Tubes (back from faked death) Says:
Saturday May 22, 2010 I was set to travel to Forst, Germany for rehearsal with Michael Rother and Steve Shelley. For at least a month I had been convinced I was flying out of Newark that day, but when I got there the people at Newark disagreed. I therefore missed my scheduled flight out of JFK. I got a ride to the PATH with all my luggage and gear and then took the most irrational and unlucky sequence of trains to JFK. Who would have thought the F would be running express on the A track while the A ran local on the C? Five hours after leaving my own (sort of) birthday barbecue, I got to the airport. At the ticket counter I got the trainee. At security I was cut off three times by people in wheelchairs. I did finally get a seat assignment and took off for Amsterdam. At the Amsterdam airport I experienced an amazing moment of cognative dissonance when I saw a guy walking toward me wearing a Glass Rock t-shirt. I found myself pointing at him. It was one of Kathy’s handmade shirts. We talked. It turns out he is Irish and saw us open for Sonic Youth in Dublin. He bought the shirt and had Kathy sign it. Eventually I made it to Hannover where Steve and Michael had been waiting for 4 hours. They were less surprised than I about the concept of running into a fan at the airport.
