:: 06-02-08 Home Through The Northern Corridor ::
MINNEAPOLIS! We’re Back in minneapolis, and we made it just in time for the wedding of our best friends Rob and Ellen!!!! have a wonderful trip. we love you!
05-31-08 @ The Soap Factory
05-29-08 FARGO, ND @ the AQUARIUM
We a great time with Bryce’s parents in Fargo, we even put a dock in a lake!…who does that on tour…!
then we played the aquarium! thanks chris!
05-28-08 BILLINGS, MT @ Yellowstone Valley Brewhouse.
there is nothing between fargo and billings. except for these two things. and i don’t know why they are there.
Billings is a city that gives us a glimpse into the future, and it is somewhat frightening, however the guys at the Yellowstone Valley Brewhouse in were swell and they sent us away with a care package to share with our friends.
05-27-08 BOZEMAN, MT @ THE FILLING STATTION
the filling station is an amazing place, that looks like an old roadhouse, where people like us would actually drift through. we had a wondeful time with our new/old family of road dogs (VICTORY SMOKES, AND POSION CONTROL CENTER.
thanks to Olivia for joining us on this journey.
:: 05-29-08 Last Show Of Tour ::
hello, again, and welcome back. we’ve been having such a hard time keeping up with posting, but we have no lack of content. here i sit, at the Richardson house, on the way to the Aquarium here in fargo. for the next few days, i will be reflecting and trying my best to get all of the content sorted through, and posted.
THEMES Mobile Multi Media Studio, a hotel in Reno, NV. 5-13-08 (by jacy)
:: 05-26-08 MISSOULA, MT ::
Good morning from beautiful Missoula, MT. i have been cruising around town talkin to local folk, and reading a bit of independent media, in hopes to educate myself, as to what the people of this fine city have been up to, and i came across this story through Activism Across America. Way to go people. i really dig activism that directly effects quality of life, and how easy it is to clean up after ones self, and others.
OBAMAWORKS in Missoula Helps Clean Up the Fork River!
i also came across this story, which is very inspiring! Protect your lands, and if you do decide to develop fertile land, please do it in a sustainable fashion! It’s Beautiful here, and there is a common ground between expansion, and sustainability. one just needs to take the time to do it right. and from what i’ve read, and heard. The Missoula Community Food And Agriculture Coalition is doing a hell if a job. GO CFAC!
MISSOULA STOPPING SUBDIVISIONS FROM EATING UP LOCAL FOOD!
LIVE @ THE BADLANDER W/ POSION CONTROL CENTER / MUTE ERA / VICTORY SMOKES / BLACK VELVET ELVIS.
:: 05-20-08 Portland / History of Consciousness ::
Portland, OR opened it’s misty arms for three days to the THEMES underground, we found ourselves ramparted in a New Creative Compound underneath the famous “ANGELA DAVIS LIVES HERE”.
ANGELA DAVIS, is a professor, and founder of anti prison organization Critical Resistance, key member of the Student Nonviolent Committee, Political candidate of the Communist Party, and Station mount of the of the Black Panther Party. ((read more about this amazing woman!))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
mad love respect to the brilliant Corey gray and our brothers Carcrash lander, the lovely Miss Anna, my brother Joseph Deluxe, my sister Caitlin, Dio, Amy Hsuan. ilan, kelly, sam, casey at the AudioCinema. we cannot wait to see you all again…..
Seattle WA. Today the Olympic Mountains
I think the thing that astonishes me the most is the mentality That you are the metropolis you live in. You may say to yourself, “for vacation I’m going to the mountains. Or, for vacation I’m going to the ocean.”
“I will go to India and Ireland!”
These ideas we have about these places that represent magic to us, are actually what our soul is telling us we desire. Our soul deficiencies.
What we may have is available to us daily.
The ideas, the magic and the feeling that we are children again are the things that take care of us.
Inspiration will always be stronger and more filled with mystery than the wildest mind could conjure up.
I don’t want these tired eyes to look at the same gas station across the street from my house everyday. My skin is dehydrated from waiting hand and foot on strangers in some restaurant. It had been months since I smelled rain or grass.
My mouth spilled out with road rage in more than one moment of weakness.
My ears are experimenting with the noise of a city bus.
I’m again flexing my senses muscles.
I never again want to take for granted my inspiration. I don’t want to silence it. I don’t want to be embarrassed by it. I don’t want to hate it.
Inspiration is picking me up as the weaker half and whispering to me that it will always be there. It will always help.
It’s giving me rising tunnels through very steep climbs. It’s showing me how to live.
-Kelsey Crawford
:: 05-19-08 Chico, CA @ CRUX GALLERY ::
chico is a hell of a town. i’ve only played there once before, over 5 years ago, but this time it was very special, as chico town is now home to my parents, David Scott and Toni Elizabeth McIntosh. it seems only fitting that we play an art space with THE NEW TRUST, who are also as much a family as my own blood. YOU TOO JEFF! thanks for being there. we will be back often. mad props to Sesar, and the shimmies and surrogat ! you guys made this show amazing. if you haven’t heard these band……SSSSSSSSSHECKEMMOUT!
We Love You Dave and Toni! you are wonderful people!
:: 5-18-08 Petaluma, CA @ The Church ::
we rolled into our old home town, where we birthed THEMES, to open arms, and man!, our friends in santa rosa/ petaluma are some of the most colorful and creative people in the nation! we had a wonderful time….
SANTA ROSA!!!! guns, grills, yard beers, an oil change, pants on fire, riding wheelies, THE NEW TRUST! LITANY FOR THE WHALE! AHHHHHH!
i live for this family! THANK YOU FOR THE INSPIRATION! YOU ARE THE REASON WE ARE HERE!
here’s a review of the show and our new 7″ from Gabe @ the Bohemian
http://www.bohemian.com/citysound/
:: 5-16 / 5-17 S.F. / Oakland ::
although it’s actually 5-21…i’m playing catchup. THANK YOU ALL so very much…it was great to revisit the place of my birth and have so much fun with such beautiful souls….oh, BRIAN you are amazing….thanks for letting us live with you!
:: 5-14-08 TOIYABE National Forest::
with the desert at our backs, and time to ourselves we break free from the confines of the the interstate, and it asphalt spires, into the Sierra Nevada mountain range, at the foot hills of Yosemite. in need of some open spaces, we find ourselves in a magnificently glaciated hemlock rich place called the Toiyabe National Forest.
Click here for the video of Toiyabe National forest, set to a demo of the song “Justice”.
:: 05-12-08 Departing Reno ::
reno is a magical place where dreams come true, and everyone has all that they need, even the people who have meth labs. thanks everyone. check back tomorrow for more about the thrill ride that we had here.
::05-13-08 Nevada ::
05-13-08 Jessup, Nevada…In All It’s Shining Glory
photos: Justin
We’re in Reno Now!