show tonight.

i'm at the venue we're playing at tonight, it's called dan's silverleaf. from memory, the last post ended when we were at house of blues?

we practiced at the house of blues in dallas. it was really something. dan acknroyd knows how to run a classy joint. after that we went to the apartment where our manager rich was staying which was pretty rad. from there we went to the mavs/knicks game at the american airways arena. i wasn't expecting how huge the arena was...it was the size of rod laver arena in melbourne, maybe a tiny bit smaller. just for basketball! amazing. i had a "grilled cheese sandwich" which was a burger bun with a piece of chicken in it, no salads or sauces. not quite what i was expecting...

from there we headed back to the house we're staying at after dropping by to pick up the rest of the guys from the apartment. when we got back to the house they had the makings of a party so we hung out for a bit and then retreated into the loungeroom to set up for sleeping. we watched knocked up for a while too, weird US edited television version. bleeps and everything. overdubbed lines over the cussing. amazing! i went to sleep about 4am and woke up around 12:45pm. we lost an hour due to some daylight savings styled thing which was weird but oh well.

from there we went to a studio run by a gentleman named eric who plays in a killer band called midlake. he let us practice there awhile and then we packed, eric came, locked up, and then we left. eric said he'd make it to the show tonight, we said rad. i hope he can make it, he ruled. we went to the venue which was just down the road and unloaded. rich, joe, jack and i went and got some traditional ice cream from this ice cream parlour in the centre of denton. it was super kickarse. i had butter ice cream and i felt my teeth melt as i ate. from there we went to get dinner for everyone else, salads and these things called po-boys. joe got a gator one. it tasted like popcorn chicken.

i just managed to fix my mouse pointer and now i'm sitting outside at dan's silverleaf, the bar we're playing tonight. the opening band playing now came all the way from dublin to play! i guess they're doing sxsw as well. also i learned we might be in austin in time for me to go to the midnight screening of enter the void (gaspar noe's new flick) at the film fest. i'm super excited.

i better go set up.

speak soon.