tour diary – tuesday 03.25 – washington d.c.
the next morning i was a bit stressed because will had gone off to hang out with brandon the previous night and wasn’t back yet. we hadn’t really given him a firm time, but we needed to get going to miss the dc traffic. we ate a hurried but delicious breakfast of tofu scrambler and still no will. we went to get the van, and luckily, will was waiting for us.
we headed off to dc and it seemed like people were getting really, really sick of riding in the car. it didn’t help that first ryan and then mikeal got us lost somewhere in maryland. still, traffic wasn’t a problem and we managed to make it to the notasquat house well before the show. when we got there, justice (justus?) was starting to cut up dumpstered veggies for what would be a crazy, elaborate, and delicious stir-fry. chad and i got out our skateboards and rolled around a little bit. there wasn’t a whole lot to skate in their neighborhood, but it felt good to do something physical after being stuck in the van all day.
after the skate, bz and i helped chop up even more veggies for the stir fry. a few more of the house’s inhabitants started coming home and a few of the other people who were playing that night arrived. the stif-fry was great, but things were a still a little akward. i’m not that gregarious, and after a few shows that were sort of weird, we were kind of worn out and reserved. so, it was great when a familiar face greeted us as we were hanging out on the back porch.
david, or spoonboy as some know him (the nickname a result of a story which he refuses to tell), is a sweet dude who i met briefly in little rock and who plays in a band called “the max levine ensemble” as well as one of the bands we played with that night, “the spirit animals”.