Warped Tour 2012 (Music Monday!)

This year marks the fourth year that I have made going to Warped Tour a part of my summer and it was just as awesome as ever. For those of you who aren't from the States and are not aware of what Warped Tour is then let me quickly explain. It's a touring musical festival run by Vans. They travel across the U.S. and set up in various cities to play. Tons of bands are on it every year with merch tents and the like. Other organizations and companies also jump in such as To Write Love On Her Arms, Skelanimals, Action for Animals, Truth, Peace Tea, etc. I'll show you all the merch I got later on this week.

The bands this year were not too bad. There have been better years but we still got to see Taking Back Sunday, Streetlight Manifesto, Lostprophets, and Ballyhoo. Other bands there included Yellowcard, Senses Fail, Polar Bear Club, and New Found Glory. Here are some not-so-great phone pictures!

Lostprophets

Streetlight Manifesto

Ballyhoo

Like I said, the pictures aren't great. And as you can see there were tons of people. The crowd for Streetlight Manifesto was insane, and the one at Taking Back Sunday was even more so. Lostprophets put on an amazing performance. Me and Mike came in just as they were playing Rooftops (great song!) and I was really surprised about how energetic the lead singer was. He was so excited and pumped up, it was great. I love when artists get like that on stage. 

The lead singer of Ballywho was even more energetic though which was really impressive because they were the last show at 8:30. Totally worth staying for -they were amazing! They have a very similar sound to early Green Day meets Sublime. I definitely recommend checking them out. I kind of wish I'd gotten one of their shirts.

As far as birthdays go, this one was pretty amazing! Yep, I turned 22 yesterday and got to spend all day at a music festival. Talk about a good time.

Today has also been pretty great actually. I've spent most of it relaxing, but it was nice to check my etsy shop today and see that I had sold two items. I know for a lot of handmade shop owners that's nothing, but I'm still a beginner and seeing that was really exciting. Thank you to everyone who reads this blog, looks at my shop, and buys my things. You have no idea how much it means to me.

P.S. Here's some Ballyhoo for you!

My Awesome Friday + A Quick Feminist Friday

Today has been pretty busy, but in the awesome, I'm-so-happy-this-is-my-life kind of way. To start it off I got a call back from Hannaford -I'm hired! I start my orientation and training next week! I am so excited about this. I've been trying to find a part time job in my area since April.

Me and my boyfriend also took a trip to the Armory in Worcester (MA) because they were having a free day. This was the second time I've been and I love it there. It's a really cool building filled with tons of armor and weaponry from different time periods all across the world. Here's a quick picture from when I went last year (I didn't take any pictures this time around.)

That guy has some rad armor, right? Hehe, sorry, my history nerd is showing.

Anyways, after the armory we got ice cream (strawberry cheesecake in a waffle cone? hells yeah!) and then took a trip to Salvation Army for some quick thrifting. I managed to find three really awesome tops. I paid $2.97 for all of them! I seriously love thrift store shopping so much.

After that lovely outing I found out that I am getting a rat! askldfhaslefsdk I have wanted one for soooo long! They're so cute and fun and friendly and I am so excited. As if you couldn't tell! xD My super-awesome-fantastic-noreallyIcan'texpresshowgreatheisinmerewords boyfriend wants to get me a rat as a congrats for getting the job! Being a cashier is already turning out to be way more fantastic than I thought it would.

Aaaaand my day is not over yet! I still have to go food shopping, make dinner, and then me, the boyfriend, and other half are having a night of drinks. Then tomorrow we're off to Boston for some city-wandering followed by a showing of The Devil's Carnival. And then Sunday is Warped Tour! Such a great weekend line up.

That of course means  probably won't be updating, but I will be sure to be back Monday with pictures and details. In the meantime, for my Feminist Friday feature, enjoy perusing ModernGirlBlitz filled with feminist goodies. I haven't bought anything there yet but I will soon. I have a job now you know! Haha. 

Here's a quick preview of some of the awesome stuff you can buy:

Go take a look!

Book Nerd Moment

Finally remembered to go check my mail today and was soooo happy when the books I ordered from Amazon were waiting for me. I bought them last week and just kept either forgetting to go pick them up or it was just too hot to walk down to the mail center and get them.

Anyways, I am now in possession of these lovelies:

The Karen Chance book is kind of beat up, but I only paid a little over two dollars for it, so I can't really complain. I bought the both of the for just over six dollars. Not too shabby, especially considering the Patricia Briggs book is a perfect-condition hard cover copy complete with book jacket.

Both are kind of in the middle of different urban fantasy series. Silver Borne is a part of the Mercy Thompson books by Patricia Briggs and Embrace the Night is a part of the Cassie Palmer books by Karen Chance. If you're into urban fantasy as all then these are both series I highly recommend. So far I'm in love with them both and I am so happy to now have these books in my possession so I can continue indulging in these supernatural worlds.

Oh yeah, I'm an escapist reader, haha.

Anyone else reading anything good or get new books they're excited to start? Feel free to share or leave my recommendations. I am such a book nerd it's ridiculous, I own (literally) hundreds of them and I am always on the looks out for more.

Lady Unlaced