Not much to say here. Yesterday was our last day off until we return home. We spent it driving for the most part. Today, we’ll be spending our time eating Kansas City BBQ and seeing the city. Then, tonight we play El Torreon.

There are some people back home who I really miss. And after seeing a lot of the country, Brooklyn is still my favorite place. So, I am definitely looking forward to our homecoming. But, at the same time, it’s also a little sad that our last day off is gone. So far, this has been really tiring, and we’re certainly not getting rich (quite the opposite), but it’s been so much fun, and it’s only confirmed for me how playing music is my life. Being on tour has been better than I ever imagined.

Of course, it’s silly to talk like the tour is over. We’ve got our most punishing leg ahead of us: Kansas City tonight, then Belleville, then Champaign-Urbana, then Chicago, then Chicago again, then Ypsilanti, then Pittsburgh. And then we’re home where we can relax just long enough to change our guitar strings before we hit the Mercury Lounge for our homecoming show with Pilot to Gunner, and Bang Camaro (4/6). So, we’ve got a lot to do before we’re snoozing our way through a Sunday at Lido Bar in Red Hook.

In an unrelated note, the Onion AV Club gave us some press. It was their Denver/Boulder version, who I must say is kind of rough. Out of respect for people who we admire, our friends with, etc, I don’t want to point out the AV Club’s harsher moments.

They were mostly positive about us (”Goes Cube will roll in from New York to pound and howl…” “great band” “honest and intriguing”), but they did say that we are “in need of a better singer.” I’ve certainly never thought I was a good singer in the technical sense. But, I will say that I think my voice (which is mostly my scream) fits with our music. But, hey, maybe I’m wrong. It was the first time we’ve gotten any sort of flat-out negative commentary from the press.

I knew we’d get it eventually (negative press). But I must say I am REALLY happy it was about me, and not my bandmates, who I think are absolutely the most talented people I know. I’m way too protective of them, probably, but I’d be enraged if anyone said anything bad about the bass or drums. As far as their remark about my singing - yeah, I’d rather they just liked all of us. But, really, it’s kind of funny.

OK, Kansas City: You going to treat us as well as Denver or Memphis, or are you going to play us like Bakersfield?

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