West Indian Girl

well the show/glorified rehearsal started out like it wasnt going to happen at all. rob had some sort of stomach flu and was puking when we tried to run through the songs around 8pm. needless to say we were very close to calling all of our friends and telling them the show was off. tough shit though — by the time we thought of that bright idea it was too late. rob went home and tried to puke some more while we all just chilled out as more and more guests arrived. it was a real surprising and nice thing to have so many people come down. i would say 30 or so lucky people got to see west indian girl’s first .. live experiencewe only played 5 songs Still Lost, Monterey, Trip, Dream, and Hollywood because rob was just too sick. hey, the kid’s got heart though. for it being our first time in front of people i think it went pretty well. we definitely have some things to work on but it sounded pretty good. the vibe was all right – there was drinking on the roof and a party in the loft – can’t be beat chris jones our manager even made it down – good to see that guy out late. my friend todd brought his dog down so tony had his girlfriend there. i remember passing around a bottle of tequila at the end of the night. thanx to chris carter for getting the word out – he did a great promo job. and thanx to everyone that was there – you may not know it but this was a key moment in the history of west indian girl.i should post some pictures but i only took a couple and everyone was gone by then. i think scoot took some — i will try to get them and post em up. it’s sat night now and i’m just staying in tonight – we have practice tomorrow night. ok as far as these pics go the first one is of robert james this is after the show when he was feeling better, the second one is of john who played harmonica on the song trip, the third one is of mark lewis in the midst of us doing tequila shots , and the last one is of the lovely gable carr. can you say photogenic? — F. Ten 10:40 PM

i just played tennis and i lost to a girl. can you believe that…a girl. she was good though. tough. my back hand sucks. anyway, in my efforts to quit smoking i am trying to get some more cardio in my life. so far so good – my lungs are loving it. i walked by 2 rooms filled with old people playing bridge….it was hilarious considering my tennis attire. hmmm, so i’ve got some dude coming over my place soon – he is trying to pitch me on a video. i’m going to walk tony and talk to rob and my managers on the phone about our new website redesign. — F. Ten 3:52

no practice tonight. i ended up going to a dive bar called the bounty on wilshire. lots of old men drinking miller lite laughing. i went to see hadi today and he gave me a bunch of cool t-shirts. so we are playing a little unannounced show tomorrow night at our loft. it should be pretty cool and will techinically be our first LA show. i think people are gonna freak out about parking on the street outside our space because we play right in the heart of skid row. i think it is pretty safe there although mark got his car broken into down there once. i have pretty much paid off all the guys that sleep out on the street near my truck. i give them clothes or money or cigs or the paper and they’ve got my back. they’re all pretty cool. just sucks that they dont have enough warm clothes. i’m not sure if the other guys in the band did this but i told my friends that are coming down tomorrow to bring blankets or something warm for the people that are gonna be sleeping outside their car. i have a feeling we will play pretty well. the air show is next week at the hollywood bowl. that should be cool. there’s a slight chance we may dj the after party but i dont think that is going down. maybe next time. — F.Ten 3:03 am

i just got back from reheasal and i’m hungry. our set goes like this: Still Lost, Miles from Monterey, Trip, Dream, What are you Afraid of, Northern Sky, Hollywood, Green. the set feels real good – we are finally starting to rock these songs way harder than how they are on the record. it feels great to abuse them. rob, chris, and mark all went to eat burritos after practice at this crappy little mexican place downtown. it’s cool cos it’s open all night. i had to go walk tony – i think im gonna make some chicken and salad cos i’m fucking hungry. i havent been eating well lately. last night i ate korean food with sascha and heidi though. good stuff. bi bim bop. i’m going to go look at new basses tomorrow – im also going to see hadi our merch guy – not only does hadi make the best shirts he’s a minnesota viking fan. — F.Ten 4:05 am

We decided to start the set with “Still Lost” and I’m thinking it works pretty well as an opener for now. Things are going pretty great, I think we have a pretty nice set and are finally starting to play really well together. We also worked on some new material which is pretty massive. I can’t wait to play that song live. We have a new girl singing in the band now – she’s come into the fold a bit late but I think she will get things figured out pretty quickly. If all goes well we will starting a west coast tour in October. I can’t wait to get the fuck out of LA. October can’t come fast enough. — F.Ten 3:14am.