June 7th and 8th

After waking up and having leftover brats for breakfast we headed to Hollywood Rebels Tattoo shop to hang out with everybody and get some tattoos.

We ended up only having time for Ross, Austin and I to get tattooed before we had to head to St. Louis.

After we left for STL we listened to Chuck Berry and Rage Against the Machine pretty much nonstop.

Arrived at like 11:30pm at a venue called Building R. I wish I had pictures of it but I don't yet. These two dudes named Gus and Dallas live there and it's an old factory warehouse in the industrial district right on the Mississippi River. They had a mini ramp in the back next to some huge windows looking out over these cooking oil refineries and the river. It was a fucking incredible place.

So many cool kids and all different kinds of them at that. After Fare Thee Well, Dude Nukem (hell yes) and A Death and A Promise we played..it was like 1:30am when we got on stage and it fucking ruled. The kids that were there were all going off and I was drunk as hell because Gabe bought us a case of Stag.
"Smokes...let's go."

All the bands playing ended up giving us their cash. I can't tell you guys how much it means to us to have such good friends away from home.

When the show was over I staggered into the van and we said "goodbye" to everyone then headed towards Cincinnati. Tried to get a motel room anywhere in Illinois at around 6 or 7am and after stopping at about 20 different places with no vacancies we were informed that there had been a major flood the day before and the government had been paying for tons of families to be staying in hotels as refugees. We booked it to Indianapolis, IN and got here at about noon. Wound up taking showers and falling asleep until 7pm.

Right now we're eating sandwiches, watching Ross play GTA4 and trying to find something good to do with our night off. This will probably be the first and last time we stay in a motel but it was cheap and we've been doing really well with money. It's been cool to just relax.

I'll finish this off with the famous words of Chuck Berry:
"Hail, hail rock n' roll."