Blackbox, Red Jumpsuit Aparatus, and The Fest

This weekend was full of awesomeness. First No Harm Done had a show at the Black Box Collective with Shook Ones, Ramming Speed and In Defense. All of which ruled incredibly hard, especially Ramming Speed. I picked up an In Defense tape and a Ramming Speed compact disc. That night we all ate at the hospital, which has an amazingly awesome fruit salad bar, and I slept at Charles house with Jack, Shook Ones, and In Defense.

Woke up the next morning and we ended up getting an after Fest show at some warehouse in Gainesville. So No Harm Done drives to gainesville on Friday and we get there around 9. We wait around for a few hours hanging out with dudes. Our show doesn't start until 2 am, so we have to waste some time. We find out that after all of the Fest shows are over at 1:30 Paint It Black is going to play out of a u-haul trailer in the parking lot outside of The Venue.

And of course at 1:30 we all head over to the parking lot and sure enough we see a u-haul pull up. Our group starts walking towards it and the other 200 people outside of The Venue follow. So there is this huge mob of punkers walking towards the u-haul. The door opens and Paint It Black starts setting everything up. They turn on their generator and start playing "Past Tense, Future Perfect." After about 5 seconds the generator shuts off and it's just the drums and about 200 people singing along. They keep playing and it is still pretty awesome. People are jumping off the top of the u-haul into the crowd. They finish that song and then cops on horse back show up. They start blowing their whistles and shining their flashlights into people eyes. So the crowd disperses, and we head back to our van for the warehouse show.

We get to the warehouse to find about 50 people huddled outside. After a few minutes some more bands show up including Paint It Black, Trash Talk, Smartbomb, and No Trigger. Charles calls the dude that has the key to the warehouse, and he said he fell asleep and will be there in a few minutes. After 20 minutes of confusion and galaventing pass by the dudes in Trash Talk start trying to break the lock on the door. Then charles gets a text from the kid saying that he isn't comming. So we all leave with soft penises.

That night we stayed with two of Charles friends at some shitty motel and get even shittier food from stake n shake.

The next morning we drive to St. Petersburg for some lame show with Red Jumpsuit Aparatus. There are about 20 people there in a field that they hold the warped tour at. We get free vegan food, and drinks which is the highlight of the whole day. Jack boxes Tom Stevens, and some metal bands dressed up as wolf's play. I filled in for Change of Ideas for this show and like 3 other shows which is fun because they have some really awesome songs to play on drums. Then No Harm Done plays and some kids are into it. We get some more free vegan food then watch fallen from the sky cover Marylin Manson. We end up leaving around 8.

I stayed over at Charles house again because Jack, Charles, and I plan on seeing the Ergs on Sunday.

We wake up around 12 and watch Seinfeld. I got vitamin C from publix because I became sick over the weekend somehow. After consuming large doses on Seinfeld, pasta, vitamin C, and anal sex we head to Gainesville. As we are driving we smell burning rubber. Jack pulls over and realize that his tires are extremely bald, and have large rips in them. So he gets his tires replaced and we continue our trip to G-ville. We get their around 7, just in time for the ergs. This guy sneaks us in through a back entrance and we catch them a few songs into their first set. They play mostly songs I've never heard, but then announce that their second set (due to Dead To Me dropping off) is going to be DORKROCKCORKROD in it's entirety. This is the only cd I listen to religiously. Of course their set was awesome, and they even played two descendents covers including "Bikeage".

Since I was already sick, and due to the repeated kicks, and punches to the head, I wasn't feeling to well. I decide to not join Jack and Charles in their vegan hot dog meal. They take me home and I have a banana, some OJ, and vitamin c pills, and am off to bed.

This weekend was one of the best in a few months. Tour starts November 12th, and it will be my last one for a while since I have to go back to DSC to finish high school. The man is a goblin!