i'm fabulous.

Who wants this?!

2007-08-16T19:38:48Z

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I guess I was THAT girl to buy a band guy's shirt off his back. My bad. Ok I'm posting this here for someone who is interested in it. If anyone else is, let me know.

do it or datu will get you!

2006-01-05T19:29:58Z

BECAUSE YOU'LL JUDGE ME....

FRIENDS ONLY!!

hmmm

2005-07-04T22:13:59Z

i can't decide whether or not i want to tell the story from the academy show...

i am getting so sick of babysitting.

2005-07-01T04:24:02Z

yesterday i hung out with my old school buddy, erica b. we hit up max & erma's and went to see bewitched. it was very good, no matter what the lame ass critics say. then she dragged me into reuhl, and i thought i was going to die. the guy outside was like, "what's up guys?" i looked at him, with fear in my eyes, and pleaded, "please don't hurt me." it was a frightening experience. we went back to the brillson's casa and ate panera. we played with my mace (not spelled "mase" apparently). i sprayed it, and then i don't know why, but i sniffed it. i was then fucked up/terribly honest all night. it was out of hand. we're both cheap asses and didn't want to drive, so we had amy fanning pick us up! meghan blew us off to go get ice cream with nicole in downtown westerville. we decided we'd go find them, but we didn't know where the ice cream place was, so we just went to meghan's. she was still home, and we surprised her. nicole picked us up, and we all went. she was supposed to meet some dude from facebook there. long story short, he was a big jerk and never showed. we ate and went back to meghan's and watched family guy. an excellllllllllent evening, if i do say so myself.

i babysat today...stupid brats. i went back later and told her i had to bounce at 7 and be somewhere at 7:30. she didn't come back UNTIL 7:30. i couldn't get a hold of liz, so i called julia, who talked to aileen, who dug around to find liz's number, who told julia, who told me. i tried to remember it mentally. needless to say, i talked to jamie three times tonight due to lack of typing the right number. i finally got to liz, we ate, talked, and then went to dq and played games. we got tickets and won prizes! then we went to see amityville horror...i screamed. fabulous times.

my big date that's been planned for weeks with meghan is tomorrow. be jealous.

it's a damn good thing i'm mature.

2005-06-27T04:35:14Z

trying to make yourself an lj layout becomes a serious hot mess. i'm just not good at this shit. that's all i can say. it's cool, whatever.

friday was party time at rere's. oooh funny drunken strangers that i didn't know. i just popped my diet pepsi's and had a good time. aileen, ec, and julia came over, which was really cool. stumbling julia and ec sat in my front seat while i drove them to taco bell. the party went really well, lots of people, and everybody was very polite and friendly. getting people home safely became kind of a disaster. a kid from double s ran off when he really shouldn't have. DOUBLE S, YOU CAN'T BE STUPID, YOU BROUGHT ME TOGETHER WITH RERE! ec was...well, let's jut say i have video/blackmail. haha it was a sweet time.

everything else is pissing me off/i'm on my period (oh and p.s. it was my seven year anniversary today, if you know what i'm saying) hahaha i have no life.

we were in the beyond....

2005-06-24T20:47:47Z

1,499.0 miles, probably a dozen sodas each, 9 houses on trucks, 2 sketchy motel 6's, and only 1 bag of flipz later...

*anything in bold is what maria said when she wrote notes of the trip. i want her words to be credited to her since they're really funny. k thanks.

maria came over bright and early monday morning. she made a binder with all our directions gathered and organized neatly. it's an amazing binder: "the warped tour road trip aka the kansas road trip. fuck this...the wedding." none of you get that, but it's cool. jenny had to get all fixed up before we left, so the nice people of valvoline took care of my baby while we walked around aimlessly with thoughts of anticipation of young lads in tight jeans. we made our way out of columbus, ohio around 9. at approximately 9:30, maria turned to me with sadness in her voice and said, "allison, i don't want this to end!" it was priceless.

we journeyed through ohio and indiana and then came upon effingham, illinois. what a funny name. oh look at this:

joe reo, we know we're seeing you soon, don't worry we won't forget!

there were probably a bagillion more jesus signs/references throughout the day. we got to st. louis and checked into our hotel that had a really weird aroma. after cleaning up a bit, we headed to the st. louis arch of course. you get in these little pods to go up to the top. the cutest little boy was in there with us. total gerber baby. at the top we looked desperately for the fro, but we weren't so lucky :(

we kept taking pictures of the arch with foliage in front of it.

we walked to friday's for dinner. biggest bitch for a waitress ever. we asked her to separate our check,s and she did it on the same check...? wtf. then we asked the twelve greeters if they knew of an ice cream place. we got twelve blank dumbass stares. they told us to go to union station at market and 12th street. there was an 11th street and a 13th street but no 12th in sight. the first van and clip-on drove past us. rere and i freaked out. let the warped begin. we drove back to motel 6 and learned that st. louis' freeways are quite oddly constructed, and basically, their system is totally fucked. we stopped at the gas station to pick some stuff up and thought we saw a van and clip-on at the super 8 next to us. we investigated but didn't find anything. since we were bored, we decided to drive around the pavilion and check it out.

SURPRISE! all the buses were there. we drove around and saw the english dude from the drive-thru tent. that's about all we saw. then we went and got dq and then drove back around. rere saw matt from tsl. meow. back at the hotel, we called seth but ended up talking to tyler. he said seth talks about us a lot. kinda creepy, but it's cool. we made our presents for the next day. fruit snacks for shawn (elmo waving and shouting "hi shawn! greetings from chapakapawaparoi!") and ummm a marta pass from atlanta with a picture of nate and spencer holding hands and their names drawn in a heart. heheheh....are you laughing or just weirded out?

now get ready for the worst morning ever!

it started out with being woken up at 5:57 followed by six more times and complimented by LOUD talking outside the window. we got up around 9:30 and got ready to go. first we parked at a gas station like everybody else. we made our way to the venue in the heat. then we watched everybody turn around since there were threats in the air about towing cars. so we moved ours. the boy with the flag flagged us to keep going...so we pulled into the last parking place and the lady said it was $20 and we'd already passed the $10 parking. i wanted to fucking cut that fuckin' flagger with a razor blade. we drove all the way around again and parked. i told maria, "you know we're not going to be on the list, right??" were we on the list? oh hell no. the one girl was really nice about it and told us to call whoever we needed to. the other girl was the BIGGEST BITCH IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND A COMPLETE DUMBFUCK. p.s. if you can't tell by now, we did not like st. louis or anybody in it. she didn't even have the matches list. grrr. i called tony. no answer. we waited for awhile and gave up. we bought the tickets and went to wait in line. ring-a-ling...tony calls. he was like, "you bought tickets?! you didn't have to do that! i'm so sorry...uhh i'm sorry!" i was like, "well come out and get us on the list, and we'll sell them." he said he'd call back in five, but then i saw him walking out front, so i jumped all up in his grill. we went over to the girl and he was like, "these two are on the list." she was so mean like, "you were supposed to send me your list at 7 p.m. two days ago!" he said he did and he pointed to the e-mail address on the sheet and was like, "this address, right?!" she was still being mean. he tried to tell her to just give us two tickets, and we'd then sell the ones we bought. she was like, "i can't give them their money back." i got at eye level with her and broke it down like you would to a pre-schooler, "we just bought two tickets, but since we're supposed to be on the list, you give us two tickets, and we'll go sell the ones we already bought." with an air of attitude she replied, "i don't care if you do that!" DID I FUCKING ASK YOU IF YOU CARED ABOUT MY MORALITY?! GIVE ME THE MOTHER FUCKING TICKETS. so she did and all was well. well, some fourteen year old intensely questioned us about the validity of the ticket. jesus christ, give me your money.

finally, we were in. we went to the bored. oh shit the last worst bit of the days: we missed the t's. the number one band maria wanted to see, we missed. i felt so bad, but as the trooper she is, we stayed positive. we ventured to the volcom stage aka home and watched the actual (the band from the udf after columbus warped). jeremy waved at us and tried to throw us a free cd but failed miserably. either way, we're in. we waited during the next band for hipv. ooh snap. rob was wearing the most adorable shirt. he was out of control funny. "come on st. louis, wake the fuck up!" joe looked at me confused, and i got nervous. he kneeled on the stage in front of us and sang, "i won't let you let me go." it was pretty intense. if he sang that, it means they played "top five addictions", and you know how i feel about that song! there was a lot of reo grabbing.

look at the cowboy boot!

we forgot what we wanted to see next, so we walked back to the board. during hipv my phone rang, but i didn't answer, obviously. i checked my messages, and tony left one saying they had a signing at 3:30 and perhaps we could help out. eeek! we ran into jeremy and got hugs and FREE cds. hell yeah. we stopped by the actual tent and polska was like, "maria and...." it's cool. rere likey polskie so it was quite exciting. then we saw mon mon and tony in the matches tent. tony was like, "have you met monica?" monica was like, "oh, we go way back." oh hell yeah! he said maybe we could carry a sign around the area of the signing. we were sketched out by it, but we were like okay whatever. he asked us who else we wanted to see around that time. we were like, "it's cool, we want to help." then i said, "i mean, they don't even know my name, but i just want to be apart of the team." tony was like, "oh they'll know your name, and you're definitely on the team." hehehehe! p.s. we kinda love tony. we said we'd see them at 3:30 and headed towards the t's tent. hello tom higginson. we said we missed the set. he said a lot of people did. he was semi-friendly, so we left and got smoothies and went to watch the starting line. kenny's grandma had died so he dedicated "ready" to her. the wind blew, and rere and i decided it was her spirit. i love you, kenny! we took a little break and sat on the hill overlooking the ernie ball stage. all of a sudden, a dashing young man in a bowler hat walked by. oh shawn harris. we headed down to the epitaph tent for the signing. the boys were already at work and tony wasn't around. mon mon said there weren't that many people and we probably didn't have to hold the sign. she saw the sadness in my eyes and suggested we take the mailing list and heartcore clothing flyers and hit up people by the tent. maria asked her about the flyers and learned that they don't just wear the clothing, they sew or tear it. we went to the end of the line, and as people left with their posters, we hit them up hardcore. it was pretty fucking hysterical. i was all up in their grill, "hey you look cool. the matches are obviously cool, get on their mailing list!" then re would jump in, "and here's a flyer for their clothing line. they either wear it sewn or torn!" then we'd tell them to go to the volcom stage at 7:20 or head over to the merch tent and pick up some shit. we did a fabulous job. justin weaved his head through some people and waved frantically. then shawn got in there and waved at us. justin also laughed at our gorilla style promotional tactics. i fuckin love justin. tony came over and told us to try and recruit people to come over. we did that too. it was pretty much amazing. then we met kurt from epitaph. he shook my hand. i tried to pull back so he could shake maria's. he grabbed mine and said to her, "let's shake like a group hug!" apparently kurt is "the man", but we just think he's a creep. haha. all of a sudden, tom from the t's comes over and starts trying to peddle out cds. i walked over to him and was like, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? this is our territory, get out!" we all laughed. as the last girl got her matches poster signed, she began to listen to the t's. i was waiting for her to be done and sign up on the mailing list when shawn left the tent and came over. hello sir!

it was roughly a 20 to 25 minute conversation held between myself, re, and shawn harris. it was quite fantastic, indeed. i was like, "do you remember playing a show in charleroi? well we call it 'chapakapalaparoi'." he goes, "me too." so then i gave him the fruit snacks and he laughed and remembered the whole story behind it. he burst into them right then and there and freaked out cause they had, "100% of [his] vitamin c!" we said we also got shrek ones, which led to talking about the gingerbread man, which led to him talking about the stinky cheese man book (one of my favorites, by the way), which led to him discussing his best friend, mac's, children's story about whales, which led to him saying there's an 85% chance it'll be published and he'll do the artwork. GEEZ! then he told us how artwork and music are the same thing and how musicians don't understand that. i said i tried to trace the elmo on the bags and failed miserably. then i told the story of how my mom tells people the pot i made in tenth grade is from third grade. laughs were had all around at my expense, but it's cool. then i just lit into it, "shawn, i think by now it's time you know my name." he goes, "i know your name." oh but he didn't say it, how embarrassing. he continued, "no i do know it. i don't want you to think i don't. ohh geez i know it. i'm debating between two." so maria was like, "double l" and he goes, "ALLISON!" then he said he was between that and natalie. i was like, "natalie was my pseudo name in chicago!" okay that's something only maria and elizabeth know about, so scratch that i said that. lol my bad. shawn goes, "i said your name in oakland." i didn't remember, he was like, "by the counter!" then he said he was talking about me the night before with miles. hmm...okay. i said that i had better take the mailing list back to monica, so he walked us back to the tent. we dropped it off and decided to go watch some shit.

we met max from the actuals. as we were walking, i saw t-rav i to the s barker doing a signing. i screamed and fell to the ground. then some woman yelled at me. then we headed over to nate to hook him up with his marta pass. i told him we had something for him and he was like, "oh shit, i'm scared." he looked at it so confused and goes, "oh. it's a marta pass!" granted "marta" is written in huge letters across it, i guess i can see how he can look past that lol or not. i told him, "i found this in my wallet. now you can put it in yours and keep spencer with you wherever you go." i realize this is really fucking weird, but it's funny to be weird around nate since he's so odd. he goes, "i keep him right here," and rubbed his heart. then he goes, "make me something tomorrow!" aight. we stopped by the novella tent and what up'd rick. we told him the cd they sold us had no cd in it. they believed us and gave us a new one. well, that's after he goes, "you know the cd is clear, right?!" i was like, "i'm not that dumb, there was no cd in it!" we passed the starting line's signing, so i went and stood right in front of kenny. when he looked up i waved frantically and smiled, he waved back. then i got the balls to say hi to peaches. i confessed i was scared of him, and he said i didn't need to be. he gave us some merch tips for our upcoming tour hehehe. we talked about the early november, and he told us about their next tour. i told him to come to philly, and maria said to come to hartford. he threw his hands out and shouted, "we're going everywhere!" fabulous, i'll see you there. then we picked up gatsby's cd. i told the lead singer that i had a crush on rudy and he's hot and indian. he told us rudy's last name, which was very indian, and i told mine and he said it was beautiful. then guess who walked up again!? TOM. he got a free dvd from gastby. apparently boys in bands do that shit. we berated tom about putting us on the list for th 12th and 13th. he said to just find him and he would. then he goes, "well, if you sell this cd then i guarantee i'll put you on!" we took the cd and tried to sell it. we found ourselves under the shade of jacob's umbrella. jacob knows everybody and is really funny. he called us namedroppers. boo. he dissed hellogoodbye's short shorts. we tried to sell to these preppy girls, but it turned out they were hardcore. i made a judgment, my bad. oh joe reo, forgive us. tom came back over and yelled at us for not selling it. he said he'd still hook up the list, though. we left jacob to go watch senses fail. as we ventured to the top of the hill, i saw a guy from the t's and shouted, "hey, you're in the t's!" he was like, "yes...yes i am," and walked away.

oh how i want to do that one in the pink polo.
we met our fall out boys there. they chose to watch fob over matches. losers! we were a bit parched and hungry, so we decided to get some ice cream after senses fail. they were packing up, so we sadly asked, "are you closing up?!" he goes, "yes we are, but would you two like a free scoop??" OH HELLLLLLLLLLLLL YES. we got free fucking ice cream. then maria saw the dreads on the ernie ball stage. we checked the board...heck yeah, five speed! the band from steak 'n shake! we met their "friend" and watched them. pretty good. we left a little early to watch gatsby and rudy. drunk girls were going crazy. the lead singer was quite the dancer.

we made our way back to the volcom stage, told monica we were getting ready, and got up front for the matches. jon was stretching like a wild man. they did really well. they gave us a choice of "december is for cynics" and "jack slap cheer". jack slap won, and re was excited! jon sang the guitar part from one of the songs into the mic. i was dying.

some girl was crying from excitment, and shawn jumped down afterwards and gave her a hug. it was so nice. we said bye to monica and the actual, and they wished us a safe drive. we past hipv's tent again and said hey to rob. we told him he was super funny. he goes, "i try." he told us to have a safe drive, and we headed off. the girl at wendy's was mean. fuck st. louis. hello kansas!

the guy at the next hotel was like, "i can't say your room number out loud on account of security reasons." nobody was there, and it was two in the morning. it's cool.

kansas's pavilion was set amongst a rocky, dirt parking lot. the mean ticket girl wasn't around, so we went to the top of the hill. they told us to go back down. we couldn't find her or anyone! so we asked this event guard, tony (call him kansas tony), for help. he called over his radio for a golf cart to take us to the other side. then he goes, "keep in touch, i don't want to lose track of you." oh okay, we won't let you lose track of us! he came over like five minutes later and was like, "i'm going to take you." we were personally escorted inside warped...no ticket, no bag check, just tony. i wanted to just ditch him. we passed the matches tony. i was like, "tony, you want to come with in case the girl is a bitch." he goes, "oh i checked, she got the e-mail." hell yeah. then we couldn't find her. kansas tony goes, "well, as far as i can see, you're in." i was like, "tony, what are you saying? you're just going to...leave us here?" he goes, "as far as i can tell, you're in." after a hug and high fives...we were officially in warped.

we decked it over to hipv. rob was amazing again, "alright homies, it's time to get down!" the show was in bonner springs, but joe reo asked, "alright, who here is from boner springs?! that's AWESOME!" yeah joe reo, i bet your boner springs everytime you look a picture of mary magdeline meooooooooow. joe looked dapper in a pinstripped button down. p.s. good thing texas was out this year since the lord is getting in touch with daddy as he flies high in the sky back home for his bff's wedding. perhaps he's looking for a date?! they played "top five addictions" and "in memory". crazy. after the set, we what up'd the actual and mon mon. it was so hot, people were moving really slowly. we walked around and gave nate his next present. oh yeah, i drew an amazing picture of nate, spencer, rere, and allie's day of fun. first we woke up, then we played on swings, ate a picnic lunch, sailed on a swan boat, went to the zoo, an elephant grabbed spencer and nate was sad, joe reo saved spencer, rob made everybody dinner, then we hopped on the marta and went to a giving up goodbye show where nate was on drums and spencer was on merch. it was pretty amazing. every five seconds while reading it, he'd be like, "haha that's awesome....haha that's awesome!" i told him i was the brown stick figure, he said, "haha that's awesome!" i've never seen nate show that much enthusiasm into anything before in my life. pretty amazing.

we watched senses fail, and rere saw some eight year old going crazy. she'll apparently never forget it in her life. we walked by jacob, and he freaked out screaming, "these are the girls from yesterday!" we walked by peaches and said hi. he laughed at my shirt or my boobs. we're not sure which. we love peaches. we headed over to catch the t's. we watched tsunami bomb first, then we had to withstand from first to last, and then the t's came on. they did a spectacular job. tom waved at us. dave was angry. tim was out of control. you know how his chiseled body moves in violent jerks, it's scary. and his shirt had a nakie lady riding a gun on it. it was just all overwhelming. all of a sudden, he come over and violently throws his arm out and points at me. i was so scared. i think i sunk down behind maria. eeek! during "my only one", tom went and stood next to dave and pointed between the two of them suggesting that dave is his only one. awww how adorable! some kid wanted "fireworks", and tom wanted to play it, but demar shook his head and carried on with the list. jerk.

we scooted over for the matches. this time i was on jon's side. i hadn't been there for awhile. they had a lot of technical problems, so jon was very angry. shawn grabbed himself a lot. they did a really good job. tony saw me going crazy. how embarrassing. they sang the new song i don't know, i didn't like that. they also said they had to leave early cause somebody in mbr was having surgery the next day. we bolted over to the tent after the set. only monica was there, so we went and talked to tom. he had really bad allergies. we were like, "just don't forget the 12th and the 13th." he acted like he'd try to remember, so maria just goes, "no you have to remember! doyourememberina-townwhenyounudgedsomegirl?" tom was like, "when i rubbed some girl???!!" i was like, "break it down, maria." so she slowly and more clearly told the whole story of when we snuck off to atlanta to say hi to the matches but how we ran into tom and had a conversation. he was laughing and goes, "i don't know what you're talking about!" hahah maria talked about that so much like it was so cool, and he didn't even remember. then we were like, "so are you going to remember us or not?!" he nodded, and i think he will. then we saw shawn and mon at the tent. we walked over. we told monica we were sad to leave. she was like, "is this your last day?!" it was very sad. we went to say bye to shawn, but he was swarmed with girls. some dude at the tent next to them wanted us to listen to their cd. i was like, "fine but i'm not going to buy it." he was like, "whoa with the attitude!" so we apologized and said it had been a long day and we had like $20 to get us back to ohio and all that. we ended up saying we'd see them in cleveland...maybe. shawn turned around and goes, "what's up, allison?!" then he looked at maria and called her becky. he tried guessing and failed miserably. i started singing (yes singing, in front of shawn), "i just met a girl named..." he still didn't know. i was like, "don't you know west side story!?" he said no. shawn's bad. then we told him her name and he said i should have sang a counting crows song. rere freaked out cause she's obsessed with them and he said they are too. a connection! i said we weren't going to see them until cleveland! he goes, "can you believe that that's a month away!?" no i can't, and i don't want to think about it. i told him that i want to hear "staying inside the lines", and he said maybe they'll post a version of him singing it in the shower on the message board for a day. look out for that! we whipped out the fruit snacks and he goes, "ohhh you guys are the best!" he opened them and got his vitamin c. he asked us who else we wanted to see, and we told him we were heading down to catch the actual. he came over and kissed my cheek. i was taken back a bit. then he did the same to maria and said, "we're doing this british style!" yay for shawn! monica came over and hugged us and thanked us for all the help. we didn't really, but we did give her company. you know how we do. i turned around, and the sketchy kid from the band at the next tent was like, "see you in cleveland!" see you in hell, creep.

we ran down for the actual set. polska was taping it and caught us frantically waving at him and the guys. i was trying to wave to justin in the background, but he didn't see me...or chose to ignore me. we headed back to catch my chemical romance. maria liked what gerard said about girls not showing boys their "tits". we said bye to jacob. he gave us high fives and told us to find him on myspace. as we were leaving, we walked past the matches tent again and shawn was sitting there eating. we waved and kept going. he said bye to us by name, that is! i didn't see him say bye, but then he leaned back and caught my eye and was like, "bye allison!" i'm kind of obsessed with them.

it took forever and a day to get out. we went to eat at ihop. my first time, and i didn't get pancakes. we texted tony, "thanks for all your help, tony. we had a fabulous time and felt like part of the team! allison & maria". two minutes later we got a text back, "right on ladies. take care and keep in touch." HELL YEAH. we played in some stores before heading home. we had a 30 minute discussion of the day while sitting in chairs at bed, bath, and beyond. then we found those squish pillows. they had some shaped like signs that said "stop", "do not enter", and "no trespassing". i put the last two in front of my crotch. hahaha then i grabbed the "stop" one, and i burst into "stop" by the t's and held up the pillow when the word "stop" came up. it was funny. we went to old navy and popped some baby's collars.

then we met some girl at famous footwear and told her to check out the matches. she said if we ever come back to kansas city, we have to come say hi. she was cool. back at the hotel, we called seth. my phone is fucked up. he called twice, and it didn't show up. that's not the first time that's happened either. p. fucking s. miles (matches manager) has apparently been watching my former self and will hopefully (i'm trying to get him to do it as well) book them with the matches at slims in san fran on august 27th. HOW FUCKING FABULOUS WOULD THAT BE!? fucking fabulous. we told seth we want our doors held open for us and we want the half stand. he was so sketched out and said, "i'll run it by the guys, but i can't guarantee anything." hahahah

the drive home wasn't bad at all. i was stretching at a gas station, and you know how you close your eyes when you stretch? well, when i brought my arm down, i socked a small child in the chest. i felt awful. then we finally found a bag of flipz! the west just doesn't have them like cali doesn't have red sun chips. boo. we got stuck in traffic and had a funny conversation about baby deryck. baby deryck is the baby i had in the nine month obsession with dave. well, by the time i see dave again (perhaps this summer..perhaps on august 27th at slims) baby deryck will be a toddler, we decided. so i'm going to be like, "go on toddler deryck, waddle to your father!!" yeah we're weird like that. since maria likes dave from the t's, we're having a double wedding. it's going to be, "maria and allison, do you take the daves?" and we'll be like, "OH HELL YEAH!"sung like in "tipsy." maria took notes of the trip for easier live journaling, and she forgot the part about the pillows in bed, bath, and beyond. i was like, "well, that's when we were in the beyond." i dunno, she thought it was funny and put it in the notes, so i inculded it.

fun trip. it sucks to be home. we miss the family.

if you read that all, you deserve a prize. i'll buy cheese fries!

she's going to look so beautiful walking down the aisle...

2005-06-20T03:13:00Z

june 18, 2005 should just go down in history.

the day started out with bob evan's cinnamon pancakes. how can a day that starts out that good go wrong? well, it can't, so don't worry. the day continued on after getting ready, maria finding her lost skirt, and then discovering FREE parking. hallelujah!

once inside, maria and i roamed the tents, wrote down times of bands, and then ventured to find the matches tent. you probably don't know, but i love their merch girl monica. she's so awesome. she was like, "i didn't know you'd be at the first one!!" ohhh hells yeah. they had a mesh screen at the back of the tent. i saw justin and shawn drawing on something behind the tent on the lawn. i was talking to monica and telling her how i made the shirt that was too small for my boobs into a sweatshirt when i saw justin in the corner of my eye standing right at the mesh screen waving frantically. i love that boy, he's so adorable. i didn't see shawn wave, but apparently he did. we got some flyers to pass out and set out to begin our day. first we said hey to nate and spencer. i bought punk goes 80's hells yeah. spencer had the magazine, so i explained to maria what it was, and nate told us where to go get them, but then gentleman spencer just gave us his. fabulous.

we walked around listening to bands, visiting booths, and passing out flyers. shawn's artwork in the fuse tents is insanely good. seriously, check it out and admire the talent. then we hit up the all american rejects...JUST TO LAUGH AND THINK OF OUR YOUTHS. maria listened to underoath for awhile. she didn't like them, but she thought spencer was cute. we ran into rob. he was wearing a sweater in the god awful heat. we watched matchbook romance, and by watched, i mean saw absolutely nothing. but we got some pretty good spots to enjoy kenny and his amazing voice which gave me goosebumps even in the heat. ooh kenny.

we started making our way to the volcom stage when we ran into tori. there was already a crowd waiting for the matches. then i saw it: bryce. bryce the fucking bastard from california. i'm not really sure why he's on the tour, and i kinda hate him with all my soul. not to mention he plays bass for dave when he has a full band. so it just made me sad. grrrr. i was kind of on the side, but i was so ready to go fucking nuts. and i did go fucking nuts. the boys did so well. jon was bleeding. it was out of control. justin laughed at me cause i was out of control. besides not hearing "staying inside the lines", it was a great set. i was so impressed by the response from the crowd. as we were leaving, i ran into jon and he gave me a hug. let's just say he got sweat all over my face and i was disgusted.

maria and i headed towards the smartpunk stage and caught the end of gatsby's american dream. p.s. the drummer is indian. we found out from their merch guy that his name is rudy, or as i named him, rudy the cutie.

re and i had some time to kill so we got smoothies and spied on the t's. that got boring, so we started walking to go see what was going on at the main stage. all of a sudden, i felt a tap on my shoulder. i turned around and it was justin! steve and southern kid were with him. steve was like, "so i want to hear all about it." i was like, "all about what?" and he said imusicast. so i said it was kind of boring but a good experience. then i looked at justin and said, "i mean you saw what i had to do." he was like, "yeah, he made her tape out all these names in this legal document." i decided to tell justin how bryan then said he couldn't understand the files, so i had to finish taping, copy, take off all the tape, and re-copy before i was finished with that task. he was like, "that's so stupid. bryan's so stupid." basically nobody likes bryan. it's true. then i was like, "so justin, i'm having this problem with the fact that i can't get 'staying inside the lines' out of my head. today i was drying my hair and trying to sing what i could remember when i looked up and maria was laughing at me. basically, i'm going to need you guys to play that soon so i can try and learn more of it." steve was like, "so that was the song you heard them record?!" and i was like, "no no. that was a different song. that is a song that nobody but me," then i turned and said to justin, "or anybody you have played it for has heard!" he was like, "we haven't even heard the product yet!" but then he said "johnny genius" and it made me miss imusicast's people. p.s. i love justin.

the day continued to be amazing because re and i saw this band's merch tent that we had been following around all day. welcome to the obsession with...novella. major hotties, yo. the cd blew, but we bought it anyways since they're from st. louis and are playing that show. ohhh we'll be there, you know how we do. nice guys. anna came over and said something about nate. he had been with some chick all day, and i turned towards his tent to make a crack about him, but guess what. he was already staring in our direction. i was like, "oh shit!" and he smiled and waved. so we went over there and i was like, "i was about to say something about you getting it on with that girl before you saw me..." i thought he said to anna that from first to last was the best band, so i stared with evil eyes at him for like four minutes. he was confused, but then anna cleared up the misunderstanding. since nate is so odd sometimes, i realized it's just fun to be odd back. i was like, "you know nate, i'm gonna eventually have to buy that cat shirt someday!" he didn't know what i was talking about, since it was a joke with myself apparently at the toledo show, but it cracked me up so that's all i care about. hahahahah

we headed down to watch hipv. i went crazy again. joe reo looked over, i was flailing my arms, and i smacked maria. MY BAD. sooo funny. we stayed up there while bleed the dream went on to wait for the t's. the t's did really well. tom's shirt was pretty much amazing. tim's sexual antics and woman-beating guitar gyrations were out of control. bryce was standing on the side. he kept looking at me because i know with our two nasty encounters, he recognized me. fuck off.

we went to say bye to monica. matt gave me a high five. shawn was looking hotttt. he asked me how the internship went, and i asked about their trip. i told him his eyebrow was bleeding. he was like "where? where? oh well." then he put his hand on my head and moved it so he could try and see his reflection in my glasses. he couldn't. i told him i was doing some promotion for them and he grabbed my arm and was like, "thank you sooo much." you're welcome so much. p.s. i love you all!

i said bye to rob and told him about st. louis and kansas. he was like, "really!?" i was like, "you know how i do." he gave me a hug and said "nice to see you." i looked over joe's shoulder to see what he was doing but got bored and decided to head down to see fall out boy. we were too tired, so we left.

we got amazing pizza and rented clue. not too far into the movie did we receive a call from seth. he was like, "hello ohio." it was adorable. august merch sales is definitely on. i'm sooo stoked. then he goes, "when we get home, we're getting your addresses and sending you shirts and stuff for all your help!" and he told us to call whenever we can so we can talk to all the guys who are apparently really excited. not as much as us! eek! we decided swinging was in order, but before we got there, we saw a van and clip on. we pulled into the lot and as the guys walked out, i stuck myself out of the sunroof and said, "i just wanted to say that we hope you enjoyed your first day on tour and have a safe drive to milwaukee." hahahah they said thanks and came over and introduced themselves. they're playing st. louis and kansas, soooooooo everyone should check out the actuals. jeremy and polska for life! we drove to polaris and watched all the buses file out and drive westward onto the next city. to conclude the amazing day, we swung and discussed the amazingess of this summer. amazing.

but wait it gets better! i e-mailed miles to tell him about my promotional work and to ask about getting on the list, here's what i got back:

What a fantastic report, Allison. We so appreciate what you did.

I'm cc-ing this to Matches' new tour manager, Tony, and to Josh, Matches' new
volunteer coordinator. They'll be in touch about any possible comps.

I heard from Tony by phone tonight a similar appraisal of the Columbus' crowd
response. It seems the Matches had a big turn out of fans familiar with their
music.

The myspace contact you did was a brilliant idea -- and a lot of work. Way to
go.

Along with pursuing myspace promotion for upcoming shows and similar stuff, it
might be interesting to see what you'd get back if you emailed to find out if
any of the Columbus myuspace fans unfamiliar with the Matches saw their set on
your recommendation (and what they thought).

Thanks.

Best,
-Miles

okay now that doesn't answer my question about getting on the list. i decided i'd have to call this tony guy who is their new tour manager (p.s. he's also asian)...but oh wait, i didn't have to:

Hey Allison -
I'm putting you plus one for the St Louis show...if any problems, call me. Also, email me about Kansas if you plan on going.

best,

Tony

KANSAS HERE WE COME!!

i have "staying inside the lines" stuck in my head

2005-06-19T05:19:47Z

so basically the last couple of days have been pretty much amazing.

i went over to anna's and we headed to pick up chrissy. on the way i told the entire dave story and played with disney princess gummi bracelets. they were pretty sick/tasted really well. we got to headliners and hung out in the car while watching hipv boys change clothes. num nums.

once inside, we headed over towards the merch tables to say hello to young nate and attractive rob. nate's hair and new nose ring were out of control. anna figured out that he looks like jimmy neutron. we got rob hugs and then looked at the new merch. i thought i saw a cat on a shirt so i said that. nate was like, "umm that's a tiger." so i said "cat, tiger, they're all apart of the same cat family." that's right, i'm funny.

joe reo walked up to anna and said he liked her hair and made a sizzling sound. it was pretty much amazing. anna and i went up right before they started setting up. some girl asked me to take a picture of spencer's drums...wtf?! so they played amazingly, all my favorite songs but "the chaser". joeseph reo and i made eye contact three times and one of the times it was for an extended period. he grabbed himself quite a lot. i likey! rob was spinning with his adorable short hair. i like the new hair p.s. this obnoxious girl crowd surfed onto the stage. joe kept saying "be careful" and she just kept being like, "what? oh my god, look at me!" it was rigoddamndiculous. then a little boy came up, and rob stopped playing and pulled him safely on stage. he ran off and marcos let him watch from the side. at the end, marcos shooed him to go run and stage dive. it was hysterical.

we stood by merch after the set and after some creepster harassed anna. boo. joe reo came over and called anna hot shit. then he looked at chrissy like he wasn't as familiar with her and they introduced themselves to each other. then he looked at me. i was like, "you better know who i am." he said he did and then said, "hello beautiful!" and put his arm around my back. i said it was sweaty, and he said his was too and turned around for me to rub it. ohhh allie likey! then we went over and talked to spencer, but he was packing up shit. i talked to the little kid from the stage. he was 12. he wasn't excited to talk to me. i was like, "you should be glad i'm talking to you. i'm an older woman with huge boobs!" he was like, "yeah...i can see." fucking bastard. thennn we got yelled at outside. then we said hi to rob freeman. i said that i liked his new hair and that he still has a hint of his bangs to sweep off his beautiful face. we were talking and i said heck yeah, and he said, "hell yeah" so i repeated that, and he was like "hells yeah", and then i was uncontrollably laughing. outside we talked a lot to spencer. he wasn't feeling well. at one point joe reo walked up, and i asked the two how europe was. they said it was amazing. i asked if they went to prague, and joe said no like he really wanted to and asked if i had been. i said yes, it's beautiful, and it was special cause i'm czech. joe was like, "are you really?" so i said i was english, czech, and indian and he was like, "right on" and spencer said, "i knew it all along." haha it was funny. thennnnnnnnnn spencer lifted his shirt, and the way i was positioned, i could see inside his dirty spot. i totally freaked out, and then i had to tell the whole story of my fear of bellybuttons. i got made fun of. it was an amazing night. p.s. spencer mentioned that rob tried to get him to do pilates with him. eeek!

friday night i got fucking trashed. hehehehe rere and luke and i hit the bottle, yo. then liz drove us to stalk boys. first we drove by and saw peter weintz. i screamed, he saw, it was funny. then we drove to polaris, back to re's to get more booze, then back to all the hotels where we saw: KENNY FROM THE STARTING LINE. i opened my car door while moving and screamed, "KENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY!!!" then we went to steak n shake and met jason and some guy from some "five" or something shit band. the hottie with the dreads was like, "how much did you drink tonight?" then i gave jason a hug, and he said he'd come watch the matches at warped. we drove back to the hotels and went into a few. as we left, we saw garrett from senses fail. then we laid on a grassy knoll before deciding to call it a quite successful night. successful indeed. we pulled out, and i waved at some boy who waved back at me. he looked awfully familiar. i was like, "shit...is that JUSTIN?!" so liz stopped the car, i got out and was like, "who are you?!" he didn't answer. i started running toward him and then i saw a fro bouncing towards me. i screamed, "OH HELL NO!" and practically leaped into justin's arms. soooo funny. we talked, i mentioned drinking, and jon was like, "YOU'RE FUCKING TRASHED!" and gave me a high five. p.s. i wasn't at that point. i was wearing my matches hoodie that i made, and they liked it, and i said i made it because the t-shirt was too small for my boobs. then i said that i had lunch with miles and i was promoting them. jon was like, "yeah, i heard about that." somewhere in there, i randomly got another high five. after talking for a bit about getting on lists and such, i told justin to get some sleep and not be stupid like me and that i'd see him bright and early the next day. he was like, "yeah, too early, but i'll see you tomorrow!" i was walking back to the car, but he put his arms out, so i gave him another hug. i can't fucking believe i ran into them.

lizzie is off to europe :( bye bye madeline!

oh sigh

2005-06-16T04:35:19Z

tonight at vic's there was a dark haired boy playing acoustic named dave. whyyyy???

other than that, i saw madagascar today. it was funny. and i sent pretty much everybody on myspace in columbus a message to come watch the matches on saturday. i got some sketchy, weird shit back.

hipv tomorrow.

this is boring, don't even read it.

2005-06-14T01:51:52Z

i wrote this awhile ago about my last bit of california:
my last couple of days at iMusicast were boring. i had lunch with the matches manager, miles, and that was really interesting. he finally asked, "well the reason i wanted to meet with you is because you seem like a very smart girl and you can write well, so if you'd like to try and help us promote the matches on the web, that'd be great." i said sure why not. he was really nice and asked me personal questions and tried to get to know me. when i got out of his car, he rolled down the window and was like, "i forgot to ask, where are you going to college? keep in touch and all, let me know about job possiblities and everything." i really like him and i learned a lot about the matches.

i'm really going to miss talking to tim every day. we just sit around and trash bryan. it's fun. he kept saying, "who am i going to complain to when you're gone?" bye bye tim :( when he left on the last day he was like, "give us a hug!" us....? bryan was like, "don't be a stranger. bye." BYE MOTHER FUCKER BYE. hahahah

ca was a good time.

graduation:

graduation came and went. see ya in hell, csg. it went pretty well. parites were overwhelming but fun. i could write more, but i'm lazy. i don't even know the point of this post.

ohh yeah did i ever mention that i love seth? well i do. and random summer fun. i love that too. that's all.

whoa!

2005-06-09T02:06:39Z

i graduate tomorrow. after fourteen years at csg, i finally graduate. surreal.

fuck live journal

2005-06-07T03:57:36Z

i just typed something up and it fucked up.

i'm behind. it's a crazy, hot mess up in this joint. i'm home and very busy, actually. my pals rock :) sleepover with anna which included basically creepy wendy's, carnivals, and rats/small dogs at vic's with liz and re. out of control...just like the phrase.

graduation practices/parties are oozing out of my ass. my aunt is here, and it's already a disaster. i might call you to save me.

road trip to la!

2005-06-01T04:28:36Z

oh road trips. we headed down to la early saturday morning. i found some wind energy machines, and i FREAKED OUT. i took about 983479287342017847 pictures of them. why? don't ask, i'm allison.

it was a nice scenery change from the midwest sites.

uhhh jesus is everywhere?

i took over for kati, but i did a really bad driving her car. we started talking nor cal speak: "hella" and "skrill". we made up our own, "skrilla" is like an std or something creepy. so start using it.

then we got into la, checked into our hotel (the adventurer inn!) next to freeman street and got ready. we headed to the el rey to try and figure out the show thing.

it ended up being no biggie, and we got tickets. maria and i drank cause you know that's how we do.

uhhh no comment

once i started feeling it, i started being really open. i saw both zach and jacob across the way and shouted their names and waved. chad from tai came by, and i just started running my mouth about naming my boobs butchie and tony since they're always together. he was like, "i can't really understand you, but that's cool." it was so funny. i said i was a little gone, and he said he was too. i what up'd keith from days away. we got up to get our tickets, and tony was there. i looked at him and said, "i've seen your nipple." what. the. fuck. he communicates with his eyes. they got kind of big and he like shook his head like sweet. maria interjected, "and i have a huge crush on adam t. siska but shhh don't tell!" he said he wouldn't. then i looked at him and said, "we need to talk later." he gave a little eye flicker and shook his head. we got in and found a place to stand on the left. we may have seen adam with lindsay, but ria was very mature about it. we went to get a drink and met this really creepy sketcher, jeff coen, during days away. he was really sketch. maria and i were standing by the academy poster, and i kissed butchie. jeff walks up and is like, "did you just kiss that?" so then we started talking. the conversation was very interesting. we kept hinting to the fact that we just really wanted him to go buy us some more booze, and i even took his drink and started drinking from it. maria was being really open, as was myself. we ended up asking if he thought we were attractive girls. not if he was attracted to us, but you know, what do you think of us? he was like, "uhh yeah. i mean, don't you have a mirror? how do you get ready without a mirror?" nicely played, my friend. somehow my rack ended up getting into the conversation. he was like, "well the left one is higher, and you need to pull your shirt down a little more. there it is: cleavage." what a fucking creep. so then somehow we were like, "well how do we talk to boys?" he told us to have confidence and touch a lot. then he started demonstrating the touching of the sides and arms and stuff. ewww. THEN he was like, "or you could do this." then he started kissing my cheek and neck, and then he drew his finger down my neck, and then he pulled my sweater off of my shoulder so that my bra and tank straps were exposed. now this all sounds really creepy and violating, which it was, but at the time it was so funny at how ridiculous this kid was. he was obsessed with facebook and was stupid and thought he was so cool, and he clearly wasn't. then he goes, "i'm gonna go pee and then buy you guys drinks." ha. ha. ha. i turned around, and he was talking to some other girl. maria and i were dying. that kid was the lamest piece ever. we went back in and watched jamison parker. they were better this time. the academy did well. william jumped into the crowd and then fell when he got back on stage. he was pissed. tony and butchie looked amazing!

ride that!

we sat upstairs for mae. i fell asleep for the first half an hour. i may not have mentioned that i'm sick and i like got my period again. i was a hot mess. after my little nap, i felt so much better. in fact, i was rocking out to mae hardcore. i had a lot of fun.

towards the end, we were in the little lobby, and william walked by in just his blazer, and i shouted, "hey i need to tell you something!" he draws his finger from his chest straight down to his pants and said, "but first, i have to pee." no you fucking didn't, you fucking funny-ass, drunk bastard. when he came back out, he got BOMBARDED. some girl pushed him against the wall. some girl ran up and started running her fingers through his hair. the cameras were flashing. some girl grabbed his hand and was like, "you're amazing. you're just amazing!" he kept trying to inch over to us, but there was no use. some girl grabbed him and said, "you're gorgeous!" i was laughing so hard. oh shit. so he came over. i pointed to maria and me and said we were from ohio. he pointed and nodded cause i had just said it on wednesday. on wednesday he told this story about their accident in pennsylvania, but i wanted to tell mine. i tried to tell it to him. he would listen, say he couldn't hear and bend down to my mouth, and then i had to tell it again. he made no emotion about the whole thing....so it ended up being, "so i guess...my story is just better than yours." hahah it was so fucking funny. i really wanted to tell him about the dave thing and see if he had any ideas of how to act and rub his tummy for luck. why? i don't know, maria and i thought it would be so funny. it ended up going down and he was like, "well i like girls who aren't really all over me." i said that i was leaving and would never see him again, so he said to just go for it and made like a clicking gun thing with his fingers. okie dokie. he was out of control. the whole thing was hysterically funny.

we headed over to the merch. tony looked at me and nodded, so i was like "i saw somebody the other day that made me think of you." i tried to explain imusicast and the matches and everything and how i saw chris and thought of tony because when they were both drunk at the lucky boys confusion show where chris showed me tony's nipple. he was like, "i remember that." i started talking again and stopped and was like, "wait, you remembered that?" and he said yes. so we started talking about them and chris. chris went to south by southwest, apparently. chad said cock and tony slapped him in a don't-say-that-in-front-of-ladies kind of way. so adorable. he is such a cutie. chad is hysterical. i said hi to zach and he was like, "we told them to not let you in!" hahah tricked you. i tried to find jacob, but some guy was like, "you need to leave!" i said i was from ohio, give me one second. he was like, "i don't care where you're from. you could be from england. go!" but then i saw jacob and said that i got in. he was like, "you're sneaky, i like it!!" i said i was the shit pretty much. hahaha he walked out with me and then maria and i waited while kati went to get cookies for tai. she went to give them to butcher, and oh shit. that's when it happened. i started talking and talking and talking to the butcher. hardcore. i was like, "you probably know this, but i think you're pretty cute, i mean everybody does, and i've always been afraid to talk to you." he was like, "don't be. i think we've had this conversation before?" uhh no. but i did say that he usually acts like he knows, but i'm not going to be afraid of him anymore. he was like, "santi." and we were like wtf is that shit?! he goes, "have you seen my new tattoo?" we said no, so he turns around and pulls his pants down exposing the tattoo, however, i was staring at his ass. i yelled, "i just saw your ass!" and he said, "i know." then he explained santi and how it's like the timon and pumba phrase that i can't spell. i said "my favorite movie is aladdin," and then i told the whole dave and how i'm seeing him tomorrow story. he was like, 'that's from lion king." yeah, but this is my real life aladdin. i told the entire story. it was hysterical. he was like, "don't worry about it. santi." then i told him about "hella" and "skrills" and "skrilla". for the second time that night, some girl said, "hella is a northern california thing! don't say that here." shut the fuck up, let it go. i coughed and he asked if i was okay. i was like, "well i have a cold. so tomorrow, we have to drive 6 hours to the show, my hair's going to be a hot mess, and i'm going to walk over to him and be like, 'i'm madly in love with you' *cough* *hack* *phlem*" then i said i'd be trippin balls, and the butcher laughed. success! he was really nice and funny. i am no longer afraid. yessss!!

we headed out, got some doughnuts, went back to that crazy ass hotel, and went to bed. funny night.

maria left and i miss her :(

2005-05-31T04:57:58Z

friday maria and i went into san francisco and had a great time! we took the bart in like pros, but then when we got off, i started going in the wrong direction. my bad. we walked over to chinatown, or as maria referred to it all day and night as "asian town". her bad.

there we got our shop on hardcore! we were buying things left and right. i mean those were some crazy ass sweet deals! little ladies kept handing ria lunch flyers. then we decided to go to coit tower. it's a nice observational deck type place and has a nice view. we walked towards it and then started a long trek up one of san francisco's famous streets. getting up wasn't too hard, but i freaked out going down. the view was really nice. we tried to take funny pictures of ourselves with the golden gate behind us. we took a little break and headed down towards the wharf. we walked along columbus street and then ran into a boat tour stop. they said $16, i said that i fucking knew a hella lot cheaper. we wanted to eat before the tour, so we had a nice lunch at a restaurant with a view of the wharf and the golden gate bridge. it was really exciting for maria since she has apparently wanted to see the bridge her whole life. we bought our $10 boat tickets, did a little more shopping, then got on the boat. some couple in front of us were from columbus. what the hell are the odds of that?!

some man was standing outside but leaning against the window to the inside part of the boat. his shirt kept blowing up. we tried to so hard to get a picture of his tummy, but we were kind of unsuccesful.

there were some hottttt with a bunch of t's foreign dudes. we had to climb down this step, and maria's skirt was blowing all around. it was a hot mess. we sat inside and watched the view. the tour guy said that if it's your first time at the bridge, you have to make a wish. maria thought about hers forever and i was like, "i didn't know that rule, so can i make a wish this time?!?" she thought that was so funny, but i'm not sure why.

when we went under the bridge, i had to get out and take pictures, then i stumbbled back in and fell on one of the hotties. he may have seen more of the girls than is legal. welcome to america, baby! maria really liked alcatraz. it was a nice tour with a great view of the city. we talked to erica, and she said after her family had dinner, we could meet up. maria and i were kind of bored and tired at that point, so we hopped on a trolley and took it down embarcadero to this ferry station stop. we thought they'd have frozen yogurt, but they only had this crappy gelato. we got these little, amazing cookies from a bakery and went out and sat on the pier. we decided that we were really tired and had nothing to do and no cash to get anywhere, so we called erica and said we were heading back to oakland. then we went to...YOGURT PARK. i go there pretty much every day. it's my obsession. then maria said she wanted to see an iMusicast show, so we headed that way. g-g-g-g-gary let us in for free cause i'm a high roller at imusicast. as we were walking, some girl said to this guy, "well they're going to yogurt park." at the same time we were both like, "oh yogurt park." it was really funny then. maria stepped in front of me, and i tripped on her, and a bum on the road was like, "look who's trippin now!" and i yelled, "shut up!" then we saw the girl who worked at sway, this store we really like, on the bus. the show was whack. it was a bunch of little kid green day wannabe bands. tamara was working so we chilled with her. she's so funny, and maria really liked her. we played mash and shit. bryan came over. it was awkward, but he was very polite. i showed her around the place and then we just really wanted to go home. i was watching concessions for tamara when some kid came over. i asked him if he had a car (Since the bus had stopped running and tyler was working) and he said he was in eighth grade. i felt so fucking old. johnny sat on one of the couches and shot me a kill-me-now look. i'm going to miss him, he's funny. tyler said he'd leave at 10, so we went out to be ready for him. fucking bastard didn't come. i called at like 10:45, and he hadn't left. i was so pissed that he just didn't call. maria thought i was overreacting, which i probably was, but it is so frustrating to not have a way to get around for weeks.

then kati called and she was pretty close to tyler's, so she just came and picked us up. we went back and i introduced maria to tyler and kati to laura. we started to make cds. i was bossing tyler around to get me stuff. i tried to tell him the story of the recording studio with the matches, and it took so long because i kept getting distracted! but it was really funny. then he wanted pizza, and i wanted to go to dave's house, so we left to do all those things. oh spying on dave is so much fun. i tried to take picutres, but it was dark. tyler was like, "we need to go because you just lit up the entire neighborhood with your flash." so we left. i kept begging all day to go to the beach. it was all i wanted. but he took us to try and have a nice view of the city instead. then i causually mentioned there's another rat in the house. tyler hates rats. like he leaves until they're dead and won't come back. he was like, "well we're not going back. i'm not going inside." so i was like, "fine, let's go to the beach!" so we got to go at like four o'clock in the morning. well, kati had been working since 6 am, so she went home and slept and we changed. then we headed towards san fran and ocean city beach. tyler did not know where he was going. maria was out of control. i have never heard her speak so much and so fast ever in my life. even though she knows tyler's in two bands and knows music and the bay area scene...

maria: "tyler, have you ever heard of a thing called warped tour?"

maria: "tyler, have you ever heard of a band called the matches?"
tyler: "uhhh...."
maria: "well, they used to be in a band called the locals. but there was a blue grass band in chicago also named that. so this guy, ev or e. von or something sued them. so they named their cd e. von dahl killed the locals! do you get it??"

i have lived with tyler for a few weeks now, do you really think he didn't know who the matches were, re?! haha it was so funny. then when a song of them came up, "tyler, have you ever heard of the band called the matches?" so fucking funny. well it was funny until she started telling him that i was pissed at him for being late, that he lived in a dirty house, and that she had yet to see laura's ugly glasses. i looked at her and said, "you just broke the code of sisterhood!" so she was running her mouth like a wild woman! it was hilarious. we got to the beach and couldn't find a way down. when we finally did, there were like two other people there. on a whole strip of ocean, all of us strangeres stood in the exact same spot. they must have been pissed. we played in the water and showed tyler prancing, but maria said i was galloping.

then we came back, i showered, it was then day time, and went to bed. i got two hours of sleep before we headed off for la.

looks like another a-town trip: every day is an adventure!!

2005-05-27T07:54:17Z

rere came today. yippee! i went to pick her up and got there super early. way to go, tyler, telling me i had to be there all early. bastard. i ate some food, shopped in the gift shop, and then i called miles. here's the story. miles is the matches manager and he helped me find my internship. he sent bryan an e-mail asking what happened to me. i sent him one thanking him for the opportunity he helped me find. he sent one back saying we should meet and he'd be in the studio with the matches on thursday. great! the day i'm taking off. i said maybe maria and i could stop by. he said to call him that day. so we talked and he said he had to see how they were setting up the studio and maybe only one of us could watch, but he'd call in awhile. i said cool. i made a sign that said "mia siska" and wrote out some postcards. when maria was walking to the baggage claim, i held my sign and started shouting, "mia siska? is there a mia siska here? she's really important, and i'm her driver." she was laughing pretty hard. she gave me my matches bag that elizabeth made me. it's so amazing. oh my god. we got her bags and got on the airbart to take us to the bart station. miles called me back, said to come down in a half hour, and only one of us could go in for like twenty minutes. maria was really cool with the whole thing. we got on the bart and got hounded by a creep. welcome to cali, rere. then some children got on. these kids were crazy. this hot one was holding onto some girl where boobs will be one day. we think they're dating. then his friend was getting pissed cause i mean, come on, bros before hoes. it was the funniest shit.

"hey dude, you wanna play jacks?
"what the fuck man? ditch that bitch!
it took us like an hour to get there, i was getting stressed, and i told maria to stop asking me question because i needed to relax. my bad.

i rang the bell, and ryan came to the door and let me in. jon, justin, and shawn were all in the control room as i walked in. shawn turned to see who was at the door and then he gave me the head nod and a seductive wave. justin waved too. eek! i introduced myself to miles and sat down to watch. it was seriously the coolest thing. the recording process is awesome. matt was in the other room, but my three favorite were like a foot away from me singing and playing a brand new song. they did a couple takes. shawn was singing the words quietly, since they were just taping the instruments, and it was beautiful. then he got crazy and fell into the wall. soooo hot. he was wearing a newsie boy cap. justin was playing in his socks. i was holding my matches bag under my arm, but some of it was peeking out and you could tell. i noticed that shawn kept trying to see what it was, but i had to be quiet so i didn't do anything. when they had some down time, he was looking at it, so i lifted my arm and asked if he liked it. he said he did and that he sucks with puffy paint. jon liked it too. i said my friend elizabeth made it for me and she could possibly make them stuff because she's just that good. then shawn picked his leg up and fake kicked me and asked, "so how's that place that you're staying at?" i can't believe he remembered. i said that it was kind of dirty, but it was okay. he smiled. ooh sigh. justin made faces at me when they played. they finished a track, and miles said it was good, and then i said, "yeah it was really good." justin was like, "was it really?!" yesssssss. jon kept throwing and catching a pic. he dropped it. justin was chewing on one. god it was soo cool. when they finished tracking the one song, they were going to start another. i felt like it was my time to go and maria was outside waiting. jon had left, and justin and shawn were playing parts close to each other so they could hear what each one was doing. i thanked miles and got up to leave. justin and shawn stopped and turned to me and were like, "are you leaving?!" i said yes. shawn asked, "so um...are you going to be here when we get back??" i said i was leaving in a week but good luck in australia and i'll see you at warped. and they were like, "yeah, see you at warped!" then i got hugs. then jon came back in and said see you at warped. see you in hell, we're no longer bffs. every time he looked at me, it was like awkward and weird. i don't know why, there's no reason for that. so i left and took stalker pictures of their van.

then re had to pee, so she went to wait in line behind justin to pee. but he was like, "i have to make a phone call, you can go first." i miss them already.

we took the bus home, dropped her stuff off, then took it back up to telegraph. first we ate at blakes cause dave's played there. good times. we headed over to rasputin the music store. there was something going on inside. OH MY GOD! sway from mtv was hosting this battle of the mc things. swayyyyyyyy!

then we started to walk and shop. we found some sweet ass stores. we walked back, got some amazing yogurt to which i told the girl working, "i like how you pack the toppings on there!", and then lounged in the berkeley quad.

sorry i'm all up in this.
yes, i'm picking her nose. so what?

we took the bus home, heard a creature in the house, walked down five really long slopes and then realized we had to walk back up them, came home, maria fell asleep, and i was left to plan our trip to san francisco tomorrow by myself. it'll be really fun. we're meeting erica there who is in town for a wedding. how crazy!! i'm also doing laundry at 12:30 in the morning. ohh the joys of living on your own.

great first day.

sooooooooo much to do before we spoon tomorrow

2005-05-26T08:39:14Z

RERE COMES TOMORROW!!

today was a really long, miserable day at work. then kati picked me up for the mae/tai show. guess what. it was sold out. goddammit. i went to the vans, found dave on his phone, told him i needed to speak with him, and then waited until he was done. the entire academy klan came walking out looking hot and passed us. eeek the butcher butchie b L3! william saluted. wtf?! so dave didn't know who i was, and i hate to do that "well i'm friends with anna" thing, because i don't want her to look lame hanging out with me, but since he didn't remember, i had to pull it. he said he'd get me on the list. thank you jesus, i mean come on, it's mae! hahah anyways, i found kati at the front, and i was standing behind a poll and a very old man with a mustache. days away = lame. jamison parker = lamer. then the crowd went crazzzzzy before the academy. then they came on. it was ridiculous. william is such a fuckin diva, i was dying. adam, at one point, was sexually writhing against the amp. it creeped me out. butchie and tony looked fucking hot. they all waved and pointed at the old man in front of me. then they dedicated a song to him. terry, his name, is a lucky bastard. oh shit, we got a song dedicated to us too, back in the day. whatever, terry, you got nothin on this. i went a little crazy/was getting annoyed. mae played a really long set. people went crazy for them. it was insane! i tried to say hi to zach, he kind of blew me off. mark caught me staring at his bass...NOT THE ONE IN HIS PANTS, PERVS! some girl shouted "jacob, you're hot!" his face was priceless. after the set, kati and i talked to chad from tai and william. funny shit. i ran over to jacob and he gave realllly good hugs. but i can't deny, seeing mae without anna? weird. weird shit. especially during "soundtrack" because since i was in cali, i really wanted to sing "anaheim!" hahah uhh yeah. william and kati are like bff's. i chickened out to talk to tony and i only saw the butcher for t minus two seconds. the mission was totally failed. nobody was around. la HAS to happen.

p.s. apparently the matches are in the studio tomorrow...the day i DON'T work. we might be making an appearance.

hehehe read the whole thing!

2005-05-24T05:41:23Z

last night was the second L3 show. i decided to go into san francisco before heading to the show. i took the bus down to the bart station. as i was walking to the bart station, i felt someone pinch my elbow. some man was like, "that's a nice color sweater. i like how it matches with everything and your shoes." i was like, "well i bought them together..." then he asked me what country i'm from. ohio, yes it's quite foreign. then he asked me my name and where i live, he hoped we'd see each other again. i hope not. i took the bart into san francisco. i forgot the name tof the street that the museum of modern art was on, but i eventually found it. maria called right before i went in, and i told her about friday night. i just realized that i left a lot of shit out on friday. my bad. i went in and explored. the museum wasn't as good as it was last summer, but there were still some really sweet pieces. i got lunch in the cafe and called chelsea. then i headed back to berkeley. since the stop's name is "downtown berkeley" but the sign just says "berkeley", i ended up missing it, getting off at el cerrito, and back-tracking my way back. i took the bus up to telegraph and walked in the heat towards the line.

there's only one good thing about being an intern: you get to ditch the line. that's right mother fuckers, you wait in line allllllllll day cause this bitch is going in for FREE. i sat up in the control room with tim during the first band. i was like, "so tim, when you have to go into the band members only room, you're going to take me, right??" he said i could go by myself, but i didn't have a reason! i went to get a water where i ran into cedric. he was like, "why didn't you call me?!" oh friggen hell. during the second band, i stood on the side against the wall and watched. in front of me to my right was some girl and in front of her to her right was justin! she kicked him, and he turned around, waved, and gave her a hug. then he walked towards me, waved, and gave me a hug. awwwww! then he asked me (and by asked, i mean screamed in my ear cause it was loud) if i had gotten my work done from the other day. i said no. then he asked me how i am liking it here, and i casually mentioned that sometimes i can get bored, but it's fun. he changed the subject quite nicely: "well, the weather has been nice." haha yes it has. then he had to go practice bass, so i went outside and talked to maria. jon was talking to some girls in front of me. then lover walked up on his phone wearing that flannel shirt. i think he has like three shirts. hahaha i love you. then some girl walked over to him, and he hugged her and kind of held on to her. boooo! then he talked to some guy, and i continued on with my conversation, but we made eye contact two times and it was just plain awkward. i headed back in for kill radio. i looked to my left, and dave was standing there. i looked ot my right, and forrest from somerset was standing there. AHHHH! somebody knocked me, so i looked and then dave was standing right behind me. then he walked in front of me to stand next to shawn. then he kept inching back. THEN HE LEANED HIS HEAD BACK AND PLAYED WITH HIS HAIR. i almost snapped his neck. what a bastard. after their set, i went to say hi to the somerset boys!

i asked forrest if he was in somerset, and he got such a big smile and said, "YEAH!!" it was really cute. i told them i saw them in indy and introduced myself. i didn't recognize the other guy he was with, so i asked if he was new. they said no. i was like, "do you stand on the right?" they must have thought their right not mine cause they said yes, and i was like, "jumanji?!" forrest was like, "no that's jt!" and i said, "i made that up", and he pointed and nodded. i was like, "i thought there were four of you." they said there are, so i was like, "are you matt?!" he said yes, and i said apparently i stalked them. he looks really different. he said he gets that a lot. they said they'd never seen the matches, and i told them it was going to get k-razy and about the synchornized movements of the crowd. i asked what they were doing next, and forrest was like, "well i think i'll get some food, then i don't know, maybe go to bed? i'm really tired." i was like, "i mean next after this tour." hahaha they're touring after their cd comes out (august 9) and i said they had to hit up philly. matt was like, "so you'll have seen us in indianapolis, oakland, and philadelphia! that's three cities in three states! i don't think we have anybody who's done that!" that's right, bitches. i'm really excited for their set.

zebrahead was okay. i ran out to make a call, and business walked up and stared me down and then did lunges and stretches against the wall. dave was running around. gabe was there. GUESS WHO ELSE WAS THERE: CHRIS!! i wanted to say hi soooo badly, but i couldn't find him. p.s. monica the merch girl and i are sooooooooo tight. it's unreal. i didn't get to say goodbye though :( i watched the matches from the side. all the old roadies were helping them out. it was cute. jon said they were going to play a new song, and then the other guys started to play "say 18". you should have seen the look on his face, a look of death! he was sooo pissed. i am really obsessed with the song "staying inside the lines". it's awesome. for their last song, they did an electric version of "track 11". shawn's sister sang on it as well as dave. it was pretty sweet.

after the show, i freaked out because i didn't have a ride, and i had a really bad feeling that i wouldn't be able to find one. the feeling was correct, i couldn't find one. i asked everybody. i was going to ask jon if he knew anybody, and i found him and was like, "jon!" and he was like, "wait one second." what the fuck, jon? i asked that michaelea girl if dave was going to play acoustic, but apparently he had to go aka bang some chick. lucky bitch. i ran into matt (not business) who works there and asked if he lived in berkeley and/or knew anyone who did. he called his friend daniel who i've talked to online and already said he couldn't give me a ride home, and he again said he couldn't. matt said he would. i felt really bad. he told me to go wait with andrew, and then we peaced out. i didn't get to say bye to anybody, but warped is in like a month, so it's cool. if jon's there tonight for facing new york, i'm BOMBARDING THAT MOTHER FUCKER. we got in matt's car, and he drove down the alley everyone stands in. right in front of everybody, he began to rev his engine. everybody parted. andrew stuck himself outside the window. and then...we SHOT DOWN the alley. i mean it was crazy. matt was like, "i told you. we're imusicast LEGENEDS!" haha it was amazing. then the cd was skipping, and matt was like, "andrew take the wheel" then he cleaned the cd for like five minutes while andrew steered. he goes, "this is straight up oakland driving." it was pretty amazing. then i came home, steve harassed me, and went to bed.

facing new york tonight. hehehehe makes me think of tbs adam. ohh hello!

so the internet has been broken, so i'm just going to add facing new york to the last entry. i got there and nobody was in line. i was really confused. i walked in and chatted it up with tamara who just calls me "cutie face" and i'm not sure why. lol the first band, pistolita, was really good. i helped with concessions during their set. then a band came on that played on the floor and didn't sing. it was really interesting. then some kid with this really old man started singing in the lobby. we were all like "wtf?!" by we, i mean me, tamara, and "biff". long story. then somerset came on. they were seriously so good. i was blown away. then i took that michaela girl and harassed her about dave for the fourth band's set. forrest walked in between us to go upstairs, i said "good job, forrest!" and he said thanks. he came back down, and was like, "hey thanks for coming." i said i worked there so i had to go...plus i wanted to. he asked me about my job, and i told him i basically only clean. he asked what and i told him all the rooms including "that band members only room you boys so trash!" when he left he was like, "well i'm going back to the band room, and i WON'T trash it!" i was like, "you better not!" i walked back to the stage to watch facing new york, and there i ran into tyler. they did a really great job as well. jumanji was running around. i giggled. when they finished, i ran up to jumanji and shouted, "JUMANJI!!" he was like, "jumnaji...jumnaji...i've been called that before." that's right, by me! he said i'm the only one who's called him that and then he asked, "what show was that?!" then i told him and he goes, "what are you doing out here?" so i explained and we talked about my job a lot. too much, i hate my job. and i told him that on their tour coming up, they have to come to philly, and then i'm all over this country seeing them. he was like, "i really am bad with names, but i want to remember yours. allison and jumanji...allison and jumanji." hmmm i like the sound of that. he's seriously adorable. i ran over to matt, told him a good job, and said i better see him in philly. they are sweeties. tyler and i went to pick up my dave pictures and get yogurt. i'm going to have a sweet ass picture post coming soon.

today work was terrible; however, after work major stalking occurred. we looked up jon and dave's addresses at guitar center. first we drove to jon's. all of a sudden, the street like shoots straight down. it's insane. p.s. the house isn't real. it was a FAKE! bastard. then we hauled it over to dave's. we began a winding trek up through the most beautiful homes.i told tyler, "my rock is going to be huge!" yeah baby...platinum. then we turned on the street and passed his house. we turned around, and tyler was like "there it is on the corner." we slowed down cause i, of course, wanted to take some spy pictures. uh oh...somebody is in the driveway. uh oh...he has black hair. uh oh...IT'S DAVE! tyler slammed on the gas and would not go back. i couldn't stop laughing. it was seriously insane. we're going back though, don't worry, i need spy pics! we got yogurt again from the dagger spoon place. i took a picture of the sign, and i saw some kid in the window following me with his camera phone. every time i moved, so did his phone. wtf? after we got our yogurt and were walking out, he was still doing it. i flicked him off and yelled, "there's a picture for you!" bastard.

i have to peeeeeee

2005-05-19T06:36:37Z

today was a long day. work from 10-10. yippee. not. actually, it was pretty funny. i did a lot of cleaning like usual. tim was funny today. matt wasn't there. tonight was the afroman show. actually, afroman was there pretty much all day. i heard him say to tim, "well i've got a song called 'let's get drunk' and a song called 'let's get drunk tonight'. they're two different songs!" i ended up hanging with this girl tamara working concessions. she was very open and honest with me. i heard about how she misses fucking her boyfriend, how she left him dirty voicemails, how she almost hooked up with b as in brad, what she would do if she had a penis, and many other things. it was interesting. she asked me if i wanted to dance, so we danced. then some creep ass kid came behind the counter with me (which has tons of stickers on it) and was like, "let's make people find all the stickers with nipples on them and then give them free snacks!" what. the. fuck. johnny and some other dude hung out there too. during afroman's set, we took a running poll of how many times he said colt 45, his own name, or talked about smokin. during one song he said, "so i rolled a joint", and i asked johnny if that counted and he said it only counted if he talked about the actual act of smoking. my bad. it was pretty hysterical. i have pictures, but i'm too lazy to post.

hmm there are some good times to come. i was talking to maria today, and even though i miss home, i don't miss drama and i like being away. it's going to be weird to leave. some of the roommates are leaving, so i'm fucking taking billy's room. it's really sweet. good thing lee ping isn't moving, cause i'm obsessed with him.

WOOP!!

2005-05-04T17:08:19Z

whoa. things have been pretty damn crazy. today was my last day of real classes, i'm too tired to be sad. all of my practice aps/real aps/final papers/final tests/final projects are pretty much over with. the last week has been seriously insane. obviously, i procrastinated a lot, but i eventually had a lot of shit to do. i feel like i've missed out on a lot of livejournal entries. but i'm back now. i know you all care. haha. well i still have my ap spanish test may 13 in california, but after that, HIGH SCHOOL IS OVER.

you'll be getting the matches update later. :)

boo to english papers!

2005-05-01T21:15:01Z

last night i hung out with liz and erica, it was a lot of fun.

i really wanted cheese fries lol so we went to steak 'n shake. yummmy. some guy looked like taye diggs. he was hot. then we saw this carnival in the jonann fabrics parking lot, so we went there. damn carnie folk are crazy. some woman was on this ride and you could hear her screaming, "jesus christ...get me off!" it was so funny. they had a gun game. how fabulous for children. i tried to make erica give this big plastic alien head. lol uhhhh then some man popped out from behind his game station and was like, "do you want a rabbit!?" and he told us how people win these rabbits. wtf?! i pet the rabbit. then we left when some man started calling out to us. it was scary. we listened to my 80's mix on the way home; however, it needs a lot of work. what should i add to it?

as we pulled home, i saw this young child with a flashlight. i rolled down the window and was like, "hey kid, what are you doing? are you playing flashlight tag? do you want some candy??" he was like, "yeah i want some candy!!" and i was like, "that's what you say when you try and abduct a small child." we wanted to play, so we gathered some flashlights and joined this young thirteen year old to try and find joe and matt. once we did, they had to go inside and go to bed. oh to be thirteen.

we went inside and ate dessert, called rere, and watched sideways. good movie. good times. i'm going to miss them when i'm gone :(

yes, let's teach small children about guns and violence.
that's the scary man with the rabbit!!

sleepover with erica and liz tonight!!

2005-04-30T22:33:59Z

rere 05 and i went to see my lover dan from transition on friday. so fucking funny.

first i went to the dentist and i had the WORST hygenist ever. eww she was so gross. then maria came over and we headed off. damn the long drive to pittsburgh. well it wasn't that bad. good company. we peed in the sketchiest gas stations ever.

we finally got there, without getting lost, and realized that there were nothing but twelve year olds allll around us. jesus christ. we still had to put our make up on. we also needed to relax a little after the hard week and the potential twelve year old fest. that's right, we drank. now for those of you who are against that, that's cool, but don't come in here judging me, because frankly i don't care. as long as i'm responsible about it, if i want to drink, i will. so lay off. all these teenagers were parking around us, and bartender maria was in the back pooring stuff in cups. i was laughing uncontrollably.

i'm pretty much the biggest light-weight ever. after two, i was completely buzzed. as we stumbled and giggled down to the event, maria kept cracking some good ones. i was laughing really hard. i kept saying something about jonathan from waking ashland, and maria kept asking who he was, then i saw him and i started giggling, "oh my god, that's him!!!" lol. i know i look like a total ass, but it was seriously so funny that i will share it. we got inside, and there was dustin hoffman. ohh num nums. okay his name is dustin hook, but dustin hoffman played hook in hook, so you know. i was really worried they wouldn't have us down, but i saw my name at the top of the list, and i pointed and was like, "THAT'S ME!!!!!" oh shit. then he was like, "what's your bag?" and i goofily lifted my arm and was like, "hidden in plain view." and he was like, "i love them." then i don't really remember what else we talked about. haha i looked like a complete ass. p.s. i wore my jasmine shirt, and the girls were OUT for the world to see. but frankly, i didn't care. dan was on the other side looking b-e-a-utiful. steve put on our wrist bands, i think he was staring at my chest.

we sat down for some of the first band, and dan was in the rafter thing, and maria was like, "let's go say hi!!" uhh no. even with a buzz, i can't do that. lol. then waking ashland played really well. good times. dancing was had. we went over to the merch table to talk to jonathan.

me: "i like your shirt!" (it was a matches shirt)
jon: "thanks, we just toured with them."
me: "yeah, i saw it in ohio."
maria: "AND ATLANTA!"
jon: "cool."
me: "are you touring with jack's mannequin?"
jon: "yes, but not on this side of the country."
me: "well i'm living in california for a few weeks, so i'll see you in san francisco."
jon: "oh that's the day our cd comes out!! learn all the ep lyrics then get the cd when you're out there."
then he shook my hand and called me something maria won't let me disclose. lol. see ya there, baby!!

transition was so good. maria and i held each other the entire time out of lust for the lead singer. he's 17, but you know, what can you do? got some cds, then made the approach to talk to dan, who then ran off and we got kicked out. boo. hahah funniest experience ever. it was hard to stay awake on the way home, but we made it. then my dog started barking uncontrollably at like 4 am and woke me from a dream about dan. i fucking hate that dog.

do NOT taunt me with your thick, black hair and acoustic guitar!

today was the alumnae brunch. the most boring experience of my life. maria won the maccloud award. that's my girl. then she, liz, and i went to the short north. i hit up pierceology for some more sea salt. boyfriend looked hot. best friend, aka lexx, is so funny. she told me to come in and she'll change my gross pink one out for my real one before califronia. i'm going to miss them while i'm gone. speaking of being gone, that's really soon. i'm nervous, since the situation is so sketchy, but i'm excited. minus the fact that i'm at a good place with everybody at school right now, and i'm going to miss them a lot.

maria wanted an update, so here it is.

2005-04-28T03:12:19Z

ap tests are finalllllly done! yippee. well now i have to take them again for the real ap, but you know, high school IS actually going to end.

tonight anna and i went to see muse. first we went to max & erma's, and we had the waiter i can't stand. boo. then we bought tickets and got in line. it was really cold. then gasp! thomas l. aka tommy from the newport walked by...with a really fucking hot man beard. mmm num nums. then gasp! creepy nick aka fro kid. then gasp! james "hot pants" witt. hahahaha ohhh my!! all those boys..i'd tap each and every one of them. lol. so we get inside and hear that we can't have any cameras. it was too late to hide mine, so we had to go back to the end of the still very long line and shove them in our breasts. waited again in line. still cold. we got in and scoped out the place. the first band, razorlight, wasn't too bad. then gasp! we saw bob guiney from j. rev. weird. muse came on. they're so talented. it was a good show. this couple in front of me were necking hardcore. i mean, his hands were in her pants. that makes me really grossed out. yuck. then he'd take a breather and start dancing all crazy all up in everybody's grills. boo. then they left, and everybody around them like moved into that space so they couldn't get back in. crazy. thennn some man stood in front of me and i made a pissed off motion with my hands like always, then the woman next to me tapped me and apologized for him. he was with her! anna was like, "it finally caught up to you." hahahaha. the fans were seriously out of control.

now i'm excited for two things:

1. anna and i are starting this really kickass website. it's going to make us famous vip style, baby.
2. the upcoming pre-warped party. it's exculsive, so don't assume you're invited. sorry. hahaha

later.

best. trip. ever.

2005-04-25T01:46:24Z

robotics trip was the SHIZZZZZZNIT.

tuesday night me, re, and anna went to hipv, baby! fun...but robotics is all i can think of, so here it is.

we rolled out after morning announcements on wednesday. i sat next to ria. we listened to music/tried to sleep. took a few potty stops and got subway for lunch atttttttttttt ten o'clock in the morning. it was good, but way too early. WEIRD THING. i was listening to i can make a mess, and i opened my eyes, and i saw this truck with a ladder up top and a green rake sticking through a prong. A GREEN RAKE. craziness. then i closed my eyes again. i opened them when i felt us stop. we were on the side of the road, next to a small cliff, shaking every time somebody drove past us. yes, we were stranded in tennessee. we ended up driving slowly to the next exit. doc was like, "what if we go pick up the tire tread and glue it back on!!" the driver, kenny, was like, "that won't work." he didn't laugh/appreciate the amazingness of doc's twisted, fucked up sense of humor. we got to this truck stop and got out. the five of us went and started to eat. a few hours started to pass. then a few more. we continued to eat with each passing minute. we all went to sit outside, and it was an amazing sight. the five of us in animation on one side of the parking lot and the entire robotics team on the other side. they fucking hate us.

olivia sunbathed, and we talked to ms. davis about her new boyfriend. excellent times. olivia got up and started to do african dancing.
one sophomore, who shall remain nameless, saw a caterpillar crossing the parking lot and FREAKED OUT and climbed on the back of everybody and refused to get down. i mean, i'm afraid of belly buttons, but when olivia had hers hanging out during her sunbathing session, i held my cool. after about three hours, we finally got back on the road. maria and i watched movies on my laptop and then watched the matches dvd. she thinks they're hysterical, because they are. maria and i were supposed to room with lashaunda and ai binh. we planned on staying in chelsea, olivia, and georgia's room to keep with the animation posse/unit. we told ai binh that we'd move so she wouldn't have to sleep with a senior. come on, we're being nice. she freaked out like, "fine, you don't want me. blah blah blah blah blah." boo. we were like whatever you little 87 pound ass freaking out about a caterpillar CROSSING THE MOTHER FUCKING PARKING LOT. pussy. then we all started to wait for the elevator. okay, it takes 374293847293473294729470284371085732804712803570182471094712983449587203948290 years for an elevator to come. we were down there for probably forty five minutes. then the osu mentor boys got on and left us there. thanks gentlemen. well, the situation ended up working out, because rebecca greenberger didn't want to sleep with victoria since she only showers on sunday. she she and shaunda roomed, and we moved over to the animation hizzle. we get in and ordered up a cot for maria. there was this really strange tapping at the window. then the phone rang and it was some creepy guy. georia put it on speaker phone and he was all, "hey girls, how's it going?" we hung up. the tapping continued and then he called back! she put him on speaker phone again and asked, "who is this?" he said, "a friend." she asked where he was, and he said, "outside your window." then the tapping went crazy. WE'RE ON THE 35TH FLOOR! HOW ARE YOU OUTSIDE OUR WINDOW?!georgia dropped to the floor and crawled to the bathroom, olivia was freaking out, i was hysterically laughing. it was out of control. then olivia called up doc screaming. he came down IN HIS NIGHT SHIRT like, "are you pulling my leg?!?!" it was so crazy/funny/scary that he didn't believe us. he was like, "it might be someone across the street staring in that does this all the time." i said, "if they want to see a freakshow, i'll lift up my shirt." doc was like, "ohh geez." and left. funny ass shit.

the next morning we were running a little late, but we got ready to head down and meet up at 7:20. well, an elevator never came so people started going down the stairs. we walked down about twenty floors, and then some other team came up like "it dead ends!" so we got off and tried to catch an elevator down. i honestly don't remember how we got down, but it did take us about twenty minutes to get to the bus. it was awful. the bus drove us to the dome and then circled it about seven times. we got in, did some scouting, and found our seats to watch the game. then maria and i peaced out and went and looked for the master schedule of the games/ate lunch/made up quizzes/skipped out on watching. it was a lot of fun. we had some pretty deep, meaningful conversation. i appreciated it. doc came over and told us about this "vex robot" party we're going to on friday night. come on. we finally found our way back and watched some robots. then we went looking for the other three who were sleeping on these bean bags in the middle of the pit. i got a bag and settled in. then katie hua found us, and we had to go back and watch the matches. they were really good though.
sweet shit in the pit.doc sleeping.olivia cheering everybody on.
around 5:30 we gathered to leave. we all went towards the marta train station. another annoying sophomore was like, "eww..i've never actually sat down in one of these." ewwwww. we missed our exit. we got off, and some guy was like, "it's only four blocks." ms. heizer freaked out like, "is it safe??" IT'S BROAD DAYLIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON AND IT'S FOUR FUCKING BLOCKS. get over it. we walked back. the animation crew wanted to eat at hard rock cafe, while everybody else wanted mcdonalds. it took another 20 minutes to get an elevator up to our room, then we had five minutes to get ready, and had to ride an elevator all the way up top and then all the way back down. out of control.

the wait at hard rock was supposed to be an hour. some man in this low-rider car/open vehicle was revving his engine at the street corner. everybody was cheering, and when the light changed, he went crazy and turned the corner like a crazy mother fucker. then some van zoomed after him AND TURNED ON THEIR SIRENS! the cheers turned abruptly to "ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" so funny.
,
chelsea and georiga started making phone calls home to find out about senior tag. they were stressing out.

about two hours later, we still didn't have a table. and then they said it was another half hour. heizy was pissssed. so we went and waited in ANOTHER line at mcdonalds. they didn't take credit cards or have honey sauce. boo.

we got our food and brought it back to the hotel lobby. heizy was being fucking annoying and judging. then we heard some other team talking about usher. olivia JUMPED up and was like, "are you talking about usher raymond!?" and they said he was HERE. HERE in our hotel. ahhh she freaked out and writhed against her chair. then she explained to them how she met the president, so usher would definitely want to meet her. we did some more investigating and found out that bono and janet jackson were also in the hotel. we peaced out from heizy and went on the prowl. we ended up sitting down on the floor under and watching people walk to the event.
olivia snuck up a secret stair case that showed it too.
georgia screamed and said she saw.....TRAVIS BARKER!! some regular man came down to go to the bathroom, and i asked him if travis was there, and he said yes, and i FELL TO THE GROUND. oh my fucking god.
AHHH!
then we saw this secret elevator that was hidden in concrete. chelsea was like, "he's going to be in there...we have to break through that vault!" we snuck down to the main level to try and get a ride on the elevator because there was a clear side that could show the eighth floor so hopefully we could see them. we got on, took pictures as we were going past the eighth floor, and then thought it would stop. all of a sudden, we turned around and saw SKY/ATLANTA/LIGHTS/NIGHT/OUTSIDE all around us. we had left the inside of the hotel and were zooming straight up into the night towards the heaven/joe reo. georgia and i got freaked out. finally it came to a stop at this restaurant on the 72nd floor. some nice women tried to calm us down. i was like, "i'm sweating, and i just want to meet travis barker!" thankfully, we got safely to the ground. then we went back to our seventh floor, then we snuck up the secret stairway, and then we went up to watch from the floor above. that's when we found this door INTO THE AWARD CEREMONY. we watched the entire thing. first usher accepted an award. yes, usher. then janet jackson came on and introduced coretta scott king as in martin luther king's wife. yes, that amazing woman. then michael bolton came on and sang a song to her. then a gospel choir joined him and they sang "lean on me". i almost cried. olivia got up and danced. it was amazing. the b 52's were there. after the show, we snuck down onto the stairs and watched people leave the event. travis had already left :(. usher's family and the kings all walked past us. THEN georiga and i screamed at the same time: JON BON FUCKING JOVI walked past us. ohhhhhhhhhhh shizznit. everybody and their brother was there.
on the red carpet.
amazing. then we went to the bar, despite the warning from heizy, got some sodas and came back to the room. olivia called her whole phonebook screaming and then fell asleep. it was the craziest night of my life. amazing, funny, amazing.

the next day was just another boring day at competition. friday was the longest day for sures.
we had to find ways to entertain ourselves.
our robot had a few good matches, though. we were great at defense. we went over to one robot and took the tetra out of it's grip! i screamed like mad. great shit. we went to the vex party taht night. the food was pretty good. i was pretty tired, though. the mentors from osu are really funny. we left early to go back to the hotel. like losers, we were going to go to the lobby and do homework on a friday night. fuck yeah. apparently there was a meeting going on, but nobody tells robotics anything. so we hit that up. doc thanked the animation team for helping to cheer on the dublin team. kb toys (some stupid sophomore) rollled her eyes. i hate her.
doc WITHOUT a jacket! can you believe it?then we were told we had to be back in our room by 9:45. wtf?! no. i'm 18...don't tell me what to do. so we did some homework, and by that i mean nothing, and watched all these kids going to prom! we decided we'd crash that up too. it would be my senior prom lol. we watched kids go up this elevator, but there was a kink in it so people would flinch. oh shit...it was funny. we went back up for bed check and snuck out again. we were really nervous. why? i'm not sure, since the entire trip was downstairs. kb toys and her posse were macking it up with some boys. boo. chelsea said they all looked at us when we came down. we snuck into the prom where we went in for the ush ush party. then we got thrown out by the security guard. let me get this straight: you can sneak into usher's party but not prom?? hmm. we went outside and then ran across the peachtree river to mcdonalds. some homeless man was yelling at everybody. a cross-dresser was there. amazing. we ate, and then we were really bad. i can't say what we did. but i can tell you that olivia's fetish was completed. hahaha so funny.

they didn't seem too happy about what should have been happening that night. fools.

saturday was a nerve-racking day for maria and i were planning on sneaking out and saying what up to the matches before we left for c-bus. we waited all day for 2:30 to roll around. it did...and we left. so scary! haha. we took the marta to north avenue. we didn't know where it was on north avenue, but we hoped it was close. we went the wrong way, so then we went into subway to ask. they said to go the other way and it wasn't too bad. we started walking and walking. we passed a bacardi sign. sigh dave. p.s. everything in bold is a sign. then we passed these midtown apartments. we were only in the 200's and we needed 695. so we called a cab to pick us up. they asked what we were standing next to: sophie mae's candy store. hmm. got our cab and rolled up to the masquerade. the place looked like it caught fire. crazy. two girls were there, but they said they hadn't seen them. so we waited. their dad was there and was like, "i'm going to call ohio and tell on you." shut the fuck up. then the t's van rolled up. tom is one odd kid. he got out..and walked over to us. i don't know why. he nudged my shoulder with his. i was like, "uhh hi." i asked him where the matches were and told him the situation. he was like, "you're here for...robots?" and i said, "yes! there are robots competing right as we speak!!" he started to creep away and looked at his watch and said, "well they were supposed to be here at 4, so they should be here soon." haha freaked you out. they moved their van onto the street, and he waved to me outside the window. what are you on, son? then i saw a van coming, but it was just b as in brad thinking he was pimp. jonathon was walking around. oh the attractiveness all around me. THEN i saw the california license plate rolling up and a fro in the window. i jumped up and down. jon got out, and then tom goes over and is pointing me out. i was so embarassed! i hid. then i was like fuck it, and i went over to jon. i was like, "heyy jon!" he said hi, and i said, "don't you think i'm kind of far from home??" and he was like, "yeah," and he made a scrunched up face, "but i can't remember where you're from again?" so i said ohio and he was like, "what are you doing here?!" so i explained and he laughed, and i said, "i mean i had to come say hi to my bff!" fuck yeah, don't forfuckingget it. then i told him how we had been so bad and about the usher party. somebody pulled into the wrong spot, so he goes, "i'll be right back," then when he came back he said, "so usher??" hahah he laughed. somebody pulled in and he goes, "oh i KNOW you're not taking our spot." then they started to back up and he goes, "fuck yeah, that's right." maria said he had a good handshake. we called another cab to pick us up. i said hi to matt. so cute. shawn came out of the van from a nice sleep. he loooked absolutely adorable. jon was taking stuff in. i could tell he was really stressed out. i ran back over to him to say bye.
me: "our cab is coming, so i just wanted to say bye!"
then he started laughing and gave me a hug.
me: "i'll see you in pittsburgh and....imusicast."
jon: "imusicast."
me: "don't forget."
jon: "i won't forget." in an i-won't-forget-if-you-don't-forget kind of way.
then i got a high five and the rock.

then shawn was rolling some stuff in, and i don't know where i got the balls, but i waved to him! and he waved back with THE MOST SEDUCTIVE, ATTRACTIVE FACE i have ever seen. so amazing. then we jumped into our cab and he looked really confused. ahhahah maria said if adam t. had made that face at her she would have died. heheheehe. i wish we could have seen the show :(. we got out and snuck back in. we made it...few! of course, olivia called and said they were on the bus to freak us out. my heart fell into my stomach for damn sure. they had started the finals, and we couldn't sneak into where we were sitting. so we sat on the side. we made it, and that's all i've got to say. it was amazing.

then we got in the bus and rolled back to c-bus. the teachers complained that it was cold, they were being really immature. we got in around 6. bill from osu is really funny. i liked the mentors and everybody. good times. best trip ever. we have a cheer. i slept until 4. my books were in my mom's car. it's 9, and i still haven't started studying. oh well.

maria and i are so different:

2005 ROBOTICS. ATOWN. DA NA. NA NA. YEAH. PROM. USH USH USH USH.

i'm bored. im me: browntrash182.

2005-04-19T00:37:04Z

random entry full of nothingness. english was funny, i can't remember why. i almost lost my senior privileges. oops! going to the hipv show tomorrow. atlanta wednesday-saturday. yes, maja, for the robots. lol. talked to adam t. siska online today. quite random. my feet smell. my dog had a seizure outside. he was closer to dying this time, but still, no such luck. i want to go eat some cookies/not pack/go to bed. miss me when i'm gone!

uhhh olive garden is good.

2005-04-18T00:02:28Z

my mama took me to olive garden since i helped her with the house today. this moving business is sucky. i still haven't done my homework and/or studied for my math test. but i'm sick, tired, and frankly don't give a fuck anymore.

I FINALLY SAW SUM 41!

it was a lot of fun! ec and i met up with liz and charlotte in line. we were right up front. some kids with red smeared all over their eyes were across from us. i liked them. the boy looked like bert. he was obsessed with hawthorne heights. it was funny.

charlotte and i.
us being silly.

we got up against the bar in the middle. fantabulous. charlotte and i heard some french guys behind us, so i asked where they were from and they were like, "uhhh france." okay, just because you speak french doesn't necessarily mean you live there! they hate america and liked my "not my president shirt". viva la france!

hawthorne heights was up first. they actually weren't that bad this time. casey toned down the screaming. good boy. the lead singer got a lot cuter. the guy on the left is really cute. it wasn't too shabby.

unwritten law was next. i only knew two songs, but it's cool. they were very entertaining. there was a long-haired asian man. excellllllllllllent. the lead singer was not a bad looking older man. some dancing went down. some beatings went down. it was good fun.

look at that hair!

then ec somehow got pushed out of the way, elizabeth was like five people down, and some strange chick was next to me. who knows how that happened. maybe it was when the security guard jumped into the crowd and pulled some boy out by his neck. elizabeth's security guard friend was there. he creeps me out. jim took the day off...bastard! he should have known i'd be there. what can you do.

this white sheet comes down and this video starts playing. it was very odd stuff. then it went to a gym, and cone and steve-o 32 had a crazy game of basketball. eventually, steve-o got pissed, killed cone, dragged his body back home, and then cooked him for dinner. deryck and dave brownsound got there and asked what was for dinner, and steve-o said, "YOU!" hmm it was interesting. lots of blood. haha apparently elizabeth passed out. that's not good at all.

so they came on............AND I CAN'T BELIEVE I ACTUALLY SAW THEM. dude. it's been since like eighth grade. yikes! deryck is tinier than me. as i said later, it's like he rolled out of the womb and put on a rock show. craziness. his voice was not what i expected. cone looked hot too. dizzzamn. they played a lot of stuff and for a long time. deryck came on dressed as elvis. it was amazing. i was elvis for halloween in fourth grade. i didn't look as good. the crowd was realllllllllly bad, but it was so worth it. i was so close to them! damn. they did a reallly good show. i haven't seen such a good show in a long time.

elvis or deryck??

steve-o came out at the end and sang "pain for pleasure". i almost died.

after the show, we all headed to steak and shake for some grub. we ended up getting it and eating in mcdonalds, since that's where we parked. and you remember when we got towed on campus, so we weren't going to do that again. it was yummy. cheese fries are really good. try them. fun times.

i still can't believe i saw sum 41! ahhh!