After some hashbrowns dan didnt want, we all met up and drove to Sactown. MOM living there was forced to come along and tell even stranger stories. Sean broke his electric shaver like a week ago and has the longest facial hair he has ever had. He is also wearing these tuff cop glasses. The combination is mind blowing. I suggest you all call him today and ask him to try this out for a month. Lets see where this could go.
So the ride was fun. During, I heard something about poo, a dead rabbit and a bum who enjoys all of this at a MOM show. kerrazy.
We arrived at the pizza joint we were playing a little late. there was a pizza eating contest we didnt get to enter. shucks. turns out Devon williams ( of thee makeout party) was doing some reality tv show work in the same town at the same time, so he was there!!! joys! that night we all came to find out that dan is not "reality tv" material. Not sure what that means, but it sure is funny.
The pizzas (not personal) played. fun. dream date (burger tapes soon?) had a great show too. fun peoples. During our set my floor tom kept falling over and devon would not budge. sticks broke not good. dan broke a string too and asked earlier if he could use dreamdates if this situation came about. they said yes and he unknowingly grabbed someone elses guitar. After playing a song with it, he says "Thanks for letting us use the guitar." They reply with, "thats not ours." Oops. Giggles ripple through the crowd.
Sean and i decided to hang out with pat and deborah for the night and watch the 1988 classic vampire of bikini beach It stars Bob and weird harold. There were not very many radical dudes in the film a beach bunny pointed out. She struck true. Sean wanted to watch zone troopers from the same year, but we all went nappy nap.
Dan and lee went to a party at MOMs house.
Lee: " i had a beer. listened to records at half of their normal speeds.
Dan: Very confused about when he went to sleep and when people left.
Thats about it folks. It was a blast and we love you all. Our swag will forever be turned on.
I think i can see my house from here.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX, Thee!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
I'm sorry for not meeting you last night, sir.
Portland it is. I tried again everyone. But lee is sleeping in the back (somehow he turned into brian the kitty from tours past) and dan would rather type on a tiny phone keyboard than an external keyboard hooked up to a laptop.
Another effort wasted with breakfast. didnt have time i think. Darlene did buy us a bag of chocolate cookies tho. num.
Oh yeah. This kid who thinks we are spiffy and has a zine he is creating took us out to dine and talk into a large recording machine. we did both thoroughly (even dan got a burger!).
We had to hurry after eating the late lunch cuz we had to be at the Summer Bummer Festival at five. We were all pleasantly surprised with MOM who opened the show. It was this great little gal in a minnie mouse-ish uniform and a vocoderish item. she used the dealie to make her voice very high while sluggishly dancing and prancing to some fun musics. Also, while she was doing that, she was taking raw meat and throwing it at/on the floor and people. Dan was hit with a duck head. Next was us. We played super early cuz we jumped on the show and it was a tad bit disappointing. whatcha gonna do?
everyone more or less hung out and around the van until the oh sees played at one in da morning and the door guy complained to us about bringing the party to the van and not backstage. "why would you even do that?" still makes me laugh. Poor pink. We stayed at a chick friends house who had this mini bulldogish dog who purred when you pet him. freaking cute man.
Oh yes. some time during the night it was decided that we were stealing MOM fer the night.
She woke me up by trying to shyly get into the van. or maybe it just seemed shy cuz she has a high voice. We grabbed some breakfast across the way from KINGSTONS and she told us funny stories which are kinda gross funny, but we like that stuff.
Another effort wasted with breakfast. didnt have time i think. Darlene did buy us a bag of chocolate cookies tho. num.
Oh yeah. This kid who thinks we are spiffy and has a zine he is creating took us out to dine and talk into a large recording machine. we did both thoroughly (even dan got a burger!).
We had to hurry after eating the late lunch cuz we had to be at the Summer Bummer Festival at five. We were all pleasantly surprised with MOM who opened the show. It was this great little gal in a minnie mouse-ish uniform and a vocoderish item. she used the dealie to make her voice very high while sluggishly dancing and prancing to some fun musics. Also, while she was doing that, she was taking raw meat and throwing it at/on the floor and people. Dan was hit with a duck head. Next was us. We played super early cuz we jumped on the show and it was a tad bit disappointing. whatcha gonna do?
everyone more or less hung out and around the van until the oh sees played at one in da morning and the door guy complained to us about bringing the party to the van and not backstage. "why would you even do that?" still makes me laugh. Poor pink. We stayed at a chick friends house who had this mini bulldogish dog who purred when you pet him. freaking cute man.
Oh yes. some time during the night it was decided that we were stealing MOM fer the night.
She woke me up by trying to shyly get into the van. or maybe it just seemed shy cuz she has a high voice. We grabbed some breakfast across the way from KINGSTONS and she told us funny stories which are kinda gross funny, but we like that stuff.
One Red Bull + Sean Driving =
Greatness. Sean turned our 20+ hour drive into fifteen max. thanks pal!
Got into town and could not get ahold of our lil pal Darlene so we decided to get breakfast and a movie going. After finding out that no one eats breakfast outside of their homes in seattle before eleven in the morning unless they want a coffee and biscuit, we found sum bullhonkey place where sean could urinate and get a crepe.
Darlene woke up and met us at the theater where we saw District 9. Everyone left very pleased except lee cuz he stayed in the van and fought with some parking enforcement person about the placement of stickers.
Later that night we played the comet tavern. We all imagined there would be no one cuz the Oh Sees were playing down yonder, but we were fortunately incorrect and peeps clapped for us. Also darlenes band, Backwards Mask threw down a mighty show.
Went back to D's house and i watched most of Planet Terror which i hadnt previously seen. Pretty cool. Also cool cuz sean says he loves watching movies with me for i jump like a little girl when anything scary comes on the screen..
Goodnight warshinton.
Got into town and could not get ahold of our lil pal Darlene so we decided to get breakfast and a movie going. After finding out that no one eats breakfast outside of their homes in seattle before eleven in the morning unless they want a coffee and biscuit, we found sum bullhonkey place where sean could urinate and get a crepe.
Darlene woke up and met us at the theater where we saw District 9. Everyone left very pleased except lee cuz he stayed in the van and fought with some parking enforcement person about the placement of stickers.
Later that night we played the comet tavern. We all imagined there would be no one cuz the Oh Sees were playing down yonder, but we were fortunately incorrect and peeps clapped for us. Also darlenes band, Backwards Mask threw down a mighty show.
Went back to D's house and i watched most of Planet Terror which i hadnt previously seen. Pretty cool. Also cool cuz sean says he loves watching movies with me for i jump like a little girl when anything scary comes on the screen..
Goodnight warshinton.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Boonans Pissed Dude.
i forgot to mention this earlier, but sean brought up something that should be read by others. Two years or so ago we played the Radio Heart Beat festival and this one band who is fairly big in sweden, norway, the netherlands, you know somewhere over seas played with us. Now!!! the singers wife who is just as large over there cuz she is some famous stripper has decided to start a pop career by using My Birthday Suit as her hit single. BULLHONKEY.
Boy howdy! Denver denver denver. Weez got there after hours of bullhonkiing. Pat who is/was our local sound engineer/friend/lovely dude/music man got back with his band Weird Al Qeada to play a show with us at his pals bar. Some pretty bad girl rocker band played first. they talked trash on joey ramones vocals so we decided to play after them so we could make fun of their trashy band. Tight show. fun. Weird Al q was up next. they promoted literacy, did a rendition of the danger zone and pat did the robot. hi-larious.
We stayed the singers house that night. he set out really good chocolate candy cookie things and set up a really good seven person tent. sean and i were the only two who ended up sleeping in there. dunno why.
We are on the grapevine currently so imma finish this up pretty quickly. sorry memories.
Boy howdy! Denver denver denver. Weez got there after hours of bullhonkiing. Pat who is/was our local sound engineer/friend/lovely dude/music man got back with his band Weird Al Qeada to play a show with us at his pals bar. Some pretty bad girl rocker band played first. they talked trash on joey ramones vocals so we decided to play after them so we could make fun of their trashy band. Tight show. fun. Weird Al q was up next. they promoted literacy, did a rendition of the danger zone and pat did the robot. hi-larious.
We stayed the singers house that night. he set out really good chocolate candy cookie things and set up a really good seven person tent. sean and i were the only two who ended up sleeping in there. dunno why.
We are on the grapevine currently so imma finish this up pretty quickly. sorry memories.
"the drive to omaha? did something happen?"
what up boonan!? can you get me bobbys number by chance?
Jokes aside we got to O'leavers Pub in a few hours or so. Dan and i had been there before with another band who lee doesnt want named anywhere relating to makeout party. We both remember it being so funny cuz trapped in the closet was just getting all big which we used to our advantage. who doesnt enjoy making four older white trucker guys watch R Kelley do his shit on a big screen while you play music that makes them angry?
This time there were friends and friends of friends to see us actually. during our set, and this had become a tradition on Mop summer tour '09, dan broke a string. Not altogether funny until you let lee/sean/me ramble about how much of an ass dan is for turning down the opporpoonity (thanks billy) to use the first bands guitar without letting him get a correct say in the matter. No place to hold the strap you say? not funny!
guess who didnt go hang out with the guys and gals (the prarries) afterwards and went immediately to sleep! meeee. i hung up some wet clothes all over trees so they could get aired out and less toxic to us folk in the van then went to sleep. lemme ask what happened that night:
Sean says someone got a pizza and tried to feed it to him while he was asleep. Also they greeted him at the house with a pretty sweater. Dan talked lots. Lee stopped people from drawing on sean.
Thanks go out to the Box elders fer hookin' up the show.
Jokes aside we got to O'leavers Pub in a few hours or so. Dan and i had been there before with another band who lee doesnt want named anywhere relating to makeout party. We both remember it being so funny cuz trapped in the closet was just getting all big which we used to our advantage. who doesnt enjoy making four older white trucker guys watch R Kelley do his shit on a big screen while you play music that makes them angry?
This time there were friends and friends of friends to see us actually. during our set, and this had become a tradition on Mop summer tour '09, dan broke a string. Not altogether funny until you let lee/sean/me ramble about how much of an ass dan is for turning down the opporpoonity (thanks billy) to use the first bands guitar without letting him get a correct say in the matter. No place to hold the strap you say? not funny!
guess who didnt go hang out with the guys and gals (the prarries) afterwards and went immediately to sleep! meeee. i hung up some wet clothes all over trees so they could get aired out and less toxic to us folk in the van then went to sleep. lemme ask what happened that night:
Sean says someone got a pizza and tried to feed it to him while he was asleep. Also they greeted him at the house with a pretty sweater. Dan talked lots. Lee stopped people from drawing on sean.
Thanks go out to the Box elders fer hookin' up the show.
Its really hot outside guys. Wait wait...The wedding ceremony is outside!?
Im really sorry everyone. But i do feel that this needs to be finished and finished soon otherwise it aint gonna get. so guess who? Boozoo i mean alex. thats who!
Its about 11 am, the wedding is schedied to start at 2 pm. Sean and I were not ready at all. A quick shower and run to the nearby thrift store will certainly remedy that. and it did. twenty bucks, two jackets and a shirt later we be looking cute and professional.
daniel james is super rad nice and his wife mary who got married is just as raddly super nice. Perfect couple of rockers. The ceremony went over well besides it being hot all the while and then windy when they were trying to light their everlasting love candles.
We had about two hours to kill before the reception was to take place at a local brewery, so we headed over to a spiffy hotel with everyone else, still all spiffy looking. I ordered everyone a dirty martini which dan said i did incorrectly cuz there was vodka in it, not gin. Like the rock n roll adventure kids i enjoyed this drink oh so much. Im assuming that it really has to do with when i was a kid my mom always bought the little green olives with the red dealy in the middle and for a reason unknown to all, i used to drink the juice and think it was super good. im still feeling that delicousness that is a dirty martini.
Two hours and three martinis that no one would finish later we were slated to play in this brewery we actually took a tour of a year ago. Free beer was flowin, my red face a showin. Goodnight loving played before us. that made me feel pretty comfortable not being the first doods up. we played a great set i think. after us, this japanese punk band, blotto, who was flown down just fer the occasion played. then this band everyone knew about called the ergs played. good times were had by all!!
The after party wasnt really a party unless you are sean or me and really enjoy mystery science theater 3000 video tapes. I do enjoy them cuz i am alex and that party was my favorite by far! damn that show rocks. also my arms are hurting from pressing up against this laptop for two hours of "blogging" weeeeeee!
Its about 11 am, the wedding is schedied to start at 2 pm. Sean and I were not ready at all. A quick shower and run to the nearby thrift store will certainly remedy that. and it did. twenty bucks, two jackets and a shirt later we be looking cute and professional.
daniel james is super rad nice and his wife mary who got married is just as raddly super nice. Perfect couple of rockers. The ceremony went over well besides it being hot all the while and then windy when they were trying to light their everlasting love candles.
We had about two hours to kill before the reception was to take place at a local brewery, so we headed over to a spiffy hotel with everyone else, still all spiffy looking. I ordered everyone a dirty martini which dan said i did incorrectly cuz there was vodka in it, not gin. Like the rock n roll adventure kids i enjoyed this drink oh so much. Im assuming that it really has to do with when i was a kid my mom always bought the little green olives with the red dealy in the middle and for a reason unknown to all, i used to drink the juice and think it was super good. im still feeling that delicousness that is a dirty martini.
Two hours and three martinis that no one would finish later we were slated to play in this brewery we actually took a tour of a year ago. Free beer was flowin, my red face a showin. Goodnight loving played before us. that made me feel pretty comfortable not being the first doods up. we played a great set i think. after us, this japanese punk band, blotto, who was flown down just fer the occasion played. then this band everyone knew about called the ergs played. good times were had by all!!
The after party wasnt really a party unless you are sean or me and really enjoy mystery science theater 3000 video tapes. I do enjoy them cuz i am alex and that party was my favorite by far! damn that show rocks. also my arms are hurting from pressing up against this laptop for two hours of "blogging" weeeeeee!
Faux bunnies
Welly well wel well...Lets see here. I tried my best to get someone else to write down a few words and lee was the one who grabbed the torch of love. His grip wasnt very tight and it seems that the torch fell back onto my lap after what he jotted down "erased" somehow.
Onto tomorrow! The only thing anyone can recall about the morning after millys basement show was waking up, doing more laundry and walking in on lee in another basement asleep on the floor. We drove back to...(oh damn i just remembered but before we left, Dave (from the box elders) had brought everyone grapes. sean pigged out because they were delicious.) ...Justbunnies house in chicagogo where we ate oven-baked pizza and watched two more episodes of lost. Nobunnies got in our van, minus justin who was feeling ill since before elk burgers the other day, and we were off to the show. Packed full of gross men we arrived at the Bottom lounge. There was some b-day party and another show going on so we got something to eat at the bar. On the tube was Army of darkness so sean and i geeked out fer a bit. Oh yeah, jackie who is totally awesome for looking after my kitties back home, was still with us and ordered a veggie burger. SUCKED. not only cuz it was a veggie burger, but because it came with a tangy hummus sauce that ruined the whole dish.
Line-up tonight: Yolks, Rock 'n Roll adventure kids, Thee MOP, Nobunny?.
The yolks were just great. sean explains the yolks as "Nobunny covering one of their songs so they're good and also they're poppy punk with more pop than punk. You know...a rock and roll band."
Rock n roll kids - Its Marcos and billy who are brothers and are also two of three backing members from nobunny when we arent stealing that tag. Blew me away. In yer face good time rock/roll superb! i really enjoyed them.
Us - it was alright. its pretty neat that all the kids are singing along to songs.
uhhhh... Nobunny - Lemme tell you about this here night. So after we play i see billy hanging out talking with the stage crew fools. and not like, "hey this show is great" talk, but "fuck...Justin just texted me and said he is sick and wont make it now. He turned his phone off too." People all over were freakin out a bit. This is where we get to the fake bunny part. it was so entertaining to watch all of this come to fruition, i wish you all were there. Supposedly nobunny has come across this little problem before and i think someone like Jasbunny (the guitar player) just sang. This time he did not want to. Also he did not want to pay for the drinks that he had stacked up in nobunnys name. What to do!?! Oh. lets get some paper and make a nobunny mask for the yolks singer to use while being faux bunny. amazingly enough, everything went over extremely well. tons of people cheering, dancing, screaming "You aren't NOBUNNY!" in the front row, Nathan/Fauxbunny screaming back at them to "SHUT THE FUCK UP IN THE FRONT ROW!@!!", sean having a blast and dan wishing he was nathbunny.
Now, one would think that could not be topped, but after parties can get a little outta HAND. especially when they involve roman candles that backfire. Once again i went to the van to nap whilst others went to a house full of loud people with irritable roommates.
I woke up relatively early with eight people wanting in the van at once. They had sullen faces. all of them. Which i thought is pretty strange cuz one of them had a box of donuts with em. Only after dan told me about being kicked out of the house at six in the morning because one of the yolks brought out a firework that exploded making a terribly loud noise and a terribly messy job of his hand did the upset moods make sense. Fun fun fun in the sun sun with us on the run run run. Back to Milwaukee for the wedding which we booked the entire tour around. new post? yes!
Onto tomorrow! The only thing anyone can recall about the morning after millys basement show was waking up, doing more laundry and walking in on lee in another basement asleep on the floor. We drove back to...(oh damn i just remembered but before we left, Dave (from the box elders) had brought everyone grapes. sean pigged out because they were delicious.) ...Justbunnies house in chicagogo where we ate oven-baked pizza and watched two more episodes of lost. Nobunnies got in our van, minus justin who was feeling ill since before elk burgers the other day, and we were off to the show. Packed full of gross men we arrived at the Bottom lounge. There was some b-day party and another show going on so we got something to eat at the bar. On the tube was Army of darkness so sean and i geeked out fer a bit. Oh yeah, jackie who is totally awesome for looking after my kitties back home, was still with us and ordered a veggie burger. SUCKED. not only cuz it was a veggie burger, but because it came with a tangy hummus sauce that ruined the whole dish.
Line-up tonight: Yolks, Rock 'n Roll adventure kids, Thee MOP, Nobunny?.
The yolks were just great. sean explains the yolks as "Nobunny covering one of their songs so they're good and also they're poppy punk with more pop than punk. You know...a rock and roll band."
Rock n roll kids - Its Marcos and billy who are brothers and are also two of three backing members from nobunny when we arent stealing that tag. Blew me away. In yer face good time rock/roll superb! i really enjoyed them.
Us - it was alright. its pretty neat that all the kids are singing along to songs.
uhhhh... Nobunny - Lemme tell you about this here night. So after we play i see billy hanging out talking with the stage crew fools. and not like, "hey this show is great" talk, but "fuck...Justin just texted me and said he is sick and wont make it now. He turned his phone off too." People all over were freakin out a bit. This is where we get to the fake bunny part. it was so entertaining to watch all of this come to fruition, i wish you all were there. Supposedly nobunny has come across this little problem before and i think someone like Jasbunny (the guitar player) just sang. This time he did not want to. Also he did not want to pay for the drinks that he had stacked up in nobunnys name. What to do!?! Oh. lets get some paper and make a nobunny mask for the yolks singer to use while being faux bunny. amazingly enough, everything went over extremely well. tons of people cheering, dancing, screaming "You aren't NOBUNNY!" in the front row, Nathan/Fauxbunny screaming back at them to "SHUT THE FUCK UP IN THE FRONT ROW!@!!", sean having a blast and dan wishing he was nathbunny.
Now, one would think that could not be topped, but after parties can get a little outta HAND. especially when they involve roman candles that backfire. Once again i went to the van to nap whilst others went to a house full of loud people with irritable roommates.
I woke up relatively early with eight people wanting in the van at once. They had sullen faces. all of them. Which i thought is pretty strange cuz one of them had a box of donuts with em. Only after dan told me about being kicked out of the house at six in the morning because one of the yolks brought out a firework that exploded making a terribly loud noise and a terribly messy job of his hand did the upset moods make sense. Fun fun fun in the sun sun with us on the run run run. Back to Milwaukee for the wedding which we booked the entire tour around. new post? yes!
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