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Rest Area Record Deal
Early one morning on tour this winter, somewhere between New York and North Carolina, while Joel was still asleep in the van, I sat alone on the cold tile floor of a rest area near a power outlet, as I did nearly every morning, sending emails. This morning seemed much the same as always, with…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!!!