I am going to preface this post with a caveat – I’ve been sick, and whatever enthusiastic emotions that I experienced during our Friday night gig have drained down the back of my throat. That being said, I’ll try to recreate a pleasing visual image for your mind’s eye as best I can under the circumstances.
Glorious 3 Dimensional Vertigo in only 2 Dimensions!
Lately, we’ve all been digging the whole “graphic design” idea, and have been curiously working on how to implement sweet digital artwork into our everyday lives in the form of snazzy adhesive decals. The most recent sortie involved Dustin assigning Ethan the task of creating a brand new head for his kick drum that would let people know, if they were unsure at first, that the band they are listening to (or at least the drummer as a singular entity) is Stereoreel. This sort of job requires thoughtfulness and discernment, with a great deal of perspicuity; as well as a knack for artistic flare that can be applied in a tasteful and responsible manner. It only took Ethan a school day to come up with it, and another school day for him to create it. Ethan likes school.
Right before we departed for the C&C Coffee Shop, we put the drum head on the kick drum. After becoming strangely hypnotized by the sample-and-hold tunnel, we made our way to a place with the best strawberry smoothies in the Tri-State area. They may actually have better wares to offer than a strawberry smoothie (they are a coffee shop after all), but a strawberry smoothie is the only thing I had the entire evening. If you get a chance, try a strawberry smoothie. They’re the pureed equivalent to Ohio’s pancakes. Probably a tiny bit healthier. Just a smidge.
So, with the entire coffee shop hop hop hopping on a Friday night, and everybody drinking lattes, mochas, drip coffees, smoothies, and milkshakes, Stereoreel set up in a corner and switched their amps from “Face Melt” to “Smooth Grooves,” because the last thing you want to have happen when you walk into a coffee shop with your snuggle bunny is to have your bunny snuggles brought to, literally, a screeching halt by the subsequent face melting that is inevitably caused by a raucous rock n roll band. Snuggle bunnies rely heavily on their ookily pookily kissyfaces, and we all know that your bunny is far less snuggly when their kissyface has been reduced to a puckering puddle. That’s the last thing we want to be accused of as a band when we go into a coffee shop – desnugglifying even the least ookily pookily of bunnies.
We politely played at a reasonable volume for 2 hours, and had a fantastic time! The people were great. They were friendly. They were supportive, and they were all fun to talk to. The coffee shop owners are first-class human beings, and happily helped us out with whatever we needed.
By the end of the week, we PROMISE to have videos of this gig up. Also, to those of you in Ohio feeling slighted, we’re still sorting through the overwhelming amount of footage we accumulated during our trip and will also have a video or two of those exploits available soon! The same goes for the free downloads we promised on our sparkly, silver cards.
Excuse me while I go blow my nose.