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May 2007

  • May 30th, 2007.

    I’m kind of caffeinated, buzzed on mochas and espresso and my mouth is filled with the cloying sweetness of peaches and blackberries. The air is balmy and thick outside and I’m grateful for the confined coolness of the interior of my car, racing westward back to Ben’s after another show in Charlotte , North Carolina…

  • May 28th, 2007.

    It’s a morning. Friday night we had a tiny show at Mr. Toad’s Coffee Roasters in Cary , North Carolina – and saw a number of people that I hadn’t seen in a long time. It’s always good to have Katy out for a gig, but we hadn’t seen Missy and Mike out to a…

  • May 26th, 2007.

    Ani Difranco accompanies us on the ride out to Hickory, North Carolina. her voice is matching my mood for once – though I’d felt I’d outgrown her years ago, I’ve been fighting a level of angst, of lack of motion, of lack of emotion really, recently. A large part of me is very, very tired.…

  • May 22nd, 2007.

    It’s heading on to 2am and my brain is heading down to almost unconsciousness. Aaralyn, a band that my friend Holly is managing, has stopped in for the night after playing the 8×10. I’m all too happy to give back some of the “may I crash with you karma” ( http://myspace.com/aaralynband ) – I miss having a…

  • May 21st, 2007.

    I Love being in the studio – I Love being in the centre of us and hearing everything that we’ve pushed out of ourselves into signal and microphone grill, watching the LEDs count up and out to forever. It’s one of the most satisfying feelings I know. It’s better than hanging a show, it’s way…

  • May 13th, 2007.

    Ah, alcohol, the drug of choice is hung like a badge from the exteriors of houses. In California, PA – most mornings have a Morning After kind of feel to them. People are obviously hung over and not ready for the sunshine. I don’t understand how people can be so bored with their Lives that…

  • May 12th, 2007.

    Sitting at the College Perk, enjoying the breeze. It’s absolutely unfair to have gone from the beautiful spring that we’ve enjoyed really since the trip began and we hit Alabama in February – even at the beginning of May in Ohio we were still having beautiful weather – and then the moment we crossed into…

  • May 2nd, 2007.

    It’s a beautiful day in California, PA. I just ate lunch down on the Monongahela River and have returned to Jozart just sit and think and enjoy the midday quiet. At night, this little town is filled with the whooping and hollering of drunk college students, and the morning is full of the clankings and…