Last night we played UCLA with Meho Plaza, and the night before we played the Scene Bar in Glendale with Nationale, Wallpaper, and the Politics.  It was great to finally meet our label-mates Meho in person at the UCLA show.  Their set was excellent — quirky and energetic.  It was especially fun since we’ve all been listening to their album, and could sing a long a little.

Today and tomorrow will be spent in “Grey Rock Studio” recording a little before we continue up the coast.  In other news, I stupidly forgot the cable for my camera at home … but I promise to get another soon and start sharing some of the photos I’ve taken.

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We’re staying north of LA in Woodland Hills until our next gig. The weather has been beautiful, but so far, a lot of our tour has been spent driving from place to place.

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At this very moment Rich is watching History Chanel, drinking High Life and letting peanut shells fall on his bare chest. Asher asked, “when did you become a 50 year old man in Montana?”

Other than that, we were walking down some nameless five lane highway in the valley today and found this on a car. Enough said.

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We just had our last rehearsal before we head out to the west coast. We’re playing Union Pool tomorrow in Brooklyn, and then Friday early morning hopping on a plane for LA!

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The weather has become mild and wonderful here in New York. I started to substitute my bike for the horrid urine-soaked subway. It would be nice to go lay down in McCarren park today … but my vocoder isn’t going to record itself!

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The first entry to our tour diary. Maybe someone will publish the next batch? Gothamist? I’m looking at you guys!

So Brittany flew into New York last night to start rehearsals with the Ravens. We’ve got a busy few weeks ahead of us, and I applaud her for making the 15 hour journey to New York for all the hard work in store.

Of course by “15 hour journey” I mean that she spent 15 hours flying from Seattle to New York! Her plane had to land in montana for “medical problems,” whatever that means. I guess this is just a warm up to our 50+ odd hours of driving to look forward to.

Stay tuned for the next entry as I try to learn how to stream the tour live on www.justin.tv

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