the camera and the Che

jeff tuay came over yesturday to film a video for "sword in hand" original plans made use of altering the speed of the animation so we slowed the first half of the song down a bit with some windows audio program and sped the end segment up. that way when we all played along with those edited versions, the camera would film it at normal speed but then could be altered to allow for some (hopefully) interesting-looking footage.

it was a very tiring process and i don't know if we filmed enough auxiliary stuff besides just the band shots but who knows.

anyway, that whole process pretty much tired me out and i kind of forgot that we had a show at the Che a few hours away, so we packed up the Tom Hanks real quick and got over to ucsd. although we were running behind schedule we were still the first band to get there even tho we were last to play. nice. so we loaded all our gear over to the side of the stage so we could be ready to go.


then i got settled at the merch table trying to look awake but was hard to fake that with all the yawning. curly and ej arrived later with some cold ones which gave me the second wind that i needed. we hung out in the hanks for a while and met up with all sorts of friends and colleagues.


then when it was time we set up and all put on our costumes; mine was itchy and sweaty after 5 minutes but it was fine. the show was probably the best show i've ever played. it was completely fullilling and such a rush to hear the intensity of the crowd's reactions. we even got encored for ever since. lots of fun, but i was exhausted and need to go to bed to get ready for the 4th of july party at binns's, which is a bout to happen now!

TCHUS