November 19, 2006 "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)"

11/19/2006 Bogart's - Cincinnati, OH
Other bands: Smile Empty Soul, Action Reaction


Load-in at Bogarts. Photo by Joe Major.

A list of things I like in Cincinnati:

-The abandoned subway.
-Cracked out old German neighborhoods.
-The view from across the river.
-Venetian Gothic churches in the hills.
-The Afghan Whigs.
-Homecooked breakfast at anarchist collective households in the fall of 2000.
-Over the Rhine concerts at the Taft Theater in December.
-Gilbery Gnarley (G-N-A-R-L-E-Y).
-King's Island.
-The Shoney's with the cicada problem.
-Broken washing machines at Sudsy Malone's.
-Giant motorcycles on Short Vine at 1am.
-Cheese on chili.
-Lesbian dives with steel plate dance floors.
-A guy named Tawd.
-A girl named Amy.
-A guy named John.
-Another guy named John.
-The band Koan.
-The band Miasma.
-What I've heard of The National.
-Ivory soap.
-The old black man in Corryville in green tweed with a cane that says cryptic things like "Birds of a feather...flock together," then calls my friends by name and knows their birthplace despite having never met them.
-Pat, the rambling rose of the Queen City who makes an appearance at every underground rock show and remembers band members' names years after the fact despite her septegenarian age bracket.
-This poster.
-Not breaking the driver side mirror off on the headliner's tourbus.
-Annie Oakley.
-Sarah Jay.
-WKRP.
-Raymond Babbitt.
-Aloysius Snuffleupagus' grandmother.
-I-275.
-Bogart's when I'm playing at Bogart's, but not when I'm a patron of Bogart's.