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TOM FOOLERY AND THE MISTAKES TAKE ONE FOR THE TOUR
8.15.03..... COLUMBUS so tired. i worked all day at the spaghetti restaurant and then came home just long enough to pack the amps in the car and drive to red-16 to play the cd release show. oh...i bought some high life too....but, boy, oh boy....what a show. incredible turnout, and incredible bands. the early empire, the blue revision, and the random heroes were all in top form that night. i saw some kids i hadn't seen in awhile...we played pretty good...my knees hurt real bad afterward....i stayed up until 5 packing, as i have to move furniture into my new house before we leave for cincinnati tomorrow.... setlist: TOM FOOLERY AND THE MISTAKES THEMESONG URKEL'S LAMENT MORMEEKAH TIME AFTER TIME BEAKER BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YR LIFE CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING HOLLIS QUEENS TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM RIVERSIDE 8.16.03..... CINCINNATI woke up @ 8 am to move my heavy furniture into a new house. i hurt a lot...and got real sweatty in the process. i showered, then we loaded a drumset, two amps, three guitars, three bags, a bag of snacks, some cds, one josh, one jeremy, one elana, and a kyle into my hyundai stationwagon. we drove to cincinnati and were greeted by a toothless crack whore. i told her i was sorry that i didn't have any money. i thought about offering her one of my pretzel rods, but then i thought---how the hell would she chew it up? we chatted w/ the bartender at sudsy malone's for awhile and we played ms pac man....saw some friends i hadn't seen in a long time. rob wall showed up, fresh from his hernia operation. i'll tell ya---that kid is hard core. he was dancing around, picking up tables and shit. one time, he rode his 10 speed bike from columbus to dayton just to see us play. i figure we'd better put on a good show for him....and we did, despite hecklings from a drunk punk rock macho dude. he told me to play metallica. we gave him lionel richie. who's the asshole now?! he later tried to get into a fight with josh during death in graceland's set. the ralph boys kindly escorted him out of the laundrobar. sleepy time. setlist: BEAKER BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YR LIFE MORMEEKAH HELLO IT'S NOT 1999 CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING 7 DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON HOLLIS QUEENS TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM 8.17.03..... STILL CINCY day off. we watched a couple movies on the WB....BAPS and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER. loads of laughs. then we went to SKYLINE CHILE and ate some coneys ....and got the farts. mmmmmmmm. we stank up the ralph house and bobby joe friday kicked my ass at scrabble. 8.18.03..... LITTLE ROCK We got up at 7 am to drive to little rock arkansas. we took the scenic route through kentucky, just so we could be able to say we've driven through the cities of Sugartit, Beaverlick, and Big Bone Lick. very pretty places with dirty, dirty names. we stopped in memphis and went to Graceland. it was very, very hot in Memphis. we went into the graceland giftshop and marveled at the elvis memorabilia. The elvis fans visiting graceland that day were equally amusing. we get to little rock and were fed burritos by our good friend stacy. she rocks a lot. we get to the whitewater tavern....people actually remembered us from last time we played there....two years ago. MAGNETIC 9 and OCILLATOR 8 fucked shit up, and then stacy rocked it acoustic w/ an impromptu backing band. we played last, and by then the crowd had started thinning out a bit....but, hey...it was monday night. the people that were still there seemed to enjoy it. we sold some cds, anyways. it was good to see the little rockers again; i love that place. Setlist: BEAKER BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YR LIFE URKEL'S LAMENT EVERYTHING'S UNDER CONTROL UPSIDE DOWN QUARTER IT'S NOT 1999 CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING HOLLIS QUEENS HELLO RIVERSIDE 8.19.03..... DENTON woke up. ate some tacos at the little rock house. they were tasty, but they fucked up my insides. we arrived in denton, full of granola and 49 cent colas....our friend liz barnhill was nice enough to let us stay at her place and to lead us to rubbergloves...we get there around 9:30 pm...doors don't open til ten. i'd heard that tuesday open mics here were hit or miss, and since there weren't any people at the bar, i'd assumed it was a miss. so, i figured we should just play early and take off. we played at 11:30 to about 4 or 5 people. we finished at 12. as soon as we played our last note, a crowd started to pour in. , including people that were there to see us. see, originally this show was supposed to be at a bar called DAN'S SILVERLEAF. the band that we were going to play with told me they couldn't do it, and i had a couple other prospects in mind as well, it's just they took forever to get back to me. anyway's i cancelled the dan's show about 3 weeks before it was to happen. he told me he erased it from his website...apparently he didn't, because people saw we were still listed there, and they went there instead. by the time they made it to rubbergloves...we were already done. oh well. we hung out, sold a few cds, went back to liz's, and caught up on old times. that was nice. oh, and she burned the POSTAL SERVICE'S "Give up" cd for us. she's so cool. setlist: BEAKER BIGGEST MISTAKE MORMEEKAH URKEL'S LAMENT CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING HELLO OH GILLIGAN! HOLLIS QUEENS RIVERSIDE 8.20.00..... LUBBOCK leaving denton, i had told elana i was glad i didn't live in TX anymore. the furthermore west i drove, the more i regretted saying that. This terrain is so fucking awesome. driving throught the shit towns on lonesome one-lane highways, listening to old cds....brought back a lot of memories. got a little to enwrapped in the scenery and paid less attention to my speedometer, i guress. got pulled over in Idalou, Texas (the town right before lubbock). the cop was really nice. i told him our story. he let us go. should have given him one of our cds. ...got into town, ate dinner w/ the chaffin-poelings, our old drummer luis rolong, and our friends joeseph and megan. good to see these people again. one guy's pizza never tasted so good n greasy. this show was quite possibly the best show i've ever played. great crowd, chock full of faces from yesterday. THE SHORT WAY was awesome, and WITH PINS PULLED blew me away. during "Take One For the Team", josh broke our bass by playing the cymbals with his headstock....suck. tremendous show. then we all got really drunk at the chaffin poeling house, and leigh williams let the guys smoke some of her tobacco. setlist: THE TOM FOOLERY AND THE MISTAKES THEMESONG URKEL'S LAMENT MORMEEKAH TIME AFTER TIME BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YR LIFE CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING HOLLIS QUEENS RIVERSIDE TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM 8.21.03..... EL PASO. got up early to go to the hardware store for some woodglue and a clamp. did a shotty job at repairing the bass, and spent some time worrying about it. met up with some kids at ROSA'S TORTILLA FACTORY for lunch. then we headed over to the buddy holly museum. i put our last remaining tfatm sticker in the buddy holly center guestbook. the kids cleaned us out last night!!! then sadly, we had to leave. we went over to our friend anthony coleman's house; he was nice enough to trade us basses for awhile, so we could have something we could rely on for the low notes. then we trekked it to el paso. i forgot how beautiful texas is. josh could not stop talking about it. fucking tumbleweeds. and mountains. yeah. we got out and walked around in the desert and stuff. it was pretty neat. the show @ MOONTIME PIZZA in el paso was pretty cool. we had to go on first, we played to a crowd of about 40 people or so. yeah, we were too poppy for about 70% of the people in the crowd, however, the other 30% really liked the shit out of us, and weren't afraid to converse with us. jeremy even got free cigarettes. once again, people came to see us specifically, and missed us, due to our early time slot. suck. the bellakun played after us. they were awesome. as were this band from ny, and thieves of always. we drove to albuquerque that night. setlist: CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING IT'S NOT 1999 URKEL'S LAMENT MORMEEKAH BEAKER BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YR LIFE EVERYTHING'S UNDER CONTROL 7 DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON HOLLIS QUEENS RIVERSIDE 8.22.00..... ALBUQUERQUE arrived at scott williams' house at 6:30 am. and then i slept a lot. josh had taken so much trucker's speed that he explored albuquerque for a few hours instead of sleeping. he likes it pretty good here, i think. Ate some enchiladas for lunch on route 66, and then watched the movie "SPELLBOUND". the hyperactive kid in that movie really got on my nerves. i was really happy when he lost. Played an acoustic set at scott's house. it went really well, and it was an honor to play a show with the scotts, the drake and the alan again. we took a request or two as well. brandon davis then tried to take us to THE CASTLE---the biggest porno store in new mexico. seriously, it's the size of a wal-mart. i'd never seen so many dildos before. anyways, we walked in @ 5 til colse, and were told we had like 3 minutes to make our purchases. i was contemplating which brand of penis pasta to buy for my girlfriend, when we got kicked out. went back and drank some more, til we passed out. setlist: (all songs acoustic) BEAKER URKEL'S LAMENT MORMEEKAH HELLO CHAMP EVERYTHING'S UNDER CONTROL LET ME DOWN CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING OH GILLIGAN RIVERSIDE 8.23.00..... EN ROUTE We woke up at 7 am, so we could arrive in okc at a reasonable hour. i told josh, who had drank the majority of a bottle of gin the previous night to wake up, and he didn't move, so i asked him again. then he asked me if i wanted him to punch me. i said "no". he got up though. then we drove. a lot. our mission today: to get josh to eat a 72 oz. steak at this restaurant in amarillo, texas called "THE BIG TEXAN". Why, you ask? because it's free, if you can eat the thing in an hour. and josh could do it. we think. he's eaten 13 double cheeseburgers in one sitting before. so, anyways, when we got to amarillo, we stopped on a farm road so josh could smoke some dope, in order to get the hungries. we got in there, and much to our dismay, that this was going to be an impossible feat. see, when you enter the contest, you are put up on a stage so that the rest of the restaurant can see you try to eat the steak. there is an announcer, and a big clock which counts backwards from sixty minutes. too much pressure. he opted not to try. i don't blame him. we had lunch there anyways. good stuff. then we drove some more. we got to oklahoma city at about 9:30 pm. now, that was a long drive. 8.24.03 ST LOUIS got up @ the buttcrack of dawn. no time for a shower. we are to play @ cicero's in st louis at 3 PM...so it was kind of a race against the clock to get there. ate a bowl of magic stars with my nephews, and off we go. we arrived in st louis at 2:55 pm....one of the bands cancelled, so the show didn't wind up starting til 4 pm. we were slated to play first....but it didn't really matter, because there were already a ton of kids there. at 3 PM. on a sunday. that's crazy. that's unheard of in columbus these days. anyways, we played our songs. and the kids clapped and laughed, and moshed. and bought stuff. yay! it was a really good time. after we played, josh and i watched the locals play (4th and long, kidtestedmotherapproved, and oklahoma city's MINUTES TOO FAR)...all a lot of fun...let's see, after the bands were done, we cleaned out the car a little, and grabbed jeremy...we decided to be nice guys and give jeremy's friend erin a ride back to her apt. now THAT was a tight squeeze. then we drove around st. louis, lost as shit for about a half hour, til we found I-70. we spent the next hour singing along to tom waits, driving east. then i fell asleep. i woke up in indianapolis @ 12:30 am. we decided to stay there for the night. every sept., josh's dad takes an RV full of alcohol out to the speedway in indianapolis, and camps out for a week, and then the rest of the wamplers join him on labor day weekend. so, since we were in the area, we stopped in and got shitty drunk with mr. wampler. i passed out, and everyone else kept drinking. josh n jeremy got into a food fight with turkey cold cuts..... setlist (not sure if this is the right order): TOM FOOLERY AND THE MISTAKES THEME SONG URKEL'S LAMENT MORMEEKAH TIME AFTER TIME BEAKER BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YR LIFE 7 DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON HOLLIS QUEENS TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM 8.25.03..... DAYTON still no shower. woke up around noon...didn't get the rest of the mistakes in the car until three....finally, we started to drive to dayton.....two hours later, we were there....i dropped josh and elana off at josh's parents' house while jeremy and i went to my parents' house to shower. we went to bob evans with my mom for dinner. our waitress' name was KEISHA. she was nice. off to elbo's. it's funny. even though i lived in dayton for about 6 years, i still, to this day, don't know my way around it for shit. anyways, we got there, unloaded, enjoyed tunes by joe anderl and the late nite drivers. we played last. some people had filed out by then...but all the "cool" people stayed. good show. we had a few fuckups, but i don't think we played TOOOO bad......during urkel's lament, i tried to do the rockstar windmill strum, and my pick went flying. it was pretty funny. joe saved me with one of his picks. god bless joe anderl. anyways, it was a lot of fun. we got to columbus at about 3 am....my cat was pissed off that i'd been gone so long. she took it out on my new couch. suck. lots of stuff to take care of. fun's over. back to reality. hopefully it won't be too long before we can escape it again! setlist: BEAKER BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YR LIFE MORMEEKAH URKEL'S LAMENT HELLO 7 DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING BROKEN HYPE MACHINE HOLLIS QUEENS YOU AND ME RIVERSIDE -kyle |