Sunday
Dec042005
AP Christmas Tour - Iowa
Sunday, December 4, 2005 at 01:24AM
It's a little after midnight in Iowa. We're on the bus going from tonight's show in Iowa to tomorrow's in Midland, MI, and sitting in the front lounge watching "The Big Lebowski". One of the weirdest and funniest movies of all time.
Our show tonight went pretty well. The room we played in was so cold my fingers were not feeling as loose as I would have liked. My two songs tonight were "If I had wings..." off of 'Souvenirs and Postcards' and "early in the morning" from my new record. I led off the round tonight and felt I maybe shouldn't have started with a slow song, but Jill said I was being too hard on my self. I probably am. Still, I won't open with something so slow tomorrow. I'm thinking I may pull out a Normals tune or something.
Every tour seems to have some game that everybody gets into. With Jars we played marbles, on last year's Christmas tour it was Super Text Twist, which I was very good at. Forgive me for bragging. Cason decided this tour's fascination was going to be dominoes, and we've been playing every day. Sandra and I have been a pretty good team today. We killed Cason and Andy Gullahorn. Yesterday we played dodgeball in a gym at the venue. We are all out of shape. It was fun, though.
Well, that's about it for tonight. I'm going to post this and then head to bed, read a little and try to get some good sleep. I've been reading "The Bourne Identity" which is a good read, but set way earlier than I imagined from the movies. It's placed back in 1975. Weird.
Oh, also, I think this is really funny.
Our show tonight went pretty well. The room we played in was so cold my fingers were not feeling as loose as I would have liked. My two songs tonight were "If I had wings..." off of 'Souvenirs and Postcards' and "early in the morning" from my new record. I led off the round tonight and felt I maybe shouldn't have started with a slow song, but Jill said I was being too hard on my self. I probably am. Still, I won't open with something so slow tomorrow. I'm thinking I may pull out a Normals tune or something.
Every tour seems to have some game that everybody gets into. With Jars we played marbles, on last year's Christmas tour it was Super Text Twist, which I was very good at. Forgive me for bragging. Cason decided this tour's fascination was going to be dominoes, and we've been playing every day. Sandra and I have been a pretty good team today. We killed Cason and Andy Gullahorn. Yesterday we played dodgeball in a gym at the venue. We are all out of shape. It was fun, though.
Well, that's about it for tonight. I'm going to post this and then head to bed, read a little and try to get some good sleep. I've been reading "The Bourne Identity" which is a good read, but set way earlier than I imagined from the movies. It's placed back in 1975. Weird.
Oh, also, I think this is really funny.
Reader Comments (13)
Yeah, Demotivators are awesome - interestingly enough, I have a friend who knows the guy who started it...I can't stop going through them.
open with "the Best I can"...
stop bragging
too many andy's on a tour together.
"white dove" maybe?
Hey Andy,
The show was great. It was fun driving you guys around in the snow all day, too. And I thought it was OK to start with a slow song - so I guess I'm with Jill - you're being too hard on yourself. :-)
Hope Michigan went well, blessings on the rest of the tour!
Andy:
1. "That rug really pulled the room together."
2. Notice that, during the entire movie, Jeff Bridges never actually bowls.
3. The .net folks gave me a hard enough time about being a Tyrant that I eventually got the Power poster to hang above my computer. ;)
Please play "Early in the Morning" for the Chattanooga show!
i second the request for 'early in the morning' in chattanooga. do it for your ex-intern, man. he's bringing his girl with him. you should dedicate it to him. just for kicks.
do it for your pre order guy as well andy, he's also bringing my girl with him, and she loves that song.
excuse me, *his girl with him
That is one movie that is hilarious. I get convicted about half of the scenes but then there are scenes like Donnies funeral that make it absolutly hilarious. But I have also come to feel that way about 99% of the movies that are out. Like I love the movie 'Fight Club'. I love 'Good Will Hunting', 'Braveheart' 'Shawshank Redemption', I definitly don't support EVERYTHING in all those movies but then again, that is even in Disney movies. So, I don't know. I'll be at the AP tour in Milford OH. You, AP and D~Webb need to do a CD together. It would be awesome. Like the Christian Rat Pack. But not. Alrighty then, thanks.
I would LOVE to hear Early in the Morning at the Milford, OH concert too.
Sharon
dude, i totally watched the big lebowski the same night.
2 things,
1) I was @ the Midland MI show on sunday and i just wanted to say "The Dude Abides" and in reference to the songs you both sang and played on "you were throwin rocks tonight!". I was extremly impressed to see and hear the entire show,
2) minor side note, when ya played the Unity Festival in Muskegon Michigan in August, thanks for playing through the rain & being sick. I really appreciated it, and thinkn the fans did too.