karen [misses being on tour]

About Me

I'm Karen. I hate writing stuff like this...but I'll try anyways. Music has always been close to my heart. I play piano, violin and guitar. I'm left-handed so that makes me cool automatically. I love to spend my summers on Warped Tour. But this year, I'm actually working it.

I live right outside the ever-so-amazing town of Chicago. I love going to shows. Pretty much any show makes me happy, but I love local bands. I don't know, just something about being from Chicago. Thank God I don't live in bumblefuck.

I LOVE movies. I am a horror film freak, but have yet to find a scary movie that I would consider a favorite. Or a scary movie that actually scares me for that matter. I have a few favorite movies, but could probably recite every line from "The Goonies" and "Empire Records". Sad, I know. I've just seen them way too many times.

I love photography. I love to take pictures of anything really, but I have albums upon albums of shows/concerts I've been to. I finally got my new camera!

One of my favorite photos...

My Interests

Music = LIFE.

I LOVE:
hugs.
tattoos.
horror films.
tarot cards/psychic circle.
MAD CADDIES = favorite band on the planet.
road trips.
photography.
warped tour.
thunderstorms.
lightning storms.
okay, rain too.

G-RIDE FOR LIFE!

I'd like to meet:

David Bowie, Robin Williams, Conan O'Brien, and Dane Cook. SuFi.

Music:

Some of my favorites.
In absolutely no order.

♥MAD CADDIES.♥
Green Day.
dormlife.
Silverstein.
LUDO.
saves the day.
thirty seconds to mars.
Good Charlotte.
army of freshmen.
♥MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE.♥
copeland.
jack's mannequin.
motion city soundtrack.
grand funk railroad.
The All-American Rejects.
Halifax.
letter kills.
Alkaline Trio.
rancid.
the audition.
the beatles.
much the same.
♥AIDEN.♥
less than jake.
lynyrd skynyrd.
hidden in plain view.
new found glory.
the misfits.
♥David Bowie.♥
jonny lang.
queen.
The Dog and Everything.
the used.
♥AEROSMITH.♥
bb king.
sugarcult.
lagwagon.
adam richman.
the offspring.
mourning maxwell.
student*rick.(rip)
ella fitzgerald.
The Pink Spiders.
split habit.
Treaty of Paris.
brand new.
cartel.
gym class heroes.
flogging molly.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
bowling for soup.
3 dog night.
the matches.
lit.
♥SOMETHING CORPORATE.♥
cheap trick.
senses fail.
smashing pumpkins.
the beach boys.
led zeppelin.
♥The Spill Canvas.♥
the starting line.
quietdrive.
plain white t's.
janis joplin.
etta james.
hit the lights.
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
melee.
fall out boy.
the descendents.
the early november.
mest.
autopilot off.(rip)
nirvana.
the eagles.
houston calls.
eric clapton.
jimi hendrix.
new kids on the block.

Movies:

♥THE GOONIES.♥
The Blues Brothers.
Pirates of the Caribbean.
Labyrinth.
♥Empire Records.♥
The Sandlot.
Road Trip.
♥Almost Famous♥

Television:

I really don't watch tv. It took me three months to finally see a commercial my friend was talking about. BUT I love CSI: Miami, but I work on Monday nights and are therefore unable to watch it. Boo.
I'll watch pretty much anything on FUSE.

Books:

Where the Wild Things Are.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
The Polar Express. (I refuse to see the movie)

Heroes:

My dad, for starters. He's seriously amazing.
Other than that, lots of older people and people that are dead.
And that includes all of my grandparents. Those were some pretty inspiring people too.

My Blog

While I am gone...

So I leave on Thursday for Warped. I'll be back next week for one day, then I'm off again for almost two weeks. Then I'll be back, and then I'm gone again. I know, it's so confusing. I have to put it ...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:14:00 PST

I almost forgot.

My brother is hilarious. So yesterday, there was a pair of boxers in the garbage in our bathroom. So I took them out and put them on the floor so they wouldn't get thrown away. Today, they are in the ...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:45:00 PST

Warped Tour news...

so just got an email from my guy...and apparently we're getting passes."ALL set. We should talk on the phone a few days before you start thetour. I need you to send me head shots of both of you fo...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:30:00 PST

Another photo-ish blog...

Senses Fail. First ToC band that we've seen since we got back from Taste of Chaos. It was kind of sad. We got there and it was like a mini-Warped Tour. It was amazing. They had tents set up all ...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:16:00 PST

Mostly photo blog.

I got my camera! YAY! So I've been taking pictures of anything and everything. The first few pictures are with my old camera...but I thought they were cute anyways. That's Ashley... Diane is flying...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:30:00 PST

EH...

So the other camera I ordered was on backorder...and they have no idea when it's coming in. I ordered pretty much the same thing today, and hopefully it will be at my door on Tuesday. That's what amaz...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:05:00 PST

Whoa.

So yesterday, I ordered my new camera. Oh my god. It's a Leica V-Lux 1 with 10.1 megapixels and 12x optical zoom...and apparently it's got a pretty fucking awesome lens too. Needless to say...I'm pret...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:26:00 PST

Excerpts from a tour journal...

Wednesday, March 21st: Day one on the East Coast tour and I think Ashley and I are going to soon understand what it's like to truly be on tour. Minus, of course, being on an Amtrak train for 18 ...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Fri, 18 May 2007 12:25:00 PST

This is blog-worthy...

So I sent out an email to one of the guys in the band Senses Fail yesterday with some pictures I took of them on Taste of Chaos. Well...I just wanted them to see them, but they posted some up on their...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:56:00 PST

What was I thinking??

So I got back from tour not too long ago. I'll get reviews up as soon as I've got time. I started working at Jo-Ann's full time. I seriously want to know what the hell I was thinking. Here'...
Posted by karen [misses being on tour] on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:51:00 PST