hello ether.

Ela has 4 new things!

1. We have t-shirts from our recent tour with Minus the Bear for sale on line now. You can check out pictures of em on our myspace photos page, and order them straight from the kind people at Afternoon Records. (www.afternoonrecords.com)

2. We have a booking agent! Horray for Shawn from Microindie Booking for signing on to aid us in our quest to eat in your town diner. Check out the awesome work he does over here -
www.myspace.com/microindiebooking

3. We are hard at work on new music. This is hopefully going to be the most rapid brain-to-song-to-record material we have done yet. Trying to keep it fresh for us and you. We are hoping to finish an EP by febuary first and then play all over this place.

4. Weve got a new video for our song "Fortune" off of Real Blood on Fake Trees.
For right now, check it out HERE : www.contrastfilms.com

Thats all for now. Hope the fall is representing where you are. . . .

- Ela

A Few Moments
- tomas transtromer


The dwarf pine on marsh grounds holds its head up: a dark rag.
But what you see is nothing compared to the roots,
the widening, secretly groping, deathless or half-
deathless root system.

I you she he also put roots out.
Outside our common will.
Outside the City.

Rain drifts from the summer sky that's pale as milk.
It is as if my five senses were hooked up to some other creature
that moves with the same stubborn flow
as the runners in white circling the track as the night comes misting in.