shirts. annie's. lack of sleep.

Played at Annie's on Queen with Make Your Exit and Jay Spectre tonight. Not many people there but they seemed to be listening quite intently to our set. That is always cool. We bagged off on any keyboard/sequencing songs and therefore setup and loading were a bit more leisurely. For me it is sometimes nice to just setup my guitar stuff and just play guitar. I really like the piano and have been inching more and more keyboard stuff into the songs when it's called for but let me tell you it is not a fun thing to move around.

After unloading the Fiver (our trusty Astro van) Emeri and I headed back to my place to work on a new shirt. It is a tv with large fluffed out wings probably on heather black shirt. yes, little death metal-ish but we all really like the design so we're going ahead with it. I'll post some pictures when we get the shirts back from Civilian. I am very happy we've started using American Apparel shirts. They are fairly manufactured and feel a lot nicer to the touch. The company also uses "team manufacturing" which pools the strongest workers towards priority orders. Each team functions autonomously and determines its own daily production schedule, giving them control over their own hourly wages. After its implementation, garment production tripled and required a less than 20% staff increase... I took that from Wikipedia, but it's a neat fact I remembered reading about the company when we switched over. I swear I don't work for AA.

Well. Busy day tomorrow.

Night.

g.

shirts. annie's. lack of sleep.

15 sleeps

I keep telling myself that I am going to be prepared this time. I think it is the truth but I try hard not to underestimate the subtle art of self deception.

In 15 days we will depart for our next tour of western Canada. The energy is intense. Sweat, fear and excitement are abound. We are working 8 days a week to let people know about the tour and get our music prepared accordingly. Atlas (our trusty short school bus) is in the shop being tuned up and made road worthy (in the opinion of the people who sign the papers and give you license plates). We are in our rehearsal space getting tuned up and being made road worthy. Haha. See how I made us sound just like machines? Well the road made little bitches of us last time so this time we need to be machines. And we're ready.

See you out there.

g.

15 sleeps