James Richard Lane blog

After the tough choice of going to CMJ music marathon in New York with all the rsvp's I had I decided to cancel last minute probably out of exhaustion of not being ready to handle another city after the long road trip I completed last weekish. Then I remembered a girl from Croatia I met last year after a Cut Copy show messaged me about a band called Thieves Like Us that they are playing live in DC Friday so I took into consideration looked it up and it turned out they were playing at Comet Ping Pong which is an excellent ping pong table, pizza, bar, music venue in DC. I took the train out to meet up with her, we watched the bands did a lot of dancing, a lot of drinking, a lot of fun! I got to play ping pong with the band before the show! Which was greatly enjoyable and I also have a lot of respect for them being that their only original member left is a lead singer/guitarist, although all the band members were very enjoyable and unique being from England, Mexico, Sweden, & De...

My trip was crazy! I took a bus from Baltimore to Denver in which was payed for by a company called Work For Progress in which this company was in support to help out with elections and support president Obama. We stopped in so many states it was nearly a 42 hour bus ride across the country. I stopped in Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, Illinois, Kansas, St. Louis, and made it to Denver finally. During my bus ride I met a bunch of crazy people a guy who was in the marines who had drug problems, some flirty weird goofy looking girl, and a 72 year old man named Berry who told me I would make a good pastor. It was odd but cool. Anyway I made it to Denver finally as I waited outside for my hostel to open to put my stuff away but it didn't open till 5pm! and it was mid day and I didn't want to wait so I sat out there finally someone opened the doors leaving as I sneaked in I sat my things in the tv room? I took a shower in a public bathroom thing. I left and explored th...