Round up the wives, we're going to UTAH!

We didn't really do anything in Utah except drive through it. We stopped briefly to take this pano and joke about Polygamy, but that's really about it. Maybe we stopped for gas too, I don't remember.

Other things in Utah:

-Mormans.
-Paper Tongues.

Toronto Has a Trash Problem

This is Nardo, our sound engineer ordering some food at an italian restaraunt across the street from the Mod Club where we played that night. What a great Venue. And the crowd was amazing. Everybody was getting into the show which was nice. And of course JET put on a great show. I asked some guy in front of the venue where a good place to get a bite to eat was and he responded with, "Well, I don't really know this area very well, but I'm sure you can find something if you just walk either way on this road." That was extremely helpful. I ended up having some kind of Turkish dish I can't pronounce which was unreal. Toronto was an awesome city with a great scene. People were smoking weed all over the place in public which was weird to see. But there was one thing I wasn't crazy about. Apparently the public trash service is undergoing a strike at the moment, refusing to pick up any trash until they allow them to save up their sick and vacation days to cash in at the end of their carreer and retire early. What a crazy strike! And there is literally trash everywhere right now. Mountains of black trash bags! Oh, and we completely jacked our R.V. on a parking meter. Woops.

Other things in Toronto:

-Great skyline.
-A bouncer who was formerly a part of Sudam's crew but got captured by our soldiers.
-Some creepo trying to get Nick from JET to let him in the back door.
-A nice little dog park.
-JET and Papertongues
-Looney's and Twoney's.
-Extremely laid back people. (Geez, tighten up a little folks.)
-Funny Accents.
-One of the tail lights from our R.V. somewhere.

Waiting on the Jumbalaya, New Orleans

In this picture is Jordan, Myself, and our good friend Joey Langlinais waiting for our Jumbalaya. I don't remember the restaraunts name, but it was unbelievable. This was our first time in New Orleans. The Food was great, the weather was sticky, and the opportunity for absolute self destruction was rampant! I gambled my first five dollars ever and lost it. Tough luck. We went to Jazz Fest while we were there and saw Kings of Leon, which inspired the crap out of Jordan, Joey, and myself, but Aswan didn't seem too impressed with the perfomance, or lack there of as he said. We played the House of Blues while there. The crowd was super feisty that night. Some guys were throwing punches during our set. I never thought we played fight provoking music, but I guess everyone has their triggers. One of those guys came up to me after the show with a face dripping in blood and mangled with bruises. He tried to get me to pick up his tab. I left immediately after telling him no. He was much bigger and more innebriated than me. New Orleans is crazy! I loved it though.

Other things in New Orleans:

-Strip club upon strip club upon strip club upon strip club.
-The best local music I've ever heard in my life.
-Too many bars to count.
-No law against open alcohol containers in public.
-Crazy sketchy tatto joints that you can only get to following a huge goofy dude by the name of John.
-My good friends Joey and Beka Langlinais.
-Harrah's casino.
-Humidity.
-Really really really weird smells.
-Trouble.
-Paper Tongues sometimes.

Ft. Walton Beach is the jam!

This was from a while back when we were out on tour with Flyleaf. I just found it in the archives. We played at a place called The Swamp. Not too appealing right? That's what I thought until we saw the place. This was most everybody's favorite show of the entire tour. It's not every day you get to play a show right on the beach with the breeze blowing through the open walled venue. Also, my team in volleyball won the beach game we played that day!

Other things in Ft. Walton:

-Water.
-Sand.
-Drunken sunburned tourists.
-A great band called Mother's Anthem.
-Flyleaf and Paper Tongues.
-A huge line of people that don't like talking into video camera's.
-Free tattoo's that we regretably didn't take advantage of.

Colorado Suburban Bliss

After driving forever across middle America where hills don't exist and farms are a-plenty, we showed up in Denver, Colorado to crash at Cody's Aunt's house for the night. I don't think there could have been a bigger difference from our last stop in Concil Bluffs to Denver. It's at the base of the Rockies and the weather is crisp and clear. The people never stop smiling and the animals are friendlier. The houses are massive and extremely homey and the food is to die for. At least at Cody's fam's house it was. They made us seared tuna steaks with an unbelievable salad. For desert there were homemade lemon bars and mollases cookies. All this in contrast to a dirty casino, fake palm trees and a hooters. What a great change of scenery. And to top it all off, there is a nice little rainbow right in the middle of our pano! Colorado, you're too much.

Other things in Colorado:

-Hiking/biking trails.
-Snow in the summer! (if you go up high enough)
-Pine trees.
-Chaco's, Crocs, tie-die shirts, and khaki shorts.
-Health food.
-King size beds.
-In-ground trampolines.
-Paper Tongues, momentarily.

What's in Iowa?

Fake palm tree's outside of a Hooters restaraunt are in Iowa. There are also some casino's, one of which we were booked to play at but due to two of our members being underage, we weren't allowed in. So, I guess there are very strict age restriction laws in Iowa as well. Regardless of not getting to play the show, Joey, Nardo, and myself went to the casino to watch JET play after they had a few drinks at the before mentioned Hooters. They put on a fantastic show during which Nick the lead singer went into the crowd shaking his tamborine, climbed a dividing wall in the restaurant, sat down and ate a few bites of food off somebody's plate. After that he ran back to the stage to pick up his guitar, play a few licks while chewing the food in his mouth and finally belt out the last scream of the song.

Other things in Iowa:

-Farms. Lots of farms.
-A very comfortable Comfort Inn.
-A well constructed gazebo worth having a nice sit in.
-Ruby Tuesday's. (My God! what a salad bar!)
-Some guy in a casino giving cheers and fist pounds to the people he doesn't know around him.
-Wind.
-Paper Tongues, briefly.

How 'bout these apples?

Nardo, our sound engineer has an i-phone. On his iphone he has an i-app called Pano where you can take i-panoramic i-photos. We're going to take one every where we go unless we forget or run out of time. We'll post them here for you to look at them with your i-'s. We appologize in advance for all the slacking off we're sure to be guilty of with this blog.

-Devin and Nardo