Mar 14th - After a nine hour drive from the depths of Ohio, Micotexas and Atom Lax pull into my driveway with a loaded bonnaville. We briefly greeted one another and begin pulling gear into my spare bedroom. Untangling a sea of chords, stacking amps on organs and  taping down the air organs.
We did a quick run through of the songs we'd be playing for the set, then caught some rest for the busy day ahead of us.

Mar 15th- We awoke promptly. After an egg smorgous board we entered the music room to finalize the set. The set was a heavily influenced by a drone section. Somehow Mico and I own two organs which are perfectly out of key with one another. We tuned the instruments to this note which is a varation between d and d#. Which gave the songs an interesting tonal quality, considering we were not playing a tangable note.

Each song also had heavy electronic drum additives to the music. I spent the majority of the time implementing live drumming in conjunction with the e-drums. Considering I literally haven't played drums for more than five minutes since last year, this was a large scale challenge for me. I had never tried to play to any form of metranome before, let alone another beat.

Atom ended up using a banjo on a couple of the songs. Which once again definatly added to the overall impact of the music. Mico's new batch of songs are clever witted, pseudo folkly jams. I dig quite a bit. Heavy vocals which was good to hear.

After spending the morning practicing we loaded our gear and headed for the college to setup for the round robin. This show had been my fierce obsession this last month. I devoted several hundred dollars and a large chunk of my time to see that it went off properly.

The turnout was decent, although I felt could have been embellished quite a bit. For some reason i had to convince a handful of people that 5 dollars (all of which went towards paying for the room rental) was a fair price. Had to deal with quite a bit of people sneaking in, ect. Thankfully the bands played for free. And Samantha saved the day by runnning the door.

The format was riviting. As was the ability to play visuals in the background. Incorparating audio/visual has been long time dream of mine, it was grand to finally be able to do both.

Post show a fiesta broke out at my homestead. I've never had that many people in my home before. It was a crunktastic 7am rager. Which I was thankfully for as well.

Mar 16th- We spent resting/rehearsing.

Mar 17th - We journeyed to Charlie Burkle at Trey Dog Studios and recorded a version of a song called Prizewinner. Hopefully it will make it online at some point for you to hear. Charlie has a great ear for engineering and it was fantastic to work with him.

Unforantly, on the way to the studio a pulley blew in Mico's ride. So we spent the reminder of the evening scrambling for transportation.

Eventually, it was arranged that we would travel as one with the band Flight Squadren Yon. In a gigtanic, wonderfully painted, um..hippi-esk, van donated by Jasmine. Somehow we would cram both bands and all our gear onboard.

Mar 18th- We loaded up and quested for Midland creative spirt center. I love the vibe at this venue. An art gallery that does shows, doesn't get any better. My dear buds Alex, Andrew and Kristen panhandled to make it to the show. We did an improv Anchors set to open the show. Followed by Atom doing a suberb solo set.

After the show we venture for Mt.P to have a ragger part two at Shepards Pie. It was terrific to see my buds in Life Size Ghost, it's been way to long.

Mar 19th- I spent the day prowling around Mt.P seeing old friends. Hitting up the taco bells I worked at this year. Eventually ending up at Crash Sundays homestead. Spent the afternoon locked in a tremendous electronic jam session. His new rig is possible the dopest electronical organsim I have ever seen, ever.
Directly before the show, we caught a three piece jazz improv band at Fifi's french press cafe. Super inspiring tunes. They did half a set with all eastern instrumentation. I may learn jazz druming someday.

After the show we headed off to Rubbles to a terrifying turnout. Great show to noone. Afterwards we bounced back to Jays house. Corey and him introduced me (like usually) to a slew of badass expiermental artist, loaded my ipod library on the way back.

Mar 20th- We headed back to my residence to sort the car issues out.
 
All and all I had a pretty great expierence. I can't think of a better way to spend a vacation seeing my close friends. In a musicial atmosphere. Though we had to cancel quite a bit of the shows due to transportation quarries what we did do was gratifying. Flight Squadren Yon is one of the most incredible bands i've ever heard. Yesterday I had my first jam with them. Looks like I may be joining forces. We'll be doing some shows with the fresh line up real soon.