THE OPERATORS
Midwest Minitour 2001

We hit the road with our Soccer Mom Vehicle (each individual seat had its own climate control), Paul's new experimental beard, and the new bass drum head that Emily painted.

Philly

7/26--TROCADERO BALCONY

flyer by Maria Tessa Sciarrino

We bought these excellent designer knockoff shades at a New Jersey rest stop (where our obsession with the arm-wrstling videogame almost made us too late and too sore to play our show that night. Paul hit 106lbs, Jen 76, and Em and Steph tied at 69 against the arm-wrestling robot).

The audience included friends Eleana&Kevin from DC, Maria whose birthday it was, Sara who organizes Sugartown, and Emily's long lost doppelganger Maura/"Starla," who DJs at Sugartown.

We drove 3 hours after we played in Philly, crashed for a few hours in the pleasantly named but otherwise unpleasant Breezetown, and then drove a LOT. We found ourselves stuck on the set of the "Everybody Hurts" video shortly after Cinncinnati, with people getting out of their completely unmoving cars to play catch, drink beer, stare at the sky. Emily had to go to the bathroom outside which is really not in her idiom at all but desperate times call for desperate measures. Fortunately, we still made it to Louisville in time.