A Bit Of The Road

Hey all, 

I know this is a bit late in coming, but we wanted to thank each and every one of you who came to our shows this past weekend! 

Let's just recap:

Day 1

We met up at our rehearsal space in DUMBO around 1:30pm on Friday afternoon with our bright red rental van in tow. Actually, I was the first one there so it was my job to move all our shit out of our room and down a long hallway without anything being stolen, which was rad. We made it down to Baltimore at around 6ish and loaded into Metro Gallery, where we met up the rest of the bands. It was great to see the boys from FFHH again and a pleasure to meet E. Joseph finally. We went out to dinner with our friend Felipe who took us to this crazy ass restaurant called XS, which is built on four levels. Yeah. It must suck to be a waiter there. 

Baltimore is a strange city. We were standing outside the club with some of our friends when this random dude came up to me and gave me a plastic bag with two Natty Bo's in them. That's National Bohemian - a Baltimore beer that's like Genny Light if you are from upstate NY. Anyway two of our friends just cracks them open and starts drinking them on the street because the police are "too busy preventing real crime." Sweet. 

After the show we went out to eat again, because we are like that. We went to this crazy ass diner with toys and mannequins glued to every conceivable surface. It was raining pretty hard at this point, but I didn't really give a damn because I'd been drinking. Then we went to Flippy's house to sleep. And by house, I mean gallery because Felipe actually lives at an old factory that's converted into an art space. A band had just played a show there and all their stuff was still set up on the stage, which had thick carpeting. We decided to sleep on the stage because the carpet looked so inviting. Jera decided to put on some Band of Horses to go to sleep to, but Will kept on telling him to turn it down. That's all I remember. 

Day 2

We woke up on the stage, which was really weird. Will said something like, "In my life I always wake up on the stage" or something like that. We drove to DC and Jera and Will walked around for miles and miles while I had lunch with some friends. We met up around 3:30pm with our friend Kyle and the four of us went to the National Geographic museum, which is basically like, if you took a bunch of photos out of back issues and blew them up and put them on a white wall. It was pretty sweet. 

We were supposed to load into the Red and the Black at 6pm, but when we got there, they wouldn't let us in until 7. This sucked. Then, while we were trying to find a place in front of the club to park the van, and I got told to fuck off by some girl who stole our parking spot. I hate her. 

Special thanks to Mary Bragg, Paperhaus and Loose Lips for putting on an awesome show! The place was super packed and it was super rad! I again got kind of drunk (well maybe super) at this show. It seems to be a trend. Anyway, the best part of the show (well no, the worst) was right at the very end of the last song, Will's pedals freaked out and there was no sound coming out of his amps, so Will threw his guitar on the ground! Sounds so rock and roll and sweet but actually, it's his favorite guitar and he broke the neck off of it... sucks.  Oh and you know what else sucks? driving from DC to Olean, NY. Yea. So we drove to Hagerstown, MD to rest up for the night. I believe I fell asleep while watching Three's Company. Did I mention that it was still raining?

Day 3

Ugh. Wake up hung over. It's my turn to drive. And it's raining. Sucks. Drove through MD and PA. Somewhere along the way, we drove through fog for a good bit and I couldn't see a damn thing. Everything was white. Then Will took over the driving and I fell asleep. Then we were at St. Bonuventure. Totally rad. We are playing with Ra Ra Riot. Thank you so much to all the dudes who helped us unload our shit! I hardly had to carry anything. I felt like royalty. 

We ate dinner at the dining hall, which really was a flashback to college days. Same food, same decor. 

We were super psyched to play with Ra Ra Riot. Sweet band. But they were kinda cold to us. Can't explain. Well ok, so one of the members asked me if we went to college there. That's all she said to me. That's it. Did I mention that the bar had 75 cent beers? Did I drink? Hell yes.

It was great to be able to play a full set for the kids tho -  last year we play for about ten seconds before a hurricane destroyed the stage and threatened to kill us. 

We drove to Binghamton to stay the night at yet another motel 6. We actually ran into Ra Ra Riot at a gas station somewhere along the line, but that part of the night was a bit hazy for me. I think I chugged a beer at that gas station... I fell asleep while Jera and Will drank beers. I think Will was dry-humping me at some point. 

Day 4

Wake up. It's still raining. We went to a drive thru Starbucks. Weird. And we stopped at a whats it called? It's like a crackerbarrel but it's some dude's name. Anyway, we get back to DUMBO around 12pm. We unload everything and I hop on the subway back home. Weird. It's like none of it happened at all.