| TRIP FIVE - CON'T!!! |
| Yep, a babysitter. She's old enough to take care of her own but how many responsible sisters would leave their little sis outside in a parking lot in a bad suburb of Chicago? I rest my case! Fortunately someone volunteered to keep an eye on her for the duration of Disarray's set. It felt so weird, I HATED being there without Moo... I didn't know that I'd soon hafta get used to it but it's a miserable feeling, looking to your side and seeing dirty carpet where you'd normally see a smiling face. When their set was done I bolted outside to make sure the babysitter didn't throw her to the wolves or sell her for crack. She seemed relatively undamaged! I didn't want her to miss DBX's set, dammit she was so looking forward to this, she'd endured 26 some odd hours with me in the car for this moment! Our cries didn't go unanswered, one of the DBX camp said he'd try and sneak her in. I went inside and assumed the position up front, kept darting my eyes around searching for a sign of Moo. During the show they made cracks about their being no young people inside, so I screamed, "Yeah, cause all the kids aren't 21 so they're outside in the parking lot!" One of them made a joke about his daughter being outside but little did I know that Moo did get snuck in and was standing by the sound booth. Hell yeah!!! The show was hilarious!!! I remember thinking it was the best one I'd seen so far, the jokes were flying, the audience went nuts, Brockie tossed aside a whole tray full of shots which every single one of them hit me as they flew thru the air in my direction. I guess after Austin he had no shame or fear about flashing since that was the first nite he not only mooned the crowd but yanked up his kilt to reveal to the crowd Big Jim & The Twins. They put on one fuck of a show, definite born entertainers... always hilarious and people wonder why Moo & I go the distance. Melissa believes in our cause only cause she's the only other one who's seen a show. After the show Moo was REAL tired... she slumped against a car in the parking lot while I tried poking her to stay awake. A friend of both the bands' had a place about 20 minutes away and invited both bands to stay there. Moo & I said our goodnites so we could head back to our sleazy, scummy honeymoon inn. Moo cried out, "Oh man I don't wanna go there!" We were invited to stay at his place, I felt weird 'bout it at first. I approached their friend and said, "You sure? You don't even know my sis or I..." he said we didn't look psychotic and if the guys trusted us, then he did too. Awww... Vance drove with us back to our crack-ho in while we gathered our shit and bailed. Someone gave us strange directions and we were lost for a bit and finally got to his place around 6am. Moo slept the entire time and had to be carried in and down the stairs then dropped off on the floor for some sleep. Me being the idiot I am didn't take the opportunity to sleep... rather, I stayed up with one of them and watched South Park for awhile. The next AM Moo commented on the GWAR bobbleheads he had on his T.V... "I want those!" Moo said. "Well don't take mine!" was her answer. Heh heh... Moo wasn't gonna do that, she saved up her $$ and eventually bought 'em like she said she was when we hit up the northeast GWAR shows. We left around 1 or 2pm for South Bend, IN. Someone told us the nite before that the show was switched and Moo & I said amongst ourselves, "Yeah right! They're scared of us so they're trying to get rid of us by giving us bum directions to another town HOURS away in IN so we don't show up to the Indianapolis show!" Moo called me a freak. Got to South Bend and did some site seeing, fortunately there was a hotel right across from the venue so Moo & I checked in, showered, ordered some pizza and got ready. I'm such a slob, I almost finished the whole pizza by myself then wondered why I couldn't fit into the corset I was to wear that nite. I bitched and bitched for awhile. No I wasn't on the rag either. Got to the venue & what the fuck!?! There's a fountain surrounding the stage... oh this is gonna be a hoot. This is gonna be interesting... couldn't wait! Fortunately we bought the camcorder that nite but the battery died pretty quickly. Dammit. It was a hilarious show too, people were spitting into the fountain, dumping drinks, flicking cigarettes, basically turning it into a pool of filth. Brockie didn't seem to mind, he pulled the kilt off and jumped in, frolicking around naked while everyone hooted and screamed. So much splashing.. omg. Moo & I were almost totally soaked but laughing our asses off. Definitely one of the best shows, Chicago came in close and later on in Nov. I'd catch them in Kentucky, that show also kicked ass. Every show is different too... same songs but you wanna keep seeing more and more just to see what happens cause every nite is another hoot, something chaotic and unpredictable. Shit, I wanna see another show now but I gotta hold out till the summer. :( It was a shitty nite in some other ways, us being bummed that this was the last DBX show we'd see till lord knows when... Moo & I had another incident outside that caused us both to snap at each other and cry. I wanted a certain DBX shirt but kept telling myself to wait till the end so I wouldn't hafta carry it around. Sure enough it was sold out, grrr!!! I didn't mean to bitch about it but one of them felt bad and gave me another shirt no charge, so long as I said I'd wear it to the first GWAR show in Myrtle Beach, even tho it was black. No prob! Another guy outside had on a DBX work shirt... "Oh shit, I love that shirt!" I said to him. "You want it?" he said as he peeled it off and handed it to me. OMG! "Shit, thanx! Hell yeah!! You sure??" That was cool, I was making out like a bandit that nite. We invited everyone to hang with us at our room since no one was leaving till the next AM. When we got back to our room, we found it crawling with about 12 people who we had NO idea who they were. Well, that's cool, I guess...? "Just don't trash it!" we said and eventually bailed to Denny's with one of the weirdos. He questioned us about why we're going to so many shows, etc... "Ya'll are funny as shit, we wanna see more shows, AHHH!" we cried. Moo & I poked around at the jukebox, I drank too much coffee. Something about hitting up a Denny's or IHOP after a concert that's just awesome... waffle house too. Maybe cause it symbolizes the end to an awesome nite? Maybe it's just "going out to eat" that Moo & I never do cause we're broke? Who knows... Back to the hotel, some of the strangers cleared out and now we recognized everyone hanging in our room. Moo stuck around, I watched part of a movie with some of the weirdos in their van. Back in the room, Moo & I rambled for a bit, watched T.V... the people eventually cleared out despite Moo & I's offering to let anyone stay, shit, we were bored and if left alone we'd probably just snap at each other again! Stayed awake till nearly 7am, bad move!!! Slept for 2 hours, then Moo & I woke up and watched Office Space. Yep I bring the VCR along on trips cause ya never know when you'll get a craving for a comedy. Went to the same Denny's again with Vance and decided to bring him back with us for part of the way. Moo & I love each other dearly but something snapped on that trip and we needed someone else there to occupy some space, I suppose. We drove him to Nashville since it was along the way and we all had a real long heart-to-heart talk about life! Another one of those life-changing moments sorta things. Long ass haul home, the GWAR tour starts in less than 4 weeks, we have some serious planning to do! First we were going to hit up the SC,NC, and GA shows, then we weren't cause of school/money. But who the fuck were we kidding? Those shows were on the weekend so why the hell NOT go? Plus we're nuts and going to hit up as many shows as humanly possible. :) LESSON LEARNED: - Don't wait for the last nite to buy a shirt you want cause it'll be gone! - Sometimes it's a good idea to research the area you're going to to see if there are hotels nearby! - You play with fire you're bound to get burned... - Jesus Lis, you oughta know that too much coffee means NO SLEEP... - Always charge the camcorder battery before a show... ROADTRIPS PAGE |