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TRIP NINE - GWAR

"I don't care what you say anymore this is my life, go ahead with your own life, leave me alone!"

WHO:        Moo & I
WHEN:      November 7th - November 12th, 2002
WHERE:    Old Bridge, NJ; Worcester, MA; Poughkeepsie, NY; Providence, RI
WHAT:      Our last GWAR shows...
WHY:         Even I can't think of a logical reason... :) Yes that's Moo drunk in NY up there...

Whew... talk 'bout TIRED!!! We got home from IL just in time for me to miss a test in Physics. Oh well I figured I'd fail that course anyway. Nope, ended up failing Bio instead. Oh well. So anyway! I had to scrub off so that no one would know of my where-abouts!!! The rest of Tuesday was a blur... I guess I went to class? Probably didn't do my radio show... ah! I took Moo home, that's what I did! Our folks didn't question us about the weekend. On my way back to Orlando I stopped at Melissa's and got her on video looking at our roadtrip pics, she gave us some advice for our northeast shows. Going to her place is so peaceful, almost sorta puts you in another world. Another trip, whoohoooo!!! On Wednesday I washed alot of laundry, danced around my apartment, "Whoohoooo we're going on another trip!" while my roommates shook their heads in disgust. They weren't too much in agreement with my addiction. At my internship I bought in the doctor's note, everything went cool! They knew I asked off this coming weekend as well but they thought I was visiting relatives up north. "Yeah right, you're going to see GWAR again!" I hated to lie to them cause they were cool as hell but also I knew they'd never let me take the weekend off for more shows.
Thursday right after work I bailed home... got to New Port Nowhere and Moo was just rolling outta bed. She had the runs I think. Ma didn't ask what we were up to either... later I'd learn that they knew about all our trips, DOH! I videotaped the front of the house and outside to get some "warm weather" on tape so while Moo & I were screaming from the cold hours later, we'd have something warm to watch. I shoulda KNOWN that Ma knew about the trips cause she put us to the ultimate test. "Girls, I made some sauce, do you wanna take it home for the weekend?" DOH!! We didn't have the cooler with us. And Ma knew I was a broke starving college kid so how could I justify saying NO to homemade sauce? "Um.. sure." I said. She smiled, "Want some popsicles too?" Oh that's it!!! Pasta sauce is okay, but popsicles were gonna melt and I doubt Moo & I could finish off the whole box within an hour. "Nah, they'd melt on the way back to Orlando..." I said. Good thinking!! But we weren't getting away with leaving the sauce there. Not that I minded... we just decided that we'd find a bakery somewhere and get some bread, pray one of the hotels had a microwave and have a nice dinner somewhere. We aimed for New York since we knew we'd be getting a room that nite.
We paid homage to Charlie!   He's our man...
I don't remember the drive too much... Moo slept alot, I guess having the runs really ran her down.. heh heh. We stopped and slept a few times, I still hadn't recovered from the other trip so it was a hellacious run!! We got to Jersey pretty late, kids were already wrapped around the building and worse yet, we saw NO HOTEL in site! Normally we'd find one nearby before the show but noooo... not this time.
A girl I know from Metal Sludge was gonna be at the show, I was excited to meet her! Always cool to meet other freaks from around the country. We knew that front row was a lost cause that nite, we got there so late. We mourned the loss but said we'd definitely get front row the next 3 nites. Besides, we were SOOOO tired and exhausted that maybe it was a better idea. And damn it was cold, were we ready to be assaulted and walk outside soaked? Probably, who am I kidding?!?!
We saw some of the weirdos inside, they commented about our retarded video. "What's up with Melissa and showing her tits all the time??" Heh heh... you think THAT'S bad. We of course edited out more of the incriminating shit of Moo & I cause we knew we had to face everyone again. Melissa gave us the green light to go ahead and dub all her glory.
It was strange watching the show from the soundbooth area! We were able to see everything without having to blink or wipe our eyes but we felt so left out. So alone.. so... I don't know. So outta place!!!! We deserved to be right up there getting our asses kicked!!!   Since Cattle Decap. was gone they had another band, Six, as the opening act for the rest of the tour. They were pretty cool, didn't meet them until New York tho.
After the show was cool, I found Shannon and we snapped pics together, said hey to all the weirdos and Moo got her pic taken in a coffin. Interesting nite. But we realize how scrued we were when it started to sink in that we NEEDED to get to sleep but couldn't find a hotel. But there had to be one around since the band had a room, right? We hated to ask such a 'cling-on' kinda question but we had to... we knew of no other hotels around and by then most the crowd had dispersed so we couldn't even find a local. We approached one of them and said, "Hey, we're looking for a hotel around here, can't find one... did you guys find one nearby?" Turns out no, the nearest one was a few miles away. Ahh so Moo & I ain't blind! Pretty nice place, Moo & I got our own room and bought all our shit upstairs to prepare for a nice rest. Or so we thought.
Maybe the coffee pot wasn't such a good idea. I bought some hot chocolate cause I figured what's nicer than a hot shower and hot chocolate to finish off the nite? Of course the coffee pot was just for boiling the water. Not alot of sleep, running on adrenaline and ingesting about 4-5 cups of that "nice hot chocolate" wasn't a good combo since the "nice hot chocolate" was also laced with lord knows how much sugar. As soon as the lights were turned out, I asked for another pillow. Moo who was peacefully resting on the other bed grabbed one and threw it over rather roughly. Ohh... that's it! I grabbed it and slammed it back at her. She tosses it back... about a second later we're both outta bed, hooting and laughing and beating each other mercilessly. All the while the poor bastard who decided to stick with us for the nite so he could get some rest is probably backing away to avoid being hit. All the lights were out, it's completely black... Moo & I are trying to tackle each other and beat each other to death, now we're completely fucking delirious, wired and NOT ready to sleep. Jumped up on the beds, now the said poor bastard has no choice but to find solace on the floor. Now Moo & I are getting violent and smothering each other, started bringing the blankets into it... balling them up, throwing them around, it's a miracle we didn't break anything. And it's loud, we're calling each other names and laughing our heads off... kept slamming each other into the walls and then decided to rip all the sheets, blankets, mattress covers, ALL the bedding was in the air... before we knew it, one of the mattresses was up (thanks to me!) and I decided to beat Moo with it... I threw the mattress on her, knocking her on her ass... the other mattress is picked up, now that's being thrown around.... next come the boxsprings, there goes the nightstand too!   NEXT!!!!!!!!!