and two more weeks go by

I think we're 5 weeks into tour now or something like that. I always think I took a lot of pictures then when I go back and looks it's like one every other day. I guess I don't have a career in photojournalism ahead of me or anything. Then again half the kids in photography school don't either. Anyway...


We had a show at a round club in Phoenix. It was real weird. I felt like I should have been reciting Macbeth there or something. I guess Jager in the round works as well as Shakespeare. Cause I'm not real into old dead English dudes. Then again I'm not real into Jager either. There was a poster in the bathroom for Jimmie J.J. Walker's 70's Soul Bash. That I can get behind.

Shadows Fall did a sweet Hulkamaniacs intro in the round club because the walkway to the stage looked like it was straight out of WWF. The pictures didn't really come out because Chinni had the lights way up so Ric Flair couldn't sabotage them or something.

I just had to post this pic so I could state the fact that I finally met someone else who remembers the day I gave up faith in pro wrestling. When I was a little kid Hulk Hogan was obviously my jam. But after Sgt. Slaughter and the Iron Sheik double teamed him and hit him with that burning flag he did this thing where they showed him in a hospital bed and he was asking for all the Hulkamaniacs to send him money and show support by buying a wristband. I may have been like 6 and still thought wrestling was real, but even I knew that was a scam.

Consider that the day I could no longer get joy from seeing the Ultimate Warrior all cracked out or Jake The Snake in the middle of a coke fit with a ball python. Somehow Roy from Stone Sour remembered that too. A+ dude even if he did steal his image from that kid Rufio in Hook and thinks The Hulkster's daughter is bangable. Banagarang dude.

I forgot to post this after me, GRBDN and Baltimore's Patrick Martin went to Camden. The Orioles logo is real nice. I kinda wish I had bought a hat with that weird orange pigeon on it.

I'm not sure why everyone was standing up during this part of the Astros game we went to. I know I def didn't take a picture during the National Anthem. They had these two people from Cirque Du Soleil come out and sing the anthem and I just remember thinking it was really weird that they had two French-Canadian clowns come out and do it in Texas. I was expecting to see them get pelted with a barrage of Bubba Burgers or something.

Every once in a while you get an outdoor show on a nice day. This was one. Notice the "skeet skeet" shirt. I guess that's better than the dude in the SS shirt standing in front of the merch table last night. And I thought San Diego was supposed to be all liberal?

This picture was hanging on the wall of the catering room in Dallas. I thought it was real swell. Stevie Wonder playing drums for The Meters. It doesn't get to much more epic than that. I think even if Stevie could see the kit he wouldn't even be looking at it.

My friends are not in the least bit creepy. I feel like if Charlie or Kayla ever get brought in on child molestation charges this picture is totally gonna seal the deal on their extended jail time.


Gus is convinced that if I keep posting pictures from the shows some random fan is going to take a hit out on my life on the next tour. Stranger things have happened, but I still think he's overreacting.