portsmouth, nh

in a not so disjointed attempt to recap the last of the weekend days:

first of all, i'm home. no rochester show happened, but the portsmouth show was so incredible, that it was a good point to end on.

so the story continues. on the way to porstmouth we stopped at a beach and went swimming in the ocean. i haven't been since i was in middle school so it was really fun to just get all sandy and salty. tim and i collected lots of shells. well sort of. we left and got to portsmouth and parked. we walked to this awesome record store where i got some nice vinyl. the new fog ep 10', themselvs/hood picture disc, cat power covers record and more. really good prices. we then went to get flatbread pizza at this awesome organic/natural pizza place. they had a really good blueberry wheat beer. we then walked around and found a bar to stop at and grabbed another blueberry wheat. we got some ice cream/frozen yogurt and headed to the show. at first it was a little weird, because the basement was full of toxic fumes, which owen (the house owner) was already high off of from being down there all day. we decided to play upstairs and then proceeded to hang out for a few hours. next door at the gas station, they sold wine! can you believe it?! however i guess you need to go to a state store to buy liquor.

any how tim played first and ended his set with an awesome cumlination of drums/various instruments played by everyone. i was ready to play and finall played well enough that i was happy with how it sounded. idatel was great, like always, and there was even some crowd interaction. after the show we (doug tim and i) decided to hang out and go to the ocean with owen. idatel whent haily's sisters house and slept. before actually getting to the ocean we all chose from a huge collection of bikes and rode to this little diner type thing called the friendly toast. owen was kind of volunteering and we were sitting around in the reserved area waiting to see if we'd get food, but we didn't. then owen decided it was too crazy and that he didn't have to work after all so we rode our bikes for a while to this little island called new castle island. it was so incredible. there was hardly any one out on the road driving so we could ride as free as we wanted to. when we got to opur destination we had to leave the bikes. we walked to this old fort. it was undescribable at night. we got up on the roof and stared at the stars. we all drank a beer and i fell asleep for a few minutes. we then decided to see the ocean again, and walked a little farther past the fort (which was huge!) and walked out on these rocks to get to this light tower kind of thing. we all climbed up on it and hung out for a little. it was so unbelievable there, i can't even explain it with words. utterly incredible. it makes me want to leave rochester to move to portsmouth.

we got down and decided we'd hit the 'toast again to get some food. at this hour it was dead so we got some food and a nice discount because we were on tour. after the food it was about 5 in the morning and we were all tired and cold from the outside air. we rode back to owen's where tim and i crashed on the futon matress on the floor and doug slept in this girl's bed. we woke up and doug told us it was time to go meet the idatel kids at the 'toast. we had eaten there about 5 or 6 hours before at this point. we met them and it was cowded s owe decided to call it a weekend. they waited for the food and we stopped at a co-op type thing where we got deli made sandwiches and kombucha. we headed back to the house we stayed at and left them a note, packed up the last of the car and left. we hit this wierd spot we saw on the way into portsmouth and it turned out to be completely beautiful. there was a ton of rocks exposed while the tide was low, so we climbed all over them. this is where tim and i collected the bulk of our sea shells, and i took some pictures with my lomo. hopefully they'll come out and i'll post them up later. we got back in the car after a while and hit the same beach even though it was cold and grey out. we stepped into the water but did no swimming; ithaca was cold enough. after a long car ride and a few stops for gas and food we got home safely. it's back to the real world i suppose. now i have to worry about school starting and not being registered full time. oh, and moving. maybe i'll figure it out tomorrow?

sounds good.

day one continued

i'll pick up at the point where we went swimming in 57 degree water. it was cold, pretty fun and a little painful. there was this awesome waterfall that was kind of hard to swim under. once i got to it i felt like i had run 100 laps on a 30 degree day. tim and kevin had an easier time. after swiminm it was time to get to troy.

at this point we all just sort of woke up. doug went to this coffee shop and we've gotta get to portsmouth. the rochester show isn't even settled yet.

thats all for now.

day one and two

greetings from albany!

we played in troy tonight, at a sort of art gallery type thing. it was pretty neat. a good vibe through the whole room. the backyard was awesome. it had a garden and trees and christmas lights hanging where a potential roof could be, if that makes sense? it was an all acoustic show which was something out of the ordinary for me.

ithaca was an adventure. tim and doug and i embarked on thursday around noonish. we got to ithaca and ended up listesning to records and drinking gin and tonics. followed by that we hit the short stop deli to get vegan sandwiches. we then went to the space at no radio records and hung out until we got to play. tim opened and then i played. i had a bunch of technical problems and the like. nat baldwin showed up and his friend charlie played first and then nat played the best set i've ever seen him play. he had a trumpeteer. we then went to a nice bar called korova where we drank expensive apricot wheat beers. sleep soon overcame after returning to kevin's and the viewing of episodes of mr. show. we woke up to an awesome breakfast of potatoes and tofu scramble. oh and some gimme lean sausage. we decided to hit some bookstores and i found a cool magazine with an interview with rachel sumpter, an awesome sf illustator. we then went to this book store with a huge basement full of records that was apparently owned by the guy who runs the bob shop. i got XTC - english settlement on double vinyl. i'll continue the rest of ithaca tomorrow, when everyone's not trying to sleep.

does anyone read this?

so, somethings i've been working on/doing while i should be finshing registration for what should be my final year of college (but will not be); or getting an oil change, inspection and fixing the locks on my car doors:

i just got back from my second august trip to new york city. this one was real awesome. brooklyn is so much cooler than manhattan. light years cooler. i saw the yeah yeah yeahs and sonic youth! of course sonic youth blew the yyy out of the water, but to be fair they were good too. karen o just looks so doofy in all those weird ass costumes. i was also dissapointed that some of the sweet riffs the guitar player was supposed to play, were played on some recording and were not really live at all. but then sonic youth came on. 100%, teenage riot and tons of other awesome songs they probably don't play on regular basis were in fact played for us. awesome color opened. they were odd and kind of mediocre. we ate tons of awesome food and drank tons of mimosas in the morning! there was a "nice" bar we called "blue" because of it's blue walls. $2 PBR!!! we got pretty sloppy there the second night i was down there. we found a nice CHEAP thirft store. i won't tell you the name so they can find out how awesome they are and raise the prices. the train i took home was actually ON TIME! incredibly so! i was without headphones so i read a whole lot. i learned that the guy who did the sound track for donnie darko is putting out a solo album. that could be way cool. i also read most of chuck closterman's sex drugs and cocoa puffs. good read.

my friend dan came home and i stopped over to see him after his long stint teaching photo at a summer cap. it was good to see him.

the weekend is just about complete:

ithaca - august 24th
troy - august 25th
portsmouth - august 26th
rochester - august 27th

all i have to do is get the venue settled for rochester. a hard task at this point, which is usually a real easy thing to do for me.

there promises to be some really great shows coming rochester's way in the ending months of 2006. wow. 2006 has flown by.

alright, well maybe i should be working on all sorts of things that are important. like making sure i finish college in some timely manner. and making sure i don't have to pay some kind of wicked fee because my car is out of date. or more recording.