TOUR DIARY #1

WINTER WONDERTOUR BLOG 1
I'm currently in the home of Seamonster, aka Todd, who we played with tonight at Volume CDs. He sounds SO similar to Neutral Milk Hotel, it's ridiculous. AND he has the most awesome house I've ever seen. He's got tons of stuff, but it's all perfect. There's a TV fireplace in the corner, a foosball table, and a framed photo of Kiefer Sutherland (in honor of 24) just to name a few things. Expect a tour on the video we're gonna make.

We got to Volume CDs today at around 6pm, right on time. We got a little held up in the morning at Cracker Barrel with Dylan Gilbert, but it's all good! Any time spent with Dylan is time well spent.

Speaking of him, our show last night in Hickory, NC at Tee & Coffee Co. was awesome! Hickory is a great town to start a tour off with. I love everyone who lives there! We played with two really great bands too: Dear Cavalier and Linus Van Pelt. And of course, we were followed by Dylan, who put on an amazing show, as usual. Afterwards, we all went out to IHOP and got an extremely long table - I think it's become a tradition! I met some great people who I can't wait to see again. We'll be back to Hickory soon!

Unfortunately, we soon realized that we had left our camera charger at Tee & Coffee Co. so we won't have any photos from the tour!!! At least not until we get ourselves some disposables. But, we will have lots of video footage.

Anyway, last night we stayed in Dylan Gilbert's house and finally got to see "where the magic happens" (as they say). We rolled in at 3am and were greeted by walls covered in pictures documenting the life of Dylan, courtesy of his parents, who were sleeping upstairs. When we woke up the next morning at 8:30 we took showers and got ready to hit the road, but not without first seeing Dylan's home studio in the basement. Imagine the coolest vintage one-room studio you could possibly imagine. There were more guitars in there than I could count. And I got to play his THEREMIN!! Holy god. That was fun.

Then it was Cracker Barrel time. A game of checkers, a long wait, an egg sandwich, and a ton of biscuits later, we hit the road for real. We had to make one Wal-Mart run halfway through the trip, but we successfully got in and out with no trouble. Thank god for the $0.97 travel aisle!

As said before, we got to Volume CDs at 6pm and set up to play the show. The crowd was minimal but ALL awesome people! We made some new friends and formed a conga line around the store (which was awkward but wonderful). Afterwards we hit up Taco Bell like demons, and followed our GPS (Garmin Sandiego) to Todd's house, where we watched two episodes of 24 with him and his roommates. We learned about Mike Doyle jokes (MIKE DOYLE: THE PERFECT STORM) and found out that Todd is not only a great musician, but a really talented cartoonist who draws for Nick magazine and has his own books!.

And, here I am now!

Tomorrow we head to Philadelphia to play at The Palindrome.

That's it. More tomorrow, or the next time I have internet!