Photo: Jason "Balls to the" Wall wears a hat (donated to the tour by Chris Fischer of Omaha, NE) at the DoS wedding party.

Part zero:
So, at this point I'm at "home" in Portland, Oregon, sort of floating on couches and in beds in between staying with my girlfriend in Olympia. At this point in story-time I'm in the car and in mountain time with Adrian and Meghan on the YACHT & Thanksgiving: RIL MUSIC DUAL SPECTRUM TOUR.

Part one:
Email reads something like: "Jona, you need to come to Boise and play a YACHT show." Boise? Isn't that one of the cursed tour-stops that people are sort of avoiding these days? Haven't your last few shows in said town been sort of awful? Wait, here's another email that reads something close to: "Jona, please come to Boise and play a YACHT show." Oh, woah, wait. So, if two people whom I later found out didn't even know each other, want a YACHT show in Boise.. I should give them one, yes? Yes. Totally. I only need two people to make a fun show. I email the two very nice kids that have written me and introduce them to each other via the magic of the CC: email and let them both know that I am SO DOWN with ripping a stick in Boise and straightening out this curse business.

Part two:
Let's talk about Boise personal history. I've played around 7 shows in Boise. The first shows were pretty okay. My brother and I played at a bar there a couple times and the owner was incredibly nice and more than accommodating (booze, wine, fruit platters, bread trays, meat trays, vegetable platters, liquor, women, etc.). I've played at a record store, a coffee shop, a crummy bar (unintentionally humorously named JD and Friendz) and now a house. The Wolf Colonel show at the Flying M cafe was really good.. almost religious. Jason was in rare form, he had everyone out of their seats and dancing to this weird funk jam we played on my first "Wolf" tour. Man, good show. JD & Friendz was almost the exact opposite. That place was/is the kind of place that has a bartender that laughs at you when you ask if sodas are free for the bands.. real crapshoot. On that fateful night we were not only plagued with unparalleled general disrespect, but also the slimmest of attendance and all-out poor performance. This was with The Badger King on our first and last tour as a five-piece whimsical art-pop/rock band. Dave Longstreth was playing guitar and keyboard at the same time while singing three-part harmonies with Cabel and Ritchey. So there is both good and bad history with Boise.. I guess the only reason I've neglected the 208 in recent past is only because there haven't been any all ages venues around. ENTER HOUSE SHOW.

Part three:
Again we did the thing where we drive 8+ hours to get to the show and sort of forget about food. This time we're extremely, extremely lucky enough to be under the wing of one Trevor K. whom has secured some vegetable sushi from his work for us to eat. This is where I'm reminded that sushi is the perfect food for me. I mostly don't like when food is daunting in size, I tend to eat small portions all of the time more than something like the classic "big meal." Sometimes I go as far as resenting my body for even needing to eat anything.. going through the motion of putting something into my mouth, chewing and swallowing it just makes me want to puke up that very junk I just forced in there. Luckily that hasn't been the case for a good while. I LOVE FOOD. Yeah, sushi. Small, full of mellow and good stuff. We eat, people start coming, we sit in the part across the street and we play an all around awesome show. Tons of people crammed into the house and made such a good show for us. THANK YOU! I played a grunge-y set and rubbed my face on the speaker. I also repeated this new "bit" where I take out the possessions in my pockets and neatly lay them on a napkin I've acquired from some sort of Flying J or ARCO or something.. This action comes out feeling like a ritual or something, but I just wanted it to look weird or funny. What?

Part four:
Get in the car after hanging out with Matt Chambers (BEST MIAMI FRIEND THAT WENT TO FILM SCHOOL IN MIAMI BUT GREW UP IN IDAHO) deeply.. such a deep hang out. Matt is one of the most awesome project-y people that I know or have ever known. More on that soon.. Dudes! Matt and I are going so deep! NEW YACHT PROJECT COMING SO SOON!

Part five:
Yeah, drive. Drive to Anacortes, WA. 9 hours away. 800 miles away. NO SLEEP. Drive, drive, drive. Boise to Anacortes in the middle of the night is calm and quick. Stop in Yakima and get coffee and sleep for a second. Get back on the wheel. DRIVE. Flint! Jamie! You're married and two bright, shining, loving, inspiring and cool dudes I know. CONGRATULATIONS.

AND I'M OUT.

Want to know about that Seattle show and that Portland show I played with Jason Anderson and The Rabbits? TOO BAD! I'm only writing new stuff from now on. EAT IT. Sorry. Those shows were awesome. I love Jason and I now love Nikole. I love my friends and I'm so happy to be in the NW. BOOM.

Last note: The stuff about meat trays and booze and women was a joke. I hope it was obvious and makes this note both redundant and just plain useless.

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