February 17, 2016 - 11:34pm ... oh man... I'm gonna be in bed before 1am! This is amazing!!! ... we're still in Calgary... 2nd day off in a row. Reid actually pointed out that because of the time change (-2 hrs), it's like we've been going to bed at 6am and getting up at 4pm. That's pretty amazing... but a horrible habit we've developed. The next few days are going to be a grind with back to back overnight drives... so staying up all night helps... but going to be rough once we get to the venue. ... this speaks to where we are in the pecking order being the opener on a tour where everyone else has buses, driver, and crew. ... biggest problem is waiting for merch to get counted out/finished. Often we could be out of there at least an hour earlier... probably have to a couple dates at least. So today... lots of NHL 15 on Xbox 360 was played and we did a photoshoot with Oli. He's done all the band photos since I've joined... awesome guy, better photographer! Check out his link here: www.olivierdutre.com ... and I need a leather jacket. Never thought I'd say it but it's one of those "rock things" I don't have... I think I've put on one in my life I thought looked cool (on me). Tim wanted everyone wearing jackets... slim pickin's on my end. I know the photos will look good but I honestly have no real idea what I look like since I threw one of Tim's jackets on last minute, on site. ... it got cold... and hopefully this isn't the tipping point where someone gets sick.. and it's all downhill. ... these overnight drives are going to do it though... someone will crack. I took a few pics while we were moving locations on the shoot... you'll get the idea. We ended up against some textured walls/lights near the casino and everyone was surprised we didn't get kicked out... I'm sure they could see us on the security cameras... but then I started thinking maybe they know we're far from troublemakers... and that's not very rock 'n roll at all! ... it would've been cool to get kicked out! Or at least asked to leave... ... you know who isn't cool? That casino security isn't cool! They let us down... ... ah well... we're playing there tomorrow... looking forward to it. In case you haven't read any of my blogs... I love people watching at casinos. ... I should get to sleep though before I rant about something... wish I could play drums for a bit tomorrow... I just want to bang around for an hour. It sounds like Disturbed's light/pyro show might not fit into the venue so I'm curious to see what they do... and it should allow for bands to have soundcheck. ... and I guess it's not that the pyro won't fit... pyro is fire and fire fits pretty much anywhere... the problem is it can set things on fire... and that's bad... so it's more "too dangerous" than "doesn't fit". ... tomorrow is show #5 too... officially halfway done... bittersweet. Oh... I almost forgot. In case you're wondering what's up with that pic of Dane, shirtless in the van... and hopefully he's not mad at me for posting it. On the way to the photoshoot, Dane was still trying to decide what shirt to wear (under his leather jacket) and decided to change it again. I made a joke about him being shirtless in the van again, but then told him he should just ride around in the van shirtless since, considering how transparent the fishbowl is, it'd just look like a naked guy riding around in a van with a top hat and oversized sunglasses on... and just as I said that, a group of girls got off their school bus, looked over... and were quite confused. ... it was pretty funny... it was pretty awesome. Good times. - Mike P.S. re: NHL 15. Final game of the day, I was up 4-0 after the first (CHI vs CGY). I took a 5 minute major and CGY scored 4 power play goals. I went down 5-4 with 40 seconds left... tied it up with 9 seconds left... in OT, my goalie came way out of the net to play the puck... one of the Flames forechecker's got a hold of the puck... game over. ... what a bullshit way to lose. Awful... shame on you Corey Crawford. Shame on you.
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Denise
2/18/2016 12:08:46 am
Great read as usual. And yes you should buy a leather jacket as it really looks good on you if you din't mind me saying so.
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