b-city cruisin’: LA, SD, SF, HOLLYWOOD

Before too much time passes, we must mark and remark on what was our first tour…the mini-ist and most awe­some west coast-inental “have a Glasser of Lemon­ade for your bodyc­ity” Tour, Sum­mer Jams 2008. A recap:

The Smell, Los Ange­les — Thurs­day, July 10th
High­lights: Nite Jewel; the super friendly home-town crowd; Lemon­ade blew our minds.
Weird­lights: Hav­ing to sign release forms for stand­ing within cam­era range of an ongo­ing indie film (but it was kind of cool too…they wanted to film our per­for­mance, but when it came down to it, it was their big lights or our dance floor.…naturally they had to move).

House Party, San Diego — Fri­day, July 11
High­lights: all the cool kids in San Diego mate­ri­al­ized at this party, then squeezed into what was the tin­ni­est place we’ve ever danced, a baby base­ment about 7 feet tall; mak­ing tiny ver­sions of our dances; dirty sweat fling­ing and shov­ing.
Weird­lights: traf­fic; hav­ing to change into our cos­tumes in front of a giant win­dow; no hoist­ing Molly into the air; hav­ing to go home almost imme­di­ately so we could hit the road to SF.

Grey Area Bea­con, San Fran­cisco — Sat­ur­day, July 12
High­lights: we rented a behe­moth 15 pas­sen­ger van; we got there in time for a romp with a ridicu­lous puppy, a reunion with our Nor­cal friends, and a round of Bloody Marys; we started a seri­ous dance party; Evan SNJ let us crash all over his house in Modesto that night.
Weird­lights: mys­te­ri­ous banana disappearance

Bastille Day Cel­e­bra­tion, W Hol­ly­wood — Sun­day, July 13
High­lights: Adele Jacques, the event’s coor­di­na­tor, a new but already good friend who gave us the most touch­ing and well-spoken intro­duc­tion we’ve ever had; our “eF-it, I’m so freak­ing tired” atti­tude made this our best per­for­mance.
Weird­lights: the morn­ing sun after 10 hours of sleep in 3 days know­ing there’s a good six hours of road ahead of you; too much Star­bucks — it’s creepy.

In other words: Suc­cess! Wicked Positive.

Also, we’ve gotta men­tion our newest mem­ber, Alisha Adams! bodyc­ity is com­pletely thrilled to have her, she is true blue.

Glasser was a stel­lar com­pan­ion. Cameron, Matt, Rebecca and Made­line kept things real and were always bang-on come per­for­mance time.
And, though we saw lit­tle of them on the road, the Lemon­ade dudes are excel­lent humans and we are so grate­ful to them for their orga­niz­ing prowess and easy attitudes.

With our first tour under the bodyc­ity belt, we have brave new thoughts on future tours and can’t wait to tell you about new stuff hap­pen­ing soon…