tour diary – monday 03.24 – brooklynn, ny
we somehow managed to navigate the tangled knot of new york city highways and made it to pete and natalja’s apartment with plenty of time before the show. we hung out for a little bit and then headed over to the show space. the space was really weird, but i guess diy spaces are few and far between in nyc, so you have to do what you can. the space was in this bar called “the right bank” which seemed, well i can’t think of any other phrase but pretnetious. we were worried that we would have to play on the little stage next to the bar, but luckily the show got moved to the gallery space upstairs even though natalja was warned that if anything happened to the art, she would be “messed up brooklynn style” (ok, that’s not what the guy really said to her, but it was pretty darn close to that and equally amusing). the whole akwardness of the situation increased when the sport-coat wearing proprieter came by and asked “are you guys in the band? where are the chicks?”
but, the show went well. the good good played great and we i had fun playing as well. it certainly went better than the previous night and people seemed to have a good time. after the show, we went outside to find a drunken brendan. i had posted the right name, but the wrong address of the show space on the website and he had gone all the way to manhatten to find it, eventually giving up in favor of getting drunk. it was funny, but i was kind of glad that he hadn’t come to the show that drunk. again, that would have been funny, but i have a feeling that it would have spawned some pretty heated personality conflicts. also, after the show, we were greeted by one of the guys from “x the owl” who we had played with in allentown. he was sorry that he had missed the show, but he brought us a copy of their cd and a mix tape he had made for the van ride! awesome! what a guy! once again the guys in “x the owl” were super nice.
will headed out with brenden and his friends, somewhat to ryan’s dismay while the rest of us headed to a frighteningly trendy thai restaurant. even though the place was super slick, it was pretty cheap. it’s pretty sad the dearth of good restaurants in columbus, a place like that in columbus would have been expensive to the point that we could never eat there. i pigged out on my delicious mock duck and avocado roll and talked with pete about gentrification. it was a good dinner.