Taking it down low in Vienna, Austria. Photo by Paule on Flickr.

Wow, that was a long time. This site has been totally busted and is hopefully going to be moving to a brand new home in the very near future. Web site trouble is boring on all levels, so I won't waste any more of your time with this!

Let's talk about what happened not so long ago. OK, so Claire and I drove across the country in a nation-wide storm and made it just in time for sound check at the McCarren Pool party. After that I had a couple days off in New York and Claire flew home. Then I drove up to Portland, Maine, the "other" Portland, and also a city that I'd never been to, and started a tour with Dirty Projectors and Vampire Weekend. This lineup carried on through the midwest where we traded out Vampire Weekend for Nat Baldwin for a couple shows before meeting up with West Coast warrior and vibrational healer White Rainbow.

I drove across the country without a drivers' license. Alone. In a car that does not , and did not, belong to me. This experience was equal parts fucking horribly stressful and pretty exhilarating. I've never been much of an alone-time person, but this tour really felt good. I did a lot of thinking. Also I was very bored at times.

That video spawned some awesome comments on its Vimeo page. Check it out. I still would like a mixtape from every city! Not just music that you like, but music that is FROM your city. Rep your set.

I didn't take much video on the Dirty Projectors tour, and to top it off I left my camera in the glove box, so now I'm on another tour and I don't have my camera with me! Luckily I have cameraphone to at least try and document some of this tour. Here's a movie of the Dirty Ps tour!

So now I'm in Europe on a fancy double decker tour bus with Architecture in Helsinki, ripping through the mainland before I head to China for a handful of shows. Yeah, China! Then I'm coming back to Europe after a brief ten day rest in Portland with Claire and Whiskers. See you soon!

If you fell in love with one of the new gold foil YACHT t-shirts on tour, but didn't have any money or you only have a credit card, you can now buy 'em online from Marriage Records. Here you go:

Dates with Architecture in Helsinki:

2007-09-18 - Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie

2007-09-19 - Bielefeld, Germany @ Forum

2007-09-21 - Vienna, Austria @ Flex

2007-09-22 - Munich, Germany @ Ampere

2007-09-24 - Milan, Italy @ Transilvania Live

2007-09-25 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Rote Fabrik

2007-09-26 - Bordeaux, France @ Le Krakatoa

2007-09-27 - Toulouse, France @ Le Ramier

2007-09-30 - D