Show Journal 2000-08-18
Day 1 – We’ve named this tour the Marked for Misfortune tour. The name sounded great until we actually sat down in the van and started driving. Now I can’t help but think how ominous it sounds. We actually had our first noteworthy encounter before we even left Portland. When we were packing up the van we met a homeless guy who decided to share his life story with us. I’ll spare you most of the story, but here’s the highlight and quite possibly the best quote of the year “I ain’t gonna lie to you all … I’m a drunk. I drink my breakfast, I drink my lunch, I have a snack and then I drink my dinner. In fact I’m drunk right now.” Oh man. Speaking of drunks our first show of the tour in Tri-Cities got cancelled so we kept driving all the way to Montana. No hail storms this year, perhaps it’s because we’ve been praising the almighty Bolthrower. We spent the first night in a roadside rest stop. For some reason Justin decided to try and sleep in the small area behind the back seat. Bad idea. Dave’s advice was to “just shut up and wait until you go numb.” Rather than listening to him complain we tried to convince him to go from truck to truck selling shirts but he didn’t go for it. The beard of shame contest has begun but we all know that Dave wins every year. Justin and Jim refuse to grow beards and as much as I want to I still can’t grow one.
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