• The Edge of the World

    The Edge of the World

    As I write this, Joel and I are on a westbound desert freeway some 300 miles outside of Los Angeles. We have played the final show on our tour and are headed back to where we started from two months ago. After being gone for so long and being so far away from everything familiar…

  • SPACE POD

    SPACE POD

    Near midnight on January 22nd, Joel and I quietly drove out of Los Angeles, headed north for several hours, and around 3 a.m. parked at a nondescript rest area somewhere along the coast of central California. Our plan as to where we would sleep that night, as well as most other nights for the next…

  • All in

    All in

    Joel and I have just left Seattle, and with two shows already in the books, the tour that has been six months in the making is now officially underway. And although this tour, at first, was nothing but a thought without any plan to make it real or any reason to think we could actually…

  • the quiet green haze

    the quiet green haze

    Last week Monday was a day that Joel has very much been looking forward to for the last three months, if not years, really. It was his last day at his office job here in Los Angeles before we leave on our our very first tour in late January. Ironically enough, with less than three…

  • Embrace the chaos.

    Embrace the chaos.

    The Violet Lights play their first show in over four months tonight, and I can’t deny I’ve been hoping that it will go amazingly…and perfectly. But, as usual, what’s real is much harder to control than I’d like. Just a few days ago, my keyboard basically stopped working, and when it will be ready to…

  • miniature monster

    miniature monster

    For the past six weeks, Joel and I have been hard at work on our first music video for The Violet Lights. This being the case, our weekends and evenings continue to never be quite long enough for all that needs to be done. Sometimes amusing, other times frustrating, it seems that whatever project we…

  • No, we haven’t gone completely crazy…

    No, we haven’t gone completely crazy…

    No, we haven’t gone completely crazy, but yes, last night we did coat the windowpanes of our apartment in bright green latex paint. Well, first we actually covered them with black paper and then taped individual sheets of letter size green paper over that, realized this initial plan was not going to work, tore it…

  • In the Kitchen w/ The Violet Lights

    In the Kitchen w/ The Violet Lights

    When your laptop dies and you can’t afford a new one I’d suggest just putting in the oven and cranking up the heat. Worst case scenario a little destructive therapy, best case, achieve solder re-flow and regain complete functionality. Amber was very skeptical, and not without reason… Wow it WORKS!!!

  • SECRET MISSION

    SECRET MISSION

    Over the weekend, without warning, our only computer up and died. With too many time-sensitive plans in the works and on our minds to just lay low until we could get a new one, Joel and I were off on a late-night secret mission. Under the cover of darkness and a close lookout, files were…