Chapter 1: The Ballad of St. Barb

Talk talk talk talk talk and now we DO!!!

Thanks to every­one who came out to the send-off show last night at Andy’s (hope your eyes quickly fell heavy amongst the sound of the party) and thanks ya’ll for wish­ing us the best.

I played long ver­bal game of hello/goodbye to myself as I drove away from Los Ange­les today with many more on the later half. It was sad too think about and I was lis­ten­ing to Brian Eno: 1/1 which just inten­si­fied the con­tem­pla­tive feel­ing I was being gifted and shaky sound of my own voice . I want you to know that I’m sort of really sad that so much time will pass before we see each other again — with some more than oth­ers — but still nonethe­less, I can’t tell you enough that I love you all dearly. Thank you espe­cially to ya’ll, who know who you are, for help­ing us directly and for the sup­port. Finally, I’ve been think­ing about the show last night and couldn’t remem­ber if Laura got proper credit for her work with Matthew on the posters which kick some seri­ous ass.

I feel pretty good about the show last night. Fist­fight For a Woman’s Right and The Sun Song were a lot of fun, some of the new tunes need a bit of rehearsal but I’m stoked about the free­dom of play­ing old and new songs in com­pletely new ways for fresh unadul­ter­ated faces and ears. Get ready for cos­tumes too. Weird ones.

We’re play­ing tonight with Alisha’s brother’s sweet band called Sea­hag in Santa Bar­bara at a hip cof­fee house called Muddy Waters that has some deli­cious sound­ing Tele­graph Beers on tap and employs a awe­some dude named Bill who’s got a fowl mouth that said “I don’t give a shit what you fuckin’ guys play as long as you’re called the Right­eous and Har­mo­nious Fists”. Right on, man.

I’m hop­ing to get some pic­tures up as soon as I take some which I have to go do now. But check back soon, I’m not going to do this with­out you.

Love Jor­dan

2 Responses to “Chapter 1: The Ballad of St. Barb”

1. Laura says:

   May 24, 2007 at 5:54 pm

   I didn’t get to say good­bye to you last night. I will miss you, dear jor­dan. Write often, if you can. I hope you all can feel my invis­i­ble rays of love and admi­ra­tion warm­ing you.
2. Matthew says:

   May 24, 2007 at 5:59 pm

   I knew you had it in you.