Don and I had been to The Vera Project before. Somehow, we managed to completely forget where it was. So Moshie, Chev, Julia, Don and I cruised the surrounding streets for about an hour and a half looking for it. Finally we gave up on driving and found a place to park. We came across a phone book and found the address (which turned out to be wrong. WTF?!?!), and then I was asked for a smoke by this creepy guy. I gave him one, then he proceeded to mumble something. I was like, "Huh?" and he repeated it quietly again (there's traffic passing constantly, mind you) and said "Think about it. It's in a different language." O_o Now, I would have looked whatever he said up if I could have HEARD HIM. Sorry, this is very off topic, but it disturbed me.

AT LAST we found the damned place. We hung up huge-ass banner (which is now it's official name), and went inside. Jen jumped on Don as soon as we walked in. I guess she had been waiting awhile for us to show. The band we walked in on was amazing, but as usual, I didn't catch their name *bitchslaps herself*. During an intermission of sorts, we all went and bugged Aimee at the merch table. Ohhhhh the stuff I bought. I wished I could get every single one of the pins, but meh. I settled for getting 6 different pink and purple ones. Don bought me "theSTART heart" shirt I've been wanting. Aimee commented on my new haircut and proceeded to molest my dome. Around this time The Transformers were about to perform. They asked everyone to sit down and we watched this group of girls dressed as guys dance and lip-sync to N'Sync. At first I was kinda disgusted, but it ended up being very entertaining.

King Cobra was next. OH. MY. GOD. Fucking... 3 chicks. The singer was also the drummer, and she played their entire set STANDING UP. They all had moustaches painted on. But the singer was the female equivalent of Serj Tankian. Excellent. She made a comment about halfway through their set about how she was on her period and everyone fucking screamed for joy. Someone in the audience screamed "NEXT WEEK!!!!!" My god Ladyfest kicks ass. Transformers performed again, and this time it looked like they were being all supportive of the war in Iraq holding up signs. Then they flipped them over and it was suddenly all "Impeach Bush". Effing fantastic!

TheSTART. Oh yes. Don, Jen, Chev, Julia and I all hauled ass FRONT AND CENTER. FINALLY! I was watching Sarah set up and she is so damn gorgeous. Damnit... I'm having a hard time remembering the setlist again... was it Los Angelos they started with this time? I cannot remember for the life of me. After Los Angelos, Aimee was bitchin' about how that's America's mentality. "It's just a little mess, I'll clean up later." Everyone was kinda silent... it was uncomfortable. Then she was like "It's true!" and they started the next song. Annnnnnnnddddd I don't remember what it was. I do know they played the following songs: Los Angelos, DVS, The 1234, Gorgeous, Nemesis, Hi Flyer, Glimmer Man, and Shakedown. THERE WE GO. Heh. Probably not in that order though. Aimee dedicated Gorgeous to all the bands that played that night and proceeded to list them off with the help of Sarah, who was counting them off on her fingers."By the way, we're theSTART. We're from that red van out there."I am SOSOSO sorry, but that's all I can remember from the set. I need to start taking memory pills... maybe I was just too busy rocking out.

After they finished, we bombarded Sarah and got signatures and pictures. She signed "huge-ass banner" :) and Jen professed her undying love to her. Soooooo cute! Jen mentioned that she played bass as well, and then Chev couldn't help herself and yelled "Bre's a bassist too!" and I'm like "I am NOT!" Sarah says "Yes you are!" It was sweet, but I kinda don't wanna refer to myself as a musician for the time being... bad former band experiences :/ Mom handed me some money to go get her a shirt because she was gonna go outside to smoke, so we headed back over to the merch table. I was having trouble walking 'cause I fucked up my neck and back headbanging, and I guess it was kinda obvious that I was in pain 'cause Aimee came up behind me and gave me a back massage. I kinda felt weird, because if anything, SHE was probably the one who needed it. But it was very nice. We all got pics, and Julia was so fucking happy 'cause she'd been waiting for a really long time to meet Aimee. Her grin in the picture will tell you that. So then I bought mom's shirt ("MEDIUM? You're too tiny!" - Sarah. "No, it's for my mom." Hehe), and bought more pins and another shirt. It's fucking sweet, it's the Eno shirt but the graphic is inverted and it's blue and pink. But then we had to gooooooooo... it was sad. I told Aimee I'd see her in Arizona in June and she said I was crazy. I left feeling very contented but halfway home it dawned on me that I'd forgotten to tell Aimee happy birthday :'( I feel really bad. I'm still making her a present and I'm gonna give it to her in AZ. She's gonna fucking love it...I also managed to miss Stephanie. I feel like such a moron, I just remembered that I looked at her during the show and DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HER. *slapslapslap* I'm sorry dude!