So I have recently started traveling by way of Bus around the city. I used to have quite a lot of trouble with the bus because of all the starting and stopping. I would always feel like I was getting nowhere and the walls were closing in you know? Anyway there is no better way to flip Baltimore over and scratch its belly than to ride the Mta. Its actually proved to be quite enjoyable...........
Other than that, nothing fun has happened actually lifes been quite difficult for me of late but you know you get through it........we have started writing new music....just little ideas really...I have been reading Devil in the White City about the Chicago Worlds Fair and its quite good.....watched A streetcar named desire last night and tonight its Touch of Evil, one of the best movies ever made....anyway here's a lost of quotes that our Light guy, tour manager, guy-who-drives-when-every-one-else-is wasted, the aptly named, Dark Andy wrote down on our west coast tour with Benzos and Viva K when we weren't looking.....................(shuffle of papers)..........ahem....

This one was at our 15 person gig in Eugene, which actually was one of our favorite performances:
-Woody (from the stage): James is the beekeeper and we are the swarm..you are the swarm too...but if you get in our way we'll kill ya. No we won't. But, yeah we will.

This was a comment made about our room in Portland:
-Andy: It smells like the backstreets of chinatown.

...The next day in Portland eating mexican and seeing this bum wearing a ratty old beat up sports coat looking like don johnson on a thirty day furlough......under "down on your luck" in the dictionary there was a picture of this guy"

-Andy: There goes the real owner of microsoft.

I wasn't around for this one.....
-Motel6: I need everyone's driver license and social security numbers.

This was during the notorious night of the Wolf in Portland-
-Minnie: I didn't need that last drink.
-James: Of course you didn't need that last drink, that's why it's your last drink.

As was this (upon entering the establishment)
Mike: The Wolf will be here at 9.

I missed this encounter because I went and ate Breakfast but of course everyone else ate at this shanty mexican joint with this waiter who had a joy buzzer pen or something that he pranked Matt with-
-Waiter: Can I take your plate.
-matt: yeah
-Waiter: I've been stabbed a couple of times before so i'm always cautious.
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Playing Grand theft auto 3 in the van-
-James: Who has the Gun
-Everyone: The guy shooting you
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....Benzos frontman onstage at the aforementioned eugene gig

-Chrisitan: This is our first time to Eugene..but that's obvious...but we love it.

I had a packet of mustard in my coat pocket because I had gotten a sandwich walking through the airport on our way to pick up the van...Days later, on our way to Eugene, it exploded all over my phone, later that night we were making sandwiches ..........
-Woody: Is there any mustard
-Andy: Oh, you need some mustard, hey mike, pass us you're phone

While @ a gas station somewhere......the woman said the reason they put a six foot handle on the plunger is because people steal shit and this was a preventative measure.....

Matt. Check out that plunger.

I don't know where this is from but this sounds like every conversation with Dave our sound engineer
-Dave: A roll and a soup for $10, yeah but you'll be real hungry on the other side of that $10.
I can only assume that Brian of Benzos was extremely hungover...maybe from Wolf night..
-Brian: Man i'm like 25% my normal self right now.
I have no idea
-Woody: I don't know what you're saying...but I like it.

This was Wolf night, prior to the Wolfs arrival getting psyched for karaoke
-Brian (benzos): When Michael McDonald sings you can hear his beard.

The next day after SF I was so Drunk I couldn't remember what happened but I had dried blood around my nose......and I don't do drugs.....bad heart

-Mike. I didn't hit myself... I don't think.

-Mike. that's not as bad as blood in your underwear. (You get real bored sometimes on the road, I would say that outloud in crowded places becausewhen you first meet someone, that's the absolute last thing they or anyone expects to hear come out of your mouth in the course of a normal conversation....I think that's high-larious......so does Dave...)

Mike: Laundry's cheep. I only used two detergents and the blood came right out of my underwear. ( this kind of became a running joke, it went well with me pretending to have a bum leg....which I did every so often)

Mike: It was just a few drips, I mean oosing a little. (I know it gets old...but you just have to be there)

Matt: you need to learn how to exit a car underwater...just in case. (Don't know what that is in regard to)

Our best friend Romer on his personal hell
-Romer: When I go to hell i'll be allergic to my own thoughts.

Just him talking
-Romer: I'm going to go on a month vow of silence.

Evan ( viva k): ya gotta really love popcorn.

---------------da da dot da dum doom......that's all folks.........mike ------------------