busy ass weekend

2 shows this weekend.

1st show: Austin

We played well. Travis was there. He admitted our new drummer was better than him. Daniel still didn't talk to him. We sold a few shirts. 5 Things Austin mentioned wanting us to be like a house band for them when they have their events. Might be cool.

Ended up staying up till 5 or so with Mary and Holly. Kicked out of the apartment at 8:00 so Holly's cousin wouldn't come home to a half naked dude she didnt know. I was not happy to get up and drive home. Got home and slept until 2:30. Woke up hungover. I was concerned about my ability to play again. 6:30 Daniel showed up. We began the drive to San Antonio.

2nd Show: San Antonio

Middle slot for 3 bands. We did well but not as well as the night before. We lost some steam energetically. I fucked up one part very badly. I just stopped playing and sung acapella. Still better than the first time we played San Antonio.

We are blown away by the kindness of the people in San Antonio to us. Their compliments afterwards are surreal. We saw a guy there with our shirt on from the last show. Our first actual "fan" if you will. He said he has never bought a shirt from a band before. Nice guy. We took a picture with him. Standing outside afterwards we were just chatting and we ran into another guy. He started talking about what he does. Turns out hes a filmmaker and just made a film with Val Kilmer. I almost called bullshit on the guy but something about him made be beleive it. He talked about his other films and gave me his card.

The cool thing about him was he gave us some honest opinions. He said we reminded him of himself in his early career when he was scraping together a few thousand dollars to make films and just getting started. He said that even though there were a couple rough parts with us he recognized us as having real talent. We told him about the EP and he said that we should drop him a line when its done. Then kind of an offhanded, no promises thing about finding a place for it in a film. Im not even going to say anything about that. We'll just leave it at that.

When 2 rolled around the owner kicked everyone out but us, the staff and a few hot girls. He then attached his ipod to the sound system and we preceded to dance our asses off and drink for free until the sun came up. My band got the most shitfaced plastered I have ever seen them. Daniel could barely stand up and ended up sleeping in his car for awhile. Alex made any excuse to dance on top of things... chairs, the bar and finally a giant speaker that he actually fell off of. I didnt see it but heard about it. I was the sober one by the end of the night and thats not saying much. We ended up sleeping on the floor of Alex's parents. As fun as it was, I realized my body simply cannot sustain prolonged versions of this weekend. But it was a great weekend and I hope we got our names out there a little more.

I have a new perception of San Antonio. The people in particular. We are very fortunate to have this kind of support so close to Austin. Sold a shitload of shirts. After the weekend was said and done we pulled in about 400 for the band account. Not bad. The CD release party is in the works there as well as Austin and I cant wait to get it going. All we need is to get the album art finished and we will be good to go.