PHOTO: By Totally Morgan in Phoenix, AZ

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Do it quick! Do it quick! Don't waste their time with the mundane. Okay. "Okay." Samuel, roll the tape. No, roll the audio tape. No, roll the text. Got it. Got it!

CHICAGO, IL: Chicago, IL: I'd been in Chicago with The Blow only a couple weeks ago, and since I had planned on coming back I decided it was best to leave my huge bucket of the only soy chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream I'd ever seen in the world at my friends' house so I could eat it upon my return. With Rob and Eric's help we totally "cashed" that shizz in about 30 minutes. During about 10 of those 30 minutes I had a hair stuck in my eye and it was totally killing me. One thousand thank yous to Lisa for sticking her finger in my eye and removing it. Only true friends can touch your sick eyeballs.

Before any of this ice cream business happened we played a small and awesome show at the University of Chicago, thanks to the radical Steven dude that set the whole thing up on very late notice. Here's a shot of Bobby Birdman's set and one of a little man named Henry. Then there's this little dog; a bad little glass breaking dog. We spent the following day editing our second teaser and forgetting about not only how long it takes to get to Ann Arbor, but also that Chicago has terrible traffic and you lose an hour on the drive.

ANN ARBOR, MI: Yeah, totally. We spent an hour and a half in Chicago bumper-to-bumper before hitting some sort of monsoon that made it almost impossible to drive safely. So we drove unsafely, in the dark, with a headlight out and with crazy, crazy rain pounding us on our clear protective mask we call a windshield. I wish we'd applied that Rain-X™. We got to the show an hour late and we were able to literally cut the hatred in the air with a pocket knife we picked up in a truck stop. A bit much. This description is a bit much! Hatred?! COME ON! People were bummed and that's okay! We still had total funs and these pumpkins blew our minds. There was even a kid that showed up as me for his halloween costume! WTF?! Thank you Sarah Stedman for getting us to Ann Arbor. We had to leave right after the show to embark on our 870 mile drive Manhattan, Kansas.

MANHATTAN, KS: I'd been in Kansas last year, but not the th BIG APPLE! Lawrence was full of crazy thunder, lightning and toranado warnings buzzing all over the radio every five minutes. THE BIG APPLE is much, much, much more mellow. Sure, this could be seasonal rather than location-based, but that doesn't make much of a conversation. Super huge hugs and shout-outs to Matthew Hoppock, Joey Murphy, and Jasmine McCaffrey for making our show totally fun and hanging out with such posi and sweet, sweet hearts! I want to come back to Manhattan with Golden Shoulders, since they are unexplicably famous there! I guess Manhattan is like Japan in that regard.. but in no other way? The show was at a bookshop called The Dusty Bookshelf and about 30 or so kids came. We did the rock-paper-scissors game to figure out the order (something we later grew accustomed to) and played a super fun show. The next day the local paper wrote about it and we saw a copy in person while we ripped bagels and headed out on an 8 hour and one mile high trek to Denver, Coloraddy.

DENVER, CO: I ran into an old, old, old, old acquaintance of mine from the super old days when I had braces, played in a horrible pop-punk band and rocked double-bacon-cheeseburgers like they were sour patch kids. Wow, maybe I should stop eating sour patch kids, too? Anyway, this man was nice enough to gather a board of investors/friends to invest in our, at that point fictitious, record label. The label then bought us the most powerful Mac at the time (133 MHz), some new equipment, recording time in the fanciest studio in town, etc., etc., etc. The story ends after we play a million radical shows, tour a handful of times, sell some CDs and cassettes, and eventually break up. The label didn't make any money and I don't even remember the last time I saw this guy.. I guess I expected some animosity or something, but dude was all amazing energy and good vibes through and through. He presented me with a truly incredible care package with sodas and silly string and rainbow hair extensions taking the top spots on the awesome list. Eric, you are a true and great homie! THANK YOU. I felt a little embarrassed that we were reunited at a house show instead of some hundred-thousand person festival in Europe. HUGE shout-out to Chris Adolf and the Love Letter Band possee. It was magic to see him and I want to hang out everyday.

PHOENIX, AZ: We drove 900 miles through the rest of Colorado. all of New Mexico and a good part of Arizona. We left immediately after the show in Denver, ran out of gas in Las Vegas, New Mexico and ended up staying the night there in a motel. We woke up, hit the road and made it in time to see the end of these kids dancing all around and shouting at people to "GET PUMPED." Needless to say I got pretty pumped.. then hungry.. When Rob started to play he mentioned living in Los Angeles and someone shouted "eww" or something similar which instantly initiated deep "beef" that Rob had talk through and eventually squash. Phoenix, we lost the beef. Check out Morgan's Flickr Set of the show in Phoenix. CUTEST LITTLE DUDES OF ALL TIME. I really love the two weird videos in the downloads part of his site. They made my sides hurt I was laughing so deeply. I can't find it again, but he had this podcast that was awesome, too. Basically this kid is super young, super active, and super awesome. KEEP IT UP MORGAN! KEEP MAKING THIS WEIRD SHIZZ!

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Truly,
Jona

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