| TRIP TEN - CON'T!!! |
| When I say drunk, I mean outta my skull completely fucking stupid drunk. I hit up the bar and got a whiskey sour... ahhh one of my favorites! And then another one... and another... later on another. Total of at least 5 drinks (that I can remember) and I was good as GONE! I was smashed before the doors even opened... by the time the Urinal Mints hit the stage I was already done drinking and trying to sober up... but before hand? I stumbled over to the merch table, sloshing drink #God knows what along the way... I want that "Gerbling with Pikachu" record!! Now, if I thought it was funny the previous nite... oh man... I was literally screaming laughing at it!!! I bought it then proudly carried it around showing EVERYONE I COULD FIND... I can't remember the order but I was at the bar showing it to one of the DBX camp. "Hey, OMG, lookit this record... BWAHHAH OMG ISN'T THAT SO FUCKING FUNNY?!?" he asked me if I was drunk. I said nope. I couldn't have been too smashed if I remember it, I figure. He was all, "you're drunk, you can't even stand up straight! How many drinks have you had?" I shrugged and staggered off. I then ran into the Urinal Mints guys... "OMG guys, THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY, BWAHHAHAH OMG..." I kept laughing. Pretty soon I was laughing so hard I was falling over. The guy who thought of the design was most flattered... "Jesus, I didn't think it was THAT funny!" he cried. "YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS, OMG THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE FUNNIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!! LOOKIT THE LOOK ON PIKACHU'S FACE, HE"S ALL HAPPY HE'S UP IN SOMEONE'S ASS, BWHHAHHHHAHAHH!!!!!" I kept screaming and laughing... I started going up to those I DIDN'T know and shoved the record under their noses. "OMG, LOOKIT THIS!!!!" and I'd go into my usual rant of just how damn funny it was. It IS funny, folks! Even sober!!! This went on for a LOONNNNG time... I eventually found my way back to the merch booth and kept screaming & laughing about how funny it was... tears were pouring down my face, I probably literally looked insane... I think I did lose it but it was sooo damn funny!!! One of the DBX camp caught me as I took a fall and smacked myself into a wall. "Alright... no more drinks..." he said. "You probably oughta go upstairs, sit in the bathroom and chill out for awhile!!" So I did... I left my drink up there too. But I sat in the bathroom and called up Melissa, completely blasted drunk. She later said it was absolutely hilarious. She was egging me on, "TAKE SOME PICS OF YOURSELF!!!" I didn't have any room to put them on this page but check out page 8 of my roadtrip album to see some of the pics I snapped that nite. I don't know how long I sat up there... long enough to snap alot of pics tho and scare the shit out of some girl who walked in... I was crying my eyes out from laughing so hard, no sadness that nite! Yeah I miss Moo but I'm too busy laughing at this Pikachu picture... I started to get the worst stomach ache from so much laughing, I nearly laughed myself sick!!! I got back downstairs somehow and caught the show... I don't remember it much but I did snap alot of live pics and they came out fairly good so I guess I sobered up well... that was a HILARIOUS nite!!! When the show ended and I sat at a table I noticed I wasn't too sober yet... I started pounding some glasses of water cause I knew I had to drive soon. I invited everyone over to my room that nite, hell, it was only fair since they let me crash at theirs the nite before! But then I was so fucked up I couldn't remember where my hotel was. I made a friend that nite!!! One of the girls in attendance that nite was a fellow 21-year-old college senior who hated school and loved concerts. A native, she asked where I was staying and eventually pulled it outta me... she gave me directions back to my hotel, how sad is that!?! I sat there for an HOUR drinking water, pissing, trying to sober up real fast. I would be humiliated if I had to ask someone to drive my car back to the hotel. One of them didn't trust my sobriety and made me get outside, repeat the alphabet backwards, touch my nose, walk a straight line and do some sorta finger-touching pattern with my fingers... when I proved I was able to drive they let me go! But not before someone walked me to my car in case I stumbled down and splattered myself into the concrete. ("Ever wake up and you're face down in the pavement? Can't say I never did!" - 'Up Till Now' - Lefty, heh heh... that's for you, Chrissy!!!) Another blur of a nite! Somehow ended up in bed and slept like a log. Woke up feeling only sorta shitty! Time to drive to Muncie... OH WAIT!!! There were some friends of the camp who stayed over too, another room was booked as well. I gave them some $$ to get me some white castles... but they never came. Dammit, I was hungry too! I wonder what happened to them? The next AM in the lobby I got some coffee & ran into Brockie reading the paper... we said our good mornings and I started to bitch about my lost white castles. "Uh oh!" he said. "I was wondering why I had 17 of them!! Sorry about that!!!" Well, if he ate 'em that's okay!!! I went to white castle and stuffed myself silly... went back to the room, everyone is still crashed out... dammit folks, we gotta leave! "Here comes another boring, lonely car trip," I whined to Brockie. He offered to come with so I said sure! Stopped for lunch again, I ran around some shopping center and bought some pants I still have yet to wear. The trip was interesting, listened to music, babbled, got Moo on the phone, she was psyched! I got horribly LOST on the way to the venue!! It was way off the interstate in the middle of nowhere... but I wasn't about to admit I was lost. "You lost?" he asked. "Nah!! Just took a wrong turn, I'm gonna turn around and go back the way I came!" I was not about to look like a fool! 15 minutes later I was at a gas station wailing to the attendant that I was horribly lost!!! Oops... eventually found the place! Disarray was going to play that nite, this oughta be a good show! Again, it was sooo fucking cold!!! No kilt that nite?! Very weird, I guess he wasn't in the mood. The venue looked like a restaurant, no real stage either. But the crowd was digging it, I filmed them almost more than I did the show!! They were drunk and outta hand, climbing all over each other, hilarious! I snapped some pics of myself during the show, Vance noticed and snagged my camera and snapped some pics of me. The show was good tho, Brockie kept commenting on the fucked-up-ness of the venue. After the show I went to my car and turned on the heater for warmth, Vance came with and looked at all the roadtrip pics from the SC/NC/GA/FL/IL/NJ/MA/NY/RI shows... whew he had ALOT of pages to turn thru in that photo album... got Moo on the phone again, she was horrified that I was showing people a certain shot of her drunk ass in New York... a picture that I no longer have in my possession cause I gave it away to someone in a horrible drunk frenzy. It's nothing but trouble when I drink but I never learn!! Grrr, sorry 'bout that Moo!!! Everyone was heading over to a friend's house that nite, I was invited but I was all, "Nah I gotta start driving home NOW!" I intended on sleeping at a rest stop in a few hours for a bit... so I did... but it was SOOO COLD I couldn't even sleep in the car! I ended up getting a room anyway and slept in till almost 12pm. Dammit, I coulda stayed at the friend's house, turns out. And kept outta the cold... well ya learn something new everyday!! I missed more work, missed more classes... by then, finals week was approaching and I couldn't help but laugh... I'd spent a total of 3 weekends in FL that fall... and maybe 2 hours studying TOTAL. It's a miracle I passed, I got an F, 2 C's and a B... yeah I'm taking bio again now. Shut up. But the trip home was alright, did ALOT of singing, videotaped as much of the trip as I could for Moo... bought some souvineers, blah blah... the usual! But I love the drive... something about those long ass hauls that's beyond awesome... LESSONS LEARNED: - Trips without Moo are still alright but nowhere near as cool... - Alone? Get creative, you gotta slap yourself to stay awake, sing real loud, try dancing... - Don't talk to the camcorder too much when you're alone, it's real fuckin boring to watch later... - Trips alone can be cool and dammit, you're gonna do more of 'em!!!! ROADTRIP PAGE!!!! |