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Published: July 10th 2007
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day 4
Christoph Hall Beverage: Iced coffee, paying for our own beer despite the contract - Word: . -I really enjoyed staying at Bob's house and the whole IPM radio thing. It was a lot of fun with a great bunch of people. I had to ask Bob if I could borrow a towel as I seem to have forgotten to pack mine. I can color code all my packing stuff and organize to absurdity and I still forget things. He was cool and gave me one of his for the tour. Thanks Bob I really appreciate it and so does the rest of the crew I'm sure! Five people at 96 degrees and 60%!h(MISSING)umidity in a non- air conditioned bus tends to produce a variety of smells. Some are terrible and others just make you say...what the fuck is that smell?!?!?! We left Detroit shortly after stopping at a CVS pharmacy. I seemed to have forgotten my soap which is resting peacefully in the shower at home I'm sure, but all the containers of soap are "economy sized" which at first seems needed but...just too big for my bags. Martin called home from the bus while the rest of us wondered around
the store looking for different things. The one thing I've been having a hard time finding, believe it or not, is post cards to send to Jennifer. I thought every truck stop had them....guess not.
Ads we readied for our set last night on IPM Laurie's violin turned up missing. Ended up it was left in the club and we were fortunate to track it down. It involved and 80 mph shot into Detroit from Ferndale but it all worked out.
The trip from Detroit to Columbus was only about 198 miles so we packed and said goodbye to Bob and bailed. There really isn't a great way to get from Detroit to Columbus so we had to take a bunch of state highways which wasn't really that bad. Hot but not that bad.
We found ourselves in Columbus rather early so we wandered High Street looking into goth/porn shops and stripper clothing stores for the hell of it. We needed to get out of the heat so we sat in Skully's where we were playing and drank $1 beers for a bit. After about 20 minutes we noticed all the patrons looking out the window and
laughing hysterically. Curious I grabbed my camera and looked out to see a woman dancing in the street completely naked, bending over and spreading her ass cheeks at cars as they drove by. Interesting first view of Columbus for certain.
After having been here for awhile we loaded in and got set for sound check we found out that Despite the contract there was no food, we had to pay for our drinks and the financial deal wasn't going to be as it should. Some fucked up to say the least. As they had it we would end up paying them $100 at the end of the night. The opening band from Pittsburgh canceled and there was no DJ (apparently only the DJ runs the lights). There was no promotion at all and its a Monday night I took a break and called Jennifer to cool down. After speaking with her I walked out to the front of the building only to witness the naked dancing lady following a business man offering to give him a hand-job. Apparently she was running a special for only $4. I went back in and we discussed it a bit. Each of
us in turn got more heated about it and we wanted to leave/ Martin decided that we would do the show despite all even though he was mad as well. Two people came from Cleveland to see Attrition so we did the show for them.
The show actually went really well. The sound guy was cool, the equipment excellent, and the stage nice. Unfortunately there was nearly no one there. At the beginning of the Attrition set Martin went into a tirade about the whole situation. and said the only reason he would play is that a couple from Cleveland had driven to see Attrition. What pissed everyone off the most about it was that everyone working for the show was getting paid except for the bands which is the reason for the show. After the sets, the couple that came from out of town got photos with everyone and told us they brought gifts for us. Woot! gifts! Martin got a painting and High Blue Star received three cool dolls made up to resemble each of us that came in little black coffins. Brian and I sat out front and talked with a couple of guys Ryan and
Leni. Leni is a Desert Storm vet and Ryan is going to sign up this week. After leaving the service, Leni pursued art and has his work in galleries in Malaysia, Germany, France, New York, and some others I don't recall. Martin was really upset and wanted to throw one of Laurie's free weights through the clubs front window but decided that wouldn't be good.
We found ourselves at a late night pizza shop called Houndogs. The only thing I ate before this pizza was a banana and some French fries. Everyone was in the same boat. Martin was upset and stayed in the bus. The pizza was excellent and 2 or 3 pieces has you in a food coma and walking funny.
We woke this morning to steamy heat and took a walk to get Brian some things from the store. We found a military surplus store where Brian bought a hat. When we got back to where we were staying the skies opened up and it rained heavily dropping the temperature about 15 degrees. We all sat on the porch and drank coffee before getting breakfast. The rain got heavier as we left and everything in
the bus fogged up because the defroster is either on full heat or no heat and at 85 degrees in the bus full heat is too much. We had to keep wiping the widows with paper towels to kind of see.
On the way to Pittsburgh now listening to Cannibal Corpse, Sinatra and Kraftwerk. Brain and I have taken to referring to West Virginia as Brest VaginaI've had a few requests for our schedule so here it is: Pittsburgh July 10; Syracuse July 13; NYC July 14; Providence July 15, Norfolk July 17; Raleigh Jury 18; Baltimore July 20; Charlottesville VA July 21; Jacksonville July 23; Miami July 24; New Orleans July 26; Austin July 27; Tulsa July 29; Kansas City July 30; Cedar Falls IA July 31; Minneapolis August 3
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Kilgour
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No towel?
Hey man, you should know by now that a towel is the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have!