daffodil jenkin's guide to excellence: loggin daze .06

WASHINGTON, D.C.

D.C.'s street system makes absolutely no sense. But we finally found the Velvet Lounge. We also found out that we had a serious voodoo curse of bad luck for the evening:
-Nervous Fingers had cancelled and the promoter had never found a third band to play so we would be the only band to play that night.
- Green Day was palying to the left of us and Fleet Foxes was to the right.
-got a parking ticket.
-got rear ended trying to find the White House. The woman was super nice and apologetic though especially when she found out we were a touring band from Texas and after we drove away she ran back up to us (we were in wicked bad traffic) and gave us $40, she said to help get us dinner for the night.
After all this, we decided our best option was to just go back to the Velvet Lounge and wait. We waited around as long as we could hoping to get a few more people in there but had no choice and finally played to all 2 people there. We had fun though, Danny from the Points and a dude named Billly kept us pretty entertained and the bar felt so bad they gave us free drinks. Also found a kickass chinese restaurant around the corner that had the best veggie fried rice I've had since Mings closed down.
Once again, we were homeless so we traveled out a bit to the Maryland Welcome Center and slept in the van. The next day we had off so we decided to just bite the bullet and get a cheap hotel room and we passed out until about 4 pm. It was well needed though. I was pretty sick by this point since I have the immune system of an infant and the boys were just plain tuckered out. We got up and went back into the city. Wandered around the landmarks for a bit. Saw the white house and took some innapropriate photos with the Washington Monument. By this time, Andrew's cousin Rosemary had called us and we went to meet up with her and her husband Walter for dinner at the Guards in Georgetown. Had a delicious dinner and several drinks until 2 am. Then, we went back to see the Lincoln Memorial (I'm somewhat of a fan of good ole Abe). It was an amazing sight especially in the dead of night with spotlights illuminating the white marble and his own words engraved around him. It was an amazing way to end our stay in D.C.

WILMINGTON, DELEWARE

Found the Spot pretty easily .. It was a more upkept, well run version of Super Happy Funland. Apparently, Wilmington is somewhat of a ghetto (who knew?) but we found some good eats. The boys rested up while I caught up on writing and read a bt. Around 630 we wandered around the streets and walked down by the Brandywine River. Saw a cemetary with graves dating back to the early 1700s (you Houstonians know how cool it is for us to see something more than 50 years old.)
Can't remember the first band's name but they were good - real fast punk post hardcore style.
MAD SPLATTER tight power pop in the style of Teenage Bottlerocket. busted out with some awesome covers of "Lobotomy" and "Hybrid Moments"
TIT PATROL I caught the last half of their set but they were really good sloppy power pop. Tight in all the right spots and loose when they could be.
We found a place to stay with Chuck from Mad Splatter and followed him to his home in Philly. He walked with us to the famous corner of the battling cheesesteak franchises Pat's Steaks and Geno's. We chose Genos and they nummed on cheesesteaks and I got some awesome cheesefries and Birch Beer. Woke up around 8 am the next morning and did the shower shuffle.