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GOOD MORNING…

I love sunglasses.  Sunglasses are the reason that I my mom ran over my foot when I was a kid.  She wanted to shut me up, so she gave me something to yell about.  I wonder what she just did reading that.  The band got to go by this awesome sunglass distributor in Vienna today.  I got two pairs.  The ones above will be my new cruise sunglasses.  And these are my poker sunglasses.  I see a lot more poker to come in 2008.

OK, so the story above is wrong.  My mom did not run over my foot on purpose.  I was running along the curb, while she pulled up, because, at least in my head to this day, I wanted to see if she got me sunglasses.  My foot slipped off the curb, and she accidentally thru no fault of her own, ran over her 3 year old son’s bare-foot foot.  This is where I spent my day.

I miss my production case, the suitcase isn’t really cutting it. IT WAS NOT HER FAULT, BUT I DO LOVE SUNGLASSES.  This is my house, and look, it is sunny enough to wear sunglasses.  Hope it stays that way when I get home.  I bet it won’t, but I miss it anyways.

We are back at The Arena again.  I think this is the fourth time I have been here.  Came back in 2000 with MCD.  It is a meat packing plant, like I said every venue in Europe is a meat packing plant or a bunker.  The bus pulls into the old venue.  It is impossible to tell but that guy in the upper right hand corner is playing slot cars.

Well they seemed pretty serious about it, so “playing” might not be the way to put it.

This is the real deal.

Why must bands ruin everything nice.  I would much rather look at a plain wall then all of this bullshit.

The venue is pretty much a huge compound.  There is a large outdoor stage, I think the first time we came Ozzy had just played there, right in the middle.  On one side is a small bar, where small bar bands play. It wasn’t the first place that we drank “the medicine” on that MCD tour, but it was one of the places we drank the most.

It seems that every bar in Germany / Austria had it’s own version of a herbal liquor.  Jägermeister just happens to be the won that has the most accessible taste and the best marketing.  Then there is a 500 seat room.  This is where Hot Water Music played when I came with them.  There are little booths selling food.  I can’t wait for a fallafel after the show.

There was a crepe stand, but it was closed.  I thought the clown was flipping me off at first.

I like that the crepe stand had a circus thing, I just wish it had been open.  I had been wishing it would open since we got here at 9am.

Luckily after we ate some delicious chicken with pineapple rice…

…they brought out a big platter of crepes with chocolate sauce inside just for us.

Wrong size I guess.