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It’s 9:42 a.m. in Austin.  Eric is doing work across from me on his laptop. Lola, my friend Celina’s pooch is snoozing next to us in on of those big baskety chairs, and everyone else is asleep.

It’s been incredible so far.  

This is my fourth time out on tour, and the first time Hop Along has gone out as a full band.  Our show in Baltimore sold out, people have been singing along to the songs off of “Wretches,” and even the swamp coming into Louisiana looked good yesterday.  Something is definitely up. 

Admittedly, I’m not the easiest person to travel with.  I stress pretty quickly, I nag, I get on people’s nerves.  But I’m so grateful for all the people who go on these tours with me anyway, multiple times.  It must mean something about all this is good, is being done right.  My friend Marlon and I were talking about this one band that’s getting pretty huge all of a sudden, and he said, “I don’t know what is is, but they did something right.”  Hop Along as a band is still so young and rough around the edges, but even so, kids approach me after the show, grinning and happy to have been a part of the experience.  And I’m really just now beginning to appreciate this, that maybe in spite of our still somewhat un-professional approach, we must be doing something right.

Today we play at Homeslice Pizza, with a few bands from the Merge label (including Pattern is Movement).  I’m hoping I don’t get how I usually get about things like this.

ALSO, if you haven’t already, check out this band

http://www.myspace.com/dangerousponies

They’re incredible.  Every time they play.  Enough said.

Now to make some more CD’s.  And eat the rest of Celina’s grapes.  

More later.