Chapel Hill, North Carolina

We're all just waking up from our day-off rest at the Kraska family home. Nick's pop was kind enough to grill us some meat and veggies, let us drink his beer and do some laundry. We've hosed off all of the funk and grease of the last few days and are rarin' to go for the next leg of this here tour.

The shows have been pretty wicked awesome for the most part, we have zero complaints. Big ups to the good people at Grimey's Records and our boys Apollo Up in Nashville, The Labiators and Travis the poster-maker in Asheville, our homies Bald Eagle and Nardy the poster-maker in Columbia, J. Hall and his hyper-smart baby in Kansas City and Billy and Shea and Elizabeth and Luna and the Math and Science Highschool in Hot Springs.

My awesome camera that my wife gave me before we left is now a paperweight (due to know fault of my own) and awaits repair once I get back to Ohio. So no more pictures, which happens to be bullshit.

Tonight, D.C, and I've got a couple of things to say to the President, so I hope he shows up.

Ames, Iowa

We're just getting up to steam on this here tour, had the day off yesterday after a pretty fun show in Minneapolis and one in Dubuque the day before. I love having the record on vinyl, but those things are wicked heavy. We took in a little culture yesterday at the Walker art museum, saw our friend from Pachyderm, Jim, and drove halfway to Omaha, which is where our show is tonight. The stupid rock and roll behaviour has been kept to a minimum, which is good for our health, but leaves us a bit short on entertaining stories. Here are a couple of the several pictures that I have taken so far.....FLICKR

records in, covers done

don't drink pop (soda) (coke)

i just got back from the dentist getting half of part one of my major hostile cavity takeover plan. it sucked. i now have some stupid temporary inlays, and i will get real teeth when we get back from tour. so, i get to only chew on one side of my mouth until then. i attribute my recent spike in cavity's to the free pop (soda) (coke) machine at my work.

i say pop or soda (pop is michigan, where i grew up and seemingly the rest of the midwest inclusing illinois, soda is wisconsin where i went to college, and coke is what patti and other wackos in florida say - there is absolutely no logical reason you should refer to a sprite as a coke, then ask for a sprite. we argue about this often in the van.) check out where you stand on the debate.

i also redesigned the web site. it is here. purevolume has us featured on thier home page now so lots of people are listening to our pretty songs.

the van is in the shop right now getting a new transmission line and fan belt, along with whatever else our friendly mechanic chums at norm's auto clinic on lincoln recommended. rachel and patti apparantly did a thorough cleaning over the weekend so hopefully no more garbage for at least the first day of tour. patti and rachel can sure nest like crazy in those back seats. kimball and i just listen to bad southern rap in the front.

To love, honor and rock, as long as we both shall live.

Vinyl en-Route

our records shipped yesterday, you can track the progress here. we just have to, uh - make our custom covers now. as of right now they have just left lewisberry, pa. i have no idea where lewisberry, pa is.

here are some awesome photos andrew ballantyne took at our texas ballroom release show.