Leaving on a jet plane.
I have 13 hours nine minutes until I have to leave on the plane... I am sitting here... at work... and I really just can't even imagine how awesome it's going to be. I really REALLY can't wait. The anticipation is killing me. It feels like I can't sit still and my legs wont stop tapping on the floor(The RedBull I drank this morning doesn't really help much). I am still not even done packing... Trying to approve no lunch so I can get off of work at three instead of four so that I can make it out to the post office to pickup some packages, and run out to Tanya's to drop off the Giant Keroro Gunso that I got off of ebay. Then it's back to my place to throw all of my crap back into the suitcase, and then I will rush over to Shanes to Catch our plane!. hopefully that goes OK... i'll see-----
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EDIT: July 22nd 7:26 mountain time.
Just got off of the first flight. It went alright. Got on at around 11:30 last night, tried watching Survive Style 5+ with Shane... I fell asleep and then my lappy decided to die. Right now i'm sitting at a recharge station at the Denver Airport... I've never seen a shittier place. There is just a bunch of grassland and farm crap... Who wants to come here anyways... the Bronco's arent that cool. ALSO! the airport here looks like an indian reservation. The roofing looks like huge Teepees... I don't even know if I spelled that right... Oh yeah we also got some really bad Quiznos... Quiznos for breakfast isn't delicious at all.. This 2 hour layover isn't really that fun so... i think i'm going to go try for some starbucks. Mint Frappachinoooo.... Anyways... i'll update again if anything happens.
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UPDATE AGAIN!...
HAVEN't had a chance to update since the airport!!! ... it's been an amazing trip sofar. Usually when I do things like this something bad happens... like I lose my luggage or worse. As soon as we got in from the airport Shanes sister Megan picked us up. We hung out with Marcus her new husband and Megan for a few hours and hitup the mall in LA. When I was there I was originally looking for some nice new sunglasses and shorts, but in the end only found the shorts and ignored the sunglasses. I got the Volcom Stone shorts that the Aquabats wear! it sucks because shane was unable to get them as the biggest size they had was 32's which is my size... Guess I lucked out on that one!. After that we went to this really cool store called puzzel world I believe... puzzle house? I dunno... Puzzle something... It had really amazing anime figurines and such inside. I found Sonic and Shadow Fully poseable figures! So I had to buy them... as they were 15 bucks each. After that I was calling my good friend Ben (From an earlier post you can watch one of his music videos) Finally getting ahold of him he was hanging out with a bunch of his Korean Friends and wanted us to meet him at Amoeba Records in Hollywood. Megan being the -AWESOME- Person she is not only drove us down to hollywood. when we got there she followed them all the way to one of his korean friends houses in Korea town so that they could drop her off... as the car seats 5... and there were 7 of us. (I tried to ride in the trunk but everyone was against that) I know shane was really nervous as he was the only white dude there and he kept telling me not to ride in the trunk as it would be REALLY awkward. It ended up with Fang, the drummer from Benzene and his girlfriend having to sit on eachother... while me and shane had our own seat. I felt kind of bad... but they didn't seem to care too much. We then headed over to his friends house to hang out for awhile. There I met some awesome people and we sat around and talked about people, places, and life... it was really amazing... One of the guys was a freestyle rap artist that calls himself Dumbfounded, and we got an album out of him. He was set to go on tour, and although I haven't heard his album as of yet... I have been getting into the nerdcore rap music ALOT so i'm sure its awesome. It was a great experience to hang out with them, they were amazing artists. After that was done we dropped off Fang, His girlfriend, and her friend off to their small room that they were renting, and Ben, Shane, and I went to this place called "The Lockout" ... The Lockout was basically one of about 20 different storage containers transformed into recording studios. Even though it was around 4am, there was still a guy in the container next to him mixing some music. Ben talked with him for abit and we got to peek inside and he had SO much mixing equipment that my jaw dropped... he said he was certified in using protools which is pretty cool... He started refining a benzene album as we went back into Ben's container to hang out and watch his favorite movie "Dead Alive" which i'll say is one of the funniest movies i've seen in awhile. (I know it's old but I never watched it). I also got a chance to buy 2 Benzene albums! That next morning Fang went to Disney world with his girl and her friend... while we went over to get showers at his small room place... We ended up at a gas station with Fang and Ben just hanging out and talking for around an hour and then Ben took us out to San Diego!. The drive was fun we cruised to some Beachboys music which was really the perfect california crusing music... also jammed out to some Shonen knife, and a punk album called short songs for short people which I really liked. Finally getting checked into the hotel, we went to go eat some mexican food with Matt and Dylan from another band called SkullFUCK and I had a California Burrito for the first time. It was good! It had frenchfries and such inside... so it was different... but delicous none the less. That was fun! But they had to go as they had work the next morning... so we went over to their friends house Jessica and Kevin. They were really REALLy cool too! we hung out and I got to see Ben try his hand at Guitar hero... which was really funny.. After that was all over with we ran back to the hotel and got some sleep. Ben had to leave that morning to take Fang to the Airport... It's reall sad because he has to go back to Korea to be with his girl and to finish school, so he will no longer be drumming for Benzene... That Next morning we suited up for comic con... bought some stuff... Saw Robert Rodregaz and his panel on his new movie "Red Sonja" which looks like is going to be awesome!!!... I got The Rin and Saber Revoltech figurines... as well as the Starscream one. I also picked up the chibi L figure that I was wanting FOREVER.. We then made our way to the MEGA 64 SCREENING! We got to chill with Rocko, Garret, Derek, and Shawn... it was so amazing! And their new episode was so funny! I'm not supposed to say anything about that so i'll leave it at that . ... So we went back home to get some sleep for the next day... the best day... THE day we get to go to the AQUABATS!... We slept in until like 1, but we still went out to go buy stuff.... We picked up some anime... saw the guys from Alien Homind and got them to sign a game... I finally got Vampire Toast, and MC Chris Figurine!! The Jonny Depp figure was sold out.... which sucks... We need to go back on Sunday to try to get it.... We got back to the hotel to take a really quick swim, and then!! we suited up and hopped the train to the BATS!!!.... We must have looked amazing running through town in our costumes. Getting there was so AMAZING... we had to check our cameras and bag upstairs in the store. ... after that DJ Lance was already playing!! ... He actually! had a really fun show!! Brobee and Flex were there too! and the Yo Gabba Gabbaness ensued!! after DJ Lance was done it was time for MC LARS to come out!. He busted his rhymes while wearing a Blue Aquabats Rashguard, an Anti Negitivity Helmet, AND a gangsta hat... it was awesome. After his EPIC show I did something really dumb... I went back and hung out with him and bought a bunch of stuff... like shirts, and CD's... I Had him sign them! And he gave us free stuff for coming from Alaska!! ... After that I met his homie YTCRACKER .. and got his album and stuff. Then I realized I had a huge bag of awesome... and had the aquabats show coming. I talked to MC Lars and he TOTALLY! Let us store our stuff we bought behind his vendor table!! .... SO AMAZING... So then... the AQUABATS. We waited and waited with anticipation... and FINALLY! They came out to premiere the AQUABATS SUPER SHOW!!!... IT was more amazing than words can describe.. One of my favorite lines is when Ricky Fitness runs off "WHERES HE GOING!?!? ... I dunno son... but I miss him already.... " I'll post a link to the show later, as they now have the Pilot Episode online now after last night!. Then they came out!! and rocked harder than EVER... the Giant Tortilla came out which was played by one of the guys in Bad Credit. I got to throw my waterbottle at his head before the bat commander began beating him down. The Crowd was crazy! It was so hot... I could barely breathe... We were as close to the front as possible and the moshpit was insane. Especially During Super Rad and the finale song Pool Party!!! ... But after the show after we got our bag back... we waited around an hour and one by one!! The bats came out! First came CRASH MCLARSEN!!! we got a blurry picture (woman must have been drunk or something) then came Ricky Fitness! who was probably the coolest... As a drunk black dude that had nothing to do with anything.. walked by singing.... Ricky ran up to beatbox for him... It was way AWESOME! ... Then Jimmy the Robot, and THE BAT COMMANDER!! Finally Eaglebones Falcon hawk came out and we had ALL of the signatures!! Shane got his belt signed... and I got my limited edition of charge signed!! ... It was perhaps the greatest night of my life...
So this is where I am right now.... At the hotel... Saturday morning... my legs hurt from moshing all night... it was worth every minute! .. I'll update this one ... one last time with Pictures and about the last 2 days...
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EDIT AGAIN....
So... Sunday was alright... I ended up buying a bunch more stuff... and then we hung out with Ben for the rest of the night. and packed up. then we had the long drive back over to LA to stay with Shanes sister again... Everything was going ok until we got into the airport. Our plane was supposed to leave at 6:10 but ended up leaving at around 7:00 .... why ... they say because of the weather (Sunshine!? WTF) but from what I saw... they had to have maitenence come aboard and fix the damn thing... even though there were open seats that the guy could have just moved to... ANYWAYS... we missed the ONLY flight to anchorage. SO we now had to buy a hotel room (Even though it is discounted... it should be free... ) And they said that it was out of their control... It wasn't even cloudy or anything. It is so stupid.... all they did was give us an address that we could send complaints to. .... So we went and grabbed some food (another 30 dollars) and had to book an extra room (65 dollars) ... AND we won't get back home until 9:30 tomorrow night... To top it off... our luggage will probably be lost/stolen or a combonation of both. Anyways... I'm done typing about how much I dislike United Airlines for tonight... Hope everyone else is having more fun than I am at this point in time... Lata--
Monday, July 21, 2008
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