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Monday, September 14, 2009
Day 3
w/ Big Bike Ride & Shgora
Ah, Bruno. Bruno is the unofficial name of the Big Blue Van: vehicles generally gender-define as "she," but Bruno's pretty damn butch. We've never asked this much of her before: pulling a trailer of gear and loaded with five people plus supplies. I like to think that Bruno's got great karma: she always demurs when someone else wants the right of way, always nice to everyone on the road. Not spry, but very accommodating. Also, this was my bed last night.
We were treated very well, since our host set us up with a show, a place to crash, beers, and eventually breakfast (massive thanks to Eric(k?) on that front), but I'm usually up late... so everyone fell asleep before me... and then, the snoring. When there's no mp3 player and you can't find earplugs, you turn to the van (which was actually pretty comfortable).
Pre-show yesterday was actually spent playing with spraypaint. ubik. ordered shirts a week ago... but things went kind of wrong, there were no shirts at the kickoff show, and there's no way shirts will be anywhere near us until Tuesday. So we went to a thrift store, bought a bunch of t-shirts, cut up some cardboard, and stenciled ourselves some DIY shirts.Fear our awesome merch!
(many of the shirts do look better than this one)
In contrast, today was spent trying to post fliers. Since we're going back to Portland next wednesday, we wanted to put up some posters while we were in town. Michelle stayed in the van to design the fliers as the rest of us struck out in search of a copy shop: we both failed. Last night ate our sharpie, so Michelle destroyed every spare piece of paper we had trying to make a flier with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles marker... while the rest of us wandered around an empty corner of Portland looking for a copy shop, ending up at a goddamned mall, and finding nothing. So it balanced out: with no flier, we didn't need to make copies.
But with that, all the bands for the Portland show at Plan B are out and about and probably not able to put up fliers. If you're in Portland: we are playing the 23rd.
Now, on to Stockton. Everyone groans when we say we're doing that (apparently no one plays shows in Stockton), but... doesn't that mean that when someone shows up, there will be a bunch of kids dying to see a show? Here's hoping.
But that's Tuesday. Monday's a day off. It's a long drive and all, but I don't think any of us need a day off yet. We've been playing since Thursday, and we're not tired. I'm sure we'll need a break soon, but we haven't even begun to burn out.
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