Dereliction
So, it's pretty late, I'm pretty tired, and I left my little black book with all my notes from which I was planning to construct a witty and fascinating account of our first almost-week of tour at Cary's tonight after our show -- weird being here and, particulalry, there where we've so often been while not on tour -- so I can't regail you with all of our adventures thus far along the road. I thought that as a teaser, I'd give you this. It's an e-mail a friend of ours from high school sent tonight explaining why he missed the show. I will preface it only by saying that we were sad not to have seen him tonight and that I have no strong feelings about the story's veracity. When it comes to Derek, nothing surprises:
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: derekforj@aol.com <derekforj@aol.com>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:21:17 EDTSubject: Re: At Dusk - Intranational TourTo: cary.clarke@gmail.com, will_hattman@hotmail.com, greg_borenstein@hotmail.com
Dear Cary, Will, and Greg,
Around 7:30 tonight/last night both the people I was gonna bring toyour gig with called and cancelled - one with a 'cold' and the otherwith girlfriend issues. So at around 8:15 I set off on my own. After45 minutes of waiting, three metro busses, and a seven block jog Ifinally made it to the Big Foot lounge around 10:05. Of course, youall played there yesterday. It took me about 20 minutes to figurethat out that I had mixed the up the venues. Not to be deterred Iimmediately phoned for a taxi, which took a half hour to get there,and ordered the cabby to high tail it to the Silverlake lounge! Aboutfifteen minutes later he dropped me off next to 'Graceland' which, inhis defence, is a lounge in Silverlake just not the right one. Fortunately Graceland wasn't too far from my actual destination, onlyabout a mile, and with the directions the friendly Graceland doormangave me I was able to jog to the Silverlake lounge in under tenminutes. Unfortunately, by the time I got there - 11:15 - you all,paul bost and his band, and everyone else had already hightailed itout of there. Having blown all my money on covers, bus fare, andtaxicabs I was forced to walk home through Hollywood - a journey thatincluded a lengthy discussion with a homeless man from Sioux City,South Dakota who wouldn't stop following me and brief incident where Iwas mistaken for a male prostitute by two extremely high women intheir forties driving a sports car that looked to have been crashedboth frequently and recently.So while I didn't exactly make it to your show, it wasn't for lack oftrying. I hope you guys played a great set. I'm really sorry I missedit. Good luck with the rest of the tour and please let me know thenext time you play L.A.
your most exhausted fan,
Derek.
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: derekforj@aol.com <derekforj@aol.com>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:21:17 EDTSubject: Re: At Dusk - Intranational TourTo: cary.clarke@gmail.com, will_hattman@hotmail.com, greg_borenstein@hotmail.com
Dear Cary, Will, and Greg,
Around 7:30 tonight/last night both the people I was gonna bring toyour gig with called and cancelled - one with a 'cold' and the otherwith girlfriend issues. So at around 8:15 I set off on my own. After45 minutes of waiting, three metro busses, and a seven block jog Ifinally made it to the Big Foot lounge around 10:05. Of course, youall played there yesterday. It took me about 20 minutes to figurethat out that I had mixed the up the venues. Not to be deterred Iimmediately phoned for a taxi, which took a half hour to get there,and ordered the cabby to high tail it to the Silverlake lounge! Aboutfifteen minutes later he dropped me off next to 'Graceland' which, inhis defence, is a lounge in Silverlake just not the right one. Fortunately Graceland wasn't too far from my actual destination, onlyabout a mile, and with the directions the friendly Graceland doormangave me I was able to jog to the Silverlake lounge in under tenminutes. Unfortunately, by the time I got there - 11:15 - you all,paul bost and his band, and everyone else had already hightailed itout of there. Having blown all my money on covers, bus fare, andtaxicabs I was forced to walk home through Hollywood - a journey thatincluded a lengthy discussion with a homeless man from Sioux City,South Dakota who wouldn't stop following me and brief incident where Iwas mistaken for a male prostitute by two extremely high women intheir forties driving a sports car that looked to have been crashedboth frequently and recently.So while I didn't exactly make it to your show, it wasn't for lack oftrying. I hope you guys played a great set. I'm really sorry I missedit. Good luck with the rest of the tour and please let me know thenext time you play L.A.
your most exhausted fan,
Derek.
1 Comments:
Folks that missed out on the LA shows:
I videotaped both performances (which were fantastic, by the way), and quickly cleaned them up and burned them to DVD.
With the band's permission, we could consider selling these DVDs (more likely as a combined single disc) on Music For Dozens (we will have Heights available for sale there any day now).
Anyone interested? What does At Dusk think?
Best of luck to everyone on this great tour!
Jem
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