Australia

we had 2 shows in Melbourne (both ruled by the way) I saw this on our day off.

I'm not normally a big Tarantino fan, but this was an amazing movie. Tons of great 

dialog, great cinemaphotopraphy, great music, incredible acting!! I loved it. Brad pitt is the man. (for some reason I put the Spanish movie poster. ha it's what I found first)

kind of ironic that this is my favorite movie of all time, and hadn't read the books. 

Needless to say, I'm reading it now and it's unbelievable. I just finished The Hobbit right 

before this and it was amazing as well. 

Tonight we play sydney. Been sold out for over a month. Should be awesome! 

Tomorrow we fly to Singapore to play a festival called Bay Beats, put on by the government. 

Singapore is the land of no spitting or chewing gum. In which if the authorities catch 

you doing so, will cain you. But apparently prostitution is not near as dirty or gross to them. 

Not really of a fan of Singapore. Then we play in Tokyo, then fly home. This tour has ruled! 

The Academy Is, are all classy legit dudes. It's been fun! But, I am very ready to come home to the Mrs, Tampa, my bed, my home, the man cave, bubble bobble, and all my family. We also just decided to take off, from when we get home on the 2nd, to late October to write our next record. I'm so stoked about being home for the beginning of fall. It's been a good solid 4 years since I've been home at all in October. And that's the perfect time to write. 

I was going to post a song, but this internet is sucking and it would take hours. So nevermind, goodnight 

east coast. See you soon.

Over seas

Auckland, New Zealand. It's amazing. New Zealand is really one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. No wonder Peter Jackson picked this place. When you're driving through the country it feels like middle earth. And the city of Auckland feels a little bit like Seattle. So really, it's the best place ever. The Mrs and I will come here one day. Actually, Angela, lets skip out on Venice and come here and stay in Hobbiton. Down? Cool. We played last night and it ruled! This morning I woke up and walked around the city. I found a legit coffee shop and got a cappuccino and an omelet. I need to remember that over seas, "bacon" translates to "ham that's greasy and as tough as a baseball glove" ha. Either way, it was still good. My goal over seas is to not go to Starbucks. There's way better local coffee shops that I would rather find. And by the way, it's fall here. It's throwing me off a little bit. I keep picturing everyone at home setting up fall stuff and carving pumpkins. Not yet, but soon enough. And Angela informed me that it's officially getting dryer out. So that's good.

There's this site that I read that I got this idea from, but I took a picture of all the stuff I carry in my bag to show what I'm doing right now. It probably won't change much over the next couple weeks. I don't exactly carry the wine in my bag, but our label here had it in my room with my name on it when I checked in the other night, so I put it in the picture.



I've been listening to this band a ton - The Dodos. The whole record rules. It's called Vister. Get on it!




In other news, I miss my wife. I got used to being home with her, waking up next to her, falling asleep next to her. It's always strange waking up the first night I'm gone, hugging my pillow and asking it if it slept well. Ha. I'm stoked this trip is only 2 weeks.

Anchor & Braille

Not that a ton of people read this blog and I'm gonna help

 boost sales. But, Anchor & Braille (Stephen) just came out 

with his record yesterday, and it's so good! Go buy it here.