Tour
Journals
October 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Blog Eat Blog (Nintendo Fusion Tour Up To Date)
So... I'm in New Orleans and isolated to the back of our bus due to an extreme downpour of precipitation. The venue is about 3 blocks away, and I don't feel up to swimming there yet. That means I have cabin fever and enough time to sit down and blog a bit. We never really got rolling on the tour journals for this tour, so the farther we got behind, the more intimidated we became at attempting to do any. Nervous laugh... *Tee hee. I must say, however, this has been a substantially uneventful tour so far.
The first thing to report is that we found out a few weeks ago that the official release for Five Score And Seven Years Ago is now March sixth two thousand and seven. Despite being bummed about the push back, we're very excited to have an official date to get this thing out there.
As far as the tour goes, the shows have been a blast. Some better than others, but a blast none the less. We're kind of playing warped tour style on this tour. No soundcheck... just jump up on stage and play for 40 min. We're playing a new tune called Devastation and Reform. Its one of the darker ones from the record, but since we're playing with Emery, The Sleeping, and Hawthorne, we figured it be fine to do something like that on this tour. The Atlanta kids have probably been the most enthusiastic of the tour so far, and the Jacksonville show was probably the most awkward for us (3pm show in a shake your booty club..haha...).
So.. what have we been doing with ourselves? Not too much... We've been playing 6 player Mario Kart on our Nintendo DS LIte's. We've been watching A LOT of football. The best was hanging out with Dave of The Plain White T's during the Chicago/Arizona Monday night game this last week. He's a native of Chicago, and he was flipping out during their crazy comeback. We've cracked out the poker table a few times, and I won the first two tournaments. Yay for me. We've also decided to be a chorus line for Halloween, so we've been collecting feather boas and sequined hats. The choreography is in desperate need of improvement, however. That, dispersed among trips to an alligator farm (Myrtle Beach) and the Atlanta Aquarium, about sums it up.
Now that I've initiated some activity on this blog page, updates should follow with an air of consistency.
later, brothers and sisters.
Matthew Thiessen
Friday, October 27, 2006
Maybe This Will Blog Your Memory
Well... Its been another week.... and we've been pretty weak about updating the ol' weB LOG. Playing in New Orleans was incredible. We haven't played in New Orleans proper since 2000, and we didn't know what to expect. What we got was an amazing group of kids who seemed to get into all the bands (which doesn't happen enough on this tour). The next two shows were in TX. We LOVE playing in Texas, and this venture through the "State of The Arts" (thats their slogan) was enjoyable. Our show in Arizona was the most unique of the tour. One of us had a death in the family, and due to flight limitations, we played second out of the five bands. We had to cut our set as well, but doing so made it possible for travel to the funeral. Despite being bummed about the circumstances, we really enjoyed the show. The crowd was really understanding and very good to us. After the show, some people (that will remain anonymous) decided to relieve their bladders and repeatedly stab (with a knife) our Merle The Squirrel backdrop. All I can do is laugh about that. Poor Merle. Hawthorne Heights' basketball hoop was also destroyed. When they found out, there was a lot of basket bawling. The next few days took us through California. We got to meet up with a lot of our really good friends from bands such as Mae, The Rocket Summer, Over It, and Melee. There's nothing better than seeing good buddies in the middle of the tour. It makes you feel almost at home. The Anaheim and San Francisco shows were really between two and three tons of fun.......... The LA show was..... *sigh. Tonight we're going to play San Diego, which was named after St. Diego. (Although there's been some debate about that). Matthew Thiessen.