Show 87: Bisbee AZ, Sully's Old Town Cafe

TURNOUT: 9

MONEYS: 71 + 46 in merch

INJURIES: Someone's ears. Cops were called during Pete's booming set. Nothing happened. Brian who owned the place was very excited about wasting the cops time.

STORIES: Bisbee is a small mountain town in Arizona that houses the happiest man ever, one noise dude and a few old men with facial tattoos. This town is great. The noise guy who'd contacted Peter about the show over email months ago just walked into the restaurant we were at and found us. Small towns are extra convenient at times. It was good to hang out with him for a while while eating delicious black bean burgers that held together nicely.

There ended up being a small but nice and enthusiastic audience for the show. Makes me think that next time we should take Brian's suggestion an ddo it for two nights, leaving room for word of mouth to travel. I always like coming here and seeing folks again. Great hospitality and lots of smiles. Bisbee is a place we'll likely come back to in the future.

The house we stayed at also had two goats, ducks, a greenhouse, an apricot tree and much more, not to mention the three kids.

Highwayku:

We drove to Bisbee

extremely uneventful

just a few palm trees. (to be said underneeth: "yuka yuka yuk")

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Lincon, NE at Cultiva Cafe

Here are two pics from Nebraska, the top one is slightly more interesting.

TURNOUT: 23

MONEYS: 98

INJURIES: Ben reeled his head back hitting my chin leaving it all novacainy feeling. Also, I scratched Ben's head in one part by acciddent leaving two red streaks. Another also, the metal clasp holding up Ulysses' pants was torn asunder and needs mending.

STORIES: Our first Cafe show of the tour. Shane of Monsters of Pot set it up and it went great. On the high end of cafe shows to date. Went to a goth show afterward with Shane that reminded me that I haven't seen goth or people that can dance as gracefully as that one guy did in a while. All in all, stellar times.

Peter played his quiet set. Which wasn't very quiet, more like an alien heartbeat and demonic chanting monster. Rawr! I like it.

Here's the haiku from the drive there:

Rolling hills rolling

across Iowa farmland,

dear jesus I'm bored.

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Show 68: Hamilton, Sky Dragon Center

Turnout: 30

Monetary Votes of Support: 177 total ($33 merch, $144 Suggested PayWhatYouCan Donation) Canadian money is about the same as US, a tiense less.

Personal Injury Report: Unscathed Again! man... the Pittsburgh ear incident must have done it.

Show Description: Thor, who we knew from Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis set up an outstanding show, falafels and all, at Sky Dragon Center, a cafe slash dance studio slash show space, slash bar slash community center-- it's a pretty nice set up.

45 seconds before the end of the show, two cop cars, with lights flashing pulled up directly in front of the picture windows and started shouting. Their timing was uncanny, made us freeze for a few seconds while someone went outside to do a copwatch and make sure they weren't shouting at us, then we finished the show. We had another great discussion, that's three in a row now.

I was asked afterwards if, because of doing the play, I'd given some thought to whether or not I'd be able to actually do something like this-- which I answered, but am still, right now, examining and expanding on my answer. Nice question.

Perfomance-wise, this was one of the stranger ones, at least on my part, I don't know why.

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Show 65: Jamestown, Labyrinth Press Company

Turnout: A whole bunch, 35 ish

Monetary Votes of Support: 68 (40 hat, 28 merch)

Personal Injury Report: Unscathed!

Show Description: Labrynth Press is a kick-ass locally owned coffee shop and show space. Playing there was a great time, lots of people turned out, young and old, which was a very welcome sight. The whole space seemed to bustle during the show, people were pretty lively. It kind of almost threw me off a little--in a good way.

I believe we freaked out some people who saw us as they were walking by; that's always awkward. Also, my apologies to the guy who's coffee Ben jostled upon his entrance.

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Show 59: Sheboygan

Turnout: 35

Support: $101.51

Personal Injury Report: Kate gone and slapped me upside the head for reals. Also she landed funny a bruised her butt a little.

Description: Couches! GREAT music! Solid turnout. Some friends and family members seeing the show for the first time. Made enough money to keep us in the black after spending $350 to replace the tires we've traveled almost halfway across the country 4 times on (now that we're driving on snow often balding tires seem like a terrible idea).

Having more than 20 people in the room always makes the performance feel really good. My family and Mike Hanlon's students liked the show. Some folks left quickly, looking a little distraught, which makes me wish we could go directly into group discussions or somehow make them feel more comfortable discussing things with us. We did have some good one-on-one conversations with people.

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