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[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I learned that me and my crew of extremely drunk scene kids can party it up in some of the most run down parts of Indianapolis without getting in any trouble. I'm now more convinced than ever that crime-ridden urban areas are the way to go.

Oh and that eastern Illinois is hicksville. Seriously.

Anyway to all of you who hate my music, I was just there with 300 people who drove or flew hundreds of miles to go watch 2 days of it, including from Canada and Britain. 12 hours of straight hardcore/emo can be quite tiring though.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I learned that me and my crew of extremely drunk scene kids can party it up in some of the most run down parts of Indianapolis without getting in any trouble. I'm now more convinced than ever that crime-ridden urban areas are the way to go.

Oh and that eastern Illinois is hicksville. Seriously.

Anyway to all of you who hate my music, I was just there with 300 people who drove or flew hundreds of miles to go watch 2 days of it, including from Canada and Britain. 12 hours of straight hardcore/emo can be quite tiring though.

Emo, tiring?  No.  Hardcore, tiring?  Lord, yes.

Especially with the way you darned kids thrash around nowadays.

I'm referring to emo in the original definition, which is a form of hardcore.

I drank 2 energy drinks, 4 bottles of pop and 4 cans of it that day all for rehydration and energy.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I learned that me and my crew of extremely drunk scene kids can party it up in some of the most run down parts of Indianapolis without getting in any trouble. I'm now more convinced than ever that crime-ridden urban areas are the way to go.

Oh and that eastern Illinois is hicksville. Seriously.

Anyway to all of you who hate my music, I was just there with 300 people who drove or flew hundreds of miles to go watch 2 days of it, including from Canada and Britain. 12 hours of straight hardcore/emo can be quite tiring though.

Emo, tiring?  No.  Hardcore, tiring?  Lord, yes.

Especially with the way you darned kids thrash around nowadays.

I'm referring to emo in the original definition, which is a form of hardcore.

I drank 2 energy drinks, 4 bottles of pop and 4 cans of it that day all for rehydration and energy.

soda for rehydration?

most folks would choose water.

Yeah, but there was no water machine or drinking fountain. I did drink an endless amount out of the bathroom sink though (put my hand below the sink, turned on the water, and slurped it out of my hand)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Probably Ampere. Although the best set was definitely either Coliseum or HeWhoCorrupts. I'll give a mention to Graf Orlock too.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I made a leave of absence post.

300 was about the max the venue could hold. But here's a list of states/provinces/countries I know were represented:

Indiana (obviously)
Minnesota
South Dakota
Illinois
Kentucky
Oklahoma
California
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Texas
North Carolina
Alberta
Manitoba
Ontario
England

Not counting bands of course. There was also bands from Germany and France too.

So these people drove and flew in those great distances just for this like I did. Pretty awesome. I also at one point was in a room in the hostel with 3 other people, and realized we had citizens of 4 different countries in that room, US, Canada, UK and Guatemala (of course the Guatemala guy currently lives in Chicago). That's cool.

Oh yeah, two of the best things ever:

-Hot girls moshing near you
-Hot girls crowd surfing over you

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What exactly is moshing?

You Alaskans must not get much live music (unsurprisingly), that's for sure.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Is there any live music in Alaska?

Anyway, moshing is basically a bunch of people in the crowd all pushing into each other.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Anyway, moshing is basically a bunch of people in the crowd all pushing into each other.

Ow. Sounds painful.

Not really. Gets you really sweaty though. After this one set I mentioned to this hot girl I was hanging out next to that she looked like she just took a shower with her clothes on, she said I looked the same way. I saw myself in the mirror in the bathroom, and she was right.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Oh and that eastern Illinois is hicksville. Seriously.

I'm curious as to which communities you checked out in eastern IL. I'm guessing that you took I-74 through Champaign and Danville. I know there's not much hick in Champaign-Urbana with the big university.

Danville. Champaign wasn't very hicky, but I was surprised about Danville, where I might as well have guessed I was in the south.

You know those things actually dehydrate you even worse, right? Because of all the sugar.

Well when you get sweaty, you get thirsty, and will take any drink.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wow, I just looked what Indianapolis' demographics, and I'm rather shocked. It's only about 25% black! Outside of the people at the hostel and other people at the fest, I probably didn't even see 10 white people my whole time there. I must've really been deep in the hood.