oh yeah...

10,000 BLUNTS BEING PASSED AROUND DURING ASSHOLE PARADE

best
- playing 4 shows over the weekend
- being stage side for nmds and doing tonnes of stage dives (sorry everyone trying to watch)
- holy mountain to finish the official Fest
- saturday and sunday warehouse shows
- being drnk the whole weekend
- gatorface!!!!
- saturday at the venue with larry arms, nmb and pib
- free shirts
- free drinks
- meetng a whole truck load of the best dudes and dudettes ever
- seeing chewy in his steve zissou outfit

worst
- missing iron chic
- saying goodbye to people
- having to leave some of my shit in the hotel room becuadse i didn't have enough room in my bag
- time going to quickly
- someone swaping my d4 shirt for a large sburban home shirt

woah I forgot all about the awesomeness of the 1982 pre-fest show

one of the best Young Livers set's i've seen

I tried making a best and worst list but it pretty much came out like this

Best:
pretty much fucking everything

Worst:
saying goodbye to everyone

WHAT. THE. FUCK. This had better happen again. I was gonna go to that too.

+BEST +
+ The success of Thunder Siege; every Fest needs a tent city(s? eh? yes?)
+ Municipal Waste fucked me up
+ fell in love with Pink Razors
+ fell in a weirder love with Shark Pants
+ Toys That Kill (Pliers is probably played other times often enough...I guess)
+ I still get excited by Checkers
+ Hitting up Flaco's twice (Media Noche Borracho and the Cuban..fucking..fucking scrumpcious...i need to find the closest substitue immediately)
+ Getting hit on by a lady way out of my league while walking drukenly through the alleys of Gainesville

- WORST -
- Taking 5 minutes to find out she was a hooker; it was all fun and games until she came out with "I'll suck you off for $5"
- Being hungover and watching my friend eat a Bull Dawg
- Turning the corner laughing in a drunken stupor only to see the Arrivals' Little Dave being taken away in handcuffs, fearing they wouldn't play the next day, +learning he got off with a ticket+, then realising that next day my Fest band had fallen off on my way in line to see them, running to my car, driving to the Holiday Inn and back to the Venue in 40 minutes, just enough time to see my friends walking out with smiles. Guess i'm glad they're hometown heroes, still.
- Getting too drunk to find parties
- Wasting 5 dollars (JUST KIDDING GANG!)

TELL ME THIS HAPPENED BEN.

BEST:
meeting so many rad people who i had some of the funnest times ever with.
stage diving and circle pits at New Mexican Disaster Squad on Saturday.
juggaling the 5:20 Saturday sets and seeing most of No Trigger, some of Armalite, and a few Larry Arms songs.
sharing a room with my brother of another mother who I hadn't seen in forever.
hearing The Swellers for the first time.
spending Halloween with those New Jersey mooches the Bouncing Souls.
getting to hang out with my friend Luke from Austria for 4 days straight.
looking up and all the sudden seeing Thomas from Strike Anywhere in mid-stage dive above the crowd at The Venue. (i think it was Paint it Black or Bouncing Souls, i don't remember)
Meeting the National Underground guys in the parking garage on Sunday night
Hanging out with MacKenzie and Luke later that night at the Sunday practice space show.
Paint it Black on Saturday (great music and half-pig/half-horse jokes)
being told on more than one occasion that I was someone's hero when i passed my weed to them.
someone at the Sunday practice space show laughing so hard at one of my unintentional jokes that beer came spewing out their nose.
talking to Phillip at common grounds & outside atlantic
being outside the atlantic with phillip and others and seeing the awesomeness that was Pee Wee Herman
G-a-t-o-r-f-a-c-e
talking multiple times to Alex, Richard, Brian, and Sam from NMDS/Gatorface/Virgins.
meeting the dudes from Kiss of Death records.
meeting Mathieu from Live 'N Loud at the Sunday practice space show.

WORST:
leaving Gainesville and all the people I met.
missing the Saturday night practice space show.
no Paint it Black parking lot show.
tweaking my back and ankle so bad on Saturday that i couldn't ride my bike on Sunday.
Dead To Me canceling their show on Sunday.
missing Andrew Jackson Jihad on Saturday.
completely forgetting my costume for Friday night.
registration
not sticking around long enough at registration.
not seeing checking out Backstage Lounge or George's Meat.


SO FUN. SO GREAT. SO READY FOR Fest 8.

tremendous!

Swear to god dude! We ran into you right after that back the tents, it was late...Saturday?

EDIT: oh, but if you're asking if I went through with it I can only say this: its not beneath me--and she WAS--WOOOAH!! Naw, I had to turn her down, I left my heart in Chicago unfortunately. She actually wouldnt leave me alone so for whatever reason I went this route, I said "Do you have a little brother?" she said yeah so I said "Well, isnt that weird, hes probably around my age..i migth be a lot like him-thats gross!" and she kinda wandered down the street, she was pretty drunk herself...HA, then she wound up going around the block and meeting us on the next block anyway and she was about to start her speil all over again on me, then it tooker (ha, tooker) a minute to realise i was the same guy

BEST -

Meeting up with everyone I met last year
Meeting a whole bunch of new people
PRE-FEST KARAOKE!!
The Ergs! playing Dorkrockcorkrod in its' entirety
Missing Leatherface because I was making out with a cute guy throughout the whole set
Sparks!! (England so needs to get this!)


WORST -

Not being able to get any money out of the ATM Saturday night so ended up stomping back to the motel after D4
Having to get up 6am Monday to catch the bus to Orlando after way too many beers on Sunday night
Not going to any house shows again
Being home


Counting the days till next year already......

I think I was standing right next to you.

the hooker...was she blonde, and a little bit older?

i always see her walking around gville. she's pretty hot.

not sure what her deal is....if she's a hooker or what.

Oh...sorry!

thats her alright. she was wearing a neat little jean skirt i think, and a tight top of course.

dude where were you? i would totally pound that bitch lol.

i always see her up and down like university, and sometimes on archer. one time i saw her on a bike haha.

she just walks around like she doesn't have a care in the world.