God Bless New Jersey

Let me tell you something. You may think that someone has treated you nicely at some point in your life. Maybe they brought you some Thai food when you weren’t feeling good, maybe they told you that your new haircut looked nice even when you knew deep down that you looked like a member of Herman’s Hermits. But I think – maybe – that you don’t really know what someone treating you awesomely is like until you’ve played a basement show with the kids in New Brunswick, NJ. It’s incomparable. Our new favorite person Jay (roadie for Besties’ heroes The Ergs! and generally incredible dude) truly rolled out the Jersey red carpet for us, and we really can’t thank him enough. The show was loads of fun, everyone was astoundingly supportive and cool, and we spent an epic night hanging out and singing along with the jukebox at McCormick’s after the show. WE LOVE NEW JERSEY. And we’ve been listening to show-mates Full of Fancy – who rocked that basement so hard! – pretty incessantly in the van. Mikey says he loves you, Mikey says he cares….

We reluctantly left Jersey on Tuesday morning and drove the long, hard road to Richmond, VA. The journey took much longer than it should have thanks to terrible traffic outside of DC, so we ended up not having much time to hang out before the show (at Rumor’s Boutique, where you should definitely shop if you live in Richmond because they have the best t-shirts ever…). Richmond is a really rad city, by the way. I was the only band member who had never been, and I totally fell in love with it. We met some amazing people at the show – Brian! Julie! Maddy! Kathryn! – and (hopefully) helped lovely Wendy have a fun birthday. Julie opened the show – it was her first show ever!! – and we were completely blown away by her voice. Beautiful!

We’re now in Greenville, SC, hanging out prior to our show at the Spazzatorium. Best moment of the day: We got pulled over in Emporia, VA (which, crazily, Maddy had warned us about, saying that they had the highest rate of pull-overs in the country). We were really curious as to what the officer was going to say, since we were literally doing nothing wrong. Not speeding. No expired anything. The cop comes to the window and says,
“Do you know why I pulled you over?”
“No, sir,”
“See those fuzzy dice in the mirror? Those are illegal in Virginia.”

We got pulled over for illegal use of fuzzy dice!!! Best ever. Luckily, he let us off with a warning.

My mom sent us a Stumpy joke that I can’t believe we forgot: Stumpy Old Men.

We still haven't been able to upload any pictures --- soon.