AY AY AY!!
We end up playing a great show in San Diego, where Jen from Grim Luck played cello with us on “The Shit that you Hate”. After we played, we packed up as quick as we possibly could so we can make our way to Tijuana. It’s only a 20 minute drive from the venue and none of us have ever been so we figured….why the hell not?
We get the hotel and end up dropping off luggage and such and then walk the 20 minutes to the border. Once we get there, we walk through these subway like turnstiles and get right into Mexico with no problem. Although the soldiers holding the machine guns by the entrance made me a little worried. We end up taking 2 taxi’s into town where we thought the guy said it was $5 each cab. Turns out if was $5 each person.
We get dropped off in front of a strip club/brothel where these guys who are dressed as cavemen harass us about coming into their club and scoping out the women. We all walk away and try to find the first small bar we see. Every bar is kinda like a club where the music is loud and the drunks are obnoxious. As John described Tijuana at this point, “It’s like New Orleans in hell”. On our walk to the bar, we saw a cop beating the hell out of a drunk person.
We get to the bar and when we order beers in Spanish, its $5 a beer. These are like super beers. I think every beer you order is $5 and only comes in 40oz. size. We chug these quick cause we hear the bar closes at 3.
We walk into a another busy bar and every one gets beers again (Pacifico beers, $5, about 24-28oz bottles). We walk around and immediately make friends. I talked to one dude about drums and talked to another lady about Hispanic dialect. Some of us end up heading back to the hotel around 4 while others partied a little longer (which turns out they get back to the hotel around 7am).
We wake up early and take the long drive to Phoenix, where its always stupid hot. It was 110 degrees when we arrive at 830 at night. But I ended up setting up behind a wall of amps because the stage is only so big. But I felt I played the best I have all tour. After the show we end to get burritos and then to our friend Mark’s house for night time swimming, drinking and showering.
I wake up this morning to find my friend, Marie, texting me that they posted news about the Binary Heart EP on absolutepunk.net. It’s still blowing my mind people are digging it, but those who do, I thank you much. <3
We drive another long day to Albuquerque and play at a place called Gasworks. Its a neat space, even though I couldn’t hear anything. But we’re staying with our new friend, Garrett, who played “Everybody that you Love” on guitar with us today and did a pretty bad ass job. I’m now going to drink more beer and then head to sleep. (9 more days <3)
