BRAIN TUMORS

we’re shooting down the highway into iowa. tour is over and i’ve been a shitty note-taker. or rather, a shitty rememberer. erer er er. errrrrrr. i’m listening to Megadeth’s Peace Sells and eating a bag of corn-nuts of undetermined origin. aaron is listening to some band that pisses me off because a dude in it has history with an ex of mine. I have some sort of cold now.

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i lost my tour diary in asheville, so i’m going to have to piece things together with the help of several other people who most likely have a worse memory than i do. who would’ve thought it would be hard to hold on to a little tiny book while sleeping in your underwear on floors and getting drunk.

i woke up in the van, sweaty and dry mouthed. dan was in there too and being the early riser he is, we both decided to wander around this scenic area of richmond.

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the hurricane actually kind of affected richmond. we had to switch back from sidewalk to street, back to the sidewalk again. we rounded a corner and realized we were in a pretty low-income part of the city and went to a mini-mart. i found a Barney the Dinosaur “i love my dad” book that had some vaguely creepy pictures that could be turned into show fliers. we bought water and came back to the house we were staying with these dudes, mark and brandon. Continue reading →

washington, d.c.

we got into DC and the show was at this house, wasted dream. as soon as the door opened, amelia greeted Dan from Lotus Fucker/Dirty Wars – guess she knew him. another small world, but the world kind of shrinks itself when amelia is around i’m thinking.

our dan is telling me that that dan once walked on ian mackaye’s car in once because he was blocking him from walking.

Veterans pulled up and we realized that we actually saw them sitting in a diner in west philadelphia that morning. pretty fucked up. dan also realized he stayed at one of their member’s houses, i think when he was out with In Defence. logan had played with them with Enabler, too. small world, over and over again.

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we got to eric from sickoids’ place as he’s an old pal of our bassist, joel, from north carolina. we had to fight Rachael pretty hard to prevent her from going back to her house and giving us all the scabies that her roommate contracted in turkey, or however the fuck they got there. difficult conversation. the next day, we spent our time lining up to shower and at some coffee shop that was described as a lesbian hangout. i dont think it was. they used organic eggs and had breakfast burritos for fucking $3.70! goddamn incredible. it was good, too. i met some dude playing chess and found out he was an EMT, so he told me to run to the drugstore and he’d fix up my arm. i think instead i just ended up using some tape from the shop and washing it out in the bathroom. or maybe i left it open? i cant remember.

there was a chick working at the coffeeshop wearing a SLAUGHTER shirt, for the thrash metal band, not the shitty 80s band. then another chick walks in and has a Nuclear Assault patch on her cut-off shorts. what the fuck

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i didnt take any notes on new york for some reason, but here’s what i got:

from pittsburgh we blasted out to new york. nothing was memorable other than the smell of new jersey and paying $800 in tolls. aaron had a panic attack in some tunnel with swirling lights. we get into new york and predictably, we don’t what the fuck we’re doing. we’ve got three dipshits with smartphones trying to navigate through space and time itself, all yelling different directions. we got looped around over and over again, all while checking on updates on the supposed hurricane that was going to decimate new york.

“you know Escape from New York? thats what this shit is gonna be like. you guys gotta take this seriously,” someone said.

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we got to Kopec’s in Pittsburgh and i don’t remember what anyone said in the van or what anyone did in the van on the way the way. i think i tried to sleep mostly but sleeping in the van is like sleeping on planes. unless you’re drugged up, youre basically twitching in your seat with your eyes closed. so we got there and got a phone call from Garrett from Male Nurses.

“uhh, you know that epiphone that pat borrowed during your set?”
“yeah?”
“uhhh we have that guitar. we took it accidentally.”

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alright, i’m not drunk now so lets try this again

i forgot to mention the totally rotted sack of potatoes on top of Negative Kevin’s refrigerator. kid has absolutely no food unless he’s a fucking goat. then i guess everything is food. i picked up this bag and this putrid stench floated out. i made the mistake of smelling the liquid i got on my had from the bag and had a nice wretch party with whatever moron was still awake. the other dudes took a $30 cab ride to wrigley and dorked around at a bar for a brilliant half an hour. max was not dead in the van.

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we’re sitting at kevin from pass judgement’s posh artschool apartment. apparently chicago is a much better place than minneapolis, although that certainly isnt some grand accomplishment.

we left at 11 am this morning, maybe later. we had to go back and grab some of Logan from Much Worse’s shit out of a car. there, we discovered that we had left all of our shirts in his trunk. i wrote “drunk” instead of “trunk” for the record, then almost did it again writing “trunk” again.

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MUCH WORSE/BRAIN TUMORS East Coast Tour:

8/22 – Minneapolis, MN at Club Med w/ Organized Sports, Male Nurses, Subclinix, Cokskar
8/23 – Chicago, IL at Archer Nemesis w/ Male Nurses, Subclinix, Culo, Poor Choice
8/24 – Columbus, OH w/ Male Nurses, Subclinix
8/25 – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Drug Lust, Means To An End
8/26 – Brooklyn, NY at Stolen Sleeves Collective w/ Deathrats, State Violence
8/27 – Philadelphia, PA at Dad’s House w/ Leather
8/28 – Washington, DC w/ Dirty Wars, Booze Riot
8/29 – Richmond, VA w/ Unholy Thoughts
8/30 – Raleigh, NC at The Union w/ Shards, Lung Matter
8/31 – Asheville, NC w/ Pox
9/1 – Nashville, TN at Little Hamilton w/ Fucked Ethos
9/2 – Kansas City, MO w/Negative Degree, Ego Complex
9/3 – St. Louis, MO w/ Negative Degree, Ego Complex, Cardiac Arrest
9/4 – death, forever, in hell, w/ satan while demons mosh