to san diego

Well goddamn, we're on the road again, briefly. Friday night we play the Beauty Bar in San Diego, Saturday in L.A. at "Cigarettes & Alcohol"... in their new Chinatown location. Just before jumping in the cars, we watched the first draft of a live "shot me down" video Maria put together for us. It's over a mixed soundboard recording from Bottom of the Hill, and combines footage from the same Bottom of the Hill show with a show at the Silverlake Lounge in L.A. It all pretty much blends together and looks like the same show, except rob's shirt keeps switching back and forth between dark blue and light blue. Looks pretty slick so far though. Maria knows what she's doing.

The Plastic Army e.p. is damn near out.. it's all showing up in the mail piecemeal. First the sleeves, then the discs, and now we're just waiting for the tray inserts, which got mailed later for some reason, even though they were printed in the same order as the sleeves. Whatever. It's gonna be nice, but shit, our heads are already in the second e.p. now.. and the third. That's our little project for ourselves. Three e.p's. Then it'll be time for a full length. Or a tour. Or something.

But back to the cars. It's Pipe, Rob, and Cat in this car, and it is stuffed completely full. The reality has been sinking in as of late that we need to start laying down the bucks for a van. It's gonna hurt, but there's no way around it the more we start traveling. When it comes down to it, the biggest obstacle to this band's success is the cost of transportation. Making music is one thing.. bringing it to people is a whole other bucket of chips.

Here's my view for the 8 hour ride to San Diego: