holy emo-kids, batman, there are 2+ megabites of pictures on this page. (55 pictures)

drive, drive, drive. Santa Cruz to INDIO (Southern Cali)... 10+ hours in teh car, cause we got lost...

what the crap? a line at the camping place?? yes. they put us in overflow camping NUMBER TWO.

you can see the lights from coachella-set-up glowing in the desert night!

i just had to include the picture of kristen shaving her legs...

mmm, "CAMPING"... also known as dirt parking lot next to cement lake.

elizabeth!

kristen, chelsea, and me. i'm HARDCORE to scare/beat up stupid emo fucks.

people, and Atom in the front there.

chelsea and kristen

hardcore belts!! rar!!

wow! inside the gates! look at that guy, he's like, "whut, bitch"

liz can't keep her excitement in so she breaks out in HARDCORE SKANKING! we practiced a lot on street corners before coming here.. we were tryi ng to impress meagan, but she ended up not coming with us. :(

"art"...

look at this damn guy dressing up like it's the '80s. i mean, what the fuck??

i followed him for a little bit.

more "art".. also "shade", sort of.

apatosaurus!!

fancy ceiling things...

purple doc martens!

green pants! it's like, crazy fashion central...

kristen eating frozen lemonade. mmmm... so tasty and cold...

damn artsy folks.

i think he was drawing her. look! it's not a shirt, it's a tattoo! and her shorts were teeny and POLAR FLEECE.

elizabeth!

it was hot so i cut my jeans with my knife. so hardcore. i sewed that hole back up later, though.

my camera does this funny trick of not opening the lens cover all the way. it's sort of cool...

sunset! = COOOOOLNESS!!!

moon.

is this crazy-emo-weird or what?

(complementary colors)

lookat the pixies!

they had all these spotlights around the edge of the field pointing up so you saw this whenever you looked up.

food!! we said we were going to live on ramen, but that didn't really happen.

i found a glowstick.

MSI! i had the most fun here. liz went crowd surfing! sort of.

fat guy lying down. looks like a beached whale.

fucking southern california and their palm trees...

OH MY GOD, I LOST LIZ!!!!! because the stupid police blocked off all the roads..

look, kids sitting in a pile of sand.

And the next day... i found liz eventually, as you may notice, because that's her about to jump in that prissy foutain.

i can't see his eyes, so i'm SURE he couldn't see me taking this picture.

they watered us down and it was nice because it was about 107 degrees.

Muse!

um.. i thought the fence made her tummy look cool.

i got sunburned in stripes and layers.

kyle the dancing box man!

he reminded me of doug. i think i signed his box with "i <3 your mom"...

keep your hands to yourself, asshat. i mean, that's RIGHT IN MY FACE! i DON't want to see that!

a lady dancing in the sky.

the rave tent..

look at those fancy light things in action!

more light things.

even MORE light things. wow!

driving home......... the washed-out-ness is how the whole trip felt, practically, what with it being INSANELY hot.

omg FIRETRUCK!!!

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