Ice-T+Paul Newman+Arnold Palmer=Jon Manning

Someone tagged our moniker in the Biko Garage

Sweat dripping off the ceiling after we played

"That was a good song, I liked the line about pies in the dumpster"

the excellent Backpack out of Santa Barbara

TRAFFIC starring Michael Douglas

more better pictures coming soon.

ok, time to play blog tour catchup

Phoenix was at the Trunk Space where we had previously played before with Parenthetical Girls in 2006. This was the show where I first met Zach from Iji. Our old friends Red Pony Clock played one of the best sets I've ever seen them play. It was also a treat to have Gabe Saucedo sing his lines during the now classic NOM hit "Gabe Saucedo Hates My Guts" Two other awesome groups that played were two folks from Fatigo and The Haunted Cologne. The former reminded me of Dead Milkmen with an olde-timey organ. We stayed at Zach's parents house that night and got some well needed rest.

The next day we headed to San Diego, home of Red Pony Clock. Our show that night was at a well known house who throws shows and parties. Fishboy was apparently too loud for the show as the cops showed up about five songs into our set causing all the other bands to have to play acoustic. OH WELL. We played with an excellent group this night called Endless Bummer who put out an album on Jon Manning of Iji's label: Lost Sound Tapes. It's called Mix Tape For Donald Fagen and I got a copy I'll review later. One of the best parts of the night was talking to a hispanic gangster who claimed he was in a gang called the Diamond Dogs named after the David Bowie song. We quized him on his Bowie knowledge and he seemed to have his act down. Plus he had a big tattoo on his side that said "diamond dogs" After some late night burritos with french fries in them, we crashed at Gabes.


The next day we chilled all day and got chinese with the Saucedos, and slowly made our way up to LA to the Tribal Cafe, a nice little diner where the show was that night...and what a show it was. Again we were packed into a tiny but cozy place with an extremely receptive audience; the best LA show we have played by far. My old friend and roommate skip came out and brought some friends as well as our exdrummer John "kombuchapus rex" Clardy and his excellent new band. The last song of our set was proper name spellingbee and during the break Sweatpants jumped on something causing everything to come unpluged. We scrambled around, fixed it all and kicked back in to the excitement and hilarity of all.

We crashed at Skip's that night and hung out with him the next day in LA. It was great to catch up for sure. We headed out and pushed through traffic to get to Santa Babara where an intense packed and sweaty show was waiting for us. This was the hometown and last show of Watercolor Paintings aka Josh and Rebecca, so for the first song of our set we covered one of their songs "so many lights so many stars" By the end of the set, there was sweat dripping off the ceiling. It will be really hard to top this one. Later that night we stayed at the WCP house where all their friends sat and played songs. There is an amazing group of people making music in Santa Barbara. I'm glad we got to be apart of it for one night.

Today we had a day off so we drove half way to Santa Cruz, stopped at Taylor the Iji drummer's parents' house and ate and took highway 1 the rest of the way. We stopped and watched a beautiful sunset of ocean and mountains all at once. By far an unforgettable experience.

pictures in the morning!! my battery is going to die so I cant edit my spelling/grammar! sorry for flubs!!!!

lil update

No time for long words. Here are some pictures to tide you over.
at the Trunk Space in Phoenix
some gas station somewhere
Trunkspace again.

I'll have to type more details later.

greetings from phoenix

Outside a Dairy Queen/Gas Station in Arizona

Last night we played a huge show in Tuscon at the Dry River Collective. There were about six or seven other bands on the bill with a lot of kids packed in. Definitely one of the best shows so far on the tour. One band we played with was Andrew Jackson Jihad which was an acoustic duo who played passionate folk-punk with most of the audience singing along. They graciously gave us props and told their legions to buy our CD. THANKS GUYS
This is a picture of several zines being hung out to dry after the most ironic flood of all time at the Dry River Collective.

I got a Califoria Burrito (steak, potatoes, cheese, salsa) afterwards. In Arizona a California Burrito is called an "Arizona Burrito."

Tonight we play in Phoenix with none other than Red Pony Clock featuring Gabe Saucedo of "Gabe Saucedo Hates My Guts" Fame. This should be good.

Iji Rockin out on the Fishboy gear. SOUNDED GREAT!

We walked into the Cirq Gallery last night and the first thing sweatpants said was "this place is giving me a haircut...I mean headache." We played a nice short set and tried to work some new songs in the car before. There was a tiny audience because the local bands had dropped out of the show but it was still alot of fun. Tommy keeps asking people if the street we're playing on is "the drag"

"hey is this the draaag??"

ok buds, gotta run. We are driving to Tuscon tonight for another show.Watercolor Paintings ended their set with a soft version of a punkrock protest song. Zach was NOT HAVING IT.

supa happy

Last night in Houston was fun. We played at super happy fun land in to a couple of folks and then I slept on the stage and met this puppet in the morning who has her own youtube station:




Here I am playing a drum I found back stage during Iji's set.

Here is the DIY venues collection of filthy dolls.



We drove eight hours to Tulsa, ate hot dogs and greek food in a hotdog/greekfood restaurant, then rocked a house show to a small but attentive crowd. Now I am on their porch stealing wifi.

26 quaters on my dresser, yesser

Last nights shows in Austin were rad. I will now take quotes from the band members:

"Played a bitchin show last night....played TWO bitchen shows last night. Party at the moon town theres a fiesta at the moon tower as we speaking. There's a party at super happy fun land tonight. Drankin some Drank"
-Tommy


"we all got so high on the music. Adam got out his Petience Please shirt for the occasion"
-Justin

After our show at Hole in the Wall we headed down the 21st st co-op at 2 am to play an acoustic show with Watercolor Paintings, Jahovas Fitness, Iji and THE TELEPHONE COMPANY!

look at this video about them:


One last image to tied you over:

hallo friends

Hey dudes, we are leaving for austin right now. We packed everything up tetris-like into the Nissan Pathfinder. I got some special K bars that I hope don't melt. The show last night was preeeetty good. It was an out of ordinary experience for Watercolor and Iji to play fancy club but I think they fit in pretttttyyy well. Alright dudes. see you in AUSTIN!!

a message to you all

one day and counting!

Saturday night it finally arrives. The NOM EP release show at Haileys in Denton will be a blast. It's late and all I have to say at this moment is that we got two new shirt designs in to take on tour. You can find them over at the store if we arent coming to your town this time. I'm excited about this tour. Maybe I will for once in my life blog everyday about it? Is that fishblog overkill? I know I'll for sure be using the lazy mans blog tool twitter.

Music I've been digging lately:

the new one from AMO JOY

the new one from MATH THE BAND

the new one from MINORCAN

this Iji/Watercolor Paintings split is pretty good too.

All my friends are putting out great music now. Whats the deal with that?

time for sleeps.