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monkeys fling poop too.
2006-05-03 01:42:51
Today at work one of the students smeared feces all over the boys bathroom.
On the walls and everything. What really amazes me is that they felt so dedicated to the task. What makes a person look down into the toilet and think "Hey, damm! This would look really great up on the wall" ?
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Coachella Day 1
2006-05-02 15:25:41
Coachella Weekend.
My room was booked at a Motel 6 down the road from the event.
Start time 6:am
End time: 2:am
Saturday and Sunday.
The bands on my stage:
Depeche Mode 9:30-11:30
Franz Ferdinand 8-9
Sigur Ros7-8
Kanye West 5:45-6:30
Common 4:45-5:45
Duke Spirit3:40-4:30
Walkmen 2:30-3:15
New Amsterdams 1:20-2:05
Section Quartet 12:15-1:05
So we drive out to the motel. It's a little eventful when I reach the end of the 210 freeway and it turns into surface streets that I don't recognize, but I break out my little garmin gps and plug in the approximate location I need to go to. After that we have the sexy GPS chicks voice telling us to turn 'left in 400 feet" "continue 2.3 miles then turn right". and so on.
We arrive and get ready, placing out all of our gear where it needs to go. Morning arrives. 4:45. Thank god for 24 hr drive through starbucks. We drive the 6-7 miles down to the event parking, and enter the security lot.
Lots of waiting and getting ready. I grab about 100 earplugs, and a bottle of sunscreen to take with me to post. When my deployment finally arrives it's a group of marines out from 29 palms that has volunteered to work the event. Sweet, I love working with the marine corps. I take my people and set them up on the main stage, the mixer platform, the speaker towers, and the handicap platform. We settle in for a long hot day. I try to scedule lots and lots of breaks, they are short, but at least it gives them a chance to cruise around and watch other stuff and get phone numbers from the girls they like.
Section Quartet:
It's a four string quartet. On a rock soundstage. What can I say, it was more fun that I thought it would be, plus it set the tone for the volume for the night. Loud, really loud.
The other bands play on for a while.. but mostly they sucked. hard. It was about 3:00 or so that people started passing out from the heat. Literally collapsing on the ground. At first we tried to call for the emt to come and get them. I had to force a path through the crowd several times to get that stupid little emt golf cart through. Eventually they were so overwhelmed that they were taking 30-40 minutes, it they didn't have other higher priority stuff. I started just carrying people myself. If they had a friend with them, then I'd give them some water and have their friend walk them over. In the barricades section, SOOOO many people just collapsed. When it was possible I had the crowd lift them to me at the barricade and I'd pull them over. At first I took them to the back where the crowd was thinner and sent them to the first aid station. Eventually there were so many that I formed a small triage in the backstage area where I had them stay untill EMT could deal. At one time I had about 15 people all collapsed on the ground. I'd have the music playing, and as soon as I pull someone over the barricade they would just collapse and fall unconcious.
Several hours later, non-stop. Sigur Ros... sucked. I can't say whether or not he's better in the studio, but man.. I didn't like it.
I'm still light on my deplyment, and I've been asking for more people. Finally a band I've never heard of comes on "Franz Ferdinand". They were GREAT! These are the people that did the Paradise Kiss stuff. I recognized it right away. 'do you wanna... do ya do ya wanna...' I was in a great entergetic mood, still pulling people out of the crowd, now dealing with the occasional crowd surfer and jamming along with the music. This is why I like stuff like this in the first place.
Some time in the middle of all this there was an incident up in the barricades where in a case of mistaken identity the stage manager got ejected from his own concert. Oops.
Depeche mode. They were ok. I couldn't really get into it much though. They sound better in the studio than live. The crowd was starting to have people pass out so much that we couldn't keep up anymore. I sent a bunch of my marines back and had them bring out whole cases of water. we started chucking bottle after bottle into the crowd. We actually used on most of the water that was scheduled for Sunday right then. But on the positive side of things, a whole let less people started passing out so I guess it made a difference. There were some later issues that I can't really write about concering that accidental ejection. lets just say that it didn't go too well. Eventually I was able to get my group together, thank them, and get them signed out. 2:00 am.
It takes about 45 minutes to get back to the motel thanks to the concert traffic blocking the road.
What a long day!
Did you find this interesting? I usually write out an E-mail and send it out to people on my list when I do a major concert event. PM me and let me know if you want to get added. -
big weekend
2006-04-28 01:14:36
If you want to see the bunny in action, check out the Coachella website. I found out that I'm working the main stage one night, and the artist entrance the other night. Hopefully there will be some rocking mosh pit action going on. I'm not too thrilled about being stuck backstage with all the bands, but I guess I can live with it.
For those of you who think it would be just awesome to hang out backstage with major acts like: http://www.coachella.com/artists/
don't kid yourself. Mostly I don't recognize anybody, and the rest stay in their trailers or dressing rooms.
Anyway, if you're going PM me and I'll see if I can get you something. It's going to be a loooooong couple of days. 7am to 1am is my shift time. -
Coachella
2006-04-26 01:12:53
So my old supervisor called me up.
He wants me to work the Coachella event out in Indio. I swear to god, that if I get stuck backstage at Madonna, Tool, or anybody else for that matter I'm quitting then and there. I fucking HATE backstage details. No more goddam bodyguard services either.
If I find out where I'm stationed (usually I'm a roamer, and do ejections, or work the pit area on one of the main stages. ) I'll post it.
Is anybody here going to Coachella?
www.coachella.com
where was I... oh yes. So my old supervisor calls me up and now I have to get all this paperwork done. "power to arrest" "supervisor training" "post 911 search certification" and believe it or not.. "golf cart use authorization". Damm, I should have never let that stuff lapse. Still.. man he's good at making a guy feel needed. When somebody remembers you after a couple of years, and then makes an effort to pull you in for something really big, it feels good. -
when you get in a knife fight wth a lawnmower
2006-04-17 02:09:06
I sliced the hell out of my hand today. I almost lost part of my finger. Imagine the first joint on your finger (closest to the tip). From the left side of that knuckle, to the bottom right area of the fingernail. Basically the finger print area, but the middle of the finger; through the meat.
The funny thing is that it doesn't really hurt,mainly I'm upset because I can't type. my speed went from like 70ish wpm to... ten?
Damm lawnmower blade.
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