10 posts tagged “phil katz”
After the Tucson show, I went to hang with Shane and his friend Logan.
This morning we decided to go shooting. Yup, with real guns. I've never shot a gun before, and in fact we were going to be shooting rifles. But first, we needed to take a bumpy ride out to the desert.
But even before that we needed to pass this tractor on the road.
You don't ever do that in California. And I show you something else we don't ever get to do.
It was a nice overcast day though, still it was like 100 before noon.
Make sure we have our ear protection. It was dang loud.
Ok, ear thingies check!
Now let's see if it's loaded.
And then I can not show you pictures of us "not" shooting in the desert. Just for your information we only shoot at targets, not animals or plant life, and all of returned home with all the holes we came with.
Oh yeah, and then we drove to Vegas. And for some reason I don't have a single picture from there. Hmmm.
I woke up and saw Bryan hiking in the desert.
I didn't know why. and neither did the doggy, he's even giving me the "what the heck?!?" face.
Bryan bought the whole store.
But just look how happy he looks. Rosy cheecks, giant smile, it's like christmas came twice for him.
After dropping the guys off at the mall. I went to the music shop to find some mallets. Didn't find them, but what I did find on the way back to the mall was this awesome van. I mean look at the picture, it's kind of hard to see, but really it's right in front of your eyes. I'm telling you, not a trick, no optical illusions, it's right there.
Skrappy's was waiting for us when we got there, this place is cool, but it will be moving sometime soon, hopefully not too far away. They let the kids paint the outside walls.
There was a band there playing their first show ever. I think the oldest member was 16, maybe, but I think their parents had a hand in the shirt design.
For the life of me I can't remember their name. I really need to start writing this stuff down. Oh well, if for some reason they check this, hopefully they can tell me what it is. Or somebody!
Show time!
And then more ghost on the right!! Ooooooh, scary!
After the show we hung out a bit, this was our third to last show with The City Drive. I played nintendo on Chris the guitarists arm.
And sometime during the evening, I was trying to take pictures of the moon, it was bright, but all that came out was this.
After El Paso, we had a day to travel to Tucson Arizona, we did pass through Phoenix Arizone, haha, like the song.... ok it'll get worse trust me.
We stopped at this really pretty rest stop, behind me are some gnarly rocks!
There was a crazy ant hole. And this is where it gets worse, please excuse my crappy accent, or I should say accents!
I did get to see an awesome sunset with some really pink clouds.
I arrived at the humid Houston airport around four in the morning.
Good thing the security line was pretty empty.
I boarded the plane and then had a nice layover in Dallas, I mostly slept on the floor waiting for my plane.
I don't think I got to watch any movies, or perhaps I was sleeping.
Anyway, so the reason why I was flying to the bay area is because one of my really good friends was getting married. Normally I would have to miss it, but I've gone to the same school as him since 4th grade, we even went both went to UCLA.
Time to PARTY!
My table at the wedding was called the Shark Tank, named after the San Jose Sharks hockey team, I don't like hockey.
But I do like my friends!
It was time to tear it up on the dance floor. I like doing the jitterbug, and the charleston, sometimes I do the robot if you're lucky. And if I'm really in the mood, the moonwalk.
Ah here we are getting jiggy.
The food was great, and lots of it.
It was time for the flower thingy tossing.
All in all, it was a great time, a very beautiful wedding. And a nice mini vacation during tour.
Long, long, long day for me. I'll just give you a quick rundown of what is going to happen. Leave for Baton Rouge from Dallas at 8 AM. Arrive in Baton Rouge 3 PM, get rental car, play two shows, leave Baton Rouge drive to Houston, TX. Catch flight at 6 AM.
I mostly slept on the drive since I had to drive after the two shows we were doing in Baton Rouge.
It's quite neat to be on this raised bridge for so long, over swamp, and it was a nice day. A little humid, but I suppose I'll live.
Now if you asked me, where do you think would be the most unlikeliest place to see a Tiger, I definitely would've said gas station rest stop.
I don't know if you can see him, but he's right under the sign.
Ok not really. Here he is. Or she, I'm not really sure.
It was quite weird to stop in the middle of nowhere and find this tiger asleep in the cage. But cool!
As we were leaving, we noticed a store, a very descriptive store. Told you everything you needed to know about this particular store.
"old, new, used---- all kinds of stuff"
That's if you need stuff.
We just ran out, go back!
We arrived in Baton Rouge, and went straight to the airport so I could get my rental car.
That's right, I rented a Suzuki asskicker!
It had an Aux plug, so I was excited. That means you can plug your ipod straight into the stereo. It would come in handy for my four hour drive after the show!
We set up at the show, Shane was looking very Napoleanish at one point. Or maybe it's just this picture.
Yes. This was the first show, and I had a fan club.
We had some younger fans at the show too.
I am a little disappointed at how young he's starting such a bad habit, but hey, it's his choice!
Just kidding people, I do not condone underage anything!
We had a lot of people come and say hi at the merch table, always very nice.
It then got happier, Meriwether played.
I'm missing some photos.
But I did get this one.
I know it's not that funny, but I find it morbidly funny.
Customer: " Hi, my grandma is pretty much on her last leg"
Casket Store Worker: "Oh excellent, glad to hear! You'll be really interested in this mahogany casket, it's got all the latest in casket technology. In lid CD player, so you're granny can listen to her favorite music forever. Four drink holders! And, last but not least, this casket is friendly to the environment, it decomposes in just 80 years!"
I know I'm weird.
So we arrived at the Door, it was sprinkling when we got there, and then later it was....
And that was it! Good show, and now and early morning! I have a very, very long day tomorrow.
So again it was more promotion today. I was on the computer all day! Josh's grandma did make us some amazing ribs and dirty rice, it was so delicious!
After that we went to the movies and watched 28 Weeks Later.
If you haven't seen 28 days later, do that first then go see this one. Man so good. City Drive met up with us to watch the movie as well.
Before we went in the movie, Shane took a picture with the Simpsons.
Then I offended some Pirates by asking another pirate to take the picture so I could be in it. He thought I wanted a picture with him, I felt a little bad, but I got over it real quick.
Arrrrr Matey!
After the movie we hung out in the parking lot, very high school of us. Brought back good ol memories. We also tried to do popcorn tricks!
Sorry I meant Day Off in Dallas. Well either way, not a whole lot of pictures.
(Side Track)Oh right, I'm continuing the blog, my power cord broke in two, got a new one, went to Hawaii, and so for the next couple days, I'll be updating everday!(Done sidetracking)
Like I said, we had the day off, so Bryan and I played on the computer all day. And Shane and Josh went to the mall.
this picture was used to make a blog for a contest we're in. I'll link it here so you can help us win a chance to play with FALL OUT BOY. Now, I'm not going to say if I like them or not, I don't, but it's a great oppurtunity, that's all I'm gonna say.
Ok, shameless plugs aside. After promoting for the day, we went to hang out with David and Tom from Local Pacific at their hotel room. We couldn't figure out how to get in. And well neither could they.
And here's Tom, or someone I thought to be Tom!!!! Dun Dun duuuuuuun.
Luckly he was a friendly thief. Also his finger didn't make a good gun.
Early start this morning.
It was a bit of a drive to get to Denver from Park City, Utah.
I got in my usual position laying down in the back. This tour I haven't driven one time because I've been sick since the beginning.
These two pictures of are Wyoming. I think the only time anybody comes here is to drive through, I'm sure it's a nice place, but it's kind of desolate. Sorry if you're from there. I hear Jackson Hole, Wyoming has some awesome kayaking and river rafting!!! So it's got that going for it.
I took some more, but I was too lazy even to sit up and take it.
And here is my art shot, this is what you do when you're bored in the back of the van.
We finally arrived in Denver at the Lifespot. Unloaded and made our way over to Chipotle. I haven't eaten anything this heavy in about 10 days so I was a little nervous, but also excited since I love Chipotle, you HEAR THAT CHIPOTLE. SPONSOR!!!! I'm hoping they'll read this.
On the way back, I noticed some Local Pacific stickers.
The show was fun, it was great to see some familiar faces.
We awoke early because we had a long drive to Provo.
I was already up since I was tossing and turning all night. I think the longsest I slept was about 45 minutes.
I got back into my laying down position in the van.
I listened to my ipod, I downloaded a bunch of podcasts from NPR. I like listening to that.
I got a couple of pictures during the drive, from my laying down position of course.
A nice picture of some rocks, mmm yes.
Then it was pretty much flat for a long time. We drove through the salt flats.
It was dang boring. Lots of salt and straightness.
Then the day got worse for me.
When we arrived in Provo, I started feeling really nauseous. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to play again. So I started setting up when it was time and it was no point I had to vomit. I went to the bathroom and let it go! I know gross. We played, I tried my best, but near the end of the set i was at a bad point and had to leave mid song to throw up again. And from then on it was continuous. It got so bad, I ended up going to the emergency room after the show because there was some blood coming out too.
But don't worry, I'm ok, I'm just a wuss. I'm feeling much better today. Just going to chill, drink lots of fluids, try to eat some soup. And get better. I will live!!!!!!!
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