VIVA...

LAS VEGAS.
vegas is pretty cool for about 24 hours. im really trying not to gamble cuz i dont got the money to waste. im doing really good. will power ya know. were at the palms all day today. nice, but small. im about to brush my teeth, its almost 3pm. didnt go to sleep til about 5am last night, which is like 3 hrs later than normal for me.

lauren left last night. sucks, but ill be home in like 2 wks, so the pain is eased slightly becasue of that.

my friend shawn is getting married during my break which i think ive mentioned before. i have to miss the bachelor party which kinda blows.

tour is going really well, we have basically a whole new crew. we didnt fire anybody, were not mean or anything it just happened that way.

weve had a few listening parties on our bus and theyve gone really well. all the kids have been really amped to hear some of the new tunes and i kinda wish bands that i loved back in the day wouldve done things like that. i guess it goes hand in hand with the internet revolution.

ok i still have to brush my teeth.

if uve never seen it before you should watch TAI TV (the academy is.com) and see this weeks episode because its funny and it shows our bus. sweet. bye

californ-yaaaaaaa

well im here in california. its nice. except for the street we are currently parked on in san fran. its where crackheads die and go to crackhead heaven. i know in the last blog i talked about bums so im gonna stop now. tonights show was the best of the tour, not gonna lie. the stage was a really good size, which makes us play a lot better i think. also, the kids were going crazy. then we went out with our girl haley who is amazing and i wish all ppl in the record industry were like her.

tomorrow is LA which means lots of bigwigs... and all the cooool cool cool people. BARF. although i did hear that tom from myspace is gonna be there. pretty pumped on that i gotta say. weve been getting some pretty good news about our record concerning some things that we are getting for the push.

enough about my stupid band. life is good and lauren will be here on friday night. the only bad thing about that is that everyone elses Gf will be here already. i get sad and tend to like distance myself from everyone else just cuz its depressing for me when everyones on "girlfriend patrol". thats what we call it. haha.

1st & Pike

portland was cool and seattle was the best show we've ever played here so far. i walked around a lot today. woke up early to see the Giants lose to the packers. it was fun, mad ppl were into it. i bought the feist record and listened to that while i roamed around downtown seattle. so many bums... i seriously probably saw like 300 homeless ppl today. what else..... im watching eddie murphy RAW right now and its ridiculously funny. im italiam and he does a dead on italian impression.

day off tomorrow in portland at the pretty famous jupiter hotel. its like THE band hotel in america. i think we've been there once, but im really looking forward to it.
i think my next post is going to contain some tour pictures. i need to take a lot more.

seeing lola very soon, cant wait :) :) :) xoxoxo

whoa whoa (1,2,3,4)

in portland now. i never get my computer out when im on tour. i like walking around cities in the afternoon and blending in with all the people, i wonder if they know that im not a native. went into a few awesome stores today (west elm, diesel, whole foods, local coffee shops). today is an early show, doors at 1, we play at like 330. thats too early to rock.

btw, ive been using my new strat for every song in our set. its so much fun to play. it has the best balance and sound. last night our guitar tech franny cracked my back while i was laying down on the bus floor. it was a really odd sensation but ive been in need of getting those cracks out of my back for like a week or so. also, ben was filiming something with our band phone from Warner and Anthony didnt want ben filming so a fight ensued but it was a playful one. i think at one point nash had tone in a sleeper hold.

my girlfriend doesnt rememeber things she tells me at 4:30am and when i wake up with no calls i get sad. i wish i was at the Rutgers game today.

first day back to school

we just got off stage in milwaukee. it was such a build up, buying lotsa new stuff, figuring it all out, practicing for a few weeks. then we get dumped on stage in milwaukee (all very nervous) and then 45minutes later, its over. so weird. i think it was a good first show, we definitely werent 100% and we realized we were playing too many new songs and in general it was a learning experience to see what works and what doesnt.

besides that i basically miss lauren every second. more blogs more frequently i promise.