AP TOUR PHOTOS MILWAUKEE

Power outages are punk rock.

New Haven, you are one weird town. For all the awesome things you gave me in the past 48 hours (frozen chai, amazing pizza, delicious fan-made baked goods), you sure liked to mess things up, too. Like having one of my street teamers completely vanish as soon as the show started. (Luckily, the other three were some of the sweetest dudes and dudettes ever and worked their butts off for me.) Then there was the myriad of technical difficulties during All Time Low's set, which caused them to go on nearly a half-hour late. Oh, and then the stage power went out in mid-song toward the end of ATL's set -- like, three times. It was kind of ridiculous.

Although, there's always a silver lining: When the power went out in "Jasey Rae," Alex just put his guitar down and led the crowd in an a capella sing-along of the last half of the song. Imagine a full house singing along word for word with no other instruments being played. It was a pretty awesome moment to witness, and thankfully, I was able to film it with the AP video camera -- look for that in the coming weeks.

Oh, yeah, I almost got in a fight with eight moronic skater kids who were trying to start shit outside the venue with Sonny. Listen up, fucktards: You fuck with anyone on this tour, you're fucking with me. Remember that.

Luckily, I met a ton of great people at the AP table tonight to make me forget about all the bad stuff. Plenty of you came by and said you are avid blog readers, which really made me stoked. I'm glad people are reading, and I'm glad you're coming up to me at shows! Now if only you brought me cans of Arizona Fruit Punch... Alas. The crowd in general was psyched on the tour tonight -- apparently the Rocket Summer's "Brat Pack" is the official song of New Haven, as every last person knew the words and had no problem drowning Bryce Avary out when he started the song. Seriously, you peeps were loud.

The night continued at a pizza-and-ice cream restaurant next door to Toad's Place, where some of the Matches and I indulged in two of the greatest foods known to man, before attempting the "you can't eat six Saltines in one minute" game. While we all failed to accomplish the near-Herculean feat of shoveling six crackers down your throat in 60 seconds' time, I am proud to say I got the closest out of anyone, and this has convinced me to begin training to accomplish this feat. Look for a Youtube video of me tackling this edible Everest sometime soon. I promise. Word is bond.

Okay, that's it for me tonight. Our bus is on the way to Allentown, Pennsylvania. I hope Billy Joel is waiting there for us with open arms.

Notes of note.

1. Shawn from the Matches shaved off his (minimal) beard last night and looks like a 14-year-old. Tease him incessantly.

2. Jon from the Matches and I are currently singing songs from Aladdin. Tease us incessantly.

3. Forever The Sickest Kids' debut album, Underdog Alma Mater, is in stores everywhere today! Pick that sucker up -- I know Best Buy is selling it this week for only $7.99 with two bonus tracks, so get on it. You can stream the whole album below, too:

4. How supremely gnarly is this photo? Amy Poehler for the win!

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AP TOUR PHOTOS COLUMBUS part2

AP TOUR PHOTOS COLUMBUS part1

Rain, rain, go away.

Dear New Haven,

Why have you decided to rain on us all day long? It's really put a crimp in my off-day. My friend Matt came to pick me up this afternoon with initial plans of exploring Yale, but due to Mother Nature being on the rag, we instead headed over to the Italian portion of the city, where we indulged in a late lunch at Pepe's, where as legend has it, pizza was more or less invented. It was fantastic, and now I have a fridge full of cold pizza for lunch tomorrow. Thank god for silver linings.

Most of today has been spent in the bus, just sort of sitting around. (Stupid rain.) I did get to expose the Matches dudes to some sweet music, including Wheat, the Dismemberment Plan and the new Death Cab For Cutie and Weezer records. It was Jam Central USA on our bus today, for sure. Throw in some Chinese food and we made lemonade out of some pretty waterlogged lemons.

As we approach the final four shows of the AP Tour, I just want to remind you all of the following:

1. If you come to the show and don't already subscribe to the magazine, you're entitled to a free one-year subscription to Alternative Press Magazine. I'm amazed at how many people don't know this (or even worse, don't even know what AP is!). Take advantage of our sweet deal, people!

2. Even if you already subscribe, make sure to swing by the AP table regardless to get free posters of the AP Tour bands as well as free magazines. At Krazy Scott's Sponsor Table, everything must go go go! We're slashing prices!

3. We're doing a signing with one of the AP Tour bands every night between when doors open and when the first band starts, so show up early to see who's signing that night and then get your autograph on.

Oh yeah, one more thing: Rockstar Energy Drink just dropped off roughly a ton of cans of their liquid gold for you, the lovely AP Tour attendee, to sample/get energized off of. Be on the lookout for people handing these out:

See you all at Toad's Place tonight!