Sun, Fun, Loud Rock N' Roll: It Must Be Warped Tour 13 Two Plays
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The Pioneer A&E Thursday, July 12, 2007 5 Sun, Fun, Loud Rock n' Roll: It Must Be Warped Tour 13 By Landen Koepkey Twelve hours earlier, around 9 a.m., assembled: emo kids, rockabillys, inflatable lineup list of band names attendance knew the true source. biggest pre-performance buzz, the Staff Writer the fun was yet to come. The sun was vintage punks (a la London), new and stage numbers swayed in the Before the headlining bands were UK based The Gallows, played to an out and the smell of sunblock was in age punks (San Francisco style), light breeze. set to take the stages, the Warped enthusiastic group. t was almost 10 p.m., and four the air. Hundreds of vehicles stood wannabes, goths, shirtless drunken The crowd flocked to it as if it were Tour offered a few more attractions The last and final band to play was I friends sat quietly around the stagnant on the roads in front of the hooligans, underage jailbait and a beacon upon a hill and stood below for the weary: Lucha Libre (Mexican none other than Bad Religion. The sun table at the local Applebee’s. Their Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain misplaced parents wondering what in in worship. Each person quickly jotted professional wrestling) and a giant soaked crowd raised their fists in the vocal cords were shot, their skin was View. The tickets said that the gates hell they had gotten themselves into. down their favorite bands names inflatable water slide. air and sang along. burnt to the color and the consistency open at 10 a.m., but the eager fans All stood yearning to enter. and times and then hustled off to the The Lucha Libre was a most welcome This was equivalent to the final play of overdone bacon, and their once could wait no longer. Small independent garage bands merchandise booths. transition between bands. There is in the final quarter of the Super Bowl. white shirts were stained with blood, With giant neon orange light saber cruised up and down the monstrous Like a tiny village, dozens of something majestically entertaining The band, and the fans, gave it all they sweat and dirt. flashlights in hand and fluorescent line trying to hustle their homemade multicolored canopies littered the about grown men who wear masks had. People threw hats, empty water A waitress made her way to the yellow safety vests upon their backs, CDs, and band representatives for the walkways. Not only were the bands and beat each other with steel chairs. bottles and other people in the air table and instinctively refilled their the parking lot attendants refused to actual concert participants handed represented, but also almost every The fans stood mesmerized as they with approval. With a small dust storm glasses with water. let any car pass. But after 15 minutes out flyers with performance times. organization in the U.S.: PETA, t.r.u.t.h. witnessed the brutal ballet. brewing, condom balloons floating “So, how was the concert?” she asked. of engine revving, insanely loud music This was the calm before the storm. (the anti-smoking campaign), Planned The water slide, however, had a few towards the heavens and a thousand The four friends looked at each and a few well placed profanities, they With a slam of a metal gate and a Parenthood, Nintendo Wii and Trojan kinks that needed to be worked out. middle fingers showing their other, smiled and growled in unison, dropped their guard and the droves of beep of a metal detector, the doors Condoms, just to name a few. Water was cycled back and forth from support, Bad Religion’s act came to “It rocked!” fans flooded onto the field. opened. Fans scooped up as much swag as a nearby fire hydrant. Environmentally a final climax. It was a fitting, if weary, end to After engaging in several pseudo- Warped Tour had begun. they could carry, and then headed to sound? Yes. Hygienically sound? Not The merchandise booths began to a day taking in the sounds, sights tailgate parties, it was off to the The Warped Tour was an all day the stages to watch the bands. so much. The cold and clear water disassemble and the bands returned and sensations of one of the biggest entrance line. Stretching from the experience. With over 50 bands In 30 minute intervals, each band quickly became an amalgamation of to their trailers. The tired, dehydrated concerts of the summer: The 13th gates back to the parking lot stood performing, several stages were blared their best over monolithic makeup, face paint, hair dye, beer and audience sluggishly made their way Annual Vans Warped Tour. the most diverse group of people ever erected around the amphitheater. An stacks of speakers. Greats such as bodily fluids. If the fans left the concert back to their cars. The Warped Tour Pennywise, Yellowcard, Coheed and with nothing else, they would at least was over. Cambria, The Circle Jerks and The leave with a disease. The only thing left now was the Almost rocked out in the sun. As the sun began to set, the final sweet kiss of restaurant food, and for Lodgings on the Highway to Hell Between sets, parched fans forked bands began to play. the four friends, Applebee’s was the out hard-earned cash to quench their Pepper, a crowd favorite, got the only choice. By Tianti Phillips Dolphin. When he asks to stay in room and Enslin settles into the room with thirsts with $5 bottles of water and $8 audience to pulsate and contract, After they finished their meals, they Staff Writer 1408, he is directed to the manager, no sign of ghosts, which makes him beers. Some concert goers were lucky much like a wave breaking upon the sunk back into their chairs with full, Gerald Olin (Samuel L. Jackson). Olin believe it’s all a joke. enough to nab free Monster energy beach. The Vandals, punk rock icons, satisfied stomachs. n “1408,” you are in for a roller offers Enslin a luxury suite, a room Strange things start to happen and drinks at the Monster booth hidden in rocked their stage to their legions “So… next year?” one of them said. I coaster ride of supernatural horror. discount and every other amenity Enslin begins to believe there may the corner of a stage. of devotees, and the band with the “We’re there, dude,” the others replied. John Cusack plays Mike Enslin, an possible to keep him from staying actually be ghosts in this room. He As the day progressed and the author who writes about his travels in room 1408. Olin even tells Enslin even battles his own inner demons temperature continued to rise, the to historic haunted places around the about 56 deaths that have occurred in when he encounters the spirit of Katie, once adrenaline-filled music junkies country. Enslin says that he hasn’t the room, stemming both from natural his dead daughter, in the room. began to run on empty. Seeking shelter encountered any actual paranormal causes and suicide. The message of the movie is that beneath trees and patches of grass, activity in any of his visits. When The room has been off limits for people should listen when somebody now was the time to relax. Instead of Enslin goes to check his mail box, he quite some time and when it is cleaned warns them that something will not be moshing on the frontlines of the stages receives a mysterious post card. This once a month, three people enter at a pleasant, and that sometimes spirits and jumping up and down with the post card is from The Dolphin Hotel in time and the door has to remain open live on – either in a good way or a bad way. beat, the fans sat nearly motionless, Manhattan, New York, stating “Don’t while they are inside. The movie was fair, but it could sprawled out on the ground. This torpor Enter 1408.” Enslin does not listen to Olin’s have ended on a more frightening could have been caused by the heat, Enslin uses his connections to book advice and is eventually given the note, with Stephen King penning the exhaustion, or the introduction of some a trip to New York for a stay at The key to room 1408. An hour goes by story. well concealed opiates. Only those in Two Plays Ahead This Summer for CSUEB By Jocelyn M. Ugay Melissa Hillman, a theatre teacher at urban park while he is being drafted summer series say these back-to-back Staff Writer CSUEB, and Dawn Monique William, into the Army to go to Vietnam. performances should showcase the a graduate student at the university. The play’s characters experience university’s theatre department and his year, the Cal State East Ulysses Alcentera, the costume racial discrimination with the Black its student performers as well. T Bay theatre department’s designer for “Much Ado,” says the Panthers and must confront shifting summer Highland program is updated setting should add interest to attitudes in American society. presenting two shows: “Much Ado the play. “Hair” features many songs that About Nothing,” one of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” opens have become enduring hits, including most famous works, and “Hair,” the July 27 in the University Theatre and “Aquarius” and “Let the Sun Shine.” 1960s musical. runs through Aug. 5. Angela Demal, a dance professor at “Much Ado About Nothing” is a It will be followed by a production Cal State, is choreographing the show CLASSIFIED romantic comedy about two lovers of “Hair,” the first rock musical to hit and says she plans to have the dances that are to wed and their comedic Broadway.