May 2010
29 posts
West Side Toury (Vancouver, BC or Bust... bust!)
Waking up at Dan’s house with Winter Sounds was a lot of fun. We laughed a lot that morning, not realizing the day we were about to have. Leaving early to account for stops and border patrol hasslings, we made our way to Vancouver, BC. Nick brought our passports with him when he met us in LA. It seemed that everything was in order. About halfway through the drive we started noticing a heavy...
West Side Toury (Portland, OR - 05/06/10)
Crash and burn… Portland was another night of loosing money. If these keeps up we’re going to come home in debt, something we’ve never experienced. I don’t know what the deal is, why it’s been so bad… but it has. I think it’s going to take a mirecial for us to come home in the plus. I don’t really like to talk about money but it’s a harsh reality that our world fucking RUNS on the stuff. PM...
West Side Toury (Eureka, CA - 05/05/10)
Eureka, we’ve found it!!! The shittiest bar in America! Going from Thee Parkside in San Francisco to the Little Red Lion in Eureka, CA was a discouraging downgrade. The drive to Eureka was cool though, we saw a lot of trees… HUGE trees… Trees that were older than Jesus… Trees you could drive through and such. Comparing that kind of beauty to the Cinco De Mayo celebrating over 50’s bar would...
West Side Toury (San Francisco - 05/04/10)
We’ve never been so touristy… waking up in San Francisco allowed for that. We stayed at our new friends house, Cory and Jackson. They had an amazing two-bedroom apartment that gave us the rare opportunity to sleep separately… comfortably.
Cory’s boyfriend, Jackson, works at Facebook. He offered to give us a tour of the place accompanied by a free Facebook cafeteria meal. We hoped at the...
West Side Toury (Los Angeles, CA 05/02/10)
Hello LA, we have arrived… with bells on. The day leading up the us playing the Viper Room was a lot of fun. We hung with the lovely Sara all day and did touristy things like sign record deals, cash our million dollar advance to pay for our Ferraris and boob jobs… stuff like that.
We met Treeman (find him on Facebook, Treeman… one word), Sara’s FAVE!!!! This was in...
West Side Toury - (Santa Barbara, CA 05/01/10)
We had a fun day hanging out in LA with our good friend Sara! She showed us some great spots in town after we did a walk through of King Size Sound Lab Studios. We met a guy in NYC last tour who told us to come check it out when we were in town. It was a really amazing place.
After a day of jetting around LA we drove to Santa Barbara, played a shitty show, drove back to Sara’s (who was...
West Side Toury (Ontario, CA - 04/30/10)
We woke up in style yesterday. Somehow we convinced ourselves to get up early and indulge in the free breakfast that the hotel provides… only catch was it ended at 9:30. After loosing 2 hours because of the time change and playing a late show, it was a tough sell against more sleep.
The drive to Ontario, CA took us two hours. We pulled up at the Eclectic Skate Shop where we saw about...
West Side Toury (San Diego - 04/29/10)
Saying goodbye to Scottsdale, AZ was tough. The weather was amazing and so was my hair…
We started on the seven or eight hour drive to San Diego. It was incredible. There were so many shifts in scenery in such short periods of time… deserts with nothing, huge boulders forming mountains and the best of all were the sand dunes. We stopped at the dunes… they blew the ones at White Sands State...