elephant genius

to start off, i need to say that i'm disappointed in my home start of pennsylvania for not giving obama the win. i still think he has a chance.. but maybe i should have absentee voted, it would have made all the difference!!!

also, this is amazing:


here's a really great video:


and here's a really awkward interview with sigur ros that is really funny to watch
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/10/when_good_interviews_go_bad.html




now to the updates and other such things:


so the past few days have been absolutely insane and fun...

we played the norva the other day and it was our first experience there... definitely the best venue ever. i played ping pong for like 3 hours straight and beat everyone except for travis... he's real good, but i'll beat him at some point, i promise.

last night was baltimore and it was also amazing, it was a really great show. so much fun, everyone was crowd surfing and stage diving, it was pretty nuts. also bryan came up and sang, and video taped it so that he can further his chances on the pick up artist 2.... i can't wait to hear if he wins or not. heath also came to the show and we hung out with him later, it was a lot of fun to hang out with some good/familiar people for a change... when we are on the west coast and midwest, we don't know too many people so it's weird not to see many people we know for such a long stretch of time. the show was so packed and it was awesome. afterwards, we went to a diner and ate vegan nachos and then to a bar. we stayed at bryans house, which was lots of fun, just hanging out.

today we ate at an incredible vegan places, where i spent 15 dollars just to eat, but it was so worth it. i wish there were vegan restaurants in every city, like some kind of a fast food vegan place everywhere, it would make me very happy.

anyway, keep an eye out for bryan on pick up artist 2, because i forsee it in the future

tonight was also so much fun.. we were so close to philly and there were so many familiar faces, i had a lot of fun... nate and i also did some sweet jumps at the end of the set tonight when he was playing george's bass. tonight is a big hang out session tonight... at the hotel, i'm glad

it sucks that we aren't playing tomorrow, but we're gonna have a lot of fun in shippensburg at the youniver city.

so i've been going pretty crazy though... so much stuff to deal with, like album art and mixes and mastering and keeping up with the tour and all these new song ideas running through my head already.

it's also been lots thinking about how i never see my parents unless they come to shows and it's pretty sad, but i guess that's what happens when you grow up. they came to the show in wheeling and it was great to see them, but it's such a bummer to only hang out with them for a few hours, but hopefully i'll be able to go visit with them this summer sometime.

anyway, we get home pretty soon and i'm really excited, we're gonna have a bit of time off and i'm so excited to relax and sort things out and see some friends and some phillies games and some radiohead. speaking of which, did anyone see them on conan last night? it was pretty amazing. how is radiohead so genius? how do they do it?

well i'm going to hit the hay

good night
brndn