sooooooo. my weekend. lol. [[Warning! Longest blog ever!]]
friday...driving down to Nashville, we hit some traffic through Louisville and we got scared we were gonna be late for checking into our hotel...but then when we got into Tennessee and Kelly noticed his phone was an hour different and we're like WHOOT Tennessee is on central time! so we gained an hour, and that gave us plenty of time. blah blah..checked into the hotel room..found the place Butch was playing at. we parked, went and got some Krispy Kremes cuz that was the only food around and we were dying. then, when we were in line, we noticed that Black Stone Cherry was playing on sunday, and we were like man, I bet Papa Roach is gonna come to that show [only to find out later that they did hahah...atleast Jacoby did. he tweeted about it.] Butch was great. too bad Ray couldn't come. lol. I guess he got some Marvelous 3 dvd or something, and Tobin told us that they had Butch Walker night on the bus the other day lol. Butch was great [duh.] popoff face from Lit [the one with the big head..jeremy] was there of course. he was smoking in the building and making me cough..you're not some big rockstar dude, you're not above the law, and it's not like if someone stops you, you'll just be like, dude..I'm in Lit, we had that one song 12 years ago. and they'll just be like ohhh, go ahead and smoke indoors man! right on! sorry, ain't gonna happen. we hung around afterward trying to say hi to Butch, but he sneakily ran off the bus after a bunch of people started standing around. so we left cuz we were pretty sure he ran off with Litface and jumped into his car and peaced out. so we go back to the hotel, and get some Jack in the Box since we've only had it once since moving from CA.
saturday...Kelly's birthday. I wake up with horrible stomach pains that I just figured was like gas from eating right before bed...but boy oh boy was I wrong. food poisoning. from jack in the box......again. yeah..I'm never eating there again. for those of you that don't know, I got food poisoning soooo hardcore from eating there in 2004 it was the most horrible thing ever. this time, it was more just annoying and gross feeling than horrible atleast...but it still kept me in bed all day. I felt like I ruined Kelly's actual birthday. he went out a few times to get food and get dinner by himself :(
sunday...I felt a bit better, but my stomach still was kinda cramped up from being sick all the day before. tried to eat some cinniminis..ehhh. we went around downtown Nashville, and explored a bit. we went into all the funny tourist shops. I got a squished penny :D as we were walking around, we ran into Jerry looking for the bus lol. we talked to him for a while about the record and his wife and daughter being out. and a little about Ashley haha. when we said bye, I was like ehh what..handshake?? I was all awkward for some reason lol so jerry goes for a handshake and like yanks me in for a hug. x] blah blah..we went to this cool mall across the street from the Grand Ole Opry, and checked out Rue 21 [the mall here in Bloomington is getting one so we wanted to see what it's like] it's super cool. Went to the Disney store and looked at all the cheap kids shirts hoping to find a Stitch one, which they never have. Kelly found one and it was 4$. amazing. it's orange too. so I got it, and it rang up 10$, and we're like uh no. that's 4$..and she's like no it's over there, and we said no there's a huge stack of them on the 4$ table. so she's like hmm okay..and she ends up taking 6$ off..so it ended up only being $3.50 and some tax [Tax, btw, in Tennessee is 9.25% and the prices for everything are outrageous...99 cents for a normal sized candy bar...plus tax. it was retarded] err..we had ihop...I think that was it haha. ohoh...and I was thinking about stretching my ears to my final 4's, but I couldn't really decide. I was doing a puzzle book, and two of the answers in one of the puzzles were "earlobe" and "plug" so I thought it was a sign! hahaha. so I did it. I think it was probably the easiest ones. my ears were kinda like phew! all done. so they didn't swell up or hurt too bad :]
monday...we went to LJS/A&W which was nice. I put in my pink zebra plugs. loveeeee them! we went to the mall near our hotel and it was ghetttoooooo. uhmm...then we went back downtown at about 2 or so. there were already a good handful of people in line, it was weird. we got a good parking spot [that was free! wahoo! haha] and so we just went walking around downtown again. we thought maybe PR would be at the Hard Rock Cafe lol, so we went in to have some ice cream [which was sooo good] they weren't in there but that was okay haha. after people started trickling into town, we started counting all of the A7x shirts vs Papa Roach shirts, and it was basically a bajillion to two...which was gay. lol. we sat around near will call for a while to waste some time. then we walked around the outside of the venue a few times haha..it was nice out. we got hungry so we went on a search for cheap food...we ended up eating at Sbarro which was yummy, and the cheapest we could find. on the way back, we saw Stevie D from buckcherry go into this guitar store, and told these people behind us [who were wearing buckcherry shirts lol]
by this time we went to will call to see if anything was up there yet, it was almost time for doors. nothing at the window yet, so we just waited around. two people from paparoach.com recognized me. one asked if we could get their cd signed for them, but I didn't even know what was going on yet, let alone how everything would work out, or how I would get the cd back to her...[if you're reading this I'm really sorry! lol] we talked to the other girl for a while. Katie came out and Kelly waved and was like HEY GUYS! the dude at the window got all confused and hassled her about giving them stuff for guestlist..we kinda laughed. Then Katie was all, hey you guys wanna come to the meet and greet? and we're like yeah sure. so we got kinda whisked away without even knowing what was going on [so I couldn't grab that cd for that lady that asked, sorry again! :\ ] so we meet up with some guy from Interscope and the meet and greet people [some of which won some contest in Memphis and were REALLY drunk and being annoying] so Katie and Interscope dude tried to escort everyone into the venue, and this crazy power tripping lady wouldn't let any of us go through. Katie's like uhm..I have escorting privileges..and the lady wouldn't let any of us in. so she hands me a working pass so I can come in and bring Kelly, but the stupid crazy lady let me in but not kelly..and she was just being impossible.....
so we all shuffled outside, and then found our way in through the back. blah blah...meet and greet. Interscope dude gives both me and Kelly 8x10s and we're like uhh...thanks. haha. so we talked to another person from Paparoach.com that recognized me. haha so the guys come in and coby's all HEYYYYY. and then said Happy birthday fucka! to Kelly. Tony sees us and he's all 'oh shit!' and I'm like wtf, thanks tony hahaha. it was funny. Coby's like, did you get your passes? and I'm all no, not yet, and he points at the working pass I had on and he's like what? it's right there! I laughed. so everyone meets em and stuff, and Tobin's making faces at me, and it's weird, cuz well..he never remembers me. ever. lol..I just get a look like..hmm..why do I recognize that person? so I've got this 8x10 and I'm like wtf..what do I do with this...and Jacoby's all oh just gimme that. and he signs it and passes it down. he did his "whuddup Busta!" like he always does. I showed him my tattoo and he didn't seem to think it was as cool as I thought he would hahah. Tony was like what did you get?? and I showed him and he was like hmmph. cuz I don't think he gets that's my nickname. ionno haha. so then we talked a little about Kelly's birthday and somehow it came up that we were married or whatever..I think we said we were spending our anniversary going to see them or something. and I guess Tony didn't know we were married..cuz later after the show he asked "so how long have you been married? since NAMM?" and I'm like '5 years' and he's like 'oh..pff. really? well you never mentioned it before' and I'm thinking like, why would I have just randomly mentioned that. lol so anyways..Coby went to make some inappropriate joke about our 28 tattoos [ohoh..that's how it came up...we said that Kelly's 4 months to the day older than Jacoby, then we started saying stuff about 28, and yeah] and then he decided not to say it. haha I kinda wanna know what he was gonna say. but it's probably better that he didn't hahaha. so then Jerry chimes in and is like so how many of these have we signed for you now? and I'm like that's the only one!! I swear. and he's like I know I'm just kidding. :P so they get up to go take pix and before they go over we get our hello hugs from Jacoby and Tony's like HEY so I turn around and he's all *hug* and he apologized for saying oh shit when he saw us x] so while they take pictures with the meet and greet peoples, we kinda started talking to Jerry's wife Jessica, complete with daughter Amelia on her back. so then after pictures Tobin comes over and is like hey, happy birthday man and gives Kelly a hug. then we started talking about..something..and it was like Tobin talks to us every time we see them and he's known us forever [weiiirdddd. haha]
doo de doo de doo...we go back upstairs and outside..back to will call to grab our tickets. then of course, the passes still aren't there..though I had one..blah blah..people are finally getting all inside, and then katie comes back and gives us an after show for kelly and re-gives me her number since I saved it before when I was on prepay, so it didn't save to my account. pff. she says, text me afterwards to meet up so she can take us down. so we go in and walk around and look for Ray. they got more of the Come To Papa shirts which made me sad cuz that's the shirt I wanted to get in Cinci back when I had money to get a shirt, and they didn't have any..and we didn't have shirt money this time around.
we walk around the venue a bunch and go in while Burn Halo is on or whatever. went to Jerry's side..and somehow found seats right in like the 6th row on the side. burn halo was boring..as I expected. not my kinda music. then Papa Roach comes on wee. everyone was standing in the isle, so I asked a dude if we could stand right up in the front in the isle, and he said I dunno, just do it till we find out otherwise..so we do. Jerry's guitar kept going out for like 3 songs. it was no good. the crowd was kinda meh. Coby tried. Tony made a funny face when he dropped his stick...atleast it didn't bounce back this time and whack him in the head like last time. haha. [I can't for the life of me remember what song that's during. but oh well] got yelled at for being in the isle, but we just squished ourselves into the first row. ha. we actually watched Last Resort all the way through..very rarely do we see them end their set. hahah.
so then we went out and walked around the venue seeing if Ray was out there. he found us actually and we talked about Butch for a little [since he missed ittttt. boo haha] and I got to show him my pick necklace he told me to make lol. Kelly saw a girl he'd played a few shows with a few years ago in California..random. AND a dude that we'd talked to a bunch at Poison last summer [dude used to work for them] pretty insane that we're in a city neither of us have ever been to, and like 3 people recognized me [which ended up being 4 cuz I found out later someone else from pr.com saw me] and 2 people kelly knew...so weird! then we just sat down on the floor for a while after walking around a bunch. we saw Katie a little later and she said the passes were for after the whole show, so to text her after A7x is done [ughhh] so we're like hmm..maybe we can go outside and get some food and come back in since I had a working pass, and the same bitch lady from earlier was like NO PASSES GO IN AN OUT THESE DOORS. and she sucked. so we had to stay. we found our way wayyy up to the top of the arena in the last row and I was like meh..I'd rather watch crappy bands than sit around doing nothing. so we watched buckcherry and their lackluster performance. because we were so far back, we could see them set up A7x's stage and it took foreverrrrrrrrs. their big Marshall stacks were just the fronts of the speakers like bolted together like a wall...but because they put them back so far on the stage, you can't tell that they're not real speakers. I guess having big stacks of amps makes you more metal or something? so they FINALLY go on, and the screaming is deafening..we were like WHOA. so they start playing and I'm like wtf, their singer looks like eminem or something? so then I make fun of them, and I'm just staring at the audience and I'm just baffled. I'm pretty sure my brain melted. I must be missing something, because I just do not get that band at all...and these people were so rabid and insane for them, I'm obv not getting it. then I noticed they had cool screens, so we decided to move so we could see the stage from the front. their screens were really awesome. kinda distracting, but awesome. so we're still going WTF?? and laughing at everything they were doing [I'm pretty convinced that Johnny Christ kid was forced to learn to play lefty, so he and Synyster could lean into each other when they play that dueling crap] then all of a sudden, they play some song with steel guitar??? we were like WHAT?! ooo_OOO????? it was very odd. I think at that time, my melted brain poured out my ears. they played a long time. it was awful and amazing at the same time. I felt like I was watching a cult whilst being on another planet. so they finally finish and we're just like ......wow.
went back outside into the hall and tried to find Katie. people started yelling and cheering like idiots as they were all leaving. we were like the last people in the building, but the venue people didn't care because they thought I was working. haha. Katie's phone stopped working cuz she was in the elevator, then I guess she got lost and got locked into a stairwell! and then finally got out to us. haha. we went back downstairs and she told us this story about losing her phone, jacket, debit card, cash, and a giftcard, and then getting them all back and all the money and stuff was still there. amazing.
so blah blah...we're down where everyone's at [Jerry had left already with Jessica and Amelia, so it was good we'd gotten to talk to him earlier, and the day before]..we went into the greenroom sort of place to see what was going on and who was around and Tony is talking to some girl and right as we walk hin he's like oh man I'M LEAVING..and I'm like JEEZE Tony! you must hate us! hahaha. first it's oh shit, then it's man I'm leaving! he laughed. he told kelly to go make himself a birthday shot. [which he didn't do haha. we don't drink..kelly got over that in college hahaha] we talked to tony a lot last night. :] about everything...the record, the video with his son crying online [of which he found creepy and didn't really know about] how I think he's a really cool drummer and a good luck charm for the band, the website and promo/sales..jeeze what else..oh, being married for 5 years, and the fact that we're going out to see them in Virginia [with Madina Lake eee] and Washington DC for our anniversary. hahaha. he called us crazy. the drummer from Buckcherry is a chatty man. he was talking about all sorts of random things, but he was funny and nice so whatever. some girl he knew said she liked my hair color and tony's like 'it's faded isn't it?' and I'm like pff thanks. but yes. hahaha blah blah talked about everything..saw Litface again, and his brother. kelly said something to him about the Butch show. hahaha. Talked to Jacoby about the record, raining sparkles during March Out..boy did his face light up when I said that, then he started talking about Jerry playing with a fan blowing his hair. so funny...talked about Butch, his opinion on Potatoes for Christmas hahahaha [in conjunction with South Gang], going to see them in May/Madina Lake, etc etc. Bob was wearing a cowboy hat..I knew someone in that gang woulda. Saw Ray being important a few times. we talked to Tobin a bit again..still weird but awesome. haha. he said something about seeing me every day, and I thought he meant like, since we see them all the time..but he meant seeing my face on the website. hahah he put up his hands like the edge of a picture and turned his head like my profile picture. I was like I can change it! I'll change it to a picture of you! and he's all noo I like it! it's nice talking to him. :] he gave us hugs and said happy birthday to kelly again. we said bye to Tony too, he kept saying 'do you guys really have to head back tonight? you can't stay?' I think he wanted us to go out to the bar with them or something..which woulda been cool..but both of us had to work today and Kelly had to work at 7am. we said bye to coby and he did some random hifive to inappropriate gesture thing [of course] katie came by perfect timing for hugs and saying bye and to direct us out of the building. so then we drove home...we both were like, asleep the whole time going home. we got home at 6:50am [real helpful when kelly worked at 7. poor thing] stupid losing an hour too, going back into eastern time.
but yeah! that's my story! super long..but I retain details like hell..and then forget them, so I like to write them down so I can remember forever. it was so much fun..the whole weekend, but esp PR. I think from now on Tobin'll remember me just fine. haha. I cannot wait till May 15th...and 16th. bus ride, Rachel, PR headlining, ML..states I've never been to, washington dc, ahh..so fun. I can't wait. :]]]
ohohoh..and to top everything off. we got home today and guess what was in the mailbox waiting for me?? MY INSURANCE CLAIM CHECK FROM THE POST OFFICE FOR MY LOST PHONE!! jeeeeezuh..finally. you guys only lost it on Jan 10, it's now March 31st! pffff anyways..hopefully I'll finally get my sk08 tomorrow! now I must sleep! I'm so far behind on the PR forums since I haven't been on in dayyys. ugh. I'm gonna spend most of tomorrow catching up on that. lol
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