Yeehaw.  So we're playing salem and missippi, studios that is.  sure im not the first to have made that joke. . . anyway.  if anyone remembers 17 Nautical Miles we're gonna play some tunes off that as well as the Paper Bag EP.  Remember when Emo was still a comedian to mainstream culture.  Well we do...  We jumped ship on that awhile ago but I think we're all old enough to be a bit nostalgic now and hey, I just listened to some of those tunes as I was brushing up on them and I wasn't as embarrassed as I thought I'd be.  Brought back a lot of memories of things that we're going on in my life and brain at the time I wrote them.  I will never be able to write like that again. Gee whiz am I an old man now. The weird thing about it was I was wishing I could feel some of those feelings again, which were mostly depressing feelings at the time.  So why was I romanticizing some major bummer times in my life?  I think that maybe it was the naivete of the whole thing.  I used to think that when I got a few more things going for me like a girlfriend or a contract or world peace or whatever that I'd be content and at some level, I believed I'd get all those things.  Well guess what? I married the best and most beautiful girl you could ever imagine and now I'm just miserable in new ways.  So beyond achieving world peace, I'd probably still be generally insufferable regardless of what happens.  So I am at this meeting the other night and we're talking about being grateful for stuff and when the topic of gratefulness comes up, I'm thinking: "Great, this is going to be BORING." But then I got to thinking that hey, I may be a sleep deprived 40hr a week pawn but I have managed to record some relatively satisfying tunes over the past year or so, I have a perfectly great roof over my head, a wonderful wife who grows our dinner in the backyard, 2 awesome cats, some of the best friends ever, and despite all the health crisis that have been going on with my family lately, we're all still kicking. So I'm happy to revisit some old feelings with some old tunes and you can come or don't come and I'll still be there being grateful for the opportunity to play some songs I like with my best friends. Life is good.

Still working on a release date for the record, so please keep enjoying the songs we've posted.  If you have run out of patience, so have I.  Because I have already heard it and I think it's pretty good.  So since we're really only doing this for ourselves anyway what does it matter when the damn thing comes out. . . But now I am being selfish and forgetting that a few people actually genuinely want to hear the thing. Or do they? Yes, let's say they do and now I will feel like I am being arrogant.  Do you see my dilemma? Either way I am being self indulgent.  Perhaps it would be better if we all just imagined the best Crosstide record EVER and left it at that. 

In the mean time, check out A GLASS OF MILK, BRYAN FREE's EACH OTHER, and INCREDIBLE YACHT CONTROL. Or go see Derby.  You will have then experienced all the component parts of this thing we call Crosstide.  It's kind of a musical Voltron.  Remember Voltron, we'll I'm sure that's the next thing Hollywood is going to cash in on.  I think I'll pass on trying to relive my youth at the GI Joe movie or Transformers or whatever and just watch something relevant to life in general, like Akira Kurosawa's Ran. Philosophy, Shakespeare, and Samurai. Now that's what I call a movie.  OK.  So let's just all be grateful for something in our life today, and try not to kill anyone and treat retail employees like human beings.  Sound good? Great.  Why does anyone read anyone's blogs ever. I think I am going to do a tweet with a picture of a sandwich now. Apologies for the stream of conscious stuff and thanks for reading. See you soon? 

Bret