What a way to start a tour[./!]

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen. Glad you could make it out to the blog. I’m in a dark hotel room in Georgetown, TX wondering how I lost my phone charger, as well as all other connection to reality, over the course of south-by-southwest.

South-by-Southwest is a time when everybody rushes around in the blistering sun going to rock shows and receiving free drinks. If you are given a wristband, you have seen so many shows by the end of it that you don’t know what a rock show means anymore. It mirrors the modern music scene in that you have seemingly-unlimited access to music recordings and people get so overstimulated by it all that they start feeling like they’ve seen everything possible to see, and there are a lot of people who have heard a thousand bands but aren’t really invested in any of them.

So I try to stay unjaded and treat all music with respect and attention. Ours especially. And we gave a great couple of shows, one on Wednesday afternoon and one last night. I think we connected and delivered the goods. The shows were called “Emotional Wilderness” and “Sweat for the Sweetness,” and those were very honest titles about what’s been going on.

On the way to South-by-Southwest, in Tennessee, Eleanor the minivan broke down and we had to rent a car to go to Texas while she got fixed. We’re getting her back tomorrow and I am glad. We are out of money and then some, but morale and inspiration are quite high. We’re gonna see you soon on the Mysterious Delirious Tour.

Love,
Ezra (and Adam and Job and Jorgen)