so here we are with two weeks left before ursa major comes out and i am so excited about playing the fox theater. i hope everyone who can come will make it to that show. the fox is beautiful and it's our first home town show since the filmore. all of our friends will be there. come celebrate this with us if you can make it. we are going to play water landing and summer town...
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so did i tell you that i parked my bike in mid town after a super groovy ride up there from the bowery and it got stolen. oh how i love riding around nyc. you all should try it. it's a video game with consequences. here's the the good news: it got returned. i love seeing people's better natures. speaking of better natures: you all are so intense that new york magazine picked up on...
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finally i think we got some tv right! we always feel so sketchy on tv. it's so artificial. we get stiff. well we got over it this time and we got our legs under us. you were all so great to come and support us. i meant it when i said you guys are like our back up singers. speaking of which-- how bout the fine people lee brought to sing back ups on don't believe a word-- extra special!...
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i cannot remember being more fundamentaly tired than when i finished this tour. today is the first day that i felt like i could evern think straight. still, it's 6:30 as i write this and i still feel like sleeping for a week. in a few days, we'll do good morning america and there will be a moment when i wake back up. it was great to be out on the water looking for waves with brad in...
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so....ahheemm....[clears throat], well well, ahh, so some of you might be wanting to know just how it is, how the holy fucking cow it is after six fucking years and no album and then stephan who flamfucking boyantly fed starfucker the magnum opus opera thing and oh yes it'll have lots and lots of lyrics. WELL?!! here's the the story. carnival barker is trying to kill me. it is really my...
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portland was the loudest show of the tour. the floor of the crystal ballroom is bouncy and it made everyone jump off. it was packed and sweaty and i needed it so much that night. yes i did actually loose it on stage. my mom lives in portland and she's not been feeling so hotsy totsy as of late and she couldn't come to the show. i don't think she'll be able to make it anymore, and it...
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san francisco-- good morning my lovely friends. i heard my fog horn out the window last night-- ah back in san francisco. this is the first time i have slep in my own bed since march! today we play san jose and then off to seatle. home for a day. i was staying down at the bowery hotel last few days and i rode a beach crusier up to 53 street to he stage entrance of the roseland...
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i was having trouble getting up in the morning--coping with the sadness, loss of appitite, lack of interest, discipline. mostly i just wanted to coil up into ball and listen to myself wheeze when i breathe. i was like a wind up doll, only human, and really depressed and coiled up into a ball. then i found blindiq from the ursa major company. their dedicated employeess took my...
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it was so over sold and super packed and the show was a sea of happiness. thank you dallas--i met so many people who drove six or seven hours to go to this show tonight. it dawned on me that this is the most i have ever smiled on stage ever. we have been on this tour long enought that i now feel straight up nuts. wishing you all lots of love tonight. i'm on my way to aura where...
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lets just come out and say it, abe freaks me out. when abe's around, sex just happens. he is the most virile human being ever. how could we possily let him join the band -- i mean really! when he plays the bass, the audience devoles into an undulating love swamp. the only way we can stop him is to expose him to direct sunlight, but that would take getting up really early, so.... and did...
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