As more or less expected, I made very little progress last week thanks to travel and a busy work schedule. I’m sitting in Dublin right now and I’m too jet lagged to figure out how to run the card generator remotely so I’m just gonna copy/paste the three cards I finished into this post. More to come!
The Stage
If you’re not on the stage, are you even alive? If anyone else is on the stage, are they stealing your thunder? Up close, you can see the wear on the boards and the stains where the ghosts of bands past pissed in the corners. It smells like rat shit and dead dreams. It’s still the only place that matters in the whole entire world.
Put this card in the center of everything.
Audience
A roiled, chaotic sea of humanity. Well. Sea may be a strong word for the sparse attendance, sadly the new normal for this tour, but at least the few fans who showed up are loud. None louder than Charlie. Hopefully most of those fans bought tickets, although the rumor is that we’re handing out more and more comps to keep it looking like we’re really desperate. It’s a good thing the lights on the stage keep the band from seeing how few people care these days.
Put this card next to The Stage.
Tour Bus
On the one hand, it’s no private jet. On the other hand, it has the band logo on it and the door to the bedroom locks, making this one of the few semi-private places anywhere near the tour to get it on if you’re not one of the privileged few who gets to share a hotel room. There isn’t anyone assigned to clean up the whiskey bottles and the cigarette butts, so you can imagine how crusty the bus has become since the beginning of the tour. Patty is unlikely to see the deposit returned. Dana’s stuck driving the beast.
Put this card at a distance from the other Locations.