Today (Friday, 3/9), we hit the 1000 mile mark on our way from West Virginia to our show in Lousiville. But more on that stuff in a bit.

Chapel Hill
We played with yet another really cool band. This one is called Red Collar.

But I think what really stuck out about this show is the fact that my parents were in attendance. This marked the first time my parents have ever seen me play music live. I was a little nervous. But not nervous about my performance. I was nervous that there wouldn’t be a lot of people there, or that the response would be lukewarm. Ideally, I’d want to them to see how well Goes Cube works.

It turned out to be a fairly strong show. The turnout wasn’t huge, but it was also a Wednesday night, and it was late. The club was fairly small, though, so the twenty or thirty people in attendance really did seem like a crowd. And they were into it.

I didn’t have a chance to talk to them after the show very much. They called the next day, but I couldn’t pick it up, and I haven’t called back yet (I promise I will!). We’ll talk more about it, but they seemed to really enjoy it. Or, maybe, they seemed to understand what it is we do when I say we play a show.

West Virginia
We had a driving day between Chapel Hill and Louisville. The night before, we got the royal treatment from EarFarm Matt’s friend, Graham, who put us up and even bought us dinner. We lounged around the next day, but then finally shoved off around 1 or 2. The goal was to drive until a bit before 7 so EarFarm Matt could watch his alma mater, North Carolina State play Duke. We made it as far as Kawahna, West Virginia. We got a motel, turned on the game, drank some beer, and ate some food. The game went into overtime. That’s when Goes Cube went to the bowling alley for a game. NC State won, and we reconvened back at the room where we drank more beer and watched the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.

Some weird things about West Virginia: We go to Kroger’s (a huge food store), and go to their deli to get sandwiches. They wouldn’t make us sandwiches. “They have to be ordered a day in advance,” we’re told. What? You can slice me a pound of turkey, ham, salami, Swiss, and provolone, but you can’t slice a quarter pound of turkey onto a fucking slice of bread?

Then we go to the bowling alley: No beer.

Bowling alley. No beer.

And we thought that Bowlmor in NYC was un-bowling-alley-like. Man, at least you can have a Budweiser while you roll (but the no hat rule pisses us off).

There was a strange flag on the bowling alley wall. All white. Blue square in the upper left corner. Red cross (not like the red cross plus sign; the religious one) in the blue square. Anyone know what kind of flag this is?

The woman at the Kroger’s carded us all ‘cos we said we’d all be drinking the beer we bought. She doubted we were old enough by the looks of us. Then when she saw our ID’s, she said “y’all look great for your age!”

“Want to know our secret?” I asked, “We’re unemployed.”

She told us she loved that answer and laughed hysterically. I was only half joking, though.

Louisville
So it looks like we’re playing our third of three shows tonight without a full sound system. Not a big deal, but I’m looking forward to getting some mics in front of our amps, ‘cos louder is better in our opinion.

Other than that, not too much to report. We just rolled in after stop-offs in Versailles (Woodford Distillery: go there. NOW!), and in Frankfort (we’re doing this thing with state capitols - look on Ear Farm for more, and I’ll write about it more myself later). Frankfort was beautiful and people were really friendly.

The guys are off getting dinner, and hunting down some miso soup for me. My stomach bothered me yesterday, but I’m all better now (just a little tender). I was kind of hoping I might see a couple old friends tonight who live within a hundred or so miles of the club, but it looks like that won’t happen, which is OK.

I really hope tonight’s show is awesome. I’m in the mood to really turn some heads.

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