Day 12- Boston

Day 12- Boston- March 1

OH man. Boston is pretty cool, but so confusing to drive through. We went through this intersection that had six different streets branch off of it. Strangeness. The houses were tall and pretty with neat little porches. If you ever watched All in the Family, imagine their house, except most of these seemed to be at least duplex's, with multiple doors. We stayed in an area called Springfield, which is just outside downtown Boston I guess. We drove past Harvard and looked at all the fancy Harvard kids, looking through their notes, waiting for a bus. Man, getting back to college world with tests and studying is gonna be hard. Going back to regular life where I'm not in a different city every day and playing music every night with these guys is gonna be weird. BUT I will revel in this while it lasts. There's still so much time left.

Anyway, we stayed with Spencer, boyfriend of Mercy, who is good friends with these guys. He was really nice. Showed us a fantabulous place for dinner. Anna's Taqueria. Greatness. So much food for so cheap! We scarfed it down, then got our things and headed out to PA's Lounge, where we would get ripped off. The Trapdoor set went well. I think Chris got to make some set list requests as this was his last show with us for the tour. We opened with Guaranteed Wintertime Blues, into an electrified version (Alex ditched the acoustic) of elizabeth, Galvestonage, Earth Mouth, Sarah is Rising annd something I can't remember. It felt really good.

The Balmorhea set was good, but it just felt weird to me. First off, I asked for more electric guitar in the monitors, cause I couldn't hear, which turned out to be a dooming request. From the beginning, crazy feedback surfaced, and ripped a hole through "Winter." So frustrating that the sound guy let it go through the entire song, didn't fix a thing. That song is so gorgeous and powerful for me. It's definitely one I like to get lost in and the feedback kind of ruined it for me. Everything else went pretty well (minus that the sound guy also forgot to un-mute the channel with our backing track on it for Divisadero). Set: Winter, Divisadero, Cabbage town, Process, Summer, Limmat.

One guy came from downtown boston to come see Balmorhea. We talked with him a while before the show. Initially, he seemed a little surprised that we were the band. Surprised but excited. He wasn't too shy at all, and talked a lot about the music. He says we're big in South Korea, where he's from, and that we could easily have a full show there. haha. crazy. The internet is magical.

Anyway, I hope he got a better feeling from our set than I did. It left me feeling weird for a good while. After packing things up and realizing that Rob's jacket had been stolen and only receiving $20 per band (after nearly 200 bucks had been made at the door), we went back to Spencer's house. THAT was easily the best part of the night for me. He is so hilarious. He knows every airport code in practically every major city in the US. Seriously. We tested him. lol he knows them! He also knows the capital of every country in the freakin world. Turns out that Mike is also good at capitals so they had a capital duel till like 3am. haha. it was ridiculously awesome to watch. How people learn these things, I will never know. We were so entertained by that, Spencer's Boston accent and general hilarity. So funny. I hadn't laughed that hard for so long in a really long time.

Then Dave went upstairs to go take one of his epic showers. It's kind of become a bit of a joke now. But for the rest of us, it was sleep time.

-Aisha