Wow, good times all around, Texas Biscuits and gravy are the bomb! after our night at the strip club we moved around ttexas a bit more, ate a 26 ounce Strip Steak from a place called "The Big Texan" , drove down to Austin to play a show at the Austin Java, They say to "Keep Austin Weird", and It sure is weird...but very cool, a total music town, they block off the streets for weekend partying and the main drag of 6th street fills up like a holiday parade of drunks, in the meantime, there is music from a live band in nearly every bar along the strip and its all broadcasted over the outdoor speakers through the night air, buskers and street musicians every 20 feet, a weird shop where they have stuffed 3 eyed cows and 2 headed chickens! We play our show and its during the Austin City Limits music festival, so lots of bands and big names are in town...during our set for a crowd of 8 people at a small coffee shop, i notice a shadowy figure walk in the the back of the room, slowly and quiet, dressed in Black and looking up at me from peircing eyes....half way through a song, i realize its Jack White, of the White Stripes, no joke, jack White is in town for the Austin city limist festival and he somehow stumbled into my show...he watches 3 songs, claps, smirks and then leaves...never to be heard from again....weird..! from that point on we head off to see a band play in Dalls that noone knows called "The Fratellis", cool show, not many people there, we catch a meeting with the singer Jon after the gig by the bus, he seems pretty wasted and not wanting to talk, we ezchange a hello, and thats that, he actually seems like the most pissed off person i have seen in a while! Probabaly because his bands performance this evening kinda sucked...we play a show at a real life Roadhouse in Lubbock...people throwing beer everywhere, smoking, swinging girls around, the place is nuts, they want to hear ACDC radio hour rather than my music so i just hang out and watch the chaos...Played a place called the Actors cafe in Louisiana, owned by one of the founders of the Weather Underground, Got to stay with the guy at his apartment as well....So now I have hung out with the Yippies of NYC and the Weathermen, two radical groups of the 60s counterculture...still kciking..in a sense...how do i find myself in these situations??new Orleans, cool town, very spooky, we wander the french quarter, stay in a haunted hotel and smoke pot in the swimming pool..Mobile Alabama, we play in a small bar with a bunch of coool hippie kids having a ho-down during our set, cool people here, we hang out with 2 college kids who get us stoned and drunk andoffer us a place to stay, talk to a guy named D-real (short for darrel) hes a 48 year old guy, going through a divorce, dressed in a nice 9 to 5 outfit, drunk as shit, loves the Insane Clown Posse and insists on smoking us up in our van..says hes " down with the clown like a motherfucker"! hilarious...good time in Mobile! i eat a shrimp Po-boy sandwhich the next morming then we head to FL, where we play a string of Punk shows done up by D.I.Y kids, play a show at a place called the B;aclbpx Collective, while the stage is invaded by wandering homeless crackheads as well as the punks residing over the festivities...meet some cool cats in South Carolina, share the stage at an open mic with more Clown Posse fans, two guys dressed in clown makeup named "Dose" and "Scarecrow" ...whats up with all this I.C.P insanity anyway? and why does it  follow me!? We make a bar full of Chad guys and drunk bootey shaking college chics dance during or set, evry suprising to see a sports bar meat market get down to my songs, that never happens in Baltimore....Hung out at a Hookah bar called the Juggling Gypsy, played the Open mic there and met some cool kids....made 2 thousand dollars in merch sales on this trip! I wanna thank all the cool ass people we met along the way and everyone who let us sleep on their floors, couches and beds, or who purchased a CD, I hope you like it

thanks for making this the best Tour I have ever done

later

Matt