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Oh man what a whirlwind.. where to begin?? At the beginning? Or towards the climax, or more towards the intrigue part? Lets start right after Des Moines…

We got into Milwaukee in one piece, and pulled up to The Rave, an amazing venue. This place has three separate floors of venues, and is so amazing and pretty genuinely creepy. Everyone was flipping out about the place being haunted and seeing ghosts and shit.. whatevs, the place was so rad! Election day! I had been stressing out a lot and thinking non-stop about our future and the way our society was going to be shaped over the next few years… Anyways, we spent a really  nice afternoon around the club, and eventually got to playing. I left my camera outside our bus on the curb like an idiot..  If anyone picked up a canon camera with a bunch of pictures of bloody us from Halloween and some other random shit on it – hit me up!! I would love to get it back! Anyways, when we were going on, Obama had won Ohio and Penn. So it looked good. We went on and the show was awesome. The room was really wide and super expansive, and there were a LOT of people going nuts – it was awesome. We had so much fun. We finished and got onto the bus, and amidst me trying to recover from the show and settle down, I received the news that Obama had won – I can’t describe the joy I felt. It was like nothing I have ever felt before. We couldn’t be touched that night – it was one of those nights of pure joy and ecstasy. Wow. WOW!!! I’m so proud and happy right now!

St. Paul in the morning – we found a nice breakfast spot, and devoured some egg-themed plates – I think the mighty ducks films might have been shot there or something. We got a lot of stuff done that day in St. Paul’s cool little downtown area. It was nice to feel productive and like we were catching up on stuff! The show was HOT, literally. So fun and the sound in the venue was HUGE. Minn you guys fucking represent. It’s awesome! There were a lot of people and the vibe was really fun and great! I can’ wait to get back to you guys!

Chi-City what up> Actually Lamont what up? We woke up at the venue, which was a really funny club, which looked like it was recently converted into a venue. We went into downtown Chicago to do an interview and performance for Q101, the radio station. Tt was really cool to get into downtown and see it. Warped was pretty far out and we didn’t really get to hang out at all. The radio stuff was tight – I have no idea what we said but I’m guessing it was both offensive and real dumb, but sort of dangerously sexy, you feel me, motherfucker? We went back to the venue and the show was pretty off the hook. There was an awesome couple who proposed onstage. It was real touching. There were people on the stage, like literally sitting onstage because there were too many people in the venue… I hope I didn’t step on too many hands! Fun show though – really crazy –
Chitown you guys really know how to support music!

Here we come Michigan.. Pontiac baby – we had heard a week or so beforehand that we had been moved to play at a place called The Crofoot, a 1,100 or so person club in Pontiac, and that it was sold out!! That’s was so awesome for us – and the show that night was really something else. The sound at the Crofoot is HUGE, and the crowd was all over the place and singing and dancing! Our biggest crowd on the tour so far! Sean did some cliffhanger shit on the sprinkler bars, probably real dumb – but real fun! We got pampered at the venue, and boy did if feel AWESOME!

Waking up in Cleveland baby – poor Johnny P doing laps around the Cleveland Heights streets for hours trying to find a place to park our bus. We finally got it parked and went to eat breakfast at this bomb-ass place. It was slammin. Real good, girl. I love it when you make me breakfast. It’s probably the best thing in the world. Got to nerd out a bit and make some beats. Then we went off to the AP offices and did an interview for the online deal with their music director. It was pretty tite! We got to see the lake and the city a little bit on the way to the offices. Sorry about our Broncos handing the Browns their asses in the final minutes of that game, though Cleveland… jay cut baby. We almost broke the dance floor again. This one was fucking PAVED over with CEMENT. And it was shaking all over the place. Awesome energy, poor kids getting annihilated against the stage…

Pittsburg is tight as hell… what the shit Pitt, you really were going to hide the fact that you’re dope like diamond rope?? Do you really not like me to that point? We got to go shower at the dorms in downtown, and it was a godsend. Hot water so intense it was scalding…gimmie more! Thank you to the nice young ladies who let us in! We hung out south side and the club we played looked like a Kanye video should be filmed there – a WALL of lights. So gangster.

Day off in Buffalo – here comes the cold weather – break out that DOWN JACKET, son. We got some good rest and watched Tropic Thunder in the hotel and we all pissed ourselves laughing. We all went out to a nice dinner and had good times. The show the next night was at a funny little bar in downtown – it was super intimate and fun! Buffalo has been really great – we played so early on warped and people were still there in hoards and going nuts, and then the show this time was even more intense..

We got up mad early and Flew to LA to go do the Carson Daly show. It actually ended up being really a lot of fun. I was a bit apprehensive about how it was going to go for us. It seems to me like most times TV stuff doesn’t really do bands justice and it is hard to capture any sort of feeling from it. But everyone at Carson was really awesome and very accommodating and stoked. They had built a little stage for out puppet idea that we did – it was really flattering that they had done that much stuff for it! We performed two songs, Don’t Trust Me that they were airing the next night, and then starstrukk for sometime in the near future.
The next morning we went to Fuel TV to do a performance for the Daily Habit, which, if I remember correctly, should air in early December. Then we went to the Nokia Theater, which is right downtown LA, and brand new. We opened for Taking Back Sunday there. They are super nice dudes and were really nice and thanked us a bunch for coming – it was really humbling. They put on a great show! I played DJ for a while at the after party..badly..I’m out of practice.
Next day we went to the EMI studios in Santa Monica to do some music creation, some brewing of the beets, some flexing of the Pro Tools muscle. It was rad. We played some piano, some synth, some beats, some computer. After that we went to the Nike warehouse slash headquarters and got FITTED OUUUUUTT. Tim is so rad there I can’t even begin to explain. It’s some future shit for sure they have going on there  Wo. So rad.
Next morning AP photos hoot mostly of us beating the shit out of nerds. I mean really pummeling those little buggery fuckers. Over to Danny Lohner’s aka D-Lo the most badassest of badasses to click on some more buttons on the computer. So fun.

Here we go, another early morning flight to Boston, back to meet up with our beloved tourmates. We missed them. Boston was COLD! The show was great though – warped here this summer was one of the craziest crowds ever. Four Year Strong’s crowd was hands down the craziest shit I’ve even seen in my life. There were VERTICAL LAYERS of people. Crawling all over each other and LOVING IT. It was really eye-opening.

DAY OFF IN NYC!! Awesome – walked around and zoned out and it felt really wonderful. Had a great dinner with good friends and slept like a baby on a little air mattress, so well that I slept through letting friends into their own apartment…fail.
The next day was a whirlwind of a day. Photoshoot, MTV, Sirius radio, then over to Atlantic, then the venue, then another interview, then play a show that was AWESOME, one of the most fun of the tour for sure. It was awesome to see people in NYC jumping for their lives and having a good time. Lots of good friends there – it’s amazing to us to have a sold out crowd in NYC, a place that we love so much.. god we never thought that could happen!!

We got into Philly in the morning, and all went out and had a nice little breakfast at the Reading Terminal Market. Then we went to see some history. We walked around and saw the liberty bell, and then signed up for a tour of Independence Hall. We decided to get all Nick Cage up in there. Straight up National Treasure shit. There will be a forthcoming video… lets just leave it at that. The Troc is a really cool venue. We were in the upstairs room, and the poor dudes in the other bands had to load everything in up a long, narrow flight of stairs… suuuuuucks. But the room up there was crazy – straight up theatre style, really narrow and deep stage – It was a really fun show. The TROC!!

We pulled up to Hackensack the next day and had some time to kill before we went to the venue to load in, so we kicked it at some swanky-ass mall. All sorts of expensive shit… The School of Rock is pretty sweet – it’s just in this warehouse in the middle of an industrial district, but that stage is actually real cool. The show was fun great energy and lots of jumping.. all right..  I think that catches us up.. now we are on the bus to B-more, we’ve been getting all the Wire-d out recently so we are pumped!

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