February 17th, 2006.

Last night we played a full band gig out at Fletcher’s, as part of the Emergenza Battle of the Bands thingie. Not really a battle, not in the cool cage match kind of way, butstill, a really cool experience. We met a bunch of other acts and watched varying degrees of skill and charisma and volume. I was pretty impressed with most everybody there, though I believe one of the drummers was perhaps 12.

Charm City at it’s finest. Sunset in Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland.
The Zimmerharem watching Dan Zimmerman play and swooning to his words.

Just to throw me for a loop, I guess, the sound guy was a friend from high school named Dennis, who I haven’t seen in… well, who knows how long… perhaps as much as 10 years.

Insanity.

Or perhaps this is his long-lost Love. Fuzzy hat and long sock… ears? Mitzi and her man built him on their deck. I don’t know how they managed to capture this particular apartment, but their view of Balitimore (which their snowman would be appreciating if they’d seen fit to give him EYES) is gorgeous.

 

Someone built this lonely snowman waiting for his woman to come home on a boat on the pier in Fells Point, Baltimore.I mean, not to assume a traditional family unit, but I didn’t want to make any thailor jokes. I felt that that was beneath me.
On our way to Fletchers in Baltimore, MD, Heather encounters a small leopardy friend.
Dennis, an old, old friend from high school – and someone who I don’t think I’ve seen for at least 10 years, just happened to be running sound for the night at the Emergenza battle thingie. Awkward meetings indeed, I gave him a hug, but I think we never seem to actually get along. Or rather, he just seems disinterested in my existence. Shame really… though it could also just be that weird exterior blandness that most soundguys seem to exhibit, apparently uninterested in the exterior world.
Silvertung play to horns and beers at the Emergenza Festival at Fletchers in Baltimore, MD. It was sort of cool to watch rockers that were legitmately from the same generation as Metallica (I grew up with it, but can only really claim to be contemporary with the Black Album – these guys could claim to have Lived it right from the beginning).
Renton Cannon at the Emergenza Festival at Fletchers in Baltimore, MD. Their singer had been my pole dancer during our set, and I was really, really happy that there were a bunch of HUGE men hanging around the pole during their set so I didn’t end up having to return the favour. He has a very, very cool voice.
Laughter becomes Heather’s personal harem. They manage to scrape through to the next level at Emergenza. I think they deserved it – a cool Cure / Joy Division kind of energy that you just don’t hear much. The lead singer had an exciting flappy trenchcoat Crow-ish persona.
Sharif always manage to find the cool chicks to hang out with (and get hit on by) all night. Sigh. I’M the SINGLE ONE!!!! Everyone should have a shirt… “want to flirt? see the long-haired one!!” Sigh. Kudos to Janna for bringing us a new soul to tarnish.
The drummer for Silvertung (who also advanced) holds up his coffin case, sporting ilyAIMY spine with PRIDE!
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