iris cleans off her phone

browsing the photos on my phone, i realized i had taken hundreds during the crate lung tour when my camera was unavailable-- dead battery, packed away, or i had to be sneaky. it also came in handy to send photos from the road of things i wanted people in my life to see immediately. i thought i  should post some of them, in case my phone someday dies, or just for the sake of posterity. 

this first one is in my basement, prepping the posters and fliers for mailing to each city we were to visit:

here are the bears in cristie gunn's apartment, before they were born:

(i think the pink one was someday to become StrawBeary)

The frozen river in Lawrence, Kansas, drifting by our hotel room:

 what we lived on (fun fact: easy mac is lower in calories, fat, and sodium than cup of noodle... who knew??)

a jar of quail eggs in an antique store in austin texas: (as you can see, it will run you $58.00)

memories... of the way we were.

[text from Cristie Feb 23rd 5:20 pm]: 

"I'm in The Future. I can't drive it without smiling. It's like a capsule of memories. Or there's an exhaust leak."

[response from Iris Feb 23rd:

"I may put that on the Crate Lung blog... I'm like the paparazzi." 

crate lung came home.

oh children, where to begin....

how about at the end of the Crate Lung Winter Tour 08?

we ended @ Kilby Court on January 10th.

John stages his own protest against the end of the tour by our merch booth:

Bluebird Radio sets up:

Marty, a local Salt Lakeian reads Iris's poetry book while his stomach's hand signs our mailing list:

crate lung's painter, hallie rose taylor, sings!:

and with special guest Cole Wilson of Apple Miner Colony, joining us from Santa Fe:

and that's it. crate lung came home. we may leave again though. so watch out.

ever wanted to be a fly on the wall?

well, if you get really lonesome, play this video.

it's a few seconds of crate lung playing hotel monte vista.

cristie gunn/hallie rose taylor drawing @ our merch table.

john (TSS) djing.

iris filming it all (and drinking coffee/vodka soda).

it is as it was.

bears up in the club.

everybody partied @ the hotel monte vista

big toe does da bookings now

hewo? hewo?! you book crate lung now?!

straight outta houston

there's only one way into austin, and that's like this:

we saw some lovely things in austin. here is guadalupe on the side of a building:

graffiti we can get behind, with a positive message:

in austin, unlike the rest of america, pets are kept on cars. like this bird: