A Piss-Poor Blogger

I feel as though 90 percent of my tour blogs consist of me apologizing to imaginary readers for my lack of diligence. The last post on this thing was when I got home from Japan, which was back in June. I swear I’ve done stuff since then. For example:

-Protomen did a midwest tour, which is a tour that had eluded us for close to a year. I lost my favorite shirt in Kansas City, but Henry Daggs sang “Mother” by Danzig with us, so maybe that’s a wash. Iowa is the worst smelling state I’ve ever visited. Every 20 miles is a different flavor of feces. Minneapolis/St. Paul is fun and has a cool free zoo, but Station 4 is not a place I’d ever recommend playing. We played with a French Canadian band in Madison, WI called Les Breastfeeders, probably the best band we’ve ever played with. Hopefully we’ll be touring with them next year. In all, I added four states to my nerdy list of places I’ve been. Here are the super-nerdy totals for which I keep tallies: I’ve been to 34 states, 22 state capitals, 5 countries, and performed in 43 cities. I’ll be adding one to the first list and two the the third in the next couple of months.

-Did a short stint of shows during the Olympics, which involved us inventing a lot of stupid games and ending a lot of our sets with chants of U.S.A. and building human pyramids.

-Played at DragonCon in Atlanta, which happened to coincide with opening day of the college football season. It was a pretty interesting mix of people in the downtown area. The phenomenon of creepy dudes taking pictures of sluttily costumed girls at conventions is a little unsettling.

If anyone wants to go to Iceland, let me know.

-Matt