Well, shake it up, baby, now.

Englishtown, NJ - July 28, 2008

My P&S camera is broken, and I didn't have a photo pass and was therefore unable to bring my DSLR, so I was stuck with my cameraphone. I wasn't in too many crowds, anyways, so I didn't mind too much.

It was so hot out, so going inside a crowd and being tossed around in a mosh pit was not the most appealing plan. I spent more time meeting bands than I did watching them. Also, the times were kinda screwed up, resulting in me missing Mayday Parade, and most of The Devil Wears Prada, whom I watched from afar for a little while, since no one wanted to go in the crowd with me. Meh.

I did see 3OH!3, and they were amazing and hilarious. Plenty of choreographed dance sequences, booty-shaking, and amp-molesting. They sounded awesome, and put on such a great show, everyone in the crowd enjoyed it.

Whilst waiting for Nat and Sean, Bring Me the Horizon played on the adjacent stage. I had wanted to see them, but I didn't want to lose my spot in the 3OH!3 crowd. So, I listened, and they sounded pretty damn good. Oli asked everyone to form two circle pits around the sound booths, and gave the crowd a disclaimer: "It's kind of like the macarena.. Except you'll probably get hurt."

We left 3OH!3 early to my dismay, and went to the All Time Low set, but didn't go into the crowd. People are so bitchy in crowds, really. I can't stand that. So, people were being buttfaces and were giving me and my pals a hard time about getting anywhere in the mass of people, and we decided to just listen from afar. I didn't care, Warped was my fourth time seeing them live.

Mayday Parade played an acoustic set at the MySpace Tent, which we sat in on. It was pitch-perfect, a'course. Derek and Jake put on a great set. My friends made me leave that early to go to the All Time Low signing, which had the longest line. Again, I didn't really care, I've met the dudes before, blah blah. So, we didn't go in the line.

The Audition had a tiny crowd, and that made me ~*sad. They were completely amazing, though. Danny's voice is ridiculously beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. The man's vocal chords are a gift from the gods. And, he danced around stage, lifted up his shirt a little at times (Instructions for a Proper Reaction: Giggle, Swoon, Faint, Repeat). And Timmy totally had eye sex with me.

I neglected to mention how we wandered around merch tents before. We met Delicious and Chris, the merch dudes for All Time Low and Forever the Sickest Kids, respectively. I got pictures with them both, of course. Who needs band members? I'm all for the merch men. Anyways, I spent the day making Delicious famous and bringing him fans (I ran into him like six times. He was most definitely stalking me.), and Ci Ci Moneybags promised me I was his favorite fangirl. We pinky swore, and he tried doing this weird high five - jellyfish motion combination that I wasn't feeling. I let it slide, he's adorable. And the sweetest guy ever. My friend and I wrote on his little notepad, and then my sister and other friend basically mauled it, and he had to write everything over again. But he wasn't even mad. He was so awesome. Oh, and he doesn't wave. He makes a peace sign and wags it. Yeah, he's that cool.

Oh, and I got "Get Low" booty shorts from mah man Delicioso.

So, who did I meet at Warped?

Matt Good, singer of From First to Last. I think he was either super tired or had just woken up. I can't remember which. He refused to follow my advice and take a nap. He danced a little.

Derek Sanders, vocalist of Mayday Parade. We met him right after their set, which we missed. (Angry face) He was so nice, as per usual. Then, we met all of the band, at their signing. I told Brooks that I loved his hair, he thanked me. I told Derek that their acoustic set was amazing, he thanked me. I don't know what to make of my encounter with Alex. He was signing the stuff I had, and he looks up and goes "Hi." Then, he looks down to sign again and looks back up, and says "hi" again. It was cute, and weird, and I love him. He had a lollipop in his pants (Let me rephrase that). In his pocket. And my sister asked for it, and he was like "Really? You want it? ... Okay." And handed it to her. So my sister totally licked his lollipop, and I'm gross, and that was uncalled for. Yes, so moving on. Jeremy made an awesome pose in the magazine I had them sign, and I complimented him. And then I told Jake how awesome the acoustic set was, and he thnxd meh.

I met Danny and Seth of the Audizzle, and got a picture. They came out from the tent they were at, and stood next to each other, and it took me a while to figure out where I should stand, so Danny prompted me with "Stand in between us." I made him say "please". I taught him manners. Awh hellz yah. I saw him like three other times that day, but my friend made me leave him alone. I did get one other photo with him on a different occassion. And, he and Seth took a photo with my sister, and Danny was looking away, talking to someone, and I told him I could use that as blackmail, and he says there's a lot of blackmail against him. (Ahem, Danny Stevens n00dz? Where art thou!?) I also met Joe, the bassist. He was smoking, and I told him I was concerned about his health, and he promised he would quit for me. Liars suck.

Caleb Turman (FTSK) walked by us, and my friend tried to get a stop him, but some dude with him was all "Not now! Not now! Must keep moving!" and Caleb gave her a high five and squeezed my shoulder. Haha. Yeah. We did get a photo with him soon after. My friend wrote "Do Me, Caleb" on her headband, and he gave her the biggest hug after he read it. I was dying. Oh, did y'all know he has a girlfriend? I have no clue if that was a secret or not. I won't say who, just in case it is. But you probably know who she is. That tidbit of knowledge was bestowed upon me by two awesome girls (myspace.com/hiiibim, myspace.com/morgantylerphoto). They said they wanted to get us backstage, but would get kicked out. Hah, they were so sweet and cool.

We tried getting Kyle Burns' attention, but he was being a royal douche (he was so nice at Bamboozle, but he was being a prick and a half). The girls said he was mean to them, and that he's a meanie, and went over on our behalf, and told him he was the only one we wanted a photo with, and that he should go over to take a photo with his fans, and he said that he was "really busy". He was tossing a roll of pink duct tape in the air and catching it. Wow. He did come over, and took a photo with one of my friends, and left immediately after. Srsly. Walk over, photo, walk back. He wouldn't even take a photo with the rest of us.

Austin Bello was nice, he had just woken up, and still came over without a problem to take a photo and chat with us. He is so friggin' funny, too. And the girls we met, they took my friend's camera on stage with them to take some awesome photos for her. Honestly, they were so great. We passed out stickers for the one girl (myspace.com/hiiibim ... I didn't catch her name, hahaha) and wore stickers from the both of them.

Sooo.. I met two of the dudes from Every Avenue, and I got a photo of my sister with them and a Buzz sticker. I gave it to one of them and told him he should wear it onstage, I have no clue if he did or not.

Oh! And I met one of the guys from The Devil Wears Prada (I don't know his name, blah, I'll look it up). And I met Jeremy from TDWP, and we totally bonded over the Cure for about two and a half seconds, and I hugged him. Wee! That made me super excited. He was so nice, so so so nice, and adorable, and he loves the Cure!!! Ahh.

This is super long, I doubt anyone read through the whole thing, I don't blame them if they didn't, and if you want to know more, feel free to ask :D I love y'all, have fun this summer.