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First Show : May 17, 2003 Washington, DC
Not a Squat. Excellent house!! Great pot-luck show with deep fried vegan cupcakes, home made baba, TVP tomato sauce... it was a crusty queer's dream come true.
to my (terry) surprise my pal Lilly's band was playing with us. they performed first. their name is not jobless, but it sure sounds like it. they were great - a spoken word type thing with lilly on bass, a fabulous drummer and poet. then... "myles of destruction" tore it up. violin, bass, drums and demonic screaming. this band was tight and dynamic and loud. that living room was vibrating and my ears were pierced - good times!
"gurth" played their 3 song set of fame. first time playing a show ever. funfunfun punk rock hotties.
finally we play a show with "paper doll". so sweet, so young, so indie. loved it!!
we played next - sweaty sweaty sweaty... all those people in that small living room really heated it up. we tried our best to make the crowd move and sweat. success.
we met lots of great people here. i have to mention the michelle look-alike that we met. she had the michelle vibe, dressed like our pal michelle, looked a bit like her, BUT was not her. incredible. thanks to the door girl (lilly's sister), everyone who cooked and came out to support us AND superspecialbig thanks to the Not A Squat folks. keep doing what you do. we were honored to be a part of it.
we took our tired asses to tif's friend's (Mary) place right outside DC and crashed. Mary really did crash rigt out of her new chair and onto the floor. it is true what tif said about her - she is accident prone. thanks to Mary and Steve for the soft pillows, their water bed, beer, beds, coffee and a good laugh. Yeah so it's all GT's (good times). Now we're off to find a vegan brunch...then we're on our way to Athens, GA!

notes from the road: Toll both notables -- leaving Jersey we spotted the most attractive toll booth person ever. somewhere near delaware we spotted the youngest toll booth person ever.

ScreamO - anyone in a screamo band??

terry: Tif insisted that we stop at JR - the Wall Drug of the east. Billboards every 2 miles attempting to lure you into the HUGE warehouse mall-like space where you can get anything you ever wanted and things you never thought you wanted all taxable and
tif: we just don't know what else because terry wouldn't stop! i was foiled...everything from brassieres to chandeliers (sp is bad i know but whatever). my dream of a new belt buckle flew past me. dam that evil
terry. she said we'd stop on the way home, but we all know how that story goes. sheesh! terry: I AM SAVING YOU from the evils of JR unless of course they have a spelling workbook.

our hunger led us to Chili's. they greet us with a "do you have a preference?". christina halted thinking of the infinite amount of comebacks possible at such a moment, but unable to respond quickly enough, we all observed the confused looks on each other's faces until the staff added "smoking or non?". oh. tif wanted the church lady with all the hair boufed up and the silky green dress. robin thought the waitress was kind of cute with her little ponytail but definitely not her type.

truck stop supersize air brushed 18 wheeler - WL was his name and selling random goods out of the back of his air brushed truck was his game. he let us take as many pics as we wanted telling us "enjoy it - check her out, see whats for sale". his eyes were pale blue and kind of watery been around sort of look, he must've been about 70. all sunburned, nice smile. a chicken was in the passenger seat (it was freakin' foghorn leghorn you guys) and the largest pair of underware i've ever seen was attached to the grill with "real men don't need viagra" ironed on em. quick look behind the cab - "women have hooters. men have tooters. what do you have?

in athens, ga - tif got pigeon poo on her hand at the same moment dog poo found its way into the deep creases of christina's shoes and of course in the van. christina proceeded to clean the poo off her shoe in the best western tub and everyone went eew it smells it turned into a free for all. note; poo is good luck. or just a shitty day.

2nd show May 19th - Athens, GA - Tasty World 10pm

4 bands: Atlantic, triple creme, The Outfit, Chronicle the Man... this was a fun show. those athens peeps know how to have a good time on a monday night. we were glad to see a decent showing for a rainy monday night when school is out. thanks to all the locals who came out to support and rock out. we met some great people, shot some bad pool, enjoyed the georgia peaches and the experience of good sound. real special thanks to the affectionate fags at the show. always warms the heart to see openly expressed fag love. apparently athens hasn't seen an all female band in a few years. they need us.

after eating at the bluebird and buying some inscence to freshen up the van with we are off to New Orleans where we will be spending a few days acting like anoying tourist and getting to know the swamps.r

3rd show - New Orleans @ Hi Ho Lounge

more road trip notes: rain rain rain. lots of rain. we saw a rain line, lots of huge
rain drops and some lightning. we made it to New Orleans just as the rain let up.
New Orleans rocks! we got a sweet hook-up at the LaMothe guesthouse. had to spend some
time in the hot tub before going to bed. special thanks to Cheryl for hooking up the
guesthouse for us. we has some time to spend in New Orleans walking around seeing the sights and
getting tattoos. unfortunately i(terry) was unable to get to Big Daddy's for the burlesque show. just not enough time...
i'll have to go back.

Hi Ho lounge was good times. we met so many great people at the show and just spending some time around town. we were feeling the southern hospitality. our guesthouse neighbors came out to the show. they ROCKED!! she was the only lovely in a sun hat and sundress and he was sporting the fashionable bandaid on the face (pool accident). whoever took pics of her and terry dancing together please send us a jpeg. we NEED that for our website.
oh how we love the girlgang!!! triple xtra special creme to all the girlgang and their pals
for organizing, hanging out and just being your rock'n southern selves.
parting was such sweet sorrow.

the creme machine must move us to Texas. show # 4 - Austin, TX home of ladyfest texas (click to see pics)
we managed to drag our tired, hungry and cranky selves to Emo's to check out the bands.
but first a quick stop at a taco cart for a bite. mmmmmmm.... tacos...
we fell in love with Emo's. the outside experience is what hooked us. but then we played on the outside stage and that sealed it for us. Emo's has it. we finally got to meet brea.
mucho thanks to brea for organizing a great event with so many great bands.

we also finally got to eat some tasty tex-mex. finally good mexican food. we had a texas good time!! friday we hung out and enjoyed the music. saturday we performed
in the evening. the saturday line-up:

Lewinsky
Karate Cowgirl
Get the Girl
triple creme
mummy the peepshow
tribe 8

everyone was amazing, such a great space and sound. people played on the inside stage as well, jenny from erase errata was grreeat. we ran back and forth between the tribe 8 show and hers. terry took the job of playing the killer gerbil on stage during tribe 8's set, stay tuned for pictures of the big knife lynnee used on her and all the blood spewing down terry's shirt. "so thick, so sugarlicious"

we love austin. it is totally cool and really filled with weirdos who make it feel like home.
we met so many cool people at ladyfest and will now be touring the whole world so we can go visit them. we met people from Southern California, Arkansas, and of course saw people from Brooklyn. always exciting.
Sam Miller was playing ladyfest sunday night but we werent able to stay cause we had to get to Mable Peabody's in Denton. But we got her cd and she rocks. We also met some grrls from texas who came to the denton show too and showed us a very good time. we played with a local band called esperance. they were crazy punk rockers and they made the night great. they danced real hard which also involed siblings wressling on the floor of mable's. people all over the world must learn from texans how to have a good time. for real.
then we had delicious tacos at taco cabana in denton.

2366 miles...

en route to IHOP this morning, preparing for a long ass haul to Memphis...terry forgot her seatbelt for one
mere block and got a
CLICKIT OR TICKET being pulled over situation. our first ticket.

they start them young here. that explains the mini mall we saw with sign:

DONUTS

GUNS

DAY SCHOOL

so we drove all day and it was very very exciting. the most fun was when we accidentally went into Cracker Barrel
(Crapper Barrel) and then ran out yelling Crapper barrell hates gay people. tif then
saw the child who had been subjected to this cremey madness acting out the hear no evil see no
evil scenario at the hands of her very proper mother.

so we are in the most vile motel we have stayed in yet, fighting the urge to itch chronically.

tomorrow we will be driving more and more and that's really all that's going on.

3/27/03 en route to show number 6, richmond, va... Holy Chow

today was simply a day of driving and more driving, on the way to knoxville some mad cranks set in, we were all very very mean and moody until we ate dinner at the tomato head and suddenly all got insane mood swings back to happy land, it was as if we became one uber person, and we were hysterical for an hour in the van. it was Real Good Times. we are getting to know each other in new ways, which allow us to make a lot more fun of each other.

so we have almost all choked so far on the road--christina on one piece of rice, robin on water, terry on a vitamin, and tif is just holding out til the end of the trip. it is now quite late, we crossed the time line and lost an hour, christina is at the wheel, driving too fast and swearing a lot, and the midnight crazies have set in. the goal is to get to roanoke today and stay at the fabulous red roof in--hopefully we'll get there before tif's opera singing and bad jokes put us over the edge.

memphis ruled. we by accident found THE BEST breakfast joint in the whole state--brother juniper's (according to the cute speedwalker who directed us there as well as citysearch) and had amazing tofu scrambles and home fries (but no tacos, sorry terry of the taco madness) and the best thing was they had a stylin' painting of jesus right over the coffee makers. then on the road for hours, got our first real stare-downs of the country when we walked into a restuarant/truck stop in the middle of tennessee. these folks don't get out much. we resisted the urge to visit the many cracker barrells along the highway. winding through the smokey mountains was amazing, so so beautiful, curvalicious and tons of green trees and in the median all sorts of pink flowers and red and yellow poppies. yeah we're punk rock but flowers rule too.

oh yeah, we got all excited for the loretta lynn stop we ran into about halfway through the state, but have to say it was a little disappointing. loretta wasn't there and the only good goods were the loretta lynn snowglobes. oh and the kid t-shirts that said tennessee on them, with a picture of a cute fuzzy animal in a raccoon cap and chaps, holding a rifle across his lap.

oh yeah, forgot to tell you, robin practically pulled a muscle in denton because she was being like really gumby and stretched herself all over playing the guitar trying to keep up with those denton kids who were rocking out on the floor.

oh yeah, number two, everyone should get the pardise island single because it is pink vinyl with orange and yellow. so so perty.

so today we are going to richmond, which we hear is the murder capital of the country. we are very excited.

our tattoo's are healing, altough very slowly. christina's looks like a scaly beast has made its way out of her body. if anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with such a terrible painful thing please email. she does not want to get gangreen.

3/30/03 we're back! back in Bklyn. we'll put some pics up soon as we get a chance.