cinco cervezas
The Okay Samurai show at the Brass Monkey was two nights ago, and we ended up winning the battle of the bands! We played with Break For Safety and Stimulus, and both bands gave entertaining shows. Because we had not sold many tickets and it was snowing, I was definitely a little nervous about our turnout. But Nick redeemed his managerial status by standing out in the snow to sell our prepaid tickets and make phone calls. The show was just Mike and I, doing our best Local H impression as a two-person band. The show started with us pretending to not know how to play our instruments; I played a horrible bar chord and Mike lost his drumsticks while playing off-tempo. Then I mumbled something about "maybe I should add distortion" and we immediately began rocking out to Pour Some Sugar On Me. Grassblade Smoke was played as a throwback to the old Second Nature days, as well as an updated Nematoad Haven (with the Axel F riff thrown into the middle)! When I mentioned the song's title, a few audience members yelled out "DOUG!", voicing their knowledge about the fantastic nematoad episode from the Nickelodeon/Disney cartoon Doug. Akshay was in attendance for Akshay151, so I was able to tell the infamous story while I played the song intro. I had a lot of fun with Cinco Cervezas, a song about how Nick sold us out for five beers at the last concert. Supposedly sung in Spanish, I threw in a "de nada" and "no tengo pantalones puestos" here and there, but most of the song was complete jibberish that sounded like Spanish. Apparently we move on to some semifinals now or something; as usual, I don't know what the heck is going on. We turned down an offer for a Mardi Gras show because, well, we have to teach the next day.
Yesterday at Northeast Middle School I daydreamed through two and a half hours of "professional development", or as I like to call it, "blame everybody else for why our school is crappy". The only thing that got me by was drawing a treehouse in red pen on the back of the handouts. I got a shweet home-made card signed by all the teachers, though, so that was nice (although most teachers guessed I was turning like 14 or something, not 23). If you remember the "cake incident" from a few weeks ago, you might like to know that Carolyn delivered a chocolate cake to me yesterday. So thanks to everybody who sent me birthday wishes, presents, and cake; these past few days have been great.
Saturday, March 1 at 8:19 AM
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