I Need Someone To Come Home To Or Someone To Come Home To Me

Straining the voice all over the ivories for writing of the new album. Drinking tea and transposing down steps as needed. Whenever James Rabbit has a new song, when I and the band have learned it, we are going to throw a party in that song's honor. People will come to our house and they will sit and we will play and maybe have someone else play or we will play in the woods somewhere the song that we are celebrating. I made these plans initially when the songs were more of party songs in my head, a few of the new ones are kind of sad, but its too late to take them back. We'll probably hold the party for "Girl, Reconsider" sometime in the next few weeks. And then hopefully the parties will pour forth as if there's been some sort of crash at the party factory and a large gash has been opened in a tank by a forklift. People will come from miles around to frolic in half-cooked joy.

"Colossuses" is on its way and you'll love it like you love your dogs. You might even love it like you love pizza night.

Mixed Trials/Speed Dogs/Fire Escapes

The band James Rabbit (Myself, Conner, Megan, Jamie, Richard, Mike (and maybe Dylan) is playing a show at Cafe Pergolesi this Friday evening. You should arrive at eight p.m. The other two bands playing are a band named Shakey Bones from the Bay Area who are some charming punks that play folk music and have a different line-up each time. And we are also playing with the band Brown Recluse.

I'm even more jazzed about these shows than I have been in the past. James Rabbit has played about four shows in the past month around Santa Cruz and each one I've been feeling better about us being a band. This week we've been practicing every night quietly stomping away up in our second floor kitchen with electric keyboards, acoustic guitars, foreign drums and some doof with a uke. The last show that we played was in San Francisco and even though we weren't 100 percent technically 'right' in performing the songs, we were 100 percent spirit - and it felt bodacious. I feel like each member of the band adds a special energy that makes performance less daunting and makes me feel like I'm at home on stage.

My friend Thor has finished mastering the album "Colossuses" and it is somewhere in the mail between San Diego and Santa Cruz and I'm so excited to hear what he's done with us. I'm also writing songs for the brand new album that I plan on recording in almost total silence. Except for some shouting and some clapping. And actually setting the house on fire.

So I'll see you all on Friday!
Tyler

Get Lonely

The line that did it was "I stood there like a businessman waiting for a train / and I got ready for the future to arrive". Out of context it doesn't look like much, but it's much.

The new Hold Steady album is a disappointment. I'll listen to it a few more times, but as of now I'm pretty Let Down.