Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. I’ll change the splash page as soon as I get some new photos. I got back from the cross country road trip today after dropping Jess off in Jersey City. It was such a fun time. Thanks to our friends that we got to see along the way, especially Brian and Carolyn for putting us up in Austin and for Jamie and Matthew for showing us the proper way to eat crawdads in Jackson. We ended up driving over 4,000 miles on the trip and got to see quite a lot of things I’d never seen before. New Orleans was a bit of a letdown, but Jackson made up for it. Austin was great, just how I’d remembered it being. Memphis wasn’t all that great, but the tour of Sun Studio made me feel close to the history of rock and roll, even though there was too much of a focus on Elvis and not enough on Johnny Cash for my liking. In Kentucky, we stopped off at the monestary where Thomas Merton lived and is buried and bought some of the Trappist made cheese and bourbon fudge. In West Virginia, we visited some very large…
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Saxon Shore are on tour RIGHT NOW: May 4 : Fredonia, NY. BJ’s, 11pm, 18+/21+ = $3/Free May 5 : New York, NY. Piano’s, Saxon Shore plays at midnight, $8 May 6 : Greensboro, NC. Gate City Noise 8pm, Free Show May 7 : Mount Pleasant, SC. Village Tavern w/ North Elementary May 8 : Orlando, FL. Cornerstone Festival(Saxon Shore plays at noon) w/ Pedro The Lion, Ester Drang May 9 : Nashville, TN. TBA w/ The Sincerity Guild May 10 : Kokomo, IN. Fairfield Church, 1476 East 400 South (on state road 26), 7pm, $5 May 11 : Mount Pleasant, MI. Wesley Foundation, 1400 S. Washington, 7pm $6 w/ Anathallo, The Chiodos Bros, Foxhole May 12 : Grand Rapids, MI. Calvin College w/ Anathallo I’m in Austin, TX right now, trekking cross country. So far, we’ve been to the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, and Painted Desert, stopping at all kinds of interesting restaurants from a special roadtrip food book that I picked up. Some really interesting places. :::scott:::
I’m getting ready to leave San Francisco. I had breakfast super early with John of Half-Handed Cloud fame and it was a lot of fun. His releases have been on Asthmatic Kitty/Sounds Familyre and the Canadian IN Transit label. Last night, I met with Adam, the manager of The Trouble with Sweeney, before the Giants game. I tried to convince him to go and almost had him, but there was some fancy dealing of tickets that took place and he went home. I fully embraced the Padres domination of the Giants with an 11-0 shutout. Oooh yeah. Dodgers are still going strong. Big news, Kind of Like Spitting are finally doing the final mixes for their one-sided LP. Yeah, it’s on. Back to LA in a couple of hours… :::scott:::