June 21, 2002 - theSTART, Scarling and Breaking Pangaea @ The Revolution Room, Bellingham, WA.

So yeah. We get to Bellingham at like noon and wander around handing flyers and SWAG to people. Get back to the Revolution Room at about 1-2. About 2 hours later, these chicks show up. Josh made a poster of Aimee Echo which we later gave to her. At about 7 the bands started showing up. Aimee was so sweet.....I love her! I got a pic with her, and she took pictures of Me, Bre and Don, and also videotaped us, we're gonna be on the site! And her dog is so cute too....she was shocked at how devoted Me, Bre, Don, and Josh were about promoting theSTART, we had plastered posters everywhere, bought american flags and wrote "The United States of theSTART" on one and "The United States of Scarling." on the other.
At 7:30, the doors opened. It was a really shitty venue, and only about 50 people showed up. Don and I were supposed to be 2 of 4 people that got in for free, but all these preppy chicks got in for free cuz they knew the owner of the place. Only FIFTY PEOPLE at a fucking theSTART/Scarling show, I was pissed and kinda sad.
The first band kicked ass, though everyone was just standing around and far back from the stage. I don't know their name, I wish I did.
Breaking Pangaea came out, they were ok, but I spent most of their set outside freaking out about how I was gonna meet Jessicka (the singer of Scarling and the former band Jack Off Jill, if you didn't know), and yeah.
Breaking Pangaea finished their set, and we went inside and I bought merch. I bought a theSTART shirt that Josh and I are sharing, a theSTART patch and pin, and I bought a Scarling poster drawn by Roman Dirge (the guy who does the Lenore comics), a Scarling shirt that says "Hello Scarling" and has Hello Kitty all evil looking holding up a human heart. I also got 4 stickers, "Hail Scarling", "Scarling Hates You", one with the Hello Scarling kitty on it, and a black one that just says "Scarling" in pink letters.
After about 30 minutes.....Scarling started. Jessicka was fucking amazing. She screamed at the beginning of the first song and I almost shit myself. I was scared to take pics with flash, like she'd kill me or something, but other people started taking them so I was fine. I was fuckin' 10 feet from the woman. In between songs she called up some preppy chick and was like "Hey! Dumb Girl! Do you have boy problems?" and she said no and they started the next song. The third song....she started out facing away from the audience. She then turned around when the music started and cut a big fucking gash across her forehead and blood started oozing out. In the middle of the song, she pointed at JOSH and told him to come onstage. She put her bloody hand on his face, then had him put his hand on her face, then on her right boob. I'm convinced I turned green. He came back down with her blood, her fuckin' real blood, on his hand and in his hair. I licked all of her blood off of his hand. She kept going off in between songs about how her merch guy was a flaming homo and shit, it was great. She's so abusive of her bandmates...her bassist and one of her guitarists, she kept kicking them when they got within 3 feet of her. In the middle of like their 5th song, the guy guitarist left the stage, but they kept playing. Jessicka stepped back and fucked up the drumkit, and started kicking it around and fell on it, and the bassist slammed his bass into the ground, busting off the headstock. I got half of a drumstick and a whole bass string :) Jessicka was so intimidating, it was great.
Then theSTART came out. Aimee was so fabulous. She kept looking at me and Bre, letting us take great pics of her. They're so great live. During the last song, she told everyone to dance, and half of the people (myself included) erupted into this peaceful moshpit, peaceful in that it went with the music, and we werent trying to murder each other.
We hung out for a while after the show. I went to find Jessicka to get a pic with her, but didnt catch her, she was on her way to the bar. (nothin like gettin shitty after massive bloodloss!) Aimee confirmed that it was real blood, and we hung out with her for a while. I got Melanie and Christian from Scarling's autographs, and got Melanie's waterbottle, and most of theSTART signed my theSTART poster.
I'm in so much pain, but it was well worth it.