BBMak

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Ok so today was… eventful…I got out of work early so i could go home and shower, so I could go with Christa to see BBMak… hah i know, keep laffing….The school where Christa’s father is principal won this radio station contest to have BBMak perform at the school. Her dad was supposed to get us to meet them, and that’s the only reason why I went. I have no idea who they are, I just know they’re british, and they’re young haha. Turns out we didn’t get to meet them because they left right away.

But anyway, while we were driving to the school, Christa’s car started on fire. We’re in view of the school, maybe 1/4 a mile away, and it starts on fire. It was making this weird noise and it wouldn’t go above 45 mph, it had been before. So we’re like wtf is that noise. Then the noise suddenly stops, and the car starts SMOKING so bad we couldn’t see. So I’m like YOU GOTTA PULL OVER YOU GOTTA STOP and shes like we’re almost there, and i’m like YOU NEED TO STOP NOW WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THE CAR. So she pulls over and stops, and we get out of the car. It was smoking SO bad but I didn’t know what it was, cuz it was white smoke, not black smoke. I thought maybe it was just over heated, but it was SO much smoke. So this girl who had been going the other direction stopped and ran over and is like YOUR CAR IS ON FIRE I SAW THE FLAMES. So we leave the car and this girl takes us to the school.

So Christa tells her dad that the car is on fire, and he didn’t believe her. But I’m like no it really is on fire. We never saw any flames but it was still smoking really bad. So anyway, he took care of that, and we got to watch BBMak….I went deaf from all the high school girls screaming around me. I guess they were good, they’re cute, and they’re british so they’re ok in my book.

Ok so the concert is over, they played like 5 songs.. I knew one of them cuz they play it at work. There was this little boy on the bleachers in front of us, and these girls going nuts behind us, so the camera man for the news was filming them… so unfortunately I’m probably on tv….a bunch of people took pictures of where we were in the bleachers too, its like wtf, I’m 21, I don’t go to school here and I never did haha….

An interesting fact sorta…. the high school where the concert was at is the high school Timothy McVeigh went to when he was a kid….they had super duper security all day since today was Execution day….

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just got back from allentown art festival downtown….same as always, lots of stupid people with animals and strollers. got 4 matted pics of last weeks U2 show from the concert picture guy. i might scan them at some point. whatever.

i’m really bored. i don’t have really anything to say but i’m just that bored. my parents looked at a “really nice car” for me today. mom said they’re waiting for the guy to call back cuz the price was more than they wanted to pay or something. i hope i get it. i don’t even know what kind it is HAH…its a car, it runs, i can take road trips and go on concert binges…its kinda funny how i say “concert binges” because binging is usually a reference to food or drugs…concerts are my drug… that’s funny. i had this wack dream last night that i was dating johnny knoxville… its on my dream page if u r interested. of course, go there after ur done here 🙂

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U2 in Buffalo

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U2 – buffalo,ny – 5-31-01

Incredible show. I don’t even know what to say. Carolyn and I had seats in 300 level behind the stage. We had a perfect view of the stage, even if it was from behind. The stage was heart shaped, with people inside and outside the heart. PJ Harvey played first. I dunno….I guess she was good. I don’t like chick singers, all the songs sounded the same, I so don’t like that kind of music, and it was boring. But if you like her, I guess she was good. U2 came on at quarter to 9 ish. They started “Elevation” with the house lights on, which was cool. After that they played um…”Beautiful Day”, then “End of the World” and then I think “Mysterious Ways”….ok so I totally don’t remember the set list, I’m trying to find one….They played a really good mix of old and new stuff I thought. I was only unfamiliar with 2 songs, that I guess were from Zooropa, which I’ve only heard once, and of the 2 songs I know from it, I don’t think I’d even be able to recognize them…

At one point in the show Bono started talking about how the 3rd show they ever played in the states was in Buffalo, opening for Tallas (Tollas?), and it was on the night that John Lennon died…then he started singing “In My Life” by himself. He dedicated “In A Little While” to Joey Ramone. I missed the dedication to Michael Hutchence, I don’t think he did one, but he has in every other show so maybe he did and I wasn’t paying attention.

They did 2 encores…one, maybe the 1st one, was “Bullet The Blue Sky” that had an intro (I was told, we couldn’t see the big screens) of Charleton Heston talking about guns, and a little girl picking up a gun…I think some people missed the point they were trying to get across, that guns were bad, cuz a kid was on the radio talking about how he agreed with the Heston thing…

Um…I dunno what to say. It was just an amazing show. Bono brought 3 people on stage at different points. During “The Fly” he brought this girl onto the catwalk and laid her down on stage. I couldn’t see this part too good, but what I saw, Bono was laying/sitting on her, and she was laying/sitting on him for a while. Then he stood up and stood over her laying on the cat walk. I’d have died…what a concert memory.

woo hoo I just found the setlist…

Elevation
Beautiful Day
Until the End of the World
Even Better Than the Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
In My Life/Stuck In a Moment
Kite
Gone
New York
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday/Get Up Stand Up
In A Little While
Desire
Stay
Bad/40
Where the Streets Have No Name
Pride
Encore(s): Bullet the Blue Sky
With or Without You
The Fly
One/She’s a Mystery to Me
Walk On

It was so worth the money…the hassle of not having tickets, trying to find tickets, buying shitty tickets LOL….it definitely places in the top 5 concerts I’ve ever seen. I don’t think it quite knocks off NIN toronto…it’s close tho…i think it doesn’t place in top 3 because the top 3 have alot more personal meaning to me, even though the concerts/shows themselves weren’t as good. Pure music/performance wise, this show is #2 after NIN….but overall, it’s probably #4….definitely need to see them again (from a better position haha)

this is the buffalo news review from buffalonews.com….

Musical Mission
Bono and U2 deliver a message of faith
By CRAIG SEYMOUR News Pop Music Critic 6/1/01

Irish rockers U2 brought its blazing brand of secular gospel to the HSBC arena Thursday night, marking the first time the band has played Buffalo since 1987. The band was on a singular mission to restore the audience’s faith in the importance of rock, humanity, of life itself. A large chunk of the two hour show paid tribute to the group’s late friends and fallen rock icons. Bono paid homage to John Lennon, who was
murdered on the night of U2’s first gig in Buffalo, by singing a verse from the Beatles “In My Life.” He also worked bits of classics by
Marvin Gaye (“Sexual Healing”) and Bob Marley (“Get Up, Stand Up”) into the set.

The band performed “Stuck in a Moment That You Can’t Get Out Of,” from their latest album, “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” which is
dedicated to ex-INXS fronman Michael Hutchence who committed suicide in 1997.

And the Southern Soul-inflected “In a Little While” was delivered by the band in recognition of New York’s own Joey Ramone, the former lead
singer of the seminal punk group the Ramones, who died from cancer last month. Bono stated that “In A Little While” was the last song that Ramone listened to before dying. “Now when I hear this song, I don’t hear it as a song about a hangover. It’s become a gospel tune. That’s
how cool Joey Ramone was.”

This song represented one of the night’s many moments that were devoted to the importance of people needing each other. “If I crawl/will
you be there,” he crooned like an Irish Al Green.

He introduced his bandmates before bringing them down front for a rattling version of “Desire.” And there was something touching about him
delivering introductions for people whom everyone in the audience knew. It served to represent another of the night’s inspiring themes: Don’t
take anything you hold dear for granted.

It was called the “Elevation” tour, and the band’s intent was to uplift and enlighten. (Although, given the $130 tickets, $45 T-shirts and $20 programs, the tour’s name had an unintentional double meaning.) Even the background music played before the show had a spirit raising theme: Jackie Wilson’s “(You’re Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher,” Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” and Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up.”

The stage had a breathtaking simplicity. It was a hollow heart made with curved red catwalks. You almost expected to see a fashionista strut down the stage, and indeed Bono did ape the moves of a male supermodel at one point in the show. The earnest set-up could have come off as corny, but the stylish design made it work.

Fans stood in the middle of the heart and also surrounded the stage. And the people on the floor seemed to enjoy being physically close to a band with whom they’ve felt such a close emotional connection.

Despite initial concerns about the show’s general admission seating policy, the crowd was very well-behaved. There were some body surfing incidents. At one point, Bono even had to tell a particularly hefty crowd surfer: “You weren’t designed to fly, friend.” But, overall, you’d see more pushing, shoving and beer-spilling on any given night on Chippewa.

The last time U2 played Buffalo, Bono was having vocal trouble, but he was in fine form Thursday night. He growled, crooned and even worked up some sanctified falsetto swoops. His voice has the intimacy of a storyteller. He doesn’t so much sing a song as weave a heartfelt tale.

The rest of the band was also in top shape, as evidenced by the Edge’s propulsive guitar licks; Adam Clayton’s throbbing, sometimes funky, bass; and Larry Mullen Jr.’s steady, unfussy drumming.

Opening act P.J. Harvey delivered several hard driving tunes from her latest album “Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea,” which is all about falling in love. “Do you remember your first kiss,” she sang on “One Line,” with her voice sounding as edgy and straight-forward as the music. And the black and white projection of Harvey on the overhead monitor only added to the raw power of her set.

A lot of the thrills in U2’s show came from the backdrops and light displays. Large drapes that evoked skyscrapers came down during “New York City.” Rays of light splayed like blooming flowers. And the video screens showed silhouetted dancers swaying during “Mysterious Ways,” and flickering images of gun violence and grief during the impassioned “Bullet in the Blue Sky.”

Although U2 played their other social change anthems “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Pride (In the Name of Love,” which was followed by an impassioned plea from Bono on forgiving Third World debt, the night wasn’t really about politics. It was less about changing the world than treating life and other people more preciously….

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May 2001 Dreams

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sorry about the lack of updates…. i’m just lazy. so here are the few dreams i remember

I was out with a bunch of friends and we were in Niagara Falls. We went into the parking ramp, because we wanted to find these machines that were in there. They looked like the luggage xray machines that are at airports, but they were wood choppers. The part where your luggage goes through instead had blades in it, that whatever you put through there got shredded. Well we wanted to find the machines and go through them ourselves. So there were 3 of us and we found 4 of the machines. Each one was a bit different, one had a slide type thing on the other side of the shredder part…Well my one friend went through the machine and got all chopped up. The next friend was going to go but then i decided i didnt want her to go, and i was trying to stop her. I guess i didn’t want her to die. This one, the top part covering the blades you could take off, or maybe it wasn’t there, it was just the blades. But i kept trying to get her not to do it. Then this kid showed up who was completely insane. He was telling us not to go through the shredders either, but then he kept jumping through them and not getting hurt by the blades.

a bunch of people were visiting me and they wanted to know where they could get pizza hut, so i told them it was over on this one street with the mcdonalds, and taco bell, and that there was a dunkin donuts. Then someone asked about other donuts, so I told them that krispy kreme was down this other street, and we had dickies donuts on another street.

sorry may was so shitty… i really did have a hard time remembering my dreams for most of the month, the ones i remembered i was too lazy to actually type out, oh well.

May 29, 2001 – I was at work and my mom came to pick me up. For some reason I was going to drive home. My store was on a beach, and it had a really big parking lot. My mom had turned on the dehumidifier in the car, and that made the car not run right. So I’m trying to make the car go, and it won’t. Then it started to go in reverse so I could get out of the space, but then I couldn’t get it out of reverse, and I couldn’t get it to stop. So we were going backwards through the parking lot and I was about to hit my manager’s truck. Somehow I missed it, but we kept going backwards and trying to avoid cars, and i realized I was steering the car around the cars backwards and that’s why we weren’t hitting them. Then we were going forwards but still couldn’t stop. Then we were approaching the cliff, and we were going to go over it. So we drive over the cliff and are falling to the water below. I was thinking this has to be a dream because we don’t live near the ocean. So I’m waiting for the car to hit the water and die, still thinking i should wake up at any second. We hit the water and I woke up.

possible explanation: i dunno i was just taking a nap, I was barely asleep.

possible interpretation: my death instinct is active…or something

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Econoline Crush @ Showplace

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econoline crush – may 8, 2001 – buffalo, ny

Yay this show was awesome as well. We were late again, no surprise, but doors didn’t open on time, and there was no one there (it was kind of pathetic) so we had no problem getting up front. So we waited a bit outside in the drizzle, then got in, and me and Danielle went to the bathroom. Well Johnny was standing near the door to go upstairs, so we walk by and he’s like “Hey”! so I go “Hey” and wave. So we go and stand up near the barrier, and suffer through the two crappy opening bands (Agent Me and Velour). There was NO one there. It gives Buffalo a bad name, when a band as good as EC has no one show up to their show. No one promoted the show though, it wasn’t even on the marquee of the theatre. Whatever.

So EC came on around 10. Opened with Surefire like always. It was awesome. The people who were there got into the show, so that was good. Trevor was jumping around on stage and his earpiece/black box thing fell out of his pocket during the song. So after, he was trying to make it work, and was like “I think I broke it” so the stage hand guy had to come out and was fooling around with it behind his back. When the guy finished, Trevor was like “thank you for adjusting me” totally being sexual, so everyone screams, and he’s like “ok now you guys are being sick”. So they’re doing their thing on stage, and between songs Trevor was talking about hockey, and how the Sabres were 10 minutes away from going to the next round. So then after another song, he asked for an update on the score, which had gone to 2-2. Then someone shouted “Fuck the penguins” and Trevor responded “No, fuck the leafs!” It was pretty funny.

Well Trevor kept having problems with that ear piece thing, it fell out of his pocket a bunch more times, and just came unplugged a few times, so he was getting a bit irritated at that. During some song Dan saw me and acknowledged me. I am getting the complete set list sometime soon, I don’t know the order but they played Surefire, Sparkle and Shine, All That You Are, The Devil You Know, Trash, Sinking, My Salvation, Flamethrower, Make it Right, You Don’t Know…,By The Riverside, TDM (accompanied by much pelvic thrusting and mic stand humping) and Wicked with the NIN insert…and then Home and Razorblades and Bandaids for encore. It was so awesome, because they came back out and played Home (which I had asked Ziggy to play), and then before Razorblades Trevor said something about how they had gotten requests for those songs, and they dusted off this next one, and they played Razorblades. It was awesome. It helps that Razorblades is one of my all time favorite songs from any band in the world. It was so great, but by then Trevor was really grumpy about the continued ear piece problems. They were supposed to play May I Go too but didn’t.

So the show ended, and we waited around to get stuff signed again. Mary wanted to go outside, so we went outside for a while. Ziggy and Mark came out to the bus, then went back inside and said they’d be down soon. So then we were tired of waiting outside (and tired of the 2 drunk girls trying to get on the bus, and the one who decided to pee on the curb) so we went back inside and were standing around with everyone by the upstairs door. So Ziggy came down and was talking to these people he knew, and Mark came down. We didn’t want to bother them but after a while this guy went over and asked for them to sign stuff. So that kinda broke things open. Ziggy came over to us and he’s like “hey i know you”. So he signed my TDYK cd book, and I was like “thank you so much for playing Home” and he said “well we got the request for it, so we took it to the board and got it played.” So then Mark went and disappeared to the bar, with those people they knew, so we waited around there and Trevor came down. He signed stuff for people, and he signed my book, and I asked him for a picture, and he said sure, and then I asked him if he’d stick his tongue out in the picture. Trevor laughed and was like “oh now you’re just getting sick”. So he gives me my book and puts his arm around me for the picture, and I’m like, tongue. And he’s like, yeaaah ooook. So we get the pic and I’m like thanks, and he tickled my back LOL. So I’m standing there and he’s signing stuff for other people, and he’s like “I like your Bowie shirt” (I had on my purple and silver sparkles David Bowie -Ziggy Stardust shirt on). I didn’t realize Trevor was talking to me, and I thought he said Bowling, but people were looking at me, so I was like “What?” and he’s like “I like your Bowie shirt, it’s cool” And I’m like “oooh, cool thanks, I thought you said Bowling shirt, and I was like I’m not wearing a bowling shirt.” So Trevor laughs and is like “Well Bowie likes Bowling”.

So then Trevor did his thing and left for the bus. Then I wanted to go find Mark so I went back down to the bar with Mary and Danielle, and he’s like “hey I know you”. He signed our stuff and apologized for being dazed haha. So then we went back to the hallway to wait for Johnny and Dan but then the theatres guards kicked us out because they wanted to close. So we went outside to wait, because Joe had said they were coming out in like 5 minutes. So we waited, then Eric said Johnny was in the door way so we just went back inside again. Johnny was talking to someone else, who didn’t have a pen, and Johnny asked him if he had a pen, he said no, and then Johnny saw me and since he had used my pen a million times over the past 3 days he was like “oh I have a pen right here” and took mine. So he signed our stuff, got a pic with him. He like put me in a death grip, I almost fell over haha. Then went to talk to Dan. He’s was like hey. He signed our stuff, got a pic with him too, then I went to claim my pen back from Johnny. We left soon after that.

Mad cool 3 days. I love these 3 day concert binges, but then you get way bored the next day hahah.

Trevor’s Tour Diary entry – “The second show was a club date at the Showplace Theatre. This venue is a great place to see a show. It is unfortunate that the current management didn’t see fit to change the marquee or advertise the show. We had the faithful following at the show but it could have been so much better. Word of mouth made the day but it’s disappointing to know that if more people knew the show would have been sold out.

Enough venting, the crowd that was there was phenomenal and it was that energy that made the show come together. We got to talk with the people from HITZ and the EDGE. There was an impromptu after show meet and greet where we signed CD’s etc. All in all Buffalo was a blast and I hope we get back there soon.”

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Acoustic Econoline Crush

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econoline crush – may 7, 2001 – buffalo, ny – acoustic Edge Session

I won passes from the radio for this show, even though I sorta was already going because Mary had gotten passes that she couldn’t use. But I tried to win them anyway, and did, so I took David and Eric took Adrienne. The day started off as one big headache. I had an exam at 3:30, Eric worked until 4:30 so neither one of us could pick up the passes from the station between 9-5 since we don’t live in Buffalo. So the DJ I won the passes from told me to call this number and tell the receptionist that someone else was picking them up and give them the person’s name. Ok well I got up and called and she connects me to the promotions director. Well that woman isn’t there, so I leave a message. I talk to Mary who is also worried about who is going to get the passes (David was supposed to). She tells me that I need to talk to the receptionist too, so I call back, and I tell the lady that I was told to talk to HER about it. She asks me who told me that, I tell her the DJ, she tells me no I have to talk to promotions, so she connects me again to the woman who is never there. Turns out I had the promotion woman’s email address from when I won godsmack CD from the station, so I emailed her and told her that I wouldn’t be able to pick up the passes and that David was going to. Hours later she emails me back and says no problem. David was able to get my passes, and Mary’s even though she never got through to anyone about it.

So Eric picked me up around 5, and we had to drive to NT to get Adrienne and David. We were already going to be late, but it didn’t help that we got stuck behind the world’s slowest truck on the 63. We finally get home, pick them up and it’s past 6:30 the time we were supposed to be at the Backstage Pub by. It said NO LATER THAN 6:30… oops. We got there a little after 7. They didn’t hassle us, THANK GOD, or I would have had to throw a fit. Some band, local I guess, called Superpimp was doing an Edge Session of their own as “opener” haha. They were good, not my style, but whatever. They finished, and half hour later EC played.

I thought EC did more than 4 songs, but now I guess they didn’t…hahah. They played My Salvation, All That You Are, You Don’t Know What It’s Like, and May I Go all acoustic. It was really awesome. The DJ running the show mentioned that he was shocked to hear that a band as electronic and plugged in as EC was going to do an acoustic show. Trevor talked about how they decide a song is good if it translates into acoustic form. The audience got to ask questions between songs…someone asked about the origin of the name Econoline Crush, and Trevor said something about how his dad had an Econoline van, and he and his friends would drive around in it during the teen years and stuff. Someone asked for a fun road story, and Trevor created a PG version of a story from the Kiss tour….someone asked why they thought it was hard for a Canadian band to make it in the US….that might have been it. Anyway, the songs were awesome acoustic, I was surprised they did You Don’t Know…it sounded really awesome though. I kinda was hoping to hear Razorblades and Bandaids or Tomorrow Starts Today…obvious choices for an acoustic set, but no luck this time…So after the set they hung around the bar, and eventually made it to a table near the door to sign stuff for everyone, I got them to sign my webcast pass, and my Brand New History cd book. Got another pic with Trevor. This time we found Dan and talked to him. He’s super funny, seems like he has a real good time doing shows and meeting fans and stuff. (side note, the bar played Blue Monday and Trevor was jammin haha woo hoo). So then they went to leave, and we went outside with them. The radio station photo dude took a few pictures of the band in front of the Edge van. Then the van’s alarm went off and Trevor took off running down the street to the bus. We talked to Ziggy some more, I requested they play Home tomorrow haha…

It was way rad…there was only about 30-40 people at the show, you could only get passes by being in the cyber club, and then being lucky enough to win them (or know someone at the station haha). It was definitely a cool rare thing…

Trevor’s Tour Diary entry – “The first show in Buffalo was the Edge103.3 “sessions” show which had the band play four songs acoustically and answer questions from the host Adam 12 as well as the audience. It was held at the Backstage Pub. It was
fun… we played “may I go”, “my salvation”, “all that you are” and “you don’t know”. The questions were good and
the audience was super loud and involved. ”

on to the next EC show…

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Econoline Crush Niagara Falls

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econoline crush – may 6, 2001 – niagara falls, ny

EC played a free show with 3 doors down at Niagara University. We weren’t sure if we were going to be able to see it, because there was no straight information about if the show was only for students or not. But we figured we’d try anyway, and good thing we did because we just walked right up to the barrier.

We waited around for the sun to go down so we weren’t blinded and EC came on. No one knew who they were. It was kinda weird. Me, Adrienne (who didn’t think she knew them, but ended up knowing some), Eric, Joe and his friend who I wasn’t introduced to, were the only people there practically who knew EC or the music. There were a few other random kids who were there to see EC. So they played their set, 10 songs (Surefire, Sinking, Trash, My Salvation, Sparkle and Shine, Make It Right, The Devil You Know, All That You Are, You Don’t Know What It’s Like, and Wicked with NIN’s Head Like A Hole inserted). It was great as usual. It has to be hard to play to a crowd who doesn’t know who you are, but they pretended they were having fun. hah. So we sang along with the songs, and made a lot of noise to make up for everyone else. As soon as Trevor came out all the stupid sorority girls around me were like “oh my god, he’s hot” and then whenever Trevor stuck his tongue out they’d scream. Kinda funny, kinda annoying. Trevor talked to the crowd a few times in between songs, mentioned something about how they went to see the Falls that day, and how it wouldn’t be his honeymoon destination of choice…but maybe it’d inspire you to… and then he started pelvic thrusting so all the girls screamed lol.

So anyway, they finished their set and me and Joe got setlists. We left our spot to go find them to sign stuff for us. Adrienne was kinda mad because she wanted to stay there for 3dd. But we left and went to the side of the stage near the busses and yellow police tape to wait around for the band. We saw Mark and Johnny walking around so we yelled for them (or well, Eric did haha). Mark came over, and he kept trying to get Johnny to come over. Mark was like “I’m the new guy you’re not supposed to know my name”. He signed a bunch of stuff for us and some other people who were standing around. Then he did get Johnny to come over and sign stuff. He talked to everyone for a while. We had to wait longer for Ziggy and Trevor but they came out and signed stuff, I got a pic with Trevor.

Then 3dd went on so I went over to the side of the crowd to watch with Adrienne, and gave Eric my setlist because he was going to wait to talk to Dan. So we watched the show, Eric and Joe talked to Dan and he signed stuff for us. He also told us in the event that we couldn’t pick up our passes for the acoustic show the next night, we could just find him and he’d get us in. So that was cool.

3dd finished, their set was good, same as always. They played, I think, every song from the record, and 4 new songs. Encore with Loser. It was their last show of the tour, I bet they just wanted to get it done and leave.

 

Trevor’s Tour Diary entry for the NU show – “Niagara, New York

Sadly this was our last day on the 3 Doors Down tour. We had such a great time playing with these guys that we
were dreading this day. This is the first band in all our years of playing that gave us a thank you card. Just a great
bunch of guys and a wonderful organization to work with.
We just wanted to mention some people that helped make the Niagara show fun. Ted for keeping the thing rolling.
Marybeth for all her hard work. Ziggy wanted to thank Nicole. Dan wanted to thank Joe and Eric and all their
friends (That would be us).
The crew guys for 3dd were great too! Special thanks to Gary and Lulu.

The show was outside and it was very cold but the audience hung in there. A lot of people from this show
followed us to Buffalo. The fan base is getting bigger day by day.”

That was it, it was cool, onto the acoustic show…

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April 2001 Dreams

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April 7, 2001 – My dad joined a cult in Canada. We didn’t know it was a cult at first. He took me and my mom to a meeting of this group, and it seemed like a self help kind of group. A lot of the people in the group had obsessive compulsive disorders. One lady would compulsively walk up and down the stairs without stopping, but since she had joined the group, she didn’t do that anymore. Another lady had some other weird OCD thing. So we were at the meeting, and it seemed normal. But then my dad showed us the head stone the leader carved for him for when he dies. It was a part of some big statue, that when you put together all the headstones of all the group members it made up some big statue thing. That’s when I decided that was really weird. I said something like, “they carved you a headstone? I thought you were going to be buried with us.” blah blah, stuff like that. I decided it was a cult. I was trying to remember the warning signs that someone is in a cult, but the only one I could remember was “does participation in the group interfere with your regular life” (I don’t really know warning signs about cults). Since my dad still was home with us, and didn’t spend all his time with the group, I wasn’t sure if it was a cult or not. Eventually I decided that it was indeed a cult. The cult people wanted us to move there, and were building us a house. I was really pissed off because I didn’t want to go move and be with these cult people. So I was really mad, and I was telling people off and causing trouble with the cult people. They started getting mad at me, and when they got mad, they went back to their obsessive compulsive stuff. Then I was trying to find the cult leader so I could tell him off, and try to get them to stop making my dad move us up there. Someone told me that it was no use, because the cult leader couldn’t understand anyone, he was deaf or something. I found him, he was this little old bald Buddhist looking man. Kinda wrinkly, really old. So I started yelling at him, and then I spit on him. Then I went in the basement of the house we were in with the cult members to go online and try to talk to someone. The one lady kept walking up and down the stairs. So I went online but it wouldn’t work. Then Amanda and some girl show up because they were worried about me because they hadn’t talked to me in a long time. I told them about how I was being forced to move because of the cult. Then I guess I accepted that we were going to move, but I didn’t want the cult people to build our house, so I was trying to get them to just pick up our house we have now and move it up to Canada.

Then in a somewhat unrelated dream, I was going to my neighbors wedding shower, and it was supposed to be at her house so I drove there, but it wasn’t really her house. Meanwhile I was still upset about having to move to Canada cuz of the cult. So I walk in, and it’s this elevator or something. There were a few of us there, and I asked if it was an elevator, because I could feel it moving, and I could hear it running. This guy said it wasn’t, but I could tell we were spinning. So we get off whatever that was, and into the building, and its these winding halls, and the floor moves. Some people can stay standing throughout this trip on the moving, winding floor, and stuff, and others get too dizzy to stay standing and fall. Well I was one that got dizzy and fell. I kept trying to get up but I was just too dizzy and unbalanced. Well my mom was pissed that we were being forced to go this way because I couldn’t even stay standing. I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t stay standing because I had been there before when I was little and had been fine. So we get to the end of that part, and it’s like we’re in a big Space Needle type building near the falls (like the Skylon tower I guess). You could look out and see Niagara Falls. The top thing kept spinning, and I was still dizzy from the trip up, so I had to grab onto the railing to look out. You could also look out the floor and see below like the CN tower. Then we were escorted out, it was just a ride or something. We had to walk back down instead of the moving dizzy walkway. I wanted to go to the gift shop but no one would let me.

possible explanation: none. no clue.

Possible interpretation: no clue. surprise. I’m just glad I was able to remember a large chunk of dreams again.

April 9, 2001 – I was friend/significant other to Johnny Knoxville from Jackass. He came over my house looking for supplies for their next escapade. He was going to run over Genesee Hall with a bulldozer. He also needed steroids. So we were looking through my kitchen cabinets for supplies, and I told him that we probably didn’t have any steroids. But we went upstairs to look in the medicine cabinet anyway. We didn’t have any, so we went back down stairs. Then my parents and I were going on vacation, so I had to meet them in the Tops parking lot, so I did. Then we started walking down the street, all holding hands. I was wondering where we were walking to, so I asked, and they said, we’re not walking to where we’re going on vacation, we’re just exercising right now. So I was mad they made me leave Johnny, so I went back home until they were ready to leave for vacation. So then Johnny said he needed planks of wood, so we were looking in the garage. I had 2 guitars, so he picked one up and started playing it. Then my parents came home and he was still playing guitar, but they didn’t seem to care he was there. I guess they knew him, even though I didn’t think they did.

Somewhat unrelated dream, I was outside my house with some people, and suddenly this big flying thing came over us. I thought it was a UFO but when I looked at it more, it was a carnival ride. At first it was that paratrooper ride, where you sit in these little parachute looking fiberglass bucket things, and they are on a circle and you just go up and down on a slanty kind of Ferris wheel. Then it landed on a radio broadcast antenna in my neighbors back yard, and turned into the swings ride. There were people on the ride still, so since they were stuck on the antenna they couldn’t get off the ride. Then it started moving, like the ride had been turned on. So we’re watching these people on the ride, and wondering where the hell it came from. I guess it had come from some Jackass stunt gone wrong. It had flown off the base, and landed on the antenna in the neighbors back yard. So then police and fire trucks came to get the people off the ride, but since the ride was here, the carnival people decided to bring the rest of the carnival there too. So there were now booths setup and little rides in my neighbors back yard.

Possible explanation: watched Jackass last night. Dunno about the rest of it though.

Possible interpretation: Freud would say something about the phallic nature of the antenna, whatever.

April 11, 2001 – Sabres beat the Flyers in the first game of their play off series. Sabres scored 6 powerplay goals, including one from Rhett Warrener…

Something about an amusement park. I went to one with some people from high school, it was raining. The one girl was worried we were going to get injured on rides in the rain. Then I was a black slave, and I wasn’t allowed to watch the Sabres games because my master wouldn’t let me.

Possible explanation: First Sabres/Flyers game tonight. Finished Fredrick Douglas’s autobio last week for humanities class

possible interpretation: I’m psychic and Sabres will win tonight. Yeah, and get 6 power play goals.. right, like that’ll happen.

April 13, 2001 – Fred Durst was my friend. I liked him, or I wanted him to like me or something. We were in my room getting ready to go to a party at a house 2 streets over from mine. I was trying really hard to look nice for him. I leaned over the chair he was sitting in to show him something, and he was really rude to me. He told me I really didn’t look good. So I was pissed and offended but didn’t say anything, I just changed and tried to look better.

I was in Toronto because Carolyn wanted me to go to school with her. So I signed up for the same classes as her, even though I’m not an english major. So I went to English class and she wouldn’t sit by me. I was like, what the hell, you make me go to class with you and don’t even sit by me. So since I hate English classes, I sat there bored out of my mind and sorta causing trouble. Then there were these ticket dispensers, like at arcades, that the teacher would dispense tickets through to students who were being good or paying attention. Well of course, he wasn’t giving me any. I was mad, and kept trying to see if the tickets were mine, because they had names on them, but none of them were for me. Then we were in a food court getting lunch, and Carolyn went off and left me there again. She left her purse on the edge of this table, and this weird transvestite was standing against this column looking at the table. I could tell he/she was going to steal Carolyn’s purse. The transvestite started walking towards the table, and I grabbed the purse, and he/she walked away pretending that he/she wasn’t trying to steal the purse. Then I had to go to the bathroom so I had to go upstairs in the food court, into Joanne Fabrics to use the bathroom. None of the stalls had doors on them, but I went anyway. Then some relative of mine, someone I had only met once or twice when I was a little kid was there, and recognized me and was going on about how good I looked now blah blah blah.

Possible explanation: no idea really.

Possible interpretation: none 🙂

April 18, 2001 – My ex boyfriend had broken up with his girlfriend, and we had gotten back together. We lived in some town in the south I think, because it was hot. And it was by a river. So we had gone someplace else out of town, and we got back in town and our friend Bobby from Orgy had been arrested. We saw the arrest sheet(?) that had been made up for him, and the main offense he was arrested for was, I forget what it actually said, but it was like, for talking back to someone. But then he resisted arrest, and then was violent to the police officers, and then there was some driving law he broke, and all these other laws, but he was only arrested because he talked back to someone. So we were upset and trying to think of how to get him out of jail. Then we had to go somewhere in a school bus. So we got on the bus, and it was really full, and it was all little kids. So we took one of the last empty seats, and these two little girls in front of us turned around to talk to us. Then there was some part where people were talking about how he pronounced his name. And they said that he pronounced it a certain way, not the way I did, which meant all this time I’d been saying it wrong. But I was like, no I’m not wrong, I asked him how he said his name the first time we met. But apparantly he did say his name the other way, so I felt like a retard for saying his name wrong all this time.

possible explanation: not sure. I just read The Color Purple, and Sophia got arrested for sassing the Mayors Wife…sorta similar I guess. Then they tried to think of a way to get her out. Nothing about busses though.

possible interpretation: i dunno. haha

April 21, 2001 – Tornado dream. I was walking onto campus along the walkway through the parking lot. On the right side of the walkway instead of cars parked there like usual it was a wall. There were alot of people out walking. The sky got really dark like it was going to storm, then we saw lightning. The sky got really light after that, and I was like um.. ok. Then I realized that the sky got light because all the darkness was sucked into a tornado that was heading our way. Then I questioned whether I was dreaming or not. I decided at first I wasn’t dreaming, I tried to hit myself and see if it hurt, and it did, so I concluded I was awake. Then the tornado was coming closer to us, and it started acting weird, and disintegrating, so I decided I was asleep and it was just a dream.

possible explanation: stress?…that’s what alot of things say.

possible interpretation: i’m too stressed. However I’m not really. whatever.

April 23, 2001 – I’ve had requests for a Sabres winning the Stanley Cup dream…since I dreamed before about winning the series, which happened. Sorry not this time, I’ll keep trying. But sorta related Sabres dream.

TKE frat had a party and a bunch of people were murdered at it. I think I was there but I’m not sure. The next day the news papers had the story about it, and there was a picture of a dead girl in the bathtub. The picture turned into a TV though and was showing scenes from the party. Maynard from Tool/APC was there. 2 other celebrities I can’t remember now were there too. Then JP Dumont from the Sabres was there, and he was in the shower. He had tattoos. None of the famous people were killed, just regular college kids.

Then I was in my garage and I was looking through boxes of old toys and stuff. I got to a box filled with barbie toys, one of them was the barbie corvette. The corvette had buttons to make the horn beep, or the gears change etc. Then I found an old box full of Garbage Pail Kids cards.

Then I was in a house and I think I was Laura Spencer from General Hospital. Stephan was there, and I was moving into the house with Nikolas. I had a big television entertainment center that I wanted to put in the house but there was no room for it so I wanted to move furniture around. Stephan suggested I could move the couch to a different spot so when I sat there I could look out the window and see if Helena was coming.

possible explanations: well i guess JP Dumont because of the whole people begging me to have psychic dreams about Stanley Cup stuff. haha maybe JP does have tattoos, I doubt I’ll ever know. I recently did find a box of Garbage Pail Kids cards in my bedroom (And NKOTB cards, 2 full sets haha).

possible interpretations: i don’t know why I even bother to have this section since I never know. Maybe the toys is like, a nostalgia thing.. I want to be a kid again…dunno.

April 29, 2001 – Some kind of wedding. My aunt was in a white dress, and there was something about cake. Then she had to get in a carriage to take her wherever, and it was made of wrought iron and kind of dirty, so she was worried her dress would get dirty. Then I was with my ex boyfriend (again) and some guy who liked me but I was just not interested. We were walking someplace, and we had to walk through this path in the woods. We weren’t in a forrest or anything, just some trees and a worn path. At the end of the path we had to squeeze through a broken part of a fence. On the other side of the fence was Tops Market. So we walked through the parking lot to Tops, and my cell phone rang. It was snowing. I answered my phone and it was my dad’s friend Don. He wanted to know of Zander (from General Hospital) needed any more Big Macs. I guess he could go free if he had a certain number of Big Macs. I told him I had no idea that my store wasn’t doing anything with Big Macs. Don kept not responding so I didn’t know if he was still on the line or not. Then three kids from high school showed up and wanted to talk to me because they hadn’t seen me in a long time, it was “free Willy”, and 2 of his friends. I kept ignoring them because on the phone. I was waiting for Don to say something and he wouldn’t so I hung up, and my cell phone said the call cost me 9 dollars, so I was pissed. So I ignored the high school boys again, and went into the store with my ex and now his girlfriend was there. Even though his girlfriend was there was all hugging me, and walking around the store holding hands. It was like they had broken up just then, or she just didn’t care. She was blonde…model type. So anyway, I guess we were back together, and we were walking around the store and I wanted to find some magazines, but the magazine section was moved, and when we found it they only had stupid kinds of magazines that I don’t read.

some other non related part of the dream, my dad bought me a car.. it was a sort of sports car, camaro like, but the front was all rusted. I was like why the hell did you get me a piece of shit car, this has to last me!

possible explanation: um….hmm…not much of anything

possible interpretation: it would seem as tho I have secret longings for my ex boyfriend, and that I want us to get back together. I don’t think so…I’m under the impression he is happy with his girlfriend now, and I’m happy in my non relationship….i dont want to get together with him or anyone at the moment…i’m sure Freud would think differently.

April 30, 2001 – I had to take my mom to work or something. Then I was at an antique store, that had actual artifacts from ancient civilizations and they were really expensive. I guess my mom worked there, because the owner knew me. Then me and my dad were in the car driving someplace on the highway, but we kept passing cars going the wrong way. There were at least 6 cars that had gotten onto the highway the wrong way. I was thinking maybe we got on the wrong way, but there were lots of people going the same way we were. And I knew that my dad wouldn’t ever get on the highway in the wrong direction, but I thought if I had been driving I’d really wonder if I had gotten on the wrong way. Then I was by myself driving someplace, and the roads were all weird, and you had to turn a different direction then the way you were going to get where you wanted to be. Then I was in Williamsville, and I wanted to get ice cream at Jenny’s but it was 10:46 and they were closed.

possible explanation: none

possibile interpretation: um…none

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econoline crush webcast

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econoline crush – march 30, 2001 – toronto, on

Mary got special passes for the webcast for being on the street team, and was nice enough to invite me to see the show. We got there way later than we thought, but it was ok since they didn’t open doors til after 10:30. Only problem was that I told Carolyn to meet us there around 8:30, so she had been waiting for a long long time. It turned out ok tho, because she ended up holding our place in line, about 5 back from the beginning! woo hoo. We waited outside for a while, and then doors opened. They gave us a hard time about our New York State IDs but whatever. We got in and got to the barrier. The stage was way small, probably the size of my closet room at school haha. We stood around and waited for the show to start, no openers thank god! They came on around 11:30. Oh my god. They are great live. Trevor is incredible. I don’t think I’ve seen any singer as sexy as he is on stage, it’s amazing. I don’t think you can appreciate Trevor’s hotness until you see him live, it’s indescribable. It’s sex on stage haha. Anyway. They played 11 songs: surefire, sinking, trash, my salvation, home, may I go, you don’t know what it’s like, all that you are, sparkle and shine, make it right, wicked. No encore, technically it was wicked, but Trevor said something about how since it was a webcast they weren’t going to go offstage and come back for an encore, just to pretend they had left and come back. hah. The show was awesome, the new stuff sounded great live. Looking forward to seeing them again. After the show Eric stole the setlist, and then we waited off to the side of the stage where the black curtain was, where the band was doing interviews. A few of them came out to talk to us, got autographs from the drummer. We waited a while longer for the rest of them (but they were at the private party as we saw when we were leaving). We didn’t want to wait any longer, since we had to drive home, so we left. Mad cool.

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March 2001 Dreams

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Well I seem to be having some issues remembering my dreams lately. Besides the fact that March was a really busy month, started out busy, middle was busy, end was finally not busy (but then I was lazy), I haven’t been really able to remember a complete dream all month. The ones I remembered I had no time to write down, so below are the only parts of the only dreams I somewhat remembered. Hopefully my dreams will start being remembered soon.

March 1st – dream about ryan shuck from orgy. I met him in a bar, and we were sitting at the end of the bar and I was asking him really stupid questions. I knew the questions were stupid, like “so, you like to play guitar?” but I couldn’t stop. It apparently didn’t matter because he wanted me. So then he went to talk to some people but I didn’t want him to forget that I was there, so I sorta followed him around, not really, but just kept an eye on where he was. He always kept looking for me in the crowd so he wouldn’t lose me either, and he’d come up to me and talk and kiss me. Then he started a conga line, and was dancing around. Then I left the bar, because he had left, and I had to go find him, and I was driving a tractor.

there were other dreams dealing with members of Orgy in the beginning of the month, due to going to 3 Orgy shows in 3 nights, but I don’t remember any of them.

Danielle and I were going to the airport because we had to catch a flight someplace. We were really late, and we had to go to the ticket counter because we had ordered our tickets online or something. I went to one of the teller people, and someone cut in front of Danielle and went to the next available teller. I was like, no, we’re going to miss our flight if she doesn’t go. I was mad, and it was frantic because we were late and going to miss our flight.

no airplane crashes, so that’s a good sign.

some sort of tornado dream, there were lots of tornados all around. I was hitting myself in the dream to figure out if it was real or a dream, I slapped myself in the face, and it hurt, so I said, oh this is definitely real life.

this dream, trent reznor was sleeping in danielle’s loft above my bed instead of her. “the fragile” (the song) was playing, and suddenly I realize who he was talking about in the song, and totally understood where he was coming from, all this stuff. so  I get up and stand on the bed and I’m looking at him, and I think I was crying because I understood his sadness or something. So I’m standing on my bed, looking at him sleeping in the loft and I just touched his face, to like, let him knew I understood.

next day I told danielle about the dream and she said that if she ever wakes up and sees me standing there about to touch her face she’s going to kill me haha.

I dreamed I was dating Johnny Knoxville from Jackass. It was 4th of july and we were going to see fireworks. I had to stop at a friends house because I was working on some school project with her. I hate this girl in real life…Anyway, Johnny disappeared so I was nervous he had hurt himself, and left to go find him. Then we watched fireworks from a lawn chair in a park.

I dreamed that me, Eric and his friend Karl were at my house chilling in the living room. Me and Karl were on the big couch, and Eric was on the other. We were just goofing off and stuff, then Eric went to the bathroom and me and Karl went to the kitchen to get drinks. Karl got pop out of the fridge and was saying something about how Eric was going to be pissed because we didn’t have any woo pop. And then Karl said under his breath that he was falling in love with me. I wasn’t supposed to hear him but I did.

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