burritos and tacos

so we are home for a short bit... back in the warmth of the texas winter. i noticed its been about a week with no blog updates... well lets recap;

Wilmington NC- played a great show at the Laundrolounge... Wilmington is a great city. Kinda like a mini Austin in many ways. Played with a band called Jackaroo... the guys in this band were all in high school... but they rocked unbelieveably hard.

Jacksonville FL- played with the band Retardobot... great crowd, great room. very good close to the tour. ate at quiznos twice that day... the sammies at quiznos are genius.

drove 8hrs to New Orleans (about halfway home), pricelined a hotel in the French Quarter... cajun food and drinks a plenty... stayed up super late, made our next days 12 hr drive not th emost enjoyable thing ever.

drove home... it took 12 hrs to drive a normally 8 hr drive. it too 3.5 hrs to drive the last 30 miles of Louisiana... road construction and a massive traffic jam. that was miserable... all we wanted to do was get back in to texas and it seemed like some unknown force was keeping us at bay. finally made it back to austin near 10:30pm... found that we had blown a trailer tire at some point on the trip and had not even noticed... we must have a stellar pack in our trailer... good weight distribution.

about 10 min after returning home, dropping our bags we all jumped back in the van and headed to our favorite mexican food restaurant for a good ole fashioned tex mex throwdown. ohhhhh how i had missed a good burrito, a good taco and a good enchilada. see what you have to understand is that living in austin, about 95% of ones meals are served in some form of tortilla... its just how it is... we missed that.

so back home for a short bit before sxsw... writing a lot of new material, rehearsing a great deal... enjoying the non sub zero temps. ahhh the midwest and the northeast... how we miss you, but i must say... i do not miss the cold.