Tuesday, August 22nd, 2000

Charlotte, North Carolina @ Tremont Music Hall
w/Break Of Dawn, Bloodjinn and Eleison

We took off after playing in Meriden, Connecticut last night cause we had a long drive to Charlotte ahead of us. Mitch drove a serious haul, past DC. Nick is yet again turning into Ted Kaczynski, pretty hilarious.

Before leaving Connecticut: Mike's pink eye, Matias' allergies, Deuce's sweatiness.

In Charlotte the Break Of Dawn (BofD) van needed an oil change (amongst other things), so we hung out in an air conditioned lobby of some garage. That was nice. By now we've been having a bit of a battle on the highway with BofD, throwing food (lots of mustard bombs) back and forth often backfiring on ourselves. We've also come to notice that they're a bunch of klepto's (steve note: BofD are the first of 2 main influences that lead to some -on the road- thieving on our part, and an eventual personal kleptomania that, you'll see, will come to a head down the road...)

After we left the garage we killed time at some mall. En route a couple of BofD guys jumped out of their van at a red light and wrote "CANADA SUCKS" on the back on our van with mustard and baby powder. At the mall we found ourselves in a Radio Shack and Jeff BofD said to Mitch "hey Mitch, stay right there, don't move". Mitch stood still and Jeff used him as a screen while putting a strobe light under his hoodie. "We could use this for something maybe" he figured.


We got to the venue early, and checked out the huge hall in the back with its huge stage and a crazy PA. We were obviously playing the small room, which was still pretty nice. We set up and shit, Deuce and I played some Mortal Kombat 2 arcade, and people ate watermelon that BofD stole from the back of an el camino at a gas station in northern NC.

Nothing is safe from klepto's, shoulda stole the car...

Jeff devouring the literal fruit of his labour, juicy bastard.

The show ended up blowing, there were like 20 kids who didn't seem like they wanted to be there. We sold 1 cd, BofD sold 3 7"s. Eleison were the fucking worst band, crazy gear, stupid drum rack, they blew. BofD were obviously awesome and Bloodjinn were pretty good. Nobody would shack us or BofD for the night, so we hotel'd it while they started trucking it to Wilmington, NC, where tomorrow's show is. I guess they're staying with a friend, who we're all staying with tomorrow night.

At the hotel, we finally showered and brushed our teeth.

a thousand words...