Hello Giant Squid and friends around the world.

How are you? Damon and I are well. We feel slightly more human today. We made it to London yesterday and tried to catch up on 6 months sleep. We did well. Damon did wake me in the middle of the night to tell me Michael Jackson had died. This made me really sad. The earliest photos of me that exist show me holding Michael Jackson’s thriller in my cot. I am also wearing a fame t-shirt. My cool peaked early. Dangerous was also the first CD I ever owned. He was my first pop star. Days like today remind me not to take anything for granted. When I laid in my hotel bed this morning coming out of 12 hours sleep, watching MJ videos I certainly didn’t take it for granted.

We DEFINITELY loved being on tour with the FABULOUS Telekinesis and didn’t take them for granted. What a band!! No other band we have toured with have a) folded Damon’s laundry and delivered it on stage or b) bought me new underwear and delivered it on stage. Truly amazing. Thank you for coming out and seeing us. We had such a good time. In an effort to be concise here is a list of amazing tour happenings with Telekinesis:

– Heavily peer pressured into eating Cracker Barrel. I was vehemently against it till Michael TK asked me if we wanted to go. I did a 180 and agreed with enthusiasm. I was clearly so charmed by the young man I couldn’t say no. We loved it and ate it regularly like a family.

– Regular dance parties. Often no music involved. Very spontaneous.

– Damon, Lindsey (our most lovely merch girl and general horse assistant) and I saw fireflies for the first time EVER!!! I was so overwhelmed I cried. Luckily the park was really dark and no one could see!!!

– Damon got to ride with the boys in their van. Jonie from TK rode with us in our mini van. The boys talked boy stuff. The girls talked about skin regimes and ate chocolate. Seriously. Then I read aloud from my book on giant squids. What a day!

– David from TK mastered the Australian language. He now knows we don’t eat shrimp, we eat prawns, we do carry large knives and use something called the dunny.

– We got to play on stage with TK and them with us! OH. MY. GOD. two drum kits at once. So much fun.

– David’s instance on delivering Damon love letters on stage. They started off truly charming and ended up being a little disturbing. We have kept all for future reference. Just in case stuff gets weird. That’s was the advice of the police.

Tomorrow we start our UK tour with Silversun Pickups. We cannot wait. Swoon has been on high rotation. Before Swoon was released we listened to Carnavas regularly. Damon and I actually obsessed over that record when we were record store employees not band mates. We cannot wait to hit the road with them. Check our dates. We also have a few side shows of our own, and some festivals. Come along and say hey.

I am still waking up. Hope this makes sense. Go spin Thriller or Bad or Dangerous. I am going to do all three.

Sail safe. Love lovers.
k+d

ps… My SLR is broken, hence the light leaking in. New camera soon!