What's in the Crew Room?

Before you think I'm ranting or complaining in todays blog I'm not! Just thought it was funny thats all, don't want people to think that all I do on here is to "rant" that's just not true, (sortof)

So anyway the other day I was blogging about Faygo, and Farns comes in the production office and was like "Culmer you have to take a picture of the snacks in the crew room!", for those of you that don't know, normally we get a variety a snacks, drinks, fruit, just stuff to munch on, and enough for about 30 people. (A side note, the band or tour Mng. don't really know what we get in the crew room, theres a rider that says what we're suppose to get and they don't know unless we tell them that we don't have anything)

Well on this day as you can see in the picture what they gave the crew, four half bags of crackers and A bag of M&M's, haha let me say it again A BAG OF M&M's, and not like a pound of 'em as you can clearly see a small bag (haha).

So I took it upon myself to ration out the M&M's to the crew, and just so you don't think i'm lying here's some pic's of the crew getting their Single that's right One M&M's.

There are a lot of pic's but I wanted to show you just how many of us had to share. To be honest everybody had fun with it, and found it humorous our little situation with the munchies.

I'll be providing the caption, and since its my site the caption is really what their thinking. And if your wondering this is only crew.

Carter

"Awe I feel sad, only one? Good thing I've been practicing how to raise one eye brow"

Christy
"Seriously? Only one?"
(haha that was after she got two M&M's by accident and I took one and put it back in the bag)

Dale
"Is it because I'm a back line tech?" (Yes... haha)

Darren
"Ooh candy... I hope all my hair fits in the picture I better duck"

Denny
"For me?"

Ed
"Yay I got an orange one"

Eugene
"How many licks does it take to get to the center of plain M&M?"

The Farns
"I found the bag of M&M's and I only get Two!!?"
(I'm sorry that one is cheesy, but there is to much to say about this picture and that face is priceless, and I want to keep it some what PG)

Greg
"Am I suppose to eat this? Its so heavy I hope nobody sees that I have to use my other hand to hold up the hand with the M&M
hmmm....if I remember correctly Pi = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592"

Harry
"I'm going to put my one M&M under my bottom lip"

Kenny
"I'm going to lick my M&M till it turns brown, the color of poo"
(like a deer in the head lights)

Yul Brynner
(Haha I know its bad but I don't know his name, we 'video guys' call him Yul Brynner)
"Maybe if I balance this on my nose the stupid video guy will remember my name?"

Merch Guy
(Now it's just getting stupid I know, but when I gave this guy an M&M it was the first time I had met him, and he's on our tour)
"I love you Blue M&M, you and me are going to be friends"

Micheal
"It's melting in my hand!"

Josh
"Is this because I played the drums during load in?"
(I'm just playin' Josh, But yea seriously)

Radar
"I haven't eatin' days, it taste so good"

Shane
"Hey you found my pills! Thanks your OK, oh jeees I wonder where my glasses are?"
(Sorry Shane hate to pull out the old fart jokes, but its funny)

Snooch
"Don't cry, Don't do it,"
(ok this one is cheesy as well sorry snooch)

Zac
"oh boy a M&M"

Merch Guy 2
(Don't hate I really feel bad sortof that I don't know most of the merch guys but yet I make fun of them on here)
"Candy makes me feel happy"

Tim
"Heeeeyyyy .haha .... Do I eat the glue or the M&M man?....I think I'll eat the glue! first and then the M&M taste will stay longer cause it'll be stuck"

Carl
(I've got nothing)

Adam
"ESPN, ESPN, ESPN, ESPN =ESPN"
(Sorry your pic is out of focus Adam, But you shouldn't have eatin' the M&M before I took it)

Me
"HAHAHA if they only new I poured all those pieces into my shoe and rattled it around a little then handed them out"

Now don't go getting mad at me for making some fun at these people, it's all fun and games

What to drink?

I have never heard of a Faygo pop (that's what I said "pop" big woop you wanna fight about it?) but yesterday I had Faygo pop, and you know it was.......goooood......?.......you know what pop I haven't had in a while and miss is this drink (mmmmm......."drooling") theres really no real point to this blog other than to let you know that I've never had Faygo pop before till yesterday.

Not a lot to blog about, other than it feels nice to be in FL for the weekend I think we'll see tomorrow? It's a outdoor show and its suppose to rain.

Our Production Staff

(I have had this blog saved but not posted for a couple weeks now, and haven't been able to post it cause I wasn't sure what to think about it, I've never really posted anything like this before, cause there's really not enough to say about these people, and I really just wanted to post some funny things about them since they work so hard for the rest of the crew, so here we go)


I would like to take a blog moment and talk about the people that can make or break a tour, the ones that create a contiguous attitude for the rest of the crew, bad or good.

So here's some random facts about our Production Staff.















I would like to start with our Production Manager.
-The crews go to guy
-Blogs less than once a year
-He uses more cell phone minutes in a week than I use for a whole month!
-He likes taking pictures by the beach.
-Spends 17 hours a day answering emails.
-Chooser of words carefully (this one makes me laugh sometimes)
-Archenemy: The Building Guy















The Tour Manager.
-The Big Cheese
-He also has the second largest road case on the tour.
-Teller of stories. (haha their good stories)
-A Lover/Regreter of spicy foods
-Decider of eatable meals
-Settler of shows
-The final who-ha for hard questions
"And all aroung good guy" As he says for the opener
-Archenemy: The Internet


The Production Assistant.
-Blogs once a year.
-Maker of the Gaff tape arrows
-Picker of the Rooms.
-Dealer of the Comps.
-Listener of the bands wantings
-Poster of the Daily Times
-Archenemy: The printer.
- The Answer giver (to repetitive questions as you can see here are the questions she's asked on a daily bases)





















The Stage Manager.
-Doer of everything.
-He who never sits down.
-Runs monitors while answering Emails
-The bands GoTo guy
-Maker of Beef Jerky
-Getter of Snacks during intermission
-Has the most facial hair on the tour
-Big Duke Fan
-Archenemy: Beard trimmer

GOAL!!!

(Nice Seats eh? Thanks Farns)

Something we don't do enough of is go out on the town, which this week thats all we've done is go out and do stuff it seems like, it also seems like I didn't have any time off the last couple days, tonight was hockey night, and it was the first hockey game Patti has ever gone too, we ate so much junk food it wasn't funny, I'll probably get in trouble for telling ya'll that but hey we didn't have any dinner before going so shoot me.

It was a lot of fun tho explaining what little I know to my wife, like why their passing the puck to nobody, or better yet why they pass the puck to the other teams players, and why at the end of the game the other team went without a goalie, and listening to her get into the game not knowing anything about it was awesome, especially when the other team would score, she would go off as to why they scored the goal, and what our goalie was doing wrong, and she didn't get why they were allowed to hit each other? All the questions of the night were good ones, and sense I'm not a huge hockey fan, I didn't know the answer to some questions that I didn't post haha... but It was worth it just to see her pump her fist in the air screaming HEY!! during the tune when everybody screems (HEY!!) and the drum beat is going and they screaming HEY! Again, anyway It's hard to write something that's mostly all music except one word, but you know the song I'm talking about!
Preds won by the way 5-4.



So the last blog I ranted about something, and this blog I would like to rant about one more thing. Tonight after the game we were on our way home, on the south bound 4 lane wide I-65 and all of a sudden traffic comes to a screeching halt, and now we're in stop and go traffic, here's what gets me is for the next couple miles we looked at all the cop cars and arrows telling us to merge even more, we never saw any actual people working or why we needed to get over, or sit in traffic, but that's not what I really wanted to rant about for the moment what really kills me are the people getting over into the lane that they can clearly see that once they start driving in that particular lane their going to have to get over anyway, but their so impatient that they figure "well I'll go down to the sign and then budge my way over, like I'm in the forth grade." Now here's the part that gets me is I've done that before once on accident, and once on purpose cause I thought that where I needed to be was more important than all those other people, (and I was wrong) but now I try to be more patient and get over when I see the arrow, if I'm in that lane, but still it drives me nuts that a person knowingly will drive down the empty lane staring at the arrow knowing in their head that "I'm going to budge my way in down here at the sign, and when I get down here if you don't let me in I'll just give them the finger and then almost hit them, cause my favorite tv show is on." (sigh I feel better)

I'm not sure why I've been in such a ranting mood but there you go.

Be the Solution

Tonight was date night, and Patti found out that a comedian that I like is going to be in town, at a place here in Nashville, so we went, and he was funny.


I would like to rant about something that has happen to me twice today, and I'm not sure how to gracefully deal with it, most of the time I come across as being a jerk and thats fine, I know I can be blunt haha.... okay so here it is, twice today I've stood in line for something, and both times the person(s) behind me stood so close that I could hear them breathing, what is the deal with people and having to stand right behind you, the first time today there was nobody else in the line in the place I was getting my food, I mean seriously people ask your selves next time your a line "am I that person(s) thats standing to close to the person(s) in front of me? Making them feel really awkward."

Here's the other thing. your not leaving me a lot of farting space when you stand so close.

The second was tonight waiting in line for the comedy to start, the couple standing behind me was standing so close that when I took my hand out of my pocket I hit the guy in the chest with my elbow, I WAS TAKING MY HAND OUT OF MY POCKET!!, I looked at him and didn't say anything, cause I figured there was no apology in order when your in my ozone, anyway not to spend to much time on this but I really need your help to solve this problem in our culture, people are standing to close to each other!! Be the solution, not the problem. Help the fight.

So Yea.....

Well I'm finally getting over whatever it was that I had this last week sickness wise that is, it was nice being home, it was cold, it even snowed while I was home which was nice, Patti loves it when it snows, and its fun to watch her get all excited, but it didn't last very long which was a bummer, but lucky for me this week I'm up in the middle of nowhere, where the snow is still present. So yea.....thats great....

Hate being Sick

Ok So here's the reason why I haven't touched my laptop in a while, man do I hate being sick.

And the worst part about it is when your on the road, and you have to finally give up, and go to a doctor, so being that your on the road you go to a walk in clinic, which sucks cause, to this day I always feel like a second hand citizen, if I can say that, they just always make me so mad at those places, it costs more to go there and they treat you like fast food.

Anyway I'm stopping there cause I could go on and on, about that crap.

On a side note you know what always cheers me up when I can't do anything but sit around the house?

4 Days

Oh how I've missed my computer, and how I've missed blogging, it feels good to be sharing personal things on the internet again, and letting people in on my feelings, cause you know I have feelings sometimes.

Anyway I'll be sharing again why I've been gone and haven't even opened my laptop in 4 days.

I'm Still Tired

(Why is it so bright out side)

This morning even tho, I had a day off yesterday, and even tho I went to bed relatively early last night, I got up this morning with the excitement of one who would find roadkill in their bunk. Now depending on which state your from the excitement of roadkill is actually pretty exciting. But I was not excited, I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong yesterday on my day off that caused me to not be refreshed.

Mean while!

Lets be honest here for a moment, it was really The Farns that stopped the train and foiled the evil plans by The Snooch, to run over the pizza place in the mall.

Uncertainty

There are days when you just want to smack somebody, usually when I get that way I look for the openers, (Bless their hearts)

Nah I'm just joking but one of the areas I'm still growing in is rigging, for those of you who keep up with my blog know how much the LED wall I'm hanging out here weighs, and it really isn't that big of deal except when we go into venues where the local riggers walk in and start by saying well "you know it should hold?", and you know they say "Should" like it has 7 more "ou's" in it than it really has, as their looking up in the air, with the look of "hmmm I really should be looking up in the air and looking like I'm adding numbers in my head to make it look like I know how much that particular piece of steel can hold" while I usually follow with "well I'm cool with it if you want to stand underneath it the rest of the day?". And then followed by "no but seriously will it hold?" then I walk away and think to myself "(Sigh) Crap!" Cause you know its not what they said, but the uncertainty of how they said it, and for those of you who are riggers out there, don't be hatin'.

And so for the rest of the day I'm going to answer every question thats asked to me with uncertainty in my voice and a question mark at the end of ever sentence?

And that's all I have to say for now? At least I'm pretty sure?