European Tour!

Feb 12 2008 8:00P Lades Copenhagen, Denmark
Feb 13 2008 8:00P Hafenklang Exil Hamburg, Germany
Feb 14 2008 8:00P Bang Bang Club Berlin, Germany
Feb 15 2008 8:00P Klub Strahov 007 Prague, Czech Republic
Feb 16 2008 8:00P Amp Munster, Germany
Feb 17 2008 8:00P Patronaat Haarlem, Netherlands
Feb 18 2008 8:00P L’Escalier Liège, Belgium
Feb 19 2008 8:00P Point Éphémère Paris, France
Feb 21 2008 8:00P Ecole Polytechnique Nantes, France
Feb 22 2008 8:00P L’Inca Bordeaux, France
Feb 23 2008 8:00P La chatte à la voisine Toulouse, France
Feb 24 2008 8:00P Festival Generiq Belfort, France
Feb 25 2008 8:00P Festival Generiq Dijon, France
Feb 26 2008 8:00P Le Molodoï Strasbourg, France
Feb 27 2008 8:00P TBD Nancy, France
Feb 28 2008 8:00P Grillen Colmar, France
Feb 29 2008 8:00P TBD TBD
Mar 1 2008 8:00P Club NME @ The Hub Exeter, England
Mar 2 2008 8:00P Freebutt Brighton, England
Mar 3 2008 8:00P Waterats London, England
Mar 5 2008 8:00P Thekla Bristol, England
Mar 6 2008 8:00P Club Fandango London, England
Mar 7 2008 8:00P Club NME @ Sin City Swansea, Wales
Mar 8 2008 8:00P Jailhouse Hereford, England
Mar 10 2008 8:00P Colloseum Coventry, England
Mar 11 2008 8:00P Club NME @The Yard Carlisle, England
Mar 13 2008 8:00P SXSW Austin, Texas
Mar 14 2008 8:00P SXSW Austin, Texas
Mar 15 2008 8:00P SXSW Austin, Texas

There you go. Are you as excited as we are?? We are going to come and rock face! Actually, we are going to rock yr face off!!!
Not bad, 31 shows in 35 days!!!!!!!! So for this occation, here is my favorite poem:

It's raining in love
I don't know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.

It makes me nervous.
I don't say the right things
or perhaps I start
to examine,
evaluate,
compute
what I am saying.

If I say, "Do you think it's going to rain?"
and she says, "I don't know,"
I start thinking: Does she really like me?

In other words
I get a little creepy.

A friend of mine once said,
"It's twenty times better to be friends
with someone
than it is to be in love with them."

I think he's right and besides,
it's raining somewhere, programming flowers
and keeping snails happy.
That's all taken care of.

BUT

if a girl likes me a lot
and starts getting real nervous
and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
and she says things like,
"Do you think it's going to rain?"
and I say, "It beats me,"
and she says, "Oh,"
and looks a little sad
at the clear blue California sky,
I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time
instead of me.

-- Richard Brautigan