Happy 2010, everyone
I don’t know about you, but my 2009 was a bit of a whirlwind, a roller coaster, if you will. (If you don’t know what a roller coaster is and you’d like to see me, guitarist Brian Karscig and tour manager Katie Benson riding one during the New Moon mall tour in Minneapolis (yep), click here to make the metaphor more real):
In any case, it was a banner year – I put out my dream album, toured with some of my favorites (Greg Laswell, Jason Mraz, The Virgins, Eric Hutchinson, Emiliana Torrini, Chris Isaak, Paolo Nutini), made some good videos with good people, FlipCam’ed my way across the country a few times over, did some tv stuff, and had a song in a movie about a girl struggling between her love for a vampire and a werewolf (hey, I don’t judge). For all of this, I have you to thank. With your help – whether it was coming to a show or buying a t-shirt, telling a friend about my album, joining up on FB or Twitter, or requesting “Satellite Heart” at your local radio station – my little rock & roll dream came true! It’s an absolute miracle that I get to play music for a living and I’m so humbled by the support that I have to refrain from pinching myself on an hourly basis (not because I don’t want to, but because it breaks the capillaries close to the skin – hello, unflattering!)
But seriously, a thousand thanks to each of you.
I’m currently writing from an undisclosed location high atop a tree & under the sea where I’m compiling the bones of the next record. During breaks in my hermitage I like to hear what’s going out out there on dry land, so drop me a line and tell me anything – your thoughts on healthcare, your hopes for 2010, your favorite websites, films or albums, a picture of your shoes, I don’t care. Just keep in touch. I’m bad at replying, but I’m great at reading – and you never know, something you write may become the focus of a very profound tweet about Jersey Shore and “The Situation.”
let’s hope not.
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