NATURE DAY! Oregon!

We forgot to bring the camera!

Uncle Dan took us out to hike around a creek and climb a mountain near Eugene. It was a really good time.

Picture us in your minds eye... we're frolicing in a cold mountain stream... we're sitting on the edge of a small waterfall... we're trudging up a thin mountain trail, accompanied by a half-black lab half-rottweiller named "Bubba"... we've reached the top of the mountain, which has some very interesting eroded rock formations... we're standing in our underwear ontop of the rock formations... there's a griffon, vaguely visible in the background... we're knee deep in a pool of water, thinking about swimming, but waaay to cold...

Now...

LOOK AT THAT FUCKING NATURE!!! IMAGINE IT!

NA-FUCKING-TURE!!

Show 92: Sacramento, CA The Hub

TURNOUT: 12

MONEYs: $40

INJURIES: Kate pulled me up by my fingers, which sorta hurt.

STORIES: Best California show of the tour! Tons of kick ass bands! Lots of fun. The performance felt a little lacking, maybe because the venue was hot little room and there was a really loud fan, when combined with the ear-ringing from the loud noise music, made things a bit hard to hear.

Peter was back on the drooly loud set (which, honestly was only drooly the first two times) it was fucking great and LOUD in the small space.

Half a Highwayku (it was a really short drive):

damn five dollar toll

the drive is ov-

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Show 91: Oakland CA, The Curch

TURNOUT: Questionable. If you go by the money, 5 people. If you go by the people, 15 or more.

MONEYs: 25

INJURIES: Ah, none, there was carpet.

STORIES: So we went from playing a house called women to playing a church actually filled with women. I've had the experience when gathering information for the Intentional Community of looking at different cities' statistics, like what is the average age of residents or what industries are the most prevelent and seeing the variables change, sometimes drastically, from place to place. And I find myself always biting my lip in anticipation, hoping that when I get to the gender statistics, there will be one city that just blows everything else away, that has the same fluctuations in gender as there are in age and industry statistics. Staring at the screen I think to myself, maybee this city will have like a 70 to 30 percent women to men ratio or 28 to 25 ratio with 47 percent of the population listed as "they do whatever the fuck they want." It's ridiculous that I'm always dissapointed when this doesn't happen.

Anyway, my hopes of having a venue populated by a high ratio of women to men turned out to be dissapointing. Not that there wasn't a high ratio but that this ratio produced something that made me want to consume my own thumb and possibly the remainder of my digits if there were anymore Miss Mary Mack hand slappy games done in conjunction with wearing what amounted to fancy pajamas.

Peter played his weird set. A few people watched him. Bass Haters were excellent.

Highwayku:

This is what we found

busload of slavic grannies

a mailbox and frooot!

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Show 90: L.A. at Women

TURNOUT: 15

MONEYS: $15. merch $9

INJURIES: That spot where Kate slaps my head at that one part, it's starting to kind of break out in acne. Also my hair is getting too long and needs shaving. In other words my personal appearance is suffering some injuries.

STORIES: This place was punk rock. That's about all I want to say here about that.

On a positive note: a couple radicals with some who just moved to LA from Denver came to see the show, and contributed 2/3 of the money earned. Pedestrian Deposit are great musicians and we got to talk theatre with Shannon and this other guy. Xdugef and Shawn McCann were also quite good.

Also, we dried the sweat out of Ulysses' costume on the uncharacteristically well-maintained front lawn.

Peter played his "quiet" set, and sold more merch than us.

Highwayku:

Directions in hand,

Peter drives past the exit

Ben was sooo silly

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Show 89: L.A. at Echo Curio

TURNOUT: 6 in the beginning about 3 at the end.

SMELL: Fairly fresh. Smelled mildly of lavender.

BENCH PRESS: About two hundred. Not bad for such a scrawny place.

MONEYS: 20

INJURIES: It hurts, it hurts, oh god it hurts in my soul. (This is ben being slightly overdramatic)

STORIES: There were two skirted and pantsed people who walked into the space right before we were about to start which made me smile a bit thinking maybee somehow the press releases I'd sent out to the void had reached them only to see them walk out right after I did the "When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other contries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind" bit.

Oh well.

John and Shannon of Pedestrian Deposit came and saw the show which was great and we had a discussion afterwards with them, Grant, and another guy who's on the neighborhood association and who I can't remember his name goddamn it. I feel like I sounded kind of straight-backed and bookish in this discussion which makes me a little nervous about what my brain and mouth want to do with the new information they suck up.

Other things: - The perfomance and general delivery of the show that night was a little shakey, went better the next night.

- You can't pee anywhere on Sunset Blvd but we did anyway.

- Pete played his loud set, the drooly one, which I watched with my eye's open this time.

Highwayku:

Smuggling apricots,

Where's the lush fertile valley

Barry White killed it.

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