St Louis is pretty. After the Chicago show I spent most of the night staying up and talking to Luke after we watched some of this DVD. I went to sleep at 4:30 or so.. I woke up at 6:30 and took the blue line train to the Amtrak. I took the Amtrak to St Louis and got there at 2:45 PM. It was totally late because the train had to stop for a funeral procession somewhere in deeper Illinois. I slept for a good deal on the train, but not enough. When I got to the train station in St Louis I felt EFFED up.. I felt similar to this for the entire day. Good thing my new best friends Anne and Laura were such amazing "vibe guides" for me by showing me the pretty Lou, taking me to eat really amazing fake sesame chicken, letting me sleep on the bedroom floor, taking me out for late night veggie sushi and just driving all around with me. So nice! What nice dudes! They didn't even know me and they were totally warm and welcoming.

The show ended up being really fun and sort of crazy. First off, it didn't even seem like it was in St Louis. I think maybe it wasn't? If you were there you should post a comment and let me know if it was.. I feel like it was too far away from downtown to be in St Louis.. maybe like a mildly-related suburb? Maybe? Anyway, it was far away and very far from the freeway. Secondly, it was in the very nice kid's grandmother's basement/rec. room. There was a pool table. There were many cans of Shasta soda pop. There were many varieties of snack foods. There was a really awesome bathroom with equally awesome wallpaper. It was a bathroom that reminded me of something like a rich grandparent's pool house bathroom? I'm not sure.. the door was made like wooden blinds? Do you know what I mean? Like, it wasn't a solid door.. there were blinds made of wood that were permanently at a 45º angle.. Yeah, so the door... big deal.

The kid putting on the show played first and he played some avant-garde pieces on the saw, the cello, the guitar, etc. He was accompanied by this other kid that was wearing a really awesome Metallica shirt that had what looked like a new logo (I don't follow them so it could be an old-ish logo) in an awesome glowing-green font. Next these really cute and nice kids played some deconstructed stuff I liked a lot. They played behind the bar area in the basement. I'm telling you! This was a totally fancy basement! But like.. 60's fancy? Something.. I'm having a tough time placing the vibe.. So then I though that I couldn't play in the living room area.. that the show was too weird to be played in the "normal" space.. I decided to take my love of the bathroom to the next level and set up beside the toilet and the sink.. a very small space. I borrowed two amps from the improv-hardcore-vocoder-space band and set the up on the other side of the sink. I danced and played loud and I really, really liked it. I hope the kids liked it too! All in all.. weird show. Weird shows are totally the shows you remember on tours. EFF playing in rock clubs. I like getting to meet kids that are so into music that they put on shows in their houses! OR their grandma's house! That's so legit.

After the show I ate that veggie-sushi with those nice Annes and Lauras.. the bartender at the sushi place gave us free shots of "black leather glove" and we stayed up until 3:30. Then I slept on the bedroom floor again for one hour. Then the nice dudes got up with me and drove me to the Amtrak and I headed back to Chicago where an American Airlines SM80 (or something) was waiting for me.. sort of. I got into Chicago at 10AM and my flight was to leave at 10:45.. I have no idea why I thought I could make it. I paid a taximin $30 to get me to O'Hare as soon as possible, but it was too late. I ended up sleeping on the floor of the H-11B gate and seeing Carmen Electra, Dave Navarro and KRS-ONE in the airport during the 4 hours I hung around. Nice Khaela came and picked me up at the airport in Seattle (I flew in/out of SEA because it was $50 cheaper) and took me to Olympia.

In Olympia I ate the most amazing vegan calzone and watched Beach Party with Annette Funicello on this nice old black and white TV in the Dub Narcotic big room. I really love Olympia right now. I really love everywhere.. Spring, dudes. Totally spring. Also, I should have linked to this a long time ago. I love this man's work so much. I am selfish and I want him to make something for me sometime.

Truly,
Jona

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