WARRENSBURG, MO 6/30/05

Patrick, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

Today, the greatest thing happened EVER!!! I’ll get to that later.

The dregs woke up at the crack of noon and finished showering and
whatever else needed to be done. Sure enough, John was gone so we left
him CD’s, shirts, and a thank you note. That guy is so fucking cool.
We wish everyone was like John.

We eventually loaded the vans and headed out of town. Everyone was
hung over and hungry so we stopped at a diner off of highway 2
fittingly called ‘Highway diner’. We got some pretty good grub in the
semi-50’s themed place and people were nice enough to wish Anti-log a
happy birthday. awww...

HI-Way Diner, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

Hi-Way Diner Breakfast, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

A guy came out from the kitchen in a confederate flag doo-rag and told
us we can’t smoke in the diner, but we could eat and smoke in the bus.
The bus??? Sure enough, there was a city bus parked in the parking lot
that was set up with little tables and you could smoke in the shade in
the bus.

Smoking Bus, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The confederate flag doo-rag guy actually turned out to be really cool.
He told us he was a skin-head and we all backed off from that one.
What the fuck? Turns out in his mind a ‘skin-head’ is a person that
follows the band Lynyrd Skynyrd much like a ‘dead head’ is a person
that follows the greatful dead. We breathed a sigh of relief and he
told us how nebraskans will base all of their years travelling around
attending as many Skynyrd shows as possible. In the midwest, when a
heckler is shouting out ‘Freebird’, they aren’t fucking joking.

The cook, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

After a night of drinking, some breakfast, coffee, and cigarettes, you
have no choice but to have to take a hurried dump. We were completely
stoked on the diner until we saw what some idiot wrote on the entrance
of the stall. Take a look at this shit.

Hanging sign, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

Goddamn. I guess living in LA, racism seems like a nonsensical thing
that happened in some far distant past. Not saying that you don’t
encounter racism everyday in LA, its just not something that would be
so obvious. I don’t want to get bummed out about something one
isolated idiot may have written. Hell, it could have been written by
someone with an ironic sense of humor critiquing the area. It just
kinda sucks that we are half way through 2005 and you see confederate
flags everywhere and stupid shit like that. I guess Skynyrd maybe
states their opinion best when some musician wants to state their opion
about where someone else lives, ‘I hope Neil young will remember, a
southern man don’t need him around, anyhow’.

I guess the same goes from a more metropolitan point of view. Blue
states could do without people from red states and vice-versa. People
are people, us robots want all humans to die anyway so we are doing our
best not to care about any of that and help people kill eatch other.

We cut through the tip of iowa and went into missouri. Anti-log got
the best birthday present ever. The no-lot-lizards sticker was
aquired!!!!

no lot lizards, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

We want to put the lot lizard stickers on the vans but we don’t want to
scare them away. Hopefully on this trip we will get actual pictures
and footage of truck-stop hookers. We don’t want to fuck up our
chances of getting you all a window into the weird world of turck-stop
sex. hell, with being on the a road for a month, we may wind up
needing their services.

So we wound up in this weird ass town in Missouri and we were scared
that the show was going to suck. We couldnt have been more wrong.
Holy shit!!! Every band on earth should play in Warrensburg. This
town is the best!!!!

The Mormons are better every time they play. The crowd was supercool
and really into the show. There were camera flashes going off like mad
and people were having a good time. immediately we knew this was the
best show of tour so far.

Mormons at the Set List, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

Josh broke a string and the mormons sang happy birthday to Anti-log
while he restrung, with a twist. It turned out to be ‘Happy Birth-day
Fuck-you’, you get the jist, right? It was good times and the crowd
was going wild for the mormons. This has been the show we have all
been waiting for.

Mormons @ The Set List, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

8-bit was about to play but asked the crowd to get on stage as a
birthday present. Most of the place complied and it was soo fucking
fun. The weirdest thing was that we are in Missouri and everyone on
stage was singing along to the songs!! Holy shit!!! It was amazing.
Warrensburg people are down to have a good time and are great people.

Anti-log on stage, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

8-bit @ The Set List, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The final band to play was the Monitors. Goddamn that band is good. We
gotta get them to LA!! They were a good mix of experimental music
combined with Devo hooks. They are the best band we’ve played with
thus far ((all offense intended to some of the shitty bands we’ve
played with, (not all were bad though))

The Monitors, originally uploaded by mormons - 8 bit tour.

The Monitors invited us to their house and were were able to hang out and
get drunk. Some stupid ass people from the Airforce tagged along with
us to the house. They started some shit with the guys that lived there
so they got bounced the fuck out of there.

Vic the merch guy started fights with Le-Frost, Bodie (the documentary
guy), and anti-log. He fucking kicked Anti-log for asking him
questions on film?? Hopefully Vic gets off his period and we can go
have fun for the rest of the trip without casualties. People turn into
apes on the road.

So the moral of the story for this day is that you shouldn’t judge a
town just cause you haven’t heard of it. If every show was like the
Warrensburg show we would want to play 6 shows a day.

Oh yeah, one last thing. Robo-t threw up again tonight.