Mom, Terry, Don, Brandon and I get to the gorge about 2:45 and we were panicking because we had no idea when theSTART's set was. We wandered for quite a while, and Don finally found their merch tent. They went on the Maurice stage at 6:50, so we were ok. Wandered some more, found ourselves at The Starting Line's set (SUCK. Pop-punk crap). We watched the singer do his sing-while-smiling-painfully thing, which was disturbing. I find out that The Eyeliners went on at 4:30, and I had heard good stuff about them, so we watch them. They were really great; 3 chicks and a guy, EXTREME energy, power-punk stuff. After them we watch Finch. We'd seen them before, but goddamn, the singer was freaking out, making these screamy bird noises through their whole set. Twas entertaining.

We go check out The Eyeliners merch tent. I really wanted a tank top (I was wearing a size small "[the]star[t] wars" tee, black, no less, in 100 degree heat), but they were $12 and I needed to save my money for theSTART merch. So I buy an Eyeliners pin for $1. We wander aimlessly some more, find mom and Terry, buy soda, Don hands out flyers to get people to go to theSTART's set (I know I was supposed to do that too, but the heat was getting to me really bad), and we go to theSTART's merch tent again. This time Aimee's there, and she sees us and says "Hiiiiii kids!!!!" (she always remembers us). Bran buys a hoodie. I see the hoodie and fixate, THEN I see the "Death Via Satellite" EP for sale and freak. I decide not to buy anything yet because that's just more stuff for me to lug around. We talk to Aimee, I ask her if she's seen "Echo Obsession" yet, she says yes, and that it's beautiful, but then she explains how it's weird for her to say that, because it's.... HER, and basically she didn't want to sound conceited. I tell her I understand, THEN I ask if I can call "Echo Obsession" official. She consults her mom for a second then says yes! Don says to her, "You know, you just made her whole day." I was so happy, I was doing a little dance in front of the tent. Then we had to go to check out some bands, so we say bye and Aimee says "See you in an hour!"

We go over to the Maurice stage to wait for theSTART while Sw1tched was playing. They REALLY kicked ass. Right after they exit the stage, Don and I reserve our spot, front row and slightly to the right. There were only 5-6 people there, including 2 that are at EVERY one of their shows. A little bit later a couple more people show up. Then some more... and they went on and started with Nemesis as usual and this herd of people show up. I was so happy, Don had really done a great job harrassing these people. It was the biggest amount of people I'd EVER seen at one of their shows. A couple songs in, Aimee says "This song is for Kurt Cobain." and everyone is like "Nooooooo!" so she said something along the lines of "Wow, Washington, no Kurt Cobain?" and someone screams "COURTNEY LOVE!" so she says jokingly, "Yeah, this song is for Courtney." They go through sex, love, and various other things until she finally says "This song is for the used." and they play Hi Flyer. It was beautiful. Later they play Shakedown, and she tells everyone to dance. God that whole set was so wonderful... just... grrr. I was banging my head violently the whole time... I lost my bobby pin.

We go sit back down where mom and Terry were, I grab Terry's 45 ounce soda and chug it, then get a nasty stomach ache. But I get over it, and we go to theSTART's tent after directing several people there. They were being bombarded. Enough said. I buy my hoodie and the "Death Via Satellite" EP, and mom buys the EP. Don has a hard time getting the plastic off, so Dan gets it off for him. We love Dan. He's the man. Don gets Aimee to sign the EP and we're used to her just signing it "(anarchy sign)EcHo" over her head, but this time she writes that and "I (heart) U!" Eeeee! Mom gets hers signed while Jamie signs ours, and I finally ask Jamie if I can get a pic with him. He just kinda grabs me and gives me a wonderful Jamie hug and pushes his face against mine. My first pic with him... yay! Then Don gets his. I ask Aimee for another pic with her because I can never get enough of them, and she hugs me tighter for that picture than ever. Don gets his pic, and Aimee's kinda whispering things to him and he starts laughing and turns beet red. Mom gets a pic with her, and this whole time Aimee's been talking about attacking Brandon again, and she finally does. We get 3 pics of that, it was so great. GOD I FUCKING LOVE THIS WOMAN!!! Jeff never came to hang out, that made me kinda sad. So we say bye and go to check out other bands.

We end up sitting through Something Corporate without really watching them, and then Bad Religion came on, and they were AMAZING. About 6 songs in, Don, Branmuffin and I go to see Thursday at the Maurice stage, but we got the time all wrong and missed them. So we watched this band called 1208, and they were ok. I looked over where theSTART's tent was, and it was gone :(. I was very sad, 'cause we had money left and I wanted a patch. Oh well. When Don was talking to Dan, he said that they were coming back in September! I can't fucking wait. So then we leave and blah and blah. (theSTART was the only band there that didn't say "WHAT'S UP SEATTLE WASHINGTON!" HELLO, Seattle is 2 hours west from there! Or like Bad Religion, "WHAT'S UP YAKIMA!" Hahaha.. is it really that hard to say "Quincy Washington" or even "George Washington"??? Damn.)