1. i am going back out on the lamb! available from mid-march through at least may. talk to me about where i should play/who i should play with! i want to go everywhere. west coast, southwest, midwest, northeast, southeast, BRING IT.

2. i will spend march 5th-15th playing guitars + keyboards backing adam lipman at shows in the west (no-cal, so-cal, arizona, nevada, mexicali, utah). http://www.myspace.com/adamlipman for details. we will be playing songs from his 17 forthcoming records.

3. i'm sorry i've been so bad about keeping in touch with everybody. having two + jobs over the last 8 months has kept me from talking to pretty much everybody, save the few people i work with. I'M NOT MAD AT YOU, I'VE JUST BEEN BUSY DOING RIDICULOUS THINGS THAT I'D RATHER NEVER HAVE DONE. honest. or rather, i've spent an intense period of reflection and normal living, and i'm done with that kind of business for the time being.

4. in bonus news, the new record is slowly slowly slowly being pieced together. hopefully will be done sometime in the spring or summer. it is going to be called PERPENDICULAR CROSSTALK IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE. songs include:

- perpendicular crosstalk
- the forbidden zone
- fawn brodie
- toledo blues
- carpetbombing the queen mary
- lap steel blues
- it is mine
- sultan of sleep enters the vortexas


so write me! 2008 is going to be a much better year than the flaming disaster which was 2007.

-mike