Dooze Or Looze

We can't come to Jacksonville without having a wild time. We drove 7 and a half hours overnight from North Carolina to Flordia. It wasn't too bad because I just mouth quivered the entire time. Rolled in Jax at around 7:45am and instantly went to sleep. Had a really nice chill day just doing laundry, showering and watching How It's Made and Man Vs. Food. The show was at Doozers Pub, a place we played in February with The JV All*Stars. Before the show we went to Hip Hop Chicken and ABC Liquour to get the night going. The show seemed like no one was going to come to it then all of a sudden later in the evening people started pouring in.

All of the bands were really sweet. Played with a surf punk band called Gnarly By Nature who was awesome. When we played things got really wild and the push mosh was set to extreme. I saw a girl get knocked right to the floor and Tyler attempted to help her and then moved on before she actually got up. Battle's set was of course incredible, they have become one of my favorite bands in hardcore right now, check them out! Robbie (LHLL) played a sweet set for arguably the biggest crowd. Another sweet sludgy band who kept quoting East Bound and Down called "Legacies" played and they were awesome even through the barage of drunk slander.

After the show the boys got tanked and things got wild. When everyone had cleared out of the bar for the night all that were left was the Hercules crew, Robbie, the bartender of Doozers and the old guy who sand "Zombie" by The Cranberries last time we were here in February. We were jamming and doing Karoke to songs by the greats like Slayer, Pantera, Fear and some band who covered "Baby Got Back" nu metal style. We were circle pitting, moshing around, screaming, air guitaring and head banging all with two 40 year old men. Dooze or Looze was the slogan on the door, and we followed it's war cry. Then it was finally time to hit the road and see what the night had to offer.

We drove 30 minutes across Jacksonville and went to one of the local beaches. The water was surprisingly warm which was really nuts to me. Everyone got in the water except for me, I decided to stay back and watch everyones clothes who decided to skinny dip in the ocean. Some girl was taking pictures of everyone and other people would just laugh uncontrollably when everyone would walk by. At about 3:00am we finally left the beach and hit up McDonald's to get large fries and coke's that tasted like a chemical bath. We're in Florida for the next week, we jumped on some shows on a Thick As Blood / Endwell / Lionheart tour which should be really interesting.

Tonight we play @ The Engine Room in Tallahassee, Flordia. We have to leave Jacksonville at 11:00am because the promoter of the show tonight called yesterday and asked what time we were going to be there to eat lunch. Free food, tour, warm weather, beaches, punk rock, this is a great time. Be home in 2 weeks!