bamboozle

so after partying way too hard thurs night at alk3 (bon came down and we decided to act like we were 16??), i woke up early fri to see no doubt on the today show. a few minutes later i got a call to work bamboozle. this wasn't confirmed til about 12 hrs later, so i found myself on a train to hoboken to stay with losie at 11pm. after maybe 3 hrs of sleep on the floor, we were off to the meadowlands. got to work with some cool people and make some decent money. i had decided to skip going this year because the lineup wasn't particularly great, but i was really bummed about missing the get up kids reunion, since i've heard mixed things on whether they plan on touring or just hitting up the festivals. so i took my saturday 'dinner break' (they didn't feed us and we had to shell out $ for shitty festival food) during tguk. amazing! the little neon-wearing kids went into hiding or wandered to a side stagte or something for a glorious 40 minutes and the set was amazing. i wasn't really dying to see anyone else that i hadn't just seen (new found, syg). once the side stages closed down we could really hear the headliners tho so i got to hear third eye blind (fuck yea), face to face, tbs (still terrible. i have never ever gotten the appeal of that band - sorry chrissy) and NO DOUBT. amazing.

highlights included:

- waking up at 5:30am saturday to losie blasting motley crue as i tried not to murder him
- seeing a bunch of people i love. i must have texted "merch booth by the ferris wheel" 20 times
- being called a fucking bitch only one time! sorry but you can't return a hoodie you've been wearing in the rain all day
- watching all the guys hit on girls and then wondering if they were 18 or not.
- as stated, THE GET UP KIDS. amazing.
- some kid getting all his bottom teeth knocked out during face to face. he was in such shock, he just wanders up, goes "how bad is it?" and opens his mouth as blood pours out. i hope he is ok.
- watching everyone wander up after gwar. gross.
- being right next to the dunk the clown. this was the clown that was on oz fest for 10 years. he was incredibly awful. every time a black person walked by, he would say "aren't you at the wrong show?" and play 50 cent. indians, jews, gays.. no one was safe. he kept playing the barney the dinosaur theme song and it took me til midway thru sunday to realize it was because everyone was wearing purple hoodies ala cobra starship. i was not sad to say goodbye to him.
- the girl from disney channel, demi lavato, HAS. A. VOICE. goddamn.
- number of girls that lost their flip flips and requested plastic bags as makeshift shoes: 4. if you are gonna wear flip flips to a 12 hr festival, in the RAIN, don't go anywhere near anything resembling a "pit". just a thought.
- whatever "hollywood undead"is, they need to go away and never, ever return.
- seeing exactly one hot dude (not in a band) who looked of legal drinking age. sigh.
- bringing a stereo on sunday and blasting gaslight to drown out the clown.
- being a little bit less broke now.

up soon: merch faq/dos and don'ts. it's a long time comin.