so let me tell you about last night in nashville. i started the day about 12:30 in the afternoon and shuffled over to the world famous blackbird studios and spent the day there recording "in the skin" and "now i don't know" for ursa minor. it was such a treat. we went back to recording everything on on tape for ursa minor and it's going to be so much better. it was abe's first...
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ooooooweeeee i like this bus. we've been driving for 12 hours and i slept like a baby in the back in my comfy bed. it's me and brad and chrissy on this bus and i am having blue berries and and coffee while the greeen coverd lime stone walls of chatanoga roll by. so not only are we going to play nashville on the fitth, but we are also going to record tomorrow at the famous blackbird...
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so here's my first try at it. what do you think? 1. intro 2. can you take me 3. losing a whole year 4. monotov’s 5. crystal baler 6. wounded 7. sharp knife 8. never let you go 9. motorcycle drive by 10. waterlanding 11. jumper acoustic 12. one in ten 13. dao 14. how’s it going to be 15. don’t believe a...
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so here we are back in san fran last night and here's what we did: minna choi, the mastra of the MMO broiught a 30 piece orchestra in and did five songs from ursa major and it was sooooooooooo fun! we are going to post photos soon. i cannot tell you how good it sounded with a full orchestra playing minna's arrangements of our songs. i so admire her and i cannot wait to share with you...
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last night we played in the rain in jersy and i thought i would get electrocuted. bare feet. stage full of cables. lots of volts. puddles. plugs. shit. still, i like to play in adversity and i was stoked to see so many people come and get wet and get down. i was also thinking that last night was really aboiut the last of we'll be playing the set this way. brad and tony won't be...
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last night tony and i played at a shoe store. they are selling our record and it's the least i can do. i felt a bit strange about it since we were playing for fashion week where americans are encouraged to go out and buy more stuff. still, i went out on the street and played a song to the folks who couldn't get in and it felt really good and fun like things are under way. i can't tell you...
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so i have this little surf spot up the coast in northern cal. it's indian summer time now and this time of year always has the most feeling in it. i was out in the water the a few days ago and we saw five whales swim by, a pod of dolphins, and there were sea lions all around us. the great white sharks come in and eat the seals around this time of year and i began to wonder if mr grey...
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hello gentle kin, i love these late days of summer. all that sticky heat is an overdose of ecstasy and then those showers come and everyone says "ahhh!" i rolled on my bike to the pool party today in williamsburg and it was a fine time. not as freaky as my san francisco, but then, we didn't have dodgeball and that's definitely a hoot! anyway, i was talking to brad and i...
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hi everyobody. i'm back from Bali (photos) and then almost straight to the show at the fox last night. how crazy that was (pix to come on that too). i feel so crazy on the dateline--i've just been time traveling across the world. i went to the after party last night and then slept till 1:30 in the afternoon. but here's the thing. today i talked to someone at the l.a. times and he...
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hello friends. i'm off to indonesia tonight for a 17 hour trip to play one big rock show. the bombings over there have made some of the bands pull out of the festival and some people have recomended that we don't go. not going just feels like aquiesing i think. it's crying uncle. nooo way! here's the other reason. tomorow there's going to be thousands of muslim kids who want...
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