Tuesday, March 17, 2009

climb down the coast; jump to austin

Our friend billy rented a cobalt blue transformer-looking wagon/suv thing on the morning after our going away show at wildflower with accordions and jupiterhead. weird night before. great show but late night for such an early morning and long drive to manassas virginia to the garage. good people came out, some of whom were at the above ground audio labs show a week before, some of which i never met. bethlehem is growing and we're all stoked. i'm most stoked about writing and recording a new album, especially with the old and new dudes from memes moving into above ground with us...

so Manassas, VA....
i'm about to describe the garage in a special new way. instead of saying "sick" or "awesome", "sweet" or "killer"(which i'd never write or say anyway), i'm going to say "wolf-hour".

wolf-hour is like a wolf having not just a half hour radio show, but a full hour. guessing what the life of a wolf must be like, that's a pretty fucking intense imaginary radio and/or t.v. broadcast.

so the show at the garage was totally wolf-hour. got it? the kids there were rabid--rabid like the bacteria on your face after rubbing it with honey. the best day of your face-bacteria's short lives! we had a blast and met some cool bands from D.C., Richmond, and Manassas prop. who wanna hook it up again.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina was rainy for the first time ever(for me). Every time i'm here it's been perfect weather--the place is a xanax. i just melt in my chair outside. rainy this time---we still went out during the day to check out some record stores, book stores, and burritos(which is one of the most telling measures of a town), then returned to the Snmnmnm house with three of their members and Kaitlin from "Lost in the Trees" for rehearsal with us. Seamus from snmnmnm wrote out charts for two of our songs for trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, and cello and it was almost tear-inducing pretty. we worked out the parts and played with all of them and it was a wonderfully messy wall of sound. here's a video from rehearsals and the show:



more soon as we head to south by...

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