And here it is What you all have been waiting for! The Description of OZZFEST.

OZZFEST 2006
So Farragher and Laura called us and told us they had arrived, meanwhile Joe Dan James Rachel Lauren Mike and myself had been amusing ourselves and sun blocking ourselves up because it was going to be very hot today and we were going to be outside from 8:45 (the time we got there) through about 11:30 PM). We then proceeded to head towards the entrance to meet them there.

Whilst waiting at the entrance I saw 4 people that I knew from Wentworth (Josh Pratti, POLAND!, Jesse, and Jesse’s Twin Becky) so I walked up to them and made my presence known, it was quite cool seeing them all there. I talked to them for a little while then saw Farragher coming with Laura so I went to tackle him haha but I didn’t. It was official everyone was there. So we all got our tickets settled and proceeded in. Josh and Poland’s group went there way and we went ours. We looked at a few booths and I gave everyone who hadn’t been there a run down of what was going on. We then headed to the second stage to see all the opening bands.

Bands from Second Stage:

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME (Heard them from the Parking lot, wasn’t bad at all from what we could hear)

WALLS OF JERICHO (didn’t hear too much of them)

FULL BLOWN CHAOS (from what I heard they weren’t too bad)

BAD ACID TRIP (The singer was insane therefore their stage act was good)

A LIFE ONCE LOST (All right)

ALL THAT REMAINS (Was wandering around second stage booths and the crowd talking to people that I knew)

THE RED CHORD (Wandered away from second stage to see the sights)

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD (Still wandering)

NORMA JEAN (wandering back)

BLEEDING THROUGH (Put on a good show)

UNEARTH (Kick ass of Course)

ATREYU (Not bad at all although People that I call to let listen to them should learn to answer their phones *cough* Seip *cough*)

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY (Put on a Great Fucking Show!)

While at Second Stage we were checking out all the booths in the area and hitting each other with water. We went to the Trojan booth to get free Condoms:-p. While getting in line I heard the band that was playing announce to the crowd for them to separate and I knew what was coming. I sprinted to the crowd for what Lamb of God calls the wall of death, was coming. My Favorite type of Mosh Pit. I got there right as the sides let loose. It died down pretty quick but I got a few good hits on me and on others. Nothing feels as good as a Mosh:-D. I then headed back to the Trojan line when Mike Lauren and Joe met up with us there, so I proceeded to say

Me: “Hey Joe, do you know what type of mosh pit that was?”

Joe: “Yea”

Me: “You know that’s my favorite kind right?”

Joe: “Yea, I turned and said to them ‘How much ya wanna bet Fred just sprinted over there?’”

Me: I looked at Rachel who I had given my water while her, Farragher, and Laura were laughing. “Yea about that, Rachel What did I do when I heard what was going on?”

Rachel: “You sprinted over there”

I then found out Dan and James had headed over as well and that was cool. Well we got to the front of the line and the wheel to win condoms was stopped because he only had one type left so he just handed out those. We wandered some more, possibly headed over to the shower heads (there were two shower heads out so people could cool down and not get heat stroke.) we did this several times over the day. Everyone put on decent shows. As the second stage progressed we started looking at some of the booths around the Tweeter center and seeing all the shirts and such, as well as this cool t-shirt booth playing Opeth, Farragher complemented the guy on it and he gave us $5 off . So I got this awesome Glowing Skull T Shirt. We eventually wandered back to The Second Stage and went over to the PS2 booth. While relaxing there for a while I ran into a good friend of mine from school. THE DON WONDERS! It was awesome seeing him there. We talked for a bit, and then split up. Oh there was another booth worth mentioning. There was a booth dedicated to Dime bag Darrel (RIP) it had all these guitars with artwork from other bands dedicated to him, the artwork was amazing. When I get the pictures from Farragher and Rachel I’ll have to post them. Any who we went back to watching the bands and they were doing pretty well. Eventually The Second Stage headliners came on. Black Label Society, a band I have seen at Ozzfest since 2001 (not including the one year I missed …:[ 2004 ) But as they have progressed they have grown on me. They put on a great show and I went in the pit a couple times, after a few songs they played Fire It Up which is most likely my favorite song by them. FYI I am also a fan of the guitar hero game and so is Farragher, Rachel and Laura have had to watch us play many times as well so when I made the joke of playing Fire It Up on guitar hero; They all got a good laugh out of it. I went in the pit a couple times for them. There was this good looking girl in the pit too, had an Iron cross tattoo and a bikini top of Iron crosses, Damn.

Any who there set was pretty good and when they ended it was time to stop and get some drinks before heading to main stage.

When we got to our seats Dragonforce was on and we found Joe Dan and James who had separated from us earlier. Dragonforce was pretty good, reminded me of Iron Maiden, clean power metal. Then Lacuna Coil came on. I apologize to any of their fans, but they fucking suck. I mean damn Way too synchronized and pre-pressed fashion metal bullshit. Joe told them how much they sucked and their response wasn’t even correct, it was “I see some people can’t take female leads of bands, well you can kiss my ass” Now first off bitch listen here, we are fine with female leads, hell KITTIE Is pretty damn Good are problem with you and your band is you all just SUCK. Stupid fucking people.

Next came Hatebreed; Who by the way did an awesome show their new stuff wasn’t bad and I was quite fucking happy when they played I WILL BE HEARD!.:-D

Then came Avenged Sevenfold Never really heard too much of their stuff but they put on a good show and near the end they called out the singer of Bleeding through and did a tribute to Dime bag by playing “Walk” by Pantera. THE CROWD ERUPTED as did we. I screamed every word and bounced along with every beat. They soon after ended their set, and then the stage was prepared for Disturbed. Disturbed put on a great show. Half way through their set a bottle fight started and then when our side got the idea of just holding stuff so the People on lawn wouldn’t have ammo the lawn started throwing sod, and after a while it was just annoying so we all moved to get out of the way the girls were getting hit bad and people were leaving with them so Dan James and I went with the last of them as they left and I went to find Joe, Joe was hanging with this group of kids from Providence Rhode Island who were a row in front of us They were quite cool we had talked to them for quite a bit of the show, They thought my group was pretty funny especially after all of our condom balloons.  Any who near the end of Disturbed we regrouped and went back to our seats the fight was over, and dirt was everywhere on the ground and on us.

Next up was System of a Down. What a fucking show they put on, I mean holy shit, it was great, and Serj kept randomly changing lyrics because he was bored. For Example during Sugar When he says I sit in my desolate room, he replaced it with “I shit in my desolate room, no lights, no music, JUST ICE CREAM” it was great. During another one of their songs with one of Serj’s rush of lyrics he just broke out into WHAT THE FUCK AM I SAYING!? Haha. Also Randomly Daron (guitarist) would start another one of their songs slowly before everyone joined in, One particular time he started with: “My Cock is Bigger than yours, My Cock can walk right through the door, Can’t you see that I love my cock so much more than yours?” Then they broke out into Cigaro:-p. The crowd was dying of laughter it was great.

Then Ozzy came on stage, He had a nice big introduction, and Came on and had fun. Just a note to you all Him being on stage and seeing it is always awesome but this year it was even better and more special since he didn’t do every tour date only select cities. He Loves the Massachusetts crowd so much its great:) we all go insane for him! He put on a good show, not as long as former years but long enough hell I’m just glad he was there, he played Suicide Solution, Crazy Train, I Don’t want to change the world, Bark at the Moon, Mama I’m Coming home:), among other great songs:). During Ozzy Our New friends had to leave so we said goodbye to them and wished them a safe trip. About a half hour later the show was over and we all headed back to our cars. Farragher and Laura split from us and they seemed like they had a great time:), but before we left, we used Farragher’s phone to get two group pictures. The rest of us got back to mine and Mike’s cars and I had enough Gatorades so we could each have one sitting in a cooler in the back of my Steel Chariot. After that it was time for Mike and Lauren to make there way to Newburyport. I drove us all back to our area. Dropped James off at my Dad’s place, found out he had stuff at my house still and said I would drop them off later. Then headed back to Quincy to drop of Joe and head home. Joe’s arms were burned to almost leather It was fun to poke them.

Then it was back home with Rachel and Dan, I passed out for a few, showered and went back to sleep. What a Great night:).

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Hey all Ive been pretty busy lately running around doing stuff, but have no fear for The Emperor has returned!

Here is a Big update ranging from My last real entry up till right before Ozzfest 2006:-D. Part II will be coming later today/tonight.

Massive Update part 1!
The Night of Saturday July 22
That Night I ended up sitting around photoshopping, even helped Kristina with a tattoo dilemma the wonders of Photoshop.
After Photoshopping I went out on a walk with a good friend of mine, she wasn’t in a great mood (friend troubles) but thankfully after a 2 hour? walk she was cheered up a bit so that was good.

Sunday July 23
Woke up a lot later then usual (almost 11am), I hate waking up late. I got an IM from my friend Dan letting me know that high tide was coming up. So we decided to go get my friend Lorrie. About 40 minutes later everyone was ready and we get to Dan’s house, and of course by then the tide has gone out a tad so we ended up only going out for almost 2 hours. I got soaked at one point, I was sitting up at the front and leaned flat on the front and we went almost straight into a wave. Oops:-p. heh it was alright. They got a good laugh out of that too:-p. After we headed in we decided we would go hit up a local restaurant/Sports Bar, and get some food. But of course I decided to change first and so did they. Dan Came around to pick us up and we headed to the place. I got a Mountain Dew Dan got a Pepsi, and Lorrie got a …Sierra Mist? When it came time to get food we all ordered basically the same thing minus a few toppings, The Bobby Orr, it’s a Small sub roll stuffed with chunks of steak and covered in cheese, with a side of Steak Fries, and Beans. It’s a great meal. We talked about Random stuff, Dan and Lorrie got into a conversation about Guinness beer and also how so many people don’t know how to pour beer from a can (tilt the glass pour half of it down the side, upright the glass and empty the can). Any who we all had fun doing that and we headed back to his house I believe we then watched Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Which of course was awesome (who wants to build a giant wooden badger with me?) after all that we realized we were all relatively tired so we called it a night, and Dan drove us home. It’s always great hanging out with those two. Once home I just relaxed for most of the night talked to a few people and then headed to bed.

Monday July 24.
Woke up for another day of work, and then off I went. After work, I got home and talked online to a few people for a bit, and then watched a movie I have really wanted to see but never got the Chance, “Serenity.” I had watched all Of Firefly a while back, the series Serenity had come from. It sucks because Firefly was a great show but somehow I missed it when it was originally on in 2002, however it was cancelled because of lack of viewers, currently it has many fans, the problem was most of its current fans were unaware of its existence, or its time of airing was bad, at the time for some reason or another. I highly suggest watching all of Firefly as well as the movie Serenity, and yes in that order Anyway after that I was hooked again and went on a researching warpath for everything about the movie and the show. After that it was pretty much the end of the night.

Tuesday July 25
Went to work of course, came home relaxed for a while, and then Played a bit of CS:Source with a friend of mine. In other news on this day AMD bought ATI which I believe shall lead to some interesting Tech Developments in the coming years. Not much happened today that I can remember other than what was said and some planning for Ozzfest.

Wednesday July 26
Another day of work and relaxing when I got home. At work today I headed to one office to help out this guy Mike with his Palm and getting it to work on his desktop and his laptop, while putting files from his palm on his old comp on both, while there I got to see the summer help he hired this cute girl named Samantha;). Played some more CS:Source with 2 friends of mine, while on the phone with my dad’s ex’s daughter who I had known for so long which made her like a sister to me, I hadn’t talked to her in a while so it was good to hear from her. Called it a night around 1AM. Another slow night.

Thursday July 27
Woke up shot an Ewok and went to work, ok ok maybe I didn’t shoot an Ewok. At work I believe I worked on Mike’s Palm again, I just can’t remember what I did, hmm maybe I started working on it today who knows. Got home, relaxed, watched a movie, “The Hulk,” Listened to some music that a friend sent me, Stradivarius, they weren’t bad. Did some more stuff on my comp which was most likely playing this game I am addicted to, I’ll describe  that later, possibly talked to Joe for a little bit since he got home on Thursday, if he wasn’t in NH all the time I’d probably be hanging out with him a lot more. That was about it for Thursday. In Other news, the US finally Ceded control of the Internet to an “international organization,” however I’m not quite sure how well that will work out. Hopefully it’s for the best.

Friday July 28
Work was work, Worked on Mike’s Palm Pilot again because it refused to HotSync correctly with the laptop for some odd reason, I ended up spending 3 or so hours on it and in the end we had to just have him Sync to his desktop and not use it with the laptop because it would keep erroring out, on the bright side I saw that cute girl again hehe cute faces can brighten days:p And since the Palm was the last thing I did I went home after finishing what I had done. We also got a chiller in our office (a type of air conditioner) we finally got working. Got home Talked to a few friends online, then went to Joe’s. Me and him played HALO for a few hours and then one of his sister’s boyfriends came over and the three of us played till 1am, killing each other and having fun with glitching the game.:-D

Saturday July 29
At around 2 am got a frantic phone call from a friend of mine, but later on in the day got a call letting me know she was all right. Woke up Early to head to Six Flags in a town known as Agawam Massachusetts. The 5 of us (Kathleen, Richie, Erin, Ryan, myself) met up with 5 others (Jared, Peter, Peter’s GF, Chris, Chris’s GF) got in the park and met up with another two (Matt and Lauren) and we all went on a ride then the 5 of us went to the water park while the other 7 stayed in the theme park section. That was quite fun. Later on Matt and Lauren met up with us in the water park. They seemed pretty kool. We had fun on all the water rides, and then as that was coming to a close we headed to the Theme park area, they went on the Batman Coaster first, which they seemed like they had fun on. While walking around the theme park Matt and I talked about his cell phone/PDA and I realized He was in my Comptech class for about a week or two back in sophomore year of high school and then he asked what I knew about computers, since I mentioned myself as a computer guy, prior to me knowing that he in-fact knew how to handle his technology. We had some cool conversations about technology and his fun job working for Compucon. It started raining a couple times and we began on a hunt for Chris for he had Kathleen’s keys to her metallic chariot. After sometime we found them because they didn’t answer their phones, Jared because he was a prick and Chris because it was on vibrate and he didn’t have it on him. We found them about 20 minutes after we split ways with Matt and Lauren. At this point the rain had let up and it was getting late so the 5 of us headed home and let the other 5 enjoy themselves in the theme park. On the way home the other 5 passed us with Jared mooning us. Later on I found out I became sun burnt even after using a bit of sun block, apparently not enough. Got home and talked to a few people and then went to Joe’s house. Put on some Aloe and beat some Halo (when I refer to Halo it could be 1 or 2). I slept at his house; we called it a night around 4.

Sunday July 30
When I woke up put some Aloe on. I got him out of bed around 1 after trying a few times prior to that. We played some more Halo then I went home first around 2 then went back to his place after a shower and returned again around 9, when I got home a friend of mine called me to help with their computer, I ended up reloading it and setting up most of their stuff. I got home around 11:30/11:45 and basically called it a night.

Monday July 31
Went to work and talked to Mike He needed me to put a few of his Palm’s files on his laptops, Like his address book just so he can have important numbers. So I went to his office to do that, while doing that I found out what I thought could have been the problem with Hot syncing and Hot Shit I fixed it, I was quite happy, after that As I was leaving I started talking to his summer assistant Samantha, Turns out she just graduated Notre Dame High school and was going to go to Providence College. She seems cool. Went back to the office and we had a relatively easy day. After work My Friend Rachel from Wentworth came down from her place in Vermont and met me so we could head into Boston and get Dan (My Dad’s Ex’s Kid who’s basically my brother) we picked him up at South Station. Then Headed to my dad’s house to pick up His new girlfriend’s son James. We all then proceeded to my house to drop our stuff off then went to Joe’s house to hang out for a bit. Later on we went back to my dad’s to get James’s money and a cooler of Gatorade. Then we, stopped at Lauren’s house (My ex who was coming with us to Fest de la Ozz with her BF Mike G.) to give her a brief rundown of the plans for Ozzfest, returned to my house and got ready to call it a night.

Tuesday August 1
Woke Up early got everyone up and dressed and headed to Joe’s. And of course Joe woke up late which delayed us a bit. We left his house I got some gas, and we headed to IHOP, got there around 7:20 where we met Lauren and Mike. We all ordered some food, chatted a bit; I gave mike a brief summary of how we were going to get there. At around 8:20 we headed out. At the turn off for 95 a semi wouldn’t let Mike turn off so we ended up having to talk to them part of the directions so they could catch up with us, when we got to 495 we found them and then we got to the Tweeter Center. And Now I shall Split this Blog. The Next Update will describe the events of Ozzfest and the rest of this past week.

I may even edit pictures in later=-o.