st. louis: paper route

i almost forgot about this show. i almost. fucking. forgot. i'll blame it on the copious amount of cold medicine i was taking the entire week beforehand. but holy shit. you know something's up when i almost forget about a show. also interesting to note is how terrible my luck is in regards to seeing paper route perform. i've been trying to see them for TWO YEARS. the first time they played the same night as incubus. as hard as i tried to sell my ticket, nobody would buy it and i didn't want to waste thirty bucks on top of paying to go to another show. so i missed it. the second time i tried to see paper route was at middle west fest in kansas city. i was driving over from columbia and according to the website paper route played second. well the website was wrong, because they played first. i walked in as they were loading out. i literally cried i was so upset. so when i heard they were playing at teeny tiny cicero's in st. louis, i snatched up a ticket as quick as i could. and that was precisely the problem. i bought the ticket online and so far in advance, that i totally forgot about it. i almost always pay at the door for shows at cicero's because there's no way in the hell shows i see there would sell out. but i wasn't so sure with paper route, so i made sure to buy in advance. the fact that the tickets were will call gave me no reminder whatsoever of when the show was since no tickets came in the mail. so it was the day of, when paper route tweeted about driving into st. louis, that i remembered the show. (thank god for twitter.)

i dragged abby and katie to the show with me and it was one of the best decisions. they were amazing. so, so amazing. all of my pain and frustration was now being released; my plans had come to fruition and so many emotions came spilling out that night. paper route holds a lot of memories and deeply rooted emotions and the show was a giant celebration of all those things. so awesome. i highly recommend you pick up a copy of their new album when it drops.

www.paperrouteonline.com