So we were just talking sitting down on the couch when Brandon from Incubus comes over.  Chi says, �Hey did you guys meet Brandon?� and we said, �no� and he said, �Brandon these are my friends Melina and Shaliza.� He said hey to us and shook our hands. Then DJ Kilmore came over to hang for a bit. So here we are at a fucking Deftones after party. And I�ve got Brandon on my right, DJ Kilmore next to him and Chi next to Melina who was on my left. It was just way too weird. Melina and I kept saying to each other,  �Is this really happening?� Shit like that just doesn�t happen to me. After a while Brandon and DJ Kilmore went away and Mike from Taproot came by and chatted for awhile. Then this was so cool, Chi said, �are you guys thirsty? Do u want a coke or something?� and we said sure.   Chi Cheng went and got sodas for us. This man fucking rules!  He even got a Dr. Pepper for me which is my favorite. Then Jarrod came over and he said that he was glad that we had gotten backstage. Chi and Jarrod started talking about books they had read. Both of them are really intelligent especially Chi. He and Jarrod were kinda into a serious discussion so Melina and I asked Mike some questions, like �why is Phil always sleeping?� and about Factory 81, another cool band from Michigan that Taproot is friends with.

So as for the other Deftones�.I didn�t see Abe for awhile. But when he did come into the room we said hey to him and got a picture with him. He�s fucking awesome! Steph was rocking and head banging to some weird heavy shit that Chino had put in the stereo. While we were there I also heard Nelly and Outkast.  Frank was just chillin and even though it was his birthday Chino was of course the main attraction.  There was so many girls around him at one point. He must love that shit. He had on all black and just looked so good. I was so nervous when I went over to talk to him. But he was really nice and cool like I knew he�d be. I got to take a picture with him which has just been my fucking dream for the longest time. While I was talking to Frank, Melina actually convinced Chi to take a picture with her. Chi hates taking pictures, but he said, �for you? of course.� What a sweet man. I saw Juan lots of times during the night. He asked if I was having fun and I said, �hell yeah.� Every time I saw him, I thanked him repeatedly for the passes. It was so cool of him to hook us up like that. I LOVE that man. Hehe. The rest of the night we just spent talking to Kendra, Jeremy, and Phil and Mike from Taproot.  I only saw Steve (from Taproot) once that night and that was when Taproot was getting ready to leave. Phil actually came over to us and told us bye and Jarrod gave us hugs and told us that he�d see us next time.  However, after they left, they came back like 5 minutes later. Their bus driver wasn�t there. I don�t know where the hell he could�ve gone cause there was like nothing to do around there. Anyway Mike and Phil were really fun to talk to. I asked Phil what time they had gotten there and he said, �Umm, I don�t know, morning?� it was really funny. He was probably sleeping as usual. We took two more pictures with him and Mike. We were debating on if we should leave cause it was almost one and we had a long drive back. Mike asked us how far we had to go and we told him 3 hours and he said that he�d leave it he were us. But then we told him that it�s not every day that we get to hang with the Deftones, Incubus and Taproot.  He understood that. We did leave a little after that. We told Mike bye and I told him to come to Atlanta real soon. He said that�d they�d be back in like a month and a half. And that was it�..We freaked out in the car most of the way home.  Nothing like that has ever happened to me. I thought meeting Billy Corgan was fucking cool but this, this fucking takes the cake. It�s cool that we got to see them just hanging out and being regular people. Everyone we talked to and hung out with last night were really cool. I just feel so fortunate to have even gotten the opportunity to meet some of the best bands in the world. It is a day I will never EVER forget. But that�s my story. Long live the Deftones!
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