super whammy double day rundown part 1! (this one is long..also: photos!)

okay so if memory serves, we left off with us hanging out at colin's house waiting to go out for dinner. let's pick up from there.

we ended up going to a place called wholefoods which was a food court styled eatery with a big supermarket kinda section as well. all natural awesome foods. we met up with morgan and colin (carly and lauren were also there but we met them upstairs) and made our way around to find some food. i got an intensely awesome burrito and a berry smoothie (legit). upstairs there was a stage and a real sweet neo-soul/reggae band playing. we sat and ate and were merry. after that we got some beer and headed to our hotel to hang out for a while. it got late, we got tired so some stayed and slept and the others went home and slept.

the next day we had to get up real early for a photo shoot with NME.




we shot some photos in an archway and a bunch of other places like a little stream and such. rich had some cigars so some of us used them in some of the photos. they were prettttty nice cigars. rich enjoyed them so much he decided to smoke two at once.


after that we headed to the IFC studio downtown to do another taping.








it was a weird vibe, felt extremely studio. the people were super nice though. food was great, amazing breakfast burritos. i was pumped about those. they had a ps3 with the new AvP game on it too. the best. i asked the IFC guy if he knew anything about IFC picking up gaspar noe's enter the void and he said he didn't know. i said that's cool. i guess i'll see it at some point in my life. after that i missed the van with my bag in it so i walked up to the hotel to get it but couldn't. on my way down to 6th i had the insanely good fortune to find an horse doing an acoustic thing on the side of the road.


after that i tried to find the myspace gifting/interview. took me a while but i eventually found it. missed the gifting pretty solidly (i got a tee shirt) but i might try and go back today. apparently they had cowboy boots. nuts. interview was really informal and sweet. i didn't talk most of the time but at the end i piped up a little. i mentioned that i wanted questlove to produce a middle east album but not before he produces the dillinger escape plan. good times. after that we headed down to an old power plant to do a taping for MTVu.












and my personal favourite:


looks like mark is a deity and has disciples gathered around him. best lucky shot ever.

after that we went exploring for a little while and found this massive underground room and started doing gregorian styled chants and chamber choir stuff in it.



sorry about me laughing and singing badly so much. i wish i'd let it go, it really sounded incredible in there. amazing. we played some american football for a while after that.


then we headed to the convention centre to get some shoes and other stuff. toms shoes. they're real nice, good american airport shoes we're told. you have to take your shoes off when you go through x-ray which is a real pain in the arse. thankyou tom for your shoes. they are gah-rate. after that we headed off to a lovely dinner with TAO (rich, don and jordan), mel (AU/NZ manager, she's a sweetie) and tre (from billions, our US booking agent) and all of us tme-ers. it was a rad mexican restaurant.


sorry the photo ain't so great. there's only so much my phone camera will do.

after that we all kind of split up. jack and bree went to see she & him and surfer blood, jordan (TAO, not TME) and i went to try and get into muse and the others hung out in the city or went home. jordan and i had no luck cause the passes we got were no good past a certain time so we went and met up with gary (he runs TAO, our management) and rich (yay rich you got a mention! actually i've mentioned you like 50 times already but...) for a small bite to eat and drinks. gary's got a lot of good stories. a LOT. really killer dude. from there we headed to a little bar which happened to have a rad view of muse so we caught the last 2 songs.


jordan and i hung out a while then started walking around aimlessly so he decided to go sleep and i decided to also do the same.

we headed to the hilton to pick up my bag and i got in line to wait for a taxi. after 45 minutes of waiting this limo service car pulls up and is all like "yeah man, only 10 bucks more than a cab". alright, sick. get in, drive back to colin's (the house we're at), all good. time to pay...$40. US dollars. the taxi would have been $10. i mean, the car was nice but i don't have that kind of money to just get home. oh well, had to pay and did. i got out and opened the door of what i thought was colin's house. walked up the stairs, headed for the lounge then realised the house was decorated entirely different to colin's. i heard girl's voices as i was walking up the stairs and they stopped when i was nearly at the lounge. i realised my error and simply turned around, walked down the stairs and left the house as soon as i could. NICE ONE MATE. entered the correct house, found a room, internetted for a bit and then crashed.