The road to Bend is paved with good
intentions. We'll leave it at that. The show didn't happen, but the
venue owner was super apologetic and made it really hard to be angry.
So we decided to make the best out of a crappy situation and record
an EP with their gear. Joshua and I each did 3 songs, and hopefully a
few of them will come out all right. This is Pen Pen masking his
disappointment through the magic of song!
So we got up in the morning with a long
drive ahead of us which would have been much shorter had we not
driven out to Bend for no reason. (See? I'm totally not bitter. I'm
very professional.) Holly spent the whole drive trying to see a bear
from the road, and I've decided to embark on a psychological
experiment where I remind her every day about how we saw a baby bear
through the trees about 100 feet out from the road. It was about 2 or
3 feet tall, and wasn't doing much, but it was still pretty cool to
see a bear in the wild. See? It's like Inception. This is Pen Pen
with a baby black bear in the distance, but it's sort of hard to see
the bear.
While Holly was trying (and
succeeding!) to see a bear (it was in the distance, about 100 feet
from the road. Like 2 or 3 feet tall. It wasn't really doing much,
but still, we totally saw a bear from the side of the road! How cool
is that?) I was trying to see some big-ass trees. We were about an
hour north of Eureka when BAM! Big Ass Trees. Everywhere. I got out
of the car and literally started skipping aimlessly into the woods.
That happened for about 20 minutes when I remembered that my friends
were somewhere behind me and I hadn't been following a trail, and I
didn't particularly need to see two
bears in one day, especially not one closer than about 100 feet away.
Luckily there was a Big Ass Tree that made it pretty easy to spot the
entrance to the grove so I wasn't abandoned to the plentiful bears of
the Crescent City, California region. This is Pen Pen with a Big Ass
Tree.
The
show itself was fun, though nothing epic. A half full bar. Some
random patrons and a bunch of Jarrod West's friends. Following the
great West Coast tradition, we were pretty sure the headlining band
wasn't ever going to show up. But they did and closed out the night
loudly. It was good times. This is Pen Pen finally seeing the actual
real Pacific Ocean.
This
is a song I wrote one time. You should download it and share with
your friends.
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