goodbye paradise

so we had our first show last night in athens, georgia. a quintessential "college town." bands are supposed to do well in college towns, but the truth of the matter is that i dont think genghis tron was meant for these places. because everyone in these towns listens to modest mouse. there are no angsty 16 year olds with retarded haircuts. but in any event.. there was probably about 30-40 people there, and the response was pretty positive. unfortunately, even though we had had been practicing at hamilton's house for several days straight in atlanta, during our first song hamilton was struck with some remarkably disruptive guitar technical difficulties, which was a foreboding way to start the tour. but we managed to recover pretty quickly and we rocked out. the show was at this dude mercer's warehouse/venue/apartment/sell your stuff on ebay storefront (read: mercer is unemployed.) the place was fuckin' cool if you ask me.

so the next morning we drove back to atlanta where we will play tonight. im going to miss hamilton's castle in the woods. its so relaxing here. we went for a nice swim earlier, and played with a little froggy that we found in the pool. but then i think it got sick from the chlorine and went into hibernation mode. we also watched some strangers with candy, which is so fucking funny.

ok its time to roll out. i leave you with two pictures. apparently mookie already took a picture of this last year, but in case anyone missed it, andy warhol did an amazing portrait of hamilton. decide for yourself if its a fake or not.

this second picture is me hanging out under the kitchen table. featured is my pill reminder which i picked up at the local general store. its a real life saver. you can also see the beautiful trees in the backyard reflected on the glass. i guess that about sums up this picture.