PHOENIX, AZ - 7/22/05

Phoenix moon, originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.

we got to our cousin dans house and were exhausted. most everyone crashed immediately but anti-log hopped in the pool with dan and had a great morning swim. it was 104 degrees at 10 am an the pool was like bath water. relaxing and well needed.

everyone crashed out except for vince. his girl rachel is a doll and she drove all the way from LA with her friend dominika just to see her man one day early. man, thats so nice of her....

we eventually woke up on various couches and carpet heaven well refreshed and feeling good. its the last show of tour and we were mustering up energy to play one last show. spacey-k was nice enough to buy everyone lunch and we had a group chow-down.

the cousins caught up on things and updated each other with various tales of drunkenness and debauchery. the last time le-frost saw dan was the infamous new years 2000 desert drug-a-thon. i wont go into too much detail but it involved, E, coke, weed, liquor, beer, fire, firearms, a person lit on fire, and cousin dan wandering 2 miles through the desert out of his mind and sleeping face down at the base of a mountain. we all had some really good laughs.

dans friend chris showed up and we all shot the shit while people were taking showers pretending they weren't masturbating in the bathrooms.

we got some beer and headed into phoenix proper to play the final show. it was raining but it felt great cause it was hot as a bitch. we found out that its ok cause phoenix has a dry rain.....

drinking, driving, singing along to bad songs on the radio. when we pulled up to the club it was packed with cars. no one ever heard of angelos but there were plenty of people there... we parked the shuttle craft and saw corey in the parking lot. we met corey on the last tour in phoenix and he took us to a party. it was really good to see him cause he's cool as hell.

we checked the place out and we found our zombies and pirates homie jackson. he was the person that organized the show and it was great to see him. he just finished a tour with a different band and now was in phoenix ready to play. we hung out and shot the shit and started in with the hard drinking.

The Orphan Line lead things off and were really good. anti-log had the same shirt on as one of the guys in the band so they talked a bit and hit the bar. the bar was leaking water right in front of the bands so they had buckets set up to catch the rain. the band wasnt fazed and the played a hell of a show.

The Orphan Line @ Angelo's in Phoenix, originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.

Dear Boss, the band jackson played in was up next. they played a good mix of tom waits-y kinda music with jazzy and punk interjections. jackson and his partner switched off on vocal detail and did a great job. it makes a big difference when you see a band thats not only good but that you can tell they are having fun while doing it. thats one more reason we love the mormons so much.

Dear Boss, originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.

8-bitches were up next and they werent about to be confined by buckets of rainwater and tables so we got rid of all that shit. we tore into the set and were climbing on top of people. one of the robots even bit the girl that books the club on her foot. it was slip and slide fun and we put whatever energy we had left in our weary bodies into having fun and playing a good show. the crowd was fun and responsive and it was a great ending show to tour.

8-bit, originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.

the mormons came up next as the final band of the final show of a month long roller coaster ride. they reached deep down and threw everything they had onto the table. a great, aggressive, high-energy set to close things out. people were dancing and slipping and sliding all over the place. vince made a special shout-out to everyone that survived the tour. he gave a short speech that summed up what everyone was thinking but not saying about the overall result of the breakneck tour. there were wounded screams from the survivors of the tour and they launched into the final song of tour. they knocked it out of the park to the appreciation of the crowd. it was a triumphant ending to this wild ass ride.

The Mormons, originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.

everyone hit the bar and hit it hard. the place was called angelos and we noticed the greek flag behind the bar. we asked the nice older lady behind the bar if she was greek and sho-nuff. the booker girl that got bit is also originally from chicago and is greek. there was much love and the lady (affectionately named Mama) got the ro-bros tanked..

The guys with Mama, originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.

vince wound up taking off with his girl. we gave big ass hugs and told him we'd see him tomorrow. jimmy, joey, patrick, and vic took off straight from the show to get home and sleep. many hugs and secret handshakes were distributed liberally.

the 8-bitches stole josh and had to drag cousin dan and chris away from kicking peoples asses at pool. we invited several people to dans for a drunken final pool party and we blasted to a liquor store. there were a total of 8 people rolling drunk as hell back to mesa.

we got back and were doing rock star drags off whiskey bottles. at one point, both of the ro-bros jumped out of the pool to vomit in the rocks. super-amazing le-frost was diving off of anti-logs shoulders like a circus performer. she also tackled spacey-k and the sound guy from the club into the pool fully clothed. there was a cell phone casualty and soaked i-deez but it was really fucking funny.

pool party, originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.

we swam till sunrise and skated off into a super drunk slumber.

we somehow survived tour!!!! jesus christ. we gotta do this all over again in september and we have a show on sunday.. we are sprinting toward rehab.

Off into the sunset., originally uploaded by mike jones 3000.