yesterday was the craziest fucking day of my life. it all started saturday night when adrian calls me up and says, "hey josh, our drummer flaked out on us, and were playing the whisky tomorrow." it turns out there drummer was nate, as in the nate that was a freshmen last year in marching band that has no neck. so i reluctantly say yes to help em out and play their set with them. now, in saying yes, i knowingly said yes to only having a few hours to learn the songs. so i get out of class at 8 am yesterday morning and go down to adams house. turns out i know this adam so it wasnt all awkward. so i get there and we practice the songs for a few hours, then go to del taco. it was awesome cuz the lady let us use a coupon we didnt have, 3 times. so we basically got 3 free big fat breakfast tacos. which are really good buy the way. so we get back and practice a little more then chill for a little while we wait to leave. so were leaving and we packed up the 4runner and head out, but adam got bad directions that had us going the completely wrong way. were trying to get to la, and somehow we end up going in the direction of like san bernadino or something. so we call up the whisky and get directions and we had to take this really long way around. but we end up getting there. so were going down laural canyon and we come across this hill. my 4runner is an ok car, but hills are its mortal enemy. so we traverse this hill, and going down the other side, im noticing this is taking for ever, and we get to the bottom, and theres this sign that says, you ready? MT. OLYMPUS. thats right. we traversed mt. fucking olympus. so were going down sunset and we arive at the whisky and of course, its fucking LA and theres no free parking anywhere,  so i start to pull into this lot and then realize its also pay parking so i try to back out, but my car wont move back, it just rolls forward and over reving. so adrian and adam get out and push as i try to back up and we get it moving, so we stayed in the unloading parking for as long as we could till we had to move so we just found a meter and did that. so we do the sound check and everything is going fine, everyones amps and guitars are working, until its finally our set and we get threw the first song, but i go to count off the second song, and adams guitar cuts out. so i start playing, and there is no sound at all. it took like 5-10 mins to get it all figured out. it was horrible. but luckily a guy from another band helped us out and let adam use his guitar and amp. the rest of the set is ok. so we watch a couple songs from the next band, then left cuz i had class early this morning. so we load up and leave and we had to take mt. olympus again so that was pretty fun. so were in the car pool lane and were going and going and everything is fine until all of the sudden the car in front of me slams on his brakes and in my panic, i slamed on my brakes without putting in the clutch, causing my car to stall. so my car shuts off mid brake, causing my steering to lock up. so i couldnt swerve out of the way, causing me to hit the guy in front of me. luckily i wasnt going to fast, maybe 15 or 20 mph, so i didnt do any damage to his car, but he had a hitch plate so my front end got a little messed up. so i get out of my car to make sure the guy i hit wasnt hurt or anything and thank god they werent. so the cops show up and it turned out, we were slamming on our brakes because there was a guy in the car pool lane trying to change a tire on his audi, without even having hazards on or anything. he was just sitting there in the middle of the car pool lane, with his dark grey audi, and no hazards. so the guy i hit wasnt even pissed at me, we were both pissed that we had to wait around for the fuzz to come back to give us back our licenses cuz some dick had to be an asshole and think he was the king of the world driving his fucking audi. so we get back to adams house and unload and i go home and sleep. all in all, it was a pretty fun day. pretty fucking crazy and exciting.