It’s Wednesday night. I’ve been living out of a suitcase for the past two and a half weeks, which in the grand scheme of things is nothing, but still. It’s enough to twist your head around to the point where waking up in a rental car feels normal.

The great East Coast odyssey was Homeric in scope, even though I’m sworn to secrecy about 98% of the relevant details. It was refreshing to know that Misha and I can still put on a show – we were never supposed to go this long between shows, but it’s been a pretty crazy year.

New York and Vienna were amazing, as always. Actually, Vienna’s always amazing; New York is more of a crapshoot. This time we got lucky. Probably my favorite thing about being a musician is getting to make friends with roughly 17,000 people, then watch as they shift and reorganize across the American landscape.

Well, that and the screaming fans.

I don’t really have a thesis here, beyond:

Thanks, as always, to everyone who came out to the shows. We’ll see the rest of you soon.

Cheers,
Dave

The most blogworthy times are, sadly, the hecticest, so I’m afraid this picture will have to suffice until I can come up with a thousand words.

It’s creepy how many of you have Razrs.

My bandmate Misha’s eyelids have this thing they do with astonishing regularity, where either one or both of them fire at the exact second someone’s taking a picture of him, thereby ruining said picture. It’s not such a big deal now that most people have digital cameras, but for the first three years of us being a band, we were able to get maybe four usable photos total, and were said to be on a widely circulated blacklist of Bands Not To Professionally Photograph Under Any Circumstances, along with Daft Punk and Alice In Chains, due to the sheer humongity of film costs associated with shooting at us.

Anyways, this is a rare, long-exposure shot of his left eyelid caught mid-blink, which I thought I’d share with everyone for sheer interest’s sake. Click to enlarge – if you dare.

Cheers,

Dave

PS: I put a very rough demo of “Amicus” up here. Trying to get back to my lo-fi roots and all that. User “bull”, password “moose”, if they ask you.