Woke up this morning in a real actual house with a real actual bed..
although dismayed I couldn't drive my car today, as the battery is dead.. whoda thunk leaving a car sit for a month the battery would die.. ahh well.
We head to Taime's (I feel like I've done this before.. hmm) and get ready to leave.
We cut down on merch, since there is only two shows left.. then we head to Fresno.
There isn't shit between Hollywood and Fresno except cows. Boo.
We arrive at the venue, it's a cool little place. Little. The stage is about 18 inches high. But seems pretty cool nonetheless. I don't have much to set up, now, with only one box.. and I'm super excited to have the interwebs on my computer screen thing. YAY!
I am RIGHT next to the stage, so I can take pictures of Ace and Tender makin funny faces tonight. Fun!
I go explore for a bit.. I find a rad thrift shop.. closed. I find a rad salon, that apparently is sponsored by Manic Panic.. FUCK YEAH.. closed.
Finally, I explore long enough to find Valentino's, who actually used to be my customer at Lucky 13, and Draven.. they have some rad shit, but I'm broke, so I buy a cool bow, and move on with my exploring.
I find a tattoo shop, a hot dog shop, and a gift shop with epic paintings on the outside.. so I take pics with everything. Of course. I also found a small record store, but had to resist going inside, cause I can't afford to buy vinyl.. so tempting.
I head back to the venue, but first I take a pic of this very weird mural.. not noticing the gutterpunk kids below it.. I apologized for what looks like me taking their picture.. and get into a convo with them about how weird and scary this mural is. They seem cool, but odd.. as most gutterpunks are. Hah. Just hope I don't end up livin with em. hahaha.
Finally I get back to the venue.. A quick soundcheck, then it's dinner time. We head thru a sneakily painted doorway to the place next door.. and wait for a while for the waitress.. then a little longer.. finally, she comes to get our our order.. and 15 minutes later we get our drinks.. nearly 45 minutes later.. we still don't have our food. We start trying to figure out what job might be more appropriate for this girl.. fish monger? no, pointy objects. Data entry? too technical. Finally we settle on Toll Booth attendant on an Oklahoma Turnpike. She's that smart. HAH.
I was not impressed at all with my burger. I gave up halfway thru.
Danny is he only one who stays thru the openers, and we decide to play. Everytime someone takes a pic with him, I flp him off in the background. hehehe.
One of the openers covers Chris Isaak - Wicked Game.. but metal HAHAHA. Awesome.
So there's some interesting people here. .some really drunk annoying guy, a dude in a pink hoodie (from a previous show.. who later showed up in the womens bathroom) These guys we called Pauly Shore and Sammy Hagar..)
and a few other strange characters. One guy spilled his Newkie all over my table, but bought me a beer to make up for it.
The Pauly shore character I was ready to punch.. he spilled all over my table as well.. he finally got kicked out, he was so obnoxious
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The pink hoodie guy actually walked up and said "two in the pink one in the stink" which I chose to ignore.
Taime, mid set, mentions that we have "power and the glory hole" for sale, and says "If you buy one savannah whill show you a nip.. if you buy like 5 she might show you her vag" ...lmao. I just held up the \m/
I hang out with one of the security boys for awhile, he's pretty cool and knows a lot of my close friends, he's a fan of the Koffin Kats. Always cool hangin w Kats fans.
Finally, the boys drunkenly load out.. I help with what I can, while having a nice cold vodka-cran-7.
we get back to the hotel, and I guess I'm staying in the room that smells of feet and poo. Fortunately I have a stuffy nose so I can only smell it for a moment.
Now.. it's bedtime.
One more night of this.. just one more night.
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