i bought some new articles of clothing while we were in madison, wisconsin. turns out, madison is a super-mega-ultra-turbo cool city. the first of my purchases was a bright orange hoodie that says in big letters across the front: "GEORGIA". that's right, i bought it in wisconsin. and it's not just any font....it's unmistakably a UGA hoodie that ( Read more... )

tour's going well. this is not a full-fleged entry, just some funny little stuff about people that come to see the show. i don't know if i mentioned signing people's hands when they don't have a program or a drumstick. i feel really awkward doing it, and it's not like my name is legible when i sign it anyway....you should see it when i try to ( Read more... )

so, hanging out with awesome people that you love to hang out with is a great situation, right? i think the answer is: almost always. the problem comes in when you like hanging out with someone because he/she is really fun to be around, but he/she hangs out with you because they want/need to have someone around- ANY someone. that results in an ( Read more... )

let's start with random thoughts that i think are worth sharing. ummm, jackson,mississippi is not my favorite place in the world. the show was well received, but the city just wasn't enjoyable. like, if city could get the crap kicked out of it like a person, that's what it would feel like after it did. also, i had a very enjoyable day off ( Read more... )

When I dreamed my little dreams of touring the country with a Tony award-winning broadway show, Fayetteville, Arkansas was not one of the cities I invisioned with neon lights screaming “Drew Simpson with BLAST!” (hey, they’re MY dreams). Nevertheless, here in the pride of Northwestern Ar-Kansas is where I find myself to begin this wild little ( Read more... )

we stopped at a super wal-mart in nowheresville, missouri yesterday on our trek to fayetteville, arkansas. we were told that we were making pretty good time on the road, so instead of stopping again for dinner, we would just push through this last leg and get into town about 7 or 8. so, my friend erin and i decided that we should get 'dinnerish" ( Read more... )

so, one of the directors of the show wanted me to get my hair "styled". he liked that my hair was long; he even said that he wished that more dudes in the cast had long hair because we "looked like a bunch of midwest farmboys." so, he recommended a stylist here in bloomington and sent me there for her to do with me what she would. she said that ( Read more... )

uh, yeah.

ok, apparently you can't escape redneck people even if you leave the south. we are staying in the middle of nowhere indiana and, consequently, there are a lot of people that fit into that mold. i know that sounds overly judgmental and shallow, but you'd know what i meant if you were here....lots of dudes with mustaches and mullets wearing ( Read more... )

in two weeks we have learned roughly half of a 2 hour show. since i'm playing drumset, i don't march drill on the charts that have it; however, for the tunes that i am on stage i am running and jumping all over the place. the last two days, we've been learning the chart that is most physically demanding for me. it's not about how hard i hit the ( Read more... )