Dear West Coast of America,
Three of us are traveling from northern Washington state to Mexico. We're bringing a portable french press, two traditional (and one wand-style) strobe lights, new Blow records, and some of our recent research into darkness, light, and the internet told in presentation and music. We would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to hang out with YACHT, Universe, & Aaron Flint Jamison in one of these places on one of these nights. We want to thank you in advance for considering to be with us for an hour or two instead of whatever it is that you do at night. You have a lot of choices, but seriously, which side are you on?
Love,
Jona, Claire, & Flint
SEPTEMBER
23rd - Anacortes, WA @ Department Of Safety
(1011 12th St., All Ages, 8pm)
24th - Seattle, WA @ Gallery 1412
(1412 18th Ave E, All Ages, 8pm)
25th - Portland, OR @ Reed College
(3202 SE Woodstock, The Chapel, All Ages, 8pm)
28th - San Francisco, CA @ California College of Art
(1111 Eighth Street, CCA San Francisco, CG-1, All Ages, 8:30pm)
29th - Los Angeles, CA @ Betalevel
(963 N. Hill Street, All Ages, 8pm)
30th - Tijuana, Mexico @ Revolver Cafe
(Calle Francisco I. Madero, Zona Centro, All Ages, 8pm)
Dear Diary,
This tour sort of started two nights ago for me and Claire. We packed up the car and headed to Kirkland, Washington (a suburb of Seattle) to play a show at a teen center. Rich Jensen came to Kirkland and we talked about the teen center vibe and what it would have been like for us to grow up with teen centers that put on shows in our towns. Would we have liked it? Do these kids like it? Do you lose any excitement when you don't have to fight to organize or just attend shows? What kind of bands will come out of the teen centers? If you have a teen center that puts on weird shows in your town, tell me about it! I want to know what it's like. It seemed like the kids there were pumped on everything that happened that night, which was totally cool. Station Wagonarchy played a Blink-182 cover, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head = kid party 2.0, and LP & BB greeted the crowd with "Hello baby Kirkland" and kept referring to the crowd as "beautiful babies."
After the show we hit up a QFC and slept in a house that grunge built (literally). Today I'm starting the tour cat gallery back up with a fucking radical dude named Donnie. He was feral. He is pretty much always freaked out.
NEXT UP: Thank you Tony & the birth of Tony the object.
You can't stop what you can't end.
Cool to see Donnie. The picture draws out the similarities in his and Jona's eyes. Perhaps Jona was also found wild in a barn as a tot.. . . . ?
We just listened to Paper Television and think that the opening track is one of your best ever. Both the track and the vocal. Sara got Gooser-bumps.
TOTALLY COOL STUFF!!!
Yesterday Lucky Dragons played at the Revolver Café.
Check out some photos: Lucky Dragons @ Revolver Café, TJ
It's the start of a very cool set of weekends :)
cheers and see you soon!
moih