EMPIRES PART 2
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So, immediately after I got home from the Charlotte show, I called Jamie to see if she'd go with me to the Greensboro show. I mean, Max offered to put me on the guest list, so how could I not go, right?
Luckily, because I have the best friend ever, she agreed to go with me. So today we set out for Greensboro and Empires.
ETA 2: As far as the band goes and donations, my Mom's boyfriend gave me some money to specifically give to the band, as well as Jamie donating about 10 bucks to them too. Also, the issue was never money for a ticket, but money for GAS down there and back as well as not having a guaranteed ticket. It's about an hour and a half down to Greensboro, and that's a while to drive along with a lot of gas to not possibly have a ticket. (also, I had no clue where I was going) Jamie agreed to go with me as the second part of my birthday gift, since she got me Bang! So money WAS donated to the band, that much I can tell you.
ETA: PICS ARE NOW ADDED AND SOME OF THEM ARE *HUGE*, FAIR WARNING.
50+ images
So we got there and SERIOUSLY,
fictionalfaerie, if you thought Tremont was sketchy, this place was doubly so. First off, it was in a bad neighborhood. Second off, you don't notice the place until you're RIGHT THE FUCK UP ON IT. And third, it's not even a VENUE in terms of....like Tremont in that it's a club. No, it's like a fucking house that's been sort of gutted and refitted to host bands.
It was kind of amazing, if BOILING FUCKING HOT.
So, we got there and went through the gate into the backyard skate area (Iiiii wish I was joking) and BAM, TOMRAD AND SVV. And OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, when Tom saw me, he SMILED and waved at me.

This was RIGHT before he looked over at and smiled. ♥
AND AND AND AND so I go up to the guy who was accepting donations (because that's how they did tickets there) and I got to actually say, 'um. i think i'm on a list? Max from Empires" and the guy looked down and goes, yeah, you're cool.
♥_____♥
SO I walked into this OMFG TINY place and GUESS WHO'S SITTING ON THE COUCH? THAT WOULD BE RYAN J AND MAX. And Max like fucking beamed and said, whoa hey, you made it, that's AWESOME! And Ryan was like, lol what's up?
Jamie and I stood and talked to them for probably ten minutes or so, listening to Max fiddle around with an acoustic and watching Ryan...do something on his phone. And he bitched about getting lost even though they all have GPS on their phone. XD XD XD
It was way too fucking hot to really be in there for long periods of time, so we went outside wherein I went up to the skate area where Tom and Sean and Connor was. Sean was like !! HEY! You made it, that's GREAT!
And omg, his smile. I was flailing like a mad flailing thing inside my head. I asked him if they'd ever played Greensboro and he kind of laughed self-consciously and said, nah, but then again, they'd never played Charlotte before either.
OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, I GOT TO WATCH TOMRAD TAKE SOME PICTURES. Like that's a stupid stupid thing to get excited over, right? But I DON'T CARE. I seriously was talking to him and he just nodded a little before shifting around and picking up his camera and taking a few pictures of one of the guys playing with this OMFG MASSIVE great dane.
I thought that maybe he was brushing me off or something, but he turned back to me and gave me an OMFG precious sheepish grin and kept talking. Like, the boy is chatty if you catch him at the right moment. I mentioned to Tom that I'd bought one of his prints and he blinked and said, oh man, thank you so MUCH. 'Like I blew the amp last tour and it's 800 dollars to fix it and when you're like us and a tiny band, that's. A lot.'
Jamie goes, yeah, that could probably feed you guys for a couple of months and Tom laughed a little and smiled at me and said, no, seriously, thank you so much. And then he asked me which one I bought, and I told him...he was so delightfully grateful to me and I wanted to hug him and pet him.
So, while we were standing there, I notice Sean kind of wincing a little bit and stretching. Seems like he slept on his back wrong, so I offered him some of Jamie's Aleve, because I mean. What else was I supposed to do? (Okay, yes, the answer IS to offer a back massage but WAIT)
SO Sean turned down the Aleve but then proceeded to lay down on his stomach and call Tom over. CUE MY INTERNAL OMFGWTFFUCKYES FLAIL. Because Tom proceeeded to stand over him and dig the heels of his hands into Sean's back to try and get it to pop. At this point in time, he was also mostly bent over Sean with a leg on either side. Like, if he'd sat down, he woulda been straddling Sean's back and sitting on Sean's ass.
FUCK YES, PICTURES:




♥___♥ MY GOD, LOOK AT IT. \o/
So after that we wandered in and out of the venue, checking out the first two openers...one local band that played like...3 songs and one other local band who played like...5. Talked to Max a few times and met up with Matt from Lights Resolve who was so sweet and delighted to remember me. He made me promise to tell him TRUTHFULLY about tonight's show, if it was good or not and if it was better than Charlotte's.
He was terribly presh, because we kept running into each other and having conversations. At this point, I asked him to take a pic of Jamie and I and we laughed about how it's probably weird for him, so Jamie got a pic with him and so did I, wherein he proceeded to make a dumbly adorable face in each one.


Jamie with Matt

And me with Matt. ♥ Dork.

So this is what the place looked like before Lights Resolve and the like, and keep in mind, this is from the back of the venue. Tiny place, tiny stage, awesome.
Lights Resolve were ACTUALLY pretty good, better than they were in Charlotte...I got some good shots of them and kind of worried because I was using my flash (I had to, or nothing would come out) but they definitely didn't seem to mind.



I have more of these guys, but I'm not gonna spam 'em here. All of them will be up on Facebook at some point, so Matt, Luke, and Neil (the guys in LR) can see them and be tagged, etc.
Later, I talked to the bassist and he was ADORABLE. And delighted that I took pictures of him and that they came out good. XD SO PRESH.
AND THEN. THEN IT WAS TIME FOR EMPIRES....it was also hot and humid as fucking soup in that place, seriously. I stood behind a line of girls who were mostly sweet. The two in front of me were especially nice in that they let me put my camera bag down at their feet and kept an eye on it for me. Seriously, I was so close that I could have stepped onto the stage.
Like, no joke. There was floor, and then a step and bam,you're on the stage. So like when Sean was standing there, if I reached out, I was in fingertip distance of him. Seriously, it was amazing.
There wasn't a lot of people there and the ones that were, a lot of them were outside, which kind of made me feel bad for Empires, but whatever, it was pretty fucking hot. Like, I was relieved when Empires was over (well, in that sad relieved way) because I felt like I was honestly going to pass out.
A METRIC SHIT TON OF PICTURES, BLAMMO:




This is one of my favorite Sean pictures. I love it.

Connor is rather presh, isn't he?

Unf, SVV. Also, this picture, I know for a fact, is during Damned Thing's Over...so he was that red and that sweaty by the second song. I know it's from Damned Thing's Over because of this next one:

"You can stand right at my feet"

TOOOOOMMMMM


This is with absolutely ZERO zoom. In fact, to get this shot, I had to LEAN BACK. I was that close.

Again, another one that I like but don't know why.

UNF, CHRIST, TOMRAD.

♥ ♥ ♥ Oh, TOM.

Tom and Connor. Like I said before, it seems as though Connor REALLY enjoys playing to Tom.

Max! You'd think it'd be easy to get pictures of him since he doesn't walk around or anything. Noooo. At least, not with Sean photobombing like. ALMOST EVERY SINGLE PICTURE EVER. XD XD XD

He was this close, yes. ♥


Seaaannn

Ryan! One of the. Y'know, only shots I have of him...getting pictures of drummers is SUPER FUCKING HARD.



I love this picture for whatever reason. He was looking over at Tom and Tom was grinning at him and it was just. Yes. Times a million.


LOLOL FOREVER.


I love having so many pictures of Tom and Sean, but I feel so bad! I love taking pictures of Max and Ryan...it's just that hardly none of them came out.



lol hai SVV. XD

At one point during Spit The Dark, he grabbed the bottom of the light and I was trying to get a picture of that, but oh well. I love this one though.

I'm fairly certain this one's from Bang. I don't know why I'm so certain, but I am. XD

TOM MOTHERFUCKING CONRAD. ♥____♥
At the end of the show, Connor ended up flinging himself into the drum kit because he and Ryan and Tom were having a ~moment. It was hilarious and adorable, because Ryan cracked up. I don't have any pictures unfortunately, because blah. But still. ♥
So after that, Jamie and I made a beeline for outside, because OH GOD, IT FELT SO GOOD. And since their van was on our way to the car, I wanted to stop and ask for more autographs. (Me=greedy) (me also =not giving a fuck) I brought my padded mailer and nearly swallowed my tongue when we got back there.
BECAUSE HAI, SHIRTLESS SEAN VAN VLEET.
He and I talked for a minute or two before he was like, oh man, let me go put on a shirt. A+ to me for not being a perv.
But OHGOD, I said, 'So, I'm gonna totally accost you again for another autograph....I brought my mailer that Bang! came in," and mentioned that I was SO EXCITED that it was hand-addressed.
Tom maybe kind of laughed at me, but not in a mean way. He goes, nah, we have to do that shit ourselves, but it'd be nice to have a crew of people to do it.
I laughed and told him they should farm out their friends to do it for them and that made both him and Ryan laugh and Tom goes, 'dude, they'd never do it,' before Sean was like. "....Tom, this is YOUR handwriting."
And then they argued before Ryan just took it and was like, well, it's not mine, and we're the ones who took care of that. So it's Tom's.
It was so much fun hanging around back there, and before anyone asks, they weren't bugged. Mostly, I had to try and stop conversation with Max. Max came out there and gave me a weird hug/shoulder squeeze and said, I'm so glad you made it, though, seriously.
By this point, Sean had wandered off to pull a shirt on and Tom was pulling on his flip flops (YES, I LOL'ED INTERNALLY) and Ryan had wandered off. So I asked Max to sign my mailer and we started talking about the shows and Tom goes, man, it was a good show, but the heat brought it down. Before wandering off.
I talked to Max about how much I love the live version of Damned Thing's Over and that my favorite was when they played Spit The Dark and that it made something just. Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. He gave me the sweetest smile and was just like. 2 seconds away from kicking the ground.
Jamie and I had to laugh at Tom struggling with somewhere to put his shirt so it'd dry, because dude, he wrung it out and there was actual sweat dripping off of it. THAT'S HOW HOW IT WAS. I told him he should put it on the hood, but he ended up hanging it off the antenna, which made me LOL.
OBSERVE:

At one point, he poured like half a bottle of water over his head and then told Max to do the same because "it's like a fucking miracle dude, come on."
UGH, TOMRAD, YOU PRECIOUS THING.
Sean wandered back out as Tom wandered back off, and Sean did have on a shirt, but myself, Jamie, him, and Max stood and talked for a while and OH MY GOD, I almost died because I told Sean that, 'y'know, if Max hadn't put me on the list tonight, I probably wouldn't have came because of money issues,"
And THEN Sean goes, yeah, Max was telling me about that! I'm glad you came though. And you brought a friend!
HOW SO ADORABLE, SVV?
He told me that I had better be giving Jamie some Empires music (because tonight was the first time she'd heard any of their stuff) (Max seemed to really like that) and grinned.
I got pictures again with everyone except for Ryan J and Connor, which..y'know, no worries. Ryan was chilling out and decompressing, I think, so I didn't want to bother him.

The funniest part about this picture is that he goes, "I really tried in that picture for you"....AHAHAHA, oh my god, Tom Conrad.

Yes, I was sweaty as fuuuccckkkkkk.
Tom walked back through and let out a MONSTROUS burp and then realized Jamie and I were still there and went OH MY GOD, I'm so sorry, I didn't know you guys were still here.
I laughed and said, 'Tom, I promise it doesn't phase me or her," and he grinned at us and kept walking to where Ryan was before sitting with him. I might be wrong, because it was a little ways off and dark, but I'm fairly certain in that Ryan and Tom shared a cigarette.
SoI got my picture with Sean and said, I'd ask for a hug, buuuttt. And Jamie snorted and said, dude, you two are both just as sweaty. So SVV gave me a ginger hug because OMFG HOT. But he just beamed at us and said that next time they hit Charlotte (and Sean was adament that there be a next time in Charlotte because "it was the most amazing show on this TOUR) (♥ ♥ ♥) that I have to bring Jamie.

By that point, we were tired and it was close to 12am and it was going to take...at least an hour and a half to get home, so we left and nooowww, I'm here and posting from Jamie's computer because god knows if I don't type it up tonight, I'll forget half of it tomorrow. XD
THEY PLAYED:
I Want Blood
Damned Things Over
Midnight Land
Hello, Lover
Voodooized
Spit The Dark
BANG
It was amazing, and it just. God. Spit the Dark gave me goosebumps. Or at least tried to under all the sweat.
Luckily, because I have the best friend ever, she agreed to go with me. So today we set out for Greensboro and Empires.
ETA 2: As far as the band goes and donations, my Mom's boyfriend gave me some money to specifically give to the band, as well as Jamie donating about 10 bucks to them too. Also, the issue was never money for a ticket, but money for GAS down there and back as well as not having a guaranteed ticket. It's about an hour and a half down to Greensboro, and that's a while to drive along with a lot of gas to not possibly have a ticket. (also, I had no clue where I was going) Jamie agreed to go with me as the second part of my birthday gift, since she got me Bang! So money WAS donated to the band, that much I can tell you.
ETA: PICS ARE NOW ADDED AND SOME OF THEM ARE *HUGE*, FAIR WARNING.
50+ images
So we got there and SERIOUSLY,
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It was kind of amazing, if BOILING FUCKING HOT.
So, we got there and went through the gate into the backyard skate area (Iiiii wish I was joking) and BAM, TOMRAD AND SVV. And OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, when Tom saw me, he SMILED and waved at me.

This was RIGHT before he looked over at and smiled. ♥
AND AND AND AND so I go up to the guy who was accepting donations (because that's how they did tickets there) and I got to actually say, 'um. i think i'm on a list? Max from Empires" and the guy looked down and goes, yeah, you're cool.
♥_____♥
SO I walked into this OMFG TINY place and GUESS WHO'S SITTING ON THE COUCH? THAT WOULD BE RYAN J AND MAX. And Max like fucking beamed and said, whoa hey, you made it, that's AWESOME! And Ryan was like, lol what's up?
Jamie and I stood and talked to them for probably ten minutes or so, listening to Max fiddle around with an acoustic and watching Ryan...do something on his phone. And he bitched about getting lost even though they all have GPS on their phone. XD XD XD
It was way too fucking hot to really be in there for long periods of time, so we went outside wherein I went up to the skate area where Tom and Sean and Connor was. Sean was like !! HEY! You made it, that's GREAT!
And omg, his smile. I was flailing like a mad flailing thing inside my head. I asked him if they'd ever played Greensboro and he kind of laughed self-consciously and said, nah, but then again, they'd never played Charlotte before either.
OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, I GOT TO WATCH TOMRAD TAKE SOME PICTURES. Like that's a stupid stupid thing to get excited over, right? But I DON'T CARE. I seriously was talking to him and he just nodded a little before shifting around and picking up his camera and taking a few pictures of one of the guys playing with this OMFG MASSIVE great dane.
I thought that maybe he was brushing me off or something, but he turned back to me and gave me an OMFG precious sheepish grin and kept talking. Like, the boy is chatty if you catch him at the right moment. I mentioned to Tom that I'd bought one of his prints and he blinked and said, oh man, thank you so MUCH. 'Like I blew the amp last tour and it's 800 dollars to fix it and when you're like us and a tiny band, that's. A lot.'
Jamie goes, yeah, that could probably feed you guys for a couple of months and Tom laughed a little and smiled at me and said, no, seriously, thank you so much. And then he asked me which one I bought, and I told him...he was so delightfully grateful to me and I wanted to hug him and pet him.
So, while we were standing there, I notice Sean kind of wincing a little bit and stretching. Seems like he slept on his back wrong, so I offered him some of Jamie's Aleve, because I mean. What else was I supposed to do? (Okay, yes, the answer IS to offer a back massage but WAIT)
SO Sean turned down the Aleve but then proceeded to lay down on his stomach and call Tom over. CUE MY INTERNAL OMFGWTFFUCKYES FLAIL. Because Tom proceeeded to stand over him and dig the heels of his hands into Sean's back to try and get it to pop. At this point in time, he was also mostly bent over Sean with a leg on either side. Like, if he'd sat down, he woulda been straddling Sean's back and sitting on Sean's ass.
FUCK YES, PICTURES:




♥___♥ MY GOD, LOOK AT IT. \o/
So after that we wandered in and out of the venue, checking out the first two openers...one local band that played like...3 songs and one other local band who played like...5. Talked to Max a few times and met up with Matt from Lights Resolve who was so sweet and delighted to remember me. He made me promise to tell him TRUTHFULLY about tonight's show, if it was good or not and if it was better than Charlotte's.
He was terribly presh, because we kept running into each other and having conversations. At this point, I asked him to take a pic of Jamie and I and we laughed about how it's probably weird for him, so Jamie got a pic with him and so did I, wherein he proceeded to make a dumbly adorable face in each one.


Jamie with Matt

And me with Matt. ♥ Dork.

So this is what the place looked like before Lights Resolve and the like, and keep in mind, this is from the back of the venue. Tiny place, tiny stage, awesome.
Lights Resolve were ACTUALLY pretty good, better than they were in Charlotte...I got some good shots of them and kind of worried because I was using my flash (I had to, or nothing would come out) but they definitely didn't seem to mind.



I have more of these guys, but I'm not gonna spam 'em here. All of them will be up on Facebook at some point, so Matt, Luke, and Neil (the guys in LR) can see them and be tagged, etc.
Later, I talked to the bassist and he was ADORABLE. And delighted that I took pictures of him and that they came out good. XD SO PRESH.
AND THEN. THEN IT WAS TIME FOR EMPIRES....it was also hot and humid as fucking soup in that place, seriously. I stood behind a line of girls who were mostly sweet. The two in front of me were especially nice in that they let me put my camera bag down at their feet and kept an eye on it for me. Seriously, I was so close that I could have stepped onto the stage.
Like, no joke. There was floor, and then a step and bam,you're on the stage. So like when Sean was standing there, if I reached out, I was in fingertip distance of him. Seriously, it was amazing.
There wasn't a lot of people there and the ones that were, a lot of them were outside, which kind of made me feel bad for Empires, but whatever, it was pretty fucking hot. Like, I was relieved when Empires was over (well, in that sad relieved way) because I felt like I was honestly going to pass out.
A METRIC SHIT TON OF PICTURES, BLAMMO:




This is one of my favorite Sean pictures. I love it.

Connor is rather presh, isn't he?

Unf, SVV. Also, this picture, I know for a fact, is during Damned Thing's Over...so he was that red and that sweaty by the second song. I know it's from Damned Thing's Over because of this next one:

"You can stand right at my feet"

TOOOOOMMMMM


This is with absolutely ZERO zoom. In fact, to get this shot, I had to LEAN BACK. I was that close.

Again, another one that I like but don't know why.

UNF, CHRIST, TOMRAD.

♥ ♥ ♥ Oh, TOM.

Tom and Connor. Like I said before, it seems as though Connor REALLY enjoys playing to Tom.

Max! You'd think it'd be easy to get pictures of him since he doesn't walk around or anything. Noooo. At least, not with Sean photobombing like. ALMOST EVERY SINGLE PICTURE EVER. XD XD XD

He was this close, yes. ♥


Seaaannn

Ryan! One of the. Y'know, only shots I have of him...getting pictures of drummers is SUPER FUCKING HARD.



I love this picture for whatever reason. He was looking over at Tom and Tom was grinning at him and it was just. Yes. Times a million.


LOLOL FOREVER.


I love having so many pictures of Tom and Sean, but I feel so bad! I love taking pictures of Max and Ryan...it's just that hardly none of them came out.



lol hai SVV. XD

At one point during Spit The Dark, he grabbed the bottom of the light and I was trying to get a picture of that, but oh well. I love this one though.

I'm fairly certain this one's from Bang. I don't know why I'm so certain, but I am. XD

TOM MOTHERFUCKING CONRAD. ♥____♥
At the end of the show, Connor ended up flinging himself into the drum kit because he and Ryan and Tom were having a ~moment. It was hilarious and adorable, because Ryan cracked up. I don't have any pictures unfortunately, because blah. But still. ♥
So after that, Jamie and I made a beeline for outside, because OH GOD, IT FELT SO GOOD. And since their van was on our way to the car, I wanted to stop and ask for more autographs. (Me=greedy) (me also =not giving a fuck) I brought my padded mailer and nearly swallowed my tongue when we got back there.
BECAUSE HAI, SHIRTLESS SEAN VAN VLEET.
He and I talked for a minute or two before he was like, oh man, let me go put on a shirt. A+ to me for not being a perv.
But OHGOD, I said, 'So, I'm gonna totally accost you again for another autograph....I brought my mailer that Bang! came in," and mentioned that I was SO EXCITED that it was hand-addressed.
Tom maybe kind of laughed at me, but not in a mean way. He goes, nah, we have to do that shit ourselves, but it'd be nice to have a crew of people to do it.
I laughed and told him they should farm out their friends to do it for them and that made both him and Ryan laugh and Tom goes, 'dude, they'd never do it,' before Sean was like. "....Tom, this is YOUR handwriting."
And then they argued before Ryan just took it and was like, well, it's not mine, and we're the ones who took care of that. So it's Tom's.
It was so much fun hanging around back there, and before anyone asks, they weren't bugged. Mostly, I had to try and stop conversation with Max. Max came out there and gave me a weird hug/shoulder squeeze and said, I'm so glad you made it, though, seriously.
By this point, Sean had wandered off to pull a shirt on and Tom was pulling on his flip flops (YES, I LOL'ED INTERNALLY) and Ryan had wandered off. So I asked Max to sign my mailer and we started talking about the shows and Tom goes, man, it was a good show, but the heat brought it down. Before wandering off.
I talked to Max about how much I love the live version of Damned Thing's Over and that my favorite was when they played Spit The Dark and that it made something just. Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. He gave me the sweetest smile and was just like. 2 seconds away from kicking the ground.
Jamie and I had to laugh at Tom struggling with somewhere to put his shirt so it'd dry, because dude, he wrung it out and there was actual sweat dripping off of it. THAT'S HOW HOW IT WAS. I told him he should put it on the hood, but he ended up hanging it off the antenna, which made me LOL.
OBSERVE:

At one point, he poured like half a bottle of water over his head and then told Max to do the same because "it's like a fucking miracle dude, come on."
UGH, TOMRAD, YOU PRECIOUS THING.
Sean wandered back out as Tom wandered back off, and Sean did have on a shirt, but myself, Jamie, him, and Max stood and talked for a while and OH MY GOD, I almost died because I told Sean that, 'y'know, if Max hadn't put me on the list tonight, I probably wouldn't have came because of money issues,"
And THEN Sean goes, yeah, Max was telling me about that! I'm glad you came though. And you brought a friend!
HOW SO ADORABLE, SVV?
He told me that I had better be giving Jamie some Empires music (because tonight was the first time she'd heard any of their stuff) (Max seemed to really like that) and grinned.
I got pictures again with everyone except for Ryan J and Connor, which..y'know, no worries. Ryan was chilling out and decompressing, I think, so I didn't want to bother him.

The funniest part about this picture is that he goes, "I really tried in that picture for you"....AHAHAHA, oh my god, Tom Conrad.

Yes, I was sweaty as fuuuccckkkkkk.
Tom walked back through and let out a MONSTROUS burp and then realized Jamie and I were still there and went OH MY GOD, I'm so sorry, I didn't know you guys were still here.
I laughed and said, 'Tom, I promise it doesn't phase me or her," and he grinned at us and kept walking to where Ryan was before sitting with him. I might be wrong, because it was a little ways off and dark, but I'm fairly certain in that Ryan and Tom shared a cigarette.
SoI got my picture with Sean and said, I'd ask for a hug, buuuttt. And Jamie snorted and said, dude, you two are both just as sweaty. So SVV gave me a ginger hug because OMFG HOT. But he just beamed at us and said that next time they hit Charlotte (and Sean was adament that there be a next time in Charlotte because "it was the most amazing show on this TOUR) (♥ ♥ ♥) that I have to bring Jamie.

By that point, we were tired and it was close to 12am and it was going to take...at least an hour and a half to get home, so we left and nooowww, I'm here and posting from Jamie's computer because god knows if I don't type it up tonight, I'll forget half of it tomorrow. XD
THEY PLAYED:
I Want Blood
Damned Things Over
Midnight Land
Hello, Lover
Voodooized
Spit The Dark
BANG
It was amazing, and it just. God. Spit the Dark gave me goosebumps. Or at least tried to under all the sweat.