in the dark

so it's 10:00am, and i'm typing this in a dark hotel room in pittsburgh, pa. everyone is still asleep, but sleeping in awful motel six beds destroys my back, so i am wide awake and figured i would take the time to check in with the blog.

tour with mayday parade and sound the alarm is almost over. it feels like it just started, and i guess it did. this is a short quick tour, but we're definitely having fun. we're hitting a lot of cities we've never played in before and that's pretty awesome.

last night we played altoona, pa. home of the largest sheetz gas station in the world. and it just so happened that it was RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from the venue. i went over there and got lost in all the amazingness during the show.



so, altoona was pretty awesome. the band before us got in a fight ON STAGE! i have no idea what happened, but the whole thing blew up right before we were supposed to go on stage. it was pretty ridiculous. during our set, i challenged everyone in the crowd to a fight in the sheetz parking lot, but no one took me up on it. i was bummed. but i did get a delicious fountain beverage while i waited.

we played buffalo on sunday night. we had about a million technical difficulties which made for the most frustrating set ever. nick's bass was cutting in and out, shane kept breaking sticks and his monitor was all fucked up, and due to some weird electrical issue, peter's guitar amp sounded like someone was running a belt sander inside of it. it was so awful. so anyway, we cut the set short and did our best to salvage the show. afterwards, we hung with our awesome friends sarah and sean who drank beers and gave us free hot wings. we stayed up all hours of the night playing dr. mario and mike tyson's punch out. it was perfect.

boston was saturday night. peter got on stage with the local band, lannen fall, and played "whatever it takes" on guitar with them. i couldn't believe what i was seeing.

friday night in portland maine was my favorite show of tour so far. we played a great set, met some rad kids, and just had an all-around good time. also we found the world's most insane beer bong. underneath a tractor trailer in the parking lot. this thing is seriously epic.



only olympia would FIND a beer bong on the street. we took it as a sign that our fortune is starting to turn around.

we haven't used it yet because obviously it needs to be cleaned first, but when we do, new heights of getting awesome and partying will be reached.

before portland, we were in wind gap, pennsylvania. the only thing i remember about wind gap was that a 40-year-old transvestite man tried to get into the show and got kicked out because he had an erection. nice moves, wind gap!

day off today. i have a feeling we're going to america's favorite CHILL SPOT.... THE MALL! i can't wait to peruse spencer's gifts and look for new lava lamps.

love,

phil