RIP

I will now be "blogging" elsewhere. Sorry, blogger. It just wasn't meant to be.

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A zombie cop has been spotted in Brighton!

Saw this car at the fireworks show. Notice the Tiger! Tiger! Sticker!

Home

I'm home for a bit. Time to work and spend time here before what is looking like to be a busy last 4 months of 2009.

Castle we passed by in Lexington, KY.

This landed on Devin's shirt!

We're playing a spur of the moment house show with pilgrims tonight. I couldn't be more excited.

I just picked this up for three bucks. Epic win.

Davezilla took this last night on his phone. I dig it.

Having too much fun to update this thing. The Mississippi River is a beautiful thing.

Hats

Everything will be okay
For our path is hereby paved
And as we wander down this road less traveled on
We'll remember all the things
That make our road lives all so great
And even though it seems as if we're always gone
We're always home

Best gift ever!

I love this place undconditionally!

Tonight's show was awesome. I love pop-punk so much. I'm so glad that Sean is just as stoked on it as I am. He's super into Fireworks right now. It's sweet.

What a good looking breakfast!

This is my new puppy, Bauer! :)

I am home.

So the past month has been one of the most hectic and crazy periods in my life to date. I learned so much about myself and about many others while on the road. I gained many new friendships, mended others, and even lost one. By no means were any of those intended, but I guess that it is just the nature of the beast. When it comes down to it I need to look after myself and that's what I did. I feel like I am in a much better place now than when I left for this tour.

As I sit here and listen to the music of Jeff Pianki, a friend of mine, it really puts it all into perspective for me. This is one giant family. No matter where I went, no matter what type of bands we were playing with, no matter if it was 13 year old kids or 62 year old men, we all connected through one thing: music. I've always felt that music was the best way to convey emotion and traveling across the United States I got to witness this firsthand. I've always thought that being in a touring band is what I wanted to do with my life, but now I know that it is what I need to be doing. This feeling that I get from music is inexplainable. It's just a feeling in my gut that everything is temporary right with the world. When I'm in this zone it feels like I am invincible. This also makes me strive to be a better personal musician.

The future is looking very bright for Tiger! Tiger! right now. One way or another it looks like we are going to be heading out to Seattle, WA to record a full length next fall. There's a good chance that there will be some big names involved in the making of this record. Nothing has been set in stone yet, but if it goes through it is a HUGE step for us. I can't wait. To hold off our "fans" until a full length, we plan on releasing a 7" and acoustic EP courtesy of Bear Minimum Records. We've been talking to our buddy Joe for the past few months about this and he is just as stoked on the idea as we are. We head into the studio in early May to record two brand new songs for that. We're going back to Chicago to work with Mark. I'm really excited to be working with him yet again. I'm sure his work has gotten even better since last time we worked with him. Gosh, the dude works wonders.

I don't even know who reads this, or even how many people, but I just want to get one final point across. Follow your dreams. Follow your heart. While on tour with Damiera I had a discussion with Dave, the singer of Damiera, about a lyric in one of our songs. The lyrics goes: "It's a war between your heart and your mind." What this means to me is that everyone is always fighting a personal battle between what society feels that they should do (mind) and what they really want to do (heart). Dave pointed out that he has a similar feeling and that your mind controls all of your logic while your heart runs on gut instinct. He said that your mind may always want to make the logically correct decision and if that was the case then everyone would be stuck in the same loop, doing the same things, never taking any risks. That's fine and dandy, but to truly live, you need to follow your heart and put yourself out there.

Thank you.

Listen to my friends:

www.myspace.com/damiera
www.myspace.com/manwithoutwax

This show is sooooo good. I'm so glad that I've been able to catch up on it today.

I bought a new coat today for under nine dollars.

Buddha is growing out a burly beard!

Nick was real happy to see the easter bunny.

I sure am trying my hardest.

BRANDON!

We're in washington dc for the day. This place rules.

So after staying the night in conway, sc in order to get our van fixed, we are on our way to our show today. About an hour into our drive we start seeing a million signs for a place called south of the border. I don't even know how to describe this place. It's a creepy tourist trap.

Our only day on the ocean. It's the least crappy of the crappy days where we've had a chance to.

This movie is hilarious so far.

Yet another off day. :( I'm just excited that we meet up with damiera in less than a week. I can't fricken wait.

Another cool bridge that we drove over while leaving savannah, ga. We're on our way to myrtle beach for the night.

Mike made a new hat!

This is the best purchase that i have made on tour so far. So delicious!

Momma, you should know what bridge this is! :)

We slept in the van last night. I'm pretty sure that it's going to be like this for the next couple of days.

Prepare for a lot of pictures like this in the next couple of days. I'm so glad that i'm down in Florida and not in Michigan where it is apparently snowing.

This is the daytona international speedway. Dale Earnhardt died here.

Ron was listening to Modulate to A on his computer...loser!

My phone was dead all day. We hung out at downtown disney all day. Beach time tomorrow!

Taking new promos.

Nick hates that i take a picture of everything. But this deal is great.

Today will rule.

I'm at a house in florida that my grandparents are renting. I'm watching the state game. It's a nailbiter.

This is my laptop. FML.

First falafel of tour!

I'm glad mikey is on tour with us.

I never thought i'd meet jesus on tour!

After a short drive we're in orlando. It is so awesome to be here.

We're about to leave for orlando!!!

Weird coincidence.

So we arrive to our show in lake city florida to find out that the only other band on the show is another touring band from michigan. What makes it even more weird is that their drummer is james hancock who used to drum in art of accidents/hate the radio. Show was a bust though.

I am about to swim in the most beautiful, crystal clear water i have ever seen.

Lol.

We just paid to get into a florida state park with all coins. It's an honor system and it was either that or a dryer sheet. We decided to do the right thing.

I'm dumb!

Pretty sure i forgot to send the pic. Silly me!

Here's my new hat!

We're in Florida now at a pizza hut. Can't wait to indulge in this buffet!

We just played a really odd bar show in the middle of nowhere georgia for five dudes. I'm just stoked to be playing music everyday. We were in the van for around nine hours today. I love it. :)

Traffic in hotlanta sucks!

Look at this photograph.

So this whole ordeal ended up greatly. Rock and Roll mom, as she dubs herself, is extremely nice and is currently making us breakfast.

No way.

So we get to a hotel for the night and a lady pulls up and asks us if we want to stay with her. She legitimizes herself by name dropping the classic crime and danger radio. So as of right now we're sitting in the middle of nowhere in an rv hoping that she's not some secret murderer.