:: Music As Social Agitation Records::

:: Saturday, August 21, 2004 ::

we are flying on 90 west to get to La Crosse, WI to hit 61 north to Winona, MN. we are set to play a big afternoon/evening hang out gathering in a park on the mississippi river today hosted and attended by winona punk kids. or, winopunx. we are an hour late. hopefully they will be receptive to our indie inclinations and not be disappointed when we don't sound like against me. last night was chicago and chaos and fun. i played bow interrupted, blue purple failure, eulogy and olive. the show was at this cool art gallery (none on the walls, though) called the buddy gallery. it was all-ages and most people were drinking. it was on milwaukee street , in a gentrified hip neighborhood. i had a piece of cheese pizza, normal style but tasty. the evening began with an hour and some quick show and tell slide show presentations that were mostly pretty funny. especially one of stick figure drawings and readings from the instructions a kidnapper left for this girl he intelligently buried under the ground for a week. bill, who set the show up, couldn't be there that evening and edmar was a gracious host, though he didn't know what to do about the order. there were six acts, yacht, thanksgiving and lost robots (a local screamy electro dance duo). edmar left right when the music was supposed to start and i decided we should just go first and get out of the way. i guess i seemed pissed off or nervous or something. i need to fix that. sometimes when i am trying to be quick with my shit on stage, i come off that way. for the record, i wasn't pissed, i just wanted to get or songs out of the way quick so that there would be time, and people enough, for all the other acts. i was a bit nervous. the crowd was, musically, right up our alley. CJ1 was there (a term john schroder coined and john tosch brought to our attention). tim played 3 quick songs well, labby did 5 or 6 i think and did nice. no cd's sold, but i gave away a few 1985 dawm rtreadings and MASA comps to seemingly interested folks. john put us up, despite moving in a few short weeks. he was awesome and hospitable and hilarious, with a dry delivery throughout. we left today around noon and saw wrigley filed on the way out. twin cities visit with grandma was good, fritz seems extra worried about her health and would like to see her go to a nursery home. she , of course, opposes that. it was good to be there again. i only saw her, fritz and adam though, as we got there at 7pm and left at 12pm the next day. we were supposed to go back up there tonight, but i feel bad about dragging tim and lab's two hours north out of our way... anyways, approaching winona northbound via the mississippi now, gotta give KTMae a call to get directions to the park... 4pm, Saturday August 21st, 2004.
-mattfu

***
travel log stardate 02004200
goldstar "geekout"
the incessant search for objects tour [horshit]
when I recorded "I wish you all the happiness you allow yourself", I listened to two albums extensively. One was the 3 disc 69 love songs set by magnetic fields and the other was Sebadoh's "Freed Weed". Whenever I was at a spot in the recording process where I was stuck or frustrated I would pop in freed weed and it would always inspire and enllighten. The influence of that album may not necessarily be audible, but is alive and well, buried in the heart of it. After driving 14 or so hours into Minni, Minn I find that Sebadoh is performing at bar in Minnni, Minn. It just so happens that this was our only day off and I was able to not only see Sebadoh play, which I thought would never happen, but I also got to give Lou Barlow a copy of the goldstar cd and tell him that he was a major influence on the recording- which I never thought would happen; the possibility never entered my thoughts that I could give him credit personally. Thanks for the nightgown, Lou.
-labbypants *

:: brs 2:01 AM [+] ::
...