Tour: Day Six

i awoke in the wonderful land of Ann Arbor. after much running around and trying to park without getting towed, i found a parking garage. then, at night, derek and i played the most unusual open mic ever ever ever! it proves everything i've ever said about ypsilanti.

during my adventures in AA, i bought the first clash album on vinyl, as well as the limited vinyl version of Brian Wilson Presents: Smile! then i sold all of my aforementioned thrift clothes for a lot of money to a wonderful store called The Get Up (you should go there if you are ever in MI).

after the crazy open mic, derek and i then watched his friends at the Fire Fly. it's a wonderful jazz club. i drank a "black heart"... it's like a black and tan without the tan, and instead, some other lighter beer that i do not know about.

the band was wonderful.

woody, their pianist, then went to Happy's Pizza with derek and i for a delightful dinner/viewing of seinfeld.

the night ended with some south park.

we also got lost a lot.

thanks derek and tomek for a couch and shower!

Tour: Day Five

after leaving akron, i went into the magical land of Michigan, and the less magical Lansing.

i soon discovered that Mac's Bar was right off of the highway, and not downtown at all! so, i settled into Gone Wired Cafe, where i capered and sang and coaxed my way into eating their food, stealing their internet, and consuming their coffee.

then the show.

i met the guys from the opening band June Star, andrew and tim. they were very nice and very talented. we spoke about music and not music and then music some more.

then derek and his friend alex arrived and we played a show to the bar tender and sound guy. they were both very nice, and the sound guy, ben, was a great great dude.

i then stayed with derek and we had fun watching petey greene and listening to billy bragg.

TOur: Day Four

this was a day off. me and donovan hung out in akron all day, ate pizza, made copies, watched the internet, and then ended the day with some TMNT!!!!

it was a good day off.

Tour: Day Three

so, after staying with sherrie, i decided to do some thrift store shopping. i bought a ton of amazing stuff as well as a charlie brown christmas book on record.

i then went to a flea market and had fun with local crazies looking at crap and lots and lots of dvd's, steeler's memorabilia, and dirty old things!

then i got lost and went to Zanesville. with the help of Tobias, i was able to find my way into good old mount vernon.

i was just supposed to play guitar for the glam-punk operation: THE FUSS, but after a band cancelled, this quickly became an actual part of the tour, and the most successful yet!

it was good to play with andy and my dad in the fuss, as well as seeing the guys from aces, 7sc, and especially having a fun ol' reunion with the boys in Goodnight Wednesday.

i then broke andy's hip and stayed at his house.

that was the day. we were all very tired.

Tour: Day two (cont.)

the show went very well. after waiting a long time for a microphone cable, and then having to drive and get one 20 minutes away, i played an hour and a half set of music from my past three albums, and some hopefuls for "carnivore". mitch, the wonderful owner of Friends Roastery set me up to stay with sherrie:


this is sherrie. i ate at sheets while she paid a pizza guy that she shorted a few nights earlier. she is an eccentric lady, with art and trinkets and collectible everywhere. we talked for hours about random stuff. then i met my favourite thing ever:


this is juice box. it has the Welcome Back Kotter theme song in it's catalogue of 45's. it was wonderful.



then i sat on a throne of lies.




then i met Zeoose... he's a Zebra_Moose combo.




then cane decided to jump on me a million times while i was going to bed and then later, waking up.


it was very nice to meet a person like sherrie on the road.

Tour: Day two

today i went to salem. it's a small town that i have grown to love, mostly because the coffee is as amazing as the Goodwill, and it's very historical (i.e. i found 8" IBM diskettes at the office supplies store... WTF???)


another reason why i like salem. this is someone's backyard.



the people at Friends Roastery are so good to me. they let me stay in the art gallery, fed me lunch and TONS of coffee. this is always a good atmosphere to create, relax, and re-burn all of the mono copies of Herbivore into true stereo (which means that the reverb isn't phase cancelled, the bass line of the carver pingpongs back and forth, and the shaker/woodblock barrage is in your RIGHT ear!)



here is herbivore, by the by:

Tour: Day One

i left ohio and decided to go to PA and see what it did for me. the city was much larger than i recalled, and it was beautiful since it actually has hills unlike columbus.

i then played at the lava lounge where i met people. it looked like what lava would look like if it were a lounge.

then i stayed with bill of the band Life In Bed. his house was nice and full of artwork done by his sister. we watched his security camera as some crazy person knocked on his door. we then watched audrey hepburn be amazing in My Fair Lady. i decided to go to bed, but the only thing i could get on the tv in my room was Poker After Dark, so that had to do.