the first part of a brief summation of my two weeks of tour with kilowatthours. this covers the east coast portion, which was roughly the first week…

4/26 louisville, ky @ rudyard kipling's
the home show. this was the one i was most worried about, considering i was playing my first show with the band in front of a ton of people i know. it ended up going really well and everyone seemed to be into it, which was awesome. we all went back to my house and crashed out and then left early in the morning for…

4/27 greensboro, nc @ guilford college
the first out of town show ended up being at this tiny college kinda in the middle of nowhere. the exit that we got off on had the best landmark in the world: an exotic carwash. we were going to get the van washed by a bunch of topless girls, but then we found out that it cost $40 and they didn't let you stay in the car when they washed it. needless to say, we called it a giant ripoff and left.

the show ended up going really well. we finished our set in time to grab some beer and head into winston-salem to see trans am. they rocked the house with two drummers and seriously kicked our tour right in the pants.

after the show we went to stay at our new friend greg's place. as we were backing into the driveway, dan ran the van straight into the side of greg's house,, getting the van stuck until he gunned it loose, tearing off a two foot square section from the chimney. greg was standing there with his dog on a leash and a beer in his hand, assuring us that it was no big deal.

first out of town night and i got no sleep. dan was snoring, so i clapped my hands a couple of times to make him stop. this ended up screwing me because this caused greg's dog to come scrambling in from the other room to jump on me and try to eat my ear. i would have been better off in the van.

highlights of the evening: the beer igloo and "three rivers"

4/28 washington, dc @ black cat and 4/29 arlington, va @ galaxy hut
one of the worst shows of the tour, but nothing beats the dc eats. we rolled into town and headed over to trevor's house and then straight to ben's chili bowl. this place has some of the world's best vegetarian chili and an amazing veggie burger. i highly recommend it to everyone.

apparently on the way into town we just missed getting plowed by a tornado. we didn't know this until we were settled in at trevor's, watching some tv.

we headed over to the black cat and didn't get to soundcheck, yet the opening band sat in there, running through half their set. they even took the big dressing room. that's what we get for showing up for load-in on time. thanks a lot, jackasses. they didn't even stick around to watch our set.

which was for the better. the small room at the black cat is basically a painted cinderblock bunker. the bas hit the walls and rolled off and beat the shit out of us on stage. we couldn't hear anything except a deafening, muddy wail. the people that did stick arround said it sounded fine for the audience, but i'm not buying that one…

we stayed the night at trevor's and then spent the entire next day driving around dc, looking at lots of landmarks and museums and other things of historical signifigance.

then we drove a whopping 20 minutes to arlington and played in a place that is smaller than my bedroom. thanks to tiara for making it all worth the time.

then we stayed at trevor's again.

highlights of the days spent in the dc area: juliet, ben's chili bowl, and meeting james.

4/30 boston, ma @ middle east
arguably the best show of the whole tour, boston is still one of my favorite cities on the east coast. we rolled into town and went straight to the middle east for load-in and soundcheck. we got an awesome half price dinner served to us by an amazingly hot waitress who ben and i steadily hit on for the rest of the night.

the first band was laughably bad, so i won't be mentioning their name. they closed their show with a cover of the pixies song "gigantic." keep in mind we're in boston, home of the pixies. let's also not forget that the song iss about a black man's huge penis. this chunky white woman with horrible stage "moves" and her awful off-time tamborine…she had no clue why we were laughing so hard.

we hit the stage and right when we were about to start, chris blew two of his four power tubes on his amp. a minor panic ensued, which was quickly resolved by one of the guyss from the headlining band letting us borrow his amp that was pretty much exactly what chris was using anyway.

with the technical difficulty out of the way, we proceeded to blow the roof off the place, closing with dancers and acrobats and turning the end into a wailing rock orgy. chris fell down and a d box almost went straight up his ass. the rock must go on.

we stayed at the hot waitresses house, but had to leave first thing in the morning for a live performance on mit's radio station. that went well, except that chris had to play through a sansamp because we weren't able to find an open music store that early in the morning in order to buy new tubes for chris's amp. we did, however, snatch a cool wooden lighthouse from a pile of wierd debris in a back hallway of the radio station.

highlights of the evening: charlie bravo and hearing about the birth of anya

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5/1 new york, ny @ brownie's
more on this one when i can flush my mind of how bad i felt we played.