I know everyone in the Corpus Callosum crowd has their thoughts and feelings about our last performing day in history. If you don't, this is to fill you in on the day, accompanied by my personal feelings and anecdotes:

Yesterday, August 13 of 2006, we played the two last shows we will play together (at least, in our current incarnation). One was at the Bleeding Edge Festival. At $50, this was a show too expensive for most of our friends to afford to see unless they joined the band last-minute. Nonetheless, we were all enthusiastic (including Dax, I think) about playing a show with names as big as Yo La Tengo. I was very excited to see Matmos (a duo I highly admire) and Isis, but we played during the same time slot as Matmos, and left before Isis played. So I (we) didn't get to see either.

The other show was at the Fishtank, where we played among great local accordionists and musicians Aaron Seeman and Daniel Ari, and great travelling folk musician Jason Webley. Thanks for our friends who came out to see us for the last time (possibly even over Jason Webley!), and to Aaron Seeman for giving us the last opportunity to play.

The whole thing was strange. Zach was off digging rocks in the mountains for a degree, Ben stepped in to learn some percussion parts onstage while we played, Qarly returned to throw in some of the bizarre and wonderful clowning she did back when the band was younger, I was coming off of a bad influenza trip, Avery was dripping sweat ...

So what's going on now? Recording is going to be finished up in the studio, which is also my bedroom. Then we will be invisible until the winter, my favorite season, at which point we will fight through the snowy wastelands to find a small recording studio in Montana to do the last bit of duty to this band. Then a new album for you.

If you ever see us in the same room together again, it will be this winter. Stay tuned. Don't cry. Peace. Pizza.

-- Stevie Hryciw