ateolf | events and lacks thereof...

wednesday night i went w/ Justin to the Flying Saucer...they had a special: buy a certain beer (Rogue's Dead Guy, not that it matters...tasted like crap like all beer...) and take home the glass...the glass had a picture of Elvis Costello's face (from Blood and Chocolate) and said "ELVIS LIVES"...very funny, as it was durring dead elvis week and in downtown Memphis, just a block away from Beale Sreet...i went for the glass...drank a little but only a little...it was fucking awful...Justin had the rest of mine...but now i have a cool Elvis Costello glass...then i went home in order to get up early for practice...

oh, i also worked that night even though i was off...two ppl had called in so they called me and i had nothing better to do at the time and i was hardly working this week so i agreed...

we practiced early (woke up to call everyone at 6:45am) and did pretty well...Jacques went to work at 2...i napped a few more hours...then called Brad and Keith to get the gear together...i already mentioned the show, itself...

we talked w/ The Potomac Accord a while...they were super-nice guys...also Dale, Map Room/Great Depression guy, while talking w/ The Potomac Accord guys said that we (The Family Ghost) were "cool as shit" and not assholes or anything, while discussing the possibility of them getting most of the money for the cover (which never got taken, due to non-organization and our muddled mental states of the time...) i thought that was pretty cool...

once again, the band stayed over at Brad's house...they even helped us get the gear from our cars inside, which was really nice of 'em...we were all fucking dead...aside from all of us barely getting any sleep, it was really fucking hot and we were exhausted...as well as it being pretty late on top of it all...we sat up talking to 'em a little while...

i went to crash at Keith's as i had court in the morning...and he lives downtown, less than 5 min from the court-place...we watched the video, as i said in my last post...we also watched the first show, as i had that had already been in the camera...it was after 3 by the time we got to Keith's...i decided not go to sleep at all, in case i might oversleep and miss court...as well as you tend to be less tired from not sleeping at all (up to a certain point) than just getting a very small amount of sleep...i was wrong about it being at 8, it was at 9...but i noticed that when i looked at the letter again before i was about to get ready...it was pretty cool 'cuz i didn't bother bringing a change of clothes and just wore what i wore at the show (the collar shirt, not the Helloween, unfortunately...) ripped khakis and all and uncleanliness and all...but it didn't matter much...it was less court as much as it was a line...waited in line, told someone our name and got our sheet of paper thingie describing our "case" or whatever...waited more and went up to the one clerk...gave her the paper, she asked me if i had gotten the brake light fixed...i said yes (even though it wasn't broken in the first place...) she asked if i had a receipt or anything...i had the foresight to bring the package of the lights that i bought when i thought it was broken...showed her that and she said that would do...wrote "dismissed" on my paper and i went away...went back to Keith's and finally got around to my crashing...slept a few hours...then i sat around all afternoon/evening w/ Keith...just sitting around...i literally spent over half a day on his couch...now i'm home...i don't think i've left anything out...and if i have, it prob'ly wasn't imporant...(like anything is...)

oh...also some of us have been to the same shows as the guys in The Potomac Accord...Low and Godspeed You Black Emperor! in Chicago...also they played the Noise Pop festival...though they played the same night as Yo La Tengo at a different venue...they didn't get to see the other shows 'cuz they had their own to go to in different cities, though they said they were tempted to skip out on their own show for Television and Suicide and all...done, now...