The gig last night was ok. We basically played in a Applebees kind of restaurant. Not much to say about it right now. We’re about to play and I wanted to make sure to feed my addiction to polluting the internets. Here’s a really artsy photo of our corner of the restaurant:
We played the first of three Chicago area gigs last night. It was in Wicker Park which is also the area we’re staying at. If it weren’t for the drastically different architecture I would swear I that I was back in Williamsburg. When is the hipster genocide going to occur? Let’s all start holding our breath and breast bones. We wound up playing until about 3am which felt like 4am to me due to the time difference. Silly time zones. It was an average show I suppose. Not bad but not great. It was pretty much a house party situation. I’ll write a full review of the whole trip when I’m not posting this on my phone. Here’s what the place looked like:
Today has just been a lot of driving so far. We left Danville at 10am and we should be in Chicago in an hour or so (9pm). Not much to look at on the highway in Ohio or Indiana. Here’s the wolf that is the Earth swallowing the sun.
I’m currently walking around the lovely but completely dead city of Danville in Pennsyltucky. It’s kind of errie actually.
This is where I’m playing tonight:
“Whatever is out there is carnivorous. And it sounds very…very hungry.”
Once I heard that line 17 minutes into the movie I knew all hope was lost. I’m talking about Planet of Dinosaurs. It’s definitely one of those “hey it’s 3am and I’m delirious and adding weird stuff to my Netflix queue” kind of deals. Heck it’s even playing right now as I write this. It’s just that lame and boring. It doesn’t help that it’s got that whole 70s vibe either. I have a much higher tolerance for crappy 80s movies probably because I grew up with them. I don’t have any info that wikipedia can’t give you but I can say that this is just terrible. Normally this is the kind of thing that I download instead of wasting on Netflix but I couldn’t find a copy online. I can’t blame anyone for not wasting the time to rip and upload this. Please avoid this unwatchable movie at all costs except $2.13 (cough). Wait a minute…my computer is “skipping over damaged area”. This is great news! Now I have a reason to send this back without finishing it! Kudos to you computer and all your massive offspring.
That's me! (The turtle.) A much better dinosaur.
Here’s a quick post to help me stay on that steady one post a day schedule…a’ight?! Cool.
Today I found some books. This is something that happens quite often in my life. I am truly blessed by Satan and all his little wizards I guess. The unusual thing that happened this time is that this fell out of one of the books:
Kind of weird, right? It was in a cookbook. I hope this wasn’t a book that belonged to some sort of sick cannibals or something. We are Indians. There isn’t any writing on the back especially a recipe for Broiled Young Boy. There’s a story here somewhere. If only this picture and cats could speak. The things they’d scream and the cuss words that they’d use. Boy oh boy.
Ladder 69.
I'm calling him Gerald for now.
Whoops!
I’m leaving for Chicago tomorrow. So that’s cool.
Here’s a post for all the Twinks out there! Greetings! (Don’t forget to check out my other Twinkie The Kid post.)
'Owdy Pardnar!
I suggest putting only half of the Twinkie in at first and then shoving the whole thing in.
Like a truck.
This past weekend I went to Philadelphia (aka Dehli) for band rehearsal. This is where the drummer for my main band lives with his wife and kids and two cats and grasshoppers. The bass player and I live in NY. It might seem kind of strange to you that we are in a band with someone who lives two hours away (with good Traffic starring Michael Douglas). If we were in a band with a drummer in NY we would probably rehearse 2 or 3 times a week for a couple hours. The rehearsal space we would use costs $20 an hour so that would come to $80 or $120 a week split 3 ways. I’ll just say that the average would be about $30 that each one of us would spend a week on a rehearsal space. The reality of rehearsal spaces/practice rooms is that you are strictly in a time is money situation. That’s not a very good situation to be especially when you’re trying to be “creative” and connecting with other people on a musical level. (I hope that wasn’t too “deep” for you.) You’re also not playing on the equipment and instruments (if you’re a drummer) that you usually play with.
So…for us to drive to Philly it costs about $40 in gas and tolls roundtrip, which is split between the two NY people. We stay at the drummer’s house and generally eat all of our meals there. I’d say we’re looking at about $20 that we’re each spending a week so that we can rehearse. Plus, we rehearse in the basement of the house whenever we want between 10am and 10pm for as long as we want. Since we wind up rehearsing a good amount in the weekends that we’re there we only make this trip every 2 or 3 weeks. We don’t have to worry about clearing out for the next band or fiddling with equipment that isn’t ours. We can play and write at our own pace without constantly thinking about the money we are paying to rehearse. I think what’s most important is that we can and do spend a lot of time just “hanging out”, watching movies, throwing kids around and just doing like um whatever. I know that with some of the other bands that I’m in we rarely ever socialize outside of rehearsals and shows. Hopefully, you can see that our situation isn’t that strange and maybe even preferable. Also, can you see the sailboat?
A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head!
We don’t have a show until late October which is nice since we’ve been playing a show or two a month. We’re taking the opportunity to work on some new songs without having to make sure that we’re ready with older material for a show. We’ve got some songs coming together that I’m really excited about. Besides writing and rehearsing we didn’t do anything out of the ordinary over the weekend. This time we watched Street Trash and enjoyed the crap out of it. They hadn’t seen it before and I had forgotten how many great lines are in it. Maybe I’ll do a proper review/rant on this movie down the road even though where we’re going we don’t need roads.
I’m playing a few shows in Chicago over the weekend so I should have some sort of mildly interesting anecdotes and photos up here in the coming week.
Here’s one of those musical tubes that you swing around and choke Bums with. Word up.
I’m in Philly just thinking about dolphins. We have band rehearsals here. I’ll explain this whole deal at another time.
Jackercrap 