this just in

this just in
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I am so in to listening Tegan & Sara right now.

There are 2 great D&E shows coming up this weekend. Im very excited. We haven't played chicago as a trio in a LONG time. Hope your all ready!!!

80's movies with Steve Martin make me laugh.

Spring is here....thank god!

I hate when strangers call me "Buddy".. Don't you?

And if you were wondering, there is no connection between my post and that photo of the dog. I just saw him in a parking lot when we were on tour.

DogVan _ Augi

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Good News: We played some great shows since my last entry. The Notre Dame show was cool. Everyone on campus was super nice, and fed us way too much food. Rhodes College down in Memphis, TN was a blast. Aside from the tornados (ha ha). We played with Murphy Lee, and All I can say is "air force one"!! Thanks to all the cool kids from Rhodes.

Bad News: When we were going home after the show in Memphis, TN the fuel pump in our van when out. So we spent the afternoon at Firestone gettin' that shiz fixed up. In the end it cost $1,026.31. DAMN!!!!! And after I gave the mechanic an amazing sob story about how poor my band is and we were from Chicago. He knocked of $50. WOW, thanks. It's been a Bad month for the dog van. We just put in a new engine last week, and that was $4,000. Sooo, anyway we are super broke. Ha Ha, what else it new.

Other than all that, I have been getting back in the swing of of doing websites. Jim was our web guy, and since he has been gone, I though I would take over doing the D&E web site. That is why we have a very simple site right now. But keep checking in. I have a few things up my sleeve that I'll unveil any day now.

mad_town

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Just got home from the madison show. It's 5am, I'm so tired, and can't sleep. Why does that happen? I'm at home watching some bad 80's B-movies, and updating our pure volume, and myspace sites. If any of you wanna tell me what song should annoy you when you first open our myspace page please let me know. Other than that, we played with this GREAT band from Nevada called Meg & Dia, and a great local called The Fateful Promise tonight.

by the way..I love being in a truly independent band that only plays 3 shows a week, and still some how ends up touting more than the "true indie rock darlings" that the press seem to love sooooooooooooo much. Ha Ha

goodnight.

@sleepinn

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We're at the Sleep Inn in De Pere, wi right now (We played at St. Norbert College with epic hero tonight). It's 1:30 in the am, and I'm rooming with Tommy.
He is sleeping and so is epic hero. Today was our 9th show as a trio. It feels like the old days when bandshell first came out all over again. Everyone has been so awesome through this transition it has been great. Thanks so much for your continued support. I never wrote a blog after out show in mankato but , all you mankato kids were great! That show was ridiculous! I also need to thank quietdrive for letting us use ALL their great at the la crosse show (harts to you boys). We are looking for new members. Let us know if you know any great bass players that can sing, and any keyboard players that might know a little guitar. Other than that we have a lot of great tour dates coming up in April so keep your eye on our tour page(it's on myspace for right now), and tell all your friends in the southwest to look out. That is it, i am far to tired and it is time for bed....

owen wilson | jan26

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What's up all. Right now I'm listening to the "saturday night fever" movie soundtrack. It's fuckin' hot. I have been home from tour all week. So I have been getting a lot of design work out of the way. I finished up some branding/ imaging /logo work for this totally hip salon in naperville, il. The makeover is going great!! I'm stating on a website for them this week, and that should be a snap. Also picked up another band that wants me to do their album art, but shhhhhh. I can't tell you who they are yet, ha ha. Other than that I'm leaving for a Dog&Everything show tomorrow morning in Quincy, IL with Ludo, and Quietdrive. That will be fun. Also leaving for Texas on monday to go spend a week mixing some new D&E demos with Casey & Jaret. Also been talking to Jaret about some merch designs for Bowling for Soup. I have to get to gether a line of stuff for nex week. Ah, shit!! Here we go!! I find I only work well under pressure. Movies of the week: Bad Santa, Rocky 1, Butterfly Effect, and Over the Top.

by the way the actor Owen Wilson is 38 years old....

Bloomington, IL 1.21.06

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Were driving home from the show at the bbc in bloomington,IL. Ron and Craig from Witroy came with us and Ron is sleeping in the back of the van right now. The rest of of us are listening to the ludo rock oprea. GOD, I LOVE LUDO!!!!! The show tonight was great. Epic Hero played with us and it was a blast to see those guys! If you haven't yet go check them out. www.epichero.com. Otherwise tonight was mostly a blur. It was great seeing everyone out having a good time, and I am so stoked I get to sleep in my bed tonight.

Madison, WI 1.20.06

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This is a pic I took with my camera phone at a gas station just outside of Madison. Tonight was our last show with Quietdrive....Sooooooo sad. We got along great with those guys. Just ask them about the following words: "Halfsies", "West-Nile", and "Swoop". The drive to the madison sucked my ass. I drove, and spent 5 hours going 25 miles per hour on I-90.....Bawh.  The show was good. Thanks to all the kids that came out. That was by far the best show we have ever played at journeys. Nothing like busting light-bulbs with my bass. HA HA!!!!! Right now Tommy is crashed out in my basement, and I am about to fall asleep also. Tomorrow we head out to bloomington, IL.

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Ahhhh, back on tour. So tonight was Rockford, and please don't over look the ROCK in the FORD! We got this show cause of our amazing agent Matt has a great friend named Shannon, and because or band plays good rock songs. Not only did Rockford College get us 3 pimp ass rooms at a kick ass hotel, but the show was great!! It was the first show we played where our green room had everything on our rider (except for the "diet arizona green tea"). Our GREAT friend Angelo did sound. and everything was great! did I fail to mention the word "GREAT"?I loved the 3 room thing cause it gave me (i have not slept in 3 days) the chance to go to sleep, while the rest of my band and quietdrive talked about how much they love I-Tunes, and microwave dinners....I did manage to score a copy of "Monster Ballads", and "Hall & Oates greatest hits" from quietdrive. I already love those guys!!

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8 hours later I wake up to dan's alarm, and dan saying, "we still have 1 more hour to sleep (kick ass)". Back to sleep. The next hour feels like a week, and then Tommy & Jim are at our door knocking like girl scouts selling cookies. Dan and I get up, and pack our shit. Then we head out to find food, and wouldn't you know it. We find a buffet right next to a great resale shop (kick ass). We go and eat a great meal, and a few rootbeer floats. Did I mention the word "great?" The drive to our next show in dekalb only takes one hour. Awesome..We load in and wait for quietdrive, triptti, and the other bands to show up. John the promoter is kick ass, and gets us some free drinks, and diner. Doors were at 8pm, and by that time The House in Dekalb was packed, and I was excited. We changed the set list around a little bit, cause they were a few kids from the Rockford show here and we didn't wanna do the same set two nights in a row. So we cut 'know it all', and swapped 'superglue', and 'look away'. This show was definitely more rowdy than the night B4. After our set, we loaded out, and bid farewell to quiet drive until 2morrow in Madison. Dan got in the driver seat and drove us home to the suburbs of chicago. and that is all. Goodnight until Madison.

vampire

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I think I'm becoming a vampire. I don't sleep of late, and when I do all I do is have dreams about zombies. They are not exactly nightmares, just dreams. I think I have an obsession on my hands here. Aside from that we are leaving for a short run of tour dates with Quietdrive ( www.quietdrivemusic.com ) tomorrow, and I'm excited about that. If we arn't out playing rock shows all I mostly do is sit on my ass and do freelance design work ( www.dontbescene.com ) , and watch bears games with Dan, and Ron from Witroy. Come out to see us this week, the shows will be good ones!! I'm out, i need to check on my laundry

damndeer

damndeer
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So a deer hit us deer on the way home from omaha this weekend. That is a pic of our trailer after the accident. Were all ok, and just got some minor damage done to our van. It could have been a lot worse. Other than that, Things are awesome!

stl_1_6

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Thanks to all the great kids at the mississippi nights show. i met so many new fans that saw us back at the pageant with ludo, and all our old friends were there too. That was the Dog's best STL show yet! It might have been the lasagna. Ludo, and Losers Luck were hanging out at the show, and i was so glad a chance to hang out with tim.C, and pmo. I haven't seen those guys since the dec 9th show. Thanks to bert, and Band B for getting us on the show! After the mississippi nights show we crashed at our friend Marie's House, and after frozen pizza, chips and a few cocktails (thanks phil), tried to get some sleep. The drive to Omaha was 6 hours and we had to be out at 9am. BAWH!!!!!

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Being the man that I am, I drove the entire 6 hours. Yeah, it sucked. But we could not be late for the big gig with pomeroy at the Harrha's Casino. After all it was our first casino show.

harrahs

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Now I know what your thinking......Lounge band. But I promise it was cool. the people from Harrha's came out to see us at Sokol hall last month, and after seeing us invited us to come open for pomeroy.

Harrhas

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Needless to say, it was awesome! And after the show Phil and I went to do some gambling. Good times........

So where the hell have I been???

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Well, Well. I have been doing a lot of D&E stuff. Booking shows, playing shows, designing new merch, listening to dan mix songs...Classic stuff. I also have been doing some freelance design. I just finished the artwork for witroys new album "Lets sew our heats together" (www.witroy.com). It looks very cool, i am so stoked about it!

I picked dan up tonight, and we headed down to the Metro x-mass party. I hung out for a while, had some drinks and bullshit with some friends, got mistaken for a gay guy, all good times. Somewhere along the way I got a text from a friend that let me know It was this same day last year that we played at the viper room in LA. As the night went on I kept thinking about it more and more. So much has happened since then, but then again not a lot has changed. What is the saying? "The more things change, the more they stay the same." I guess its true. Is that how life always is? I guess so.

Rolled

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Just got home from this weekend of shows. We had the most dangerous, crazy, and rediculus night yet, but that might just be cause Brent was with us. If you are ever in Elyria, Oh. Watch out for the locals! Fuckin crazy. We played this cool club called the spot with cherry monroe. Everyone was super rad. Cherry & us had a great time at the bar accross the street from the club getting our drink on with some people from Rust Rec. Best costume of the night...........The guy dressed up as 'a piece of shit.' No joke. I though he was a rice crispy treat. ha ha.

git down girl, gone head git down

git down girl, gone head git down
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It's sat around 1:30am. We just got home from the NACA confrence in Grand Rapid, MI. NACA is this crazy confrence where all the colleges from across the nation go to look for bands, and other entertainment to book. So we went with our agent matt. I was blown away with all the kids that knew us at the conference. It was so rad to meet so many kids form diff schools accross the nation that knew us. I guess all this touring we have been doing is paying off. I think were gonna get some great shows from it. So if you saw our tour page and were like "Why isnt the Dog playin this weekend?" That is what we were up to. We did catch the end of the sox game tonight..I'm not a sox fan(go cubs), but I love watching the world series. Yeah, I'm one of those fans.....

currently listening to: kanyewest

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this week

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So, I always write little blog entries and never upload them. So here is a summary of my week:

MON.OCT.10
Classic late night. It's 6:24am and I just got home from dan's house. We had a good night of hanging out. He was working on the tracks we did in Texas, and I was working on some new merch designs. I am so stoked about these new tunes! We have the next week off from shows. Its gonna be weired to be home on the weekend...In our time off were gonna finish up these tunes, and get a bunch of new merch orderder. Can you say hoddies?

TUES.OCT.11
I saw the debute of the new FOB video today.......OOOOOH Snap!! You need to see it. It is fucking unreal. Dude, i cant say even begin to explaine how good it was. It was so funny


THUR.OCT.13
I've spent the whole week infront on my lop-top. Getting some merch happening, and bookin some sweet new shows. I usually always have the tv on in the background (I can't stand quiet). I never watch mtv, I usually hate it.. All the non-video shows drive me crazy. I get enough drama in my real life that i don't need to see it on mtv. Can anyone say Laguna Beach? But I got sucked in...The new FOB, the new Coheed, and My Chem videos are great.

RMNS

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Everyone is out for #1, so don't forget to watch your back. The nice guy will always finish last.

durkka schurpa, mohamad geehad

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Damn was it cold tonight(we played in Des Moines, IA, at Drake U)! Thanks to everyone who stayed outside to see us play. You guys were awesome!! And I must say, that was my best freastile rap ever. We had a nice stage, lights, and sound to do our rock show. Also, thanks for the food Drake!1 what better way to top off the evening than a Buffalo Ranch Chicken sandwich from Applebee's! Thanks Des Moines!

hmmmm?

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So word on the street is today is gonna be the last nice day for a while in chicago. So i'm sitting outside getting some work done on my deck (If you know me, you know i always need alittle help in the tan department). I love wireless internet. No really, I do. I'm working on filling the last of our open dates for the rest of 2005. We are not playing that much in Oct, cause were finishing up the songs we recorded with Jaret in Texas, and getting a shit ton of new merch! We are gonna have a bunch really sweet mini tours through our fav college markets, and a few hometown surprises B4 2006. So look out. Ok I'm out. got to get back to emailing clubs and telling them to book my band.

Knowing is Half the Battle

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8am and here we are at Ryan's House in Mankato again(super cool guy with a nice house, and good coffee in the morning). I had a great time last night, and everyone at the What's Up is great. I saw more kids singing our words than when we were here 3 weeks ago, and that is always a good feeling, and adam came up and played guitar on the end of hey luv. Dropping Daylight invited us up this time, and those guys rock so hard. If you don't know them go here now (www.droppingdaylight.com). After the show we ended up going to the house and drinking for a bit, and hit the sack, good times. Were heading out play Iowa City with LBC tonight. Adam is rolling with us in this dog van, all i can say is.. Knowing is Half the Battle.

Dog Time

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So were driving up to mankato to play with the Dropping Daylight boys. We had to be on the road by 8am this morning Bawh. When we have to "leave" by 8am here is what really happens:

6am: Tommy has to get up, make himself pretty and get on the road to my house.

7am: Tommy shows up at my house. I'm still packing my shit up for the weekend, so we don't leave my house for another 30 min

7:30am: Tommy, and I head to Elmhurst to pick up Dan. We sit outside of dans house for 15-20mins.

7:54: After getting Dan we head out to get jim who has taken a 7:30am train from Chicago to Elmhurst, and is hanging out at The Panera in Elmhurst.

8:02am: Pick up Jimmy at panera. Then off to the Elmhurst Train station to pick up the vanilla gorilla (who took a later train than jimmy, from wheaton).

8:15am: Picking up Phil "The Vanilla Gorilla", and are finally ready to get on the road to Mankato, MN.

This happens every time we leave for shows out of town. It makes me laugh. We just need to move in together, and get a dog house. Did I just say that...man does that sound gay.

*In the D&E van bar this weekend we have Vodka (thanks to Ron from witroy), Whiskey, and Rum (thanks to phil), and as for beer.....We got a case of PBR, and a case of miller light. Both in cans...Here we go

His name is Robert Paulson

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We're in at some hotel in Bloomington right now, about to leave for our show at Marquette University, in Milwaukee. Last night was a great time. We headlined at weaslyan U. Thanks to al the kids that came out. everyone at the school was super cool. Plus the school set us up nice hotel which always a good thing(thanks kevin). And after the show, all i can say is..Kegstand...ha ha. We have been glued to the tv all morning watching the hurricane that is hitting texas. its crazy that we were just there yesterday. We got out just in time...

Here We Go

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We're in Mankato right now. We played the whats up lounge last night. All the pepole there were super nice, and free miller all night is not to bad either. We're heading out to minny this morning for that show opening for BTE. We need to load in at noon BAWH! And people leave their car windows open over night, and I cant find any tee pee.

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tried half as hard as me, and you won

How come when someone pokes mine or Jimmy's belly button....we feel a shock on the tip of our baby makers?? what the hell is that all about?? Is that some kind of weird acupuncture that we don't know about?? So annoying.......

watch out wheaton

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ok, so I got to hear the new Coldplay album today and I wanted to let you all know that you need to go get it! Track 4 is so good. It's very folk, but perfect.

The Wheaton show on sat is gonna be awesome. I haven't gotten to hang with the ludo boys in 4 ever. Im soooooooo excited to see them. and if everything goes well we will have new D&E shirts!! We have also planed a few new things in our set. A new cover, and A D&E song that we have never played B4 live! You best get your ass there


Fav cold play song of the day: Fix You
Quote of the day: "suck my white ass ball".

What it is bro

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I went to the American hi-fi show tonight and on my way home something occurred to me. I never listen to the radio anymore. When I do listen it is so krappy. Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? Then that go me thinking about trends. I remember when wristbands were the cool thing to have, and then trucker hats. Now ties, and wearing a suit jacket over you hoodie is the shit. Whats next.......hmmmmmm.

 

go western

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Ok, I'm attempting to get this done B4 my laptop dies on me. I just got home from the cream of wheaton. Good news, I finally got to see the waiting game. I liked it. They sound really great live, which is hard to come by these days. I also caught 15 min late's set. awesome. Also a very good live band. Bad news, I got to the show late (classic) so i missed the translation, and facing forward. I did catch triptii's last couple songs. Martty was playing his ass off tonight, awesome!

The last few days I've been getting up at 6am to get all this D&E stuff done. This is very unusual for me, and I dont think I like it. We also had rehural today. Were planing some cool stuff for the June 11 show. I'm really excited for it. I also caught FOB on TRL this afternoon. I am such a gay little FOB groupie. I booked a really funny show today. July 1st were playing ribfest in naperville. Dude, we are gonna be main support for David Lee Roth. How awesome is that!! I'm gonna die!

OK, I'm out. I need to get some new t-shirt designs happening.

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5-27-05 - Fat Bean - Naperville, IL

So, upon arriving at the Fat Bean, i find out that they found an investor, and might not be closing. That is awesome, but I was like "Classic, you play a last time show and it gets changed on you". But congrats to Marla (she owns the fat bean). Rushmore Academy drove up from ST. Louis for the show, and Scott, and Phil played a few saraphine songs. I love playing acoustic shows so much. We get to play a lot of songs that we don't usually play. It's like a big sing along, and you cant beat the post-show dance party.

5-28-05 - Mississippi Nights - St. Louis

So we left Chi-town at noon for STL. We watched Napoleon Dynamite on the way down, and ate Burger King. Good Times. Load in was a blast, and the guys in Rushmore Academy are crazy. We get along great together. You know doing what guys do. Playing snaps, talking about music, playing grab ass, the usual. I saw so many great bands on Saturday. Think Thank Thunk; awesome instrumental stuff. Lowercase; good emo stuff, total victory records vibe. Novella; heavy, screamo stuff, and rushmore academy; great, alt rock tunes. Tasha & Aaron made the drive out and helped us out with merch, and stuff. All our usual STL friends were out, and it was great to spend time with everyone. We were gonna hang out in beautiful STL, but ended up going home that night. Thanks to everyone that invited us out, sorry we couldn't stay and party. Next time I promise.

mr_bawh

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I'm so excited for this weekend, It is going to rock! If your reading this you better get your ass out to the fat bean tonight, and get there early. It is going to be a ridiculously packed party with all our friends. Right now it is way too early. I have to drag ass out to Tommys house to jump the dog van, Bawh.

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5-20-05 - College Of Dupage - Glen Ellyn

I just got home from the College of Dupage show, and classic watching Fight Club while I type this. What a good, sweaty, dirty, rock show. Tonight we debuted the new Dog & Everything Merchandise display. Did you see it? What did you think? Us dogs are very excited about it. I know this may sound gay, but indeed it is very exciting. Just wait till you see it, it's very sexy. The Gorilla was out in full force busting his ass tonight for us, and so were Tasha, Aaron & Co. I don't know how we would do it with out them. Man, I also got to see so many pretty boys & girls I have not seen in a long time (chris where you been). How is it that I have been so out of the loop for the last 4 months.

After setting up merch and getting everything situated for the gig, we journeyed down stairs, and stairs, and..wait. more stairs, then through a maze of doors to the special 'green room'. A Green Room, and I don't know why it's called that. Is typically like a dressing room. Wish means you can change in it. Ha Ha, well not this Green Room. The green room was the pool hall at COD. With glass walls that opened up to the hallway with vending machines, and a TV from the 80's. Now I'm not complain about the TV. We got to check out a good 15 min of The Muppets while we ate Pizza. Green Peppers, Sausage, and Olives .... awesome. But I had a call on line 2, and wanted to change. Ok, enough I sound like a chick.

After a little dinn dinn, we went upstairs to catch Witroys set. I haven't seen them since they played our last Metro show. They have come a long way. After Witroy, Treaty of Paris took the stage. I also have not seen them since they played our last metro show. I must say, I like it. I was afraid it would end up sounding like Empyrean with Phil on guitar. But They are writing some great music. We did miss the end of TOP's set cause we had a quick pre show meeting (in the amazing green room). Talked about the setlist, and talked about transitions. When we went back upstairs The Vanilla Gorilla had everything rockin' What a badass.

The show was great! A lot of spinning, a little jumpin around. We got to open with Ballad Song. I love playing that song! Famed D&E Photographers John Hanson & Tasha Cheney were both shooting the show. So there is no reason that we should not have amazing pic's from this show up on the Dog site soon. Hear me guys!!!!! Thanks to all the kids that checked us out. you guys were all something crazy tonight. Sorry if I ended up spitting on you. Hee Hee.

Alright thats enough, I'm out. Street Team Meting tomorrow

Hi, I can't sing

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I'm watching family guy, and so excited about the show this friday at COD, and excited about having some of my moms homemade chili when I'm done writing this. Can we say RED PEPPER. I like it hot.
Lots happening in dog land. Here is a taste. We are comin out with a new shirt, designed by Nicholas Scimeca (famed drummer from 504 Plan). He is one one my fav designers right now. Nick has designed merch for FOB, The AA Rejects, The Academy is, and of course Clandestine Industries. I'm excited to see what he comes up with. We are going to be playing a few warp tour dates this summer, and have some other cool, cool summer gigs coming up, including some fests, and a summer tour. I can't say to much yet. I may have said too much already....and of course the D&E Comic! Ha Ha..

OK, I'm out. Time to make some chili, and watch Blind Date.


Fav FOB song of the day: Track 8
Fav gay reality show: The Apprentice

EPCOT

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05.13.05 - Mexico, MO - Java Shakes & Rolls

So after a lovely 6 hour drive (thanks to me getting lost for a good 20 min..ha ha) we pull up to Java Shakes & Rolls, and are like wow, This place looks like its out of a scooby doo cartoon, all wooden, old and creepy. Like an old pirate ship. Maybe I was just thinking this because it was Friday the 13th. We loaded our gear in, and shmoozed with the locals. This place was hot...thank god the owner (he swore he was a senator, and I believed him) put the air-conditioning on. The place had that community center hall vibe, but like I said it was creepy. There were long dark hallways, and lots of stairs...and the bathroom smelled something atrocious. There were only 2 bands playing; Us and Stunt Your Growth. SYG went on first, did a great set, their good kids, alittle loud. And then we got to play some rock. By the time we went on the room was pretty full. And I was excited to play. Our set went off with out a hitch. I think I remember dan asking if he could get a alleluia from the audience. During our first song some light bulbs fell from the selling and broke on dans amp..sware to god, just fell out of the celling. They almost hit me in the face. I guess we just rocked it too hard...Ha Ha. This weekend should be known as the weekend we watched 'Goodfellas' 90 times in the van. This is the reason we kept saying 'wacked' on stage...Sorry. Other wise I remember I spit on tommy, on accident during the show, and we sold a ton of merch..Damn mexico!! Afterwards we headed out to the local hot spot In Mexico, MO....The Sonic Drive-in. From what the locals told me at 12:30am it was that or the Wal-Mart and it seemed the better of the 2. I have never had a Sonic Burger B4 and I have to say, I fell in love that night. Their double cheese burger is amazing, and the tater tots are to die for. I'm totally serious. After that fun we headed out on the long ride home. Jimmy was driving and what did all of us watch on the way home? Goodfellas, ha ha. Oh yeah, and on the way home Jimmy hit a possum. So can i say that jimmy 'wacked' a possum.


05.14.05 - Lagrange Park, IL - Colonnade Room
On the way to this gig what did I do. Your not gonna believe this. Tommy is driving, and I was giving him directions (I'm the guy that always takes care of the directions). For the first 20 min of our trip I was giving Tommy the directions to Mexico, MO. How dumb is that. I could not believe it. So we get to the gig about an hour late. Classic dog time thing to do. We made it in time to see One Man Crowd, and the Gel Heads. I have not seen them in 4ever. This place was your classic gym, with a stage built in. This show was so much fun. I got to spend time hanging out with the Vanilla Gorilla, and our street team leaders; Tasha and Aaron, and a ton of our skulls were out at the show too. Security at The Colonade Rome is tight. We're talkin' tighter that metro. Tighter then House Of Blues. I swear, you would not believe it. Nooooo 1 got in free to this show. We know, we tried. Sound Check took 4 ever, and we let Brian Grennenwalleded, write our set list. Good job Brian. We pulled out 'Wannabe', and 'Superglue'. I can't remember the last time we played those songs, and dan made me sing the first verse and chorus of 'Losing You'. I wanna apologize for that right now. I'm not usually known for my singing ability. However I am known for my amazing raping style. and Jimmy and I did a little free style session as well. All I remember is callin' myself the "D&E phantom on the microphone". Ha Ha.. so gay.

Fav Goodfellas quote; "Run home and get your shine box"
Fav Fall Out Boy song: Track 10