Leaving for tour tomorrow morning, pretty stoked. We also just got our tourdates for march so I'll post those on here as well.
Bringing with me besides the obvious:
- Pere Goriot by Honore the Balzac, almost done with this one and I wanna urge you to get into this writer
- A Keith Richards biografy this weird bird from Holland sent me, I'm stoked to read this, it looks promising
- Werewolves In Their Youth by Michael Chabon, I've never heard of this guy but people seem pretty stoked about him
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James, he's my favourite writes but can at times be pretty hard to get through
- A beard clipper that I just bought, I will be a non stop scruffy extravaganza from now on
- 7 cans of pringles barbeque flavour
- pictures of everybody I think about while away from home even though I have no clue where home exactly is
- my moleskine, get into it, they're huge for a reason
packing always takes me a long as time even though I like to travel light. I spend a lot of time deciding what not to bring so here's my playlist while packing, I wish all of you would listen to this even though some of these gems are a bit older. everybody who's complaining about a lack of exciting music going on should shut the hell up and that includes the guy from apparat himself. and yes, the new JT has some really innovating moments but I had to stop listening after the 'hi my name is bob and I work at my job' song which ruins that entire record. If I'm rambling it's because Kate at Corner's hooked us up with free going away drinks.
- trentemoller - the last resort
- digital mystiks - digital mystikz
- mum - summer makes good
- nathan fake - the sky is pink & drowning in a sea of love
- apparat - multifunktionsgebene
- lazy fat people - big city
Before I forget, I saw Will Whitmore yesterday and I got a gift for a special person. special. Also I just met Chef D'Micael who's the chef (as his name suggests) at the Tremont. True.
In other news, I just started a collaboration with my buddy Thorir from Reykjavik, Iceland who's doing My Summer In The Salvation Army, Gavin Portland and Fighting Shit amongst many many other things which I am wicked wicked excited about (the music he makes as well as this collab). It looks like me and him will be doing some really interesting stuff musically which I can't wait to share with the world, I will keep you posted. If it doesn't work out this was the last you'll hear off it and bootleg mp3's will go down in internet history.
I love music, it's my girlfriend. Here's tourdates, come say hi because I am playing the best guitar I ever have right now and MLIW is an unstopable rockmachine. While you're at it, say hi to Tim too and make him feel welcome (ladies...). for anybody who can't be at one of these show: I'll think about posting about them but don't count on it. I might post pics if somehow they find their way to me. I'm rambling again, thanx Kate. (ps: metal hammer thinks I'm an interesting fact, top of the world!):
Upcoming shows:
2/18/07 US , Kansas City, MO @ The Anchor
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
2/19/07 US , St. Louis, MO @ Lemp Arts Center
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 7 $ advance/ 7 $ door
2/20/07 US , Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
2/21/07 US , Indianapolis, IN @ The Underground
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
2/22/07 US , Dayton, OH @ The Water Front
w/ The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
2/23/07 US , Mt. Clemens, MI @ Hayloft Liquor Stand
w/ Bane, The Geeks, Ambitions tickets: 12 $ advance/ 12 $ door
2/24/07 US , Beloit, WI @ Beloit University
w/ tullycraft, decibully, nakatomi plaza, and dead town revival tickets: $ FREEadvance/ $ FREEdoor Open to Non-students.
3/17/07 Cedar Falls, IA @ The Reverb: St. Patrick’s Day Bash w/ Beat Strings, Brooks Strause, Torpedo Darlings and Checkmate. Doors: 7:00 Show: 10:00
3/24/07 TBD , Omaha, NE @ Christ Community Church Student Center
w/ TBD tickets: TBD $ advance/ TBD $ door
3/27/07 TBD , Milwaukee,WI @ Shorewood Legion Hall
w/ TBD tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
3/28/07 TBD , Evansville, IN @ Club 1123
w/ TBD tickets: 7 $ advance/ 7 $ door
3/29/07 TBD , Pittsburgh, PA @ Roboto Project
w/ TBD tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
3/30/07 TBD , Rochester, NY @ AV Space
w/ Achilles, Borrowed Time tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
3/31/07 TBD , Brooklyn, NY @ 538 Johnson Ave
w/ Mother Night, Paper Dragons tickets: 5 $ advance/ 5 $ door
4/1/07 TBD , Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space
w/ Ruiner, Fighting Dogs, I Adapt, Pulling Teeth tickets: 10 $ advance/ 10 $ door
Chicago tomorrow, I'm excited to see some people I haven't seen in a while again. I'm talking The Geeks (this South Korean band that's on this tour) into playing Sham 69's 'if the kids are united'.
