Spanish CocoPuffs.
Practice day three. The band is sounding so afro-beat/dancehall/mellow-jams. We could play a show tonight and it would feel and possibly sound so good. I think we'll be more than ready and excited on Friday when we play our first show here in Madrid.
I think I'm still a little messed up with jet-lag, but maybe it's getting a little better. Our schedule is something like wake up at 11 or so, go eat a small breakfast/juice/coffee, go rehearse at the practice space until around 6, eat some kind of dinner, then go back to the hotel and work on my new web site, some music or just rest. Then we end up going out and staying up until something like 4 or 5.. it's a little weird.
Oh my god. I totally just "hacked" the internet in our hotel.. it wasn't working, then I hacked it. HACK. HACK. It totally works now. BOOM!
HACK! Internet cafe #1 has these DNS servers and router/IP info.. I stole them from a Windows machine that was plugged into ethernet. Cool. Save them. Cool. Internet cafe #2 has the same DNS info.. woah.. maybe this means there's 1 big ISP in Madrid that everyone uses. Cool. Woah. Plug in that DNS info and guess the router and IP.. IT WORKS! HOT HOT HOT!
So here's a video of some first moments in Spain and at practice. I hope you like it. I'm trying to take a lot of pictures and a lot of movies on this trip, so stay tuned for more of them. My camera charger is a USA plug, and the amps are smaller (or something) so I can't plug it in with just an adaptor.. I need a transformer.. I hope I can find one.
Boys in Spain (4.6 MB - VIDEO MP4)
My new web site stuff is going real well. I think I'll have it up and running by Friday! Just to let you know this URL is going to change. Since I don't really do web design on the side anymore and I'm touring so damned much and making music all of the time I'm taking over the teamyacht.com address. I'll make sure to make it easy to find after I change it all.. don't worry.
Truly,
Jona
Hey Jona.
We are so close from each other.
On the same piece of ground.
I miss you drinving us everywhere in Portland.
It was really fun and i was feeling safe.
Have fun in Europe, have fun, yeah.
I'll come and see you playing in Paris.
Write me when you have some time off man.
lovevol
Mélanie
please everyone if you can post some more inside jokes that come out of adventures? i am keeping a joke journal and need more. they don't have to make sense. even just punch lines or repeat phrases. for instance, i just got home from montreal and am adding "on many levels" to the end of any statement. not super funny, but say it all the time, with friends, and it has new meaning. anyway, little phrases like that, pointing to memories, bring it. love! luke
gosh jona it makes me so glum that you won't be coming up to scotland this time. in fact i think i will be journeying to london for that one night, only to see mr bahnart and yourself. the trip takes eleven hours but with the help of www.megabus.com it costs a mere eight pounds. bargain or what?!?
Great movie! More MP4!!!
Also, new inside joke: COBRA CLAW! Pffffft! ("pffffft" is the sound of the venom glands contracting and pushing the cobra venom juice into your prey)
To make the COBRA CLAW you make a peace sign, and then curl those pointed fingers a bit into "fangs". Then, sneak up on someone, and mutter or yell, "Cobra Claw" and then "sink" your new "fangs" (note: actually fingers) into their skin while making the "phfffffft" sound. The venom of a cobra claw "bite" will cause paralysis in any extremity, and so your victim must simulate paralysis.
COBRA CLAW can not be used through clothing, you must hit skin. Also, rather than just hitting an arm or leg and wounding your victim, a strike to the neck of the COBRA CLAW will cause instant paralysis of the whole body, the victim will not even be able to speak. This is useful in a situation where you are losing an argument with a friend. You suddenly move into a COBRA CLAW attack stance and strike the jugular, "phfffft", and they can't speak anymore!
Be careful tho, anyone you COBRA CLAW will then know how to use the COBRA CLAW and it will come back to haunt you.
why is spain so lucky? come back to america once you've blessed europe with the hot jams. you dudes are such a "supergroup" like crosby stills nash & young... only way radder.
JONA!
That movie is so exciting! I am so glad you'll be writing and sending movies to us while you're on this incredible journey.. it's so fun to see Kyle with a beard!
Have fun, and tell them Drekka will be following in about three weeks behind you!
Mkl.
god, what a baby with the face of a baby!! Chocolate face baby! Here is an inside joke: Jona pretending to lay an egg like a dinosaur. JONA!! I am missing you today and hoping you are having a wonderful time in the Olde Country. I'm going to go eat thai food now and this reminds me of you, old zombie boner.
more music! more drawing! more talking! more music playing! more Andy!
won-dah-fullllllllllll
xoxoxo
cool movie, weiner bro.
seriously.
cool and awesome.