these hands made of splinters, keep knockin' back the whiskey sours
ok, highlights from tour:
+ day by day experiencing how insane everyone in sleep station is
+ matt and i's hotel room every night being the party room that everyone wanted to stay in
+ dave debiak's memoirs at 3 a.m. in a hotel room... amazing
+ cheech's chin twitch
+ walking past the line of kids going down the street waiting to get in the show and going right in.. hah
+ the Drunk Wars that started in Kansas when me and a few members of The Snake The Cross The Crown decided to keep bringing MBD shots of whiskey onstage in between every song..
+ MBD's retaliation in chicago on us all
+ our counterattack that same night as we made matt so drunk on stage that he had to come off stage to vomit before doing an encore (by means of us getting a beer funnelr and making him battle bot it up in front of all 300+ kids in the club.
+ getting to meet Jenn!! cuz shes awesome
+ The Snake The Cross The Crown
- having to eat pizza in other states away form home (i dont care what anyone says, we all agree the only good pizza is in NJ and NYC... st. louis's pizza was si disgusting it was frankly OFFENSIVE). period. the end. (and i used to stick up for pizza's everywhere saying how could it be bad when matt would bring it up, but now i am a firm believer)
-hurting my hand in Iowa.. during "Last Parade" i realize everyone by me has only been looking at me/taking picutres of me during the entire song., finally after a few minutes i look down and see blood all over my hand and bass. i was playing so hard appernetly that i hit my right hand against the bridge of the bass but didnt even notice. so hard that it didnt just cut me, it took a chunk of skin right off my pinky.. we think you were able to see my pinkiy bone it was so deep. i bled for 2 hours and was pretty much fainting from losing so much blood (but i did finish the set)
+ the 8 free hotel rooms the tour got in the weird hotel that was part of Iowa state university (weird cuase literally the top 4 floors were a hotel, and all the rooms were like over a hundred years old. so we got ot hang out in our rooms before the show, and the place all 18 members of the tour a full dinner fomr the chinese food resturant on tour
+/- seeing that once your band is starting to get some success , THATS when people wanna give you free things and free food and etc..
+ Me and Matt acting out all the lyrics to MBD's set in Ohio (and all dates following) after buying an AMAZING tapestry rug of a dragon for our opium den at a hippie store. AND me and sara taking funny pictures in the photo booth at the venue.
- the 16 hour drive home
- my cell phone having no service for 7 hours in Maine then when it comes back on my entire phone book is erased, all 160+ numbers.. and right now i only have up to 30 back.
so yea, this tour was a lot of fun.. and last night's CMJ show was also fun, and the syndicate's CMJ party the night before that was fucking wild.. heres two pictures from the chicago show (thanks to miss jen)
and on one other note, we WILL be doing a final oval portrait show on halloween at bloomfield ave cafe.. the show is with teh banner and nora so if they do a presale of tickets you might wanna get them that way cause there will most likely be A LOT of people planning on going..
+ day by day experiencing how insane everyone in sleep station is
+ matt and i's hotel room every night being the party room that everyone wanted to stay in
+ dave debiak's memoirs at 3 a.m. in a hotel room... amazing
+ cheech's chin twitch
+ walking past the line of kids going down the street waiting to get in the show and going right in.. hah
+ the Drunk Wars that started in Kansas when me and a few members of The Snake The Cross The Crown decided to keep bringing MBD shots of whiskey onstage in between every song..
+ MBD's retaliation in chicago on us all
+ our counterattack that same night as we made matt so drunk on stage that he had to come off stage to vomit before doing an encore (by means of us getting a beer funnelr and making him battle bot it up in front of all 300+ kids in the club.
+ getting to meet Jenn!! cuz shes awesome
+ The Snake The Cross The Crown
- having to eat pizza in other states away form home (i dont care what anyone says, we all agree the only good pizza is in NJ and NYC... st. louis's pizza was si disgusting it was frankly OFFENSIVE). period. the end. (and i used to stick up for pizza's everywhere saying how could it be bad when matt would bring it up, but now i am a firm believer)
-hurting my hand in Iowa.. during "Last Parade" i realize everyone by me has only been looking at me/taking picutres of me during the entire song., finally after a few minutes i look down and see blood all over my hand and bass. i was playing so hard appernetly that i hit my right hand against the bridge of the bass but didnt even notice. so hard that it didnt just cut me, it took a chunk of skin right off my pinky.. we think you were able to see my pinkiy bone it was so deep. i bled for 2 hours and was pretty much fainting from losing so much blood (but i did finish the set)
+ the 8 free hotel rooms the tour got in the weird hotel that was part of Iowa state university (weird cuase literally the top 4 floors were a hotel, and all the rooms were like over a hundred years old. so we got ot hang out in our rooms before the show, and the place all 18 members of the tour a full dinner fomr the chinese food resturant on tour
+/- seeing that once your band is starting to get some success , THATS when people wanna give you free things and free food and etc..
+ Me and Matt acting out all the lyrics to MBD's set in Ohio (and all dates following) after buying an AMAZING tapestry rug of a dragon for our opium den at a hippie store. AND me and sara taking funny pictures in the photo booth at the venue.
- the 16 hour drive home
- my cell phone having no service for 7 hours in Maine then when it comes back on my entire phone book is erased, all 160+ numbers.. and right now i only have up to 30 back.
so yea, this tour was a lot of fun.. and last night's CMJ show was also fun, and the syndicate's CMJ party the night before that was fucking wild.. heres two pictures from the chicago show (thanks to miss jen)
and on one other note, we WILL be doing a final oval portrait show on halloween at bloomfield ave cafe.. the show is with teh banner and nora so if they do a presale of tickets you might wanna get them that way cause there will most likely be A LOT of people planning on going..