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Today is Frenzy Day! We had planned to take a big boardie picture with Five Iron Frenzy, but they didn’t do the soundcheck like we’d planed. Darn that Five Iron, they ruin all our plans. ;) We went down to the mainstage anyways and decided to be cheezy and make a big FIF out of boardies on the hill. Blindside was sound checking, so we got one of the fans to take a group picture too. On our way back, we stopped at a camp who was giving away Twizzlers. Dave stuck one in my mouth, but gross! It was cherry! Jordan and Aaron had planned on a BBQ with Five Iron as well, and bought hot dogs and hamburgers which had now been sitting out for a long time, so Jordan fired up the Webber and cooked them good. They made a veggie burger for me, yay! :) Klif came out wearing these flaming...flame pajamas of yellow and red. I told him he looked like Ronald McDonald. Johnny’s sister Jaime was gabbing on about something ridiculous, so I stood behind her and mocked her, making Potatoe smile. :) Noah, Scud, and I walked to Calibretto together. I had only heard 3 songs of theirs, so I was happy to hear more. It was funny watching Scud and Noah sing along because they did funny actions. During Hollywood is Burning Down, Noah swung his head around at every “WOAH!” We decided to take the shortcut back past Camp Better Than You. Steve and Airen were there chilling in the air conditioning and listening to Steve’s new music. He asked if anyone wanted to go to the Insyderz, so since I’d been dying to see them this week, I went with him and Scud. Bob and Mimegirl were there, and Klif, Terry, and Kay came later. The Insyderz show was so amazing. I hadn’t heard anything other than their worship songs before, and I was expecting something like the Supertones, who make it less of a worship time and more of a performance, but I was thoroughly impressed. Joe said there was a time when he thought that what he was doing with the Insyderz was the only right way to spread the Word, and that everything else was just lame and wouldn’t affect anyone. But then he saw how harmful and hypocritical that view was. I have a whole heap of respect for that man now. After Insyderz, I walked back alone to Camp Frenzy. I walked behind this skinny tall blond guy who I thought was trying much too hard to look like Matt Thiessen. Right when I got in front of Camp Frenzy, I slipped on the gravel and fell on my knees. The four people in front of my turned around and asked if I was ok. I got up, scraped off my knees, and was looking straight into the eyes of Matt Thiessen...”Yah, Yah, I’m OK...” I said. My one thought was, “Geez, that is the most hideous mustache I’ve ever seen!” They turned around and started walking again. “So I guess this is my camp.” I said to the girls who were sitting in front. I got about halfway when I heard them giggling, then ran back and asked, “Was that who I thought it was?” They giggled again, “That was Relient K!” I stumbled back to camo and told them the bizarre story. So weird... Losh, Krista, and I went early to the Birthday Bash so we could get good spots for Five Iron. As a whole, we thought that the Birthday Bash thing was kind of boring. I was trying to keep a more open mind now because of what Joe said, and I saw how happy the older attendees were, dancing to their Cornerstone music. I just had to smile at that. It was beautiful. Terry and Kay came by, and Terry gave me a can of soup and asked me to watch it for him. We waited and waited, but they didn’t come back, so here I am in a huge crowd of Frenzy fans with a huge heavy can of soup. What else could I do? I wrote “Love Camp Frenzy” on it, fought my way to the front, sent it up on the stage and rolled it towards Reese. Mission accomplished. The show was awesome, the crowd was not. I got separated from the rest of the boardies before Handbook For the Sellout was over. I was pushed around hard, couldn’t hardly breathe. After I delivered the can of soup, I tried to break out of the crowd. I stumbled into the skanking circle, got a crowd surfer dropped on me, and lost my glasses. Thank God people around me saw me crawling around blind on the ground and helped me find them, and they weren’t broken. Poor Klif wasn’t so lucky. He had about half of his glasses at the end of the show. Five Iron played Blue Comb earlier than I’d expected, and all but ran from the cluster of mean fans. I got to a place where I could enjoy myself, way back by the orange fence, and stayed there. I think the best part of the show was when they played a who eight bars of Combat Chuck, just like Jeff said they would for Dave. Hehe, I think they probably planned it, but it’s cool to think you’re special. The crowd loved Pootermobile, especially the second time. TWICE BABY! Oh yeah! They played American Kryptonite and Wizard Needs Food, Badly from the new album. I screamed at the top of my lungs during American Kryptonite, for I knew somewhere in that crowd, Klif and Nic were doing the same. I hit someone on the top of the head, I was waving my arms around so wildly. I apologized. I loved dancing around to Wizard Needs Food, because it’s such a good dancing song, and no one knew it like the boardies. At one point in the show, they brought out huge pinatas. “Now last year we had pinatas filled with pork and beans,” Reese said, “And we told you not to break them, but you didn’t listen, now did you? Well we’ll give you a choice...TWO have pork and beans, the others have CANDY! So make your choice.” Klif got hit with some pork and beans, and o did old school Carrie. During You Probably Shouldn’t Move Here, a little gnome man in leiderhosen came and danced with Reese. A few songs later, they dragged him off the stage by his feet. Reese said they found him at WalMart. I found out later that the little man was Dripnote, and the two people dragging him offstage were Mike and Airen. Cool beans! Then came the best final three songs, ever. My God, it was incredible. New Hope was powerful, I started crying in the middle of World Without an End, and was sobbing uncontrollably by the end of Every New Day. I was a little disgusted with kids who didn’t show respect during these songs. I yelled at a kid for saying, “Oh boo hoo, crybaby” when Reese was talking about how the concerts of some of the other Cornerstone artists made him cry. “Show some respect, ok? Think of where you are.” Behind me at the beginning of Every New Day, I felt some people pushing, and saw someone trying to crowd surf. I all but sat on him. “They do NOT want you to crowd surf during this song.” Then I stopped spoiling everyone’s fun and went back to my spot and continued to worship and cry. After it was over, we sang “I love you Lord” and “As The Deer”. It was absolutely incredible, beautiful. I couldn’t find anyone who was going back to camp, but I found Terry, who asked for his soup. He was only slightly upset, and mostly laughed that I gave it to Reese. I ran back to camp to find Noah, but he wasn’t around. Jodi had had an asthma attack just after the Five Iron show, and Johnny and Noah were with her. They wanted to take her to the hospital, but she said no. Later that night she was better. We still had our poetry reading and I finally got to read my stuff. We were all falling asleep by four, and the walk back to camp was really long tonight. We said that next year we should have a canopy set off from the main area at Camp, but still close by so it’s easier for people to crash at Camp Frenzy for the night. Oh Lord, let there be a next year. Spiritual Journal for today |
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