Warped Tour

I attended the Van's Warped Tour July 20 in Indianapolis. I mainly went to see The Offspring. Fall Out Boy was my secondary interest. The Lees and I went over to the place to get some programs. I saw Millencolin in the program, and it got me really excited. If you had asked me five years ago if I thought I would ever get to see Millencolin in live life, I would say that there would have been about a three percent chance. Well, I looked up at the band schedule to find that they weren't really there. That became my secondary sadness from bands not being there. My primary sadness was Bad Religion, who had been there the previous year, when I didn't go. The first band I saw was My Chemical Romance. I had never really liked them in the past, but I really gained a liking for them after seeing them in concert. I almost bought their CD at Karma today. I think Roses are Red were there somewheres, but I missed out on that. I bought an Offspring t-shirt. I saw Fall Out Boy and realized that they were my new favorite band.

My new list of favorite Bands:
1. Bad Religion
2. The Offspring
3. Millencolin
4. Fall Out Boy

I drank a bunch of water before heading over to Mike stage to see The Offspring. Eric Byrer was sitting in the shade and I discussed the Fall Out Boy show with him. I told him where I was going, and then we went our separate ways. I passed the Fall Out Boy place and reminded myself to buy a Fall Out Boy shirt when The Offspring were done playing. I got there while Dropkick Murphys, I believe, were on stage. I liked it. Then when they were done, I ran right up to the front. I stood there forever before they came out. I was frying pretty good in the sun. Yes. I quickly became dehydrated. I thought I might pass out before they came out. But then they came out, and everyone pushed forward until everyone was suffocating. There was a guy somewhere near me that kept shouting "Rich mother-fucker!" When they started playing, I thought the guy behind me was humping me in the ass, but I decided that it must have just seemed that way since we were all packed so tightly together. I later started to think about how the place where he was humping me was the same place I keep my wallet. I checked my back pocket, and surely enough, it was gone. All I was really worried about never seeing again was a certain possibly irreplaceable picture. You guys have no idea how much I love that cross country picture. I turned around and almost punched the new guy behind right in the face, because he should have done something about it. Later on in the show, I stepped on something. It was a wallet. I picked it up and opened it. It was my wallet. Everything was in it except my $35, so I shrugged it off. A few minutes later, I saw a bunch of people picking up wallets and cards and stuff that were scattered all over the ground. I spent the rest of the time yelling and moshing. This one guy in the mosh pit looked really angry. I kept running into him, and knocking him into this one chick. It was fun, but I had to stop, because I felt so weak. I had trouble catching my breath after that. I stopped jumping around and looked for a way out. I didn't see one, so I started jumping and yelling again. Then Noodles threw his water out to someone. Then Dexter pulled a fire hose almost out of nowhere and started spraying it at everybody. Then they started playing again. Then I started feeling very light-headed, and everything sounded very loud. Dexter was talking about something after that one song, and his voice seemed to be splitting my head in two. I hoped they were done, but they started playing again. It felt like they had been playing for an hour. I wanted to surf on over to the security guards so I could go find some water, but I didn't have the energy for it. When they finished that song, they said goodbye, and the crowd became loose again. Atom broke his drum sticks and threw them out into the crowd. One went to a person right in the very front. He hit it up in the air, and it flew right to me. A bunch of people around me jumped in the air to try to grab it. The guy to my left tapped it when it was about three inches away from my hand, knocking far away. I turned around and took off in a very quick pace. Everyone was shouting for The Offspring to come back out. I knew they wouldn't come back out, and was relived when I heard all the Awwws and the Jenna awwws. I quickly walked by the Fall Out Boy stand and thought about how I would no longer be able to purchase a shirt. I continued my trek to the drinking water fountains. I looked down at my feet to see the dirty mess. I was covered in my and had the sweat of about fifty people all over me. When I got to my destination, I was relieved to see there would be a long wait for water. I almost passed out about five times, but I made it and drank about a gallon of water. I then went over to sit in the shade. There was a young couple there. The guy was on the phone with his mom, talking about how his wallet had been stolen at the Fall Out Boy show. I kept feeling worse and worse. I eventually got up and drank another gallon of water. Then I walked over to this one place and leaned over and set my head on a metal bar, and this guy there told me of a sprinkler close by. I thanked him and walked to it. It was very refreshing, but didn't help my light-headedness. I walked back over to my area where I found some Hills and an Evens. This was the part where I fell down. I was there for a while, and then I set out to find the Lees and Luke. I passed Justin and Eric and those guys, and they told me the Lees were looking for me. I went over to the one stage where Fall Out Boy had been, but they weren't there. Billy Idol was about to go on, so I waited. I saw Ben and Ross Green. They were with my twin, Blayr. I talked to them for a bit. After ten minutes, I changed my mind about watching Billy Idol. I went back around, and didn't find the Lees. Then I headed by Mike stage, and I saw Luke in the distance. I sped up and saw that the Lees were indeed with him. I got really close and ran up rill fast. Josh Lee was the first one to realize that I was walking right behind them. Everyone else noticed once he started screaming. We went over to see Senses Fail. This was the last time I saw the Justin/Eric group. Sho and Seth Berger were also at this one. I had actually seen them a lot throughout the day. When that was over, we went over to see Avenged Sevenfold. The Transplants came out instead. They pretty much suck. Clinton came to this one. As did Ross and Ashley Morrow and Truck Hogan. There were some people there giving free high fives. I didn't have enough money though, on account of it being stolen. When the Transplants were done, we waited for Avenged to come out. They took too long, so we left to beat the crowd. Josh got in the wrong lane, and we had to turn around. We went to Stake 'n' Shake. I kept talking about Jon's mom. I told Luke about his brother. He disagreed. I took my drink and left. I went home and told my dad what happened. Then I did some things. Then I think I went to bed.






That was a lot. I started writing this one at 10:16.