Peter Agoston's Excellent Adventure!

My friend Peter is on tour with the post-rap-art duo Themselves. He's working as their "tour manager" as they do a giant loop around the country going from South By Southwest (Austin, TX) and ending up at Coachella (Indio, CA). He's been sending me almost daily updates of how much fun he is having, the exclusive parties he's at, the people's he "kickin' it" with, etc. So. . .I thought I'd share them here. I'll continue to add to this, so be be sure to check back.

*** NOTE: "TREASURES" is a Vegas strip club we spent numerous hours in over my 30th weekend birthday ***


*** NOTE: "Michelle" is our mutual friend Michelle Cable, mastermind behind Panache Booking and Panache Magazine ***

Mar 14th 4:24 PM
PETER: We are in Palm Springs stayin at a crazy resort/casino man. . .wish ya were here. I'm hitting the pool bar and sauna now
BEN: Jesus, don't even tell me these things, man! You lucky son of a bitch. Did you ask the guys if they want someone to sell merch? I'll work for $200 a day per diem. HAHA!

Mar 15th 4:49 PM
PETER: In Vegas now. . .at a rooftop preparty to the show. drinkn' vodka and crans listening to house music, should be an interesting night! We drove by Treasures and my dick got hard
BEN: Please tell me you're just now leaving Treasures (text sent at 8 AM) and got some stinky stripper snatch

Mar 17th 3:49 PM
BEN:What up dawg? Woof Woof! Where u at, how r u going to celebrate St. Patty's Day?
PETER: We just drove thru El Paso. . .8 hours from Austin. . .What day is st paddy's exactly? I thought it was later on, we'll be in Austin until Sunday!
BEN: St. Patty's is today! Going to drink green beer and Bushmills after rehearsal. I suggest you do the same.
PETER: As soon as we get to the motel homie. drink one for us
Mar 17th 10:48 PM
BEN: Dial a shot? Dial an Irish car bomb?
PETER: Man we still driving
BEN: Damn son. Hit me up when you get to da motel/bar. Dial up that shot!!!

Mar 18th 4:49 PM
BEN: Make sure to check out benallen1.blogspot.com when you have the chance. I'm creating a "tour diary" for you based on our texts.
PETER: Dope. I'm at SXSW now. we did a show at red 7 earlier and the anticon showcase is at the mowhawk tonite. Themselves on at 1 AM. We drove 15 hours yest, so no drinkin'. I'm makin' up for it now!!!
BEN: Damn, sounds like an action-packed day/night. Are you going to "get up" with Michelle today?
Mar 18th 9:38 PM
BEN: "Unskinny Bop. Just blows me away. Unskinny Bop, Bop, Bop. All night and day!"

Mar 19th 12:04 PM
BEN: So, how was last night? How was the anticon showcase? Was Yoni there? I love that dude!
PETER: Super packed. Themselves slayed. . . Yoni played solo and gently slayed
PETER: There is a show review on pitchfork i hear
BEN: I'll check it
BEN: You have a huge new fan, by the way. Joey, my drummer made me listen to "Motley Crue" 5 times last night. He had tears in his eyes he was laughing so hard. Then I put on "Going Out To Eat. . ."
PETER: Hell yeah. . . so I have exactly 5 fans now
Mar 19th 2:54 PM
PETER: Themselves are tearing down the house at the beauty bar right now - best act 10 fold on bay area showcase
BEN: Fucking sick! Who else performed?
PETER: A bunch of wack asses

Mar 20th 8:11 PM
PETER: we r sitting in the parking lot listening to Metallica
BEN: Awesome. I actually liked their new album, it sounded like a cover band trying to play old style Metallica. How did today go? Any shows or anything?
PETER: One show. pretty good. I'm with dready Andrew

Mar 21st 3:40 PM
BEN: Dude!When u said u were "listening to Metallica," I imagined u sitting in the van with Jeff and Adam listening to "Master of Puppets" on CD. I just read Pitchfork's review of their LIVE performance. Duh!
PETER: Yea, we were in an alley smokin' weed
PETER: I'm watching The Bronx now. . .I hated on em forever but not so bad
BEN: I always felt The Bronx were way overrated, but I've never seen them live. I never thought they were anything special.
BEN: What are you doing now?
PETER: Gonna head over to Michelle's showcase
BEN: Cool, let me know how it goes, and say "what's up" to her for me!

Mar 23rd 10:35 PM
BEN: Yo, P.A. Give me an update. Where you at and what are you doing?
PETER: In St. Lois. We have a day off before we play here. After that 6 shows in a row.
BEN: Sounds boring! Just kidding. So what are you up to tonight? I'm drinking High Life, just got done doing trivia.

Mar 24th 12:27 PM
PETER: We're going bowling now.
BEN: Dope. Try to break 100. Text me your scores when you're done.
PETER: Peter: 126, Jel: 115, Dose: 113
BEN: Congrats on breaking 100! Any strikes?
PETER: Yeah, I had one, and four spares. Everyone else had a few.

Mar 26th 12:37 PM
PETER: En route to Chicago. . . St. Louis was OK, but sucked.
BEN: What do you mean by "it was OK, but sucked?"

Mar 27th 12:23 PM
BEN: In Chicago now? What's going down? Jon and I were listening to the old Why/Odd Nosdam split EP this morning. Good shit!
PETER: We are in Pontiac, Michigan for a show tonite. . .Tore down The Empty Bottle in the Chi last night, nearly sold it out.
PETER: There are balloons on the floor and chips and salsa everywhere in this club
BEN: Why? Are there clowns serving Mexican food or something? Let me know how the show goes. MICHIGAN!!!
PETER: We are playing in an arts and crafts fair in a huge club with monstorous sound.
PETER: No, just 15 year olds, and 60 year olds.
BEN: Rad, sounds like my kind of gig. Don't ever forget, YOU are "The Frank Sinatra of Rap!"
PETER: Thanks man. . .if only anyone besides you and CJ knew

Mar 29th 7:42 PM
BEN: What's going on?

Mar 30th 12:09 PM
PETER: Just left Montreal, driving thru Vermont now, we have two nights off. Gonna stay at Adam's Dad's in Providence, then have a week straight of shows.