We'll be at Tiny Telephone Studios for 36 days beginning August 1st with our most awesome producer Bill Racine.  Tiny Telephone is in the heart of the Mission in San Francisco so you can betcha we'll be getting our tasty fill of Mexican food during sessions.  When we are done, we'll have our  debut full length for you and we'll be hitting the road hard beginning in September.  It will be our duty to make sure we post lots of news/photos/tour date updates while we're in the studio.  We'll really miss you until then, we posted a couple of rough demos up on myspace of some of the new material so you know.  

I'm giving thanks right now because it's too easy to forget how much you have.  I give thanks for our awesome buddy, the work horse also known as our little white van.  He's been good to us, never broke down, air conditioning works awesome, doesn't smell, couldn't really ask for more.  I give thanks to the awesome people we get to meet and hang out with every time we play a show.  I wish that I had more time to be able to chat one on one with everyone.  I give thanks to the opportunities we get because of the people that really believe in us and continue to help us live out our dreams. Coming back from Southern California after hanging out with some new friends I made at Spaceland (talking music), hanging out with all our good friends (talking music),  hanging out with Jon at the Detroit Bar (talking music), crashing at Jennifer and Robb's place (talking music!) made me want to think about all I give thanks for. 

Before I begin my babble, I'd like to say that I don't post nearly frequently to deserve writing in stream of consciousness but I don't care. Tonight, I felt like sharing some of my thoughts with you and so here I go.  Lately, I've been very obsessed with the idea that the left and right hemispheres of my brain are battling it out for control.  Because we've been entrenched in writing mode the last month and my creative spurts are ongoing, I am constantly shifting between new creation and post analysis.  It is a jubilant and tortured existence because given any length of time with my left brain, I can talk my right brain out of any new idea I'm working on.  So my new strategy is to get the idea, document it, and leave it alone for a few days and then come back to it. It seems that locking myself up in my room with the guitar 24/7 doesn't amount to better songwriting but rather obsessive behaviour and also this rant about my two brain sides trying to have it out.