You may have noticed that we’re not really on tour yet. Don’t get hung up on that, there’s still plenty of pre-tour madness and mayhem to go around. For instance: just yesterday, Misha and I bought some velcro and quarter inch particle board. And the day before that, we went to the guitar store to buy some more picks. Today we might buy a mic stand and some blank tapes.

Basically, being in a band is a lot like being in a rural marriage with six children and no friends just before the winter holidays. You’re always buying “presents” for your guitars, which never give you anything in return but grief, callouses, colic and grey hairs.

But all that is about to change. Soon the guitars will be buying us presents.

Ye olde dot-com is in the process of getting a discreet but much-needed overhaul these days, so don’t worry if entire sections go missing for months at a time. It’ll all make sense in a week or two.

In response to those of you who have been asking about our position vis a vis the latest RIAA webcasting crackdown, we are obviously 100% fine with anybody anywhere broadcasting whatever the hell they want from our catalog, just as long as it’s not being used to motivate mercenary armies in Myanmar or actively cut down old growth forest. For those of you who are worried about the current state of the music industry, don’t be. Just sit back and relax. Our agent Hilary Rosen is doing an incredible job of destroying the RIAA from within. I just hope she’s able to break cover before all the riots start.