10/31 - 11/1

Oh my gosh has it been a hectic past few days. Nonetheless, this weekend r00led extra hard. To start off, let's meet our gang.

Scott (Me): Guitar/Vocals



Brian: Guitar



Terri: Bass/Vocals



Zach: Drums



Ron: Beast from X-Men



Breanna: Merch



Friday, Brian and I got picked up at my apartment and then we were off to Highland, Indiana for a Halloween show at Bean Counters. We get to Paw Paw and make a stop to stretch our legs and go to the bathroom only to realize that the lock on the back of our trailer had fallen off. This same thing happened a few weeks back at one of our shows. So basically we suck at keeping locks. We bought a heavy duty one this time so hopefully we can keep it forever.

When we got to the show the first thing Zach said was, "If we have to play first, I'm gonna be soooo pissed." You have to realize that he was already pissed from the awesome driving that he had to deal with on 94 West (Sarcasm). Lo and behold, I walk inside to figure things out and they tell me that we're playing first...Haha. It really didn't matter much. There were about 10 people at the show. We played well and made friends with some cool dudes from the band, The CoverUp. Oh yeah, we broke (well Breanna did) the door to the venue. Luckily they weren't mad.

Afterwards I called Pilgrims to see if we could get onto their show because I thought it was only an hour away. Turns out, it was further than I thought it was and the kid putting it on didn't want to wait for us to get there. Gosh, one of these days we'll actually play with them.

We drove through the night to Terri's friend's place back in Kalamazoo where we would be playing the next day. We get there and all of us feel super out of place. To make things worse, I tried to get everyone's attention to ask them if anyone there liked Fart Porn. The responses I got were , "No one cares." "and "Do you have weed? I'll watch Fart Porn for weed!" Oh good old college kids.

Anyways, our gang sans-Terri ended up driving around Kzoo looking for a place to stay and ending up just sleeping in the van. Oh well. Here are pics from the first day/night.

Van rides!







Broken door!



Ron and I tried to do that crazy thing where you shake your face and then get funny pics of yourself. Here I am in all my glory!



Venue!







Billy Ray Cyrus/The CoverUp





Saturday, we woke up in the van and it smelled. We had to put up a new air-freshener it smelled so bad. After picking up Terri from his boy's house, we went to guitar center because I needed to get new strings. We hung out there for a while playing different guitars and shit. It's always a good time killer. Once we got sick of the eclectic noise and realized our stomachs were in need of filling, we headed over to Fazoli's. This was probably my favorite meal of the whole weekend. We got hooked up with unlimited breadsticks. Awesome.

I tried getting ahold of Ender since we were going to be staying with them that night but it took Dave a while to respond to my text, so in that time we ended up in downtown Kalamazoo. From there we ended up at some free museum. It seems like we always end up at free museums. Oh well, it's something to do. We hung out there for a while and then got ahold of Ender and headed over to their house to hang out before our show.

If you don't know the band Ender, check them out! www.myspace.com/endermi

Not only do they rule as a band, they rule as people and it was awesome hanging out with them. Dave was at work so we hung out with Schyler and Dustin. We played video games and foosball for the most part. Dustin and I played doubles against Schyler and Brian. It was the most epic game of foosball I have ever been a part of. It ruled.

We then headed to the show. We got there and found out we had to play first. I just love the fact that it seems we always have to play first and after every time we do people come up and say, "Wow, you guys shouldn't have played first." Oh well. We're playing places that we've never been to before.

The stage at this show was the smallest and most awkward stage that I have ever played on. It had different levels to put amps on and just ultimately didn't work well. But hey, that's just my opinion.

We played really well...at least that's what people were saying. It was so hard to tell in that room.

Schyler and Dustin hung out for a while at the show and then headed back to their house. We stayed at the show and then ended up getting lost going back to their house. Beast saved us again.

We hung out with Ender for the rest of the night/next day before returning home. They're becoming our new best friends and we're doing a little weekend tour with them in December. We're all excited. Now for more pics!

My view waking up in the van!





Fazoli's!





Downtown Kalamazoo!





Museum Pics!

















This is a dollhouse...







More Museum Pics!















Hanging out with Ender!





We tried to creep out this Lady...



At the show







I taught Dustin how to "Secret Move"...



This lady was super into it!



To finish it off, I worked on a series called "crotch shots" for the weekend. So let's play guess who!

A.



B.



C.



D.



E.



Answers.

A. Brian
B. Dustin
C. Ron
D. Zach
E. Scott

See you next time,
Scott

Oh yeah, here's a video of some jams!