cds shipped, supposedly

we have yet to see them, but we got word that they were shipped from the pressing plant, ironworks digital yesterday, so in theory we should have them in our hands soon. but that doesn't help you does it, since the record wont come out till way later. sorry.

we're also making all kinds of plans for fall and touring. lets just say, every time we come up with a plan, a new, slightly better one comes up - so we'll leave it at that in case an even better one comes up tommorow, at which point we'll tell you about it then.

And now, we wait

The record is done, the artwork is done, everything is at 'the plant'. In theory, the whole process will be done in a couple/three weeks, and we will have real live copies, wrapped in cellophane in our hands.

Release date: Sept. 27th.

What happens now? The Publicity Machine gets rolling. We sit patiently and wait for Patti and Nick to come home. Possibly, we drink an entire bottle of maple syrup. It's possible we've (I've) already had several.

I'm gonna go crazy with the waiting.

taking over the world

i just got off the phone with patti - she has safely arrived in berlin and she'll be back at the end of july. the phones ring funny when you dial over there. one of the first things she says to me increduously was, "there's a starbucks on the corner here. they're taking over the world."

artwork

know who's super talented? jef at polishbroadcast that's who. he's turned out some wicked amazing designs, and is putting the final touches on as we speak and then sending off to the pressing plant.

he did a bunch which were basically exactly what we asked him to do, and then he did one that he said he did basically that just felt like our music - which was way better than all of our ideas. it's super cool having someone take your little pieces and having them shape it into something complete, cool and visually great.

we're still behind the gun to get everyhing off to the plant. patti and i also went and had calbee from snapcult take a few studio photos - liam and rachel will go in when they get back and through the magik of "technology" it will appear that all of us are in the same room at the same time. so far they look real awesome. patti has a new foxy haircut and looks pretty hot. i apparantly look pretty good too if you believe patti. it was cool to hang with calbee and nicole, since they took some photos of us after our very first show, and we hadn't spoken since. it was a wierd time warp catching up on what both parties have been up to in the last 2 or so years.