PONTIFICATION AND EDIBLES

 

If we enlist in the bliss of auspicious opportunity and season it with stalwart dalliance...then goddam it, something goods bound to eventually happen-I always say (ok, so I dont always say that but it seems apropro for the end of this tour). I always hear famous bands say something like (again please forgive my busted quotations key on my keyboard...) yeah, by the time we got into the 2nd or 3rd week of the tour it seems like (musically) things started really coming together. Or, I heard someone say the other night, we are playing these songs better now than when we first wrote and recorded them because weve had time to rehearse and perform them live more. Well I adamantly concur. We all know that Im at the bottom rung of the touring latter...there are no contracts, few guarantees...Im lucky that if when I show up at the venue they still know Im coming...much less have my posters up. But even with us peons in the chain these truths are universal across the board. When youre on the road performing to new faces and personalities every night you just hope that if nothing else you will be able to reach one or two people who will respond to your music favorably....not just in way where the artists self-gratuitousness is getting its rocks off, but preferably in a manner where the methodology is organically providing something inherently good for the listener and performer both...perhaps creating an audio-spiritual synergy if you will. You cant please everyone but at this point in my life if I can please one Ill take it!

Friday night at Java Monkey in Orlando, FL was a delicious event. Not only was I intoxicated all night from the aromas of Chef Johns kitchen but I had loved ones and their loved ones show for the show. Thanks so much to Brandy (who I met at a show in D.C. who came out and brought her crew), Curtis, Cara, Elizabeth, Silver, Martine, Martika, Stacy and Justine. It was a fun show for me and I was pretty proud of my performance. Saturday was the ultimate show of the tour and took place at Town Ground in Newport Richey, FL. There was an intense amount of dubiousness heavy in the air when I first arrived to load in-nobody was there, my posters werent up, they had just been through an ownership change and nobody seemed to know if there was music that night, etc....It grumped me out a little at first. But eventually my old man ways were washed away by the persistant amicability of Jackie, the barista girl, and the good crowd that eventually showed. There wasnt a big crowd by any means but the guys that were there were really fantastic to me and I had such a great time! George and his family came in and so did Donna and Renee. Special shout outs to my skater buddies who were hangin in the back at the beginning of the show. My set last night was something like this:

 

ITTY BITTY

3 AGAIN

GET UP GET OVER

SMALL MUSEUM

BE YOUR MAN

DO THE MATH

WRAP YOU UP

TREASURE

CARRY ME

CHOOSING MATTER

 

ENCORE: BEAUTIFUL BETHANY BARISTA GIRL

Well now on to the real important stuff-eating!....Ive been trying my best to eat well on this tour although after shoveling down Mama Gs scrumptious ravioli on Wednesday night Ive been fighting heavy food urges. So to celebrate the end of the tour I will be indulging in a feast of edibles that perhaps arent so good for you, but taste mighty damn fine!! Then, its back to the gym when I get home on Wednesday....

 

Thank you all so much for staying tuned in during TOUR DE SOUTH ALA 2009. Special thanks to Webmaster Horn for keeping the sight updated (check him out a WWW.HORNOGRAPHICS.COM) and to everyone who came to the shows.

Love,

Damion