good ol' rock and roll

This 4 days with atreyu was a blast. I arrived in Costa Mesa - picked up by "the mess" and after driving for 90 minutes we finally arrived at my hotel that was only 10 miles from the airport. We took the same wrong exit twice (hence the nickname "the mess"). I was happy to see upon my arrival that there is a hooters in my hotel's parking lot. Anyone who knows me knows I love that buffalo chicken sandwich :) I went to hooters 5 times in 4 days. I became a regular and was welcomed with more and more charisma and hospitality with every visit. We also spent a lot of time at a bar called Johnnies. It is hands down the darkest bar in the world. But usually the drinks were on the house and the wait staff was great. It also allowed me another opportunity to hang out with Mr. Matthew Shadows of the Avenged Sevenfold fame and he was a peach. It was also a great to chance to catch up with some old friends... from playing bocce ball (a game of royalty) on Huntington beach with biggie and Jordon from every time i die... to drinking in long beach with iano, brittney, pete, and a dude that I thought/think was david lee roth. even though he reminded me constantly that he was not him, I am pretty sure it was. Then the day of all days rolled around - the 2008 kroq weenie roast (Metallica, offspring, pennywise, bad religion, racoonatiers, and atreyu). The show went great, absolutely flawless. Atreyu @ 3 - Done work @ 5 - drunk @ 7 - METALLICA @ 9. I know it is common for a lot of people to give metallica shit because there most recent album was uncompairable to the likes of master of puppets or ride the lightning, but boy do they still know how to perform a rock show. Everyone that knows me, knows that I am a steel cage when it comes to showing emotion. I had tears running down my face like a 16 year old asian girl at a michael jackson concert when they played the song "One". The best concert I have seen in a very long time. I want to take a moment to thank metallica for making me believe in the fact that great rock shows (although few and far between) still exist. And now here i sit not on my way to play the second show in st louis which was scheduled for this evening, but instead i am on a flight back to boston. We were on board our flight to st.louis when the pilot came on the intercom and said that we were being held at the gate because only one of the 2 air conditioning units on board was working and they were working vigorously to fix the problem. 2 hours roll by as we are sitting on a plane on a 90 degree day with the AC turning off and on. I would like to thank motley crue for writing such an amazing book that allowed me to pass the time in the most enjoyable fashion for that situation. Mind you, after sitting there for two hours the band members of atreyu and their tour manager are starting to freak out and crunch numbers. They are now realizing that we were supposed to land @ 3:30 and play at 7:30 but now we were landing at 5:30 and how the schedule was going to be close. Right at that moment the pilot came back over the intercom and said that we were cleared to leave but we were going to fly with only one ac unit which means our plane would have to fly at lower altitudes. he continues to inform us that since we will be flying at l0wer altitudes that we will be burning more fuel (thinker air, more wind resistance, blah blah blah). So we will have to take a lay over in kansas to refuel the airplane and that will take at least 40 min to an hour. That sealed the deal, open the doors we are getting off. We get off the plane and off it goes with all of our luggage on it to st. louis. So I had to go to the ticket booth rebook myself for a flight home from california to boston and here i am. With no bags and no clue of when I will ever be reunited with my bags that are going to ultimately be returned back to california with the atreyu stuff and then hopefully shipped back to me. ha ha ha - they just made announcement that due to an oversight, there were no meals or beverages put on the plane. 7 hour flight... time to get dehydrated. Life is grand.
p.s.
Flying still sucks.