After our Fung Wah excursion, Clayton and I headed down to the Living Room to meet up with the rest of the band for a sound check. Still convinced of my swine-flu status I stocked up on honey, lemon & tea concoctions throughout.. The act after us had cancelled so Kyle James Hauser (banjo) played a few tunes of his own before we joined him for our set. I haven't heard Kyle do that for months, if not years - mostly because he is based out of Colorado now. It reminded of a summer 2 years ago when we hung out daily in Boston. We'd have arts & crafts days at his apartment, followed by lengthy guitar hero sessions. They usually resulted in sprained fingers and sour faces as we failed for the 10th time at 'Freebird' on Professional mode. Kyle's moving to NYC next year.. just in time for Guitar Hero V.
Timur (Drums), Chris (Bass) and myself are all based out of New York, so The Living Room was filled with all our New York friends and family, so great to get to play for them. There were a couple of surprise appearances, including my old room-mate and Nashville based songwriter Jesse Ruben. Hopefully we'll see him again on the Nashville leg of the tour.
Abby Lichtman did some beautiful illustrations for a lyric book we've just published to go with 'The Matador & The Acrobat'; so she hung some of the prints on the wall in the bar area.--- I'm in the van right now with Clayton. We're on the return leg from Lancaster, PA to NYC. My cell phone (and hence GPS) has run out of battery and we both need the bathroom, listening to Alison Krauss' and Robert Plant's record. It's almost good enough to make me forget I need the bathroom and that we are lost. Almost.---
After the Living Room show we piled 5 of us in a cab back to Brooklyn, much to the disgust of the cab driver who made sure we knew that it was '4 maximum' and he was doing us a 'huge favor'. I hate cab drivers in New York. None of them know where they are going, and they want a tip for the privilege of asking you how to get where you're going. I really need a bike. Though I'll probably end up getting hit by a taxt then.
Passed out almost immediately when we got home. Next stop Vermont for Justin Levinson's CD Release. We've planned this tour all wrong! New York to Boston, back to New York, then to Lancaster PA, back to New York and now Vermont? So much for that GSCE in Geography.---We just stopped off at Burger King where I had a whopper with cheese. I used to be a vegetarian. Those were the days when I remembered how little meat needed to be in meat for it to count as 'meat'. I was eating sausages while watching BBC America once - a show called 'You Are What You Eat' came on as I was taking my second bite of Jambalaya Mix & Sausages, when a woman announced 'Sausages only need to have 40% actual meat. The rest is eyeballs, guts and trotters.' I picked at the rice for a bit then put it down. I'm glad I forgot all that as I sunk my teeth in to second Whopper in as many days. There's not many foods where you can think 'Yum' while also thinking 'That was gross.' Congratulations Whopper.---
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