This episode deals with the summer happening of 2007 which was nearing the end of our careers.
We were about one week into our tour and the money was already becoming a major problem. Our money budget to start wasn't good because we spent most of it ordering cd's and printing tour posters. We counted on our tour kickoff shows in Spokane to get us enough money to tour efficiently but that just wasn't too be. The kickoff shows were ok but not good enough. By our seventh show, we were clean out of money and having show dates fall through daily. We played a show in L.A on the 4th of July and left with $25.00 total to our names. That's 25 bucks band money, Erik money, Jordan money, and Justin money. That's all that was physically there and or in bank accounts. We got lucky and got on a show with Tera Melos in mid California somewhere. We left there with about $40.00 total. We began to drive through the night and without sleep, landed in Barstow California. Wow. You've got to be kidding me. This town is in the middle of the Mojave desert and is one depressing/worthless city. If you kids think your city sucks....try living here. We were there with maybe $15.00 total. But the fun was just beginning. We were on no sleep and wandering around the desert in 119 degree heat. If you touched the ground, it would burn your skin. We had to stay indoors because people were dying outside. Starving for food and feeling like homeless little fucks, we hung out in taco bell and acted sad. Somehow it worked and we got tons of free food. We spent the rest of our money to go see the Transformers movie. Then it was night and boy were we tired and depressed. With no money and no room in the van to sleep, we had to find a spot. We finally decided on a elementary school and concluded on sleeping under the van in the front parking lot as well as in the front bushes. I had my knife next to me while sleeping in the bushes. Of course, with our luck, these stupid fucks drove up in their car and tried to start shit with us. Maybe that parking lot was their territory in the pitiful city of Bartsow or something. We tried to ignore them but they tried to mess with us and had their flashlights out and maybe had guns or some shit. So we had to leave. Still with no sleep, we wandered around. We came back to that same school to give it another try. It was daylight again and i decided to grab my shit and sleep in the field. There were all types of bugs crawling all over me which included BIG FUCKING BUGS. About 30 minutes into my sleep, school kids starting coming up to me and laughing. I didn't care. Then the sprinklers came on and sprayed me in the eyeball. I was wet and pissed off. No sleep for any of us for two days. Funny thing was, i actually tried to sleep while the sprinklers were spraying me. I was that tired. At this point, hell is about to welcome Flee The Century. It was all up to a Flagstaff show. If this show didn't pay us a lot of money, we wouldn't make it to Texas. We drove to Flagstaff and the show was canceled. Our tour posters were up on the wall but apparently nobody there knew that we were playing a show (very common trend) They other bands didn't show up either. Instead, they had a cover band playing with 60 year old members in it. We knew that we were finished. Hynes started doing really weird shit while me and Hoff snuck into a rap metal show. Bondage pants galore. I think what happened was Hynes smoked a lot of Mary J and went crazy. Our van broke down and ran out of gas after this day and we had to call Jordan's mom to beg for enough gas money to get us home. She paid the piper and we drove from Flagstaff to Spokane straight shot with our tails between our legs. We canceled the rest of the tour which had like two weeks left on it. The e-mail probably said something like "We melted our weiners off into a fleshy and cummy puddle under 119 degree heat in Barstow. Because of this rare and painful happening, we have to cancel the rest of tour. We're sorry that we allowed this to happen to our bodies. We are immature idiots and must go home immediately for care."
This is the last straw for this band. Maybe we should have played metal core instead so we could have lived to rock lifestyle instead of the homeless lifestyle. Oh well, it's a good story to tell and all in all, it was a fun time.