Wednesday, January 20, 2010

ah..

the tour lineup is officially settled, as of a few days ago. we had a full rehearsal this past monday, and everything is sounding great! all the shows for this tour are looking pretty solid, and the first big leg of the tour is pretty intense.. 8 or 9 shows straight, with no days off until we hit columbus, oh.. we're all pretty excited about that.

we were really trying to have an EP ready to push for this tour, but with a recent computer crash, resulting in the loss of all the recording we had been doing, it's looking like instead, we'll have a CD-R available for a few bucks or donations, of some newer demos we had been recording before the crash..

plenty of new things coming, slowly but surely..

Saturday, January 16, 2010

baggage...

when you travel a lot, you tend to carry a lot of it with you..

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

tonight

it seems the new tour lineup has been solidified. we had a partial rehearsal tonight to get things going, and it's sounding great so far. we start real rehearsals very soon... i'm really excited to get this lineup out on the road, and on a different stage every night...

also, working on putting together one more atlanta show before tour, sort of a tour send off house show... more info on that soon.

Monday, January 11, 2010

visuals

here's a video someone shot from the eyedrum show the other night that just surfaced... just jacob and i.



we also shot some of our own video, we'll edit something together here soon.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

sometimes...

nostalgia feels nice... i've been lookin' forward for so long now, i seem to have forgotten a good bit of where i've been. tonight, as i'm thinking back on hazy years gone by, and memories stored in sepia tones, i feel very thankful for what i have, who i have, and where i'm headed...

sometimes, a quick look over your shoulder can help set your steps straight...

Friday, January 8, 2010

practice

the middle way.

the bug

days have been going by like the pages of an open book left to the winter wind.. this is a strange season and a very strange time.

i didn't wake up until 1 today, and i didn't like it.. i had strange and uncomfortable dreams.

i had a really good, and long overdue, conversation with jacob earlier about traveling, the future, and what a strange time we're both living through right now... vague central, when you try to regurgitate it. i can only speak for myself... i'm currently living in a space, both physically and mentally, where i'm not able to find much peace. i'm aching for a change of scenery, a change of pace, a change of residency.. all in more ways than one.. i'm still learning a lot right now though, about patience, which i should totally be thankful for. it's not often that you're in a situation where you are openly confronted with an opportunity to learn, and consciously better yourself. just the fact that i'm conscious that i'm even in this situation makes me happy.. but i can't appreciate this situation right now. even though this problem is affecting me in a positive way in one light, in another light, it's driving me crazy, literally... this is life. subject/object. the sun setting into darkness, in one part of my mind, is the sun rising into a beautiful blue sky, in another... they're both beautiful, and should be appreciated. this is a problem with many layers to it... hmm, maybe instead, i should say, this is a solution with many layers to it... oh sweet duality.

i'm dancing to a song that i don't love like i should... knowing this, and remaining unappreciative, gets far more taxing than the dance itself... i would really like someone to show me how to love like i should, all over again. i don't even know where to start anymore.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

re:

tomorrow, we start full band rehearsals for the winter tour. every tour, i've been using a different lineup, and arranging songs a little differently.. at first, that wasn't intentional, it just came from a lack of options, and a lack of people who really wanted a life on the road... but now, it's becoming more of a conscious effort, to keep switching things up. keeps things fresh, and interesting. there are a few songs that we'll be playing on this tour, that i honestly don't think i could keep playing the way it was recorded, or any of the ways i've toured it before... this tour will be about new songs, for the most part... though nothing is solid right now, on this tour, the lineup looks like it'll be me on guitar, both acoustic and electric, jacob back on lapsteel, charlie (who played drums on the last tour) will move to bass/keys, and we'll be adding a drummer, and another electric player. i'm already pretty thrilled about the possibilities.. pictures/videos from tour rehearsals coming soon...

Saturday, January 2, 2010