Good morning!
Okay, let's start off by bitching, shall we? Why does the Honolulu Weekly always forget to list us the first Saturday of every month? (occasionally they'll not list for the ENTIRE month) Did I do something to them in a previous life, or the current one?! How hard is it to remember we play EVERY frickin' Saturday?? Again, these are the same people who fired Dean C. and replaced his prose with the chick who writes "Sociallite", a weekly list of names dropped apparently written by someone who came in 4th @ the Special Olympics*.
Anyway, on to POSITIVE things--last Saturday was lots of fun, it was young Master O'Donnell's birthday, and after midnight it was (slightly less young) Master Hatfield's natal day, so we played some music for them--in Tattoo Mike's case, he got to SING his birthday song. We played 2 songs in a row for Shantelle--Outshined (!!) ** and Hey Man Nice Shot, . Even though we were Rex-free, I decided to play Bennie and the Jets, figuring I'm so awesome I could pull it off--errr, nope! We had Tonya back from her frigid homeland, the pretty dreadlock girl leaving the Islands, (boo...) our all-time fave Canadian Christine, (who got her Bryan Adams song for once) Cayenne modelling the best t-shirt ever***, just rockingness everywhere and the best part, since we didn't have to tear down, we could hang out afterwards! Fanelli and I went to Coconut Willies and had shots and Chimay with Brit-Brit, Jeff Commado, and several of the previously mentioned lovelies and then managed to talk our way into Kelley O'Neil's after last call. Poor Dave dropped some of his meat sandwich on the sidewalk and there were tears, it's true...
Sunday Church Of Elephant was kinda a paid rehersal--we played Someone To Shove twice, but only 'cause we'd never played it before and Pat has been on us to learn it for more than a year--but it was great to work with April,**** who busted me checking her butt out--I'd say sorry, but I'm only sorry I got caught. Anyway, it was fun, we played songs we've not played in awhile--Shadow was stoked we played Conquistador (which he said we hadn't played in a year--almost true, we played it the week previous at the Waterpark and the Rose). It's a nice feeling when someone likes one of your original tunes..




*No medal, no hug for you
**which Kev never wants to do, he was in a rocking mood I guess
***a one-of-a-kind Elephant babydoll
****sporting her 2-of-a-kind black Elephant spagettistrap!