By: Tawana

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First of all, I just have to slam Dallas here for a minute. I'm sorry if anybody or their relatives lives there, but it is just a pretentious rectal town. The guys played about the same at both shows I would say, but I enjoyed the Austin show a whole lot more, although I didn't really spend all that much time watching the show in Austin.

I went by myself (as I'm starting to prefer, so I don't have to worry about anybody else) and found myself a cozy spot where I could prop myself against the bar. The opening opening band was a group called "Stuck Mojo" which seemed to me to be a copy of "Rage Against the Machine," although the singer did get a right-angle (?) grinder at one point with a pipe and make purty purty sparks everywhere.

After them and before LOA started, a person named Bones came up to me. It turns out he is the truck driver for TON and I think we are good buddies now. At least, he gave me a cool guitar pick that says "Type O Negative" on the front and 13 (hammergear) l3 on the back. Well I like it. I asked him about Rich, so he took me over to meet him, and Rich pretty much acted like I had active TB. I consoled myself at first with the thought that it was cuz I wasn't a buxom blonde. But then I remembered he wasn't too warm to MV, who is just about the epitome of buxom blondehood, so I honestly don't know. Maybe he's got that Dallas-rectal thing going too. Anyway, Bones was a lot nicer than Rich and I want everybody who goes to a show to find him and tell him you heard about him on the mailing list, okay? He will be really tickled.

I only got to squish myself up into the crowd a coupla times cuzza being so busy talking most of the time. (I also met a guy with some group called Gouge who knows Skrew and TON's management or some weird story like that but he was really nice too.) I was up in the crowd when they played "Frozen" and I got to get some snow on me, which was neat, but the stage just looked so good! They're playing, Peter's close to the front. There was a pretty good breeze in this place, so the snow's drifting down and Peter's hair is blowing back. I thought I was in Dr. Zhivago!! Very, very cool (teehee).

Oh yeah, before LOA started playing, I was standing there at the bar and this guy walked by who looked SO familiar--as well he should have, since I have his picture hanging in my closet--it was Johnny. He looked kind of mean. I also saw Kenny, wearing those little galoshes or whatever they are. He is such a cutie--I don't understand why he never gets any attention. Peter's tech came up to talk to Bones while he was standing there talking to me, so I got to look at his face up close (much more interesting than his back, which I got to stare at in Dallas when he stood in front of me and my sis and made out with his girlfriend during the show. According to Bones, he lives in Dallas so I guess that's why his girlfriend was there.)

Ok, also, early during TON this girl wearing a black above-the-knee dress with (I swear) knee-high hose (!! is that some new fashion or something?) comes in with a big bouquet of roses and disappears into the crowd. A little later Peter thanks the girl for the flowers but says she shouldn't have spent her money on him. THEN, later, Bones is standing there talking to me and goes, "See that girl behind you?" (I guess he copped onto my stalks Nina, even though I thought I had them hidden under my hair.) It's the same girl of course, wearing this HUGE cross around her neck, and he tells me that she came earlier in a black Mercedes convertible and gave Peter a room at the Marriott-Hilton (I think that's 2 different hotels but it was some ritzy hotel) and then she arrived at the show in a black limo. Naturally. Of course, if she were really classy she'd have put up the whole band at the hotel, IMO. Anyway, just another rich chick who wants Peter.

Who says guys don't like to gossip? If you don't like this, why'd you read this far?

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