Cleveland it is

After Laura snuck out of her bartenders class early, we used up most of our motivation and got ready for our road trip to Cleveland. We got to Scott and Regan's late and headed downtown ASAP. The plan was to hit the House of Blues to see Fireball Ministry and CKY but we already missed most of Fireball Misistry's set (friends of Scott and Regan), so Kevin, Laura and I wandered "Ingenuity", the little festival going on, while Scott and Regan stuck to the original plan.

I knew the festival was going on but didn't realize the House of Blues was in the middle of it. We found the "All Go Signs" area in search of the members of Infinite Number of Sounds I found Matt and let him know that we were around and would be back to see their set.

We killed an hour at some cheezy chain restaurant/bar with a couple rounds of Long Island's. Kevin and Laura hit another bar while I wandered around and checked out art work and worked the crowd. While at the "All Go Signs" area, I had three people I apparently didn't recognize from the last event I attended in Cleveland walk up to me to ask where Steve was, very annoying. The fourth person that came up to me I actually remembered, Eric (To Box with Man). To quickly change the subject I asked him about his music projects, I have a few of his spoken word MP3s on my computer that I listen to often. I was happy to hear that a CD is in the works and a MySpace account will be set up soon.



Laura and Kevin resurfaced mid-set, Kevin joined Danielle (Dave's GF), Eric and I in the front row of seats while Laura continued on with Scott and Regan to Peabody's for the CKY / Fireball Ministry after party.

INS played a great set. I was also blown away when Eric joined in and performed the spoken word for the last song. I've only seen him do his thing once before. I'm excited to see INS again next week in Bowling Green, Ohio. Luckily for me they just happen to be playing there while I'm in the area.

After the show I said my good-byes and Kevin and I got a cab to Peabody's to meet up with the crew. We seemed to get the most incompetent cab driver ever, Kevin gave him specific directions and he still had a hard time getting us there, he's lucky I paid him half the total fare.

When we got to the after party we quickly discovered that everyone else had drink tickets. Scott and Regan used some of theirs to get us drinks but I didn't want them to run out too soon so I came up with a plan. After talking to a guy for a few minutes, I would offer to buy him a drink. Once they noticed I was paying with cash, they would tell me to put my money away and use their drink tickets. It was flawless!!


We got to stay at Peabody's after they kicked most people out for the after after party, I felt special. Also we were the only chicks in the bar (Regan Laura and I) surrounded by many hot male musicians. I can't think of a better scenario.

Time off, Yes!!

My flight landed noonish on Friday, I wasn't sure if I really wanted to be in Cincy for stupid reasons but I was much looking forward to the plans Laura and I spent the week constructing. I was also looking forward to a few days with no internet. When I'm on the road and not out on calls, I pratically live on the internet.

After a stressful and annoying work week, I had an urge to go to a spa and get my nails done. I talked Laura into going and treated both of us to manicures and coffee afterwards. After that I was ready for anything.

I dropped Laura off at her class and took her car to Clifton to hang out with Kevin and then to Michelle's to get ready and chill for a while, not very exciting. Laura was finally done at 10 p.m. so I picked her up and we headed to her place so she could pick up some stuff for the rest of the weekend. I usually live the nomadic life but Laura was ready to join in for the weekend.

Our plans to hang out in Kentucky by the river went to shit pretty quickly (along with our Sunday plans), but I got over it. We picked up some grub and went to Kevin's. I made sure I oinked out before drinking cause I had a feeling the night would entail some kind of craziness.

We did Murphy's mostly because it's in walking distance. The first hour was lame but I was bummed and all of us were sober. We stepped it up a notch and dove into some long islands after a round of vodka-red bulls. As time went on I was really happy that we went to Murphy's. The 'crew' was there so I got to see many of the people I hung out with there before I quit hanging out there. The drunken conversations at the end of the night were very flattering. Jess & Pate both gave me the 'I love you man' speech.

Chris showed up after running around Main St. I was super happy to see him, such a sweetheart. We grabbed a six pack to-go right before they kicked us out and headed back to Kevin's.



Kyle, Emily and Kyle's friend Kevin came over to join the party. I was excited to meet Emily but I'm not sure if it was the best idea to meet her at 3 a.m. after being at the bar.


For Entertainment purposes we had a very humorous digital photo shoot, mainly due to the lack of anything else to do. I am so glad I had my camera with me!



We continued bull-shitting until about 4:30 when we started dropping like flys. Good TImes!