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hey again. i have now had a chance to sleep, and do some other stuff, so I figured I would write some more stuff here.

I have presently found out that I have a slight fever (99.7, but since I rarely have a fever even when I am sick that is still saying something… heh)… I guess that hardly sleeping and being outside for a week will do that to you. I will hopefully not still feel sick in the morning, because I am going to force myself to go to work, and hopefully will not have to come home early.

Lets see… I said I would talk about Cornerstone… it was a lot of fun… if you didn’t go, you missed out 🙂 This year I took a new approach, I tried to see a lot of bands and stuff I have never seen before or who I wouldn’t normally see. It mostly had good results… there’s nothing I regret seeing, at least. Among those things was something called The Dark Forest, an Oratorio (story set to music)… I liked it a lot, Jason Brown liked it a lot… Elliot and Nick apparently didn’t like it so much, but that’s ok… and no one else saw it, so I don’t know what they would have thought. But anyway, it was cool and different. Ask for the cd sometime if you want to hear it.

I missed Delirous, but saw Unwed Sailor. That was a kinda tough call.

I missed Brave Saint Saturn cuz they weren’t really scheduled to play but played when someone else didn’t show up and I was over at the other stage watching some other band.

Oh yeah, I bought the new Five Iron cd, “The End is Near” there. It is really cool. You should buy it. You can mail-order it from www.themobilemessage.org. Or you could wait until they come play a show near you and buy it there. Or wait until next year sometime and buy it in a store. But only lame people do that.

The most expensive thing I bought was the $50 4 cd set of Jacobstone live. There were only 10 of them made. 3 of them are now in Frederick, MD. A 4th one is in PA. I do not know where the others are, but that’s a pretty high concentration there… 😉

If you are Karissa, I have a Miranda Stone Live cd to give you, so don’t go getting impatient and buying it somewhere. Speaking of which, the Miranda Stone show was actually pretty cool. I enjoyed it, except I had some complaints with this one guy in the crowd who felt the need to stand up right in front of me while everyone else was sitting down. Oh yeah, and apparently Miranda Stone (or whoever makes her shirts) believes that all her fans are either anorexic or incredibly obese. The small girlie t-shirt they had I don’t think would have fit a 5 year old… 😉 and then the next biggest shirt they had was stinking enormous. Like it would be big on… I dunno… some really really fat guy.

Also, there were many references to Homestar Runner at cornerstone this year. Even in addition to Jon’s obsession with Trogdor and burninating during the whole trip. About 5 references were made by bands, I think, 3 of which I distinctly remember who said it and what they said. Lets see… of the 3 I remember, Miranda Stone made the first one… she made reference to the Stong Bad E-mail about a href=”http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html”>Techno (click on Techno to see it). And then Reese Roper of five iron mentioned how they were trying to achieve Burnination (another reference to Trogdor), and finally, Switchfoot denounced rumors that The Cheat would be making a guest appearance at their show.

One night people shot bottle rockets at each other. That was pretty entertaining.

Ummm… Other stuff will come later, I’m kind of sick of writing at the moment. Bye now.


And if you were wondering how Five Iron’s story ends… here you go. Go buy the cd. And you’ll only find this funny if you know stuff about them.. so.. yeah

“Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered weak and weary,
Suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping.
Long ago I heard that sound,
Often lost, but seldom found,
A haunting voice from minutes past,
Micah had returned at last.

And I was like, “what’s up dude?”,
And he was like, “Uhhh, I found your comb.”
And then I was like “Shut-Up!”
And then he was like, “Yeah, and stuff.”
And then I was like, “Rock on!”

And that’s how the story ends,
Now you hear the score my friends.
We’re finding answers, we’re setting trends.
I guess that’s how the story ends.

How distinctly I remember,
It was in the bleak December,
And each dying ember,
Wrought it’s ghost upon the floor.
I heard a voice that chilled my spine,
I saw what I could not define,
A sight I never could contrive,
There stood Brad at last, alive.
“Where have you been these endless years?”
I asked him, sobbing through my tears,
“I did not die by plague or prison
What really died is cynicism.”

And then I said, “Awesome.” And he was like, “Yeah, I guess. And by the way, those pants,
They belong to my dad.
And they’re not really pants, they’re leiderhosen.”
Hooray!

And that’s how the story ends,
Now you hear the score my friends.
We’re finding answers, we’re setting trends.
I guess that’s how the story ends.

And Combat Chuck has passed away,
his dying wish was
“never play that song again.”
And kitty-Doggy’s put to sleep,
The dinosaurs lay in heap,
as they slowly go extinct, like me.

And that’s how the story ends,
Now you hear the score my friends.
We’re finding answers, we’re setting trends.
I guess that’s how the story ends.”

-“That’s How The Story Ends,” by Five Iron Frenzy