curly ej and i were handing out flyers to people walking around. a group of girls stopped to talk to us for a while. they were interested but were under 21 so they couldn't come to the show. they did say they wanted to party later tho. a couple of them said they had a place that we were more than welcome to stay at. they said they'd have a party. in the meantime, they suggested getting some wine and drinking it in wicker park around the corner.
eric helped us load our stuff into the corner the pool table room which was right behind the stage. we stopped by a nice italian dinner place called the Bin Wine Cafe and tried some samples of wine. i bought one of the cheapest i could find. then we headed over to wicker park and met up with the people we had met on the sidewalk. we got to talk to them and their friends for a while before we had to head back.
we walked back to the venue and got ready to play. we were third on the bill so we watched the first band, Your Best Friend, who was made up of some older folk and i was afraid we might be the oddball on the bill, again. as they were transitioning between bands, a few of us walked up the street to get a slice of pizza since the wine had made us hungry. we made it back in time to see the second band: the piano-driven local group, filligar.
as they finished up i asked them if we could borrow their bass amp since ours was constantly cutting out and was sub-par anyway considering the large stage. it was a pretty fun show and there were a few people from the audience that were dancing at times, that's always enjoyable. eric videotaped a couple songs and said afterwards that we had improved immensely since the last show he'd seen of ours back in philly.
it was pretty hot up there and i was exhausted by the time we finished up. we got all our junk off the stage and made way for the final band, 'Picture Books' who began their set with a sort of group lullaby in the crowd then made their way on stage and plugged in their acoustic instruments. they had a fair amount of supporters in the audience.
i ate some cheetos out in the Hanker and we all caught bits and pieces of picture books' set. curly and i both thought they were kinda like hoots & hellmouth. afterwards we loaded up the hanks. and curly called the girls who had offered us a place to stay. we found a place to park around the corner and brought all our stuff in.
when we got inside we realized that they had organized a small party but we low on beers and definitely didn't have enough to spare. they said that the only place within walking distance was a few blocks away and would be closing in 10 minutes. so we got directions and binns jake and i ran for it. i got tired with just a couple blocks short. jake made it almost the whole way. when we got there we didn't see any place open. there was a place that had close a few hours before that they must have been talking about but oh well.
we walked to a seven 11 on the way back but were 5 minutes past 2 am so they couldn't sell us any thing. EJ tried to get the cashier to break the rules for him but she wouldn't budge on it. meanwhile, outside, i was talking to some guy who was looking for a ride and somehow knew that we were in a band. i asked if he was at the show but i couldn't understand his response. i told him that we were just walking so he went away.
Ej found a VHS tape on the ground on the walk back and he opened it up and let the tape unwind as we were walking. it ended up stretching pretty far, around traffic lights and signs and stuff. a police suv drove past us and obviously saw him but i guess they were off duty cause they just kept going.
they later went for a drive to a 24 hour beer place and EJ picked up a case of high lifes for the festivities. we stayed up pretty late and played some card games. one of teh beers began exploding slowly and after 10 minutes resembled one of those baking soda and vinegar volcano demonstrations you saw in elementary school.
i passed out on a loveseat as the sun was starting to come up
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