Time for a nap

It's 5 am. The first issue of Siren Magazine is done - you don't get to see it until Monday morning, though. Well, it's as done as it's gonna get for now - but it looks awesome, if I do say so myself. There are little things I'm sure I'll tweak over the next few days, a couple of things we'll add, but maybe not til the next issue... I dunno. All I know is I get to sleep for a whopping 3 hours now. Yikes!

Sweet dreams!

Procrastination...

I've been so crazy trying to finish the magazine that I've completely neglected this blog. Bad Andie!

It's a busy week for all of us at Shameless (all two of us, that is). I've got the magazine to complete and a cousin visiting from the east coast. Jaime is in the middle of Warped Tour and taking the bar exam. Yikes! I definitely don't envy her.

August 1 is right around the corner, and you know what that means: Siren Magazine goes live! I'm so excited to show you all what we've pulled together in only one short month. It's beautiful, if I do say so myself. Great articles, lots of images, and really cool people. We're already thinking ahead and planning the next issue, too. It'll have even more pages and features - you're gonna see this baby grow up right before your eyes!

Sorry for the big advertisement, but it's pretty much all I've got on my brain right now. That and trying to find things to do in L.A. when you're under 21. Or 18. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be! My cousin is 15 and she doesn't like things like museums (The Getty's out...) or tourist traps (no tours of stars' homes...). What she does like is rock concerts, which we have in abundance out here. At bars and clubs. With age limits. Ugh. We're going to a couple, but then the rest of our nights are filled with movies and diners and Kinko's (don't ask). And summer reading, I hope, since she's returning to school as soon as her vacation here is done - they start insanely early in Florida.

So, back to work for the both of us. I'll try not to be so negligent. Updates on the Thursday night parties coming soon...

SOOO LATE: Andie's Warped Blog #2

Wow. I just got home from Warped and was so involved in catching up with everything else that I never wrote about my second trip to Warped tour. Oops! But I'm gonna make up for it:

Shameless is starting a magazine: Siren Magazine. It will be viewable online through the Shameless website. So... in our show reviews section, not only will I write a little about Warped, but I'll also post some pictures of my personally-selected highlights. Check it out August 1, and while you're there sign up for our mailing list, okay? Okay!

Jaime has a cold in vancouver

wanna know why? because we were rained on in portland, I froze in seattle (but it was pretty), and now I am freezing and being rained on in vancouver. It may be cold more because I have a fever than the weather. But it sucks.

I love vancouver. This city has great chinese food. or maybe I was really hungry. And the buildings are beautiful, and they sell kinder bueno in the drug stores. Yummy chocolate and hazelnut cookies.

And I had dinner with Lonnie Fink who I have been having dinner with on our days off. He likes to order chinese, or maybe he just says a lot. I say this because I eat more than he does. And that never happens. Fukkheads making me feel like cow. Mean person. he doesnt eat and I graze.

he just mooed at me. (edit: i had posted his cell phone number but took it down so as to not get killed in my sleep).

xxoo, jaime

Check Your Burger for Bombs

Did you hear the one about the briefcase in the Jack in the Box?

No joke kids. Several city blocks were closed off around Sunset and Cahuenga this afternoon, causing mean traffic jams in Hollywood. People were evacuated to the perimeter - you've never seen L.A.'s sidewalks so full! Logic would lead you to conclude that the problem was at the CNN building at that intersection, but no... "ground zero" was in fact the Jack in the Box just kitty-corner from the offices. Sources tell me that a briefcase was left behind at the establishment, interrupting several bums' lunches and rushing the bomb squad to the scene. Oh, and delaying my afternoon errands. Can't these wannabe terrorists please take my busy schedule into consideration next time they leave their phony packages behind? Geez!

sad news from London

I went to my computer this morning to check messages, post bulletins about tonight, and add a blog about my Warped day yesterday. Instead I was greeted with the news about the bombings in London. Suddenly concerts and parties seem so irrelevant.

I'm in shock over the world we live in now. I guess I have been since 2001, and days like today remind me of that. Years ago I lived overseas. My family never gave a second thought to traveling anywhere we wanted. Even as the U.S. was being threatened by Qadafi, we planned vacations between Europe and the U.S., as well as to locations in northern Africa. Today I can't say that I would turn down the opportunity to travel to most areas, but I would certainly go with a lot more awareness for my safety, not as an individual or as a female, but as an American.

Needless to say, my thoughts go out to everyone in London, and everyone around the world who has family and friends there.

Sacramento

Another tour day.... I just put $20 in an envelope for 2 loads of laundry to get done. Its expensive but its nice to have clean pillowcases to look forward to this evening.

Today half of some town is showing up because Tim from the Transplants is building a home there. In my opinion, he is one of the nicer people on the tour so this should be fun! I like it when nice people need help with the guest list.

This whole out west trip is wrapping up, now we are heading really northwest into seattle and portland and then into canada. Oy.

4th of July-a memory

I got lost because I was drinking and I could not find my way out of the parking lot through the 47 buses and the tour people hanging out. I had a lovely bottle of wine purchased at a mini mart in san francisco. I wonder where the bottle went. I know where the contents went. I think wine out of a solo cup will always have a nice memory to it. People undervalue to solo cups..

I had a nice chat with some nice people in a parking lot drinking.... If you didn't know better, you'd think I was a high school student. Who else stands outside in a parking lot to drink night after night. not that I drink night after night. But I go outside to say hi.

Someone has the lipton tea bag on a place where you can imagine the words tea bag would be a funny reference. He showed about ten of us. Its more than I needed to see. But funny!

Andie's Warped Blog #1

Ouchie! I'm still sunburned 4 days after the fact. I covered myself in SPF 45 and still managed to cook to a crisp. The best is my Rudolph nose - can't wait til that starts to peel. Should be in time for my next Warped excursion tomorrow!

So, Long Beach. The Prix. Disappointing. The venue was a college campus, and the campus police, coupled with Long Beach PD, decided the EIY stage couldn't go up. Totally sucked. So the boys didn't get to perform. Needless to say, that took quite a bit of the wind outta their sails. We still got to go into the festival, and Steve and I took full advantage of the opportunity to flyer and hand out CDs. Who knows what will come of it, but at least we did it...

I discovered a couple of bands that I enjoy while bouncing from stage to stage! The first one was Atreyu... though something tells me that as soon as I listen to a recording of them I'm gonna rethink that opinion. Another band, which really put on a show, was Valient Thorr. They looked like they missed their decade completely! Not in a Darkness way - V.T. were much dirtier, less styled, and with more denim. Maybe along the lines of old AC/DC? There was a small crowd at their stage, and several kids standing back and kinda' laughing at them... but by the end of the set the kids had gathered round and appeared to be won over! Nice.

My bunk is crowded

There are mint flavored condoms floating around all the venues. Trojan is a sponser on the tour, and kids are being handed mint flavored condoms. And then they do what comes naturally they inflate them and float them over the crowds. So I stand on stage and watch bands play with green inflated condoms floating around.

Today we are in Fresno, and we have great internet access. I am working on a theory that in the random cities of Bonner Springs and Milwaukee my high speed will rock but in the obvious cities of Los Angeles and Dallas I have access to dial-up at best. I mean come on!!

My favorite person in catering is Lucy- she recently compared my ability to hit the internet to her department of catering having trash cans. Long beach didn;t have trash cans at first. I thought it was an interesting reference to pass along. And I love catering- they give me cookies. I am bribed so easily. Chocolate chip cookies, warm ones especially, mmmm. Happy Jaime.

And this needs to be said: to the fukkface who stole my sidekick in long beach - you are a true loser and a douchebag. You got free tickets from some hook-up you have with the tour, and on your way in you steal the sidekick from the nice lady running the guest list? I hope you feel as lame about this as we all think you are. Thank you to the good people at the T Mobile store in long beach for zapping that sim card, and getting my up and running again with 2 hours. So ha.

Kevin's leaving the tour early tonight- his parting words have been: "if anyone dies, please let me know so I can take them off the schedule." I absolutely love my job. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. This is absolutely the best experience of my life.


I have so much in my bunk that I can barely sleep there. In fact, Myles thought I wasn't sleeping there. Theres my laundry bag, the Kyle Malibu purse, the bag and box from the T-mobile store, several belts, a sidekick velro'd to the wall, 2 text books, sunglasses in their box, a water bottle, a roll of gaffers tape (no idea), 2 extra blankets, and 2 pairs of shoes. See here's how it happens: I come on the bus at bus call and don't have time to run things down to the bays. Or a better answer: I am hanging out in the lots and then run to the bus and crash into bed. I sleep on my side anyway. So tonight I promise that I will reorganize and get some of this down to the bays below.

I have a crushes on boys on the tour. No, none of them are stupid band boys. But Matt, the tour accountant who is playing the role of dad in this tour family, has been tlaking to one of them. Telling them lord only knows what. He keeps offering to "help".

(one cutie just came and read over my shoulder and saw this. Ugh!!)