An Attempt At Catching Up: Part 1
I can’t believe it’s already been a couple of weeks since my trip to Chicago. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life if I’m not immediately writing about it on here. I think I’m going to have to start canceling shows and rehearsals so that I can really get this going. I’m pretty sure that I’m kidding.
The first day of the “Chicago tour” started off with getting picked up around 10:30am and heading to Danville, PA for the first show. After about an hour on the road I realized that I had left my hi-hat stand back in NY. Whoops! In my defense I only use it on ONE song out of about three hours worth of material. We wound up not needing it at all even when I borrowed one for a show in Chicago. On the way to Danville we made a quick stop in Bloomburg, PA because the other band member wanted to check in with someone who might be able to get her a show in the future. I took the opportunity to check out a record store and Salvation Army and didn’t spend a dime. Woo. We also checked out this cafe with strange doors (I’m not even going to try and get into this) and a college kid running it who didn’t know the price of a cup of tea. And now I know that, according to Bloomburg’s website they are “the only incorporated TOWN in Pennsylvania”. So that’s really exciting. Right? When we got to Brews n Bytes to check it out before loading in we had some delicious complimentary food. I got some sort of tasty tuna sandwich and a really good chai latte.
I am chai man. I am made of chai.
It was close to rivaling my Starbucks no water vanilla chai which was kind of scary. After loading in the very nice and personable owner of the venue gave us a quick van “tour” of Danville. This tour mostly involved the hospital and we saw the incorporated town in about 20 minutes. Afterwards I walked around what seemed like a ghost town really and stumbled upon this:
Apparently good samaritans need creepy dolls to function.
Feeling like I was in the middle of some strange horror film I went back to the venue and did the music thing for a couple of hours. They had a pretty good built in audience and we had a good time. We stayed the night at a friend of a friend’s place apparently. She was basically a stranger to both of us but she was very nice and wanted to shoot the breeze a lot. I slept on a fairly comfortable couch and was not molested by the two cats. Thus ends day 1 and part 1 of this continuing series in the land of jackercrap. Stay tuned for parts 2 through 53. I’m sorry for ending on such a cliffhanger.
Jackercrap 