For those of you who don't know the asbury park area, it's a desolate bit of town...mostly burnt out hotels, and boarded up stores. It used to be a major shore/resort area about 40 years ago, but now looks like a ghost town. Convention Hall itself looks like it's gonna collapse any minute.

My friend, Anthony and I got there quite early and met up with the ppl we've been hanging with on line since Providence. We talked to NY Loose again...I finally got to speak with Bridgette. She turned out to be really really nice. She said Pretty Suicide is supposed to be there next single.

Myself and one of the ppl I've been hanging with went to get soda and when we got back, there were about 4 fire trucks, and lots of cops and they closed the street off. The security wouldn't let anyone go near the building. We found out from the fire men that there was a bomb threat made to the club!!! Everything was held up for quite some time.

The show was held anyhow, but started much later. NY Loose played a great set, then Helmet went on. (I don't have much to say about them except they're boring!!)

Then Manson went on. They played great!! (except the club is still shitty!) Manson didn't say his normal "cater to the mtv crowd" thing. He did say "how many of you wanted to see me die tonight" to which alot of the crowd cheered (I did not...) He then said "It's gonna take alot more to get rid of me".

They had the full backdrop, and the podium tonight as well...Zim Zum was extremely lively, and they finally turned his guitar up a bit louder in the mix. There were some interesting/funny exchanges between Zim Zum and Twiggy throughout the night...they kept getting really close to each other and making strange faces. It was quite hysterical really. They wore the damn helmets again! Yick!! (I hate those things, can ya tell?) during 1996 (last song before the 1st encore) some asshole with really good aim started throwing fairly large metal peices at Twiggy. Lets just say Twiggy was NOT amused. after the song ended, and everyone (except Twig) left the stage, Twiggy was standing at the end of the stage shouting at the guy "I'm gonna fuck you up, fuck you fuck you, motherfucker" and other choice phrases. He then spit on the guy, gave him the finger, and walked off stage.

They come back out for the encore, and the guy is still throwing things at Twiggy...at the end of the encore, Twiggy knocked over his cabinets, and left. They didn't do the last encore of Man That You Fear...(well, at least the show was longer than the Philly show which had no encores at all)

Afterwards, we went over to the one of the only 2 hotels open there to find a soda machine, and the bus was parked there. We got to talk to Zim Zum, Ginger, and MWG...MWG was extremely wasted, but Ginger and Zim were fine...Twiggy came out for a second, but was in no mood to talk to anyone. Mr. Manson, didn't come out at all. Zim Zum and Ginger didn't hang out for long. But they did give us (me, Anthony, and the ppl we've been meeting up with) some of there tacos cuz they said they didn't want us to starve while hanging out. (we hate love, we love tacos!!) Jon then rounded them up and got them back on the bus, and the group of us all went our seperate ways...home!!

Well, that's about it for now, I'm sooo exhausted. No Manson shows for 2 days, I don't know what to do with myself!!

Hartford on Sunday!! YIPPIE!!

~Regina~ <----who's upset cuz Sunday is her last show (for now)