5.25.2008
5.12.2008
5.10.2008
day today: today.
"whats with today, today?"
we are in philly right now after a good night at johnny brenda's. its a gorgeous venue even if i couldnt shoot any pictures in the specially painted 'green room.' we passed the halfway mark of the tour a couple days ago. 12 past and 9 left. where does this time thing go? you get into a little routine on the road: stay up late, sleep till check out, lunch, drive to next venue. it seems like most of my down time is spent in the car. this leg of the tour is a little less stressed as the first week, well the drives are a bit less time consuming. tomorrow we are going to nyc for the first of two shows there. i can only assume we will make a trip to the my favorite bar in manhattan: McSorley's. its on 3rd ave and 7th street and the last time i was there beer was 2 for $3.50. its been a while. actually its been since i went to school up there 6 years ago. i cant say how much i miss living in a big city, looking forward to having a day off up there.
i realize i havnt introduced british sea power yet. they rock. and they are headlining this tour. check out their music if you get a chance. 
5.09.2008
5.08.2008
day 6: on the road to nashville
me: you said it, I diddnt. click, click, click.
little did I know that he was talking about the portrait of Carl
Perkins outside the rest stop bathroom (see next photo). apparently he
wrote a little song called Blue Suede Shoes. maybe you heard of it?
all over Tennessee there are pictures of the greats in the rest stops.
funny way to honor music's best but at least you know the people who
matter --the people who tour through tenn.-- see their faces as they
make one of many bathroom breaks.
5.07.2008
day 6: nashville
and destructing. sometimes its about wearing pink shoes and moving gear.
5.04.2008
day 4: CoMo
bus" at one of the many daily rest stop bathroom breaks. but really,
how cool can you look at abrest stop?
2. matt. a drummer, roommate, comedian, partner in beer drinking, and
apparently a dreamer of those late night 'call now' commercials.
3. its nice light. no explination needed.
4. matt and I drinking a beer at mojos. we also ate some awesome curry
chicken from mojos that night. made the fork neon yellow, and my face,
but it was excellent.
5. the bathrooms at the clubs are some of the best worst bathrooms
ever. fun to look at but not too good for the people on tour. I mean
we'd actually like to use it and stuff, which makes them annoying when
there isnt a backstage bathroom.
6. the back of the van.
7. it got cold all of a sudden in Columbia.
8. we <3 yo la tengo
today we are driving to ashville, nc for day 7 of the tour. 7 days. 7
cities. 7 hotels rooms. it'll be nice to be back in our home state
again even for just a couple days. tomorrow we have a day off and in
not sure what I'll be doing with my time. its like my days off when I
was interning in Michigan or new hampshire, I would have rather been
working. but it will be nice to be home and recharge before setting
out for weeks two and three of the tour.
5.03.2008
day 4: CoMo to oxford, ms
we kept hearing about tornado warnings for most of Tennessee. it was
rainy like mess for most of the drive and at some point we checked our
location in comparison to the tornados we were hearing about. little
did we know that we were heading strait for it, but we were a half
hour behind it. so it wasn't a problem. this is Kelly trying to make a
picture of the lightning, which her blackberry failed misserably.
5.02.2008
5.01.2008
day 3: indy
in my defense I was just shooting the photo shoot for
myoldkentuckyblog.com, the shoot that I mentioned earlier. it feels
like a highschool band photo the way Ivan and matt are looking so shy.
its why I kind of like this photo.
day 3: indianapolis
the crowd grabbing more people to dance. seemed like something I would
do. and then I did later when Kelly and Ivan asked people to dance on
stage with them. and if you missed the memo, dancing is fun at music
shows.
day 4: Indy to CoMo
...and your little dog too.
there'll be more from last night in a little bit.
day 3: indianapolis
who were also putting on the show last night.
day 3: chicago to indy
today was a short* 3 hour+ trip to indianapolis, in. this could be the first time i ever made it to indiana and id have to say indy was cool. who would have thought?
the first picture is before recording for the old kentucky blog radio show on sirius radio. the best part was the 7 dogs running over from across the backyard to bark at us for a while. they did get friendly, so i sat on the ground and let the dogs get their face lick on. when you're on the road you have to take these moments whenever you can get them. 
ha. maybe... probably not.
day 2: chicago
it seems like day 2 was sponsored by the color red. 
thats me dancing on the right and elif hiding from the camera as usual. 
its funny. chicago was last night but it feels so far away from where we are today. things move quickly on tour and this makes chicago feel like last week. and as kelly said: i cant even remember what we were doing yesterday or where we were. its hard figure out. time goes by much quicker but much slower. which makes me excited. its been three days but could easily have been three weeks. funny thing, this tour time.
as you may have noticed a few posts back, we went to sultan's market for falafels. and im not going to lie to you. i started talking about sultan's falafels last week. i ate two. and for the record, they were better than i had expected.
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