I’m going to be perfectly honest here, I haven’t showered in five days, and I stink. I’m usually pretty clean, but there have been a lack of showers so far on this tour. Even if there were a shower somewhere I probably wouldn’t have time to use it. Usually it’s hurry up and wait, but lately it’s been hurry up and hurry some more. I’ve been damn busy now that my workload has doubled, but I’m not complaining, I’m just adjusting. This tour is a different kind of situation. We have an entirely different crew than the last time around, so my time is spent teaching the new guys the routine of everything and trying to remember some things myself. We also have a bus full of people, 13 to be exact, and that is a slightly difficult thing to get used to all in itself. Tonight is the third night of tour, and as of yet, the coldest. It’s around 20 degrees and snowing like crazy here at the infamous Metro in Chicago. I really didn’t get to see much of Nashville or Columbus due to me being busy and tired, and the same will most likely happen again tonight. On top of the previously mentioned excuses, we’re in a slightly ghetto area, about a block away from Wrigley Field, and the only exciting places I’ve seen all day are a Starbucks and a hot dog stand, maybe I’ll get lucky and Steve Albini will come by and want to get a drink and hang out.

Newport Music Hall wall of fame

soundcheck

Meet and greet behind the scenes

Apparently Quentin Tarantino doesn’t like being in front of the camera nearly as much as he does being behind it. The footage is from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which somehow came and went last week without me even knowing it. Guess nothing really exciting happened. Bunch of stupid ass movies I’ll never watch showing for a bunch of people way richer than me, in a town that somehow manages to be cool despite being just up the road from one of the most vanillafied bastions of backwards religious fundamentalism this side of the Mississippi, Salt Lake City, Utah. Maybe, next year.

Good old American Ass Piss is definitely a family favorite. And unlike other varieties of bowel movement, its quick and relatively easy to make! Here’s my secret recipe: 

 10+ Cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon (to taste)

1 Pacakge Smart Ground Meatless Vegetable Protein

 One Large Frozen Yogurt (aka FROYO)

Mix and allow to marinate for at least 8 hours of Deep Sleep
 
Cover with multiple cups of Starbucks Coffee and serve in proper dish

ENJOY!!!!!111
    

For as much as I love Starbucks [see the title of yesterday's post] I have a hard time feeling sorry for them when “U.S. milk prices have soared recently amid strong global demand for dairy products and higher production costs.” Thus, when they raise their drink prices for a second time in less than a year, that’s when I start looking up the block at Peet’s, or GOD FORBID, a local coffee shop. The moral of the story is: when my morning coffee costs as much as my dinner, something’s fucked up in the world.

Yeah, what the world needs now is more expensive, shit coffee… Pricey coffee good to the last dropping - Yahoo! News