Photo: After the party in London. Taken by Ben Roberts.

It's all over, clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!

Sort of. Two concerts in the near-future you should know about:

Friday, November 30th, 2007- Portland, OR @ Backspace (115 NW 5th Street)

8pm, All-Ages, FREE! (with The Thermals)

Review in the Willamette Week | Photos by Jeff Mawer | Photo by Justin Kent

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007- New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (74 Leonard Street)

6pm, All-Ages (with Mt. Eerie, Islands, Tussle, Nick Krgovich, R Stevie Moore, Roger Ferguson, Christopher Francis, and Tomlab DJs) as part of the Worried Noodles release party!

Photos on Pitchfork | Photos on Brooklyn Vegan

It's all over, clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!

Where do I even start? I played nearly two hundred shows in 17 countries in 2007. I played to 21 people in Hamburg, Germany and 1,500 people Detroit, Michagan. I flew on countless crappy airplanes, rode on both nice and not-so-nice trains, illegally drove cars, rode on multiple tour busses, both with wifi and without wifi. I made new friends that I'll keep for the rest of my life, and I was harassed by drunken English dudes for wearing pants too tight for their preference. Sometimes I was with a busload of friends, and other times I was more alone that I have maybe ever been. I renewed my relationship with Tetris, this time on an iPod.

I'm not sure if I'm a better, smarter, stronger, wiser, or more rugged human being. I'm just glad to be at home and have the space and time to be bored again. Right now this is endlessly satisfying for me. As far as this blog goes, I've almost completely forgotten how to document this shit. After China I started touring completely on my lonesome and I lost the spirit of documentation somewhere out of the window of the hired Peugeot, right past Fabrice, my nearly silent (but very friendly and supportive) driver for the French leg of the last European tour.

For documentation's sake I'll give a rundown of each part of this last tour starting right now:

France: I started off by visiting Flint at his residency at Cit