headin home tomorrow!!!

probably be back super late tomorrow, but Saturday I'm goin off!!!! Who's with me!!!!

about to leave SLC and blow up some ordinance

BOOM!

SLC punk

i love this pic

So we've been in salt lake for a few days visiting one of michael's old really good buddies. He's got the total badass bachelor pad complete with hot tub. Since it was comfy, good friends and a storm was north of slc we stayed a few days. Did some karaoke. Michael does a mean "you shook me" from AC/DC. The friggin hot tub had disco lights in it!

We played a show at Alchemy Coffee in slc which was good, but totally blue balls-ing! Me and Mikey (not Michael...yes theres michael and mikey) both wanted to rock on the drums a lot more. I was just playing dumbek, bass drum and high hat. Mikey was playing djembe and washboard. the set sounded great we just wanted more!! stayed that night (last night) in slc...my friend elias came to the gig with his friends too.

tonight we tried the hot springs, but they were full. Had a wild goose chase for a market that had goat yogurt for the chicken korma...once i heard it was all for me, and once i got lost i said lets just get normal stuff, I'll eat something else. So now we're at elias's about to eat! Then probably drive to boise tonight....or early tomorrow....

sorry its been a while!!

Denver...now boulder. My good buds Rob Stone, jeffernuts and jayesh live in Denver. I've had the opportunity to hang out with all of them...We took the bus to boulder last night, got some food (1/2 off everything at the boulder cafe!), then we met some south africans and ended up hanging out with them allll night. Do you know the difference between an afrikaans and the english in south africa? Jefferson left his phone at work, so he ended up calling me from someone else's around ten...he picked me up, took me to brandons while megan ran with the south affricans and we rocked out! six string bass, great drum kit, conga/djembe setup, and two guitars...made for an interesting hour or so of rocking out! then we picked up megan and our international friends and went to see "hood internet." He does mashups...and not well. any DJ that does not make the dancefloor move is in my opinion a total failure, sucks and should be shot on site! He had no sense of flow, timing, energy, nothing. Sure he picked some interesting tracks to "mashup" together, but one mashup did not flow well into the next. Not that there were any trainwrecks, its just that once you get people going...don't put a downer song on next with way less energy!!! Loser! Apparently read a review that said he was "genius." whoever wrote that should be ignored, shot, burned and shot again! today we're going to hike a place I frequently hiked while living here years ago...gregory canyon! And tonight! The bands last show...then we get to figure out how to get a gas guzzling bus home...probably with no shows/money...fun! Thanks for finishing the tour guys (directed at those who decided to stay in denver. In my mind it is definitely screwing us over and not at all responsible. But I also understand shit happens. It's rock n roll man!

Headed out!

We're starting the most sketchy and least funded part of the tour today. Its gorgeous and calm. Lets hope it stays that way!! Wish us luck!!

Last hhh show

Too lazy to write much. Last night was last HHH show and i put it all into it. No tech problems for kit except even with three cement blocks it kept wandering forward so i had to keep dragging it back. I gave it my all. Too tired to party i passed out on my sleeping bag stuff sack. I drank some double espresso thingie from the easiast espresso maker ever. I know this zooted me because halfway through the cup i immediately started playing with whitman and wore HIM out! We stayed an extra day in kevins parent super house. (air hockey, pool and foosball in basement along with the worlds largest couch). This is because the kids are sick so they needed meds. Walgreens ov ercharged them 1000% and so michael made a very entertaining phone call to walgreens which we all enjoyed. Especially the part where he said that he was sending us all to the gas chambers.
We leave tomorrow. Wish us luck in the mtns. And if anyone is reading this please let me know if i should enable comments!
Ciao!

going out in a blaze of glory!

So some of the band members are staying in denver and not continuing on home. I don't know if this means we'll not play with a scaled down group in salt lake and boise, but to not have paying gigs and be driving a huge thirsty bus sounds like a bad idea. If we're not playing gigs we'll probably make it home earlier though...we may also have a lot of fun because there's no stress of gigs and what not. We can share driving, the kids will get attention, don't need a nanny, etc. etc.

I'm actually sort of excited and nervous. It is the most dangerous part of the drive coming up and we're low on funds...this is when the adventure begins!

Last couple of days we've been in Denver. I've managed to hang out with my buddy Rob Stone and Jefferson. Rob actually put me up and kyle, victoria and him cooked a FANTASTIC dinner at his house!! I used his hot tub twice and only had sex on his floor twice as well! haha! Love ya rob! and Jeffro I'll be seeing you TONIGHT!!!

I'm staying at Jay's house now, and we're headed to Boulder today. Gonna find a bus to take us. Oh and it was ridiculous. Jay actually gave us a ROOM to stay in! Holy mother of Jesus! a ROOM! such luxury I feel I have never known at this point. In addition to this room! Was a BED! Oh lord I'm about...to....faint....

In denver! Playing tonight at the outpost! 4321 race street!

videos of us posted online!!! HOLY HOLY HOLY Video!!!!

It's only on FB right now, so hopefully you have FB...

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=520427347358&oid=80709040008&comments

Also, someone told me that people can't post anonymously on my blog...that's to cut down spam...unless people want to post then I'll turn it on...but I think mostly that Dan C will probably just make fun of me. Dan, Online Bullying is a crime!

about to play a show in durango

Cooking next to the petrified forest. Which is a story in itself. The gates were closing automatically at dusk, so we all climbed in the bus when they were opening for someone and hurried across....we only got to the first area and we were told to go back by three people, but we couldn't turn the bus around! Oh darn...so we had to continue on a ways, but eventually had to turn around. No one wants to mess with AZ cops!

campground, store and "museum" which really means store in these parts. Of course you could go to the other end of the campground and grab all the petrified wood you wanted for free! ahhh commerce!

view to the right from the house we stayed at (15 miles) outside of Durango.

View to the front of the house we stayed in...some really good bouldering !!

the bus has to be plugged in to keep the diesel from gelling during the night. Colorado is wayyyyy warmer than Northern Arizona, at least at night...it's not 8 friggin degrees!

And now for the update!

Michael's on the pots cookin up a storm of some white chili and other goodies. I snuck away to find my lost debit card...found it in one of my pockets, so thought I'd update everyone real quick and recharge my computer.

So we've stayed in durango for two days. Typical to my previous experiences with colorado, everyone is smoking a ton and drinking lots. I've only participated in the latter but enough to satisfy both camps. Yes, it was a "frosty" morning yesterday which speaks nothing of the temperature. We started with $2 pint night (guiness!) and moved on to $2 everything night (patron silver and then crap cuervo). We met clark kent (real name unknown, and without the superhero alter ego), brandon and mariah (not carey). We sang gypsy songs, I rode an extremely nice full suspension bike around the block. In all pictures my mouth is agape and yelling. we listened to hhh quite a bit, and megan and I crashed on two couches put together. details are hazily vague, and the hangover extreme. I didn't eat food til dinner time. I watched three blah movies, and then during the entertaining fun, weird one called Big Man Japan. Highly weird, I was enjoying it but my...eyes...so...heavy...zzzzz.....I will watch it again someday though!! Tonight we go to "articulation" to play a gig, maybe booming, may be some fire spinning, probably lots of nakedness and lots of fun though! It's funny the place is across from the courthouse and down the street from the cops, but apparently that means that everything is on the level so more insanity can take place!

Here are some pics from the night last night. Also from Durango in general. We're headed for the front range tomorrow! boulder and denver! CANTALOUPE JAYESH AND ROB STONE!!!