Knights Of Cydonia

Okay. Continuing on.

Well, about the dinner at Tofu Hut. I don't think it mattered if I was there or not. There's something about eating dinner with my family that I truly hate. It's either I stay quiet and just eat and listen or I try to talk about something cause I really want to but then I get interrupted. My dad and grandma ALWAYS does it. I'm trying to tell my sister about the Vegoose tickets or something I heard and I get interrupted every fucking time. Do they not hear me talking? Seriously. It's so annoying. I was actually kind of glad to leave cause when I'd think it would be a good time to talk, well it wasn't. Sorry Angie.

After Martian Child we [Dallas, Alex, Alexa & Alma] all went to Swish. Alexa and I didn't eat but the others did. It seems like they got a stomach ache afterwards though. I'm not sure if that's from eating too fast or something was wrong with the food. Weird. Oh, and we were watching this sports competition thing on the Japanese TV. It was awesome just watching. I wish shit wouldn't go so fast cause I was seriously trying to read the names.

After that, I dropped off Alma and went to Dallas'. Then we went to Alexa's. I sat on the couch with Dallas and Alex using me as a pillow thing while watching some guy digging salt. I'm not really sure what was going on cause I was falling asleep. Next thing I know I'm passed out and I wake up cause I guess my mom was calling me. I'm telling her I passed out at my friends house and she starts screaming at me. She's never done that before and it was really awkward how concerned she was. So I had to leave the room cause it got really loud. She wanted to talk to one of my friends to tell them to take me home and all this bullshit. Why I didn't have my car. That I probably have a boyfriend and that's why I stay out late every night. All these things spewing out of her mouth. It was crazy. She's never acted like before and I don't know what made her think that. But I guess I haven't really been home and I don't really talk to her. But it just got really bad and I refused to go home cause she was being such a bitch. I had to calm down so I went outside to just sit and get some fresh air.

Thanks Alexa for coming out and checking up on me. Sorry Alex for snapping at you when I was laying on the floor. Sorry Alexa and Dallas for being a downer.

My back really hurt after being on the 'dog bed' so I tried to straighten out by laying on the floor. I remember passing out on the couch with Alexa for several hours and I woke up randomly and saw Alex and Dallas already staring at me. It was 11:30am. About a few minutes after my mom called me. I just let it go to voicemail and we eventually left.

I got home and after changing, we eventually started talking. It was just bullshit. She thinks I drink every night as well, cause you know, school nights and that's why I'm so tired. I don't care anymore. She doesn't trust me anymore because I don't go home and I go to college and have a car. I'm over it. I'm still mad at her but she acts like nothing has happened and is kissing ass to me now.

I think I spent the rest of the day [October 26] pretty much cleaning. I went to Cathay House for Kevin's birthday dinner. I thought I was late but they just walked right in right before me. Familiar faces. Andrea, Freddy, Sirena, Tyler, Danny and this one guy I totally forgot his name but I rode rides with him at the Stratosphere before. Eventually Chung and Erica came and others I didn't know. Kevin's family was there as well and it was pretty nostalgic when I'd have dinner with Ron's family or something. Especially when his relatives would come visit.

It was cool at first cause I was sitting between Chung and Danny and talked to them. But after we changed our tables, no one around me would talk to me so it was awkward. Haha. And I guess I was the only one who brought a camera so Kevin borrowed it to take pictures with his family and such.

After the 2-3 hour dinner, I went to Alex's. I couldn't get ahold of Arabela and I really wanted to see her cause I haven't in such a long time and I really miss her. Plus she's going to start full time, graveyard, and I'm going to start working as well.

Alma and Alexa eventually left and I guess Dallas, Alex and I just passed out. I didn't mean for that but damnit. We didn't wake up until like 6am. They thought I was naked, but I wasn't. : I was wearing a shirt, damnit.

Dallas left first then eventually I left and wished Alex's mom a happy birthday.

I went to Target first to find my mom a shoerack but I couldn't find one, so I went to the Target up on the 215. Found it and went back to Wal-Mart to get some stuff. Went and waited for Q Mode to open cause I needed to find a skirt for my costume. Nothing. Then I went to Ross and didn't find anything but a shirt. Jessica was already at my place when I got there, so I just gathered random clothes and went to her house. I ended up borrowing all her clothes and we eventually went to Vegoose. We had already missed Lupe Fiasco, so I was a little sad but it's okay. Jessica decided last minute to change into her costume in the car. They didn't even check Jessica's purse. They just gave it a bit of a squeeze and we were in. I don't know why on the ticket they were all pushing no cameras/recording devices/etc.

We get inside and already someone hits on us. Funny thing was, this lady walks up to us and hands Jessica these 3 things and says have a fun night. We were confused, looked at what she gave us... and it was Trojan condoms. The guy ran off. Hahahha. Another guy came to us. Then we find out Atmosphere is just about to play so we go over to that stage. They were quite awesome. I enjoyed it very much. Then we go walk to Public Enemy cause I really wanted just see if Flava Flav would come out. We keep on waiting and he starts talking on a mic telling us to scream Flava Flav then says, 2 more minutes. And at the same time, we hear Cypress Hill already performing so we were like wtf. We keep waiting and they finally start. We ended up leaving after a couple of songs but I didn't even see Flav.

Cypress Hill was just awesome as well. Oh man. Everyone, and I mean everyone, was smoking weed. That's all you could smell and nothing else. I think I got major contact high.

Everyone at Vegoose were dressed up as hippies, or maybe they are hippies. Tie-dyed shirts, long brown skirts, dreaded hair and a dub in their hands.

I even saw some chick dresed up as a marijuana leaf and holding a sign saying Legalize. A lot of people were dressed up so it was just fun pointing out random costumes. Like I found Waldo, and when I said that, apparently Jessica saw one behind me as well.

We walked over to see The Shins for the rest of their set. It was really good and they even dressed up as... I'm not sure actually but it was fun. I really didn't expect them to get as much feedback as they did cause all the other bands were just rap, or at least the ones we watched. This guy tapped me once to get a look at the stage listings and then he tapped me again to see it after The Shins were done. He was super fucking tall. I thought maybe he'd want to hang out with us since we were watching all the same sets and then he eventually just runs off. We kind of tried to follow him but then he stops out of nowhere and turns around probably looking for someone. uhh haha.

We go walk over to Queens Of The Stone Age and then Jessica mentions she thinks she just saw Crista. I was like wtf where? I turn and I see her, Shantia and Dustin. I go walk up to her, poke her and we hug. First time I've seen Crista since the Washington trip. It was so good seeing her. I talked to her for a bit and Shantia and Dustin just left her. So we talked some more, Queens opened up with No One Knows and after Crista finds Shantia, Jessica and I go to the bathroom. Which was totally disgusting. Someone was walking around handing all the women toilet paper. haha.

After we go back to Queens and sit down finally. I text Crista asking if she was going to just stay for Daft Punk and Jessica points out she's right in front of us sitting as well. I text her back telling her I'm in front of her but she just keeps texting and eventually saw us. Jessica and I are just listening to the music and whatnot and out of nowhere Crista comes up and sits next to me. We talk about what we saw at the show and etc. I wasn't really digging Queens Of The Stone Age. They played the only songs I knew in the beginning and everything was just meh.

Crista eventually left. Jessica and I go walk over to Iggy & The Stooges to check them out for a few minutes. Interesting. Haha. Then we walked back over to Daft Punk to wait for an hour in a half with the crowd. I see Crista to the left of us. I don't know why we kept running into her. Then I look to my right, and it's the guy we talked to at The Shins. We kind of glanced at each other and smiled and that was about it. Jessica and I sat down for probably 30 minutes next to other people but people were being bitches and stepping all over us. Eventually we got up and stood for another 30 minutes or so waiting for Daft Punk. We were at a decent distance considering the thousands of people that would be done with the other sets and running over to Daft Punk.

Let me just say, Daft Punk was probably one of the performances that I'm really glad I'm just alive for. One of those once in a lifetime events you just have to go to just for the music. Plus, I've always wanted to go to a rave and that's what it felt like. Everyone was jumping, singing and just enjoying the music. It was amazing. Yeah, Daft Punk seriously just sat there and DJed the entire time, but what else can you expect from them? The lights and music worked perfectly together. I just loved it. I tried to get pictures and got some footage. Oh man.

When they were done, Jessica and I thought we would be smart and run to the car. Except, we couldn't find the car. Haha. The traffic was not all that bad. Tried to get In N' Out, except we took the wrong turn and ended up on the 515. Picked up Jack In The Box on the way to my place, watched an episode of The Office and watched the footage I got from Vegoose. We were both exhausted so Jessica went home and I passed out.

[October 28]

I got up at a decent time, but I had to do a lot of random stuff. Like trying to upload all the pictures/videos and burn my mom several CDs. My computer was just taking a shit on me and I couldn't work with it at all. Plus, my battery wasn't charged so it was aggravating in waiting for it to charge and I go try to upload pictures as fast as I can. I wanted to kill myself.

I ended up leaving super late and when I got to Jessica's, I uploaded everything on her computer. We EVENTUALLY left and go. I felt a bit too dressed up. Blah. I wanted an excuse to wear my boots so I could be taller and I got mixed feedback. I felt gross. lol.

I get there and watch the rest of Infected Mushroom's set. Wow, that was pretty good as well. Completely trance and electronica but it was a band. Guitar and drums. And then I realize who was in front of us. The same guy I was talking about the day before. At The Shins and Daft Punk. What the hell hahahaha. I didn't talk to him though. He probably knew it was us but he kept dancing.

I think Infected Mushroom is better live than when you just listen to their music.

We leave right when they did their encore and go wait for Muse. It was disgustingly packed and I couldn't see over anyone's heads. They come out eventually and opened up with Knights Of Cydonia. Oh my god amazing. Bubbles and huge balloons and popped glitter and confetti. It was just a huge performance and even though I could barely see anything, it was amazing. I couldn't get pictures for shit but I got SOME footage.

We leave and walk around to all the booths. We got tickets to some local band competition going on from 107.9's booth and I get a Daft Punk shirt.

We watch someone get married with all these celebrity look-a-likes hosting it.

This guy dressed up as a girl with this plastic body with hands already touching the boobs on it, comes up to us. And says "Hey ladies, want to make some bad choices tonight?" lawl.

We go over to Rage Against The Machine and sit and wait and watch all the people running to it. They finally start playing and it was just crazy how the crowd got so huge and how everyone got into it even though they were so far away. I wonder how Daft Punk looked. We're not really a Rage fan at all so we eventually leave so we can just beat the traffic and change at home to go to The Shins night performance at The Joint.

At Hard Rock, I lost my ID on the way to pick up my tickets but when we walked back, someone was waiting for me and handed it to me. Thanks so much.

Everyone there was dressed up in the sluttiest costumes, including guys, to go into Body English.

The Shins was just as amazing as the night before. I got a video and really good pictures. People kept poking me telling me how good the pictures came out or how I almost had a good shot. It was funny.

That was it.

And now I gotta find a quick article for my debate in Psychology which is in 50 minutes. Oh fuck.