javs blog

Last week was difficult.

All that drama at the salon. Dragged on and on. Finally got paid, hurt some feelings, burned some bridges, and moved on.

Thursday put some new stuff on my ipod. I’ve been listening to BRAND NEW a lot. I found allllll the bsides and some live/acoustic stuff. I gobble that shit up like candy. So I put all that on, and went home to listen to it. Started it, and my ipod turned off. Started it again, ipod turned off again. Third time, it turned off and when it came back on there were no songs on my ipod.

Zero.

Everything. Gone.

I felt like someone punched me in the stomach. Like a family member died. I had spent hours upon hours organizing that motherfucker. Stolen stuff from so many people. Gone.

Friday, halloween, had a good outlook. We had tickets to alkaline trio/ rise against at the paladium. Cost about 46 dollars each. Not bad. Hung out all day and started getting ready about 3 or 330. Erakuh had lots of fake scar/ prosthetic stuff to do, and wanted a new dress so I trekked out to fashion island to search forever 21 for something suitible. Found a nice dress and headed to halloween express to try and find some fangs. No luck.

Got back about 5 or so, and she was almost done. I started my makeup and started throwing blood all over our clothes. I came up with the backstory that we were on our way to a dance when I suddenly turned into a zombie and attacked her. I had blood all over my mouth and she had a huge wound on her chest/shoulder. We looked terrifying. People tried to take pictures of us all night.

Finally got on the road at 7 or 730, even though it said the show started at 730. Gaslight Anthem and Thrice were playing first, so I figured we’d be ok.

Made a pitstop at Erakuh’s house so her mom could take pictures of us. Got on the road to hollywood and it was smooth until about the 101. A sign said traffic was delayed at least 45 minutes, and it was about 830 or 9 at this point and I was getting nervous. I made the executive decision to get off on Ceasar Chavez blvd because that turns into sunset, which the paladium is on.

It took another 90 minutes to get there. We sat at one intersection for 5 green lights without moving.

Got to the paladium about 1050. The girl at the front said the show was almost done, but go right ahead. We got in as Rise Against was playing “the good left undone”, which happens to be my favorite song of theirs. They walked off stage and we went to say hi to my friend Ron who does merch for alk3. Rise Against came out to play two acoustic songs. We left as they started to play “swing life away” because some drunk girls pushed us out of the way to run into the crowd.

Walked up to hollywood blvd and cruised around for a while. Insane. Went to Swingers. Sat behind Zoli from IGNITE and saw the bad guy from THE CROW.

Made it home at about 4 and fought a stomach ache til about 515.

So the night didn’t go as planned but I still had fun, and we looked amazing thanks to Erakuh’s skillz.

Start the new job on tuesday. Honestly, not too stoked. I wish I could work at Commissary full time and pay the bills.