My Friends

Is a delicious diner in Cleveland, Ohio. Or maybe we're in Lakewood. The border is right here somewhere. Same town to us. Playing with Otis Pocus Afro Cadabra tonight, and it should be silly good fun.

Last night in Detroit (Redford, really. Detroit metro area. Ten minutes from downtown.), we played the Double Aught Pub. Except it was written Double OO, so maybe it's double-double. Played with a great one-man rockabilly band called Subourbon Son, a traditional rockabilly band called Rattle Traps, and another traditional rockabilly whose name we can't recall. Subourbon Son also had a hula girl! And he was just a fun as fuck older dude. The Double Aught was a nice skeezy place where we felt good and at home. Dan got pounced on by a cougar. Alex walked in on a coke deal. Joseph took some shits. We all played our guts out. The pitchers of Pabst were twice as big as the usual. That was cool. And now there are at least eight people walking around Detroit sporting Tapeworms tees. We crashed out at a cool dude's absent grandmother's home. It was quite nice. We watched Gogol Bordello concert footage.

The night before at Ronny's in Chicago was fun too. We only played to the other bands and the girl who was putting us up, but we played our guts out. Almost literally - it was hot enough in there to vomit. And you had to swim through the bathrooms. And the bartender wanted to do anything but serve the patrons. But once again, our kind of place. Insanely huge props to Maria from the awesome band Hollows for offering us her floor. Her apartment was fly as fuck, too! And she took us to after hours at The Beauty Bar, a really swank joint with a super fly aesthetic and great girl groups being spun by the Deej. In the morning we were lazy for a while, which Maria and her roommates were graciously cool about, and then we hit the road.

After we kick ass tonight, we'll play in Evansville Indiana on Easter Sunday, to the chagrin of our families. And then we'll see you all on Monday!

PS - I promise I'll eventually post something about that tour six weeks ago. I swear.
- Dan