Dear you,

To celebrate the gorgeousness and subtle doom of the fall here in the pacific northwest we've decided to post our new song '1000 Things'. Hope you like it! There will be more demos/practice tapes on the way to tide you over until our new record comes out. We are hard at work right now and i have seriously been playing bass for 5 days straight...Arthritis is gently knocking on my door.

To our Brazilian fans (and fans with brazilians): We are dreadfully sorry about cancelling our festival tour out there! We love you deeply and PROMISE to make our brazilian debut soon! We are currently tied up in studio land and we offer you 1,400,000 apologies! When we arrive on yr land we promise to greet you with 1,000 flowers!

The weather in Portland is near perfection right now.

We also probably won't be playing out at all until the new stuff is recorded.

Actually, we will be performing at the Miami Art Basel festival this year in December. We are collaborating on a piece with the kingpins and art master Jim Drain. It will be a very special performance indeed, for you Floridians, check it out. I'm also going to be curating an all Portland artist exhibit at Art Basel this year! It's called 'Rad moon rising' and it's going to be quite an exciting exhibit of new art coming of Portland.

We are all healthy + happy and are wishing the same for you all.

Here's my current top 10...

1. The Fall (the band + the season).
2. Naked on the vague - The blood pressure sessions LP
3. Green tea/Yerba mate
4. The Eurythmics - In the Garden LP (thank you Illy)
5. My delay pedal
6. Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill LP
7. My new tight black leather gloves
8. Free Blood - The Singles Lp
9. Catcall
10. Hedi Slimane - Rock diary book

xxxx, Brace Paine