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hey everyone. greetings from springfield, missouri (rock mecca of the known universe). just thought i'd check in and give you a little update on the long winded tour i'm on, which is just about halfway done right now.
things have been going really well on the road so far. we've just finished the east coast leg of the tour and are now headed south to austin for sxsw (where we'll play 10 shows in 4 days), then out to the west coast. the shows have been great so far - a real step up from our last couple of tours, which is both welcome and relieving. the new record seems to be getting mostly positive press (with the notable exception of pitchfork, whom i continiue to despise on principle), so hopefully that will continiue. there have only been a couple of setbacks so far: tristan fractured his shin during an ill-advised attempt at skateboarding in a half pipe, i had some issues with my bass amp that were solved only by upgrading to an svt-II (money, money, money), my sprint bill came in at about $150 more than i expected, and (of course) we all have gotten sick. despite all that, however, it's been amazing. every tour we've ever gone on has been better than the one before it, and it's nice to see our work paying off a bit. yes, i'm knocking on wood as i type this.
fredo: i'm not sure if you got my emmail, but i'm sorry we missed one another in new york. hopefully we'll meet soon anyway.
if you are bored and want more of the day-to-day, tristan has been keeping a tour diary over at smile politely.
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and i put a pic from the stage from our show at schuba's in chicago a couple nights ago on flickr:
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in case you're curious, the photo above is me, after shaving my beard into what has been lovingly described as "the van buren" on my birthday a few days ago. enjoy.
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astroid
baseball face
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mixedtape
OH SNAP I'M GOING TO DO THE SHAVING BEARD THING TOO. I've got big face full of beard right now. One of the Sugar girls calls it "The Professor Beard".
also, hi and happy bday 
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room
fantastic and did the guy using the urinal behind you threaten you with a kicking for trying to take a pic of his Johnson?
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mlbot
When I grow up, I wanna be one of John's Sugar Girls.
LOL@ Room spotting the peeing man.
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opulentaudio
a man in a men's room with a camera....hmmmmm
jk
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mlbot
Also, LOL@ Mr. Sexface in the lightblue shirt from MOO's stage-foto
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tantan
also check out scary eyes chick next to Mr. Sexface
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papergoose
ah sweet, glad you'll be here for SXSW. It's an INSANE time, and if you wanna meet up with me and some locals for some good food and a beer or four, shoot me an email. papergoose over at the gmail dot com.
When and where are you playing?
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atum
the mens room reminds me of a couple of weeks ago. this girl was having a going away party and me and my friends went to a gay bar at her request. it was tense using the bathroom. apparently for some reason they had mirrors next to all the urinals. it was interesting trying to conceal my stuff. it wasn't scary just creepy how all the dudes were smiling and kept asking how i was doing.
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hecanjog
awesome, nick! bryan calls your beard the ''colonel" - it's rad either way.
also happy freakin brithday! i didn't realize it was that time of year again, sheesh.
see ya in a few weeks!
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jarvis
whats is your band?
my band (killer whales) and djugel's band (chandeliers) will be playing a few shows together down there. maybe we'll see you down there!
03/11/08
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djugel
and Icy Demons!
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djugel
and Buffalo Stance!
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madeofoak
hey everyone! i posted our sxsw schedule in the blog area if y'all want to say hi, but PLEASE post your schedules too! i really want to catch some jams by my fellow emmers.
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03/14/08
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elronhubbard
according to your name, punching you in the balls still counts as knocking on wood.
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