no air conditioning, good weather, sxsw

Well, we're back home from a whirlwind trip to Austin, Tx for SXSW. I heard it said best by Cary Brothers...SXSW is, "spring break for musicians"...this is sooo true. We got to see so many of our old friends in other bands and saw the Tx sunrise more times than we'd care to admit...

We left after our show on St. Patty's in Atlanta and drove for about 3 and half hours and made it past Birmingham, Al in our beat up '89 Ford...stopped and slept for a bit then woke up and drove the whole way to Austin. 15hrs later we were much like zombies, walking around with a crazy look in our eyes and wanting nothing more than to sleep for eternity...but we're in a rock band and we stayed up until 6:00am looking over lake Austin and howlin at the moon.
We missed our sign-in time and thereby forfeited our badges/wristbands for a good "all-day sleep" which was much needed.
Got to the venue which was planted right in the middle of 6th st. Met up with some old friends, met new ones...hung out with family and tried to focus. We ended up playing an incredible show, the crowd was insane! The club was @ capacity when we went on and the crowd couldn't have been more receptive to us...we even debuted 4 new songs (not on our newest record... "The Beat Goes On" and got an amazing response.
After the show we piddled around the bar scene until last call and drove back out to Lake Austin where we were staying...again did a little howlin @ the moon.
Woke up on Friday, drove to my (woody's) parents house in College Station, TX (GIG'EM AGGIES) and hung out with even more family there...it was nuts.
At around 5:30 we decided it was time to hit that dusty trail and head on back to the ATL.
After taking shifts driving we finally made it back to the mountains (about 1hr + of Atlanta) and again the zombie feeling kicked in.
To top it all off, my window is the worst...it lets in all the sunlight and there was a beam that was both hot and bothersome that wouldn't let me go to sleep.
Finally after watching some episodes of The Office, I drifted into a coma.

So here we are, back home, ready to be back on the road again...we've recharged our engines...got 'em set back to neutral and can't wait to be away from home already!!!!

I want to thank the good Lord for the following on this trip:

-no close calls regarding arrests
-beautiful weather that didn't warrant the use of our van's air conditioning (which doesn't work)
-quick trip taquitos
-our extensive dvd collection
-bat for lashes, "daniel"
-twitter
-the iPhone, helping us not get lost
-letting us not get pulled over ONCE (this has NEVER happened...let's face it, our van looks like a drug van/illegal immigrant smuggling tool
-our amazing talent of turning anything that we do into an R&B song
-boo boo's steam shovels

I'm going to post a blog tomorrow about our dvd set list for the long trip.

much love,

woody