Why does Powerfest have to start on the day of finals? - Page 2

Rycher · February 8th, 2008, 10:50 AM

Mabel's was the club that was on the second floor of the building next to that store. I saw Stabbing Westward play there in a sold-out/over filled show from the front row in 1998. They closed the club a year after that and turned it into a sports-bar type place called Brothers.

I saw two Bears games there, and have managed to visit at least once a year - my brother and his wife have lived there since he graduated in 04. They live in St. Joe's, which is 10 minutes east of Champaign.

We broker the insurance for a lot of the tech companies that are housed in the new research facility by Assembly Hall.

Jasonic · February 8th, 2008, 10:54 AM

Hahahaha....
St Joes!
One band I was in during my college years had practice space there. Talk about a town where time never moves. The only exciting thing there is the Dairy Queen!

Mabel's was a great place to play.
I saw a lot of great shows there too.
Jesus Lizard there was insane.
I am not a big fan of theirs but they put on an amazing live show.

dreaming neon darkspot · February 13th, 2008, 10:06 AM

last year, one of the guys in our room (lunar still) had finals like the monday after or something.

im not back in school till the fall, but my finals werent for a few more weeks after powerfest. those who've heard the horror story of will bozarth and i coming back from chicago (missing our flight and having to spend 26 hrs in ohare airport) know that after that and 6 hrs on a greyhound from philly to pittsburgh, i got back to my dorm around 2:30am and was in class five and a half hrs later. soo glad that's not going to be the case this time around.

Diabolik · February 13th, 2008, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by dreaming neon darkspot

last year, one of the guys in our room (lunar still) had finals like the monday after or something.

im not back in school till the fall, but my finals werent for a few more weeks after powerfest. those who've heard the horror story of will bozarth and i coming back from chicago (missing our flight and having to spend 26 hrs in ohare airport) know that after that and 6 hrs on a greyhound from philly to pittsburgh, i got back to my dorm around 2:30am and was in class five and a half hrs later. soo glad that's not going to be the case this time around.

dear god!!!! 26 hours at the airport. that would be a nightmare.

dreaming neon darkspot · February 13th, 2008, 10:48 AM

juuust a little.

basically, the train from mokena to ohare got us there like 15 minutes too late to check into our flight back to philly so we got put on standby. we wait and wait and hope and hope there will be seats open and wait for about 5 flights that are all over-booked until around 9 that evening (after 12 hrs in the airport) we ask the customer service people wtf is going on. they say that literally every flight going anywhere on the east coast is overbooked by about 10 people because of all the college kids coming back from spring break. so we have to pay $200 for 2 confirmed tickets to philly, sleep in the airport, and finally manage to fly out at 11am that morning.

it sucked.

granted powerfest was one of the best weekends of my life but ... yeah ...

we ran into a similar problem coming back from seattle seeing nevermore. granted it wasn't sleeping-in-an-airport bad, but... we don't have luck with airports.

Jasonic · February 13th, 2008, 11:23 AM

That does indeed bite.
I spent about the same amount of time at LAX trying to get home from my honeymoon.

Oh, I guess I should mention that the date of the original return flight was Sept 12, 2001.

To say spending a full day at a MAJOR airport right after 9/11 was scary is quite an understatement.

God I hate flying.

Pate · February 13th, 2008, 11:29 AM

Ouch.

I'm getting the itch to fly again.

dreaming neon darkspot · February 13th, 2008, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Jasonic

That does indeed bite.
I spent about the same amount of time at LAX trying to get home from my honeymoon.

Oh, I guess I should mention that the date of the original return flight was Sept 12, 2001.

To say spending a full day at a MAJOR airport right after 9/11 was scary is quite an understatement.

niiiice

dreaming neon darkspot · February 13th, 2008, 11:41 AM

the seattle flight wasn't as bad. we had a connecting flight from seattle to baltimore with a stop in arizona. we had about 30 min between when our flight from seattle landed and our flight to baltimore took off. so we're getting read to land at the arizona airport, we see the plane going down, almost touch the landing strip AND THEN START GOING UP AGAIN. will and i are kinda like "wtf?" and start panicking.
the pilot didnt know how to land the plane or some shit so it takes him another 15 min to circle the airport and land again. he makes an announcement that some of the people on the plane have really tight connecting flights and asks the majority of the passengers to stay seated to those people can leave first. will and i are in the back of the cabin. we're seated behind a fucking mexican soccer team who don't understand english and i guess everyone else on the plane was just an asshole because EVERYONE gets up, takes them 15 min to get theri stuff and get off. we're running through the terminal to get to our gate. we hear that our flight is now boarding at such and such gate. we barely make it to that gate - the gate in the announcement and on our tickets. the stewardess lady tells us we're just in time, not to worry ... then looks at our tickets and tells us that we're at the wrong gate.
sooo after we both kinda freak the fuck out, we go to customer service, they apologize for the inconvenience, we get a flight to baltimore that's leaving 2 hrs later and we're good. that, fortunately, was the end of that story.

oh yeah, and the chicago anf seattle trips are the only times i've ever been on a plane, too!! will says i'm just bad luck on planes.

Jasonic · February 13th, 2008, 12:01 PM

Don't blame yourself, it's probably Will's fault

That happened to me too, where the plane touched down and then went right up.

There was a major rain and thunderstorm.
Just when the pilot touched he noticed the runway was NOT clear! Had he waited another couple seconds.........yeah, I would not be here to tell you the story....

Did I mention before I hated flying????

Pate · February 13th, 2008, 12:15 PM

When I was 4 I went to Switzerland. I forget which way we were headed, but sometime our plane got hit by lightning. I guess that explains me.

February 8th, 2008, 10:54 AM	#27 (permalink)
Jasonic Doom On! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: West Burbs of Chicago Posts: 7,748	Hahahaha.... St Joes! One band I was in during my college years had practice space there. Talk about a town where time never moves. The only exciting thing there is the Dairy Queen! Mabel's was a great place to play. I saw a lot of great shows there too. Jesus Lizard there was insane. I am not a big fan of theirs but they put on an amazing live show. __________________

February 13th, 2008, 10:06 AM	#28 (permalink)
dreaming neon darkspot corpsenipples Join Date: May 2002 Location: the devil's paradise of pain Posts: 14,673	last year, one of the guys in our room (lunar still) had finals like the monday after or something. im not back in school till the fall, but my finals werent for a few more weeks after powerfest. those who've heard the horror story of will bozarth and i coming back from chicago (missing our flight and having to spend 26 hrs in ohare airport) know that after that and 6 hrs on a greyhound from philly to pittsburgh, i got back to my dorm around 2:30am and was in class five and a half hrs later. soo glad that's not going to be the case this time around. __________________ "I believe that whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger." "I try to keep my eyes open but I realize that I haven't closed my eyes in a long time."

February 13th, 2008, 10:48 AM	#30 (permalink)
dreaming neon darkspot corpsenipples Join Date: May 2002 Location: the devil's paradise of pain Posts: 14,673	juuust a little. basically, the train from mokena to ohare got us there like 15 minutes too late to check into our flight back to philly so we got put on standby. we wait and wait and hope and hope there will be seats open and wait for about 5 flights that are all over-booked until around 9 that evening (after 12 hrs in the airport) we ask the customer service people wtf is going on. they say that literally every flight going anywhere on the east coast is overbooked by about 10 people because of all the college kids coming back from spring break. so we have to pay $200 for 2 confirmed tickets to philly, sleep in the airport, and finally manage to fly out at 11am that morning. it sucked. granted powerfest was one of the best weekends of my life but ... yeah ... we ran into a similar problem coming back from seattle seeing nevermore. granted it wasn't sleeping-in-an-airport bad, but... we don't have luck with airports. __________________ "I believe that whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger." "I try to keep my eyes open but I realize that I haven't closed my eyes in a long time."

February 13th, 2008, 11:23 AM	#31 (permalink)
Jasonic Doom On! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: West Burbs of Chicago Posts: 7,748	That does indeed bite. I spent about the same amount of time at LAX trying to get home from my honeymoon. Oh, I guess I should mention that the date of the original return flight was Sept 12, 2001. To say spending a full day at a MAJOR airport right after 9/11 was scary is quite an understatement. God I hate flying. __________________

February 13th, 2008, 11:41 AM	#34 (permalink)
dreaming neon darkspot corpsenipples Join Date: May 2002 Location: the devil's paradise of pain Posts: 14,673	the seattle flight wasn't as bad. we had a connecting flight from seattle to baltimore with a stop in arizona. we had about 30 min between when our flight from seattle landed and our flight to baltimore took off. so we're getting read to land at the arizona airport, we see the plane going down, almost touch the landing strip AND THEN START GOING UP AGAIN. will and i are kinda like "wtf?" and start panicking. the pilot didnt know how to land the plane or some shit so it takes him another 15 min to circle the airport and land again. he makes an announcement that some of the people on the plane have really tight connecting flights and asks the majority of the passengers to stay seated to those people can leave first. will and i are in the back of the cabin. we're seated behind a fucking mexican soccer team who don't understand english and i guess everyone else on the plane was just an asshole because EVERYONE gets up, takes them 15 min to get theri stuff and get off. we're running through the terminal to get to our gate. we hear that our flight is now boarding at such and such gate. we barely make it to that gate - the gate in the announcement and on our tickets. the stewardess lady tells us we're just in time, not to worry ... then looks at our tickets and tells us that we're at the wrong gate. sooo after we both kinda freak the fuck out, we go to customer service, they apologize for the inconvenience, we get a flight to baltimore that's leaving 2 hrs later and we're good. that, fortunately, was the end of that story. oh yeah, and the chicago anf seattle trips are the only times i've ever been on a plane, too!! will says i'm just bad luck on planes. __________________ "I believe that whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger." "I try to keep my eyes open but I realize that I haven't closed my eyes in a long time."

February 8th, 2008, 10:50 AM	#26 (permalink)
Rycher We're Running Out of Time Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Northwesten Chicago Burbs Posts: 544	Mabel's was the club that was on the second floor of the building next to that store. I saw Stabbing Westward play there in a sold-out/over filled show from the front row in 1998. They closed the club a year after that and turned it into a sports-bar type place called Brothers. I saw two Bears games there, and have managed to visit at least once a year - my brother and his wife have lived there since he graduated in 04. They live in St. Joe's, which is 10 minutes east of Champaign. We broker the insurance for a lot of the tech companies that are housed in the new research facility by Assembly Hall.

February 13th, 2008, 11:29 AM	#32 (permalink)
Pate Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bradley University Posts: 2,469	Ouch. I'm getting the itch to fly again.

February 13th, 2008, 12:01 PM	#35 (permalink)
Jasonic Doom On! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: West Burbs of Chicago Posts: 7,748	Don't blame yourself, it's probably Will's fault That happened to me too, where the plane touched down and then went right up. There was a major rain and thunderstorm. Just when the pilot touched he noticed the runway was NOT clear! Had he waited another couple seconds.........yeah, I would not be here to tell you the story.... Did I mention before I hated flying???? __________________

February 13th, 2008, 12:15 PM	#36 (permalink)
Pate Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bradley University Posts: 2,469	When I was 4 I went to Switzerland. I forget which way we were headed, but sometime our plane got hit by lightning. I guess that explains me.