3/18/03 Start Your Engines!!

My my, its been quite a while since the last kt update!!! So much to tell!!! Where oh where to begin?

Hmmmm...well i'm going to go in order so i don't forget anything.

Friday i started my wonderful vacation, where i get to see 2 of my top 3 boys. Jason finally partook (is that a real word?) in a philadelphia cheesesteak and then we braved the elements so we could secure a prime location for the audioslave show. We tried to play uno (i busted out the barbie uno instead of the nsync uno because i didn't want the burly electric factory security to throw me out before the show started) but unfortunately, it was kinda cold and windy, and the ground was still kinda icy...we managed a game, and then tried to play cards (with my dale jr. cards) but again, the weather was not suitable for card games. We were on line for a while, talked to some kids behind us (who were sooooo jealous when we told them that i had seen soundgarden and we both had seen rage--poor little youngins...they were sooooooooo bitter--tee hee hee) Anycrap....

around 5 we hear some strange sounds from the inside of the electric factory and realize that it is Chris!!!! We can hear soundcheck!! OOHHIIEEE!!!! Now we are excited. After soundcheck ends, then we remember that we are freezing and have been standing outside for a few hours....KT is about to get REALLY CRANKY (which makes jason REALLY SCARED) when finally they open the doors (catastrophe averted!!) We go in, and get a sweet spot...upstairs with an amazing view of the stage. Now i'm giddy. Yadda yadda yadda, opening band, Burning Brides (who are actually from philly) are really good live...they keep jamming out and its not annoying jamming out, its WHOA that's cool jamming out.
Anyhoo, finally audioslave comes on, and this review is too long already so i'll just say that it kicked ass, it was sick how close we were (if i had binoculars i probably could've seen cornell's nose hair) Morrello is freaking amazing (i mean, you hear his stuff on the record, but then you see him do it, and then your jaw is hitting the floor), chris sounded excellent, they played everything we wanted to hear (all but 2 songs from the record)...oh, and i liked how chris was sporting some 1994 seattle style...he had long shorts on with combat boots (like from his badmotorfinger days) and he looked G-O-O-D...sleeveless too!!! Jason would like me to mention that he thinks the electric factory is a fabulous venue especially if you are going to see a band of audioslave's caliber.....and he really really likes morrello.....

Well ordinarily i would need much rest after all of this excitement..but no!!! I must leave immediately for Georgia!! So i get back to my apartment, grab my stuff, and then Beaker, Brother, Jay and I all embark on our first nascar adventure. I was a little nervous about the 4 of us being trapped in a small space for 13 hours but we arrive in Georgia without injury and when we stop for breakfast in SC we see our very first mullett (on a 5 year old)....It was pretty amusing when we walked in but it was like one of those scenes from a movie when the record scratches and everyone turns. I mean, Beaker looks like he's tony soprano's nephew, Jay is wearing a wife beater, and white sneakers, jimmy, well jimmy kinda fits in, and i'm wearing my pajamas.....

We finally get to Georgia (we stayed at Jay and Beaker's uncle's ranch) and its nice and quiet and WARM. We get up bright and early and hed out to Atlanta MotorSpeedway...luckily traffic was not bad at all and we park at 7:30 A.M. At 7:45, i opened my first bud. Let me tell you, well i can't really tell you, because you will not understand the enormity of nascar until you see a race. There are winnebgos as far as i can see.....there are bbq's blazing, people are just everywhere...oh man, it was so rad!!!! Eventually we go inside and prepare for the race. Jimmy and Beaker get little scanners so they can hear the drivers, and the nascar officials and the pit crews.....i wanted to just sit and enjoy the race my first time out....it was freaking awesome...let me tell you, when they start their engines...that shiznit is LOUD. I mean, whoa....LOUD!!! Good thing i had earplugs in, or i might have gone deaf. The day was beautiful (we all got sunburnt) the race was badass (junior finished 3rd, and even led for a little while) and all was good.

So after the race, we decide we are going to relax and let most of the 100,000 fans leave before we attempt to fight traffic...oh my lord, what comedy!!!!!! Let me tell you two little stories......
1. The Georgia state police are directing traffic. A car goes by and 3 troopers run after it, banging on the trunk. The passenger looks back (a blank look on his face)

"Whaaa? Whasssamatter officer?"
"Um, Sir, you can't drive with that beer in your hand"

Then the trooper takes the beer and dumps it. Another car pulls up beside the first car, and a woman pops out. Apparently she knows these 2 drunkards and offers to drive. The cop opens the driver side door, and helps the driver out. The driver then proceeds to fall out of the car and needs to be put into vehicle 2 by the cop. Then the cop waves them goodbye.

2. Eventually we see the driver trucks go by (the racecars are put into the trucks and moved to the next race--the trucks have the sponsor logos on them). Anyways, there is a bit of traffic...so a lot of the trucks stop in front of us for a little while. There is no way you can imagine the comedic vaule of seeing my drunk brother and my drunker boyfriend running down the side of the road in order to take a picture of a truck. Well, it gets even better. Because then we see drunk strangers running into the middle of the road to take a picture next to the Tony Stewart truck. Ahhhhh gotta love that fanaticism.

The rest of vacation was nice. It was 74 everyday and very hard to come home. I even fed some horses. Kinda liked Georgia, it wasn't too southern, (in fact it seems that Georgia is where people from the north move too) Maybe one day i'll retire there. We had a very nice time (although i tried to brawl beaker and jay's 14 year old cousin after she told me that B2K were cool and nsync were "old news") What!!! I had 3 glasses of wine and everyone knows better than to say such things to me!!! She should have respected her elders!!! Besides, i'm mentally 14 anyway.....it was rather amusing that jimmy and jay had to escort me to another room. Then i got myself all Zen and she tried to tell me i didn't know what crunk was!!! CRUNK!!!! Hello, that's justin's favorite word!!!! Of course i know what crunk is!!! It is ok though, because the next day we bonded while making fun of the boys.....oh and one last highlight, Beaker getting hit on by a drunk cake maker...tee hee hee...don't ask...but it was funny....

mrs. chasez