saturday nite we played in cambridge, mass at a place called the democracy center. it was a show thrown by vegan, straight-edge punks and the venue was literally on harvard's campus. it was kinda cool to see harvard i suppose, but it was just so CLEAN. we walked around the square trying to find beer, but it was so nice and neat that it was almost impossible to find the only liquor store! then when we were leaving it, some kid walked up and asked marty to buy him beer. haha, we were like the creepy older kids on campus. i wasn't really into any of the bands at the show because it was just like new brunswick bands--loud hardcore. but the people were totally nice and we had fun playing, even though our sound was kinda eh, in the large room. (i think we've grown accustomed to dingy basements and cramped rooms).
my friend jake lives in boston so he stopped by to catch our set. it was great to see him and he didn't even make us beg to crash at his place! we thought we were gonna be able to stay the guy who was throwing the show's house, but that didn't work out so we were really appreciative that jake let us stay. even though we just drank beer and played card games all night, it was a really fun time. tanya and marty bonded over heated debates and we all made too much noise and slept real late the next day.
rob vs marty vs tanya in egyptian ratscrew is intense and scary to watch.
it starts off nice and innocent enough.
then tanya always gets violent.
then we switched to this game called catan that jake had. it was like risk, but more boring? haha, i dunno. tanya and i are silly and have no attention span so we couldn't play.
rob and marty watched youtube videos. whatever, we can't afford to go to a bar anyway.
photo girl. although she's supposed to be merch girl. don't think she sold one damn thing.
our gear out on jake's porch. so sick of lifting stuff and it was ONLY three days.
on sunday morning we drove less than one hour to providence, rhode island, aka the most boring city ever? unfortunately it was a cloudy sunday with nothing much going on so we just walked around trying to entertain ourselves as much as possible.
goofin' around in a boring town.
bindra and i took a long walk and saw some pretty old houses.
i don't have any pics of the venue, but i took a picture of the crossword puzzle that i did while sitting at the bar for an hour to kill time.
the show we played was really great. we played on the floor instead of the stage (which i think makes us play a lot better) and had our performance recorded. since we hung around the venue for so long that night, we made friends with some of the other bands and the bartenders and i kept getting drinks and stuff for free. for me, it was the most fun night on tour even though we pretty much only played for the other bands. tanya has lots of photos of us playing that i will eventually put up here because they're really fantastic.
on sunday night we got to new brunswick around 5 am and i was able to catch a few hours of sleep before heading back to nyc for class and work. hard to believe that only three days can make me this exhausted, but it was so worth it! met tons of great people and now i can't wait to get back on the road for our next three day weekend in december to the d.c. area.
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