Whoever She Is

i dont care about the skittles contest! sue me! im not going to go to your page and waste what little time i have when i get home at 9 at night to watch it! i have shit to do stop leaving me notes telling me to cause i wont and it pisses me off! sorry if this comes off as bitchy.

~Canada

Holy fucking shit best night EVER ok so well start with when I woke up and ill try to go in chronological order.  My mom woke me up by yelling “AP TOUR!!!!” so I was up fast went to school got nicks taylor swift poster from Maureen talked about how excited I was all day, left at lunch took the subway, alone, to the venue met Sabrina (cobras07 on buzznet) she was behind me inline she was chill Pat comes out from backstage and goes “does any one know how to get to in n out” and since im a fatty I know and give him directions “go to sunset make a right its just past Hollywood high” yeah I told him twice and then I told Kenny cause he couldn’t remember. I met and hugged Garrett Daniel Nickelsen no idea how im still breathing! I had everyone exceot Kenny sign my AP but I hugged them all!  so Halvo fails at parking, he was driving the van and parked half in the parking lane half in the street, FAIL. So Britton and halvo get out of the van (which was right in front of me in line) and Halvo gives me a hug and remembered me from the SmartPunk show and Britton walked away, haha so I hear banging from the van and realize people are banging on the windows but it unlocked (according to Halvo) so I open the door and realize it had been child locked (I have a feeling John did it) and Justin Richards comes out and thanks me followed by tim and nick and bam and so on… so I give nick the poster of taylor swift and he got a huge smile on his face and said thank you and he loved it (happy Maureen?) Tim and Loren were being dumb and goofing around and there were bees so a bee got into the van then Tim pushed Loren in and shut the door, it was funny but I don’t think he got stung…. then I walked with Halvo, Justin and Bam over to the front of the building/ walkway to backstage and we were talking for at least 45 minutes just the three of us then Briton told them that the van was being moved in 10 minutes so they needed to get there stuff Halvo take out his suitcase looks at me and asks me what he should wear, I fail at matching! So I picked out a CSWS uniform (cause im lame!) and he liked it then wore it on stage and I felt special! While we were talking people would walk up and take pictures then walk away and we kept talking it was awesome! So then they had to go sound check and went to Sharkeys for lunch and I went back in line then I saw Zack Merrick (que fans freaking out!) or so I would think, no one knew who he was ! :O do I gave him a hug and got back in line. Then we stared to move and the people in front of us were bitchy but we got in before them and got second row from the barricade I took stalker pics of ARTTM talking off to the side and begged Aaron to change the music cause it was shit he just shrugged and said there was nothing he could do (can we get Trevor back now!?!?) I was second row during all of ARTTM’s set and was jumping and singing like the lame idiot I am and Halvo pointed to me during If Only They Knew when Nick sang “I could get lost in a voice like yours” then after there set the girl in front of me (who had been one of the people who walked up to take a picture with Halvo earlier) turns to me and goes “Are you Eric’s little sister?” haha I wish I told her no I had just met them at shows. Hit The Lights was okay but I nothing special Family Force 5 had a great live show that was to die for! 3OH!3 killed it! And they had some chick I don’t remember come out to sing with them…. The Bryce for A Rocket Summer came out and played a song. By this point it was hot and the pit was crazy so Aaron walks by with water bottles and we yell at him for water but he says he cant (again wheres Trevor?!?!) then Max had a case of water and wouldn’t give us any (Sorry Alex, im mad at him!) but Chloe gave us some (thank god!!) then the people in front of me left so I had baracade for the Maine I was like 3 feet from Garrett  I have no idea how im still alive! They played an awesome set and we started the “one more song” chant then Pat came out so we got excited he walked over to us and said the venue wouldn’t allow and encore I say fuck the venue and play but they couldn’t (FML!!!!) so it like 11 by this point I walk over to the merch tables (literally in a closet!) and get the “I like you like, like-like you” shirt for the Maine and the ARTTM hoodie for half price because according to bam “You’re cool, but don’t tell anyone” plus Halvo had told him too earlier. (im an eavesdropper!) so I also grabbed a physical of Greetings From and on the way out hugged Halvo and told him id see him next time there in town then I didn’t see Loren but he stopped he and hugged me good-bye (that was so ridiculously amzing!) and Nick waved to me on my way out but I didn’t see Justin :’( oh weel then I went home! Im leaving a lot out but that’s the major stuffs now bed time!

~Canada

ps sorry its so long!

im about to cry, im so proud of them! (sorry im cheesy!) this is so
unreal tho. crazy shit, for an 07 (granted Nov 07 but i still count!)
fan to see this is crazy……its so weird to see, The Maine is headlining a tour, im sorry but
the videos are making it real, this is legit making me stop and think,
these little guys from AZ that no one knew, is headlinning, fucking
headlinning! wow… this is never going to sink in……

who reads the poetry i posted on here im thinking of making a blog for it on tumblr thoughts?

never seems to end ive been home for close to 3 hours and havnt had a chance to slow down! it seems like everyone wants to talk to me or needs my help with something! dont get me wrong i love it cause its all music stuff but my heads spinning right now. anyway Third Grade Haters just made my dreams come true! so repay them by a myspace visit perhps?
myspace.com.thirdgradehaters
anyway, i think imma try and get 5 minutes to talk to my brother before he goes to sleep.

is fun! just had a long chat with Andy about lost, alex's love life, meeting Paul McCartney.... 

they dont have a profile on here (ill yell at Andy to change that) but they are a great band from Knoxville TN
myspace.com/thirdgradehaters
or twitter (wheer im always talking to them...)
twitter.com/thirdgradehater

"d-bag" best convo ever! this happened at the free show today after ARTTM's setMe: Hey, have you seen Marc?
Halvo: What? Who?
Me: Never mind
Halvo: I know a Marc
Me: you either get it or you don't and you hurt my feeling cause you dont but its ok
Halvo: I like your shirt (points to Hot Topic ARTTM shirt)
Me: Really? You know them?
Halvo: Yep I've hear of them, they suck though!
Me: So true, there really mean too, never talk to fans or any thing
Halvo: Yeah thats what I've heard, That bass players a real d-bag too
Me: So I've heard
*awkward pause*
Halvo: so... *more awkward pause* *Cracks up laughing*

Today started at 8 am when Maureen woke me up. I jumped since we were supposed to leave at 8. Her mom left and we had to stay with her little sisters (5&7) until her mom was home. Figuring we weren’t going to make it to the concert today I was bummed to say the least but her mom was home at 845 and we left taking 2 buses to the subway to downtown LA. Where we had to catch the Amtrak cause it was all that moved fast enough to get us to OC on time. It took us from 845 untill 1130 to get from the valley to Fullerton. When we get on the buss in Fullerton we realize we don’t know what our stop is, because in our hurry to leave I left the directions at home. So we got off at what we thought was the stop. We were so off! We walked for a half hour (until 1215) before we got on the bus again and called my other friend to find out what stop we needed. We see three girls with Fearless gift bags and one in a “STAY BRUTAL” shirt so we got off and could hear music so we sprinted to the parking lot.

 

I was shocked at how few people there were Maureen and I guessed around 200. Runner Runner was playing and we had miss This Century and the stage collapsing. Im not sure what happened but while This Century was playing the stage collapsed. I saw Ryan from TC first and talked to him for a little bit, bought Early Love for 5 dollars, talked to Joel from TC and got a high five from him, bought the “This Century is Terminally Chill” shirt that came with the digital EP. It was very high tech you wrote your name and email on a sheet of paper and get the EP emailed to you! Haha walking around I saw Bree and Kron from Buzznet so we talked to then for a little bit and got stickers! Woo! I then saw Richard and no joke dropped my bag ran and gave him a hug. Yes Im that much of a loser! Someone from SmartPunk walked by and told Richard that “Rocket and The Maine just pulled up” so he left to go into the warehouse (we were all in the parking lot). Me and Maureen walked around back and found the Rocket guys, John, Jared and company barbequing Tim and Ashley are the only ones who saw us before we left. I didn’t want to interrupt lunch.  Inside the office there is 1 bathroom and a really long line, at the front of the line is a door with a window that looks into the storage area of the warehouse, Nick, Justin, Loren, Eric and a couple of other people were inside there so I stood and watched through the window like a creeper! I then walked out and was stuck at the back of the crowd in front for the entire show. It was great! They played the Taylor Swift cover, and a whole bunch of others! (ill give you a set list if you really care!) during Baby Were Invincible Justin was beat boxing in during the instrumental. And then the did a little bit of Yellow by Coldplay and Our Song by Taylor Swift before the last Chorus. I then went and talked to Eric Halverson (I will post that separate it was epic!) Loren and Justin, who signed my Early Love and told me Brighten may have new music coming up soon (shh I don’t think I’m supposed to tell) I walked onto the side walk and heard Tim yell for people to clear the way (he has a loud voice I was shocked) so instead I ran ahead and stood by the side of the “stage”

 

I was maybe 3 feet from John and a little behind him. Highlights of their set:

-John bleching in the middle of We All Roll Along

-John admitting to wear womens deodorant (once according to him)

-John talking about wetting his pants

-Jared laughing at John for forgetting the second verse of The Way We Talk

-Having Tim laugh at me explain to Maureen she wont be able to hear me over the screaming fan girls

-John admitting to wetting his pants in 7^th grade

-John admitting to being hung over

-Getting a hug from John with out having to ask

-Finding Nicks water bottle (the one the rolled away thanks to TC breaking the stage)

That’s about it…. It was crazy fun! There was a lot more that happened but this is already really long. Jared and Richard signed my AP poor John got pinned to the bus. And Jared smells like sharpie.