Across AMERICA with Dir en grey - Part 5 -FINALE-: Englewood, CO

Nailing this coffin shut and sending it somewhere below. To fester with worms and like my corpse one day to be visited seldom and slowly forgotten over time.

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This one isn't all love and a flock of seagulls.

A word of caution to lovers of the Equality State of Wyoming you might want to shut your eyes at times.
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Same formula : copy/paste, insert snide remarks..yada yada

So I guess I will continue to talk about the trip. The final installment.
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So a 19 hour drive to Denver. I don't remember much. The first thing I remember was hitting Wyoming. That is where we ran in to a crazy snow storm it was very windy and blowing snow, Joe was freaking out and his friend was freaking out too. [FUCK YEAH I WAS FREAKING OUT. I WISH I HAD TAKEN VIDEO OR PHOTOGRAPH THIS EVENT] Orlando kept saying "Don't go on Joe" I was like what a bunch of pussies. It really wasn't as bad as they were making it seem.[THERE ARE VERY FEW TIMES IN MY LIFE I DISAGREE WITH MARIA BUT SERIOUSLY SHE DIDN'T SEEN TO GET A REAL GRASP ON THE SITUATION AT HAND.  I figured maybe Joe just wanted to stop to sleep so we stopped up a mountain to a rest stop where the weather was 10 time worse! [THERE WAS NO WHERE ELSE TO STOP I WAS IN TO DEEP. THIS WAS A SERIOUS MISTAKE. FUCK ELK MOUNTAIN. THE THING THAT REALLY PISSES ME OFF IS THAT WE HAD MADE SUCH GOOD TIME IT WAS SERIOUSLY LIKE ONLY 1 IN THE MORNING AND  I WASN'T TIRED AT ALL . THOSE 5HR ENERYGY DRINKS REALLY DO WORK] So we slept for a few hours. Which meant we would be late arriving to the Denver show. We had planned to be there around 5am but because of this we wouldn't arrive till 12pm.

So I was sad about that. I woke up hoping the weather would be better, but hell no it was still just as bad. So since I saw Joe had a good rest I was like you better get the fuck out of here. He still wanted to stay but I knew it wouldn't get any better so eventually I convinced him to leave. [I HAVE THIS PHOPIA OF SNOW. I USED TO DRIVE IN BAD CONDITIONS ALL THE TIME. I REMEMBER DRIVING FOR AN HOUR ONCE ONLY TO GET SIX BLOCKS, SIX BLOCK! I'VE SLID INTO A ROCK WALL ONCE, LOST TRACTION GOING UP A SMALL INCLINE BUT NONE OF THIS MATTERED TO ME UNTIL I SAW A CAR SKIDDING OUT INTO TRAFFIC IN FRONT OF MY AND GET BRUTALY HIT BY THE TRUCK IN FRONT OF ME. THE SAME TRUCK JUST A MINUTE BEFORE I LET PASS ME. THE TRUCK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MY CAR. AFTER THAT I WAS LIKE FUCK YOU SNOW AND ALL YOU DO FOR THE WORLD, I WRITE THIS WITH FOUR INCHES OF HE WHITE STUFF IN MY BACKYARD. HOPEFULLY THE LAST EVENT FOR THE SEASON]All he had to do was go slow and we would be ok.
I swear after only 20 minutes of driving it was fucking sunny. [THE CRAZY THING ABOUT THIS EVENT IS THAT IT WASN'T EVEN SNOWING. IT WAS THE BLOWING SNOW COMIGN OFF THE MOUNTAIN. YOU COULDN'T SEE IN FRONT OF YOU. IT WAS WORSE THATN THAT CALIFORNIAN FOG WE RAN INTO A COUPLE DAYS BEFORE. I'D RATHER OF HAD THAT ANYDAY. So we were on our way back on the road.
But then there was another snag. They closed the highway we are suppose to use to get to Denver.
and Joe just wanted to wait till they opened it again! I was like what the fuck they aren't going to open it. So I told him to get off and take some other road and we really had no idea where we where. Joe was really freaking out and driving real slow and all these people where passing him on this small 2 lane road. There were no signs on this road but eventually after consulting my trusty atlas I figured out we would run into the highway we needed to be on.
Ok so I was right and we made it to where we needed to be right at the colorado border.  After all that drama we finally made it. We ended up arriving at 1 pm. Fucking late as fuck.
i was stressed and tired from all this and came to terms with the fact we would probably have to sit on the balcony. [WE WERE ALL REALLY IN AGREMENT WITH THIS IDEA. I FOR ONE WAS EXHAUASTED AND WANTED TO SIT AND BE THE SILENT OBSERVER FROM AFAR. DONT GET ME WRONG I LIKE TO BE "FRONT AND CENTER FOR ANOTHER ASS WHOOPIN" JUST THAT THE CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE WOULD NOT HAD BEEN NECCESSARILY A BAD THING. 

So as soon as i sat down in line my mom calls me stress me out even more.
She told me "Your ferret died" and I was like "What, are you serious?' and she said " I wouldn't lie about this Maria".
So I freaked out and started crying and embarrassing myself in front of everyone and left the line
but as soon as I turned the corner my mom says, He still alive but he can't walk.
I was pissed I was like what the fuck! What a fucking bitch! So he wasn't really dead , but he was dying. My mom was just full of shit. She just likes to make people feel bad and cause drama. So after that I just waited in the car and Joe and Orlando held my spot in line.

So we saw Joe's sister [THANKS FOR THE RIDE TO WENDY'S] for a few minutes then got back in line around 6pm i think. There was a lot of cutting but I didn't really care because I was thinking I was not going to be on the barricade anyways. [OUT OF THE TWO TIMES TIMES I'VE BEEN THERE AND THE COUNTLESS OTHER VENUES I'VE BEEN TO IN MY LIFE TIME THIS ONE OS THE GOTHIC HAS THE MOST DISORDERLY CROWD CONTROL. FOR AS MUCH DOUCHEBAGGERY GOING ON HERE , IT'S BEYOND ME WHY THEY'D HOLD THEIR FINAL SHOW LET ALONE FILM THE DAMN THING HERE. I DIGRESS...]
So we got in and saw a spot at the very far left on the barricade. So we stood there. It was still a good view. Next to me were these two old drunk bitches. I don't know why they give drunks bottles at a concert.  I wore a wrist band that said "Just death is true" ( which was a Dir en grey item )  and they were having a in depth conversation about how it doesn't make sense ( that was sarcastic). They annoyed the fuck out of me. [OH LORD, HERE IT COMES...][THE LADY MARIA IS ABOUT TO REFER TO ASKED ME BEFORE THE LADY IN THE WHEELCHAIR CAME OUT IF I WAS GOINGTO RUSH TOWARDS THE CENTER ONCE THE BAND HITS THE STAGE AND I REPLIED, "NO, I'M NOT A DICK."]
So at one point before the concert they made everyone stand back to let this girl in a wheel chair out and one of the drunk bitches, this big ass fat black bitch was like "come over baby" to her acting like she was going to help her but instead she jumped in front of me!
I pushed her big old ass out of my way and got my spot back & she was like "oh you trying to start a fight!"
and I was arguing with her about how I was there first right in front a guard who didn't do shit!
Eventually I realized I wasn't getting through to her and told her
"I am not arguing with a drunk"
She was all like "I just had one beer" and i was like
"I haven't had any" (I don't drink alcohol bitch! because it makes people stupid!)
I was pissed and thought that was funny I said that and I just ended it with
"What the fuck are you doing here? Do you even like this band!"
Fuck that drunk old bitch!
I think she was talking about hitting me with a bottle but she never did.
I heard those drunks talking to the kids behind me giving them tips on how to get in front.
but they never tried to.

Well that drama went down before the show. So then the show started. One of those drunks called the singer of the opening band a sexy bitch and he looked at her, I hope he didn't think it was me who said it. because I smelled him in Portland and it was not sexy!
Well Dir en grey came on I remember this crazy little girl behind me who kept saying "KAWAII KYOOO"
No lie i can't believe she said that! and her and her guy friend kept saying "blood" I think they wanted him to cut himself. what a bunch of dumb asses. I think they kept screaming it during asom unplugged and the girl next to me told them to shut up. and the guy snapped back "It's a fucking concert" but they shut up after that.
and she went crazy during the final. She was like "OH MY GOD THE FINAL AHHHHHH  OH MY GOD!!"
As for Joe he was behind me and told me he was too tired to get into it, until  Toshiya gave him the fist [I ACTUALLY WASN'T BOTHERED BY THE GIRL NEXT TO ME, SHE WAS JUST LOST IN HER OWN LITTLE WORLD....I HEAR ANOYING RANTINGS AT CONCERTS BUT SHE JUST HAD TAKEN IT TO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL. REFRESHING?]  and Joe started getting into it. which I believe now because what happened later. Toshiya saves the day!





















Here are some but I posted all the screen shots on my myspace.
Well I guess we were still in a good spot for being so late.  I was kinda disappointed because for a tour finale I was hoping for something special to happen. There was also a shit load of professionals recording.
 A few rude ass people threw water bottles on stage. but I must admit there was a cool part when everyone was head banging and right when they did water splashed across the stage from someones water bottle.

So after the show I was really hoping the whole band would sign this time and the wait was long so I was really hoping it would happen. But no it was just Toshiya and Shinya. So we waited and got our cd's signed  When it was finally our turn the translator was being really anal and checking everyone's cd but she totally ignored me I thought it was weird maybe she doesn't like me. Well I got Shinya's autograph on Mark's cd I said thank you and he smiled and nodded and Toshiya smiled and nodded too he had a big smile and i saw his teeth (HEHE)
 I left and Joe gets his shit signed and he runs to me and says "Did you see that?"
and I was like no, what happened.
He told me when he handed his cd to Toshiya, Toshiya wouldn't sign it and was like "hey , hey, hey" and he wanted to bump fist's with Joseph. So they bumped fist then Toshiya signed the cd! That was so cool that Toshiya recognized Joe. I assume he did because I don't see why else he would have done that.
So that made the finale very much worth it, just a little recognition.[AND YES THIS SPECIAL GESTURE. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FIST. I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS. I WAS'T PLEASED WITH THERE BEING A HUGE CAMERA AT THE SIGNING, SUCH AN INVASION. I DON'T BELIEVE THE CAMERA WAS ON ME WHEN THIS WENT DOWN. THATS GOOD. HE WANTED TO BUMP FISTS AND I'D TOLD HIM TO ROCK ON. SOMEWHERE IN JAPAN HE IS DOING THAT VERY THING. MY MAN.]

So right after that we had to zoom home to see my baby Mysterious to make sure he was still alive.
The drive was fucking boring, I slept.[IT WAS ACTUALLY NICE TO KNOW I WASN'T GOING TO BE ON ANY SORT OF SCHELDULE AND THAT I COULD SLEEP ALL NIGHT ONLY IF I COULD HAVE FOUND A REST STOP. THERE WAS LIKE NO REST STOPS, I HONESTLY FOUND MY SELF DOZING OFF AT ONE POINT AND WOKE TO THE SIGHT OF THE CEILING OF THE CAR. I NEEDED TO PULL OVER. WE EVENTUALLY RAN INTO THIS TRUCK STOP WHERE I PURCHASED MY FIRST BAG OF WHAT WOULD BE MY NEW LOVE IN CHIPS. CHEETOS JALAPENO CHEDDAR. OH MY GOD THEY ARE GOOD. I DIDN'T FEEL COMFY AT THE TRUCK STOP SO I INSTEAD PARKED THE CAR FOR THE NIGHT IN AN EMPTY CLOSED MC DONALDS  LOT. YEAH, MUCH MORE SAFER THERE.]  After all this driving and when we were so close to home driving through Kansas we get pulled over! The first time in Joseph's life he has gotten pulled over. He got a speeding ticket. I had no idea it would be for $130 !!!!!!!! Oh my god I never want to drive again! No wonder people get there cars repoed for these high ass speeding tickets! [YEAH TOTALLY MY FAULT. 85 IN A 70, COME ON. I WILL SAY ONE THING THOUGH I HAVE AN OLDER CAR WHERE YOU CAN FEEL IT ON THE HIGHWAY, THESE NEWER CARS JUST COAST AND YOU FEEL NOTHING. PLUS THE DAMN THING DIDN'T HAVE CRUISE CONTROL.]
When we finally got back we dropped off the car and it was fucking cold! It was colder back home then it was in any other city! Joe's dad was like an hour late picking us up so we waited in the cold till he did.
When I finally got home Mysterious was still alive but in bad shape. I was so glad he was still alive and I got to spend a few more days with him before he died. R.I.P. KING! Another ferret gone because Dir en Grey comes around , it happens every fucking time. Wow, that is so sad. But that's how it ends.

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Yes what a ride. Literally. HAR HAR!

I've read Dir en grey is working on their next US tour. Oh Jesus these bitches can't be stopped. I have a new traveling companion when this comes to fruition. She invited me to Japan which she is going to do in April but at the time I was unsure it was possible to accomplish. FUCK! Three shows and I'd try to sneak in a Kaya show but it's too late for me to get on that boat.



Well Manson's hitting up some amphitheaters this summer with Slayer, so there's that. Nine Inch Nail's is going away for some time after there stint with Jane's Addiction this year. Not a lot of music I'm into to get all ramped up over.



"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." -James Dean

Across AMERICA with Dir en grey - Part 4: Seattle, WA

I'm hoping to bring this chapter to a close soon. Only one more date left after Seattle. Time to get on living.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying." -"Red"


I forgot to mention the jacket Maria screen printed. She always makes me one for the tours we embark on. This was the fourth.




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I had the weirdest dream last night.

Watching:
Leviathan
Saw V
and Reading:
the first 20 Chapters of The Taking - Koontz

Will result in one fucked up nightmare.

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Continue to Seattle. We got to Seattle very early. Drove by the venue and saw a few people in line. Did early check in, showered and kinda relaxed a little. Figured we could get in early because we heard about the 21 and older early entrance[OH, THE PERKS OF BEING OLD ENOUGH TO BUY ALCOHOL]. We went ahead and still waited in line just in case. The Showbox walk a long ass way from our hotel but Joe dropped me off and there was about 20 people in front of us. The first two people waiting in line were by the venue door but the rest of the line was lined up way further back so I was kinda confused on where to line up so I talked to them and they seemed friendly but then i soon realized they were the same two bitches from St. Louis who cut the fucking line after leaving it for a long ass time. ?ITCHES. Everyone else seemed nice. As for the weather, it wasn't too cold.



The area was pretty active with bums and a lot of people. This one bum kept me entertained for a while, I think he kept yelling at his beggar sign because it kept blowing away. A man walked by and gave people some Starbucks cake, I didn't get any, yuck. I think the bum wanted some but didn't get any and he bragged about having some Oreo's instead but i think the Oreo bag was really empty. Kinda reminds me of the punk bum in San Fran who took the whole pizza box as soon as someone put it on top of the trash can, he just came out of nowhere and swooped it up. I am not sure if I mentioned that before.
Well anyways, another bum joined him and I think they were trying to put on a show by juggling fruit but the other bum wouldn't let him touch any of his fruit. Some cops eventually came and told the bums to leave and started giving everyone shit about lining up, but I guess it was cleared up by a bunch of complaining.
One kid came around and numbered people like they did in San Francisco. I was number 14. After that people seemed to move around more freely. I wasn't going to torture myself and decided to leave the line for a while. I think it was around noon. Joe had already scoped out the place after leaving me a bunch before. He had noticed a candy apple and chocolate shop, so we went there.
We brought some Gourmet candy apples. I really wasn't too impressed with them but they were good but not $12 good. We came back around and entered this place called Pikes Market or something and it was pretty neat We brought some sort of meat on a stick and saw these guys throwing fish around and there were street musicians. We just walked around and window shopped.



Here's Joe in front of some neat magic shop. We also got a penny souvenir from the place. I really don't know where it is at now.
We did some more walking around and I bought this silver dragon ring. It is cute but i think i paid too much for it. I just kind felt sorry for the old Asian lady selling it. She told me it would bring me double the luck. I sure could use luck but so far i dub her a liar. Still a cute ring though.
Well we had been gone for maybe an hour and when we came back the line was moved to the other side of the side walk, which was dangerously close to the street. So we squeezed back in.



Kinda shows the line The ugly bitch with the red hair is one of those St. louis cutting bitches. She was really hugging on that other bitch. I think they were those butch type lesbians. (Not the sexy type) But they would get another lucky break ( not wait in line) because soon after we came back this guy came out and gave the first 50 people a ticket to leave the line and not come back till 6:30. So we were excited because we could explore the city and just come back later. So we walked around.






So right next to here Joe dragged me to this aquarium. I really wasn't to interested in going but $30 bucks later we were in.
The first thing we saw was the octopus'
A lot of old people securing the place, I felt like I was in prison.Then we touched some star fish and other aquatic life.






Hanging Shark




Fish dome place

not sure why this is here

I made Joe sit on this.

Walking under fish
FISH





Funny fish


Smiling fish



There was a place with birds too.


Huge ass seals

otter place

Joe and an otter


outside

So then we walked more and went into a Mexican looking shop and it was run by this gay guy. That was weird then we walked all the way back to the hotel. The streets were fucking busy.

When we finally got back we had a few hours so Joe took a nap because he had really been up by that time for maybe 35 hours.

So we walk back after a while and crowded back together again and I asked the cutting bitches what was going on and one of them snapped "You're back there." and I was like ,"Yeah I know. I was just asking you a question." So then everyone had suddenly turned into bitch mode. I was still relaxed because i figured i could still get in early through the bar or through this early ticket line. I didn't start to panic until we found out we couldn't pick up our will call tickets till the doors opened.

Once again FUCK YOU PREODER WILL CALL!!!!!! So we ended up buying tickets through a scalper.
and the 50 first people got to go in first before the bar people.
















There are too many screen shots to post but here are a few. This is the show where Toshiya pours water on the guards head. I went ahead and finally posted video's and one of them is in there


I would prefer if anyone wants to see it to go to my youtube channel and watch them in hq. I have a cool clip from each show.http://www.youtube.com/user/sailormanson

I am just being really lazy right now. But great show what can I say .
We walked back and saw alot of bums sleeping outside.
Took a few pictures.


That's about it.

The next show was Denver and we had one day in between to drive the 19 hours it would take to get there.
This would be the worst drive for Joe because he was probably totally worn out by now.
We went to sleep that night without food.


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Man when I wrote my last post i was being pretty lazy. I forgot to mention how i assaulted some bitch. Well when we got inside the Show Box there were these bitches behind me who kept saying "I am getting in front, they don't know how crazy I get" She was going to try to get in front of me and the girl next to me. The girl next to me wanted to lock arms but i told her she probably wants an arm free to put in the air. I know I did because my other hand had my camera. So anyways this bitch was trying really fucking hard to get in she was jumping and pushing her leg in between me and the girl next to me. I guess she used to much strength and eventually i heard her tell her friend "I can't" and she got pulled out. Haha dumb bitch shouldn't have used so much energy! Well anyways so her friend tried to get in between me and Joe after that by elbowing me and putting her hand on the barricade. So i tried to move her hand and she started scratching me. Oh no fuck that !! I pulled out a pin I was wearing and started stabbing her fucking hand. She stopped after that but then i kept feeling someone bonking my head later on pretending it was accidental but it wasn't too hard so I was like oh well I am trying to watch the show and I had a big pom pom on my hat that softened the blow but after about 3 times she stopped because she realized it had no effect on me. Then towards the end this fat Asian chick behind me aggressively tried to get in between me and Joe, I turned around with my fist up because I was about to punch her and I was like " What the fuck are you doing!" It was funny becasue she suddenly looked up in the air like it wasn't her. That was funny because i scared her. it might have been the same girl i stabbed, I am not sure. I just wanted to mention that. ==================================

Fin

Colo-fuckin-rado! First we must pass through Wyoming (WhyOMG- Why god?)