JTB/DP/CG TOUR BLOG!

SO recently my buddies Jeff the Brotherhood, who are a band, asked me, Colleen Green, to open a few shows for them and Diarrhea Planet, who is also a band. I excitedly said yes! And this is our story.

TUESDAY OCT 9 2012 - Troubadour, Los Angeles CA.
Took the 704 bus to West Hollywood when the time was right. It wasn't supposed to stop at the Troubadour, that's actually the 4 that does that (woopz!) but the nice bus driver let me off there anyway because I had talked to him a little and I think he could sense that I was a stoned idiot. Got to the show and the other bands were all there. I met all the Diarrhea Planet boys. They're sooooooooo nice. I have met some of them before, but very briefly. Actually I think I have only met Emmett before. ANYWAY, the show was really fun and great and I talked to lots of nice people. I was extremely nervous as usual, but it's ok. It's all part of my charm. I ate a slice of pizza that made me feel like I was tripping. It was not good. But then I went to the grocery store and got an apple, some sweet potato chips, and a chocolate/coconut/almond Odwalla bar. The zipper to my backpack broke but Emmett fixed it for me. My brother gave me a ride home and there I retired, feeling extremely happy and excited for the days to come. :)

WEDNESDAY OCT 10 2012 - Cellar Door, Visalia CA.
I got my things together and JEFF picked me up in their giant Sprinter. We went to the gas station and I saw a dude who works at my neighborhood weed store skating and talking to some weird old guy. We set off for Visalia, which has the 3rd highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation! We couldn't figure out why though. On the way there I had had a very upsetting txt/phone conversation with my record label. I cried a lot and was very sad for the rest of the day even though I didn't wanna be. The venue was pretty cool though. It had TONS of extremely comfy couches EVERYWHERE, which I love. I sat on one and read "First Person America". I had a conversation with a boy about the uncertainty of the future. He was pretty nice. He told me I looked young because I had a book in my hands. Something weird that I noticed was that I received more comments on this tour about looking super young than I ever have before...and I was the oldest one there! Ironic, don't you think?
ANNNNNNYWAY, the show was pretty cool although the crowd was strange and for the most part, extremely weirdly wasted. I ate some salad, but it was HUGE! So I didn't eat it all. Someone gave me weed in exchange for a t shirt, but I wished they had given me more. Afterward we all went to some guy's house where we smoked, drank, chatted, ate snacks, did puzzles, and went to sleep. :)

THURSDAY OCT 11 2012 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco CA. 
We all woke up and went to breakfast at a place called Valhalla's which is supposed to be like the best shit in Visalia. They gave us our own room! I got fruit and an egg and an english muffie. After breakfast Casey and I smoked a bowl on the street, and then we all set off for the bay area. Bottom of the Hill is cool and everyone there is nice. I played there once before, but all I really remember is falling asleep at the merch table and smoking lots of weed with Dan and Erica in the green room. Anyway they gave us food and I ate a chicken quesadilla which was good except for the salsa which tasted like marinara sauce. I played and it was pretty good although I chastised the audience with 2 songs to go for having shout-conversations while I was trying to play. I felt like the biggest piece of shit ever after that. I did not sell any merch. Nonetheless, the show was extremely fun and amazing. I was finally starting to let go of my nerves by this point and it felt good. I was getting more comfortable with everyone on the tour too which felt really good. Dan and Jose came to the show and Jose gave me a ride to Oakland after. This was the first time I had to say goodbye to the boys! It was hard. But I still felt like the happiest girl in the world. :)

FRIDAY OCT 12 - MONDAY OCT 15 2012 - Oakland CA.
I had been so busy saying my goodbyes the night before and getting high out front that I forgot ALL of my stuff in the JEFF van. Lucky for me they are super SWEET and dropped it off to me in Oakland the next morning on their way to Portland. This weekend was AWESOME. I stayed at Erica's, smoked tons of weed, walked around Berkeley, got breakfast with Brian and Kat, got breakfast with Erica, went hiking with Nate, Steve O, and Nate's dog Lilly who is the best most precious dog in the entire world, made dinner with Nate and Steve O and got extremely high on vapors, made dinner with Dan, made dinner with Erica, carved pumpkins with Nate and Dan, painted t shirts and watched a million spooky movies. It was so nice. :)

TUESDAY OCT 16 - The Blank Club, San Jose CA. 
Erica and I got mad high all day and then she drove me to the BART station so I could take the BART to Dublin to meet JEFF as they drove back down from Seattle. I left my phone in Erica's car. Meeting up with JEFF at the train station proved to be a bit of an ordeal due to this fact, but they found me eventually! Then we went to San Jose! It was so fun to be back with my tour buddies. This show was cool. It sort of came and went, I think probably because we didn't get there til 8 and therefore weren't sitting around for like 4 hours. But the night was super fun. The Blank Club is cool because the green room has lots of chairs and you can all hang out and talk. We weren't sure what to do after the show so we hung out in front of the club for a long time while Louisa looked for a place to stay. We finally set off for a hotel in Salinas and ate weed snacks in the car.

WEDNESDAY OCT 17 - Velvet Jones, Santa Barbara CA. 
I forget what happened during the day, but at some point there was a cool gas station/rest stop and we got out and looked at turkeys and goats and went up into a really cool tree house. Not sure if that was this day or what. But it fucking happened. Anyway, we drove and drove and then we got to Santa Barbara and I noticed that the venue was right next to this weird house I've seen on TV. The venue was pretty ok. I sat at a booth outside and smoked weed and read for a bit. It was a very nice night. Then Emmett, Mike, and Brent told me they were going to find cheeseburgers so I went with them. I like to walk around and will often take any chance to do this. It was really fun! I got excited when I saw that the place we went to offered milkshakes. I have been wanting one of those for a long time! We all got one except for Brent. I ate a salad. My milkshake was a strawberry one, and good. Then we went back and reconvened with everyone. I started the show and played to an audience of about 10. This was by far my favorite set. It sounded good, I played well and the audience was great. I actually felt confident and the fact that there weren't hundreds of people staring me down greatly helped with that. All the bands put on fantastic shows and by the end, a lot of people had shown up. This was the first night that Emmett from DP played the solo at the end of JEFF's "The Tropics" and it was soooooooooo good, and best because it was still a secret surprise. Everyone got pretty drunk at this show and it was silly. Some fans had expressed an interest in smoking mad weed with me and whoever else, so after the show I brought them into the green room which smelled like a dirty aquarium and we smoked 4 joints. The DP boys minus Mike and Casey went to stay with some incredibly wasted girl while the rest of us stayed at a beautiful beachfront hotel. :)

THURSDAY OCT 18 - Volcom Anniversary Party, Costa Mesa CA. 
Woke up, took a shower, and ate some FREE breakfast at a sunny table outside. Hung with Louisa and Mike. Then DP came to pick up Mike and Casey and we chatted for a bit at the table with Jordan and Emmett, who had narrowly escaped (maybe?) a raping the night before.
We headed to L.A. so that JEFF could get free clothes from Levi's. Me, Louisa, and Jamin smoked a bowl on someone's stoop in Hollywood in the sun. Then we went to the "Haus of Strauss", which is just this nice cool house that Levi's owns and they do special stuff there. They gave us fancy water and brought a bunch of clothes in our sizes for us to try on. I got a really classy shirt and a dress. Also there was a TINY dog there that more closely resembled a wind-up toy than a real animal, but he was precious nonetheless and we all played with and loved him. Jamin picked him up, but I don't think he liked it when I tried. Then we went to a taco stand with JEFF's booking agent (?) and his assistant. I got chips and salsa. I didn't want to eat too much in preparation for the Volcom "BBQ" we were supposedly going to.
So we headed to Costa Mesa. We arrived and there wasn't much to do at all. I walked around and saw a very colorful short bus with the phrases "CLOWN BUS!" and "YEASTIE BOYS" painted on it, and there was a crazy clown figurine inside as well. Not sure who it all belongs to. Volcom was having some sort of a party that they had invited JEFF and DP to play. We got to go to the Volcom store and get more free stuff! It was really nice of Jake and Jamin to let me tag along. I got an extremely soft and comfy zip-up hoodie that I now wear every day, and a little duffle bag. Thanks Volcom! Jake got an awesome faux-fur vest that makes him look like a caveman and is 100% perfect. We went back to the weird garage thing that the party was in, which was part of some sort of industrial park. It turned out that by "BBQ" they meant "some pizzas" but we got back just in time to enjoy a couple of lil' slices each. There were many hours of downtime and I was bored and I felt awkward cuz everyone was drinking and talking to someone and I didn't know who to talk to. The crowd was weird and obnoxious and many of them sported hats. As the evening wore on, however, it got funner, especially once the bands started playing. They were both incredible of course. There was a point when I decided I should drink a free beer to stave off boredom or just be DOING SOMETHING, but by the time I had decided to really go for it, all the beers were gone. That was fine by me. Along with Mike and Casey, we went to a hotel in Long Beach where we sat in the living room and chatted for a while before finally going to sleep. :)

FRIDAY OCT 19 - Alex's Bar, Long Beach CA.
Mike and I were the first ones to wake up, so we decided to venture out for some coffee. We walked back to the hotel and sat at a table outside. Casey woke up and we went back to the coffee shop. We walked around a bunch and went to a yard sale and an antique store. Then we met up with Jamin, Jake, and Louisa at a seafood restaurant that appeared to have some connection to Social Distortion; what kind remains unclear. I didn't want to eat there so I peaced out and walked around by myself to find food. I ended up going back to the original coffee shop and got a breakfast sandwich which was pretty good, but I wished I had gotten a bagel. I went back to the antiques store and bought a postcard. Then I went back to the hotel and Louisa was there. I took a shower. Then we all went to the beach! We had to go to Seal Beach because there were too many needles and trash on the beach where we were. It was super windy. I loved it. The water was freezing but I waded in and it felt really good. I wanted to go all the way in, but I didn't have a bathing suit or any other clothes or a towel. We played games and made pictures in the sand and saw a lot of dogs. Then we headed to the show.
Ahhh, what a bittersweet night! EXTREMELY fun though and I had a wonderful time. I rarely have as much fun at shows as I did while touring with these two amazing bands. Audacity played too which was cool cuz that band rules, but sorrrrrtttaaaaaooofffff bummed me out too. I never mind opening, nay - I love it, it's just that they broke up our package, and on my last night, which I thought was lame. But OH WELL. I sounded like shit and wished I had asked the sound man to mic the bass amp. But he was a lazy fool so whatever. Anyway, there were friends there, and strangers who smoked me up even though they didn't even see my set! So that was nice. We went across the street to get Banh Mi before the show and it was so good. I also got a coconut waffle which I ate later. Some girl told me I was her new best friend or something and really really wanted to buy me a beer, so I let her. I drank almost 3 beers at this show! People just kept buying them for me, and I didn't want to be rude, plus, I wanted them. It was fun. As usual, JEFF and DP killlllllllled it. JEFF started saying something about having fun on tour and how it was my last night and all and someone in the crowd yelled "FRIENDSHIP!!!!" It was really cute. We were all sad to leave each other. The night ended, I said my final goodbyes and gave my hugs. My friend Eric drove me home and we sang along to "Enema of the State" the entire way.

The End :)