Soooooooo, yesterday was one of the most random and most amazing days I have had in quite sometime.

Recently I have been getting random work from a temp agency and yesterday they had me working sercurity at BumberShoots in Seattle, which is pretty much the Lollapalooza of Washington.

The entire day was pretty much a lucky break on my part, starting even from the beginning. When we arrived at the meet up spot at around 10:30 AM, we were made to sign in and grab our sercurity polo shirts (which were yellow and said event staff on the front in back). At first we just put on our shirts and went for a walk to smoke a cig while we waited for our shift to start. It wasn't until we got a little up the road that Moto (who was also working with me) noticed that I happened to get one of the only shirts that said "Alchohol Enforcement" on the back where as his and all others just said "Event Staff" http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.....nforcement.jpg It looked cool made me feel a slight since of power, not to mention I'm only 19 :P.

Then, very shortly after that we walked back to sit down next to the sign in booth, waiting till 11:45 to start and it was only 10:55ish. At that time some lady wearing a supervisor shirt walked over and randomly pointed at me and said "Im snagging you" with a big smile. So I ended up following her up to a super secret backstage entrance that I was meant to guard for the day, only letting certain people through. This turned out to be super easy since no one unauthorized tried to get through. I did this for about 6 hours or so until I was made to find my supervisor cuz they forgot about us and we never got our break. I then took my break and got some McDonalds and came back.

Then, I started to think about the fact that they always forgot we were up here (it sucked at first but worked out to our advantage completely in the end) and seeing as how I was working with 2 other cool guys that were guarding adjacent doors, I started to get a little cocky and was curious to test the possibilities that the security shirt gave me. They covered my door while I wondered down to the main stage while All American Rejects were playing. At first I was a little nervous as I was walking to the backstage area, but sure enough I passed through the entry gate and no one even thought twice to stop me. So, I was at one point like 15 feet from the band while they were playing, standing in the background of the stage watching. That wasnt the cool part though, seeing as how All American Rejects are pussies. But, that made me more confident and truely showed me that my shirt allowed me access ANYWHERE. Knowing that my shirt was all powerful, I felt pretty pleased with myself and wondered what other possibilities there where.

I walked back up to my post, starting to get pretty hungry again, since it was getting late. Literally at that exact moment I was thinking that , some lade came up the path and asked us three if we were hungy. Apparently the catering company brought way too much food, so we got bar-b-que pork sandwhiches for free. After eating and talking to some cool fucking people, I decided to look at the schedule to see what other events I could get back stage into. Much to my surprise I stumbled across the name OTEP and had to do a double take cuz I was stricken with overwhelming joy.
They werent performing for like another hour and a half but that was okay cuz Sick Puppies was also playing and they started in like 10 mins.

So after my buddy got back from doing what he was doing, I had him cover me and ran off to the Sick Puppies show. When I got there there was a crazy long line, but guess what, with a slight bit of nervousness I walked right past them all and straight in, where I then walked right through the V.I.P. area gate and next to the stairs up onto the stage. At that moment someone asked if I had a lighter they could barrow and I turned around to the drummer reaching his hand out. I in turn bummed a smoke off him and we both stepped out the back door and I actually had a conversation with the guy (not a big Sick Puppies fan but the guy was cool as hell). I talked to him about why he joined the band and what its like to be swarmed with groupies. We finished the smoke and then I watched them play from the side of the stage for about 20 mins until I realized I had to go back.

From there, I sat at my post for about an hour or so just talking to people (one of which gave me a coupon for a free meal at Fajita Express, which I had already eaten so I got a strawberry lemonade instead.

Shortly there after it was time to see OTEP, and I was more excited than a fox on his way to an orgy. I got there about 10 mins late but again was able to walk past the short line, straight into the stage area, were I then saw Otep Shamaya and her amazing brutal voice and instantly sported an erection lol. This time though, I was confident, so I walked down through to the backstage where I sat and listened for about 10 mins until I noticed I was slowly creeping up the stairs to the stage. This is when I was in heaven. She must have noticed me peeping over, cuz as soon as she finished "Sweet Tooth", she turned and looked directly at me, then started to walk over, all the while saying "Who do we have here" with a wicked smile I found soooooooo fucking hot. All I could manage to say was "Your voice is incredibly orgasmic". At that, she said "Oh really" and then literally grabbed my hand and put it right on her left boob, to give it a good squeeze. I practically melted, as if I literally died and went to heaven.

I eventually had to get back to my post seeing as how I only had like 2 hours left (forgot to mention I was working a 13 hour shift). So I nodded at her, told her how awesome she was, and then was off on my way back. From then on I could care less how the night went, as far as I'm concerned I had won XD. Sheryl Crow was playing and I thought my ears were gonna bleed but she soon finished (thank god) and it was time to start clearing everyone out of the event for the night.

I got off at 11:30 and from there me, Fritz, and Moto went to Otterpop's big furry dance party, where I got drunk on Mac & Jack's and hung out with some cool furs until Moto drove us home at like 2:30 and I passed out shortly there after, extremely foot sore and worn out, my mind racing ever so fast with the thoughts of the past day.

As far as I'm concerned, I got payed 115 dollars to stand around and eat free food and meet famous people. That was definitely a day to remember, and if you took the time to read this :P you'd have to agree.

-Peace out