i love the smell of sweat and cigarette smoke i love music so loud my ears ring for days i love boys with pierced lips i love crowd surfing i love matt skiba i love boys who protect me from getting trampled in the pit i love the feeling of being pressed up against hundreds(?) of hot sweaty bodies i love jackie for coming with me and going to see every band i wanted to see(she even missed yellowcard for nofx and story of the year) i love getting sprayed with squirtguns from out of nowhere in the 90 degree heat i love standing in the rain listening to great music and trying not to get knocked down i love seeing justin sane walk to the port-a-poty and then standing there waiting for him to come out so i can watch him walk backstage i love being covered in mud and sweat(not only my own but many other people's) i love skipping practice i love the bruises on my legs from being kicked and stepped on i love 14 yearold boy with braces who came up to jackie saying "my friend i have a bet that i can't make out with a really hot girl by the end of tonight" i love watching my 6th grade libarian moving her head to new found glory, smiling at the boy who popped a condom he had blown up, and congratulating nfg's crew on a great set i love hearing large men screaming "my vagina!" i love that in every picture ever taken of me and jackie atleast one of us is not looking at the camera