This is crossposted at Charmcity, but I thought maybe some of y'all could help as well ( Read more... )

Hello friends,

I've had a new blog site for a couple of months - http://worldsgreatestcynics.blogspot.com/ Its no more hefty than what I used to post up here, but it looks cooler and that goes a long way with me.

I think when my time playing in bands is over, I could write a pretty interesting book on the experience. Before this go-round, all the landmarks in the life of bands seemed so foreign to me - Wy would anyone NOT want to tour? How can these wildly successful bands be so wracked with inner turmoil? How can really great bands labor beneath the ( Read more... )

By the looks of it, I haven't posted anything on here in a little bit. We just got back from another month of tour this evening. It was a ton of fun but I'm pretty wiped. Here are some cities I visited for the first time and my instant impressions of them:

Dallas - We hung out near a part of town called Deep Ellum, which was recalled as the hip ( Read more... )

Been back in Baltimore for two weeks now and it sucks hardcore balls. I would rather be any number of places than here in my old, crumbling apartment swealtering through the end of this summer. I feel like a broken, whiny record bitching about Baltimore all the time, but this past month confirmed most of my suspicions - I am out of here before ( Read more... )

Today marks the end of the second week of the tour, and things are going great. We've been in Little Rock for the last day, after bailing on a show in Tulsa, OK and driving back here from Fayetteville, AR. So far we've played Philly, NYC, Providnce, Westchester (PA), Charleston, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and Fayetteville, and we' ( Read more... )

Sometime over the winter - without much fanfare or even a monent I can look back on as a real beginning - I entered what you might call My Nihilist Stage. I've been struggling for some time to find some sort of reason - if not some kind of useful direction - for the legions of fears and worries and desires I held for what I feel is going on all ( Read more... )

The band went on a trip this past weekend through Charleston, SC, Athens and Madison, GA and Raleigh, NC. Charleston started out really weird - it wasn't a "show" bar so much and we were asked to play for 2.5 hours, which is a frickin' eternity for us. Hardly anyone paid anyone attention for the first hour and a half we were up there, and then ( Read more... )

I climbed into bed last night at 1:15am and thought "It's kind of nice going to bed early for once."

My circadian rhythm doesn't have a down cycle.

For the first time in my life - I NEED a vacation. I feel like I haven't exhaled since March, when the record came out. Since then, my entire being has been focused on the band - booking shows, handling press, arranging practices, having strategy sessions, etc. I talked about "markets" and shows being "lucrative." I realized how topsy-turvy my ( Read more... )