San Antonio, TX Day 02-01/20/2008

San Antonio, TX Day 02

Today we had the day off and I woke up in a lovely comfortable bed all well rested.What was the noise that awakened me at 10am? Chase was getting a tattoo. Matt, the guy whose family we were staying with (him, his wife, and his children) was tattooing Chase and getting ready to tattoo the other guys. They were getting the Team Zissou logo, each in a different place on their body. Chase, Danny, Derrek, and Chris all got this tattoo. We all ate breakfast and decided that we should go see CLOVERFIELD. We had talked with Poison the Well about it earlier the last night and they said they were going to go as well so we called them and decided to meet at the theater.
Cloverfield was one of the gnarliest movies I have ever seen. I can absolutely say that it was THE scariest movie I've ever seen fosho. Please go see it.
After watching the movie we all freaked out and talked about it for hours, chilled back at Matt's house, visited him at work at the tattoo shop, and got on the road to Arizona.









Welcome to Texas 01

Welcome to Texas 02
I drove a lot of the way to Arizona and Danny and I listened to "Coast to Coast" for a little while. I love talking to Danny- he's right on and straight up. Yay. Our plan was to drive all night and just deal with getting to Phoenix during the day. We figured we'd sleep at the venue or in a coffee house or something. What a crazy night.

Oh yeah, and I got to see cactus for the first time when we were going through New Mexico. I'd never been there... I've never been to Arizona for real too. This tour is really starting to be fun:)

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

San Antonio, TX Day 01-01/19/2008

San Antonio Day 01, TX

So as we pulled into San Antonio it seemed like it might be another less than awesome night. Don't get me wrong, I've been having fun, it's just that yesterday was a harder day and we were rolling up into what seemed like a little more run down part of town. Nobody knew what to expect. Here are my beefs:

1. We aren't selling much merch so we're not making much gas money. We have to drive to Phoenix next and, before the show, we didn't even know if we'd have enough gas money from the band. The boys do NOT want to dip into their own pockets.

2. For myself, I just wasn't really feeling it from the other bands. I've introduced myself and everything but everyone still seems really awkward. I was worried that I'd never really get to know anyone else from the other bands and that we'd always just be random ppl on tour with the opening band.

3. I haven't started filming anything yet and I'm having trouble getting good ideas about what to do. I feel insignificant.

AND

4. It seems like the Dallas crowd just wasn't feeling the AGAGAG set. I mean not only was there hardly anyone there but we sold almost nothing and got almost no feed back.

SO.... I'm going to dedicate this post to how all of the above four points CHANGED for the better thanks to our time in San Antonio.


1. After the guys played (a killer show) people started flipping about them and were coming out to us kids selling merch pretty steadily. We were warned that night that we might not make any tips, and, we ended up getting tipped better than both the previous nights. We sold more than enough merch to get us to Phoenix and I'm sure the guys benefited from the on-rush of positive feed back. This really brought everybody up a notch in the excitement scale.

2. All of the other guys on tour were very friendly and outgoing tonight. It was like a 360 from the last night and I realized I was just jumping to conclusions and wanting too much instant gratification. People need to warm up to people and, as we all decided, a little kindness goes a long way. I had a great time getting to know some of them better today and am looking forward to the rest of the tour.

3. We all came up with great ideas on what to film.

4. See Number 01 :)


That night we crashed with the boy's tattoo artist: Matt. He moved from Savannah to San Antonio a while back and they were all excited to take advantage of his tattoo skills. It's wonderful staying with families. They had lasagna for us and comfortable sleeping accommodations. They even let us do our laundry and put popery on top of the clothes in the basket to make them smell wonderful. They were just plain great. They also introduced me to sweet potato muffins. No joke. They tasted AMAZING like a pumpkin spice late. No kidding, folks.

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea