Pointfest 2007

OK, so I went to Pointfest 2007 at the Riverport Ampitheatre (now the Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre) on Saturday. It's this annual concert festival for alternative rock music bands both local and national done by 105.7 The POINT FM (their slogan: Everything Alternative). So I went there with my friend Matt, and there are three side stages and the main ampitheatre stage. He wanted to go because The Killers were playing there, and they're his favorite band.

Anyway, it's technically from 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM, but Matt and I got there at about 3:00 PM because we didn't really want to be there all day. When we got there, we went to the nearest stage, where the band Flyleaf was being introduced and they began playing. (each band on the side stages play for about a half hour) Then we went to another stage where they were setting up another band, that began after Flyleaf was done playing, and the next band was this St.Louis based group called Modern Day Zero. They were good (they had a thing for using the F word... they came on and said "WHAT THE F*** IS UP ST. LOUIS!?")

We heard a few of their songs, and then we went back to the first stage and Bullet For My Valentine was playing there. So we listened to a bunch of their songs, and I remember for their last song they told the crowd in front of them to make what I think he(the lead singer, don't know his name) said was a triangle with a circle around it, and he told them if people aren't doing it, then push them out of the way.

Then we went back to the other stage and we saw Papa Roach! So there's a second well-known band we saw. I think Matt got to like them a bit seeing them live.

After that, they set up the main ampitheatre stage, where this band that won a local contest at Pop's (a local music stage) called LYE played first. We didn't hear much of them, though, because we were eating. Then this band from New York, who had never played in St. Louis before called The Red Romance played. They weren't as heavy as the other bands we'd heard earlier, but they were still pretty good in my opinion.

Then the major attractions started.

The last three bands were Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Wolfmother, and The Killers

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus was really cool! They did play Face Down, so that was nice to hear. What was funny about their lead singer was that his hair was long, and it kept going over his face when he was singing and it looked kinda funny (to me at least).

Wolfmother... man, I don't think I've ever gotten that riled up before in my life when they played! Especially when they played their song "Woman", wow, that was just awesome! They also played some new songs they had written, and it was cool. I couldn't believe they were just three guys, the lead singer/guitarist, the bass guitarist/keyboard player, and the drummer.

When The Killers came on, everyone went insane. I took out my phone and called my sister, and put it on speaker, because my sister loves the Killers, and I thought she'd like to hear them playing live.

It was awesome! I left before the encores started because I didn't want to worry about driving home with huge crowds and drunk drivers on the road.

More Probable Summer Job

Well, I just turned in this application to Panera Bread Company yesterday, and the manager wanted to interview me, I guess, today at 4:30! Well, I'll say that's more probable as a summer job! Anyway, I'll most likely be washing dishes for the first few times I'm working there, but I guess it's better than nothing!

Summer Job! (well, maybe...)

Ok, so I've been applying to a whole bunch of places around my area to have summer jobs, like camera stores, and some small food stores that aren't nessecarily restaurants, like ice cream places and places like that. I need gas money desperately, and I need more than just the $20 allowance I get every week from my parents, as my car gets terrible gas mileage, (about 18 MPG)

So today just a couple hours ago, this ice cream place that I applied to on Saturday just called me back, and they want an interview with me! That's probably the furthest I've gotten in the scale of getting a job! So, I'll be talking to the manager tomorrow, maybe... unless he calls while I'm at school and he gets my Mom... but at least I told him that I'd be able to get to the interview sometime next week, most likely Friday after school. So yeah, I may be scooping ice cream for people for a living during the summer! Can't be all that bad, I mean... ice cream parlors are an overall positive atmosphere. Kind of place I'd like to work in.

Ouch! That, and some Semi-Fake teeth...

What a way to start actual non-intro postings in this blog...

I was at tennis practice yesterday, and just as I was finishing off, I went for an out-wide shot, and trying to lob it up so it would go high, my raquet's follow-through swinging motion came up and hit me square in between my two top front teeth! So as you can imagine, that hurt, and yes, I could feel them shattering, well sort of. I instantly put my hand over my mouth, and I looked at my hand, and I saw small fragments and sort of large chips (the largest one was less than an eigth of an inch) in my hand. So as you can imagine, I was in shock, and I couldn't even take my hand away. Well, I only looked at the damage once, and apparently I made a wide Delta-shaped hole (minus the bottom of that character) in-between those two teeth. Yeah, so I had to make an emergency visit to the dentist to get tooth caps. My Mom had to take me there, and she was a nervous wreck, and she was crying. Christ, you'd think I was a model and I just lost a $50 million gig. So when I got there, the dentist put a bunch of tooth-like material that's like clay except it only hardens under UV light, and shaped it like a tooth, and then he shaped it so it was as close to my original tooth as it can be. I helped him out a bit, because he didn't have a picture of my teeth before the incident, but when he was finished, it was OK, but the coloration was a bit off.

Whatever... my Mom was still crying and all emotional about it... sometimes I wish grown women weren't all that emotional about their children, I mean, it can be good to an extent, but not to that extent. So basically my two front teeth are half-fake. Ah, looking at myself in the mirror, they don't look all that bad. I can hardly tell anything's happened, and I'm trying not to talk about that so my Mom doesn't go through her emotional cycle again. Thank God I never let her see what happened to my teeth before I got the fake stuff on.

I'll be getting porcelain (however you spell that) plating on my teeth sooner or later when I can show him a picture, and I pray to God I don't need a root canal... (he said I might need one).

Just glad none of you all know my real name, because I'm not telling anyone I know in person, because I want no more drama crap on this. I've got enough from my Mother.

I shall relax... and try to not think too much of it. I can hardly tell anything happened when I look into the mirror from a distance, unless I want to look really really close.

Peace people.

-Swords