Edgefest in Barre

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edgefest – barrie on – july 1, 2001

We (me, danielle, adrienne, eric and david) headed up to the great white north on sunday morning with eric’s friend and a bunch of other people following us. got there, went in, walked around the 2nd stage and the tents a bit before settling on the grass at the main stage for the rest of the day. the weather report was 72 and mostly cloudy. well it probably was 72 but it was way windy, so it was freezing. had 2 shirts and a jacket on all day (still got sunburned, even tho i had sunblock on and it was cloudy). Danielle froze, she had shorts on.

so we spent most of the day at the main stage. first band was project wyze…they absolutely sucked. rap rock piece of shit band, 2 “singers”…they were just terrible. after that was…bif naked? i think. i know they played so they were next. chick singer, boring, i slept through most of it. gob was next i think, not my thing. also sat through big wreck and finger eleven. whatever. went to get food after finger eleven, was in line a long time and missed most of 3 doors down. then was the tea party followed by tool.

The tea party rocked. i was disappointed that they opened with “temptation” and it didn’t sound great. i dunno, it was good, but i expected the song to be way louder, or something. i dunno, just didn’t do anything for me, and i love that song. They premiered 2 new songs that they’re working on, the first one rocked, it’s called “lullaby”. the second one was more mellow, they called it a pot smoking song I think, forget the name of it. that one i didn’t like as much but it was cool. They inserted “cashmere” inside “save me” and “paint it black” inside “sister awake” for the finale. i forget the rest of the set, they played about an hour i guess.

tool was incredible. couldn’t see alot of it cuz of people standing in front of me. stage was mostly dark, they had a screen playing graphics and video, which maynard stood in front of and was silhouetted on it the whole time. They sounded so good, perfect, and maynard was on, as always. he is one of the most incredible singers i’ve seen. He sings so effortlessly and it’s just so great. Setlist was: The Grudge, Stinkfist, 46&2. Schism, Sober, Parabola, Lateralus. They played about an hour. highlight for me was “sober” cuz i love the ending of that song, and it sounded spectacular. They closed with “lateralus”, and i love the ending of that song too. a friend went with a guy who taped it, so probably will get a copy at some point.

took an hour to get out of the parking lot. Got home around 3:30. thank god i switched my day off to be monday.

no pics, no point.

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haha i’ve got a story. last night adrienne and i went to Benny Hinn’s Miracle Crusade at HSBC Arena. I became interested in going to a big revival after seeing a show about evangelists and exorcisms etc…I think it’s absolutely ridiculous, a big scam, so i wanted to go and check it out. It was free. We ended up getting free parking (even tho later I don’t think we were supposed to). It was frightening and comical. I’m gonna write something up about it later, tuesday probably, so I won’t get into it now.

But, was talking to my mom today, and she’s like, well we weren’t going to tell you this til you were older (cuz i’m not a full fledged adult finally) but…when I was in england in 1997, and with my psycho ex boyfriend, my parents went on vacation at the same time. They were at some hotel or whatever, and met these people from Canada… they were kinda strange hippy sort of people. Well they were talking to them, and the guy said he was becoming a diciple of this Indian woman who was a healer. Everyone called her mother. She had the power to heal ppl blah blah blah etc. Well as a diciple she had given him the power to help people also. Well my parents told them what was going on with me and psycho ex, and he said that he could pray over my picture and blah blah blah. WELL THEY DID IT! They went and got my picture and had this wacko pray over it so that me and psycho ex would break up! Then I got home from England and a week later we did break up, so my parents really think that this healer man and “mother” are responsible for us breaking up. YEAH FUCKING RIGHT! My dad is an atheist and he believes this?!? That’s absolutely ridiculous.

But it’s an amusing story none the less. I was amused as hell when she told me. Yeaaah.It was a healer who is responsible for breaking up, not the fact that he was psycho and I was tired of putting up with it. haha

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June 2001 Dreams

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June 10, 2001 – My family was good friends with Johnny Knoxville’s (from Jackass) family. We lived on the same street as they did and Johnny came to visit from California for a day. He was my age, and we had been good friends as kids. So he came over to my house to see me while he was home. When I saw it was him I freaked out because it had been so long since I had seen him. So we were all hugging and stuff, and we started talking about Jackass. He was leaving the next day because he had to go back to Cali to film more episodes. I joked with him about how he doesn’t get hurt anymore because now all his friends do the stunts. He laughed at that. He kept hugging me and telling me that he missed me so much while he was away. So then he decided he didn’t want to go back to Cali because he didn’t want to be away from me. So then I guess we were a couple, and we were in high school. All the kids at school made fun of him because he was the “new kid” and they didn’t realize he was from Jackass. After school we were at my house, and I must have done something to piss him off because he was really mad at me. He wouldn’t talk to me, and was trying to get away from me, but I kept grabbing onto him and hugging him because I was trying to make him forgive me for whatever I did. Someone was there with us, and was telling me that he wouldn’t forgive me and to just give up but I didn’t believe them and I kept trying to get him to talk to me and forgive me. So then I guess we did break up, but since our parents were such good friends we saw each other all the time. I was miserable and depressed because we had broken up and he wouldn’t speak to me. Our parents were having a big party for a bunch of people, and we had to go to it. So I was there and I was miserable because Johnny was there and he wouldn’t talk to me. Our parents kept trying to sit us together so we’d talk and get back together, but Johnny wouldn’t talk to me and I just sat there miserable. So then after dinner, I was just standing around and Johnny came over to me and started talking to me. He told me I looked nice (I had on an ugly yellow dress). I was so happy because he was talking to me again, and so then we were back together. So then we went to school and after school we went to this store because he had to buy a suit. It was like 1970 or something because all the suits were really ugly polyester tweed couch material suits. So he picked out this suit, it was brown couch material, but then it was turquoise. I tried the pants on and they were like 2 feet longer than my legs. I could pull them up to my armpits and they were still super long. So I told Johnny he couldn’t get this suit because it was way too long.

possible explanation: well the fight and not forgiving me is a lot like what is happening on GH with Sonny and Carly. I saw Johnny Knoxville on the MTV awards looking hot as usual.

possible interpretation: there was some kind of thing about snakes in the dream too….that symbolizes temptation and evil according to my dream book….adam and eve, snake, etc…it also means health and well being…and a phallic symbol that appears often when a women conceives a child… well that certainly is not happening to me so….it means i want to have johnny knoxvilles love child 🙂

Dunno the dates

I was penpals with Bono from U2. We had been writing letters back and forth to each other. He said he was going to write me once a month while on tour. He sent me this one letter and he was telling me about this dream he had where he was looking for something and he couldn’t find it. I told him I had dreams like that where I couldn’t find where I was looking for. I was typing the letter and I realized that his dream is like the U2 song “I still havent found what I’m looking for” and I laughed.

I was someplace, and for some reason I had a gun in my pocket. I didn’t know I had the gun until Snoop Doggy Dogg and some other black rapper came up to me and asked me for my gun. At first I was like wtf no you can’t have my gun. Then I realized that Snoop was collecting guns for a public service thing to get illegal guns off the streets. My gun was fake, it was just a toy, but he wanted it anyway so I gave it to him and he broke it in half.

Helena from GH was sabotaging things at McDonalds. I can’t remember now what she was doing.

I was in a play ground place, with the plastic tube tunnels. They were like the tube waterslides but without water. So I was going in one because I think I was looking for something. Danielle was there and I told her I was going to get stuck, but she made me go in anyway. So then I was sliding down the tube, and I came out the other end, and I was in munchkin land. There were munchkins all over, and I guess they were trying to kill me. Then Danielle showed up. But I told the munchkin that there was no way they could kill me because they were only 2 feet tall and I was bigger than them. I guess that was very politically incorrect, so I was part of this big controversy. Then Danielle and I were transported to Howard Sterns show because he was going to plead our case to the public, but of course since it was Stern we had no shirts on. Then I think I was the only one there at the studio, and I was waiting for Howard to start talking about me and the munchkins but he never did.

June 17, 2001

My old friend Dan was being brainwashed by Helena from GH like Lucky is on the show. Except instead of the Ice Princess being the trigger, it was baby strollers. Every time he saw a baby stroller he went into a trance and did bad things. Then she was going to try to brainwash Gia, and she started doing it right in front of Nikolas. She was freaking out, and Nikolas wasn’t doing anything about it even tho he was really upset. Finally he got her away from Helena, but everyone was scared they were going to be the next to be brain washed. Then there were baby strollers all around and everyone was scared that they were brainwashed and didn’t know it.

there was something about New Kids On The Block too

possible explanation: sorta following the storyline from GH. Watched NKOTB E true hollywood story last night.

Possible interpretation: think its definitely just a GH reference

June 24, 2001

Totally disturbing dream. It was very movie like. I was at school, it looked more like a high school than college. Bono was one of the professors. Danielle and I were in the dining hall getting food, it must have been the first day or something because we didn’t quite know what line to go in, etc. There were lots of people there looking around for what kind of food there was. Then Danielle was like, this place is retarded, you can only get like 1 food item in each line, so if you want a whole meal you have to go in all these different lines. I cut in line in front of a bunch of people to get in line with Danielle for some kind of noodles. Then cut to next scene. I was (or it was more like a camera) was looking at the building, and there was this giant tree outside, right up against the building, almost like ivy, but it definitely was a tree. At one point the tree had been some big monster. Well it came alive again and it had a face like the scary old tree character that used to be in McDonald’s play lands that talked, or those talking trees in Wizard of Oz. It had a face, and it started moving the branches. They were like big scary arms. Well the arms/branches moved in front of one of the windows it was next to (it was inbetween 2 sets of windows). Some kids saw it move and they got scared. Then it went back to playing dead. Cut to some other scene I don’t remember. Cut back to tree. The tree then moved its other arm/branches in front of the other window. Now lots of people were realizing that the monster tree was alive again. It was only moving a little bit and then back to its original position because it needed to gain strength. Then it had gotten some strength back, and it smacked its right arm/branch into the classroom window and shattered it all over the students inside. Now people were way scared of the tree again. So the people near the window on the other side of the classroom decided to push the glass out of the window so that the tree couldn’t smash that one too, but when they were pushing on it a bunch of kids fell out of the window with the glass and died. Cut to a city street. There was a woman walking across the street. She was lost, or some how out of place in the scene. She was black, and she was in a black neighborhood. Well she crossed the street and there were 2 younger black kids/men standing there. They sorta frightened her, and so she crossed back across the street again. She was looking for directions or something, and she felt threatened by the 2 kids so she didn’t want to ask them. Cut to the tree again causing mayhem. Cut back to the woman, shes crossing the street again, and there is an old man crossing. She holds out her hand to shake hands with him, so she could ask him directions, but he pulls out a gun and shoots her. So she staggers in the street, and she has 2 bullet holes in her shirt.

By now in the dream I’m kinda scared, it’s nightmare-ish, very disturbing, so I think “insert Trevor”. So I try to make Trevor Hurst get into the dream somehow to make it not scary anymore. But it doesn’t work and it cuts back to the woman in the street shot. No one is helping her, and she is bleeding. I keep thinking “insert Trevor” but it doesn’t work. Eventually my alarm went off.

possible explanation: none that i can think of. Inserting Trevor is a result of seeing Econoline Crush sunday afternoon. I guess that would have made the dream more happy, unless he went on some killing rampage or something.

possible interpretation: let’s consult the book…tree: familial lines, free will and ability to choose, life, knowledge and wisdom, tree of self, personal branching out…. ok nothing seems to make sense regarding a killer tree. window: do windows in dream appear open, closed, shuttered…the opening indicates how open-minded you are as an individual… so does that mean i’m completely open minded? have my beliefs whatever been shattered? i dunno about that. ok gun is not in this book. that seems to me like it would be a pretty significant symbol…oh wait, its under weapon :P…guns are violent but impersonal…reveal a source of anger or anxiety that you would prefer to keep at arms length… omg this sorta makes sense. at work this black woman who is a lesbian apparantly thinks i’m attractive. since then i’ve been kinda bitchy to her. i dont want her dead or anything, but the whole window/open mindedness stuff and the black woman getting shot…kinda makes sense. however even if i was going to experiment with bisexuality/homosexuality it wouldn’t be with her LOL. so that part doesn’t make sense. the trevor part, well… he’s hot. lol. yeah i’d sleep with him (ok so not really, cuz that would never happen for many reasons haha) he’d make me happy…self explanatory. wow i think this is the most analyzation ever… is that a word?

June 26, 2001

Well I lived somewhere on the coast, near the ocean. I was going to school there, and I was friends with Bono from U2 but he was same age as me, and in college too. Apparantly we had some kind of relationship. We weren’t dating, but I guess we always wanted each other when we were drunk. And I guess we had slept together before. Anyway, we were at the beach, it was either dusk, or really cloudy, because it was kind of dark out. We were with a few friends. I don’t know if they were going to leave, or what, but I wanted them to stay. We all had exams to study for the next day, but I didn’t want to leave. So we went on this row boat, which was tied to the land, so we weren’t going anywhere, just floating on the water. We were talking about how we should go because we had to study, but didn’t feel like leaving. So we stayed on the boat, drinking I guess, because then I guess I wanted to leave with Bono someplace. Our friends wouldn’t let us go, because I guess they knew what always happened when we were drunk together, and they thought we were going to ruin our friendship and they didn’t want us to go. So we stayed on the boat, then this huge ocean liner came speeding up and was going to hit us. Since we were tied to the land, we couldn’t move out of the way so we were all knocked out of the boat.

possible explanation: i dunno

possible interpretation: stagnant or anchored boat: worried that life isnt moving in the way you feel it should be. taking a journey by boat may be literal or figurative death…well it wasnt a journey cuz we werent moving anywhere.

June 28, 2001 – my birthday

I was dating Trent Reznor. he lived in my town (hah right) and i was still in high school. he was significantly older than me, maybe 10 years, in the dream (hes 15 years older in real life). Apparantly my parents didn’t care that i spent my nights at his house, which was a few streets away on Remington. So at night I’d go over to his place and spend the night there. He was always really nice to me and stuff. Then for some reason we decided we wanted to be cocaine addicts. So we caleld up some guy who was a dealer to come bring us some cocaine. Well the guy showed up and we were in the street and i had cup full of liquid cocaine, and I asked the guy if he wanted to try some. Then Trent was like, what the hell are you doing, we’re in the middle of the street. So I was like oops, and we all went inside. So the guy gave us the cocaine and left. So then me and Trent were coke addicts, and whenever he got high he was a real big asshole to me. I didn’t want us to be coke addicts anymore because I didn’t like when Trent was a jerk.

possible explanation: just a lovely birthday dream about dating trent 🙂

possible interpretation: same as above 🙂

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its my birthday. i got a car 🙂

see…. that’s my new car. 2001 prizm, cd player, air, etc…woo hoo

more car pics later, dont want to overload the page with them, and i looked at them and i look fat lol…:P

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Econoline Crush, Buffalo again

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econoline crush – june 24, 2001 – buffalo, ny

another lovely EC show in buffalo hehe. This was for the Artvoice Street Festival. There were a bunch of bands playing on like 4 stages, but on the main stage was Oleander and EC and other crap bands we didn’t stay for. Anyway, we headed out got there right after Treblecharger. I heard they sucked. We decided to walk around cuz all the busses were behind the stage. So we walked through bus land and over to were a crowd of people were. They were all getting autos and pics from Treblecharger. Big deal. But Johnny and Mark were standing around too. So we went over to talk to Johnny. He was like “hey guys” haha. So he signed my poster and Adriennes cd book, and we stood around talking to him for like 20-30 minutes. Mark came over to us too and signed stuff, and hung out talking for a while. He was like hello again, and i was like yeah welcome back. Trevor walked by and we waved to him, then he went to the bus, and then later Mark left. Johnny stayed for a while longer talking, it was rad. We left to get a spot for Oleander while he was talking to some old dude.

So Oleander played, wow. They were alright. The singer guy jumped down into the crowd (not crowd surf or dive or anything) and almost wacked this girl with his guitar. So then he gave the roadie the guitar and just hung out singing in the crowd. It was kinda cool. If I liked them it would have been cooler haha. So they played for 40 min or so. We got in front for EC. They came on a bit after 5. They opened with TDM which was a shock (ok so not really, because when we were talking to Johnny we were standing by his drum kit, and the setlist from the night before was still taped to the carpet thing, and so we saw it, and he said they were doing a different setlist but still opening with TDM). So that rocked. Then it was X3, Sparkle and Shine, Surefire, Sinking, Trash, My Salvation, Home, Make It Right, You Dont Know, and Wicked once again with the Head Like a Hole insert They played the typical songs, nothing out of the ordinary. It was a short set, like 40 min. So that rocked. Not sure if those songs are in the correct order or not….whatever

So after we left the crowd and went back to the busses but then Eric and Mary wanted to leave so we did. Oh well whatever.

Meanwhile I’m getting a nice tan on my left arm from being outside alot the past 2 weekends LOL. only the left arm tho, so i look lopsided.

from Trevor’s tour diary: “Buffalo Street Festival

The Buffalo street fest had a very diverse and mostly Canadian line-up. Blue Rodeo, 54-40, treblecharger, EC and Oleander. It was great to see all those bands. Greg from treble joined us for our morning coffee and shared road stories from his current tour. The guys from Oleander were kind of wondering how it was that they ended up being the only American act on the bill. We hadn’t hung out with 54-40 in years. It was good to see Matt and Phil et al. Keeping the Vancouver vibe alive. They’re releasing a kind of greatest hits record in the US this summer on Nettwerk USA.

The show was great! Buffalo has always been and continues to be a great town for us to play. Thanks to everyone at the Edge and Bruce and his family. The day wouldn’t have been the same without them. We’d also like to thank Erin for the cool book of EC photos and art.

T “

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eric was home this weekend so i had a life! friday we went to dennys, walmart, and the falls real quick. it was rather amusing cuz at Dennys me and Amanda basically ruined this waiters life. We told him that this girl, who is one of gods most ugliest creatures, likes him. the look on his face was classic. he was just mortified. hahah. it was funny, he took it well.

saturday we drove around in the afternoon, hit the typical stores, went to dinner at fridays, then later went to canada. at this bar we met these tourists, one from UK one from Ireland. They were hysterically funny.

sunday was econoline crush and oleander down town. yes another econoline crush show. it rocked. i did what i said i would, and i talked to the twins that i knew would be there. i’ve seen them at the other 2 ec shows, u2 and depeche mode. so they were there, i told them i see them everywhere, and we talked about the shows for a while. then i talked to this kid who was like, hey nice shirt to me. i had on my u2 shirt, so did he. so we talked about the u2 show and stuff. it was rad, cuz i never talk to people hahah. next time, asking to go on EC’s bus haha

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as u may know i like hockey. i went to 3 sabres games this year, and at the games they have credit card people who offer free stuff if u sign up for the card. so at the 1st game we all filled out the forms to get the free hat. well i was denied. they said i had adequate credit for the amt of money i make. so at the 2nd game, instead of hats they had shirts, so i had to sign up again. so that time, they approved me. i got a sabres credit card.

that’s spectacular except that i already had a sabres credit card from the year before. yes, that’s right, they gave the same person 2 of the same credit card (different numbers, so different accounts)…i didn’t activate the card.

lovely, that’s messed up. well with the 2nd card came a free 3 issue trial of Sports Illustrated (which is probably why they approved me the 2nd time and not the first). they were supposed to send a notice with the 3rd issue asking if u want to continue or not. well they never did, so i never cancelled it, and ive been getting it since march-ish. great. i dont like any other sport except hockey, which is the most neglected major sport.

so my mom has called SI and told them to cancel subscription cuz i never asked for it etc, and they said they would contact the credit card company and cancel it. yes, they’d cancel the bill on the creditcard that was never activated. well today i got a bill for 30$.

HOW CAN I GET BILLED TO A CREDIT CARD THAT NEVER WAS ACTIVATED?! this has got to be illegal or something. its so retarded. ug, pissed. I’m so not paying.

edited @ 6.05pm – i was just told by my mom that i read the bill wrong and that i was given a 30$ credit, so indeed i am not being charged for it THANK GOD

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ok i’m gonna create a new blog thing for my mcdonalds story site, because i’m to lazy to ever update it, and this will make it much better. So no more McStories on this blog, you’ll have to look at the other one once I create it. However this story needs to go on here.

This guy came in, bought 4 breakfast burritos, gave me the 6 dollars and this little baggie falls out of the money. I thought it was a really REALLY small condom or something, but I pick it up to give it back to him…. and it was a baggie of Cocaine!!!! I’m like OMG THIS IS COCAINE. And he takes it and shoves it back in his pocket LOL. its like dude, u need to be more careful about your drugs….

happy birthday to my mom and Amir Derakh 🙂

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ok so WORK SUCKS!! really really badly. i hate it. I got a raise, yeah an insulting 35 cents. it’s not even worth it. i do so much shit there and they give me 35 cents…

so i had a sorta job interview today with a psychologist. I contacted a bunch of drs looking for a job/experience. well one finally contacted me. i went to see him today after playing 5 days of phone tag. so i talked, we worked out an arrangement. i was hoping i could quit mcds…no, can’t, cuz hes not going to pay me. i get to type up client files and stuff and hes gonna show me stuff about testing etc… it’ll be good, just wish i was getting paid so i could quit mcds.

it’s way too freaking hot

oh, and i am so inlove with Bono… haha

and if i have to hear “with arms wide open” at work another 4 times tomorrow i’m going to go postal.

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Depeche Mode in Toronto

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depeche mode – toronto, on – june 16, 2001

I had gone up to Toronto on thursday to attend the American Psychological Society conference with my professor. I had my name on two posters being presented on friday. So after the whole conference stuff I went to Carolyn’s for the rest of the weekend. Eric, Amanda and Danielle came up on Saturday afternoon. We spent the day downtown, had dinner, then went over to the Molson Amphitheater for the show. It was mega hot. We took a street car to Ontario Place, but it let us off way far away. So we had to walk over to the place, but we followed those people who (it turns out) went a really long circular way to the theatre. So we get there, and go through the gates and get in this line that is there. Then we’re told that’s not the GA lawn line. So this guy from the park takes all these people who were in line through the park to where the entrance to the lawn was. It was so hot. haha. So then we had to wait in the line for a while, and then we were let in. We had a pretty decent spot in the middle of the lawn, near the front…It was far away, it was lawn, so whatever.

Poe opened. She was good. I saw her before in 1996 at Edgefest. She was 200 times better than PJ Harvey. Sounded better, songs were better, she was way more entertaining. I think she played a shorter set than normal. I guess Canada has an 11 rule, that concerts must be over by 11. Carolyn said Poe usually played 45 minutes, and she seemed to play about 30 or so. Whatever.

The show was great. Very impressive. I didn’t know what to expect really. They had really cool lighting effects, these fluorescent light things, that they used for some songs, and then just a generally good lighting setup. They had screens behind the band that showed some videos at times. One was rain and water drops, another was 2 goldfish and a shark (we were all waiting for the shark to eat the fish but it never did), they played the “its no good” video during the song. Overall it was a really good show.

Setlist:
Easy Tiger – Dream On (Live Instrumental Acoustic)
The Dead Of Night
The Sweetest Condition
Halo
Walking In My Shoes
Dream On
When The Body Speaks
Waiting For The Night To Fall
The Bottom Line
Breathe
Freelove
Enjoy The Silence
I Feel You
In Your Room
It’s No Good
I Feel Loved
Personal Jesus

Encore:
Home
Clean
Black Celebration
Never Let Me Down Again

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