booyah

hey dudes.

we've been home from tour for a few days now. we'd like to thank all the kids who came out to shows on the tour. the last show we played was in ann arbor and was a lot of fun. we got to bro down with our dudes in moros eros and saw a movie together. they're one of my new favorite bands. you need to listen to them immediately.

the next tour starts in about 5 days.

what is everyone doing for the 4th of july?

love,

phil

Being in a band is tooootally awesome!

You get to break all your shit and spend all your money and eat like shit! Its totally awesome!! I

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checking in.

hello from dekalb illinois. the blog has been a little crazy lately. i got all the dudes set up to post on their own, so you should be hearing from an assortment of people from now on, instead of just me. we're still working the kinks out a little bit, but everyone seems to be getting the hang of it. we've rigged up all our cellphones to post pictures to the blog, so as soon as something amazing happens, we'll be ready to send you pictures of it.

the past few days have been hit or miss. here are some highlights:

- our show in cincinnati was cancelled due to a bad promoter. i don't want to name any names but they deal with HARDCORE and MARKETING. (an oxymoron i think) that's all the hints you get. anyway, they totally fucked up our THIRD show in a row with them. they make local bands sell a bunch of tickets to play, don't care about promotion, and generally do as little as possible to help touring bands. the venue double booked the show and nobody bothered to check on what was going on.. and then they tried to kick local bands off the show so we could play. we said FUCK THAT. we're not kicking off locals that busted their ass to sell tickets to their friends just so they can see bands that weren't even promoted at all. but seriously though, fuck making bands sell their own tickets. that shit is just bad business.

- columbus was a fun time. we played adjacent to a giant arena where TED NUGENT was playing. i definitely overheard him say to the audience "GIVE ALL THE CHILDREN MACHINE GUNS". thank you, ted.

- tonight was dekalb. we had a good time. no real stories to share, but we're still here, so maybe the story is yet to come.

only three days left and then we're home for a little 4th of july bbq action and then off to the boys night out tour! bring it on! we're stoked.

love,

phil

Hardware store awesomeness.

Peter is trying on some sweet armor at the hardware store in Cincinnati.

Phone test 1 2 3...

This is about to get real son!

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THERE..... HAPPY?!

so be it.... i will blog!

i had fun in the studio doing it so i'll take this is an opportunity for me to find yet another to embarrass my bandmates. we've exhausted photoshopping each other into compromising pictures and changing various aspects of each others myspace (i still have the "about me" picture that peter made of nick if anyone whats to bring that back)... now i will exhaust this as well.

so let the games begin! suck it OLYMPIA!!

The Internet Is Evil

Ask Phil and Peter. Its full of LOLrus' and porn and awesome youtube tributes to John McClane

louisville, ky

louisville was a lesson in "don't judge a book by it's cover".

last night was definitely an off night. it's tuesday. it's in a town we've never played before. we had low expectations. turnout was pretty small. when we started playing, there were four kids in the room. when we finished, there were about ten.

i just kinda figured these kids were being polite and i was really grateful that they were watching us play to a mostly empty room. however, after we played, when i started talking to some of the kids who had been in the room to watch us, i found out that most of them had come to the show just to see us play.

it totally wasn't what i was expecting. it was really awesome.

we're a new band.. playing shows to small crowds is something that is a normal occurrence. you try not to let a small turnout bring you down. however, it was a totally different experience to know that the people we got to play for last night were all people who knew us and cared about our music. it was a good feeling.

we stuck around and talked to a lot of the kids for a while and they were all really nice.

we left louisville in high spirits and with definite plans to come back soon.

some dining options in west virginia

so last night we played a home show in richmond to a drunken crowd of friends. thanks to all who attended. sadly, we were just as drunk as they were, and paid for it this morning, when we had to get up at 7:00am to drive to louisville, ky.

the good news is.. we made it to louisville. and only an hour and a half late!

we drove through the entire state of kentucky and west virginia today. how did we keep ourselves entertained on the 10 hour drive?

well.. on I-64 through west virginia, the best-named restaurants in the world exist and we're here to prove it. during our west virginia drive, we passed the following restaurants:

TUDOR'S BISCUIT WORLD

BILLY BOB'S PIZZA WONDERLAND

JOLLY PIRATE'S DONUTS




fucking amazing. shane discovered biscuit world on his previous treks across west virginia, so he was super stoked to return to his favorite chill spot. so stoked, in fact, that he took a picture of himself in front of it. picture coming soon!

We are hanging at the beach! We got some sweet beachside greek food and peter was riding this sweet beach cruiser.

wilmington, nc

hey yooo..

we're in wilmington, nc. second day of the tour with MOROS EROS and WE ARE THE FURY. the question is... where is moros eros? they never arrived last night at our show in raleigh, so we don't know what's going on and no one knows how to get in touch with them. moros eros, if you're out there, we hope you are okay.

last night's show was a good start to tour. there were a lot of really cool kids right up front dancing and being awesome. it was a combined package bill with farewell, upper class trash, and forever the sickest kids. all the bands were pretty good. i noticed, however, that we were the only band without keyboards.

if someone would like to write moog parts for all our songs, we'll let you join the band. just show up at a show with your keyboard and we'll have an audition.

unemployed.

i'm still unemployed.

working when you're home from tour is lame anyway. right? right.

we leave in a week. i'm super excited to finally get back out on the road. and hopefully this time our A/C will be fixed. touring in june with no A/C sounds like it's probably pretty awesome, but here's the thing: it's totally not.

in the meantime, i get all my excitement from television.

i've been watching that band in a bubble show on MTV. where they throw cartel in a bubble on a pier in NYC and they have to finish a record in 20 days. it's pretty ridiculous, but it's also entertaining. better than watching the real world las vegas reunion. right? right.

we watched the first rough cut of our music video last night. it looks amazing amazing amazing. can't wait to show it to everyone. i'm really proud of it.

okay, that's it. back to tv.

zzzzzzzzzzz.

reviews are so crazy

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/41958/olympia-emergencies/

So here's a review I found today from this website Pop Matters.

Overall, not a bad review at all. It sounds like he kinda gets what we're doing. But the guy TOTALLY DOES NOT GET SONG TITLES AND LYRICS.

Somehow, "Chorus! Chorus! Chorus!" became "Circus! Circus! Circus!"

Amazing. That could totally be a Panic! At The Disco song.

warped tour / nick is a liar

okay, this is phil. i am the author of every blog entry so far.

however, this IS eventually the place where EVERY member of olympia will be blogging. when we're home from tour, we barely even talk to each other, let alone set each other up to blog together. i was waiting for tour to start next week to get everybody up and running on this thing. it's much easier when we're all crammed into a van together for me to tell everyone how to login and stuff.

so, NICK BARKLEY.. you too will be able to blog, even though you are a hater.

okay.

soo here's something funny:




this is the official warped tour comp for 2007. if you go to the webpage, you will notice there is a snazzy olympia song on disc 2. do a little more research and you'll find that we're not playing a single date of warped tour this year.

i would wager that we are the only band on this comp that isn't playing warped tour.

obviously there are one of two possible scenarios to consider:
a) we are so fucking good, they asked us to play and we said no, so they got down on their knees and begged to at least put an olympia song on the comp so it will have a chance of going platinum.
b) other

you decide.

RIP - the bag of no shape

one of the best part about tours are the inside jokes that form. over the course of our almost non-stop touring, each bandmate has one or two things that are guaranteed to be good for a laugh.. so we brutally make fun of each other for these things. it's a good time all around.

the thing i get the most shit for, more than anything else, are my various bags i bring on tour. the worst offender is the large suitcase/duffel bag that i bring. it's sort of a giant duffel bag on wheels. it's a great bag, because you can shove all kinds of shit in it, and it has a lot of room, but it's gigantic, hard to carry, and gets in the way of all the other bags, so my bandmates fucking HATE IT.

three weeks into our first tour, it earned the name "THE BAG OF NO SHAPE". this name has stuck hard. in fact, it grew.

my other bags all earned names as well:

THE BAG OF AWKWARD SHAPE: my laptop bag that holds my entirely-too-big laptop and to be honest, is a little awkward. i also worry about shoving it under the bench seats, so i tend to keep it sitting out, where it gets in people's way, causing further annoyance.

THE SLEEPING BAG OF ALL SIZE: i like to roll up my sleeping bag with my pillow inside of it. you'd think this would be great and make everything easy to carry, but it just sorta makes my sleeping bag roll gigantic and easy to unravel. the one benefit of this is that my sleeping bag never gets left behind or mistaken for someone elses. but yes, it is also annoying.

anyway, i have a feeling that from now on, my luggage will always have over-the-top names, but to help ease the pain of my bandmates, i decided to get a new suitcase. not only does it have SHAPE and looks just like everyone else's suitcases, the brand name of the suitcase is OLYMPIA. how could i possibly go wrong??

the inaugural trip of the NEW BAG OF ALL SHAPE begins in just a little over a week. get stoked!

to THE BAG OF NO SHAPE.. we had a good run. rest in shapeless peace, my friend.