My hotel is waaaay over there

I'm in Indianapolis at the Midwest Music Summit at the moment. i was on  a panel this morning with Wendy from Toolshed, Morgan from Audio Lunchbox, Ethan from imeem and Dodge from My Old Kentucky Blog. When i said i run the Jackpine Social Club record label, one dude actually went "Woo!" I've never gotten a woo before.

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Saw Margot and the Nuclear So and So's last night; they strike me as the midwest version of the Mother Hips, if that makes sense. Great band with good songs that hasn't really broken out of their region, but they have rabid fans here. I'm probably talking out of my ass, but hey, sometimes my ass makes sense.

(Forgive the terrible photo -- i'm still getting used to my Treo.)

Two good things about today:

1. I saw a store called "Cell Yes!"

2. When I woke up at 5 a.m. for no good reason, and went to get ice for my warm root beer (woo, party time) there were a bunch of dudes at the door next to me yelling "Wake up, Brewdog!"

Off to chicago on Sunday. Going to see my old pal John Strohm tomorrow morning on a panel. he used to be in the Blake Babies, then Antenna, Lemonheads (in separate stints). Now he's a lawyer. He does a really great version of "Nobody Wins" on my Kristofferson tribute.

Ok, hi from Indianapolis, from the Best Western Castleton. (By the way, a cab from the airport to this hotel is $75.00. Indianapolis is really, really spread out. Yeesh.)