LOVE ME DESTROYER Tour Journal, March 2007 Feature by Jordan A. Baker
Denver's LOVE ME DESTROYER will be gracing us with tour journal entires from their three-week March trek with SMOKE OR FIRE. Most likely, they will be penned by Taylor, the band's bassist. Head over to their myspace page for all of the tour dates and to hear music from their excellent second full-length The Things Around Us Burn.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
We ended things with a bang in Phoenix. Every show in the world seemed to be going on in Phoenix. Venue got switched 3 times, but ended up playing a place called the Brickhouse downtown by The Bob and where the lame Suns play.
We show up, and there is a matinée show going on, so we gotta wait till that's done and done. We and Smoke or Fire head over to Cooperstown to grab a meal, and reflect on our tour together. Don't get the veggie burger there unless you request some sort of sauce. It was dry and dull and overpriced.
Show was really fun. Cool venue, but the sound was well... bad. I saw posters up on the wall that the Donnas and the Fray had played here recently, but I'm sure they had better luck with the sound. The stage was also on multiple risers, so every time I would move around, I'd take a piece of the stage with me.
Smoke or Fire killed it, encore included. Merch trade, load out, head to Wal-Mart at 1:30 am to buy food for a BBQ at Will's (promoter for lucky man) house. I made sure to get the veggie burgers. Joe from Smoke or Fire seasoned and marinated steaks for everyone. I just watched him like I was watching Emeril for about 30 minutes. Joe is a chef. By 3 am we had food in hand, and by 4 am we retired to sleep because we had a 9 hour drive ahead of us.
It was nice to have our final hang out/party with Smoke Or Fire. We're really gonna miss those guys.
Wake up at 8 am, start the drive to Albuquerque. We hit traffic jam after traffic jam coming into ABQ. Construction, accident, and a semi caught on fire caused us to be 2 hours late to our show at the Cell Theater. Nonetheless, the kids were way cool and let us rock. This was kinda back to the old school LMD touring ways. Play with young bands, to young kids. While it's risky at times, because sometimes young kids are really moody and ignorant, tonight was a night where they loved it. 40 kids screaming, moshing, and buying our merch. It was a nice treat at the end of the tour. We've played a sold out launch pad, and to 10 people at a music festival in ABQ, but this was by far our best experience. No attitude, just kids that want good punk rock.
I hit the drivers seat, get a gas station cappuccino and some cookies, and put on my iPod. 7 hours later, and still listening to Marilyn Manson over and over again, we arrive home sweet Denver home at 6 am.
Thanks for everyone who read this. I know I enjoy reading tour diaries myself, so I wanted this to be something that everyone could enjoy. Nothing too serious. Because we're out here living the dream, and if we start taking ourselves too seriously, the end is on its way. I tried to be very sarcastic, and if you got it, great. If not, I feel bad for you.
Thanks to Smoke or Fire for taking us out. They have been so fun to be on tour with. Our best tour experience so far. We have toured with many bands that have become such good friends, but something was special about these guys. We can't wait to hang out with them again. Thanks Dave, Jeremy, Joe, and Ken. And thanks to Emily who managed to keep our trainwreck in line, all while tour managing Smoke or Fire. I included a picture of her making a cute little picture on our payout envelope when a certain club tried to pay us less than we were due. Emily took care of situations like that so I didn't have to bring out my muscles.
Anti-Flag Friday, Stiletto Formal tour in April, and Summer tour plans on the way.
Send some email our way, we're always looking to meet new friends. =)
Taylor
band@lovemedestroyer.net
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Time flies when you don't want it to. We're about to head to Phoenix for our last show with SMOKE OR FIRE. We had to say goodbye to LOVE EQUALS DEATH last night. Now tonight, as they say in Vegas, is our last night in town... hail mary!
Hollywood was, well, Hollywood. We toured the haunted Queen Mary in Long Beach before the show, which proved to be an expensive price for a cheesey haunted ship tour. We found we got our money's worth by wearing our sunglasses on the tour...."haunto-vision."
Good drunken time in Hollywood. Knitting factory is a great place, but not as good as Astro Burger. Vegetarian bbq rib sandwich after a show is one of the best things a little veggie like me can experience. Oh the things on tour that being joy.
3 hour drive covering 30 miles to Fullerton. Cody and I wander to Starbucks to mess with the barista girls there that were apparently giving Smoke or Fire attitude when they didn't speak Starbucks "lingo."
See, I work at a rival coffee shop, so anytime I can be a smart ass to Starbucks and mess with their employees, I'm gonna take it.
All I'm gonna say about Fullerton is that Smoke or Fire killed it. They played a mega 16 song set and killed it. Before their set, Joe and I shared a "Behind the Music" of "cops and drugs," which is my fav Smoke or Fire song, and one of my fav songs out there in music. I felt like a 15 year old kid getting giddy when they dedicated that song to me. Aw, how cute.
Now I'm just waiting for Scooter and Ryan to meet up with us so we can hit route 10 to Phoenix. We had to leave by 7:30 and it's now 9. At least it's overcast so the sun won't be so bad. The sound of lawnmowers outside our van woke Cody and I right up and made it impossible to sleep past 7:30 am.
See ya more than likely in Denver, i'll have some party pictures of Smoke or Fire and Love Me Destroyer's last night.
- Taylor
Pictures are of Scooter walking the deck while texting on the Queen Mary, and the menu cover of the most awesome diner in LA!
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
I'm in the back of our van headed down the 101 to Hollywood. We went to the Palo Alto mall on our day off yesterday. I found that 20 questions machine. It guessed correctly an electric fan. I was amazed. Scooter was so drunk he got lost trying to walk to the van to pass out. The Asian nail salon was not happy with him trying to ask for directions to our van.
Headed down the 101 to Santa Barbara, and if you read one of my pointless blogs on myspace yesterday you would have read that Scooter's feet smelled so bad that he ended up throwing his shoes out the window on the middle of the freeway.
We pass out in Santa Barbara in the van. Cody and I head downtown to the mall for the homeless shower. See the pictures for a picture of the homeless shower in action, and an actual homeless man. He is sleeping the exact same way Smoke or Fire's Dave slept in our van the other night.
Kill time in downtown. Go to Church of Skatan and a coke dealer pulls us aside and asks us if a green hoodie looks good on him. How did we know he was a coke dealer? This was one of his phone conversations:
"Hello? Who is this"
"Yo dog why you callin' me from a restricted number. Call me back on a real line"
Headed to the Alpine in Ventura. Got lost. Showed up late. Thanks to our friends from Bakersfield and Santa Barbara that drove to see us tonight. Alpine was like a truck stop of a venue. Had an arcade, gift shop, laundry, climbing wall, skate park, and a venue. Great sound too.
Hit In N Out for the second straight day. Their grilled cheese is awesome! I noticed that a grilled cheese costs 1.82 and a cheeseburger is 2.04. Does this mean that the meat only costs 20 cents?
Think about that while you try and fall asleep tonight. We are headed to fiesta brodown with Love Equals Death.
- Taylor
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
12 hour drive from Portland to San Fran. 8 dudes crammed into one van. I had first shift and drove till 6 am. Almost drove off the road quite a few times. I even remember being convinced there was a giant alligator in the middle of the road. That's how tired I was.
We hung out at Jeremy's house in Oakland all day. We had some bagels and walked to the nearby coffee shop to kill time before heading to the club.
Bottom of the hill. First timer for me. Nice small bar. Fed us great pasta. I hung out with Seth from Negative Progression most the night. Also our friend Scott from American Steel. Oh and we played a show.
Loaded up, collected our cash money and went to a karaoke bar. Nothing says a good time like 5 drunk dudes and me singing "dead or alive" and flashing 303 gang signs to the birthday party in the bar. I think we had em convinced they were in Denver.
A fist fight and a 2 hour trip to Palo Alto later, and I fall asleep.
First 8 hour night sleep all tour. And without Tylenol PM!
Pics are of me taking a great live shot of Love Equals Death (these didn't seem to arrive in the inbox - Ed.). Those guys are so awesome. So nice. I finally told Dominic about the time I was front row at their the Tsunami Bomb/Hot Rod Circuit show in Boulder a few years back and how good they were. Oh the glories of being star struck.
See ya in So Cal. Time to drive.
- Taylor
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Sitting at the Merch table in Portland. 11 hour drive to San Francisco due up in about 30 minutes. I get first shift. I'm already dead. So so sleepy. We crashed in Wal-Mart in Yakima this morning and went to a Holiday Inn Express for breakfast. This one made omelets and had a waffle maker. It was awesome! The best.
Pulled into Portland. Two of my favorite bands are from here, THE DANDY WARHOLS and EVERCLEAR. So I was kinda starstruck by the city (I know, I'm a loser) But it's just like Denver. Just like San Fran. Just like Dover, Delaware. Except Portland has this awesome burrito joint next to the venue with a tofu and potato burrito. Not as good as the place in Chicago, but real good.
So far the van has been doing great after the new fuel pump. And I just got word that the Nuggets won again. I'm stoked to hear that.
Ok I'm just gonna call it how it is and shoot it straight. The sound at this club tonight sucked.
See ya tomorrow in San Fran.
- Taylor
The first picture is of Cody excited to cross a big river to I-84! And the second one is of our fuel tank on the floor. I fixed 'er up good!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Happy St. Pattys day!
I'm sittin' here in our new van outside the garage of a new friend we made on Craigslist. No, we weren't lookin at the personals.
We were broken down about ten minutes out of downtown Spokane and I figure, "hey, why not try calling a few guys who put ads up on Craigslist for auto repair and see if any of them wanna help us out? It's a shot in the dark being towed to the shop, and we will probably pay way too much anyways."
So we get towed to the club to sit and wait for our new friend to come take a looksie. SMOKE OR FIRE is awesome to go and pick up our trailer, even with their van's trailer lighting system not working!
So we play the show, do the deal, and scramble. Only I get to sleep in the van in downtown crackhead-ville to wait for a tow truck to pick us up in the morning. I'll pick the rest of them up when the van is ready. Who knows if we will make Tacoma. It's 5 hours away and it's almost noon. It's not looking good.
So back up a bit to our fun day in the Spokane Valley Mall. We started at Sportsmans Warehouse. You'll notice their famed "wall of death" of pictures of hunters and their kills. Everything from bears, coyotes, elk, deer, and so on. It's pretty nuts, so I posted a picture (now before you PETA animal rights activists go nuts, I am a vegetarian, a volunteer firefighter, and an amateur tattoo artist).
We went to the mall, and Hot Topic was business as usual. Look up at the shirt wall for your friends' bands. Once again, photo time... "raise your hand if you're on the Hot Topic shirt wall!"
I ate Taco Time for the first time ever. Awesome deep fried overpriced rolled bean burrito. We saw 300. It was nice to see a overhyped piece of garbage movie. Yes, 300 was dumb. Although it does provide hours of movie quotes when loading out gear. Just yell out "Spartans!" next time you need to assemble your band to load out. It works great.
Ok, just got word we gotta cancel Tacoma. I'm at Wal-Mart now watching Xavier almost beat Ohio st. I was gonna play basketball at Xavier, so it's nice to see them get some more recognition (Ed. - Uhhhh????).
See ya in Portland, Oregon. Home of my favorite band, THE DANDY WARHOLS.
- Taylor
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Good times in Salt Lake City.
Right now I'm in the Student Union of Westminster College in SLC illegally using a computer. I figure, hey it's an injustice to have Jerry Springer on TV over the NCAA Tourney, so I'm gonna use their computers designed for students only. Pretty campus though. Well, it's one of those, pretty on the outside, then look in the bathroom and it's like you're at a Wrigley Field bathroom during the World Series... oh wait, rather the divisional playoffs. Gross. I can't take a homeless man shower in these things! But I do.
Homeless man shower? I just made the term up 30 seconds ago. It involves these steps:
1) Wake up in your van after 3 hours of sleep
2 )Walk outside, knocking out all the trash and pee bottles left in the wheel well. Act like it ain't no thing. Cause, it ain't.
3) Find a bathroom somewhere. There are many places I have done homeless man showers. This happens to be the first time I've utilized a college student union bathroom. You can go to libraries, gas stations, Wal-Mart, Target, shopping malls, grocery stores, etc. Hotels are priority choice, because you can also scam some free breakfast if you're lucky.
4) Turn faucet on, brush teeth.
5) Turn faucet to hot, wet face and hair, apply hand soap to face, rinse, This give you the feeling you just took a shower.
6) Go find band. In my case, I wake up real early, and my band is asleep so it's real easy to find them.
We have a day off today, cause Boise fell through. We got a 12 hour drive to Spokane, so we figure to cut it in half today. Watch 300 somewhere, find a Wal-Mart, maybe a hotel room (if they're cheap enough) and then we can take real showers.
SLC was a _______ time. Insert your favorite adjective. It's all the same. What's with all the bars in SLC being "private club for members?"
We hung out with our last tour-mates I AM THE OCEAN. Everyone was really drunk and that lead to nothing real positive. It cost $11 to fax out soundscans at Kinko's. That's out of control! $11 for 8 pages! All so the world can see that LMD sold 94 records on tour this week. I should go back to scamming the hotel desk girls to fax them for me. Getting told "no sir, for guests only" a few times is better than $11. We need a Kinko's endorsement deal. As well as a vitamin water endorsement deal. Now that I'm on this tangent, the best endorsement deal ever could be is... Wal-Mart.
Tell me I'm wrong.
- Taylor
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Take it easy, take it easy. We are gonna still be on tour. I know you all were way worried about us. Yes, we are out a transmission that will cost 2700 bucks to replace. 2700 more than we have to replace it. So, when the going gets tough, we start asking people if we can borrow their van for 2 weeks.
While our van is awaiting word from AAA on getting a free transmission, we are lucky enough to use Justin Hackyl, from The BLACKOUT PACT's van. Yes, that van. All the stories and love and drug scenes that must have taken place in that dear van now belongs to us for 2 weeks. Not much better!
One thing about our van is we keep it clean. THE BLACKOUT PACT did not. We spent an hour cleaning it on Tuesday, took it to the shop to get an oil change and a wiper malfunction fixed. Then we get ready to hook up the trailer to head to the marquis and BAM! Trailer ball on the van is too big. Go to Wal-Mart, get wrench and new tow ball. Get trailer on, ready to go and.... light adapter is needed! Go to Wal-Mart again, head to venue and arrive at the venue two hours late. Just like a pro.
It's always odd playing your hometown on tour. Nonetheless we figure to come into town, burn as many bridges as possible in a day or two and then leave again with a city giving us the finger.
SMOKE OR FIRE caught van problem disease and got stuck in Omaha and missed Denver. :(
Salt Lake City is... well a boring and windy drive from Denver. The I-80 death trap really is tough. You don't understand until you have actually done it. It was possibly the most thrilling and exciting 9 hour drive ever.
Salt Lake show is tonight. We play at 11:20 PM. That's late! Apparently there is a great vegan restaurant across the street. Ken from SMOKE OR FIRE just ate this sandwich that looked awesome. I'm gonna go get one myself.
Today I used up my entire Ipod battery. Stone Temple Pilots, Failure, Dandy Warhols, Fear Before..., Avril, Riverboat Gamblers, and Finch.
Boise got canceled, see ya in Spokane.
- Taylor
Monday, March 12, 2007
Off day home in Denver!
I was a champion driving through the night. from Omaha. We played The Triple Rock, which is an 800 capacity venue. Great sound, and the sell out crowd really loved it.
LOVE ME DESTROYER's curse of Omaha states that whenever LOVE ME DESTROYER plays Omaha, regardless of if it's solo, with PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS, or with SMOKE OR FIRE, or PANIC AT THE DISCO, less than 30 people will be in attendance. You cannot fight the curse. Maybe in 90 years we can break it.
Dropped the boys off at home earlier and then headed to my house about an hour south. Get off the highway, rounding 3rd base to get home to my bed to get sleep and breakfast...
AND TAKE A GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
Yep. The Tranny. Slip n' slide and die.
I'm just chillin' now in my van waiting for AAA to come get me and take the van to the shop. Luckily it's an off day. Let's hope the tranny gets fixed by tomorrow night.
It's weird. I'm really confused by this transmission's tactics. It's great on fluid. It didn't appear to be leaking. But it also does not appear to be working.
I attached a picture of our van piggy-backing the tow truck.
Ridin dirty in the tow truck,
Taylor
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Well, it's been a few days since I've checked in. I'm lazy, I know. I tried to write one while I was driving in the middle of Wisconsin, but it was real windy, and I was so enamored by all of the ski areas and water resorts. In Wisconsin Dells, there was this awesome hotel with a tornado water slide. They do not mess around with indoor water parks in Wisconsin.
Now, flashback to Chicago. Pulled into town at 8am, had the best Veggie Burrito ever in my mouth by 11 am. Paisano's Tacos. It's on Irving Park Drive, North of I-90, next to Dunkin' Donuts. Simply amazing. And only $3.
Dealt with AAA for a couple hours. Good news is that AAA is going to work on getting us a new transmission. Should know by Monday.
Ronny's was back to the old school DIY garage days. It's half dive bar, half big garage converted to small 100 person venue. LOUD.
Scooter and Ryan bailed after we played to go hang out with DROPKICK MURPHYS at House Of Blues. Cody and I went back to the house we stay at in Chicago (who was Scooter and Ryan's escort) only to find it locked, and Ryan had the key. Fantastic. 2am, we gotta leave at 7am. Head to the van, get a few hours of sleep, then head back to the door only to find Scooter gone. Call him 5 times, get the shady button over and over again. He shows up at 7:30, with stories involving getting kicked out of bathrooms and the sort. We hit the road.
Triple Rock. It's one of the best clubs to play in the country. It's real easy to see double here, as they let you drink for free. Scooter took full advantage. Anyone who was at this show witnessed a treat during our performance. Ramblin man on the mic. Free food too, and the best food I've ever eaten at a club. It's delicious. SMOKE OR FIRE killed it, again.
We just pulled in to Papillion. It's 311 day, and we're in Omaha. Wow. We're in the parking lot of an Applebee's, and I'm watching a mid 40's mom yelling at each of her rebellious kids running around the parking lot... dad just got out of the car to lay down the law... Welcome to lower class Suburbia.
Pictures:
Since we have some catching up to do, i'll make it quick
- Paisano Tacos. Bands: when you're in Chicago, hit it up. It's amazing.
- Me hanging out with the door guy at Ronny's in Chicago
- Our new way of traveling around the country in Wisconsin
-TYPO POLICE!!!! Flyer at Triple Rock. They wished we were LOVE OR DESTROY. WRONG.
My Ipod has really been busy with 7 hour drives. My favorites have been Ashlee Simpson, Silverchair, VAUX, Dandy Warhols, The Fray, Avril Lavigne, and still Girls Against Boys.
Next stop, home. Touring through your own town rules when you get an off day. Back to our own beds a couple nights.
Out like our transmission is gonna be if it don't get fixed!
Taylor
love letters to our van can now be sent to band@lovemedestroyer.net
His name is Ron, and he is sad.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Ok so it's not quite the next day, but i'll be sleeping when I should be writing so I'm checking in early. I do what I want!
Southgate, Detroit, whatever. Finally met up with SMOKE OR FIRE. Last time we saw em was 1.5 years ago at the Triple Rock in Minny. They were supporting PMFS, and now they are on their first headlining tour... my boys have all grown up now! (tear....)
So now to why I'm writing early, we gotta drive to Chicago through the night. Not for any real reason except to eat the best vegetarian burrito ever in the history of earth. I don't know the name, we just know where it is. Last tour we ate there twice in a week! I'll take a picture and give address so when you big rock n roll stars have that craving for a burrito... this place is sure to wet your appetite for destruction of a burrito. Freshly sliced avocado, crisp lettuce, 3 dollars, big big big. They don't have parking for your fleet of 3 our buses, but we will make due.
Yes, our van is still limping along city to city. AAA is dealing with that shady Salt Lake shop to see if they will get us a new tranny, or if they are gonna still act like the high school girl who screwed your best friend on your birthday and then kicked your dog after throwing your school books out your window.
So I have an idea, and it's brilliant. There is one thing that keeps you awake and focused on the long overnight drives. Well, besides your bandmates. Mine just sleep, which is cool. I rock them gently to sleep with my limo driving skills. Ok, so I know it's bad, but it's text messaging that helps you stay awake. So there should be some thing where you can like have people send "stay awake soldier!" texts to the band! You know, just to keep up the morale. That would involve giving out the number, which would be a bad idea. Or is it? ESCAPE THE FATE - I demand a response immediately.
Yes the 2 hours of sleep in 3 days has finally made me delirious. I'll be better after my burrito. Or maybe i'll still be crazy until I get to go to the Mall of America? We will know soon.
Pictures! One of Scooter in front of an awesome truck stop near Kalamazoo, and one of the bill at Modern Exchange. Typo police! We'll think of it this way - it's way more tough to be from Detroit (what!) then Denver. More street cred!
What rocked my Ipod during my drive to the motor city? Girls Against Boys, Radiohead, The Exies, Chevelle.
Hasta manana
Taylor
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Ok. Update on transmission number 2. Dudes at shop in Spencer, IA show me how our transmission case got cracked by a shop in Salt Lake City. Back in late January on our tour with HER CANDANE, we broke down a mile out of Salt Lake cause of a crack in our tranny cooler line.
So, AAA tows our broke down asses to a shop (they will remain nameless for now, hoping they will get their heads out of their asses and help us) in downtown SLC. They replace our cracked line with a fitting to go to the transmission. Well the shop in Spencer (Graham Tire... good guys, if you ever find yourself broke down in Spencer... which (with all do respect to our Spencer friends), would suck, points out where the shop in SLC tightened the fitting way to much, to the point where it cracked our transmission case. Only fix? New transmission... haha like we have that kind of money. So they put some weld on there to at least slow down the leak.
I call the shop. They back peddled and covered their ass like a cheating girlfriend on prom night. Famous quotes from their owner:
"Your transmission was already cracked and shot"
Oh really? Then why did you fail to mention that to me? Why would you not want to fix a cracked tranny?
"We can't take another mechanics word"
Oh the classic he said she said high school drama back out. Haha. Don't take his word. Take mine. If it's so apparent to me that its cracked cause of your fitting, then it's true. I know as much about cars as I do my new bass amp... and I can barely turn that thing on. I do however, fake it real well!
Ok. Enough of that rant, but it's "episodes" and "dilemmas" like these that keep touring bands slightly in reality check.
Show last night was tons of fun. We didn't have to play our gear. We just used the locals' gear. Which was awesome cause the stairs going to the room are as bad as The Warehouse in La Crosse, WI. And those suck! Kids had a great time, which is always a great sight, and makes it worthwhile.
Now we go from playing to 14 year olds who love us to 34 year olds who are gonna start calling us, mainly me, the "F" word that describes a bundle of sticks (trying to stay PC here.....) claiming we're not punk enough, or punk anymore, and we should go back to Hot Topic or the 80s with our ballad.
You know you love the ballad. But more importantly, your mom and girlfriend do. So we understand you wanting to hate something they love so much :)
Well I'm done for now. I have no idea where we are. I just woke up from sleeping in Black Bart's cave (term for the floor in our van between two bench seats... my domain when not driving). Cody was a champ and drove all night. 8 hours down, 8 to go!
See ya tomorrow... oh, I didn't listen to my Ipod today, I did though hear the new GOOD CHARLOTTE song... it's awesome, I LOVE the "4 on the floor" beat during the chorus.
Living the dream with a cracked tranny,
Taylor
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Starting out tour with a transmission leaking like a broken water on you is just no picnic. Especially when you gotta drive about 900 miles to get it fixed.
10 hour drive from Denver to Pierre, SD. Adding tranny fluid at every stop so we don't break down again. Everyone has dealt with tranny problems, and it just is a nightmare. Mid 90's Dodges and their weak transmissions. Our trailer has a coat of Valvoline ATF. Keeps the red paint in real well.
Anyways, back to what's important. Fort Cody in North Platte, NE. Sure we're gonna be late for the show, but it's Fort Cody. Cody (our drummer) is in heaven, and he buys the "Doc Holliday" knife, which in essence is a pistol with a blade instead of the barrel. The picture below is the highlight of Ft Cody, the two headed cow that only lived 20 minutes.
Pierre is a great town. Small Town, USA. How many of you big rock stars have even thought about playing a show in South Dakota? I bet you're usually like "what the hell would we do in south dakota? hunt buffalo?" Well it's quite the time. 50 kids on a Tuesday night going crazy in a banquet room. Good times. Promoters that care, kids that care...imagine that!
Leave right after the show, and drive 5 hours to another Small Town, USA: Spencer, IA. Drop van off at the shop at 7am, after pulling into town at 5am. Bye bye money. =( Hello no tranny leak? =)
Tonights show is in an apartment above a nail salon and insurance agency. Will fund the 12 hour drive to Detroit after the show to meet up with Smoke Or Fire. I'll more than likely be writing the next journal while driving in the middle of Illinois.
Taylor
LMD
Send instant hate mail to my crackberry: taylor@lovemedestroyer.net
What's been gracing my Ipod so far this trip?
Girls Against Boys, Local H, Her Candane, KillRadio, Billy Talent.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Yes the 2 hours of sleep in 3 days has finally made me delirious. I'll be better after my burrito. Or maybe i'll still be crazy until I get to go to the Mall of America? We will know soon.
Starting out tour with a transmission leaking like a broken water on you is just no picnic. Especially when you gotta drive about 900 miles to get it fixed.
Leave right after the show, and drive 5 hours to another Small Town, USA: Spencer, IA. Drop van off at the shop at 7am, after pulling into town at 5am. Bye bye money. =( Hello no tranny leak? =)
