Drive! Drive! Drive!

The show last night went relatively well. Some kinks here and there to iron out. James and I didn't play perfectly, but it was decent for a first show. I did have a lot of fun, as did the rest of the fellas I think. The house sound guy was kind of an idiot, which made sound check a little nerve-racking, but once our set was underway I think the only person the sound issues bothered was michael. There was a decent turnout for a low-profile college show and the folks really seemed to enjoy it.
Got a good bit of sleep last night at the best western hotel in greenville, IL. I did however wake up with a peice of gum in my armpit. I'm really not sure how that happened, but it was a bit bizzare. Today has just been a big driving day. We're headed to denver right now. I think we've been on the road about 9 or 10 hours today. I think we're going to stop at about 1:00 and resume tomorrow about 10-ish. Nothing super interesting to report here. I'm out.

Yes, we're in the van...

I'm having a great time here. The fellas are super nice and the music is fun. After arriving wednesday we spent 5 days drilling the crap out of 11 songs that we're playing on this tour. I slept in the basement of Lovedrugs business managers house. Today started at 7:00 AM as I prepared for our departure at 8. We're playing a couple shows on our way out to California where the tour officially starts. We're meeting up with a band called Mae and will be main support for them. First stop is in Greenville, Illinois at greenville College. I suppose by the time I've posted this we will have already played. At this point I have no idea what to expect.
I do know that tomorrow we'll be driving 900 miles to Denver Colorado, and two days later we'll be driving 1300 miles to Chico, California. THat should be interesting. Also expensive we just did the math and figured it's gonna cost about $800 in gas to get to that side of the country. Hooray for petrolium!
Currently we're in the van Rocking out to Smashing Pumpkins Mellon COllie and the Infinite Sadness Disk 2. Bodies. Oh yes... We have limited music options in the van. The fellas all brought there ipods, but there's no way to hook them into the stereo. We thought there would be hope and pulled the stereo out of the dash looking for an auxilary input. We must have seemed suspect in the parking lot of wal-mart in Dayton, OH. I'm burning Discs off of my computer as I write. Sigur Ros, The Smashing Pumpkins...that's all I've done so far.
I will never tire of the midwestern sky. It's Huge. The earth is so flat here. There's not a cloud in the sky right now as we head west. A little snow, but not a lot. Things here look strikingly....

...And that's where I stopped writing.

Some new thoughts, Some old Photos

It's a snowy day here in ohio. I haven't ventured outside to espy the extend of white powdery fun, but I know it's happening.
Here are some really grainy pictures. 800 Film + Sams club developing = crappy looking photos. Haven't developed any post-nashville pics yet...






















I've put a lot of thought into the work that kevin and I have done in Thornton over the last 4 years. We've done a lot for two people. I think we bit off a little more than we could chew at some points. Hanging around lovedrug this week I've seen how much better things can work when you've got people working out the technical kinks for a band. Booking our own full month-long tours and taking care of every little publicity aspect of thornton for so long and so thoroughly was to much for 2 people trying to make art. Now, I'm all about working hard, but the left side of the brain and the right side don't function at %100 at the same time. It WILL burn people out.

The Drugs I'm on

Well, I made it here to ohio. Canton? No, some smaller city outside of it, I think. I'm really not sure where I am. After waking up at 5:30 this morning this day seems somewhat surreal. Not unpleasant aside from the sinus thing I'm battling. A few decongestants and I feel almost normal. Ordinarily, I veer away from drugs but after the airplane landed I felt like my head would explode. I don't think a sinus thing has every caused me so much pain. Anyway, it's all in the past now.
Practiced with the fellas for four hours this afternoon and got to spend some time around them. Really great guys. Good situation for me. I'm really excited about this tour. The schedule is posted at LovedrugMusic.com. Take a look and come see me. I feel good about this. That's all. Stay tuned for photos.

Love
Enoch

What to do when the "perfect" woman comes along

Ben made this. It's Brilliant.



I've no doubt there's a backstory. Love ya.

Somebody spoke and I fell into a dream...

Since my camera body broke this spring and I got rid of my digital camera this summer, I haven't had anything to shoot on. Finally I got around to getting a new camera body to use. Some ol' minolta X-370. It's a beautiful device. This is the first picture I shot on it. It's the view I get on the way home every day. There's actually a lot of neat detail in this picture which you can't see because I'm trying not to suck up all your bandwidth, but anyhow, It's a nice sight. Pictures like this never turn out as nicely as you'd like anyway.

A Carolyn. She was hanging out at my house when I got home messin' with a laptop.

Somehow, I ended up at a party with a bunch of philosophy graduate students. This has actually happened before. It's really interesting listening to drunk 30+ year old philosophy students converse. Also, cashews are yummy.

Cafe Coco:
This is Jex. He's the son of a co-worker. Certainly cute. He was accomodating enough to hold still long enough for me to shoot this picture before he tried to climb in the drink cooler.

My boss, Jenni. The lady that lets me take off for weeks at a time and come back to work whenever I want. Good people.

Now, I didn't take this photo obviously. Noah shot it while dad was visiting us last time. I guess it was a couple of months ago. I pretty much love this picture.

The Band that I mentioned in the last blog did end up wanting me to play with them, so I leave wednesday to rehearse for the tour that will last from Feb. 7th through March 8th. I'm looking forward to it. It'll be fun playing out again and touring is a great environment for pictures. Stay posted, it should be interesting. Also, check LovedrugMusic.com and see if we're playing near you. You should come out and see me.



Hey look! Other people with old-ass Cameras!

My hair is longer now that it's been in a minute. Not quiet as long as it was when I was in a horrible indie horror flick last year, but it's getting there. My friend jens gave me that sweater. It's not something I would usually wear. But then again...neither are the black leather pants I was wearing when I shot this picture.


I don't have any deep thoughts to share or tortured questions to ask right now. Well, as always they're brooding around in there, but haven't formed themselves into cohesive thoughts.

And I think it's gonna be a long long time...

Well, it's been a minute since my last post. Ther has been a lot going on in my head. Not a lot I can clearly spell out, but a lot none the less. I'm quite an experimental person when it comes down to it. There are a lot of things I'll do just to see what happens. I've managed to live that way for 23 years without dying, and that's good. I've been single for a long time now for the purpose of experimenting with myself, girls, boys, and the earth. It's been a rather selfish year or two. I don't think I've lived it perfectly or even well, but I have learned a lot from my experiences. There's on girl though, who has been hard to stay away from. An ex that's just plain good. Our brains fit together an whatnot. I have to say, I'm just ready for that.

A decent band just flew me north to an audition for a spot on their feb. tour. That would be fun and would pay. We'll see what happens there. It'd make for a bunch on interesting photos. Hopefully it'll happen.


Remember: Tradition for the sake of tradition is lame and probably a bad thing for humans and society. On that note, I bid you farewell.

-Enoch