People,

Saturday at the Lizard was one of the most fun shows Fooled By April has ever played.

Highlights:

- Rob from Mile One opened the show with a set of very strong set of acoustic "get the ladies to take off their clothes" rock. Unfortunately, there weren't a ton of ladies there at that point, but the songs did seem to work on Scamper.

- During Rob's set, some yahoo was being really loud and playing that game where you make a paper football and flick it through your friend's fingers/goalposts. I was really pretty annoyed but, as if to prove the unpredictableness of human nature, after the show he got up and bought a Mile One t-shirt. Weird.

- Scamper kicked ass. I mean, I actually have scheduled an ass-replacement surgery this week because mine is so battered right now.

- Our show was just fun from the first note till the the last. We were really the Maxwell House of rock bands. At the end of the show we invited everyone up on stage to sing High and Dry. I kind of felt like Eric Neis when forty people all came up and tried to grind me/sing into my microphone. Pete said he felt like Downtown Julie Brown. Wubba wubba.

- Our often spoken about in this journal neighbor Ralph came to the show. For those of you who don't know, Ralph is our really nice, older neighbor whos has a little touch of Tony Soprano about him. So he comes to the show and sits down next to me. After a minute he turns to me and says "Where's the waitress?" "There's no waitresses here, Ralph." "No waitresses?!? What kindofa [sic] fuckin' joint is this?" What kind of a fucking joint indeed....