HEY I'M NOT DEAD YOU GUYS I just took a blogging break for most of the last month. Last week Megan and I went to Palm Springs and Joshua Tree for a much, much, much-needed break from the Pacific Northwest winter gloom. It turned out to be an ideal place for someone like me who likes to evenly divide vacation time between wilderness adventure and lazing in a hammock by a pool with a book and beverage. I took the above photo while hiking a short loop trail only a mile or two from our hotel.
So much has happened since my last post: Kin to Stars played our third show and kind of struggled through it; Kirby Krackle shot a video (more on that later) and kicked off a West Coast tour with nerdcore rapper Adam Warrock (we, the live band, only played the Seattle and Portland shows before Kyle struck off solo); Explone snagged an opening slot for The Jealous Sound here in Seattle, and were confirmed to open for one of my favorite heavy bands, King's X, until their drummer was suddenly hospitalized and their tour canceled, yikes! So that's off for now.
This weekend Explone headlines Friday night at the King Cat Theater (which I'm pretty sure will be torn down afterward to make more buildings for Amazon.com) and Kin to Stars plays a THREE HOUR show at The HUB in Tacoma on Saturday.
In addition, we had electricians come out and drill holes into our house. Would you like to see my house in cross-section? Well here it is anyway:
