What a curious life we have found here tonight
10/27/07 – 12:18 AM - Tim and Kim's, Olympia
Today was a long day. After waking up with the daylight in our van and killing some time at a cafe, we headed to the University of Washington campus for an in-studio at their radio station. We ended up waiting around for awhile due to some miscommunication about timing, but fortunately the folks at the station were cool, so we chewed the fat, shot the shit, talked about The Mighty Boosh, etc. We played a few songs acoustically on the air, which turned out to be really awkward and unsatisfying, which we chalked up to the early hour and the positioning of the microphones and the sound in the room and such. But we had a good time despite wishing we could've given some better renditions.
Then it was off to the tire shop to try and repair our leaking tire (“Affordable Tire and Brake? I feel like I'm about to tire and break.”) Much to our chagrin, the tire was irreparable, and one of the others was very close to falling apart as well. So a bunch of money that we don't have later, our van has four new tires on it.
Then we were off to Olympia, which took a lot longer than it ought to have due to bad traffic. Blech! But the 4th Ave. Tavern was the first venue on this tour that fed us, so that was a big bonus. Then came the show, which ended up being a lot of fun. There's a big back room for music at the 4th Ave. that we feared would be totally empty when we played after we found out that the local band had canceled (again!) and we'd be the only ones playing. But apparently we'd gotten a nice writeup in the local paper (albeit one that implied we were a 22-person band), and so there were two couples who had showed up to hear us on that basis. They showed more moxy, more verve, more chutzpah, than 90% of the people we've ever played for, and so we all ended up having a great time, despite our extreme levels of fatigue. The sound onstage was really good, too, so we tore through every song we knew (and even played Artichokes twice, by request) and it all felt good. Even more fortunately for us, Tim and Kim, two of the aforementioned enthusiastic audience members, took us into their home. No sleeping in the van! Woohoo! So all in all, it was a successful day. Tomorrow we head to Bend, where we get to see Beth again and we won't have to pump our own gas.
Today was a long day. After waking up with the daylight in our van and killing some time at a cafe, we headed to the University of Washington campus for an in-studio at their radio station. We ended up waiting around for awhile due to some miscommunication about timing, but fortunately the folks at the station were cool, so we chewed the fat, shot the shit, talked about The Mighty Boosh, etc. We played a few songs acoustically on the air, which turned out to be really awkward and unsatisfying, which we chalked up to the early hour and the positioning of the microphones and the sound in the room and such. But we had a good time despite wishing we could've given some better renditions.
Then it was off to the tire shop to try and repair our leaking tire (“Affordable Tire and Brake? I feel like I'm about to tire and break.”) Much to our chagrin, the tire was irreparable, and one of the others was very close to falling apart as well. So a bunch of money that we don't have later, our van has four new tires on it.
Then we were off to Olympia, which took a lot longer than it ought to have due to bad traffic. Blech! But the 4th Ave. Tavern was the first venue on this tour that fed us, so that was a big bonus. Then came the show, which ended up being a lot of fun. There's a big back room for music at the 4th Ave. that we feared would be totally empty when we played after we found out that the local band had canceled (again!) and we'd be the only ones playing. But apparently we'd gotten a nice writeup in the local paper (albeit one that implied we were a 22-person band), and so there were two couples who had showed up to hear us on that basis. They showed more moxy, more verve, more chutzpah, than 90% of the people we've ever played for, and so we all ended up having a great time, despite our extreme levels of fatigue. The sound onstage was really good, too, so we tore through every song we knew (and even played Artichokes twice, by request) and it all felt good. Even more fortunately for us, Tim and Kim, two of the aforementioned enthusiastic audience members, took us into their home. No sleeping in the van! Woohoo! So all in all, it was a successful day. Tomorrow we head to Bend, where we get to see Beth again and we won't have to pump our own gas.
