Well folks, we’ve got an action-packed weekend coming up on the 22nd of August. First, we’re playing The Middleton Good Neighbor Festival on FRIDAY. It marks the first GNF we’ve played without Jim. I hope you’ll all be out to give Charlie his first real hometown welcome.
Second we’ve got a date at The Frequency in Madison on SATURDAY the 23rd of August. It’s a benefit for a food pantry and we’ll be playing with Minneapolis sweethearts White Light Riot. The Frequency is Darwin Sampson’s new place (of The Anchor Inn… and lately the Annex (don’t worry, he’s one of the good ones)). He’s got a new venue and he’s ready to kick ass (and make some cash).
Thirdly we’ve got The Fine Line on MONDAY the 25th of August. We’d like to grab as many of you folks as we could on a Monday night. It’ll be tough, but come celebrate like true alcoholics and spend your Monday night hugging a bar!
Of Skydiving and Italy
So I went skydiving in the swiss alps at Interlaken. Ain’t no thang. We jumped backwards out of a helicopter at 15,000ft with a 45 second freefall and then about 5 minutes of scenery and violent spinning. No one died.
We made our way to Italy, somehow. We’re in the Piedmont range just kicking it in a little skiing town called Sestriere. I can’t pronounce it either. Italian fucking sucks by the way. Gibberish. I at least understood german, and could tell when the french were telling us to fuck off.
Oh well, these things happen. The internet is very sparse here. We get the BBC and MTV Italy. Woo hooooo! only it isn’t MTV. They play MUSIC… and southpark. weird.
Hey, did you know they had the olympics in Torino? I sure do.. ’cause it’s exclaimed fucking everywhere! Who gives a shit, right? Clowns, that’s who. Yes, I would like to order the Torino Olympics Pasta please. Thank you.
I will be back in the states on Monday. That’s Tuesday here, SPOOOOOOOOKY.
We have an amazing show lined up. Can’t wait to tell you about it. Neato. kthxbai
Berlin, Nuremberg, Austria
First off, let me say it. Austria is AMAZING. Maybe it’s just the hostel I’m at, but it’s fucking amazing here. There are guitars in the lobby just hanging out waiting for you to play. And the internet kiosks run linux. How bad ass is that?
Berlin was interesting. Too many damn kids at the hostel. Very strange, we’re talking 10-14 year olds in droves all smoking and drinking. It’s 16 to drink here and people even feel that’s too late. What the fuck. Gross. Really gross.
The city is pretty huge and sprawling, and is a stark contrast from a place like Frankfurt. Very urban, very ex-soviet feeling… and that’s the west too. We checked out the old checkpoint charlie and a holocaust memorial. I didn’t realize the majority of jews that were murdered were from Poland. Well I did, just didn’t realize the numbers difference. Horrible. But a perfect memorial.
We did Nuremberg in a day. I figured there’d be more nazi memorials, blah blah, there considering all the trials and rallies went on there. It’s just touristy trap garbage.
Austria though. I’m really excited for this one. We’ll see what tomorrow’s like.
Frankfurt am Main
I know that in the previous post, I mentioned that people are just people. I was half right. We got a taste of France’s brand of rude when we tried to book our tickets to Frankfurt. We did not want to through Belgium because it would cost us an assload of Euros. Which is 1.5 assloads of dollars ’cause the dollar sucks ass right now. But this French woman wasn’t having it. AT ALL. We were sent directly through Belgium which cost us 40 just for passing through their country. Boo.
To answer Jim’s query, yes. We did meet ONE cunt.
These keyboards are also ridiculous. Z and Y are switched so, mz name is shekez. Neat, kinda. If you haven’t figured out, we’re in Frankfurt wondering what to do, etc.
We’ve got video and pictures, but we haven’t been able to find many proper internet cafes. Good thing Frankfurt is fucking full of them. We’ll get our escapades up soon enough. Stay tuned, speed racers.
France and Whatnot.
A bit of advice to all my fellow sports fans: don’t order the freedom fries. They don’t think its nearly as funny as I do. Glad we figured that out. I’ve continued my streak if destroying toilets all over this land. The French aren’t nearly as rude as they’re made out to be unless youre calling them smelly frogs and yelling about “America! Love it or Leave it!”
People are just people though. Unless you’re the Finnish bitches we shared a room with the last two nights. To answer Jim’s query… We did meet some cunts. They were Finnish.
More to follow. /end transmission.