Sunday, September 28, 2008

Rubber Bandits

Today, we drove. And drove. And drove. The overnight drive from the Memphis area to right outside of Baltimore took longer than any of us expected.

We finally pulled up to the hotel around 7pm local time but not before various bus hijinks and bad movies went down. When I roused this morning, the atrocious King Arthur was just being placed in the DVD player. First of all, I'm not too big on mythology and other various tales and especially not when they are retold by a whole host of overactors reading from an immature script.

The second movie was the now legendary among the crew Mr. Woodcock. Fantastic. I hardly remember laughing that hard at any movie that has come out in the past three years. Then, disaster: a five car pile up that kept us at a snail's pace for an hour.

Have no fear though, loyal readers, we know how to keep ourselves entertained. In this case, we loaded up our rubberband guns and aimed at open windows in the stop and go traffic. Yours truly made it into two open sunroofs before the wreck was cleared and traffic thinned out.

Finally, I was tortured with the suckfest (no pun intended) that is Underworld. My mind screams for intelligent conversation. Hopefully I can find it at dinner this evening.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

And so it has begun.

So I'm back on tour. We are currently on a little bit of downtime before show number two in luscious Robinsonville, MS. Last night we played in Fayetteville, AR at the Blues, Bikes, and BBQ biker rally. It was actually pretty cool to walk around and see all the bikes and hilarious biker wear. I was the outsider because I wasn't wearing a sleeveless shirt (especially one that is frayed at the shoulders). The day before in the Houston airport I was the outsider because I was wearing baseball cap and converses with my Western style shirt instead of cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. Texans, as I've stated before, are funny.

Getting away from my attire and the fashion sense of others, I am on show two of I believe eleven on this leg. I decided to stick around for the entire second leg and will therefore be on the road until approximately the 14th before leaving again for the weekend with MyNameIsJohnMichael and then out to Los Angeles for a showcase the first week in November. I calculated that by the end of the year, I will have been on tour for something around 70 shows in 2008, up from 11 last year.

I'll be checking in hopefully more frequently than I have been between tours so please check back often. I'm off to the casino to watch Brad lose money to the video poker machines.