Here’s something kinda new: I’ve been semi-actively watching sports—specifically, the Finals and a couple World Cup matches. World Cup, I’ve been paying less attention to, but I’m intrigued by it. My knowledge of soccer falls well below my knowledge of other sports (and we’re already scraping the bottom of the barrel with that). Anything beyond the axioms “kick goddamn the ball into the net” and “David Beckham is a douche” is fairly new to me. Jen, Dan and myself saw parts of the England v. U.S. match when we had a bit of downtime at this Saturday’s mix session. Soccer gets a lot of (mostly hilarious) flack here in the States, but it looks extremely exhausting. Might catch a Revs match at some point this summer. I believe there’s a game going on the day we’re playing at Gillette, may try and grab tickets for those. There was also an interesting docu on PBS (American Masters, methinks) on Joan Baez that we caught a little bit of.

On the way back from the Rosebud on Friday. I was le tired.

Eh.  Could be worse. We’ve evolved to the point where there are much, much, much, much worse things on TV, amiright? Watching the news is no good. Oil spill’s getting worse, I heard there was another one in SLC, more stupid assholes are running for office and pushing dumbass laws because there’s nothing better to do—par for the course, really—and there were some flood-related deaths in Arkansas. I care, I really do, but it’s all been too much to handle lately. Overwhelming, really.

Best I can do right now is repeat the usual reminders: donate to the Red Cross, read more books, and cross your fingers.

Caught a couple of shows at the Rosebud in Somerville this weekend, starting with Muy Cansado and Sun Lee Sunbeam on Friday (great, great show). Saturday, I saw many of the same folks at the same place for Mixtape 1993, which had St. Helena, Exile in Somerville, The Rationales, and The Luxury playing songs from (you guessed it) 1993. So much flannel. It was my first time at the Rosebud, too. Really dug the place.

As mentioned, there was a mix session this past Saturday. We have yet to tweak a few minor things on a couple of songs, but we’re at the point where we’ve cleared a majority of the tracks. Could probably get that done in one session. Mastering session is nearly booked (I think?), and we’re already putting the feelers out for packaging, getting prices for pressing on vinyl (I hope) . . . Extremely anxious to get this goddamned thing out already. Been at it with this record for a little over a year now, and that’s if you don’t count the time we were just demoing and writing half the songs. I’m already thinking about what the record after that is going to be like, and Jen and I are already putting down a couple rough demos here and there.

Dates are beginning to line up for the fall tour, too, including a couple in the west coast (FINALLY). No turning back now . . . Things Are Happening.

Ahh . . . It’s all very daunting and we’re tempting the fates more than we probably should, but nonetheless it’s a good time to be alive in this band.

Henry

PS: Charles makes a mean burrito, but I think he’s trying to kill me with bird’s eye chili. I’m onto that crafty bastard’s game.

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