{"id":21,"date":"2002-08-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2022-02-27T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:35:35","slug":"secretely-punk-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2002\/08\/09\/secretely-punk-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"secretly punk rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the multi-band, skateboard\/bmx\/motocross fest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warpedtour.com\">Warped Tour<\/a> in St. Paul a couple weeks ago&#8230; yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m way slow with updates these days\u2014work, school, blah blah blah. Anyway. I had a lot of fun despite not seeing Bad Religion because of the massive flash-flood rainstorm and having missed most of Thursday because the tour started early and they were only letting in about 30 people at a time. Not about to let civility and common decency get in the way, I cut ahead of several hundred people and managed to catch the last three songs.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid passing out from heat exhaustion (it was well over 90 degrees and disgustingly humid) I salvaged a filthy, stinking rag from the pit after The Casualties, wet it down in a muddy puddle, and wrapped the dripping mess around my head. Later, starved but hardly willing to pay five bucks for a cup of fries, I picked discarded food off the ground and ate it.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhhhhhh Warped Tour, the punkest day of the year. Or something. I took some pictures, most of which sucked, but then my (reusable) camera got wet in the downpour which created all sorts of bizarre and neat effects, like this dork-but-wild one of me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6940\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/burn.jpg\" alt=\"Meg in a smear of red light\" width=\"249\" height=\"336\"><\/p>\n<p>In addition to dehydration then severe chills from the storm, I underwent my annual sunburn-finally-turned golden tan\u2014now I look like a real, live, human being. Yay. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m on three non-consecutive hours of sleep, so if this update&#8217;s disappointing, unprofessional, and hardly worthy of &#8220;news&#8221; and all that is deepsicks, well&#8230; get over it.<\/p>\n<p>Some hippies in a Winnebago flashed me the peace sign as I trailed &#8217;em on 35W today&#8230; I wanted to pull them over and force them to take me hostage. I envy&#8230; no, admire&#8230; no, <i>envy.<\/i> Movement.<\/p>\n<p>Sparta&#8217;s &#8220;Wiretap Scars&#8221; goes on sale the 13th. Get it. &lt; end transmission &gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the multi-band, skateboard\/bmx\/motocross fest Warped Tour in St. Paul a couple weeks ago&#8230; yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m way slow with updates these days\u2014work, school, blah blah blah. Anyway. I had a lot of fun despite not seeing Bad Religion because of the massive flash-flood rainstorm and having missed most of Thursday because the tour<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2002\/08\/09\/secretely-punk-rock\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,29,36],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shouts","tag-joy","tag-music","tag-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}