place: POMPANO BEACH AMPHITHEATER

year: 2006

shirt worn: deftones

type of show: official

bands:

deftones

Thrice

ATREYU

STORY OF THE YEAR

AS I LAY DYING

THURSDAY

SILVERSTIEN

dredg

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND

PELICAN

THE RECEIVING END OF SIRENS

GREELEY*ESTATES

ADAIR

street drum corps

THE CONFESSION

american eyes

the Smashup

MILLIONAIRE

went with: Ernesto, Jose, & Danny

show was: i don't know

entry:

SO, I guess I'll start at the beginning of the weakened just to emphasize how little sleep I got this weakened. Oh, wait, I almost forgot to start off the same boring way I always do. It was in the second semester of twelfth grade. The show was on 2/26/6. So, Thursday night I couldn't sleep because I was having some hard times. Friday night I couldn't sleep cause I spent the night at Alena's house. So, I get home Saturday morning. I can't sleep for odd reasons. The original plan was this. Saturday night, Brian was going to take me to the next keggar party show at BECOMING FINAL's warehouse featuring Stillket, SENSE OF BEING, Absolute Asylum, & BECOMING FINAL and Jose and all them were going to pick me up from their and then we were going to go spend the night at Ernesto's brother's house, who lives in Broward, wake up the next morning and go to taste of CHAOS. However, I call Sean from Stillkept and find out that basically the night before there was a warehouse party (with no bands) and cops showed up and found minors drinking. So, the person who bought the keg went to jail. Apparently all the bands that were going to be playing Saturday night were scared because the cops are using my space to crack down on this stuff. So, James F. has decided to cancel all future warehouse shows including my project. So, now I have to find a new venue to hold my show. Wherever it is, y'all bitches better be there. So, instead I just had my mom drop me off at Ernesto's house that evening. Me, him, and Danny chilled there for a while. We watched one of the KILLSWITCH ENGAGE DVDs. Then we went to BLOCKBUSTER to bother Jose cause he works there. So, then we went to Publix and go Hot Pockets. We went back to Ernie's house ate them. They were real good, I hadn't had them since I was like 10. So, then we went to Joey's house after he got off work. Oh, here's to clarify what happened with the whole band thing. So, the band that all those acrage kids that had been in a million bands with me before and decided to make a really good one without me, well, after they did their first show at Mike Do's 18th birthday party, Franky & Tim left the band. So, they invited me to be their new singer I replaced Tim. Jose replaced Franky. Eventually we kicked out Darrio and replaced him with John, who I know because he is friends with Herald, who is Alex Adler's step brother. So, we became this really good band. We had three songs: Stronger Without You, Dancing On Your Grave, and My Sweet Vengeance. I was taking it so seriously too. I was lining up shows for us, and recording all for the next couple months and then all of a sudden Ernesto said I had to leave the band because my scream was too death metal and my sing was too pop and my lyrics just didn't fit. So, I was kinda pissed. We were still cool. However, it didn't matter cause then he kicked out everyone except Jose. He even kicked out Eric. Wow. He's already replaced us with appropriate people for the fold. Since everyone got kicked out after me, it's nt as personal. So, I've decide I'll help get them those show and recording. Anyways, on the way to Joey's house me and Ernesto were singin the word to Stronger Without You. It felt good to hear someone else know the words to one of my songs. So, we get to Jose's house. They all smoke pot, and I just chill and eat Cheez-its instead of smoke pot. Jose was talkin about how every time he hears those guitar riffs he gets my lyrics stuck in his head. I had to inform them that the person that song is about was gonna be at the show. So, we all got in Jose's car and went down to Ernesto's brother's house. He wasn't home. So, it was like, we're all just chillin up in this guy's place who we don't know (except Ernie of course). So, we went out on the balcony and they all smoked pot again. We watched Dave Chappell's For All It's Worth stand up special, which I've seen a million times. Oh, I forgot to mention that all these kids (except me), their favorite band is deftones, so they wanted to get to the amphitheater first. So, we went to bed at like 2. We woke up at like 7. Ernie's brother Jason and his wife or girl or I don't know, got home when we were asleep so we had to wait for them to wake up. We went to McDonald's and had breakfast there. We came back and and they were awake. We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. So, we went at like 1 in the afternoon, even though the show started at 5. So, we're sitting around for like 4 hours or so because they wanna make sure they're the first people in. They're all drinking. Eventually a large group of their friends came who included people named Sarah, Bianca, Dustin, James, John, Cody, and another kid who's name I do not recall. It rained. Then it got cold. So, I wore a sweater for the rest of the night. Eventually the gates opened. We ran into Franky. Then we ran into John. So, really everyone that was in the band at the time that I was was there. I never found Eric though. There's two stage but it's kind of backwards cause you sit down for the side stage and stand for the main stage. Well, most of the bands I wanted to see were on the main stage and they were going on at the same time, so I stayed over by the main stage. I was in front the whole time. First band that played on that stage was FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND. They did really good. I wanted them to play 10:45 Amsterdam Conversations but they didn't. That pissed me off. Next band to hit that stage was AS I LAY DYING. They were really fucking awesome. There was huge giant fuckin pit during their set. Darkness then fell after their set. It was the first show I had been to with out Dana's bracelet since before Ozzfest, apparently because I'm an ass hole or something. I was really mad that ATREYU came on earlier then they were supposed to. There's nothing I could do about it though. They weren't even a fourth as good as they were on their headlining thick as thieves tour about a year ago. Their set was as follows:

1. BLOOD CHILDREN

2. BLEEDING MASCARA

3. THE CRIMSON

4. EX'S AND OH'S

5. RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED

6. HER PORTRAIT IN BLACK

7. CREATURE

8. Lip Gloss and Black

I was pretty mad that they only played one song from Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses. In my opinion, that cd murders THE CURSE and from the sounds of the two songs off the upcoming album that they played, I don't think that will compare either. They could have at least done without the song from the UNDERWORLD soundtrack and used a song from Suicide Notes. They did still really good though. During Lip Gloss and Black they got a whole bunch of kids to circle pit around the sound tent. So, next STORY OF THE YEAR played. They were just as awesome as at Bakesale. They were still doin the guitar tossing and back flips and shit. Thrice was pretty boring. deftones was so fuckin awesome. I thought it was weird that Shove It and Be Quiet and Drive were within the first three songs of their set. Dana never found me. Too bad. So, after the shwo, everyone was too tired to drive home, so we stayed at Jason's house again. The next day we didn't have to come into school till late because the underclassmen were taking FCAT. So, in the morning  I had them drop me off at school. I went to school, came home, and wrote this.