Joe ate 5 plums tonight.

Video at Vans Warped Tour

We're in Mansield, MA today on a rainy Tuesday in the middle of the Vans Warped Tour recording a video on the John Lennon Educational Bus. First, let me say that as a musician, this is the coolest bus I have ever seen. Better than the magic school bus, better than the bus to summer camp. It has a full recording studio and video production rig... plus showers and beds and and engine and and and.

Anyway, we're recording the video for "Whatever She Wants," which is a new song that actually won't be on our upcoming EP (we're saving it for the album next year). The lyrics were written after that terrible incident over Thanksgiving last year where a woman was trampled to death in a Wal Mart in Long Island...

Here are some shots of our day so far. On the bus we've been hanging out with Doug and Ben, who are the ones responsible for aiming the cameras and pushing record.

This will make you hate music.

Everything is better in Connecticut

Well actually I'm not sure about that, but I can tell you that Connecticut Baskin Robbins are waaaaay better than the ones in Brooklyn.

Andrew Bird

I went to see Andrew Bird at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night. He's one of my favorite recent finds, and actually he's been pretty inspirational in terms of realizing that there's so much territory a "rock" band can cover. Also, I grew up playing violin and he makes me want to play again. Time to break out the old fiddle...

State Radio

So on Friday night we got the chance to play with a really cool band from Boston called State Radio, whom you should definitely check out. The singer (Chad) used to sing for a little band you may have heard of called Dispatch, and State Radio has a similar musical vibe in some ways, but they add this really admirable political element that is tied to political activism (they started their own charity, Calling All Crows, for example). Really great guys, really amazing show. We met a ton of ton of new fans in Wilton, CT (pictures are now up on the Myspace!) Here's a pic from after the show...

4 wheels and lots of dirt

Pete brought us to the Pennsylvania mountain country last weekend, and we got to tool around on ATVs for a few hours. I gotta say I wasn't all that sure about the idea before hand, but those things are a helluva lot of fun. They can also be a little hard to manage when you hit a rut, as Joe found out:



And like I said, I got pretty excited by the whole thing: