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Warped Tour (Buffalo) Recap- 8/10/07

Overall, great day. A lot happened.

Annie, Rianna, and I got there shortly after doors and I called JD from the parking lot. It took him a little while but he eventually mosied over to us at the front gate and I gave him his veggie burgers and water. We chatted for a minute and he gave me $20, which I attempted to not accept. Seeing JD first thing when I got there made me so happy, we laughed about the Valencia Update JD Edition that had been put online this morning. Good fun. Then we went inside and Forever the Sickest Kids were just leaving the front gate so Rianna and I ran to catch up and we walked with Caleb, who informed us that they were playing an acoustic set at the myspace tent now. So we ran back to find Annie (who had been stopped by some monk asking her for money and showing her pictures of snakes and spears, weird), then we ran to to myspace tent only to find out that we had about forty-five minutes until their set. So we sat and waited, OHIO came to watch the set too. It was great. After the acoustic set we headed right over to the East Coast Indie stage to see FTSK play their full set. We were right up front. At some point I got whacked in the head with something, I have no idea what exactly happened. But anyway....Jonathan asked if I was ok and I said yeah I'm fine, and he rubbed my head and kept eyeing me, and at the end he kept high fiving me and what not. And Caleb and I had a moment at the end...basically he wiggled his fingers at me idk (like on the little rascals, and our fingers tips touch)...it was cute.

After FTSK played I walked around for a bit. Bought a couple t-shirts. Lurked the FTSK tent, K Dirty signed my forehead. Then Annie and I went over to the Paramore signing. I got a card signed for Sam's friend Nikki. Then we headed back over to FTSK tent. I pretty much just went back and forth between the amnesty tent and the FTSK tent for the next hour until Valencia played at 3:30. Around 3 Danielle and I went over to the general area of Valencia's tent and stage, we met up with everyone else, and then went to the Hot Topic stage to wait for their set. The set was good, the crowd was kind of lame. But it doesn't matter, they were great.

At 4:30 Valencia had a signing and as soon as they all got to the table I walked up to the front of the line and pulled out the $20 that JD had given me, showed it to him and put it in the tip jar. George asked him what it was and JD said it was the money he had given me for the food. And then I walked away. I ended up getting in line for the Valencia signing with Sam because she wanted to get a card signed for her friend. It was mildly awkward because once we got closer they saw me; JD gave me a head nod and George and Brendan acknowledged me and it was weird that I was standing in a line to see them. Once we got up to the table Sam got the card signed and got a picture. Brendan said he liked the DARE shirt I was wearing...I didn't hear him at first and said "whhaaaaatttt?" and George mocked me and said "whaaaaatttt". It was cute.

At 5 I went to see FTSK play their second acoustic set at the skull candy tent. They were great. Then when that was over we were hanging out by the skull candy tent and got pictures and what not. Then we went with Caleb to the side of the tent to watch Cute Is What We Aim For play their acoustic set. It was fun watching CIWWAF with Caleb. I hand fed him a ritz bit cracker at one point....put it right in his mouth, that was fun times. After that we went over to FTSK's booth to get more pictures and say goodbye to everyone. It was sad because they are touring the west coast next and then going into the studio, so it's gonna be a few months at least until we see them again.

After saying goodbye to FTSK, I went over to Valencia's booth because I had to leave in an hour or so and I wanted to say goodbye to everyone. I sat with George under their tent for a little bit. I told him that they have the day before the Rochester show in September off, so they should come to Rochester the 24th and hang out. He said maybe. Then he left to go shower and Brendan came over. I sat with Brendan for a little bit. Danielle, Sandra, and their other friend met up with me at Valencia's tent. Then me and the OHIOOOOO girls went and sat under the tree across from the booth. I had about a half hour until I had to leave and I wanted to say goodbye to JD so I was waiting for him to come out. Then George said he was on the bus. So I texted him and told him I had to leave and wanted to say goodbye, but he didn't respond, probably because t-mobile gets shitty reception everywhere warped is soooo I'm just going to assume that he didn't get the message. So I ended up leaving without saying goodbye to JD and I was really really sad (I legit thought I was going to cry, but I didn't).

The End.

Warped Tour in Scranton yesterday was great, but I am never going to warped tour there gain. You have to walk down a bug ass mountan to get to it, which means you have to walk back up it to when its time to leave. Other than that though it was fun. I saw All Time Low and Valencia, which were really the only two bands that I really wanted to see, and they were great. Rianna bought Brendan a tie that he wore for their set. And it turns out Brendan and I both shop at target and buy the same pants! haha JD commented my facebook Tuesday night and then brought it up yesterday...I have a response to the readers poll in AP and he saw it and told me about it via facebook...which completely made my day, because a)that means he knows my name and he went out of his way to tell me about it and b)he was just adorable. Valencia were amazing, as usual, and it was great seeing everyone again. Ri and I showed them our pictures that we took in Wendys and Arbys the day before and everone thought they were funny. Overall, it was a great day.

The drive to Altoona, PA was rediculous. We left somewhere around 10am, a little after, and we arrived at the "venue" sometime just after 5pm. The entire drive was highways that were full of construction, which meant detours and stalled traffic. When we finally got to Altoona we couldn't find the venue because of all the one way streets and we didn't actually know what we were looking for. The "venue" turned out to be a church, which we passed twice because we didn't know it was what we were looking for.

Once we finally pulled into the parking lot the only bands there were Permanent ME and the local band. SAC and Valencia hadn't gotten there yet. So we hung outside for awhile, then went in and paid and then went back outside. SAC and Valencia didn't get there until almost 6...we all left and went to Sheetz across the street so we could eat and when we came back the rest of the bands had arrived.

The show was decent. The sound sucked because once again they were playing in a church, a very unsuitable venue. But it was great to see SAC and Valencia again. Despite the problems they still were great and we had so much fun.

After the show we hung out a bit. Jon was a creep as usual...he took Rianna's camera and started taking random pictures of people in the room and he said that Thursday they all went to six flags and they thought of us...uh only mildly creepy (to add to the mildly creepy things he said last week in regards to lenny)...but all this aside we still adore him.

Once outside we busted out the sparklers and somehow managed to go through six boxes. Oh how I love running around like a spaz while holding flaming sticks. George seemed to love them too. Yay.

It was such a fun night. I wish we were able to go to the Deleware show tomorrow..err today...but we can't. Everyone was kind of expecting us to be there I guess, because they asked us if we'd be there but based on how they said it they assumed we would be. BUT in 5 days we get to see Valencia and Forever the Sickest Kids again. I'm so sad that SAC is going all the way to the UK, it's just too far away. Hopefully once they get back they'll tour again, because I need to see them again soon.

oh yeah, at some point just before SAC played some girl next to us asked us if we were feeling christian tonight...um no, rianna basically told her we aren't religious and then she asked if we were feeling good tonight...it was really weird. People from Altoona are creepy.