neither of us ate breakfast, so before getting gas, we hit McDonalds. We tolerated the wait but the guy at the window must have been really new. He turned to me and asked if I had the coke order. I said no, we had two number 2's with two large OJ's. he said ok and repeated that tot he girl next to him. Then they apologized and said the OJ machine was out of order and they could either give us a refund or another thing to drink so we just got sprites. They handed us our drinks an dour food and we head back towards the freeway. While gassing up, we start eating....they got our orders wrong! They gave us overly cooked ham and egg on BOTH sandwiches ..but they were wrapped in the sausage wrappers we had ordered. WHAT THE FUCK!? I was fucking pissed. Well I don't like the egg they use OR the ham. I ordered a sausage McMuffin for a reason! So I gave Jay both sandwiches while I just grabbed a doughnut form the gas station. So we hopped on the freeway for an hour and forty minuet drive to Warped Tour.
When we got there we had to turn around because apparently there is "V.I.P" parking..whatever, we go and park, getting there just after 10. We go chill out waiting n line when we're approached by a Buddhist Monk who actually travels with Warped Tour, giving free meditation books. He gave me one, really nice guy lol. I like to meditate so I was pretty into that.
While waiting we saw a lot of characters. I saw a girl dressed like I had been this past Halloween, black and purple taffeta skirt, purple tights, black t-shirt, and big black boots. Many other people have black marker drawn all over them to look like giant Frankenstein stitches. Plenty of girls running around in short shorts and bikini tops. It was here that we spotted the first one the "WTF" outfits. Two guys came passing through the crowd as we waited to be let in. One was dressed as Santa, full suit and hat, minus the fake belly. Behind him, his buddy was dressed as an elf, in a green and red costume hat included, all of which were made of felt. It was about quarter to 11 at this point and the temperature was already 90, and it just got worse as the day went on.
Then the tour people started handing out pamphlets. The guy hands us each one and says "A message from the artists about animals." On the front is showed several artists from various bands that were preforming, and something about being a Vegan, or something like that. I think to myself, 'Alright, they're going to talk about cruelty to animals on the various farms, etc.' I flip open the pamphlet at the same time Jay does and we both instantly went "WHAT THE FUCK!?" and closed them. Inside were grotesque images of animal cruelty on the breeding farms and stuff. It was seriously NOT something I wanted to be surprisingly exposed to. As a matter of fact it kinda pissed me off, the cover or the person who handed them out should have warned there were graphic images inside. We tossed the pamphlets and moved up in line as it was now 11 and the gates were opening.
Slowly and surely the lines moved and we eventually made our way inside. They wouldn't allow any outside food and only outside beverages that were not already opened. We get in, and look around. Right away I saw a sign that made me laugh. This guy was holding up a sign that said "Don't get caught looking @ titties! Sunglasses $5!!" How great is that? We checked out the wall schedule, and headed off to go find the first band we wanted to see.
The location we were at, was a massive circle with a big hill in the middle. Three different stages were spaced out around this hill and then an area of the parking lot was fenced off for the other two stages. One of the three stages was actually an outdoor auditorium with comfy seats and what not. Technically this stage was split up into two stages. This way one bad would play while on the other end of the stage the next band would set up and they just went back and forth like that. We didn't realize this was the case at first as we could only see one sign for the stage we thought it was all one big stage. As Jay and I were just chilling in the shade here a girl in the row behind up and a few spaces over asks if we knew where the Nintendo stage was. This happened to be the "second" stage that we too were looking for and also didn't know it was right in front of us haha. She was looking for Family Force 5, which is who we were going to see too. She said if we didn't mind she's just follow us then cuz she was alone and I immediately insisted that she come and sit by me and hang out with us today.
Her name is Anna, and she is going to turn 16 in a couple of days. She was there alone because she hasn't missed an FF5 show in 3 years and her best friend who usually goes with her was unable to attend this show because of a marching band concert she had to attend. Anna's grandmother had dropped her off and insisted she call as soon as she felt over heated or anything like that. We talked for a bit then got up to go find the stage. We continued on in the circle, walking right past the sign that announced the Nintendo DS stage since we were just looking at the huge stage as one and not as two lol. We walked all the way around tot he entrance before we decided to pay the wallet raping price of $2 for a schedule that had a map on the other side. That's when we discovered the one stage was really two and we went back tot he place we started at! HAHAHA!!!
Alright so I'm going to be honest, the only two band at this thing I was any sort of a fan of was A Day To Remember and Set Your Goals. I had no experience with almost any of the other bands. But that's okay because I discovered a lot of great music, and after watching Family Force Five live in concert I am an immediate fan! They were so awesome I loved it! The lead singer from FF5 hopped in a blow up hamster ball and crowd surfed it was awesome!
AWESOME!!!! His dancing made me laugh my ass off too he was hilarious!
So after that we went to their signing, and I took Anna's CD and got it signed for her while she asked the lead singer if he'd text her friend who couldn't be there. He was so sweet about it too he was like "I can even call her instead if you want!" But Anna didn't know if her friend would be able to answer so he just txt her instead. All the guys were really nice too.
By this time a few hours have already passed since we had to watch a few bands before FF5 Go Radio and Big D And The Kids Table both I liked. Moving on from there we wandered around, checked out the merch stands, refilled our waters and cooled off in the sprinklers. I bought a new bracelet for fighting cancer, and then we went and got some food. Holy Hell. The food there was so fucking expensive! 9.25 for three chicken strips and a handful of fries. They're DAMN lucky the food was really good and really filling, but it still wasn't worth 9.25! Water and soda we not any better. But there were free refilling stations for cold water so we can't complain too much at least. I had very little soda making sure I stuck with water so I didn't get dehydrated. Jay had more than I did and by the time we got home last night he was suffering form heat exhaustion, my poor man. But I'll get into that later.
After we ate Anna decided to head home since she was really only there to see FF5. We walked her to the entrance where her grandmother had already arrived and was waiting to pick her up. I'm really glad we met her. I'd hate to walk around all on my own its more fun with others. Also it was safer. She's a young girl someone could hurt her, or she could have collapsed form that nasty heat. I got her FB though and added her on there, She should be accepting soon so yay for that!
After Anna left Jay and I finally decided we wanted to buy something fun. We went to the official VANS merch booth with was huge by the way, but they had a great deal going on. Women's shirts for $10, and you get your choice of a free hat or wallet too.
We went to see Enter Shikari, but I was feeling icky and we sat on the steps of the hill next to the stage. Even after sitting there listening tot he music, I was feeling really really bad then. We went back to the auditorium and sat in the shad for an hour and half. I changed out of my black tank top into my VANS shirt before we sat though and I got more ice water. The new shirt was thinner, and cooler and I felt so so so much better just sitting there, learning on Jay and listening to music up on the stage(s). I actually almost fell asleep like that, it was nice. While we both relaxed and cooled down we got to listen to Moving Mountains, Lucero, Reliant K, Larry And His Flask.
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Half way through Larry And His Flask, we left to go off toward the main stage where Veara was playing. Jay told me they were a lot like Set Your Goals and that I'd really like them but right before they started I needed to use the rest room. So I wandered int he direction of the main stage to find it and happened upon Gym Class Heroes singing "Billionaire" and so I stopped and listened to it since that was the only song by then I really really wanted to hear. Then I went on looking, failed in my mission and went back to the Kevin Says stage where Jay was watching Veara. He was right I really did like them a lot they reminded me a lot of Set Your Goals, and they put on a great show.
We headed back to the main stage because Jay wanted a Monster. I cna't drink them too much or too often myself, they taste too much like candy for me, but we went and waited in a ten min line anyway. When we got in we expected to have to pay for the but as we walked up to the serving area, inside the Monster truck, the guy just hands drinks to us. We were surprised but hey free Monsters! We weren't allowed to leave there with the can's so we had to finish them there. Jay finished his and I gave him the last half of mine too.
Then it was back to the double stage auditorium to see The Wonder Years. Jay was a little disappointed with it, but it was still really fun to see. We sat in the lower area on the padded comfortable seats and enjoyed the whole thing from there.
Then we sat for another 15 min and watched The Aggrolites.
Set Your Goals didn't start till 7:10 wish was still 25 min off but we were really hungry again so we got more food. Once again our wallets were raped as we paid up the wazoo for food, and a sprite. And we sat in the shade and ate. We were right behind the stage we needed to be at and they were about to start so Jay went a head and I caught up with him when I was ready to get up again. I reached the stage just before they started, and in plenty of time to get hit by their water guns! Hahaha
The set was great! One of their guitarists had to rush home for a family emergency so their tour manager learned the set in like 12 hours and played to replace him. The hilarious thing is? This guy looked like a male version of the assistant manager at the store I work at. I feel a little bad about saying that able Lee, she's so sweet but it's true!
The entire set was really great, I recognized some of the songs, but others I didn't know either. Still I had a freaking BLAST! It was great, the security was getting really pissed about all the body surfing...but its not like they can do much about it either. I mean, at least that wasn't as bad as the moshing.
I made sure to get of shot of the "security" oohh scurry!
After the set, they had their signing. It was great, Jay was marking out so bad, hahaha it was funny as hell. He had bought their new CD the day it came out and that's what he had signed. But he forgot to tell them that it was becasue of them that we were at Warped because when he won the tickets he'd said that Set Your Goals was the band he was most excited to see. Oh well that's okay he still got his autograph!
The whole problem with it all though was Set Your Goals was playing at the exact same time as A Day To Remember. Jay was bummed that he had to choose but I think the choice was totally worth it! We both still had a huge blast! After that we left. All the booths were closing down and what not, only a few bands were left that we had no interest and we were both fucking exhausted.
As we were walking out of the gate, the Monster truck was there and they were handing out more free Monsters!!!
We each grabbed one before the masses caught on haha, and then headed off for the nice long walk back to the truck. The drive home was slow at first but eventually the time just flew by. We were so tired when we got home. Jay had heat exhaustion, and a heat rash on his upper back and chest and a light burn on his shoulder blades where his beater ended, otherwise he was okay. But he's never experienced any of this and had a very rough time sleeping last night. We both put on TONS of sun screen throughout the whole day and I still got badly burned. My chest, face, shoulders and the sides of my neck. Even the top tips of my ears were burned. I had to spin my cartilage hoop so the ball wasn't touching it because it hurt just to have that leaning against the burn. I'm pretty sure I had some heat exhaustion as well, but not as bad as Jay.
Today we both napped and rested and slept a lot. I made sure we both had tons of water and ate well. We needed it for sure. I'm really relieved that Jay's feeling better and most of my sun burn is already going away and I'm not peeling yet thank the gods.
That's really about it. I can't think of anything else at least to talk about. I had a blast yesterday and so did Jay! I'm so glad we got the opportunity to go to this!
If you want to check out any of the bands I've mentioned here today here some of their sites!
All the rest of the bands who play for Warped you can find HERE
Everyone have a great night and a great weekend!
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