not sure why i agreed to do this but you can now catch me on a special one-hour radio time slot each wednesday night from 10-11pm on www.lsrfm.com.  it's called "the juffage show, or, teaching students of leeds university what's good."  woahhh!!!!

if you are in amerika this means wednesday at 5pm eastern standard time, or 4pm in the central erogenous zones of chicago.

untill next time...

jeff t. smith

well it's been a month today exactly since my last tour date but i just have now mentally prepared myself for a "recap" if you will...

massive big-ups to the people of mortville and their lovely warehouse for putting me on a month ago and letting me play for far too long.  special thanks to alex and julia (sonmi) for being such friendly and hospitable people, the uptown bar in minneapolis and the sextons (my pump for my air matress is sitting in your living room).  large manly hugs go out to man's last great invention and the world's tallest people, nebraska's finest.  furthermore i cannot forget about the bronzed chorus, baby birds don't drink milk, i love you, florida=death, zombies did it, tip-top secrets, teeth collection, and karass; all excillent bands.  hmm what else.  thanks to ricardo lagomasino for putting up with us for two days and taking us to get philly cheesesteaks.  thanks to the swamp in carbondale, bart from under the mooch, jeff from labyrinth press, jamie from skull alley, jacob from charlottesville and edan from brooklyn for putting on such great shows.  also, special thanks to kuma's corner and BBQ ribs for existing.  you have truly made the difference.  see you next time.

love,

jeff t. smith

YO WORLD:

i gots me some holes in my touring schedule.  i leave in about a week holy shit!  here's the dates/places giving me issues.  in a band from here and want to help out?  run a venue?  HAVING GOOD SHOWS IN YOUR HOUSE LATELY?  send me an email!  myspace is ok but i prefer juffage@gmail.com  ok!

- THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD - Madison, WI (w/ sonmi)
- FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH - Milwaukee or Anywhere, WI
- SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH - Detroit, MI or Toledo, OH
- MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH - Detroit Metropolitan Airport

spring break!

cheers,

jeff

as of last week, my old record "summer of glory" was finally released on itunes, amazon, emusic, napster and rhapsody music networks. (UPC:881034343741).

please help me out and buy the record as i currently have a low-paying job. apparently, itunes is offering an all-explicit version. this is not really the case, they just put it that way to cover their asses. at first i was thinking some apple representative just went in and added the words 'shit' and 'balls' to alot of my songs. anyhow please enjoy from the following sites:



SUMMER OF GLORY ON RHAPSODY!

SUMMER OF GLORY ON AMAZON!

to be able to get SUMMER OF GLORY on emusic or napster you have to be a "member." that is silly. but if you already are then i suppose that's good. i am not. thanks again!

salutations,

jeff t. smith

N.B. in light of this, a live video shot in cagliari for "alternate version" from this disc, featuring nick rivera:



N.B.2. i put up a new song today entitled "my weakness" from a forthcoming record to be released sometime.

dear friendz,

the "juffage show" has returned and made its way to WHPK. after working for WBGU for 4 years they basically just gave me a show and told me to do whatever I want. so, tune in tuesday mornings from 10am-noon CST to 88.5 FM for the best in new/old everything randomness. if you happen to not live in the south side of chicago, you can get this online at www.whpk.org.

sincerely,

jeff t. smith

hey kids,

during my time in the u.k. i stopped off at a farm near norwich where there happened to be a recording studio and put together a live album of sorts. it aired on breakthru radio and was hosted by dj mr. jason, who also engineered the performance. anyway, i had a really good time recording it and it's a good chance to hear what i sound like live, in case you've never seen me play a show before. it also has some new songs on it which may, may not, or already have been made into studio versions. please check it out at:

Juffage Live at Old School Studios - 10/26/08

Tracklisting:
1) Intro by Mr. Jason
2) Declaration of Independence
3) My Weakness
4) Church Organ
5) Requiescat
6) Kent, Ohio
7) Tapes / Good God, Morning
8) Outro by Mr. Jason

Thank you for your patronage,

Jeff T. Smith

Tyler Quinn of Hoisted Sail Productions made a video for ASU's entrepreneurship program featuring the song 'richard simmons' from the summer of glory LP. You can check it out via the link below:

http://www.hoistedsail.com/productions

cheers,

jeff t. smith

i put 18,000 miles on my car this summer touring the united states. thanks to everyone who helped me eat or sleep along the way. extra thanks to apop records and the lemp, everyone in tulsa, everyone in albuquerque, everyone in las vegas, the dayton dirt collective, the new hawaii, the spazzatorium, the trumbullplex, the spillage home, the bright house, le chateau noir, the trunk space, the cake shop in new york, the hotel monte vista cocktail lounge, the hideout in chicago, the triple rock in minneapolis, the port townsend boiler room, pulchraciva and that house full of party people, dakota floyd, jimmy vitullo, jimmy diroff, joel straley and drew zimmerman, noah nishite, lisa rodz, jason kirby, craig from iowa city, the church of the friendly ghost in austin, hotel eden, tim kinsella, the world's tallest people, sonmi, baby bird's don't drink milk, the water, the epicurians, shelf life, man's last great invention, tobie milford, matt sterling and guy. it was fun. i'm gonna take a shower. then, i'm off to do a tour of the united kindgom, italy and sardinia in the fall. that's a big fucking ocean.

cheers,

jeff t. smith

honestly?

CHECK out some zany antics from the first few days of the juffage summer 2008 tour on youtube. we made a video channel so you never have to wonder what yr missing. more to be posted as the tour progresses. check it out, yo:

http://www.youtube.com/juffage2008tour

also, go to guy's blog and check out some old fashioned diary-style blog entries:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=41579876