Monday, May 19, 2008

Strangers In The Night.

I have no clue when I last posted a good long blog, but I know it's at least been over a week and a half...

So here we go.

I've been in Florida since last last Saturday (the 10th).
I was in Destin the 10th through the 14th.
And I was in Orlando the 15th through the 17th.

I went to Destin for just a bit of a vacation with some good friends of mine.
And basically, it was just a grand 'ol time.


(Here's what my luggage for the trip looked like.)
(Ha, Yeah, I packed 24 shirts for a week long trip, so what?)


(Yours truly on the beach, talking about bullshit probably.)

In Destin I basically did a bunch of nothing.
We all went to the beach every day (played volleyball, frisbee, you know, the usual beach stuff).
I saw Iron Man one day during that part, it was suprisingly awesome.
I also managed to buy the new Death Cab For Cutie and Jason Mraz albums (and a new Frank Sinatra collections album).... all are great, except the Death Cab album is just plain phenomenal.

On Thursday I headed down to Orlando for the 2008 Florida Music Festival.
My showcase wasn't until Saturday, so me and usual merch guy, Garrett had a couple of days to do basically more of nothing.

Then, on Saturday, Magic found its way to our lives...
as one of our superawesome Orlando friends took us to damn Disney World!


(In front of Cinderella's badass castle.)


(Yeah, Mickey and I go way back.)

So Disney World was amazing as always (this was my third time going).
The only thing that sucked is that we had to leave by 5 so I could get to my showcase check-in on time.
However, we did manage to get our asses through three parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Hollywood Studios) before we had to go.


So anyways.
Backseat Goodbye news?
Yeah, there's a lot of it...
and it's really really really great stuff...
but I can't share it with you quite yet.
I can let you know that soon I will be able to tell you every date of the first part of my Summer tour, and I'll also be able to let you know when my new album will actually be available in a store near you (and also when it will be available on iTunes)   :)

Other than that there's really not much to tell as of late.
Right now I'm just getting things ready for the upcoming tour and the album in-store release.

OH!
I almost forgot since it's been so long.
But the weekend before I left I just happened to get about 75% of the music video for "Technicolor Eyes" shot.
There are still a couple of scenes to go... 
then editing won't take long and so hopefully I'll have that video ready for you by the end of this week.

But yeah, that's pretty much it...
nothing too exciting since I was gone for a week.

I'll leave you with some more photos now.


(My Steamboat Mickey figure I bought at Disney World.)


(My new baby. BlackBerry 8830. I love it oh so much.)

(I have a good bit of unpacking and cleaning to do now.)

So, good day to you and yours.

- Chad