I'm taking a look back at October. What a wild month for your baby Superfun. I played my 1000th show, I traveled to Texas and I played a comedy show with a bunch of wrestlers. Let's dig in dude!
Wow, 1000th show. What a delight. If my calculations were correct, that was show 1000 on October 3rd of this year 2025. Also just happened to be the anniversary of the very first Superfun show. I always want to do something on October 3rd to celebrate so this was my lil scheme for this year. I pulled out a bunch of old songs I haven't played in years and probably won't play some of those ever again. I also wrote a new song the weekend before and played that and it's one of my favorite songs to play now. Let me tell you something St. Louis. I had such a great time at this show, everyone there was awesome. I appreciate anyone who has come out to a Superfun show in the last 100 years. Honestly though, the attendance to this one though was pretty rough. Maybe it's the dreaded algorithm and no one even knows I'm playing a show, but local show attendance has been pretty dang low recently and it's getting to me. That combined with the previously mentioned algorithm just killing anything I post about…it is a lil bonkers trying to stay positive sometimes. Maybe you're tired of ol Superfun, maybe you've got a lot going on, I don't know what it is. I miss ya. I'm still trying my best. It's hard out there trying to be a lil ding dong. I am thankful to anyone who takes their time to go see a small artist out there. THANK YOU. Ddare Bionic and Grain played the show with me. Two of my favorite local artists. How there isn't a crowd of 400 people going to every one of their shows, I don't understand. Grain makes me laugh harder than almost anything. Anyway, I hope to see you at a show. If you have a suggestion on how to improve the Superfun show experience, please let me know and put the suggestion in the suggestion box.
I took off down to Texas and played in Houston and Austin. I played at Super Happy Fun Land in Houston and had not been there in so long. It was very much the same as I remembered. Full of so much wild stuff inside that place, it's fun to just look around. I had a slight meltdown because my tablet I play my songs out of was dead and would not charge, but it came back to life. Maybe for the first time since I've been doing it...someone ruined the jump. If you don't know I often jump over someone at shows. This time the person jumped up as I was about to jump over them and started dancing. I was a lil pissy about it, I regret my tude. If you're going to volunteer to be a part of a show...don't then just go out of your way to screw up the show? Ergh. I didn't do the jump the next night in Austin and have scaled back on it a bit. I'm overthinking it too much. Austin was great, played with a bunch of rad bands and saw my old pal Dan aka The Bassturd who I had not seen since 2019. Got to play at Hole In The Wall where Patty Griffin got her start. My pals Koo Koo were in town playing the ACL festival and invited me along the next day so we got to roam around the festival and eat catering and get free lil coffees. I love a lil coffee. I absolutely love a FREE lil coffee. Wonderful to see the Koo boys. They invited me up to Minneapolis in December and they'll be down here in St. Louis in February. They took me on tour with them a few years back and I am forever grateful for that experience.
Finally, another completely wild thing that happened in October. I played The All Elite Comedy Show here in St. Louis. I've been a wrestling fan since I was a tiny Superfun. Colt Cabana and RJ City, two of the talents involved with All Elite Wrestling have been putting on comedy shows around some of their bigger events. When I saw AEW was coming to St. Louis for a pay per view, I immediately reached out to Colt to see if we could make it happen here in STL. Colt Cabana changed the game when it comes to independent wrestling. He pulled in the comedy world, had really the first wrestling podcast for 10 years and had a top notch merch game that helped other independent wrestlers figure out they could sell merch successfully. I had met Colt years ago and at some point he asked me to make some music for him for something and that has continued on and off for years now. SO I hit up Colt and they were down to have the comedy show here, I found us a venue and I got to open up the show. A sold out show of a bunch of wrestler's goofing around in a small intimate venue? As a lil wrestling dork, it was a dream. I got to jump AEW referee Bryce Remsburg that night. I met Bryce during his time in Chikara wrestling where I made a song about an injured wrestling pigeon and we've kept in touch over the years. It was great to see him again even though our show made him a little late to see They Might Be Giants that night. Former WCW cruiserweight champion Dean Malenko saw me sing "Truck Nuts", Jeff Jarrett and Tony Schiavone were there and were sweeties. Harley Cameron sang a hilarious song that is still burned in my brain, RJ is a hilarious host. Everyone was great. Fun times. Thanks to everyone that came.
Hey thanks for reading all this. I think I'm going to do this more often. New song out Friday.