july 17th - wichita

i didn't reserve a trailer, so i spent the afternoon trying to find a trailer to pull behind my car. eventually, i found one in blue springs. trevis and james met me back at my house and we loaded guitar and bass stuff, no drums though, eric played drums for the kansas shows, so we used his drums.

left kc about 3, got to wichita about 6:30 and went to the bookstore where eric works. he had a PA and his drums set up in a vacant strip mall store connected to the book store. we loaded into the unrented strip mall store and played for a few hours. it was fucking hot in there. for the first time we'd ever played with eric, everything sounded pretty good. eric was wanting to practice more, but i like things messy and convinced him we'd be fine without practicing anymore.

around 9, we went to barleycorn's and started drinking free PBR. it was a two band night and we were playing second so we loaded our shit into the back room of barleycorn's and i changed from my swimming trunks and sandals into more bar friendly apparel (jeans/shoes). the first band, dream supreme, was pretty cool. one of the guys in that band had been in raygun administration with eric years ago, they'd just moved back from colorado.

the show wasn't as packed as it usually is when we play in wichita, but some of our friends were there: adam, charles, and their people. our set was pretty good, it was hard to get really into it with so few people there, but we played pretty decent and the sound guy did a decent job.

sweet baby james was passed out in the back seat, but when we pulled up to the only taco place we could find that was open at three in the morning, he mumbled something about needing a quesadilla. so we ordered some bean burritos, a fish burrito, and a quesadilla and went back to eric's house. turns out they gave us beef burritos, i ate a few bites anyway, but it was nasty, trevis got beef juice all over the only shirt he brought.

i stripped down to my underwear and got under the covers in eric's bed.