back home. bored.

so how do you celebrate a successful tour? if you're olympia, you come home and start working jobs as quickly as possible. yaaaaaay.

as little fun as it is, it makes good sense. we have a window where we'll be home for a few weeks, and a big question mark for the rest of the fall. ideally we'll be out for most of october/november, so since that is the case, putting away a little money is definitely an ideal situation.

if only that made work more fun. but alas, it does not.

so what does olympia do when they're not on tour?

peter probably has the best set up. when he's home, he spends time working on new artwork to sell and he's putting together pieces for a show down in richmond, va. he also works for a company that does art installations in the dc area.

nick works on a part-time basis for DC's newest skate shop palace 5ive. it's a pretty rad shop, so if you live in the DC area, go check it out. nick also works on our van when we're home - free of charge - and pretty much hates us for it.

shane delivers pizza down in richmond. he does the lunch time shift, so he's the guy who shows up to your office pizza party looking like he just woke up and hasn't showered in days.

as for me, i'm a temp. which roughly equates to office bitch. i started working at this company and have basically been typing numbers into computers, making copies, and filing things for 8 hours a day. when people talk about joining bands to avoid life strapped to a desk pushing paper around all day - they are talking about my job. the only thing that keeps me sane is caffeine and the knowledge that i will soon be touring again and leave all these people behind.

so that's really all the excitement of home life. now you see why we tour so much.

if you do live in the DC area - be sure to come out to tomorrow's show at the Black Cat!

also, if you haven't seen our new music video, you must be living under a rock: http://www.myspace.com/olympia

homeward bound

it's the last night of our mayday parade/sound the alarm tour.

this has definitely been a pretty fun tour for us. we've met a bunch of new friends and had a good time.

we have one more show in PA on our way home, and then it's back home to our beds, and our part-time jobs, and our friends and family.

want to see us come to your town on the next run? chime in and tell us where to go.. hopefully we can make it happen.

love,

phil

Joe proves you are never to old to rock.

So this is joe. He is 70, has a mohawk, and stage dove during our last song. My only wish is that someday i will become him. God bless you, joe.

Ain't too proud to beg..

PBR hat!

I dont know what else to say.

Chiodos plaza?

Our labelmates seem to have purchased some commercial real estate.

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

Beers!

This is olympia. Doing what we do best.

on the road again..

we're back out on tour with mayday parade and sound the alarm!

we had the first show last night in connecticut. it was a great turnout.. the show sold out! it was only a 200 capacity room, but still pretty awesome. i'm not sure kids know what to think of olympia quite yet. we got some mixed reactions, but some people seemed to like what we were doing.

last night the bartender was totally awesome and kept hooking us up with free drinks. there needs to be more bartenders like this guy in every town. it didn't hurt that we were more or less the only four dudes drinking all night.

we're off to pennsylvania today. but first, guitar center! my least favorite place to go ever. i'll get into that more later, i think.

back to packing up.

phil