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SEE YOU AT THE PRINT SHOP

First post of tour! Gonna keep this one relatively short because I have about 15 other people looking to use the one computer here at Veronica's house. Also I have a terrible cold and am allergic to the 5 cats in this house. Our tour kickoff show fucking ruled. So many people came out and it was such a great time. Thank you to everyone who showed up and had fun. Take Controls last show was incredible. I'm betting 200 people were there. All of the bands were really sweet. Saw Agress for the first time and they ruled hard. Take Controls set was nuts! So many people going off. It made me remember why I love being involved in punk rock music.

I haven't been getting too wild lately because I of course got a cold the day we left for tour. ICT Fest was last night. We had a hellish 9 hour drive to Wichita from Cedar Falls. On the way we pulled over to the side of the road because I had to pee. A cop pulled up behind us and I was a little concerned. Tyler then just gave him a "we're cool" out the window and we drove away unharmed hahahaha it was wild. Played the show and it was a super good time. Did our Black Sabbath cover for the first time, it went pretty well. Only have 18 records left which is sweet and not sweet at the same time.

Crazy thunderstorm last night. I slept in the van to avoid being sinusly (fake word) murdered by Veronica's cats. Only have a 2 and a half hour drive to Oklahoma City today. Playing with Violent Crime, should be an awesome time. People really want me off of this computer. I will give a better update next time.

Gabe shit his pants last night, I'm 100% serious.

Big Buck Hunter Porn

Today at work I watched a little kid try to enter the following initials into the game "Big Buck Hunter Pro..."

TIT
FAG
ASS
DIK

There is a parental control type thing on all of our games so you can't enter names like that. Gabe tried a similar move a few months ago. I sat there watching him do this, laughing the entire time. He finally saw me watching him, turned around, entered "DAN" and started playing. Got off an hour early for my last day of work until July 6th. So excited. Tour starts tomorrow. Good times ahead. Hopefully I'll have some real good material for this blog. Be looking out!

f - r - e - e - f - o - o - d

So pumped on life right now. Yesterday hung out with Kailey all day and had such an awesome time! Today ate valentinos grand italian buffet for Gabe's sisters graduation party. Met Gabe's family and they were all super nice. Went to the gym, lifted for an hour, came home to Tyler's step dad bringing us a new love seat. Went to Joey's graduation party, hands down the best one I've ever been to. The food was great, the friends were plentiful and the tunes were set to Sabbath. Came home, played guitar, took a cat nap then played a huge game of kickball at leavenworth park. A full 9 innings with The Float Crib coming out victorious 22-14. Tons of trash talk, so much fun!

I am pretty busy everyday until I leave. Honestly don't know when I'm gonna have time to pack. Tomorrow work 9-3, Koizumi practice then a show at Ghost House. Tuesday donate plasma, print Hercules inserts, Cruel Hand at The Manor. Wednesday last day of work 9-3 then Cody Ma's graduation party. Thursday donate plasma then play our tour kickoff/record release show. Leave Friday afternoon. This really snuck up on me. I remember telling Gabe "only 3 more weeks dude" and that feels like a few days ago. I am glad I have a lot to do these last few days though because if I didn't I'd be bored out of my mind and would just want to be on the road.

I have no food to eat until Friday and no spare money to buy groceries. I might just have to say fuck it and buy a little bit of food. I have to eat. Real tired, what a great day.

GETHIGHORDIETOUR

6.09 Orland Park, IL @ Orland Park VFW **
6.10 Central, IL @ tba **
6.11 Omaha, NE @ Mosaic Community Center
6.12 Wichita, KS @ The Eagle's Lodge **
6.12 Waterloo, IA @ Amvets Post 19 *
6.13 Wichita, KS @ The Eagle's Lodge *
6.14 Oklahoma City, OK @ OKC Info Shop
6.15 Fort Worth, TX @ 1919 Hemphill
6.16 Lubbock, TX @ The Way
6.17 El Paso, TX @ No Man's Land
6.18 Tucson, AZ @ Dry River
6.19 Tempe, AZ @ The Slurp
6.20 Ventura, CA @ Mega Sound Studios
6.21 Fresno, CA @ Chinatown Youth Center
6.22 Santa Rosa, CA @ tba
6.23 Reno, NV @ tba
6.24 San Francisco, CA @ tba
6.25 Redding, CA @ Downtown Eatery
6.26 Portland, OR @ Blaine's House
6.27 Seattle, WA - day off -
6.28 Spokane, WA @ Cretin Hop
6.29 Boise, ID @ The Good Life
6.30 Salt Lake City, UT @ A House
7.01 Logan, UT @ Why Sound
7.02 Grand Junction, CO @ White Hall
7.03 Denver, CO @ Blast O Mat
7.04 Lincoln, NE @ Ghost House
7.05 Des Moines, IA @ tba **
7.06 Waterloo, IA @ tba **
7.07 Chicago, IL @ tba **

* = show does not feature In The Face of War
** = show does not feature Hercules

www.myspace.com/inthefaceofwar
www.myspace.com/herculesne

This is how I'm spending the next month of my life. So excited about everything right now!

GoinVeg

I got a great little read from Lauren yesterday called "Goin Veg!" It's basically any vegetarian/vegan how to guide you've read but more personal. It doesn't just spout out facts in 2 -3 sentences. It makes things relatable to you and I really enjoyed it a lot. Thank you Lauren for passing it along. I've been vegetarian again for one month and 2 days! Bummed that I ever stopped but what can you, right?

Trying to slowly transition into veganism. I know all of the guides, books, websites, messageboards, etc say it's so easy but in actuality it really isn't. Maybe for some but it hasn't been for me. The main reason it's been an issue for me is getting ample amounts of protein in my diet. I'm not a bodybuilder or anything but weight lifting is a big part of my life and it's hard to grow and strengthen muscle without protein. It's quite literally the building blocks of muscle. I've found so many vegan protein powders but they come with two big problems. One, they are all even more expensive than regular protein powders and two, they are all derived from hemp. If you know me you that I do not have money and I won't put any hemp placed product into me. Where's the straight edge bodybuilding website?

I am actually pretty positive eating vegan on tour won't be too hard. Luckily for me all of the guys from In The Face of War are vegan so I just plan on eating whatever they do honestly. Might be a little childish but I figure they tour and are vegan so I'll see how they do it! Also, Vic is vegan but I went on tour with him in February and he just ate KFC potato wedges the entire time. That is something that I absolutely cannot do. My plan for tour is a lot of nuts, fruit, vegetables, and meat subsitutes. The only problem is I am finding that most of the meat substitutes that I love contain milk or eggs. Fuck. Whatever, I will figure it out. I think I am heading in the right direction, just need to fine tune my life.

I was concerned with food I still have with animal products and clothes I still have with animal products. I think getting rid of those things would be stupid. I've purchased them, I've already supported it. If I give it all away it will just be someone else actually using it. I have leather shoes, I may as well use them since I bought them. I think throwing them out would actually be worse than anything. It's really awesome that Kailey is kind of on the same track as I am. She is vegetarian but really doesn't want to be vegan. She can't give up cheese. But every time she has a lot of it she get nauseous and throws up and so hopefully I can convince her to quit!

I hope I can stick with this. I'm already feeling better since I stopped eating meat. This time I'm going into vegetarianism/veganism for new reasons than ever before. I never really cared about animal rights when I was vegetarian for 2 years and then again for another year. I mainly did it because meat made me sick. Now it's more of a social issue for me. I think meat and dairy tastes great but I think I'm a person with some self control. I'll keep this updated while I'm on tour and tell the 5 people who read this how it's going!

24.49.30

Just did my finances for tour yesterday. I think if I did everything right I'll come home on July 4th with about $68. Fuck. Then I have to somehow get from $68 to about $800 in a month and a half so I can then go on another tour and pay rent up front for 2 months. Things are going to be really interesting in my life! But I'd rather go on tour and be poor than stay home and have a lot of money and nothing to do with it except buy useless shit I don't need. I know that's what would happen too, because I've done it before.

Been really stressed lately with trying to get everything done that needs to be done for tour. We leave in 10 days and still basically have nothing done. We're a real last minute type of band. I wish I didn't have to take on the brunt of all of the work. On top of work, Kailey, the gym, and all of the other shit in my life, doing everything for this band makes my days all really full. I rarely have a day where there is nothing for me to do. But then when I do have nothing to do I'm bored so I should stop complaining.

I'll be working on while we're on this June tour trying to book our August - September shows. Luckily I only have to book the first and last week, Battle is taking the middle week that we play with them. That will make things a lot easier on me. Still have to get our stickers and buttons made, finish and print our inserts and apology letters, get the winnefaygo an oil change and tune up, print out our directions, get our covers screened, assemble our records, make a merch sign, burn all of these cdr's for our records and I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of other shit.

It's whatever, it's all worth it in the end. Excited about the full few weeks before I leave, I'll get get to hang with everyone a lot before I'm gone for a while.

6.03 Greenfields @ Ghost House
6.04 Era's last show @ Ghost House
6.06 Wilmot Proviso @ The Float Crib
6.08 Koizumi @ Ghost House
6.09 Cruel Hand @ The Manor
6.11 Tour Kickoff * Record Release @ Mosaic

Hell yeah! Looking like I only have to work anywhere from 4-6 more days then I have 3 and a half weeks off! 24 days gone, 49 days home, 30 days gone. I'll be gone more than home all summer for the first time in my life. Pretty excited to see the entire country with my friends. Excited to see who we take with us in August. Hopefully some people who haven't experienced tour before so they can see how awesome it is.

Today : laundry, burning cd's and exercising @ my parents, donating plasma, then going to hang out with Kailey and Dani in Lincoln at 7:00. My mom was real nice to me and gave my poor ass $20 for gas so I could go see Kailey and Dani. She said she wanted me to see them as much as possible before I leave. I love my mom. No complaints today!