Augustana

a good record store

2008-04-14T21:14:00.000-07:00

i love the entire experience of a true record store, whether you're in omaha, nebraska, or in chapel hill, north carolina or san diego, california...the minute you step into the store you're taken to a timeless place, the boundaries and possibilities honestly feel endless when you're walking around the store, smelling the old vinyl records, and seeing a cracked old copy of nirvana's "in-utero" cd in the used section (probably the copy my mom took back to the store when i brought it home and she saw the song title "rape me" on the back...oh man that made me so angry, only made me want to like it more!) anyways, all the senses are involved at a good record store, you just automatically feel cooler there, i think for a lot of kids and even adults its a kind of treehouse club or some sort of refuge from the dullness of the real world, and the feeling of grappling with the stupid hard to open packaging of a cd is so enthralling...you can't get into your car fast enough to pop it into your cd player and hear the first note! it could be your favorite record and you dont even know it yet! and with vinyl, the IDEA of getting home and putting on the record is beyond exciting...basically, yes i love going to a good record store haha..one of my favorite spots is LOU'S records in leucadia, california (san diego), my hometown record store, it's got everything you'd want or need and i love it.

april fools update

2008-04-01T15:33:00.000-07:00

hello everyone. i'm writing to you right now from san diego as we're about a month away from the album release. the wheels are most definitely turning on 'can't love can't hurt'; the discs are being pressed as I type, the video is finished and sweet n' low is starting to sneak its way into a couple radio stations. it may seem like we've been off tour forever, but i promise we've been working real hard on getting everything ready for this record to come out. it's great to see the new headlining tour dates seeing as though we're all pretty anxious to get back out on tour and see all of you. i know there's a couple cities we're missing but hopefully we'll be coming close enough where everyone can make it out. these new songs are a blast for us to play live and we're hoping that it'll be just as fun for all ya'll to watch.

we're bringing out a great crew for this tour including winston south (justin's french bull dog), lucy layus (dan's pug) and several other characters. we're gonna have a girly man named chase behind the camera, the CEO and content supervisor of buffalojokes.net/tour manager B Gordo, and a furry fellow named andy teching the guitars. we're hoping to get some video blogs for you guys to let you know how things are going. however, if you do notice that we're being lazy about it, please don't be afraid to grab me by the collar and shout, "john. you're being a lazy jerk. please post the video blogs like you promised." i assure you i won't be mad. if that seems too intimidating you could just kick chris in the shin as hard as you can; that'll work too.

also onboard will be mrs. layus and our doodlebop tech 'little layus'. i really won't be surprised if the madness of our little partridge family makes its way onstage in the form of our 16 month old 'hype toddler' chasing two funny looking white dogs (or vice versa) across the monitors. expect the usual facial hair, parking lot wiffle ball games, golden thighs, bocce ball matches, skateboard crashes; ya know just all that normal stuff that happens when the sun's out.

on that note i feel compelled to go spend some time outside, where san diego is reminding why i live here. it's a beautiful day, and i'm sorry if i've made any of you jealous of the fact that it's like 73 degrees right now. i also have to head to the market to buy some goods so i can cook chris a healthy meal instead of watching him go to juanitas, ricos, mexico viejo, filibertos or robertos so he can scarf innumerable california burritos and rolled tacos with guac. i think tonite we'll do some pumpkin ravioli with a brown butter sage and maybe some grilled asparagus. that sounds nice.

mmmmm. to the market i go

ciao

john vincent

Top 5 Albums!

2008-03-17T14:49:00.000-07:00

Dan's Top 5:

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks

Van Morrison: Moondance

The Band: Music from Big Pink/ The Band (Self-titled)

Gram Parsons: GP

Jared's Top 5:

Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Wildflower

Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin I

Michael Jackson: Thriller

The Beatles: Revolver