Hello

It has been so hard not writing to you sooner! Damon and I have been having some time off the road. We have been busy leading extremely interesting lives but in different cities, just to mix it up. We chat online and on the phone most days though! ha. I have been drinking coffee in my pj’s. Obviously I do this in the comfort of the apartment I am staying in. In Australia we call french press/bodum coffee – plunger coffee. When friends came over and I told them I was going to make plunger coffee, I was the source of much amusement. Apparently that is something you use to unblock your toilet. Whatever. Now I know.

Damon well…Damon what have you been up to?

I think he has been going to free Prince singalongs in Brooklyn…but I can’t be sure.

These were taken this morning as we chatted. I was making Damon jealous of my plunger coffee and donut…

It’s been interesting and fun but the real challenge has been not being in contact with you loyal pen friends. It’s like when your internet goes down and you feel like you are trapped on a desert island. No amount of resetting your modem or router changes the problem but you convince yourself “hmm yes…this time if I turn the power off for 2 minutes it is bound to work”…and it doesn’t. Oh it’s the worst feeling and along with this feeling comes the stark realisation that you rely too heavily on the internet.

Actually, about a year ago in Brisbane one of the communication service providers went down for about 8 hours. Oh my god. It was havoc. My cell phone didn’t work, my internet didn’t work. People were losing their minds in shopping centers because the EFTPOS or cashpoints were out. It was like a zombie uprising only there were no zombies. I was panicked. I thought about terrible things such as, what if my car breaks down on the way home from work? I lived about 15 minutes from work and would have been just fine but I got carried away with the panic of civilization shutting down.  Anyways as the communication black out progressed I began to realise that I rely far too heavily on telecommunications. I got home from work (unscathed) and lit candles, for no particular reason. The electricity was fine but it seemed fitting to sit in the dark and think about my internet and mobile phone use. Sitting in the candlelit room that afternoon (okay so it wasn’t dark at all) I made a resolution about my communication stylings. I watched the news that night and my phone. Eventually mine and the rest of the state’s service was reconnected. It turned out that day I had missed hardly any emails or phone calls…but I attribute this to the fact that most of the people who would have called or emailed me were experiencing the same communication breakdown and subsequent deep thought regarding their excessive reliability on technology.

The news was drowned in stories of said provider being sued by businesses who had lost money etc. etc. I went to bed with my mind firmly made up regarding my excessive reliability on my phone and the internet. Yeah…so the next morning I contacted one of the other service providers and signed onto another huge plan…just in case… Fuck being cut off for a day.

Anyways that’s how Damon and I have felt! We have felt cut off from you!!! Now we are back in contact and with tour dates!!! We are completing a run of dates across Canada in September, including the Rifflandia Music Festival! This will be more fun than poking a stick at a dead rat!

You should come see us at one of these shows.

More to come!

We have other exciting developments on the cards. Be sure to check back in. In the meantime here are some short videos that we made over the last couple months. We mainly made them with the view that no one else would see them but then Damon worked out how to use the camera software and one day I woke up and they were on our YouTube page. I guess that’s kinda how Paris Hilton would have felt…

Okay well I have so many more stories but this is already too long. I just woke up from a dream I had where my sister was hugging this weird Angora sheep/camel that was in love with her. She loved it too. Whatever. I have an open mind.

Take care and love lovers.

Kate + Damon
aka Death Cobra and Butterfly.