Remember "Friendster"?

Whatever billionaire asshole owns that titanic failure of a website needs to figure out a marketing plan that isn't basically spam. Oh yeah, and this kind of thing.

WE HAVE A WINNER

Midwest Girls

I don't really know what strain of genetics is responsible for this look, but there are so many of them in middle America. Just this kind of forgettable, doughy, marginally attractive and usually blond girls. More so with the one on the right (the girl on the left was into obscure free jazz which immediately made her more attractive then her friend could ever really comprehend)

recomended reading

that knew chuck klosterman book. plus shoes that spray psychedelic shadows

Michigan! You've outdone yourself!

Lower Michigan came out of nowhere to be the most consistently fun state on the this tour so far. A very tiny but fun show went off in grand rapids followed by a total hang out with our new GR/Panther crew. Grand Rapids: a mellow, rad lil city with student housing that looks like an MTV "the real world" house and friendly people who let you stay at their house although they subtley tried to warn you about the most intense cat piss smell in their house you have ever encountered.
Ann Arbor. WTF??!! The best show yet. People at the club were rad and generous(drinks) audience was a total blast. plus Glass Candy is on the tour now. I'm way into them now for real.

OK so the boat story

In chicago we stayed with charlie's friend ben. the guy is a complete maniac. he tells the worst jokes all the time and is constantly pushing people's buttons. also he is a wicked drunk. i was going back and forth between totally liking the guy and wanting to kick his ass.
anyway, he hooks up this boat trip for us on lake michigan (rad) through his "friend" jen who is also a maniac, albeit a very generous one. she is mass stressed all the time and rich. we go down to the harbor with plans to make food and then take the boat out. ben bought pasta to grill (??!!) and jen brought a rotten fish. that didn't go well (although in fairness, bens pasta was quite good, or mabes i was just real stoned.more on that).
fast forward like, 6 hours. jen's friends had shown up; a couple of very loud prematurely aged midwestern girls. everyone is very drunk and stoned and the boat is still at the dock. ben has been pushing jen's buttons for a long ass time and jen's natural stress is not digging this. it's 11pm and i have completely written off the idea that we are going out on to the lake. next thing you know, jen says "OK lets go".
you know those situations that you just know something bad is going to happen? yeah, wtf. the waves were huge and i swear this boat was completely air-born several times. fucked up people are flying all over the place on a 30 foot bayliner at night on lake michigan.i can not tell you why nobody fell off this boat. that really would have made more sense. it was the most incredibly fun thing i have done in a long time.
so we get back to the dock and i somehow made my way back onto the dock and I'm standing there on the dock when i here all this commotion. i look over to the boat and see ben coming out of the downstairs of the boat, trying to pull his bag up with jen hanging in the air from his bag screaming bloody fucking murder. we dont know what is happening but at this point it seems completely normal. charlie yells to ben that we have to go. jen is screaming and throwing a temper tantrum on the dock and her friends are yelling at ben and we head out to find a cab (we later get an apologetic email from jen and friends, i still don't know what the fuck happened)
we get a burrito/sleeping pill and promptly get up at 8am wildly hungover to get in the van for the drive that turns into one of the longest (12 hrs) and definetly the most stressful of the tour yet.

uh oh...

i've hit bottom

i'm just going to go back on the pot for this trip.

Bee Tee Dubs; if you plan on driving directly into the sun within an hour or so I don't recommend smoking a joint. also if you are me, i don't recommend smoking a joint.

mostly this

Hey you want to know what touring the United States in a rock band is like? First, pack as much random shit into a vehicle as you can with in no order, including dirty blankets, rotten bananas, empty beverages, sesame seeds,dust and cell phones. Then, all you have to do is drive. all. day. every. day.
Better yet, just wrap yourself in a dirty banana blanket with your cell phone and the loudest fan you can find and sit in an uncomfortable chair for 10 hours a day for 6 weeks. That is 90% of the deal. VERY GLAMOROUS!

we're not gonna fall for the bannana in the tailpipe

did you know that carbonmonoxide inhalation may cause your head to blast off your body and explode sand out of your neck?

bummer abbreviations

So the band that we are on tour with Architecture In Helksinki (aka the nicest people in the world) labels and abbreviates all their stuff like pro's. which is cool until it is turned upsidedown and then it looks like hazmat.

more

try this out some time

OK fuck abstraction

So I originally intended for this blog to be an abstract writing/photography project but that got old real quick. here is some shit