Warped Tour was so awesome...ya'll don't even know. Like you can't even put it into words because it's so great. Imagine like the best day ever in your life and then times it by about, 10.
Me and Claire and Jordan and her cool mom all went. The car ride up was great cause we saw a ghetto ice cream van up by the adult store, haha.
Dude, it was great. Like right when we walked in Vendetta Red was right there playing with Thrice on the stage beside them. We watched The Ataris and got close up to the stage so we we're in the pit and it was awesome, but it was really hot so Claire passed out and it was bad haha. So then we hung out for a while looking at all the other tents and watched a little of The Starting Line and then went over and waited in line to meet the All American Rejects.
Well, personally, I've always hated the All American Rejects. I think they suck. I hate their organ. I think they're gay. But the only thing that kept me watching them was Tyson Ritter's pretty eyes and just all around hot self. Well Tyson shows up at the AP Booth late, and he stays there for like 15 minutes and then leaves all the fans in line cause they didn't freaking care, so me Jordan and Claire weren't going to give up, so we went chasing Tyson down the street while he was leaving and we caught up with him and took a picture of him while he was leaving and then we asked him if we could take a picture with him and then he took the camera and held it upside and was like "whoops, wrong way" and then he takes a pic of himself and gives it back, and you know what. Now I really hate the All American Rejects.
Then we went to see Tsunami Bomb, and they're AWESOME live. Their music is good and all but it's just not the same unless you see them Live. M is a freaking genius, she rocks hard.
So then we went and watched Bowling For Soup at the other stage behind the vert ramp (the skateboarding was insane btw). They were hilarious and they started singing "Raise Up" ("North Carolina, come on and raise up, take your shirt off and twist it round your head like a helicopter"), and then went into "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne, then "In Da Club" by 50 Cent, and then "Jenny from the Block" by J.Lo. It was hilarious, but the best was at the end with their rendition of Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" ("I'm gonna rock your body and be so fucking gay"). They're hilarious. And then Jaret started talking about making out with everyone's mom's and rubbing everyone's grandma's feet.
So after that we go over and decide to go check out Simple Plan's meet and greet at the AP tent and the line was so long so we just gave up and decided to just stand behind the barrier DIRECTLY IN FRONT of Simple Plan. Simple Plan is BY FAR the coolest band in the world. They're so nice to their fans. Like we're just standing behind the barrier and David and Sebastian and Pierre were all waving at us and smiling and winking and it was great. So then Sebastian is like "We'll come around there and see ya'll". So we're like STOKED! In the middle of their meet and greet David goes and gets a cookie, and then he comes over to where me Jordan and Claire are and he's like "Do any of ya'll want a cookie?" So I'm like of course "me me me" and all the other girls are too and David gives me the cookie. (I'm staring at that cookie right now, I put it in a bag and I'm saving it, lol). So then he goes back and signs autographs and then they finish and come out and talk to us who were waiting in front of the tent and I got pictures with every member of Simple Plan, except for David, which really disapointed me cause he was cool. But anyways, they were all so great.
Then we went and watched Glassjaw, who did indeed rock very much. Claire and Jordan's mom weren't with us though so then we go look for them and they were chillin in the Atticus tent where they had apparently made friends with the guy that worked in the tent (Greg). He was cool so we were talking to him and he let us hang out there for the day and sit in his chairs and everything and turns out he's friends with MARK AND TOM from Blink, and thats how he got the job. He wouldn't give us any free stuff but he's going to send Jordan's mommy a Flaming Lips CD because he swears that they're so good. So then somehow we got around talking about jokes and he told us like two really stupid ones that we laughed at anyways:
Greg: Why didn't Superman save the twin towers?
Us: Why??
Greg: Because he's paralyzed and in a wheelchair dumbasses.
Greg: What do you call a black guy flying a plane?
Us: What??
Greg: You call him a pilot you fucking racists.
Yeah. You kinda had to have been there. Anyways, so then Rancid comes on, but we watched them from the tent because the stage was close to the Atticus tent and they were cool. So then Greg points out this tree that was on fire and it was awesome as hell. Like there was this humungous tree and had apparently caught flames and it was like smoldering and it was so punk rock. It made my day, until the fire truck came and put it out. So we were waiting for AFI to come on, and turns out Greg also hangs out with every band here on the tour, so Jordan heard that the lead singer from AFI was a trans, so we try to get Greg to tell us whether he really is a trans or not, but he wouldn't. All he said was that "he's an interesting guy" and "he's a beautiful man." But he was laughing whenever we'd ask him so therefore, he is a trans.
So then instead of AFI, Simple Plan came on...which was cool because we were already officially huge fans because they were so awesome to us, and they rocked live. So then Pierre says that he's gonna be in the Simple Plan tent signing autographs, so we ran over there and got in line and he signed my shirt. Pierre was so awesome though because he sat in the tent signing autographs until every single person was gone. He was there for like 3 hours.
Then we went and watched the Used. They we're pretty cool. Bert was kinda weird though with all his talking about pussies and stuff. But then we found out in the middle of their set, Bowling for Soup was in their tent, so we ran over their and got them all to sign our shirts and we got pictures with them. The fat one is the coolest, no joke!
So then we go back to the Atticus tent to hang out with Greg some more and we saw Andrew W.K. signing stuff in his tent, but we didn't stop. So then we find out (through Greg) that Simple Plan went instead of AFI because apparently lead singer/trans in AFI got bit in the ass by a spider or something like that. So we're chilling and who happens to be in the tent right next to the Atticus tent? M from Tsunami Bomb, so we got a picture with her and she was really cool. Then I heard the opening of Miseria Cantere so we ran out and watched AFI, WHO WAS AWESOME AS HELL!!! The last song they played was God Called In Sick Today, and that's my favorite AFI song so you know, here I am flipping out going insane. AFI was the last set, so then it was time to go.
I came home all muddy and crap. It was great. Warped Tour was just awesome...you don't even understand.
This is the Teal Stage, which is one of the two main stages...and the Used is the one on right now...they were pretty cool.
Glassjaw on the Brian Stage (the other main stage). They were AWESOME.
AFI (at night) on the Brian Stage. PROBABLY THE BEST SET OF THE DAY!
The Starting Line on the Brian Stage.
Bowling for Soup on the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands stage. Their set was pretty awesome and hilarious.
Claire, Jordan, and me with BOWLING FOR SOUP!
Me Claire and Jordan were just kinda walking past the backstage area behind the Brian Stage and we just happened to see the drummer from AFI. (The one in the white shirt back there)
Me being INSANELY stoked when we first arrived in Charlotte.
Jordan in the front seat with her mommy just arriving in Charlotte. You can't read it online but the temperature above the rearview mirror says 91 degrees. It was scorchin.
ONE OF THE BEST MOMENTS OF THE DAY! Me Claire and Jordan were just kinda hanging out and David from Simple Plan (pink shirt) waved to us and he was just like talking to us while he was signing autographs. By the way, the dude with his shirt off was in their I'd Do Anything video (he was the dude to get kicked in the balls) and in the Addicted video (he's the guy asleep on the couch). We didn't know this at the time because he was just kinda selling posters and not like really, I don't know, flaunting it?
ME AND CLAIRE WITH PIERRE FROM SIMPLE PLAN! Pierre's such a good kid. You can't really see Claire but she's there!
Pierre and Claire when he was signing autographs after the Simple Plan set.
Jordan me and Claire with Sebastian from Simple Plan.
Me Jordan and Claire with Emily from Tsunami Bomb. She rocks so much, she's awesome.
These are both Tsunami Bomb up on stage. You can barely see Emily rockin' it out. Tsunami Bomb totally takes you by surprise. They are soo great live.
If you look in the background, you see smoke in the air. THATS from the burning bushes and trees. HAHA! It was so righteous. We took this picture while we were hanging out with our cool friend Greg in the Atticus tent booth thing whatever you want to call it.
The vert ramp in front of the Ernie Ball stage. I mean come on, Vans warped tour. You can't have Vans without skateboarding.
The ever so beautiful Tyson Ritter with Claire Jordan and me. Look at the expressions on our faces...we were like running. Oh geeze I look so beautiful, lol.
..and last but not least. Our friend Greg flicking off the camera.
