Oct
30
2009

Elvis Before Noon @ Upper Deck

With Special Guest T-Roy

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(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Live Shows)
Photobox ImageTonight was a lot of fun. Rocking up to the Upper Deck, two surprises waiting in stall for us. The first was that Troy was on stage sound checking his bass. Too cool. The second was that the entire band was in Halloween get up. The most impressive was Daylon's by far. Scotty was going to be a zombie groom, but bailed on the zombie part. Still, the zombie arm on the stage provided comic relief! Ringo was Ace Venture - and it was really great that Scotty explained that to us before the show, because although it was a really good Ace costume, we would have just taken it as Ringo dressing like Ringo. And Troy was the dictator. Photos will explain that.

Aaron showed up not to long after us, and the bar seemed pretty jamming compared to last week, no doubt because of Halloween. On the way down we saw a slew of bike riders in costume riding down Scottsdale Road and when I went out for a smoke it looked like a lot of them had gone to Dos Gringos across the road.

Photobox ImageThe show was as always really good, and quite funny at times with the whole costumes thing. And it was really so cool getting to see Troy play with Scotty again (for me, it's been three years). The number of songs they played seemed like less than last week (I'm confident they went on earlier last week). Scotty was instructing Troy a lot obviously, but it was cool to see soulful Troy re-appear on the songs he knew - like when Daylon broke a string and Scotty launched into Get Drunk All The Time. I also really enjoyed a bunch of oddly dressed guys (particularly Daylon) doing Gin Blossoms songs - there was just something cool and enjoyable about that!

Having been here for just over a week now, I think we were both more comfortable in our surroundings these week which added to the fun tonight.
Oct
30
2009

Halloween Pumpkin

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(Posted Under: Halloween)
Because we've been so busy our pumpkin has been sitting on the bench uncarved. I had every intention and desire to carve it last night after we got back from the fair, but we were absolutely in no shape to do it.

So by about 3pm this afternoon, it was time to address that. We'd gotten our carving tools the other night, drew out a design, and was good to go - until the carving too broke two cuts into it! Argh! Katie took off to try and replace it, because it's not like we have any carving knives or anything at the moment. She came back from across the street empty hands, and so began the nightmare of our pumpkin carving. She returned probably two hours later, truimphant, but having had sturggled to find any carving tools anywhere in town. I know that it's the day before halloween, but REALLY?

Photobox ImageWhile she was gone there was a pretty impressive dusk sky with a close to full moon our, which gave a really cool and eerie look over the apartment complex. Sitting out on the porch having a smoke I was thinking about how halloween and moving in seem to go hand in hand for us. We were moving in to a new place last halloween (albeit with a little bit more time before hand last year), and here we are again, a year later, moving in and fitting in halloween festivities around it. Noticing that also can't help but remind you of how much has happened, and how far we've come in the past year, especially when I remember halloween last year and it just doesn't seem like it was that long ago!

Photobox ImageOnce KT got back, time was ticking down before we had to go out tonight, but I was determined that this pumpkin was going to get carved tonight, come hell or high water. Hell, it needed to be, tomorrow is Halloween. It already had felt pretty weird having had left it this late. With the carving knives (no suitable halloween tools were to be found in the 2 hour search) we set out carving it. Surprisingly it didn't take as long to get done as I'd expected, especially given our somewhat advanced design.

Photobox ImageHowever, we now have a carved pumpkin - and just in the nick of time!

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