March Rules

As in, I love March, not a social conduct we have to follow in March. I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the the spring like weather (here in Austin at least). Maybe it has something to do with the days ever so slowly getting longer. Maybe it as something to do with SXSW, but something about March just seems so optimistic is jolly. I don't know maybe its just me. Here in Oh No Oh My camp (yes, it is a camp) our March is being divided between writing and recording with a couple show splattered here and there. The first show is for the:

Yellow Bike Benifit Show @ Mohawk 3/8. The whole kit and kaboodle starts at 5, we go on at 9. Its bound to be a good time for all. And SOMEBODY STOLE MY BIKE. So maybe I'll build one there. Who knows? The possibilited are endles. Next up are a slew of sxsw dates that are TBD. Actually one is confirmed and you know the best part is its FREE. No wristband or any of that jargon needed. Thats the:

I Guess I'm Floating/ twosyllable records SXSW party @ Schultz Garten 3/19. We go on at 3:30. Check here for all the bands and set times. Looks like a good time to me. Plus free beer! Yeah for real. We're getting all the other SXSW shows sorted out and will surely post about it once its all confirmed. Next show we have is:

The westheimer block party in Houston 3/28. I don't really know anything about this show or when we are playing so uhhh....

Anyways i'm listening to Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Belle & Sebastian right now, litterally. The song is I'm a Cuckoo. Now its You Don't Send Me because I made a phone call. Anyways thats boring stuff go outsite and enjoy the beautiful March weather!!! If you don't live in austin I'm sorry, for many reasons. hehe har har.

Free Show Feb 5th at Emo's

a house blew up in my neighborhood

yeah, blew up. They're saying it's from a gas leak. luckily nobody was hurt because after becoming dizzy and smelling ridiculous amounts of gas the family who lived there went outside, only to have their home explode in their face. Like in a movie or something. Anyways I hope my home doesn't explode one day and I hope yours doesn't either. But if my home were to be destroyed (knock on wood) I'd rather it blow up then like...get flooded or something (which is lame).

We're working on some demos for the new album, I think we have about 8 or 9 songs. That's pretty exciting. Not as exciting as explosions or like...shark attacks but I'm excited. Has anybody seen Slumdog Millionaire yet? Isn't it the best movie you've seen all year? I think so, or maybe one of the best. I'm reading Naked Lunch right now. I've seen Cronenbergs movie but honestly, I don't remember a thing about it. The books always better than the movie anyways, right? Neil Young's Harvest is in my record player and Dr. Dog's Fate is in my cd player in the car. I hate taxes.

Oh yeah Joel's B-day celebration Feb. 5th (This Thursday!!!!!!!) Emos inside
And its FREE

So now we're home...

Sorry again for the lack of updates, i think we all slept for about a week once we got home (except for me I couldn't sleep past 8a.m. which is like, 3 p.m. in Europe, I'm just making excuses). Liege and Karlsruhe were absolutely amazing! Thanks guys for making the end of our tour so good. After the show in Karlsruhe we had to drive to Frankfort to pack our bags and catch our plane ride home. Unfortunately our timing was off and we got to the airport at 4a.m. which was 2 hours early. We decided it would be a waste of money to go to a hotel for an hour and a half so we stuck it out in the airport lobby until check in opened. I don't know what the other guys did but I found an empty booth in some cafe and crashed there worrying somebody would steal my passport out of my pocket and had bad dreams about ice buckets and stolen liver. I woke up to some German guy yelling at me which I assumed meant I wasn't allowed to sleep in his restaurant. It was very disorienting as you can imagine but luckily for me the 2 hours had already passed and it was time for me to check in with my passport and liver still in tact. The trip home was boring except I got to watch Step Brothers, Wall-E and the new god awful, extremely slow X-Files movie which was a waste of time even on a ten hour plane ride. But actually that was better than the plane trip to Europe where we watched The Nanny Diaries and Made of Honor.

Anyways now our lives are normal so there is not much to talk about. I went Christmas shopping today. How fun! We're starting work on the new album. What? Yeah new album. Stay tuned........

Oh yes and Joel's tooth has been pulled and even though there is a hefty dental bill Joel is now A-OK

McDonalds and Toothaches

Hello

Thanks to everybody who came out to see us play in Brighton and Paris. You guys are awesome. Except for the dude who kept stealing my drinks on stage. Seriously. Not cool. We're playing in the cafe of a movie theater tonight in Liege, its going to be pretty interesting but I'm looking forward to it. The last time we played in Liege it was a blast. Today we ate at McDonald's (again) and Joel bit into something hard in his Big Mac and chipped one of his teeth pretty bad. He's in a lot of pain and probably needs to go to a dentist, but we're in Belgium, so he's gonna try and tough it out until we go home on Thursday. If you have any advice on amature teeth pulling or some good remedies for a nasty tooth ache please share. Yesterday we were talking about how we need a McDonalds endorsement but now we're talking about suing them haha what a difference a day makes. sorry for the decrease in pictures I don't have any, Joel is the main picture guy, and everybody else went to go see Quantum of Solace. I opted out to walk around Liege a bit. Anyways you guys rule we'll post some more pics as soon as we can. See you soon!

Sorry Everybody but. . . .

we have been so busy and have so much fun you don't even know! We haven't had time to update this blog. We played in Glasgow tonight and it was awesome. Tom is really bummed because we were gonna go to a house party near our hotel but now nobody wants to go but him. If you are reading this and you were the one that invited us to the party then we are super super super sorry but you know things happen and people get tired and i can come up with more excuses but we still didn't go.

Anyways.......Done

Suntory Times

Drove from Bordeaux to Paris today and heading to London tomorrow. We went out and got some dinner at this nice little restaurant near where we are staying. Everybody got spaghetti but me and Dima. I got the pizza. I have no clue what Dima had.

The show in Bordeaux was a lot of fun. Thanks everybody who came out to it! I wish i had a picture of what it looked like. We played in the basement of this bar but it was like a cave. Hard to explain but it looked awesome!

I haven't taken a picture in a couple days sorry about that. Ive just been sleeping a lot. What else is new right?

but ill post some pictures from earlier in the tour that I didn't post before.


We all feel like this sometimes.


Oslo, Norway




Loading in Dijon, France




Cool painting of Tom Waits at the club we played at in Dijon


Dmitrij




Looks like fun huh?


DING DONG