SAINT LOUIS, MO 7/1/05

STL ARCH, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

So we woke up at Kevins house. I forgot to mention the name of the
band that he is in, they are the monitors (like if the monolators and
the mormons combined band names or something). They are putting
finishing touches on completing their album and I can’t wait to hear
it. We seem to have a particular affinity for bands that start with
the letter M. I dont know... midway... the list goes on......

We all made amends within the 11 person traveling freak show thats on
this tour and were able to take showers and update the last two days of
the tour journal shit. Joe, the bass player of the monitors came by
and made us all a huge ass spaghetti breakfast. The poor guy looked
beat and hung over, plus his leg was all chewed up from sliding into
home plate from the grand slam he hit in a coed softball game. Those
guys are the nicest. When we got here we never heard of warrensburg.
When we left we’ll never forget it.

We finished up the things we had to do and left them an honorary lot
lizard sticker for their kindness. The weather has cooled down a bit
and we took a leisurely drive across Missouri down highway 70. I must
admit that being from chicago, i’m not too hip to st. louis. Thats one
of those cities that you are kind of grown up to have animosity towards
cause of their sports teams. I have made it my mission to take some
pictures of the stadium that the St. Louis Rams play at for my homies
Steve and Misha. Hell, Misha has a rams sticker on his bass for
fucksake. He has been posting info about us on Rams message boards for
a couple of years now so its the least we could do...

Its now been an a complete week of being on the road and we have been
drinking hard the whole way. The mormons (sans jimmy) made a point of
getting fucked up last night. We are killing ourselves on this trip
but we all somehow feel really good and are ready to the cycle of
alcohol abuse all over again.

Mormons in the van, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The tour van is equipped with a tv, vcr, a playstation for games and
DVD’s, an old school NES, and a mac laptop. we haven’t really played
games or watched movies. The NES is pretty much useless if we are
moving. Its hard enough to get that shit to work even when its stable.
We were lucky enough to pick up and Daniel Clowes graphic novel
“David Boring” for $10. Pretty much everyone has read it now. Its aw-ight
but its no ghost world.

STADIUM, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

We got to the club around 8 pm and it wasn’t open. We asked the guy at
the tattoo shop what the deal was and he said that the club opens
whenever Bob gets there. Its usually no later 9:30.

We had to repair the passenger side window of the 8-bit space pod so we
got that done while waiting for the club to open. We drank what few
beers we had and did general maintenance. St’ Louis a real cool
looking city but there are tons of burned out or abanodoned buildings.
Its a shame too cause they are beautiful historic buildings.

Andy & Vic fixing the van, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The club finally opened and we met Bob. If you ever saw the movie “A
Mighty Wind”, he looked just like that Joe Isuzu guy that says, ‘Waaa
Haappen’. We met his wife and she was really great. They needed a keg
to be brought up from the basement so Robo-T and Anti-log volunteered.
They were reward with large shots of whiskey for their efforts.

The Way Out Club is amazing inside. It kinda reminds me of CIA in LA
except its much bigger, has good draft beer, and a cat named Angus that
serves as their mascot. A nice and friendly gato with looks like a
dairy cow.

Angus, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

keg, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The show started and 8-bit went first. The crowd that was there was
there for the local band and they didn’t seem like they cared too much
for the robots or music in general... The robots managed to get drunk
and play a reasonably funny show.

pouring beer, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The Mormons brought a gang of energy with them and managed to get some
people off their asses and check out the show. There was much drinking
straight from pitchers and a quality show was had for people that didnt
really seem like they wanted to be out of their homes.

mormons, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The venue was great and the owners and sound guy were really cool. It
would be an amazing place to play if they could figure out how to get
people to go to shows.

We said fuck it and decided to drive straight to West Lafayette,
Indiana. The 8-bitches have a big group of old friends there so it was
the obvious place to head to shower and sleep before the show in
indianapolis. On the way to indiana the birds were suicidal. The two
vans accidently killed three birds.

We stopped in town at Triple X and ate some Drew Brees breakfast
specials. Spacey-k called up his buddies and they were nice enough to
get up at 7am and let us all in. We proceeded to get good sleeps and
showers. The lucky streak is running strong. 5 days in a row of
places to crash. Good fortune is smiling upon us like mad.

mo, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.