Can’t believe I missed the Warped Tour. I came through town two weeks ago and I had no idea. Actually, I was in Laredo at the time, so it wouldn’t have mattered anyway, but it would have been a good show.
North Stage:
Transplants
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
The Offspring
Strung Out
Dropkick Murphys
No Use For A Name
Nuts. Maybe next year.
I didn’t realize that Ace Bailey died on one of the flights on September 11th. That’s truely sad. Who’s Ace Bailey you might ask. He was the Bruins 3rd pick in the 1966 draft and played for the B’s from 68-73 (including their glorious 72 cup season). There’s a brief mention in a DKM song, which is where I read the liner notes…
“Farewell my brother
You’re off to the big rink in the sky
The good Lord’s between the pipes
And you’ve got Bavis and Ace on the wing”
Roslindale native and C.M./B.U. hockey standout Mark Bavis & former Bruin great Ace Bailey were tragically killed aboard United Airlines flight 175 on Sept. 11, 2001.
Very sad indeed. 🙁
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Genious. Link
All week the security nazis here at the Laredo Entertainment Center have been hastling me and Paul. Yesterday was the worst. What I can’t understand is that we’re catching shit while we’re wearing full access badges. People not wearing badges aren’t getting second looks. This was my conversation with two security asshats yesterday…
Tard – Can I help you?
Me – I’m the photographer, excuse me (starts walking past)
Tard – but can I help you with something, who are you with?
Me – I’m the official photographer. See the badge?
Tard – Well, you’ll need to be escourted.
Me – I don’t think so. I’m the OFFICIAL photographer. This is an all access pass, now excuse me I have to get in there.
Tard2 – Excuse me sir, is there a problem?
Me – Yeah, let me through, I’m the photographer, see the badge?
Tard2 – Yes sir, but you’ll have to check in with Guest Services.
Me – I don’t have time for this, excuse me (walks away as the call for the security guard)
It went downhill from there. I won’t bore you with the explatives. Retards.
So, with one night left here in town, let me send a big warm fuzzy “fuck off” to the security morons here at the Laredo Entertainment Center.
Ok, so I’ve only been able to post once a day. True, I did say there would be a variable torrent of posts, but I’m a busy guy, what can I say. It’s been nothing short of nuts here for the past few days. Today is mostly production work followed by the Prelim Show tonight. Tonight is the night that the judges narrow the field of 130+ contestants down to 12 (or 15 I can’t remember). We’re there to capture all the action.
On a more personal level, I’ve been running and gunning for 5 days now. I’ve been there every night to take pictures of every event. I’ve been shooting quite a bit (read: everything) and I’ll be shooting more tonight. The show itself is actually kind of cool. It’s a larger production than the official Miss USA show. In the past, this same production has won Emmys for various things, something the bigger pageants haven’t managed to do. It’s seriously a huge, million dollar production and it’s interesting to see that sort of thing in motion.
Oh the other hand, I hate pageants. I think the concept is weak and the purposed benefit for non-winning contestants is a pile of crap. Allegedly the contestants are bonding in friendship and learning things like “public speaking”, “confidence” and “emotional strength”. Yeah. Ok. And what does walking around in bathing suits teach them? Balance?
I don’t know either.
The whole thing doesn’t make any sense to me. I don’t really know if it’s supposed to. I don’t look good in a swim suit, I don’t give a crap about building confidence, and I’m not a brain dead, vain sort of person. I guess I’m not qualified to judge.
Anyway. At the moment I’m printing buttons from orders we’ve taken. I hate making buttons.
I’ll TRY and post more later, there’s a few funny moments from this week I could entertain you with.
Out.
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