Chapter 2: Knowing Your Audience (is all dorks)
I’m not trying to insult anyone with the title, it’s just that I’ve been immersed in the Russell house for quite a while now and there’s a lot to take in. It’s weird. The house feels a lot like my parent’s house with the same sibling violin pictures side by side on the wall, the Bible verses on little embroidered doilies that you read while you wash your hands, and old school projects collecting dust in a stack in the corner. And the childhood pictures — with the little faces and hairdos! Whoa! Those are a trip.
Anyway, we played a pretty nice show last night for the relatives and a few friends of Caleb’s. We couldn’t use drums because it would’ve been too loud and we were still eating dinner when people started arriving. As everyone was sitting down quietly in the living room we congregated in Caleb’s room upstairs and frantically thought about what songs we could and could not play without pissing off his parents/grandparents/church friends. The crowd was mostly older folks and some home schooled kids of high school status. I’m not sure how many of the younger kids exactly were part of the same family but there was a big white church van that pulled up and a lot of people got out. Thanks to everyone that came out and a shout out to McKenna for being a cool dude.
Show highlights were definitely Miss Algae, Watches (thanks for the awesome snapping Porterville!), and watching Caleb play Fistfight For a Woman’s Right and Body and Cello solo on piano. It was a lot of fun.
After the show we chilled with the family for a bit, looked through some magazines, ate oreos and drank soda, and then the headed over to John’s house for a rowdy game of Monopoly (kinda boring but real clip) that I tore to shreds after a controversial exchange of money for States Avenue between Caleb and I. I can’t say that things didn’t get a bit heated for a while. Whoa:
Well I believe that Michal and David (Caleb’s parents) are making Swedish pancakes for us but I just wanted to say that just as each show the Fists play is an interaction between the audience and us, I want to make this whole tour blog thing a really fun interaction with you. The whole “unknown audience” thing of a blog has been a bit confusing for me and I’m not sure which voice to use, whom to address, or who is actually going to be reading this. I know of two (wink wink) for sure that slide their eyes down these pages, but want to have some more interaction. I’m not mad, not at all, I’m just thinking that we could have a digital blast together somehow. So:tell us what you want to see/hear/know and we will deliver you Fist Vids!. We will do them regardless, I imagine, but feel free to ask us what our favorite color of socks are, for a good joke, our favorite bible verse, etc. I think this will help me a lot with being able to feel more comfortable in knowing that we all are dorks who are now still dorks with more developed bodies and brains.
Finally, there are some new places to find pictures and videos of the Rightheous and Harmonious Fists on the internet.
Love Jordan
ps. Thank you to everyone in Santa Barbara for the awesome show at Muddy Waters and be sure to check out some of the Seahag videos!!
You’re doing such a good job.
I’m pretty stoked on the Fist Vids! because video is about the next best thing to being there (i.e. this)… right? So I am going to request things you’ve never even thought of.
just you wait, there is sheriff magic in store for y’all if ya follow the law damnit.