warming up

i had some doubt yesturday while we were packing up the van. there's so much stuff, and i also knew that we were picking up an extra passenger on the way out of san diego.

we got everything packed in pretty tight and realized that we would have to take everything out again once we got to the show because the equipment was behind all the suitcases and stuff.

not 10 minutes after we got moving we noticed some smoke coming from the front passenger side of the van so we stopped at a mobil and checked it out. my first thought was that after all this planning and anticipation that we would be grounded for several days and would have to drive extra long to catch up with our shows.

after some collaborative thinking, we realized that it was most likely the new brakes getting broken in. so we hit the road again and made up to long beach a few hours and a gas stop later.

when we got the prospector we found out that we were playing last instead of second because we were a little late but that was a bit surprising because we were told to be there at 930 and we arrived at 925 but oh well. we just waited around for a long time. i went inside and checked out the set-up which was pretty cool. the crowd was responsive and totally into the music which is always a huge plus.

but the other bands (one of which had an ex-member of the dandy warhols, ha) played long sets and by the time we started loading in it was 1245 and most of the people had gone. so we rushed to set everything and ran through a condensed version of our already short set. it was surprisingly rewarding because the few people that remained to watch us were into it.

we ended up selling 2 cds and a shirt and got a show offer if we ever decide to play in buffalo by the sound guy. i was tired and we went back to one of ryan's friends amazing house where i got to crash on a bed inside a trailer in the driveway.

i woke up to cereal and eventually went swimming. now i'm hungry and we need to figure out what we're going to do with ourselves tonight because we were unable to find a replacement for the fresno show that was cancelled.