![SEPTEMBER 24 – “WHEN I DIE” DVD RELEASE PARTY, LOWELL, IN [SHOW #89]
Day 107. 26,080 miles. Jason Zink is a young guy Patrick and I first met back on our 2007 duo acoustic tour when we played Lafayette, Indiana. Jason really enjoyed our set and was telling us about how he wanted to get into filmmaking. Later the next year he contacted us about using some of our songs in a film he was making and we said sure. The film, titled “When I Die,” was completed in 2009. It won an award for Best Comedy at the DIY Film Festival in Hollywood last year. After a few successful screenings in theaters last fall, Jason and his STD Films gang released a fully-loaded DVD and invited our band to come play the release party at his folks’ farm in Lowell.
We were warmly welcomed when we arrived. We met Jason’s parents, friends and family, which included many familiar faces from the film. “I got a little star-struck,” Patrick said. The stage was a small wooden flatbed trailer, which brought up memories of the “Cornstock” show we played, on a flatbed trailer, at Johnston High School in Des Moines in 2002. The place was really cool, and they went all-out for this party. There was an above-ground swimming pool, some half and quarter skateboarding pipes, a barn, a shed, a vegetable garden, three kegs of beer, a merchandise tent, and a fire pit.
The set was fun, bouncing on the trailer under the flood lamps. Jason joined us on stage to sing Master Alarm Clock. Afterwards we huddled around the bonfire, watched a couple guys entertain us with firespinning, and took turns injuring ourselves on the halfpipes.
The jam in the van: Tindersticks Nenette et Boni / Secret Panels Ecotone / Passengers Original Motion Picture Soundtracks 1
The word we heard: “You can’t eat AIDS” -David
The pets we met: Lilly / Domino
The pad was rad: Brad & Brenda
Sticks, strings and broken things: Devin – 1 D string
The fill of the bill: Sam Vicari
Devin no acidic liquor hole with burn your stomach lining in Lowell
Monument / Don’t Go / Start The Revolution / Make Love A Star / Magic Circle Symphony / Calling Card / Cemetery Glow / Wake Up, Waco / Friends In The Band / Pacific Sunrise / Don’t Cry / When The World Sleeps / Master Alarm Clock / A Salty Salute](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9oo56igPI1qahyhxo1_500.jpg)
SEPTEMBER 24 – “WHEN I DIE” DVD RELEASE PARTY, LOWELL, IN [SHOW #89]
Day 107. 26,080 miles. Jason Zink is a young guy Patrick and I first met back on our 2007 duo acoustic tour when we played Lafayette, Indiana. Jason really enjoyed our set and was telling us about how he wanted to get into filmmaking. Later the next year he contacted us about using some of our songs in a film he was making and we said sure. The film, titled “When I Die,” was completed in 2009. It won an award for Best Comedy at the DIY Film Festival in Hollywood last year. After a few successful screenings in theaters last fall, Jason and his STD Films gang released a fully-loaded DVD and invited our band to come play the release party at his folks’ farm in Lowell.
We were warmly welcomed when we arrived. We met Jason’s parents, friends and family, which included many familiar faces from the film. “I got a little star-struck,” Patrick said. The stage was a small wooden flatbed trailer, which brought up memories of the “Cornstock” show we played, on a flatbed trailer, at Johnston High School in Des Moines in 2002. The place was really cool, and they went all-out for this party. There was an above-ground swimming pool, some half and quarter skateboarding pipes, a barn, a shed, a vegetable garden, three kegs of beer, a merchandise tent, and a fire pit.
The set was fun, bouncing on the trailer under the flood lamps. Jason joined us on stage to sing Master Alarm Clock. Afterwards we huddled around the bonfire, watched a couple guys entertain us with firespinning, and took turns injuring ourselves on the halfpipes.
The jam in the van: Tindersticks Nenette et Boni / Secret Panels Ecotone / Passengers Original Motion Picture Soundtracks 1
The word we heard: “You can’t eat AIDS” -David
The pets we met: Lilly / Domino
The pad was rad: Brad & Brenda
Sticks, strings and broken things: Devin – 1 D string
The fill of the bill: Sam Vicari
Devin no acidic liquor hole with burn your stomach lining in Lowell
Monument / Don’t Go / Start The Revolution / Make Love A Star / Magic Circle Symphony / Calling Card / Cemetery Glow / Wake Up, Waco / Friends In The Band / Pacific Sunrise / Don’t Cry / When The World Sleeps / Master Alarm Clock / A Salty Salute