Where I been? Where I be?

I'm gonna break it down day by day since it's been a while and I feel I owe my "constituency" that much:

November 1st - Erie, PA

Yikes.

November 2nd - Buffalo, NY

Lots of Mighty Taco. A cool basement. Our Times.

November 3rd - Syracuse, NY

I was kind of sick so I slept in the van. I thought the opening band was Trap Them, when they were actually some other dudes with a bunch of loud, nice amps and a million pedals. I was sick, I couldn't begin to tell the difference.

November 4th - Burlington, VT

Listened to election coverage on the radio, rode a ferry, ate awesome free Philly Cheese Steak sammiches. Vermont is full of hippies.

November 5th - Somewhere in New Jersey

Hanging out with dudes from Jerk City on their own turf. Free Red Bull. Good pizza. New Jersey seems like an alright state.

Novermber 6th and 7th - New York, NY

The first night, a spottily-attended show in Brooklyn was played as I found out a friend of mine is pregnant and proceeded to smoke more than the Twin Towers about 7-ish years ago. Then there were babe hangouts and fallafel. I had to teach someone about Sandbox, because they were stepping all over my balls and shit.

Day 2 we walked all over the goddamn place, walking from Brooklyn to Times Square, then walking some more and eventually taking the subway back to Brooklyn. New York City was so much more and so much less than I expected.

November 8th - Albany, NY

Albany seemed a lot like Erie, PA. Yeah. This began our time with This Is Hell.

November 9th - Pittsburgh, PA

Finally got to see Mr. Roboto's Project, seems like a pretty cool place, too bad its in PISSBURGH. Saw a band called Terminate which seemed pretty cool, though once again from PISSBURGH. Hung with my boys Karlos and Joe at their place, the first place which allowed smoking since I got on tour, Jon was pissed.

November 10th - Covington, KY

The line-up for this show:

Have Heart
Ceremony
Blacklisted
Let Down
This Is Hell
Gravemaker
Convicted

... yeah, a regular mini-fest. 25o paid, 300 there total, kids going off left and right, Pat Have Heart told people to tip bartenders for waters and sodas.

November 11th - Indianapolis, IN

At the 1511 House. It was a good time, some band called Jailbreak was alright, the hangouts with one of the world's dumbest girls afterwards? Not so much.

November 12th - Kansas City, MO

I was freaking out all day because Mad Minds was playing in Cleveland and I wasn't there.

November 13th - Claremore, OK

Hilarious power metal band opened up the show. The median age was 35. There was a frilly shirt.

November 14th - Denton, TX

The name of the venue was the Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio. Only it wasn't a studio, it was a bar. It reminded me of a cross between Now That's Class and The Spitfire (leaning more towards the Spitfire, hence: lameness). Texas is the way southern Ohio SHOULD be.

November 15th - Mississippi

Had food poisoning.

November 16th - New Orleans, LA

More food poisoning, also tried to quit smoking.

November 17th - Panama City, FL

Food poisoning: done. Full-blown insanity as a result of quitting smoking: fuck yeah.

November 18th - Orlando, FL

Started smoking again, for the sake of humanity.

Novemer 19th - Delray Beach, FL

Partied with some crazy kids after the show, raged until the wee hours. There were kitty bombs and discussions of stinky dicks and hot goils. It was ill.

November 20th - Jacksonville, FL

Got fed like no tomorrow. Brian left tour, Grant hopped on. More on that in the future.

November 21st - Birmingham, AL

Played some cool venue called Cave 9.

November 22nd - Nashville, TN

The venue was a church, they called it The Anchor. As far as venues go, it was alright, though I was freaked the fuck out by the churchiness of it for a while. They fed the fuck out of us, though, tell ya what.

November 23rd - West Virginia

WEST VIRGINIA PARTIES LIKE NO OTHER.

November 24th - Covington, KY

Supposed to play the Iron Works, a kick-ass venue in Covington/Cinci, but some hippies almost burnt it down. Fuck hippies.

November 25th - Springfield, IL

I recall Rally's hangouts where I told the Rally's people to go fuck themselves, but somehow ended up getting free fries. Whether they were spit-free or not is a whole other story.

November 26th - St. Louis, MO

Hung out all day because there was no show. St. Louis is a cool city.

November 27th - Tulsa, OK

Drove all day so we could eat Thanksgiving dinner at a Chinese buffet with the dudes in Take Control.

November 28th - Tulsa, OK

DUH! I typed this bullshit up.

Hey Pat, Some Young-Ass Band In Canada Covered Guns Up!

Hola and hello from lovely Erie, PA! I figure its been a few days so I'd check in with ya'll.

Between Canada and Kentucky, about 6 people have bought the zine. That's cool. They better fucking write.

I've learned that metalcore is still immensely popular among the youth. Boo.

Jerk City is on the tour with us for the next week and that's cool because they are a rad band (even if I missed them last night since I was in a very intense coma/nap state in the van).

Cigarettes are mondo-cheap in Kentucky, I got 20 packs for $40. If anyone has a problem with that, I got 7 words for them:

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY!

... jokes.

Canaduh!

People of the Cleveland Hardcore Blogosphere: Abasement #2 is out, go get that shit off of Shaun.

Observations on Canada so far:

-I've seen multiple people who look like the Hanson Brothers (and not on purpose).

-I saw A CIRCLE PIT BREAK OUT WITH NO PROMPTING WHATSOEVER, NONE, AND IT WASN'T JUST 3 DUDES EITHER, IT WAS MANY KIDS.

-I saw a show with 6 bands somehow start at 7:12 and end at 9:48. Whoa.

-Tim Horton's (or Timmy Ho Ho's as the locals call it) has tasty coffee. TRIPLE, TRIPLE!

-People have been feeding us. Canadians are incredibly nice. Really nice. Way nice. Not like you or I. They're foreign.

Righteous, show in Windsor today, then we get the fuck back into the States.

Business is BOOMIN'

That's where I'm at from October 27th to November 22nd. The rest of the tour is being booked as we speak. What tour, you ask? Well Gravemaker wrecked their van and needed someone to drive them on the rest of their shit so Nate gave them my number and I now have another 2 months before I get a "real" job. You can all expect me to be blogging a bit more.

Die Hard Movers: yeah, we move bands.

Ugh...

I fell asleep at 3AM, woke up at 6AM, now it's 6:48AM and I feel half-a-loaf of shit. I haven't blogged in a while, but neither has this guy. Everyone should bug him for more posts, I know I want to read more, and if you don't then I got two words for ya... I understand his plight, though, 'zines are way cooler than blogs FOR REAL. Which reminds me, Abasement #2 coming relatively soon (if you never got #1, e-mail me or some shit).

Die Hard Movers is moving and grooving. My voicemail message says as much.

There was a meeting today about me becoming a movie star. Everyone be on the lookout for Mad Minds, Right Idea and other Clevo merch to be up on the silver screen one of these days.

Now... back to sleep? Eat? Get paid to participate in democracy? Whatever I do, I will have this stuck in my head:



... PRAY FOR A WAY OUT!!!

Gotta Calm Down

You know what the fuck I'm eating right now? Rice with hot dog chunks and some hot sauce. You know why the fuck I'm eating this horrible concoction? Because my idiot, redneck boss is refusing to pay me. You know WHY? 'Cuz I'm too PRETTY.

I've been flying into vicious internal rages intermittently the last few days, rages which are not quelled by punching the wall, not calmed by jerking off, not appeased by cigarettes, nay, the only thing that has calmed me down has been the best movie soundtrack EVER:



... Gets me every time.

If any of you have been wondering where the fuck I've been blog-wise, well... I've been chasing down the above-mentioned inbred motherfucker. I've also been helping to assemble the super-bad-ass Mad Minds record release cover set which will no doubt get me some after the show up in the Rockstar.

What else... oh yeah, Shaun and I have a few ventures going on:

We're starting our own moving company, it'll be called Die Hard Movers "Movers With Integrity". Other names that were considered: Moving Replaced By Revenge, Movario Stomp, One Move Crew...

We've also written a zine which will set minds on fire as soon as we get some money to use and abuse some copy machines and staplers.

You've been warned.

The Righteousness Refinery Is Open For Business

Yes, Nosebleed practiced today for about 2 hours and we have a sick intro, one song starting to look good (that song being "Better Watch What The Fuck You Say") and already another possible side band to the side band: Lumberjakk (shit is WAY hard, people).

Davey was supposed to come out and practice but he ran into car troubles. Joe couldn't practice because he was in Pittsburgh. Our line-up consisted of Greg on da drums, Nick on bass, Shaun on geeeeeetar and me realizing I have to switch to lights, but moshing all the same.

2009 IS MINE!!!