so.....

its been a while since i wrote my last post (which i constantly check btw) so here's an update:

ive ended my season over at the job, and i spent most of this week moving crap all over the place. (okay my brother and his friend did most of the work but i think i had a significant role in the whole process) and i also been looking at books for my classes. oooohhhh note: i have to sell my old ones. im going to wait for the syllabus before i get my books (as always) and see if i actally NEED a book for the class. hey last time i didnt even get the psych book and i ended up with a B? or C? dont remember but it was a decent grade. although i do want to get my GPA up this year so im gonna (or try to) work hard. anyways by this time next year im gonna (or should) be out of the house. i have to talk to noodles about being roomies if she's gonna to milwaukee. my last day at work was a sad one since i left kristin (being the only girl) alone at our unit. she's cool as were jimmy and james p. even davey,ceasar, and justin (all who got fired) were really cool. and even josh a, even when he was a little anal to everyone. he was still pretty cool. god im gonna miss doing parade, even me being the ice cream truck and being squeezed in with tweety where there is literally no leg room. but jimmy of course loves it because two days a week he gets to ride the ice cream truck all f-ing day handing out popsicles backstage (code for employee areas) to people. wtf? i love that guy but WTF???? he gets paid for eight hours doing that? im mean seriously WTF???????????? i love that place i mean the people i work with not my job at times.

ugh enough about my work and more of the pics i promised you guys.

so i'll post when more interesting stuff happens in my life (lol)....till then stay tuned.

i know its late but....

here's my review of projekt revolution 2008.



ahhh east troy, wi. not only is it in the middle of nowhere it doesnt have any directions to the f-ing ampitheater! come on! one of the biggest bands in the world are headlining and they couldnt give any signs leading to the place!? my brother and i spent six minutes driving around east troy to find this theater until we stopped to ask someone in a gas station. so when we finally get to the place, it was 3:50ish and we left around 2:15, it took us an hour to get there, but close to ten minutes searching the place.

so, the place was packed. we parked on the lawn. (keep in mind that i never went to any sort of music festival before, this was my first one) and we walked towards the security place where they checked our bags and stuff, while we were walking i notice tailgating parties and mini grills on the back of peoples trucks. girls in bikini tops and shirtless guys drinking beer and playing loud "points of authority" by linkin park out of their car. my mother would've freaked out if she saw this scene. so, we (which is me and my brother) were waiting in the security line when this woman and her group in front of us started yelling at the people that were checking bags. supposedly someone told them that they could bring in a bottled water, they responded that they were out of cups to pour the water in. and they told them "you need to change your website" and they responded "you need to change your attitude" i wanted to LOL but i couldnt since the people looked clearly upset. i mean seriously its not their fault they ran out of cups, you shouldve came here earlier.

so after we got our bags checked and headed to the revolution stage where 10 years was performing. now this is the band i wanted to see, but i only got to see them performing their last two songs, i only know one song of theirs and thats "beautiful" (thanks for that song noodles) which they played last?? im not sure. but i do know one thing: the lead vocalist can SING. they shocked the hell out of me. his voice freaking blew me away. and at the end of the first song i saw them sing he was like "these (mosh) pits are crazy! the girls arent fooling around they're moshing like a bunch of dudes!" im like "yeah i know girls like that, real hard rockers. dont mess around with them" i was in the back, away from the mosh pit and stage but i could see just fine. here's a pic of 10 years, its not the greatest picture in the world but its something




next up is atreyu, now normally i dont like screamo bands but this band had something different about them. was it the fact that they had two singers? or was it the fact that the one song (dont remember was it was called) cussed a lot on the chorus? i dont know. but what i do know is that this band had a lot of energy, and im pretty sure they were feeding off of the crowd cause the crowd loved them. i do know one song which is called "falling down", i really liked that one and it was really good live.




now the set is done and we head to the theater and people were checking the tickets, and i panic a liitle because i couldnt find my ticket, so i started checking everywhere; the bag i was carrying, my pockets, and i eventually found it in my left back pocket. that seriously scared me because i thought i lost my ticket for a second and i thought i wasn't going to see LP, which is what my brother and i were there for. so my brother went inside and found our seats (which werent bad btw, but i wish i couldve been closer) and we saw street drum corps playing: loved the drums hated the singer. seriously i was mesmorized by the drumming but i couldnt stand the singing. i was bored by their performance (singing wise)




then ashes divide was up and i was excited cause i wanted to see an actual band play, not that street drum corps wasnt an actual band but maybe i got confused since mike (shinoda) said that they were "like the blue man group of drumming". these guys were good, but they didnt blow me away like 10 years did. i got excited because the frontman said "how many of you know the movie "the outsiders"?" i , along with hundreds of people,was like "YEAH!" although i havent seen the movie or read the book since seventh grade. then he was like "now how many of you have read the book?" and a few other people, along with me and my brother, were like "YEAH!" now i dont know what he said, perhaps someone could correct me, but i think he said something along the lines of "you are a bunch of illiterate motherf-ers" or "literate motherf-ers" my brother thinks he said "literate motherf-ers" which is good, cause if he said illiterate i wouldve kicked his ass somehow. so they were playing a song called "the outsider" which chester bennington of linkin park supposedly came out and played with them on. i didnt see him or maybe he was there and i didnt recognize him.


oh yeah and all the while ashes divide were playing some (probably drunk off her ass) old 35+ looking lady was dancing like she was "totally jamming out man" it was hilarious.

so after ashes divide ended their set (and which they said they were going to sign t*ts at the musicforelief booth) the bravery came on.

the bravery was an okay band, not really consistant with their songs. but their was one song that stuck to me and my brother and that was "every word from your mouth is like a knife in my ear" why did it stick you ask? well it wouldnt have stuck if they hadnt explained what it was about before they played it. this is what they said and i quote "this song is about someone who manipulates others by scaring them" my brother and i just laughed our asses off because it reminded us of our mom, who did the exact same thing to us when we were younger. so that was funny.





when chris cornell came on the whole theater was nearly packed, now me and my brother didnt listen to any chris cornell nor did we want to, but he really impressed me. chester came out and sang "hunger strike" with chris. and the crowd went nuts. but when chris sang his last song (i think) "black hole sun" it was amazing that whole crowd was singing along, it was great.






and now for the band of the night, and the band that shined over the others: linkin park

okay so, they took forever setting up. but who cares? when street drum corps came out doing their drum thing in the beginning and started doing the beat to "no more sorrow" me and my brother went nuts because i wanted to hear that song live so badly. and then after they left and brad (the guitarist) came out to do his sweet intro solo. and i am sorry you havent heard that song until you heard it live. it was the perfect song to start off the set. i sang the words to every song and screamed until i couldnt anymore. i was really impressed by chester and mike's stage presence. they took control of the stage and brought out amazing energy that no other band did before them. chester walked and jumped around so that even the people on the lawn could see him. his voice is phenomenal and no other singer today can top what he's done on that stage. mike shinoda's jay-z like flows are so smooth it blended so well with the acapella version of "hands held high" he did only the first verse and chorus before jumping straight into "crawling" . which chris cornell (who suprised me) came out and did the second verse. i know that in the live version of "crawling" the "so insecure" part in sung by the crowd but chester didn't let us sing it this time, he sang it. which is cool, i like it either way. this set was filled with favorites like breaking the habit, which the ending was chester doing the chorus acapella, which was amazing and the song that made them "in the end".







they had two encore breaks: one after "one step closer" (which i went crazy on btw) and "faint".

after one step closer people thought they were done were leaving, i told my brother not to go because i heard they do encores. so we stayed and sure enough joe hahn (turntablist) comes out and does "cure for the itch", which for those of you who dont know its an instrumental where mr.hahn does all his scratching on, that was awesome. and after that was "what ive done" where chester messed up his lyrics. but hey i dont blame him, the guys have been on the road for the last three months you're gonna forget things. the next song was "faint" which chester and mike still amazed me.





then there was another break, once again i told my brother not to leave even though he thought they were taking the set down. but it turns out that they were setting up for robs drum solo for "bleed it out" now if you just seen this guy drum on youtube or live in texas. you got to see him actually LIVE, he is so freaking fast on the drums, totally amazed me. then after that the rest of the band came out. chester and mike came out with blonde wigs. mike looking like bret micheals and chester looking like axel rose. and said "you can't take yourself too seriously" then chester just started singing "sweet child of mine" and later mashed it up (or as mike said it "badly mashed up) with "bleed it out" which was the last song of the night.







to sum it all up.....the bands before LP were cool, but LP f-ing owned. it was worth the money and if you havent seen projekt revolution do it now. you'll have a great time.





me and my brother (pic below)





now i do have videos, but they arent any good. but this guy has some great footage of the concert

this is the end of robs solo, the cover of sweet child of mine and bleed it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrG9pX7q7QA

this is part 2 of that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDtt1gdO38E

this guy had the best crawling video feat chris cornell and there is the hands held high that mike did in the beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLcJAd9Im1k

same guy with the sweet child of mine videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPp6vlllQJo

some random stuff

so im going to projekt revolution in about three days (so excited) the band im seeing is linkin park (of course), im gonna give u all the pics and video i can get. they said this was their last tour (with the exception of the china concert) before they head back into the studio for another album. its the same with maroon 5, a band im not seeing on tour this summer due to the fact that i had to choose between PR and CC/M5. i obviously chose PR because i already seen M5 live (they are great live btw), i also didnt want to see the counting crows. i know the counting crows good and all, but i dont want to see them live. although i was debating on the fact that i would be able to see sara barellies live again. when i saw her at the allstate arena when she was touring with M5 in the fall, this was before "love song" was a big hit, and i remember thinking that this girl was going to be huge. her voice was just phenonemal and i highly regret not meeting her after she done her set since the hives came on afterwards sucked so bad. you seriously couldnt understand the words they were saying it was just plain noise to me. i sat down most of the time during their set.

alright enough about music lets switch gears and talk about a hobby of mine. which is photography.

i got into photography about a couple of years ago. its been a hobby of mine ever since. i just like taking pictures of beautiful, weird, out-there things for the heck of it. my dad says he wants to print some of them out and frame them on the walls of our house. i honestly didnt realize i was any good. and heres a couple of pics ive taken and edited.

well i hope that impressed you, if it didnt then screw you. lol i'll post more up later.

sit around boys and girls

todays topic is stupid people. i have a lot of work related "stupid people" stories to tell. i work in a amusement park (im not going to tell the name until im done for the season, people who know me, know where i work), and i have come to the conclusion that people lose all common sense when they come into the park. i worked as a host in theaters for two seasons and i can tell you that people can be unbelievably rude. last year i worked at this live stunt show, although the show was forgettable the things that happened to me and my coworkers there werent. this theater was more of an amphitheater, so it was outdoors. normally this venue was used for concerts (i worked at the concert last year for the plain white t's, i got to meet tom), but they decided to try something new and make it a live stunt show well the problem with that was it was an outdoor theater in chicago. where the weather is unpredictable. all the time. so on the days it rained, all of us had to go outside from our little break room trailer and tell people that the show(s) were canceled. and most of the time people weren't understanding at all they would say things like "are you kidding me? this is the fifth thing that's not working today! i want a refund this is ridiculous!" and i'll be thinking "good luck with that." since our park doesnt give any refunds. and when its not raining we have to close the bullpen (code for gathering area) which is made out of wooden and steel barricades five minutes after show starts. one of us has to be out there telling people to come to the next show. the following dialouge is a mix of things that have been said to either myself or another coworker in a number of events

"why cant we come in?, i was just right there getting some food and now your gonna close the gate on me?"

then i say "its a rule in all of our theaters."

"are you kidding me?! oh my god this is ridiculous! how long has it been anyways five minutes?"

"ten"

"and you still can't let us in?"

"no, im sorry."

"why can't you let us in?"

"its distracting to the guests and the actors on stage"

*cue the park photographers*

"can i get in?"

"yeah"

"oh wait a minute. they can get in by we can't? aren't they gonna distract the audience and actors on stage?"

"they are gonna be set off to the side"

"im going to customer service to report this, this is ridiculous!"

"okay then"

that was a little piece of what me and my coworkers went through last year. one of my coworkers had a guy ask her to watch his child for him while he had to go to the bathroom or something like that.

work is stupid, but the people i work with (well most people) are pretty cool. its just the job. if i end up working there next year it will be because i couldnt find a job anywhere else. this job is a love hate relationship. but i learned a crap load of stuff and i will be set if i get an interview for a job anywhere else. i developed my people skills through this job and im much more talkative then i used to be. truth is that towards the end of the season i am at my wits end with people and so are my coworkers.

so after my season is done i'll blog about what kinda things that went down this season, i'll tell you one thing: five people from our unit got fired.