autumn has been stolen by thieves and carried across the border to canada

So first off, the Autumn Thieves did not play the show with us on Thursday. That sucked. Apparently Courtney, their singer has Canadian citizenship and wasn't allowed back in the US after they played their show in Toronto. Lame. Being from NYC, you'd think they would have thought about this, or would know about homeland security, or seriously, what's the big deal? She was only playing music and it was only one date on their tour and now the rest of the tour got cancelled. We were so looking forward to exposing our friends to their music and having a great night playing together with Brock and Tobias. I even offered to marry Courtney so she could get back into the US and be a citizen. Yeah, that idea didn't fly.
The boys DJ'd some great stuff. Space rock and all sorts of cool music. Here's a cut and paste of the messasge I sent out to my email list:
Hello,
On Thursday November 17th at Darkroom there will be a very special Airiel show. Sadly, I have to report that John will not be playing with Airiel. We are very sad about this but we must move onwards and upwards. We tried to replace him with robots and even one of those wind-up toy monkey drummers that James Dean was playing with at the beginning of Rebel Without a Cause. You know the kind, with the banging cymbals or maybe a marching drum. It didn’t work. Nobody could top John out rocking his drum and puncturing a hole in it at the last show before proving how badass he is and standing up and drumming at the end of Kiss Me Sadly. Come see this special Airiel show before John returns to the stage after being retrofitted with the highest grade titanium detachable drum stick hands and super human kick drum speed motors installed on his foot. The same robots that made Darth Vader are working on as I type this. He will be fitter, happier, and more productive. Till then somebody has to rock out as hard as him, and I am that person. If you come out on Thursday you will see 3 determined young men with guitars rocking their hearts out for John’s speedy recovery while I smash my video gear to pieces, shove Jeremy, spank Cory, touch Chris’ arm so gently, tear my screens down and set them on fire, all before jumping out the back window of Darkroom like the Kool-Aid man screaming “OOOH YEAAH!!”. We’re doing it for John. Airiel will rock for the absence of their sick brother. He will make his triumphant return to the stage soon and join us in plans of world domination. I promise these fucking shoegazers will look up from their feet and smile when they see you.

See you on Thursday.

Love,
-arturo
xoxo
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They did 2 songs in the span of 30 minutes. John's been out sick and couldn't practice so they used a drum machine. It was so cool. I got into a groove about half way through the set rocking the rainbow shit that you could see more of without a drum kit in the way. Not that it's ever in the way or anything. I love John and his drums. I love when he stands up all bad-ass during the rock out ending of Kiss Me Sadly. Airiel's sound is changing and morphing and I can't wait to hear more of it and play with them. I took my ear plugs out towards the end, so I could hear everything better. December 3rd at Double Door is going to rule. See you there.