My YouTube account has been encountering some problems, so my Warped post is now about two weeks late. I guess better late then never, right? Anyways, now that I've been able to get my video up here, I'm just going to paste from my tumblr the blog entry I've written:
"Hi guys! So, my day at Warped was pretty amazing. Daniella and I got up at about 6am to start getting ready and left with Christen and Anthony at about 7:30. Our outside adventures were pretty great - we discussed taking shits, met some cool bands that were out promoting, and played some games involving the styles of the people around us. (Mostly I made jokes about how many times I had seen Wolf and Andrew in half an hour.) Somewhere along the line, Anthony ended up losing his ticket, so we had to go to the ticket booth and show the bank statement to get him a replacement; I was also told I couldn’t bring in the poster I had made for New Beat Fund even though I was going to write their set time on it and walk around for them, so I ended up just folding it up really ghetto and shoving it to the bottom of my bag. Pretty intense before even getting in.
I ran into them and their Ghosty hands at the entrance and went to the tent to talk to the others, which was cool. For a while I walked around and hung up little posters with their set times, like in the girls bathroom and stuff and after that I just aimlessly wandered from booth to booth. An hour passed I’m sure before I really did anything else - i.e. buy merch and find friends. (A video of all the merch I bought or acquired can be found here and is only 30 seconds long.) After that I went back to the NBF booth and hung out there doing nothing really because I had nothing better to do. Wolf and Andrew showed up right as NBF was going to do their set, so we went to see them.
[Clearly, I like to give details on everything I did in my day. Guess I don’t like to forget any parts of days I enjoyed immensely.]
After the set the guys were going to split up again and try to sell CDs and show people their music; ended up going with Wolf and Andrew, and Wolf’s way of trying to sell was really A+. I don’t know what was more entertaining: Wolf trying to sell CDs or his singing during the Motion City Soundtrack set. Best set of the day. Maybe. It was amazing and I’m super happy to have seen them live; their music got me through freshman year. After that was more CD selling, searching for water, etc.
Then we all met back up since Chris wanted to see Bring Me The Horizon for his birthday - which was pretty cool because I completely forgot about that set, and it ended up being really amazing. Amazing in sense of the music being live, not really the people. Getting kicked in the face by crowd surfers really is not the business, plus I’m so short that I just get squished by everyone around me when they push. Thankfully, I didn’t die because Chris is awesome and made sure to hold onto me so we wouldn’t get separated. Despite all of the pits around us, I was able to watch a good amount of the set. Oliver Sykes had some seriously calming vibes. Unfortunately, I ended up having a heat stroke during the last song which really sucked because I was just done after that.
Donovan got separated from us so we ended up going to get water and back to the Music Saves Lives tent, at which point I was ready to give up on life. Then when I went to use my inhaler it wasn’t working anymore and was empty (maybe smooshed in my bag too much?) so I couldn’t breathe. Luckily for me, the guys were going to leave and Wolf offered to take me home since he felt bad leaving me there like that. Insert super happy dance here because he had his inhaler in his car and it was a complete regeneration like I was on top of the world after being able to breath. The next two hours were spent at Burger King and driving back home from Pomona, which was probably one of the most fun times ever because of how generally entertaining they all are. (Not to mention the fact that we played the Gatsby soundtrack.) I was slightly sad when I got home and realized back at Warped, The Wonder Years would be starting their set, but I’d rather be in a slightly-not-okay health situation like I am right now than having stayed and possibly ended up having to go to the hospital. All in all, it was a really good time with really good people and I can’t wait for next year. “Best day ever" was really a fitting theme.
[Still laughing at my sister calling “So you’re bringing Wolf home?" Probably should have just showed up instead of calling first, oh lawdy.]"
