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***Disclaimer: This blog was written last week, so we apologize for the lag in our updates…

Everyone in the world,

Some would say that karaoke brings friends and strangers together, and takes them on a magical ride through cheesiness and sheer awesomeness…and some would be correct. Last night Steve, Jim and I went to a karaoke bar in San Jose, CA. It was such an awesome time of just relaxing and having fun. It was exactly what I needed. While on tour I think it is essential to participate in non-band related things and just unwind. It helps take the stress away. Needless to say, we had a great time.

Karaoke Place...

Today was a busy day. We had two interviews in San Francisco, one of them being at a TV station and the other over G-Chat. The TV interview was for MYX and I have to say it went really well. I always get a little nervous when we do interviews/performance on TV because I never know where to look. I try to let my eyes wonder everywhere except for where the camera is but somehow I always let my gaze land on the camera. It’s so weird. Plus, when you’re doing a performance they are constantly moving the cameras, which makes me want to look at what is going on in periphery thereby leading me to look at the camera again. I just can’t win on TV. But thanks to editing magic I’m sure the station will make it work. Check out the pics of the studio below.

Studio!!

This was the greenroom we had at the studio...pretty nice.

After the interview we set out in the city to find food and a coffee shop to do our G-Chat interview. We found a Peet’s Coffee and camped out in the corner for the interview. Once it was done, all of us were starving so we started looking for food. I guess we were just in the coffee shop section of San Francisco because literally that’s all there was for like the surrounding 5 blocks. It was that or a super expensive steakhouse that’s perfect for struggling musicians to eat at….PSYCH!! (that’s right, I’m bringing it back.) So we set out to find somewhere to eat. We found an Italian place online, but it was over a mile away. But we were determined so we set out. After the lovely stroll along sidewalk beach (not) we arrived at the Italian place to find out that they had adopted the same menu prices as the expense steak houses. So we searched some more and found a Chinese place and an Afghan place. I had Chinese and it was a lot of mediocre food for a little bit of money (so basically it was perfect for someone like me). Then after dinner we had to take the long walk back to the van (at least we burned some calories!!).

Like I said it was a busy day. Perhaps it’s time for Karaoke again!!

Parker