So where did I leave off last time. Ahh yes, Halloween...
We stayed in College Station until Thursday. We drove to Shreveport, LA that morning and got to the hotel around 2PM. Left for the theater around 445 to go to sound check. Did sound check, signed a few autographs for the collectible posters, and then did the show. Loaded out my drums because we were only there for the one night. Funny story for the night though:
In the Overture, when we hit the "Oklahoma" theme, there's an orange "OKLAHOMA!!" logo that comes up on the front scrim. However, when it came up this night in Shreveport, the logo was upside down. Some quick thinking from the projectionist decided to flip it but apparently it got stuck and then stayed vertical, not even fitting at all on the scrim. After some more flipping, they probably decided that if we made it correct now, it would appear as though this was all a giant mistake. So how do we through the public off from thinking such a thing? The brilliant move of just rotating the logo VERY quickly for the rest of the overture. Spin Spin Spin Spin Spin etc. A good laugh was had by all.
The company manager, stage manager, and reed player walked with me down the streets to the El Dorado Casino. My first live game in 2 weeks! The 1/2 NL game was 11 people deep, but the 4/8 limit HE game was open seating so I sat on down. We could only afford to stay for an hour as we had to be back on the bus by 7am the next morning. So the 4th hand I'm sitting for I get the ol, QJs in the cutoff. The game was very passive, and this is a hand I play anyway in this type of game so I limped in. 5 way action, we took of flop of KT9 with 2 clubs. Jackpot! No scare cards came off and I had 2 people paying me off on every street for a nice little pot. This would be the only hand I'd win for the session. A few bad beat stories that no one wants to hear, so I'll just give you the net result. Poker session = 1 hour. -$16 for the session. Not bad really, but I'm sure I could've beaten that game up if I had more time. There was only one person to worry about and he looked like Chau Giang. The person to the left of me just called with the nuts on the river because he didnt' realize he acted last in that particular hand.
The next day we drove to Fayetville, Arkansas, which is where I am now. Fayetville is a kickass town with some great bars and shops. Had dinner tonight inbetween shows at the Hog Brewery, or something like that. Had the beer sampler which had all different kinds of beers. Banana Wheat something, one had a carmel taste, one a blueberry taste, one was a stout, another was a red ale. Good place, good service, and real close to the performing venue which is gorgeous! We've had really good sales so far for the past 2 weeks, playing venues no smaller than 1200 seats, and selling no less than 80% of tickets. This weekend alone in AR, is booked at 98%. Everyone seems to love the show and we get treated really well wherever we go.
We have these cool backstage passes and there's always rooms with free foods and drinks in each city. Each place usually sets out 5 posters for everyone in the show to sign so they can display it after we leave as well. Listen to me, I sound like such an idiot. Also, being on tour is pretty cool, because you NEVER have to clean up after yourself. You're in town for one day? Housekeeping will clean it up, not a problem. This may turn into a really bad idea for later in life when I return home. (It may already be, just has to be decided)
In other news, I'm still kinda sick. Just really congested, it's been about a week now. More people are getting it now too, so people are just breaking down. Also, I'm getting lonely sometimes and miss people from back home. Karen's coming out in a little over a week to Tucson though, which will be much needed time to hang out and relax as I only have night shows for the time she's here. Also, there's a casino 2 exits away.....but that's not for another 8 days. Thanks you guys for reading, whoever is actually reading this mess. I'll be back after the weekend with another update as we go back through Louisiana and Texas again. Later!
Sunday, November 06, 2005
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2 comments:
so what did you think of the theater in shreveport? my uncle used to go there as a kid when and see movies there. my aunt told me that they fixed it up a few years ago so it's supposed to be pretty nice. im fighting a cold too, it sucks! lots of people at work are too...it's just that time of year! feel better and enjoy your next stop!
nice trip, glad ya got a little poker in, and free stuff is always great.
Sorry I didn't get to call ya back, I was back in my dorm and had hw, no service for my cell sucks. There was one more interesting hand, I'll lay it to you here.
The whole table limps to me in the CO, i limp too with J8s cause its the cool thing to do. Tight-weak button makes it $8. Only the SB folds, and we take it 7!-handed to the flop. Flop comes Ac Jc Jd. Checks to me, I bet $20 (your action here? I felt i had to bet, as the PFR was definitely NOT going to bet, and a free card could be disastrous, was $20 enough? there was $52 in the pot after the chop). Folds to Mike Innis(Enis?, the pretty good limit guy). He raises to $50. Your action? I think the proper action is clear now, but the hand became pretty interesting after I acted. We'll discuss tomorrow.
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