tour journal

Right now I am waiting in a TA parking lot in our bus. We are waiting for Foreigner to get here (yes, the critically acclaimed 80’s rock band) Our driver, Rusty, lost his license and can’t take us to Canada, so we have to use Foreigner’s driver. On top of all of that, we are not even sure if we can bring our merch into Canada, we are going to try and sneak it in… hopefully the Canadians are not too strict on us.

Warped has been so insane, I’m sorry I haven’t updated in so long, I have tons of pictures to put up when I get home and hopefully I’ll be putting up a video soon… did you see the JD video? I made the song and George made the video, it’s alright… not the best yet. Shane’s will be next, hopefully I’ll be able to do more with it.

Anyway, back to warped tour. I am losing my mind. I work from like 930 every morning until like 10 at night and then it’s back to work again in the morning. I told you my routine in the last entry, but we have a new addition. When I get tired of selling cds, it’s time bring out a sign and walk around that tells kids when we are playing. This seems to be working pretty well. Since I last updated we have had our hometown Philly show (which we lost the 10 minutes to Red Jumpsuit by 14 votes at the last second, darn.) , and 2 great shows in New York and in New Jersey. Then we were moved to another stage, called the Hot Topic stage. We were pretty bummed at first to be moved there, but we’ve since adapted and figured out ways to get kids to come to our stage. Since the stage doesn’t advertise any times we have decided to put up posters everywhere with our set times and walk around with the signs all day long (which we got from our friends Scenes From a Movie, they dropped off yesterday and we got to keep their pole, wooo). It gets pretty hot and tiring, but we’re real strong men so we can handle it.

The past 3 days I have been real sick… just headaches and stomachaches it’s bad news… I haven’t even eaten anything in about 72 hours. In Pittsburgh, my parents came out and I could barely hang out with them too much because I wasn’t feeling so well, but it was great to see them regardless. That night I went to bed at 9 o’clock. The next day was Boston, where we had 2 signings that lasted over an hour each… it was absolutely insane. 4 year strong ruled and I had a fun day, despite being sick. The end of the day I went to sing happy birthday to Anthony Bayside and then went right to bed at around 8:30. I felt a little bit better today, but not by much, it was rough getting up in the morning. The dudes from A Love Like Pi showed up and surprised us and helped out all day long, even though Hajj just had his wisdom teeth out, so that was nice of them. In the morning I watched All Time Low, they got moved up to main stage and they kicked ass. Today wasn’t as good of a crowd, but still pretty good considering we were at the same time as Cute Is What We Aim for in their home town and then New Found Glory too.

Well anyway, I must be signing off to get some rest before the nightmare that will be crossing the border. Wish us luck.