Ideamen

Date: Friday, December 11 2009

Venue: JJ Kelley's

Address: 2455 Bernice Rd ~ Lansing, IL 60438

With: Downtown Brown & The Alaya Conscious

Show starts at 10pm
Ages 21+
$5 cover

Date: Saturday, November 28 2009

Venue: Ballydoyle Irish Pub

Address: 28 W. New York Street ~ Aroura, Illinois 60506

With: Absolutely Perfect, Jillian Johnson

Free Show
21+
show starts at 9pm

Date: Wednesday, December 31 1969

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We made it home! We say this with such excitement because it's been a while since we went out and didn't have something go horribly wrong. So we're all sick, but whatever. If the piggy flu was what we all had, don't believe the hype. It was kind of like a not really all that bad cold.
Sunday sunday sunday - Man are we glad that this was the last show. It left us all feeling really good about ourselves (our fragile egos are so easily damaged), heck it made us forget being sick. Really nice town, good venue, good people (imagine a place where if you want a cup of coffee you have to make some if the pot is empty), good crowd. Wonderful crowd in fact. We're finding ourselves meeting fans that we don't know yet from places that we wouldn't expect. Not that that's out of the ordinary in the grand scheme of things, but we like to know who our fans are, where they're from, how many pets they have and so on. For Science and stuff.

A note to folks who come to our shows:

Please do introduce yourselves at shows, even if we've met already. It's tough for us to tell who's there to see us, and we don't always spot people we've seen before. We're actually very approachable, somewhat shy, quite forgetful, a little deaf, and totally dedicated to performing various scientific experiments on you.

Thank you's to all the fans that made this tour worthwhile! Other thank you's to Downtown Brown, Super 8 Bit Brothers, Screaming Mechanical Brain, and all the other bands we played with for making it all happen.
To SMB, glad that was painless, and good luck to you in the future.

In the days since we got home (and slept and did not update the site) our new website popped up on the Habari communities radar, and we were lucky enough to attract a couple comments from Michael C. Harris and Andy C, members of the Habari community. This is a wonderful thing because we really want to make this web site do all kinds of cool things, and Dave's gonna need all the help he can get. He just got all giddy about the comments and is courageous enough now to start posting questions on the Habari forum and user group.

Until Next time!

Date: Wednesday, December 31 1969

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Most of us succeeded in shaking off all our piggy flu in Bloomington superthanks to Dave's family in Indianapolis. They came out to the show, and had chicken soup ready for all of us when we got there. Hooboy was that good. Phil had 4 bowls. Thanks Beth and Mike and Dustin and Shannon and Blake and Keanen!

Mark had a toothache at something like 5am and had to run out to get some anesthetic. He seems to be doing ok now. We'll see if he sings like someone who just stepped out of the oral surgeons office.

Tonight we hit the stage at Peabody's in Cleveland. We can't wait to see our friends here again. Just getting settled in here, someone asked Phil if we were going to be on our best behavior. Hah! We're such a bunch of troublemakers. We'll try not to break anything, gotta leave things for the 8 Bit Brothers to break!

Date: Wednesday, December 31 1969

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Yay! We're hitting the next show in this run out, and we're all pretty much dying from whatever it is we all caught. No, no, it's not herpes, get your mind out of the gutter. You can't die from herpes. But it might be syphilis. We had to make a quick cookie tossing stop for Chris (he got it bad), and we're spending way too much money on Kleenex.

The Lil' Reds show went well, nice place. It was a pleasure to meet Technology Vs. Horse, they were hilarious. The Hamilton Collective show... It was kind of in a barn with dirt on the floor. Not a dirt floor, the dirt was actually hauled into the building for a previous event. But despite appearances, we played to an enthusiastic crowd.

Special thanks to Meg for the cookies and a place to crash. Also to James and Brittney for the spaghetti and the hospitality. Nothing better then a place to sleep after a show that isn't the back of a van.