I sort of felt that way at the last D4 show. I was standing there, drinking my Sparks with some fellow Festers who just happened to be at the show, and Mikey Erg walked right past me...I was confused as to why he was tooling around the crowd, until he was on the stage singing and playing guitar in his new band Psyched to Die. Didn't even know about any of that. Needless to say, they were great (in a very un-Ergs kind of way.) Good show all around.

It was a bit like that when we put on Bridge and Tunnel and OK Pilot recently - there was only a couple of Festers other than me there but it was just good boozed up vibes all night, one of the most enjoyable gigs we've done in a while.

I guess i was the only fester at that show (beside the bands of course)... but just the athmosphere was great... gonna see - tonight the SHOOK ONES are playing, if I make it in time out of the office I'm definitly going, but in two days the Adicts tour starts and I need to pick up the star fucking hipsters at 9.30am at the airport tomorrow...

It's a hard life, dude!

Punk rock sometimes mean sacrifice, man...

Haha

i've been having dreams about the Fest

A disturbing portion of my waking hours are already filled with thinking about all the awesome coming up in 6 months.

Yes. Me too.

I get sad when I think of Fest because it occurs to me that we only JUST passed the halfway mark just a couple of days ago.

I'm just really excited there's more posts coming up on the board. The disease is spreading!!

Yeah! Except, passing the halfway mark made me all optimistic in a bored moment... facebook.

haha yeah -its been hell of a week... but I made it to the SHOOK ONES and it was an awesome show.. little basement club, full with a hundred people and once again I totally had the Fest feeling.. but gettig the hipsters from the airport next morning was hard ...

damn... new bruises are playing berlin also in 2 weeks but I have a show with an italian skapunk band that night as well...

Seems like the Fest is following me in a certain way right now and I already look forward to the fall!

Yup, lots of good shows happening this summer in Chicago. Best part about living here, really, as opposed to Milwaukee.

Thing I'm looking forward to the most?

Okay, were officially at 200 days after the Fest. I think it's neat, I've never seen a since countdown go this long.

I wish I could fly out for this! Make sure you catch Shot Baker and if you happen to talk to them say hi from me and tell them England is missing them already!