Way Behind....

Let me start off by telling you just how sincerely sorry i am that this blog entry has been so long coming. The first few days of this tour have been full of action, and LOTS of driving. Driving, which not only impedes our ability to to update the blog, but also makes for some boring reporting from the road. we'll try to get into the swing and have the updates be as regular as possible, as soon as possible. we know how much you love them.

less go...


our newest besties State Park came down to bloomington for the tour kickoff show. they were real good, the real deal. you can probably already tell though, by the excitement on Tulo's face. If you don't know Tulo, he's the guy in the photo doing nothing.


packing th van on the first day of a tour is always a real challenge and always takes longer than you think its going to. so, this time we planned for it. it still took longer than we had planned, but not by much.


before we headed for cleveland to play at Happy Dog, a gourmet hot dog restaurant/bar, Ty convinced us all to walk across the street and grab some food at Naughty Dog, a bloomington based gourmet hotdog restaurant. So, we headed over there to meet up with our friends Fabio and Popeye the Sailor Man and grab a dog before we drove 7 hours and ate another dog.


bryant ate so many hotdogs at our first stop that this head fell off. here it is just lying in the back of the van on top of some gear. we figured we'd try to reattach it at the show. it was kind of rolling around a lot and making a bunch of racket, so eventually we just jammed it under the seat for the remainder of the van ride.


however, his headless body did keep walking around and bumping into (and breaking) stuff everytime we had to stop, so we bought this indian head to screw on in the meantime. it worked pretty well, but it definitely didn't speak the same language as us, which posed a problem.


the happy dog, while its perfectly delicious, does not make your life easy. here are tim and burke agonizing over the myriad choices they have for hotdog toppings. if you know these two guys at all, then it will not surprise you that this decision took them well over 4 1/2 hours.


...and THIS is what they ended up with. i promise you there is a hotdog under all of that mess.


Metavari at the Happy Dog, Cleveland, OH.


Soporus at Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia, PA. Soporus were great, and also very nice fellows. it was fun hanging in Philly, and meeting some friends and strangers we hadn't met before.


VANity.

on to NYC!