Chicas y Chicos,
Im currently at the airport recapping the last few days of filming in
my head. Im smiling from the memories, and feel my heart swell when I
think of how cool the video is going to be and thinking of the
new friends we've made.

If you don't know, Heineken has put deSoL together with the USC film
school on a project to help promote the arts. Gracias to Heineken Beer.

We flew in Wednesday, prepared our wardrobe and made sure our colors
were organized and that we looked like a band. Looking like a band was
the easy part for a bunch of long haired, bearded, road worn, scruffy
musicians.

Thursday, we spent the day shooting near Palmdale C.A at a location
called "The Four Aces"...it's a Hotel/Gas Station/Diner,
used for movies and videos in the middle of the desert. The VolksWagon Bus
scenes were filmed here. James' stick shift driving took a little
getting used to...but after he got the hang of it, we were off and
rolling.

The desert was hot and beautiful, a real treat to soak in the desert
vibes for the day...Joshua Trees everywhere! Man, I love the desert.

The concept of the video revolves around a postcard I send from Cali
to my sweetheart in N.Y.C. This location in the desert is where the
VW Bus stops and I drop the postcard off in the mail box. The guys
get out, stretch, throw the football around, fill up on gas, I mail my
love letter and away we go to another gig. The West coast mail man
picks up the postcard and off it goes to be delivered to my Sweetheart
"Tamara" on the east coast.

Friday was another long day as we shot performance footage on Long Beach.
My favorite time was jamming around the camp fire
while the extras got to dance, sing and party along with us and the camera.
The band was in rare form...cracking corny jokes between takes, trying
to make each other laugh and keeping the energy high and positive.
Some of the jams and grooves we were playing between takes were
memorable. The night, the beach, the full moon created an incredible
atmosphere. My gut says we got some special footage there.

Friday night at the beach was when "Tamara" enters the video. The
guys were ribbing me the whole day about my on screen "Sweetheart"
showing up and breaking my heart... Well, she broke all of our hearts.
Christina Luna, who plays "Tamara" was the sweetest, down to
earth person... a natural beauty, a real talent. I have to say that
everyone on the set, the actors, the film crew, the directors,
producers, USC personel, our makeup girl "Yvonne" and hair guy "Jimmy"
truly were the reason we had such a blast.

We've made new friends and bonded with budding creative people like us,
just a bunch of completely passionate artists creating their own destiny.

Yesterday, Saturday, the location was the "The New York City street"
at the CBS Lot in Studio City. Even though our filming was done we
showed up to watch and support as the NYC fire escape balcony scenes
were filmed. This is where the postcard finaly gets to "Tamara". The east
coast mail man delivers the postcard and she sees something wonderful
in the card.

Stay tuned for the release of this video due out in early '09...
Thanks to everyone for making this a memorable shoot. Our
director and producer team Brent, Phil and Nadia kicked major ass for
deSoL. They will be editing for the next few months. Brenda and
Jeffrey who head the USC film dept also are to thank personally. I
also want to thank Adam, Julie and everyone at Mulholland Drive
advertising agency. Pattie and everyone at Heineken for giving us this
opportunity. Pattie heard "Sing It All Night" on regular rotation on
107.1 FM The Peak in Whiteplains, N.Y and said she wanted us as one of
her bands.

Well, the sun is up, it's now officially Sunday, I'm in Chicago
waiting for our connecting flight, James is laid out on the 3 seats
next to me sleeping (mouth opened and drooling), the rest of the boys
got on a different flight from LAX to JFK. We ended up having too much
fun in L.A and missed our origional flights last night...

Time only flies when you're having fun.
nos vemos
Albie