so I’m on a bus somewhere in Pennsylvania, I think. I don’t really know. I just woke up. I sleep really, really long and hard on a bus. If you’re unfamiliar with how a tour bus is set up, you’ve got a lounge in front, with a couch, little kitchenette, tv and bathroom. There’s a little lounge in the back, as well. The middle is twelve bunks, stacked three high on either side. You crawl into one of those little bunks, shut your little curtain, let the swaying of the bus (we drive overnight while the band sleeps) and the purring of the engine just lull you right to dreamland. Anyway, it’s 10:30 Nashville time and I just crawled out to greet the day.

We had a flat tire in the middle of the night, so we’ll still drive for another couple of hours to get to the show tonight.

I’m SO glad we’re not flying this weekend, though. We’ve been flying every weekend and you have to play other people’s gear and you don’t really get any sleep at all. And after five years in a van, the bus is even more delicious.

Anyway…

Yesterday I went over to Jeremy Casella’s to help him out with some ProTools stuff. He’s deep in the building of what I believe will be a masterpiece of a new album. Jeremy is a real genius with melody. Like McCartney kind of melody genius, and I don’t throw that around. He’s using very different instrumentation from a usual singer-songwriter record and it’s utterly and thoroughly beautiful. I’m getting to work on it some more in the coming weeks and I’m very excited.

Well, I don’t have much else to say right now AND World’s Wildest Police Videos just came on tv so I have to go. This is awesome.