death agonies and screams

we went to new orleans. it's still a ghost town. totally bizarre.  it looks like a movie set.  lars and i tried to figure out what the delacroix corp did, but were at a loss. dark windows all day. 

then we saw this dude!  holy shit.  this guy.  he's from italy and his name is Cesare.  we both met him when we worked with the Twilight Singers.  he was our host in Italy and pretty much got you what you wanted. apparently he loves 90's alt rock and that's how he met greg and J back in the day. well we didn't know that j was bro's with him and i walked out on the sidewalk and it's cesare.  he lives on sicily and came to town to see greg and see dino.  he used to bring bottles of his homemade wine to bands playing italy. and basically he is a reason to go there on vacay.... cause he told me he would hooka me uppa.

speaking of dulli.  lars and i saw him too. he totally is on the verge of opening a hotel there.  and putting out a new record with lanegan.  we saw this angela's trumpet plant on the way to the R bar, his new bar/hotel.  pretty cool.  nina had an angela's trumpet in her front yard.  looked exactly the same and smelled fierce.

fine. that was new orleans. beignets too.

 

then we went to austin.  it was like 70.  that's about it.  gerard came to the show but i didn't see him cause his friend blew chunks.  that's a good bro that takes care of sick pal. it was a killer show and i stood behind j's stacks the whole show and listened and doodled on the set list.  i also wrote down things the band said in between songs. and things that i WISHED they had said.  you can try to figure out which is which.

(and yes, that does say "murph almost pukes" after bulbs)

post austin show. emo's dressing room. this is what it's like on tour.

then we went to dallas. and everyone knows that dallas is the worst.  it really is. and dallas on an overcast sunday next to a hooters.  buuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnn.  so nothing

a bird took a crap on murph's arm while he was telling me that he thinks we are aliens and that we ARE the missing link. that if you look at evolution there is no way we evolved. so we must have been seeded here by aliens. he firmly believes this. and i only mention it because it comes up again in a second.

then we had a sunday in oklahoma. i haven't talked about what an idiot our bus driver is.  he's fat. he's like 2 years older than larry but looks like he is 10 years older. he has a heart prob and he complains and never does his job.  he is also from oklahoma.  and this is what oklahoma on a sunday ice storm looks like when you play the tiny club on the outskirts of town. and there's nothing around but a discount cig store.  well there was a great record store next to the club. and the club was punk and cool. it just could have used a kick ass espresso machine.

then we got invited to a fancy restaurant by the employees!  they even came to pick us up. and we had a private room.  the food was good and it was fun.  so other than OK being the birthplace of said lame driver it was cool.  then murph started talking about his crazy theory about aliens again. and then he said that he thought scientologists were insane. and i told him that he basically was one. and i drew this on the top of someone's carry out box.  that's murph flying through outer space the moon is saying hi.

we got back in time for me to see awesome color shred. they are so GOOOOOOD.

michael has an awesome bass face

dinosaur jr OKC

and then we went to iowa city.  i mean can it get any less glamorous?  the thing is i like all these cities, minus dallas, in the summer.  or spring. or fall. but dudes, you do not want to be cruising from OKC to IC to Omaha to Kansas City to Denver to Aspen in december. it's a fucking fact.  this is a routing made up by booking agents who have never seen the inside of shit club during an ice storm.  it's made by dudes that are sitting at home in front of their fireplace collecting 15% every time a show ends anywhere in the states. they don't care where it is or what month. and so here we were in iowa city the night of a total ice storm.  that's the second in as many days if you are keeping count.

however. it was amazing!  so beautiful. and here's some proof. so awesome that i won't complain about the load load in up 2 flights of stairs.

the trees were so rad.  once the sun went down and the lights went on they became giant chandeliers.

and now i am in omaha.

and tomorrow i am one day closer to home.

and i am exactly one month from my hawaiian vacation with jen a. my first true vacation ever.

and i am two months from the start of my next job.  guess where the first date of that next job is?  yep. hawaii.  so that's two hawaii trips in less than month.

so i guess i can deal with a winter midwest snow job.

 

Comments

[gloria]

It's been awfully windy here in this winter midwest...what would that be called? I was afraid you were getting caught up in those ice storms. Hawaii, eh....for your birthday? Or will you be back by then stateside?

[Maddy]

The winter pictures in this post are so beautiful. Hope you are keeping warm! I've only ever been to Hawaii in utero so I look forward to hearing about and seeing pics.

Maddy x

[lost teeth]

i showed these pictures to halo and he said "our trees never turn into ice monsters". it's true.

[kime]

I love that ice branch sound. I miss it

Last time I was in Ohio their was a crazy ice storm and everything looked like that

[Ronnie]

I accidently found this journal. i live in dallas at present. i totally agree with everything you had to say about this place.