Pine Knob Ampitheatre (Michigan)- June 9, 2000

After 4 grueling hours of taking final exams at school, we were finally free. Kristina, Rachelle, and I got a ride over to Kristina's house from Josh Haas- we were making fun of him bumping in the front seat to Eminem's "Real Slim Shady". We all got ready, changing into more *punk* looking clothes/ accessories. Finally about 45 min later Julie arrived, and we were off. The ride down to Clarkston was fun, nibbling on frosted animal cookies & Lay's potato chips. Kristina even got to drive a lot of the way (wow I'm still alive, j/k). We arrived to Pine Knob around 5:30 PM. Her dad took pictures of us by the front gait, then we went to buy some merchandise. I bought a cute pink tee-shirt with a baseball writing logo that said "Blink 182" and a Blink poster.

Rachelle, Katie [me], Julie, and Kristina at the front gate

We then found the line to get inside the place. We saw some preppy guys from our grade and laughed cuz they suck. We all took turns posing in front of Blink 182's tour bus, which was just sitting there in the parking lot. On the way in the gate, the guy said we weren't allowed to bring in blankets- which was so not cool cuz we had nowhere to put them. We had to set them down and hope no one would steal them.

Kristina in front of the guy's tour bus

We were surprised at how well of a view the lawn seats had. We sat by these little middle school aged punk kids who kept hitting on me- they'll be hot when they're older but ya know. I was starving so I went with Kristina to buy some pizza, they had a Domino's. They were fucking expensive and I couldn't afford a $4 pop, so I was damn thirsty the whole time. I had to keep begging for drinks of water from the other girls. Kristina had a bad throat infection so not only couldn't I have some of her drink, it hurt her to scream- but she didn't really care.

Rachelle, Julie, and me.. *squint to make us out* and some punk azz dudes in the background.

Fenix TX was the first group to come out. Now I kinda was into them before the show- but fell in love with their music after they performed! They kept making funny jokes, and saying stuff like "Why the hell are there seats here? Don't you guys know that the lawn is what punk rock shows are all about? You guys in the lawn kick ass! These people sitting down think they're at a Celine Deon concert or something!" Fenix played some songs by other groups such as that Blind Melon song with the bee chick in the video (I dunno). Then they played songs from their own album. "Who out there has a big penis? Or can appreciate a big penis? *LOUD ROAR*" Then they played the Rooster Song =)

The Fenix TX set

Next came along Bad Religion. They had a cool stage and helicopter sound effects when they came out on stage. When they started playing- all of these huge punk dudes came along and literally surrounded us- and started MOSHING. Now here I was standing around without any shoes on all comfy- and then these guys come along, step all over my toes, and shove everyone down the hill. That was not very cool, I had to put my shoes back on. The cool thing about it though was some of those hot moshers stayed by us... mmm mmm. This one dude was so funny, he found some chick's shoe and was going around to everyone "IS THIS YOUR SHOE?" Then he would start sniffing and licking it. No one claimed it so he threw it all the way down the hill- and it came back to them! So he's like "guess it's not their shoe!" and threw it the other way. It came back again- so he decided it must be the people's behind us. I don't think it ever came back. Kristina and Rachelle kept trying to get pics of those guys, which was cool until their girlfriends saw them. The tall one's chick came over and bitched at us, dammit she ruined all the fun.

The Bad Religion set

When the moshing broke out

After waiting and waiting and more waiting, Blink 182 finally came on stage- we were SO hyped. The stage was decorated like a Drive in Theatre, with old porno's playing on a big movie screen- ocassionaly Blink would appear over the movies. They played equal amounts of songs from Dude Ranch & Enema, and of course their little things they do at every show. Like Mark said on MTV news recently- "We're on stage for an hour and a half. 25 minutes of that is playing music [the rest is joking and goofing off]." But that's what makes Blink's show so great, their chemistry. As most of you know, Travis had broken his pinky and so Damen had to fill in for him. They had this little bet going- if Damen fucked up, he had to take off an item of clothing. And that brings us to when the Thong Song came on over the loud speakers- and Mark came running out in his undies, shaking his ass for us all to see! Then Tom was being a dork and wouldn't take anything off but he was still funny. The show was amazing, some memorable moments were when the sky finally got dark, they played Adam's song, and everyone got out their lighters. A guy also proposed to his girlfriend on the stage, it was really cute... and of course she said yes.

After the show was over we discovered that one of our posters had gotten ripped off by someone. And on the way out we discovered our blankets had be stolen too. Kristina was really upset, but then we all pitched in to buy her a new poster and found some ice cold pops, so that cheered us up. We found her dad waiting for us in the parking lot. We heard some people's music playing, so we said what the hell and popped in Enema of the State & blasted it REALLY LOUD. Damn it attracted some hot guys to the Jeep, especially the guys working at Pine Knob. It was so cool they were singing along with us. It was a long 4 hour ride home, but very well worth it. We made it home at 3:00 AM, went to bed around 4:00.. and had to wake up for another party @ 9 AM the next morning!