4th of July

Ahhh, another Summerfest down, and a fucking great time had by everybody.

We got there early afternoon, beautiful day, not in the 90's like last year, but still sunny, quite pleasant. Started off by looking for all the free shit we could get our hands on, free shit is awesome. As we were roaming the grounds we saw that a game of Bingo was about to start at the Pottawatomie sage...and it was free, so we played Bingo, it was kinda fun...but we all lost...every round, or however it's done in bingo, ten games to a match? Ten rounds to a game? Oh well, so we ate good food, drank some good beer and some cheap over priced beer...$4.50 for a plastic cup of High Life...yeah.

Well about 6 o'clock it was time to head over to the Harley Davidson Road House stage for some punk rock hijinx. First band we saw was Big D and the Kids Table, good band, I like these guys a lot, and for being called Big D, he's a scrawny white boy with a great voice, mad props.

After Big D, was probably for me, the most anticipated band of the night, Goldfinger, I haven't really heard much of their work since the early/mid 90's but hell, they were solid, and started a pretty good fuck George Bush chant an had us all flip him off for Independence Day, oh yeah, Big D closed out their set with a shout out to Obama '08. But back to Goldfinger. The drummer, forget his name, I'm pretty sure he got arrested for bearing his ass to the crowd. It was all in the name of making people in the crowd vomit, he shoved something in his crack and then took a bite out of it, he then proceeded to bring a guy up on stage and poured a beer in the guy's shoe and drank the beer from the shoe, people vomited. To top it all off at the end of their set, he lit his cymbals on fire, that was pretty awesome as well.

Then the Main event, which we opted to see over STP who was also playing and we got free passes to go see. Less Than Jake, we saw them last year and they put on a stellar performance again, but I don't think it was quite as good as last year's The Price is Right stage show, they didn't really have any special gimmicks this year, just music, and some new songs from their new album. Though they did play this fun game called Dirty Rat, they picked 3 guys and 1 girl from the crowd, brought them on stage. Now how this game works, I think may have made more people vomit, the girl was blind folded the 3 guys were to remove their shirts to expose their arm pits and she had to smell each one, they buried her face in those pits, quite gross, but after she picked the smelliest one she had to dirty dance with the dirty rat on stage during a song, oh and they named the guy that "won" Dewie Shebag, because he was kind of a douche bag.

By the end of the night I had this old guy standing next to me who was waiting on his daughter and her friends who I'm guessing by the looks of them were 16 tops. He was getting irate at some of the things the band was saying/doing on stage, he looked ready to march up on stage and yell at them for how inappropriate things were, when the lead singer mentioned that the drummer had a "huge schlong" I swear I saw fire shoot from his eyes. The super drunk fuck directly in front of Erika kept falling of his bench, he should've stuck to the pavement.

We got back into town and headed over to LaBamba's for burritos as big as our heads. But the only burrito at the table was my brother's and he got a regular not a super. I was just too damn tired to eat, I didn't get home that morning till 5:15 am and had to be up and ready to go over at Chris' apartment at 10:30ish. Thursday was tons of fun though too. But that was just new bars, friends meeting new friends and staying up talking with a girl till the sun came up. I can't think of a better way to spend a night.