As you may or may not have noticed, the show dates in the entry below have been added to, expanded on, then subtracted from several times in the last couple of days. The once-existent Waco and Austin dates have been cancelled, or postponed rather, to other, as yet to be announced dates. With any luck, they\’ll be listed here soon and with accuracy and confidence this time. Until then, these two dates are about as concrete as they come, although I\’ve personally seen concrete shatter on numerous occasions:

Saturday, April 30
@ The Backroom
(5495 South 7th, Abilene, TX)
7:00pm

Saturday, May 21
@ Yuppiefest
Lewisville, TX
www.yuppiefest.net

UPDATE: (this is happening now, too)
Saturday, March 19
@ Randy\’s in Waco, TX

Hey there, thanks for checking in…

We\’re just taking it easy for a few days in an attempt get get rid of all the sore muscles and throats that we\’ve accumulated over the last month. After everyone\’s healed up to satisfaction, time will be spent working on new material, getting ready to record another album for the summer. Also, the 3 songs we recorded with Stephen Egerton last year are finally actually going to see the light of day, as they are soon to be mixed and out of our hair. Our hope is to have them posted on this website for free download before March is over. Oh, and this website is also on the verge of finally getting completed.

April 30 - Abilene, TX
May 21 - Lewisville, TX (Yuppiefest)

I\’ll put up more details when I get them and keep you posted on anything else that may raise an eyebrow or an eyelash or something.

Not really thinking clearly, I went to the mall this afternoon.

While \”doing my time\” on the two-lane main road of the parking lot, idling for about 15 minutes, everyone (myself included) kept their eyes peeled and secretly prayed that they\’d be the first one to spot the next precious, newly backed-out-of space. All of a sudden this furious lady sped by me, on the wrong side of the road, then forced herself back on the right side, barely missing at least three bumpers in the process. She then held up things even more by insisting on trying to make a left turn at a place where everyone else was turning right. When the opposite traffic finally eased up enough for her to make her move, horns honked from all directions, and the livid woman waved her middle finger around like it was a giant novelty foam hand at a football game.

Now, even though the lady was a little bit – for lack of a better word – bitchy, I wasn\’t that annoyed with her. I\’m not trying to be all look- at- me- I\’m -a -helluva- guy- who- keeps- his- cool- at- frustrating- times, but I guess it was because I had a good CD playing and had already assured myself that this parking lot wouldn\’t be easy. Besides, the situation as it was, the slightest thing could have set any of us off into an illegal-passing, middle finger-waving tantrum, so I kinda felt for the woman – felt her pain, if you will. So, anyway, I didn\’t let the image linger longer than the five minutes it took to find a parking spot.

But what I found interesting about the whole thing was that, about a half-hour later, I saw the woman again, this time inside the mall, buying a man\’s wristwatch (an assumed Valentine\’s gift for her husband). She still seemed a little pissed, so I kept my distance and avoided any eye contact, but I could have sworn her left middle finger was in one of those \”jammed finger\” splints.

I wasn\’t sure what conclusion to jump to, so I just kept walking and let my imagination have the best of me, envisioning a giant novelty foam splint.

Have you ever done anything that resulted in somebody looking at you questioningly, mouth slightly open, with a really straight face, furrowing half of their brow so fiercely that you actually think you hear skin stretching and veins realigning themselves? If not, and you\’d like to, just walk into a Fry\’s Electronic store and ask them if they carry blank cassette tapes. Worked for me anyway.

Don\’t have any news except to remind you about the show Wednesday and to say that we\’ll be going up to the Adventure Club studio later this month to record another acoustic session with Josh. Not sure what we\’ll play or what we\’ll promote, but I feel mildly confident that we\’ll figure it out. Maybe even before it happens.

Other than that, we\’ve just been working on some demos and trying to decide what to do for Spring. There are a few shows in the works (you don\’t say) and we\’re thinking about the prospect of going in and recording a batch of songs for a possible release. Maybe a full-length. Don\’t know yet. Maybe. Also, we should know in the next couple of weeks if we\’ll be going out on tour this summer. Chances are good, but you never know. You never know anything. There are two things in life you can count on: not knowing anything and I forgot the other.

Oh and the title of this entry comes from Dr. Frank\’s latest post about \”organic\” food being forced upon him. Hilarious.

UPDATE: (2/8/05) Our Adventure Club date has been postponed. That Josh sure knows how to tease… and double-book, apparently. Oh well, not a problem. As long as he keeps the unauthorized bootleg J.D. Salinger short stories coming, I\’m a happy man. I\’ll let you know when we set a date.

By the way, be sure to go nominate Josh as well as anyone else who you think might be deserving of a Dallas Observer Music Award. Now that regular people get to make the nominations instead of just industry \”insiders\”, it might actually be worth paying attention to. And none of that ballot box stuffing or voter fraud. They send Zac Crain to personally come kick your ass. And, man, I wouldn\’t want that to happen to me… twice.