guelph/windsor/guelph again

so after our arrival in guelph on tuesday, we decided wednesday was going to be st. patrick's wednesday - and we spent the entire day drinking. katherine (the doll that she is) made us all pancakes for breakfast - aaron was smart and had coffee flavoured beer. some of us went and explored, others stuck around the house, but by night's end - it felt like st patricks day.

after a great collectively-made pasta supper, we went over to the university (about a 5 minute walk from kat's) and aaron and pinky played the open mic. the open mic was the epitome of "college." in a sense, open mics make me sorry i ever went to college - because if that's the stereotype people see or think of when they hear "college," i didn't go to that school. anyways, they played a couple songs from the record, a bit subdued of course, and pineau spent the set handing out hand-written hand bills we had made for our show in guelph on friday. hopefully it gets some people out.

when we got home, andrew proceeded to convince us all that he was in fact THE Jager-Meister, and eventually we all went to sleep.

thursday there wasn't a gigantic rush to get to windsor, it's only 3 hrs from guelph. so we woke up late, cleaned up kat's place a bit, took showers, ate some lunch and then hit the road.

we got to windsor around supper time, and the jon mckiel guys were already there. we hit up this sweet schwarma place called The Hot Spot - where we go every time we're in windsor - for some eats then loaded into the venue - a small little place called Milk. It was really cool. It had a neat atmosphere, and there was an expo of paintings all around the place that were like goth-cartoon erotica. i thought they were awesome, but i don't think everyone agreed. i know allyson would have loved them.

speaking of art - because this show was a sleepless nights/jon mckiel/establishment/orphan choir show, the girl who is doing the art for the 7" establishment/orphan choir split came to the show and showed us what she had done so far. it looks friggen awesome. check out some of her previous work (including the orphan choir demo art) here.

the show was ok - it wasn't packed, but i think it went over well. the guys from what seas, what shores were out, and orphan choir were awesome as always.

by the time the establishment set was done, a bunch of the band-mates decided it would be best to suck it up and take the three hour drive back to guelph after the show because we all had beds there, and our next show was in guelph anyways, so we could all sleep in and just hang out for the whole day. so we did, and we are.

hopefully the show tonite goes over well - we're attempting to make this the biggest party of the tour. this is officially the last show that sleepless nights and jon mckiel are playing together (saturday we play in ottawa with the fussy part, sunday in hamilton with the inflation kills) so it should be lots of fun.

here's to tonite!