Hello, Yellow.

Despite being sick for most of the last week, some quite awesome things happened.

I can't really discuss what happened due to it being a surprise...

but I can tell you that if you head to www.backseatgoodbye.com you'll find the first clues.

There's more to be found at the BG forums at forum.backseatgoodbye.com

Anyways.

It rained here a lot of the past week, but the sun has finally seemed to find its way back to Encinitas.

I've been working on getting decent on the banjo, and finally have a song I'm really happy with that has some simple, yet sweet banjo in it (i think).

Here are the lyrics to it, nothing mindblowing, just simple and somewhat pretty,

"Hello, Yellow"

Hello, How are you?

I'm pretty sure we should be best friends

I'll walk you to school

And tell you "You look pretty." each new day

We'll learn about philosophy by drawing on our arms

And build ourselves an alright house made out of uno cards

They'll say we're unconventional and maybe a little crazy

We'll ask them what's wrong with that, Yeah, We'll ask them what's wrong with that

Hello, How are you?

I'm pretty sure we should be best friends

I'll walk you to the store

And buy you fancy clothes and shiny pins

We'll learn about biology by taking off our clothes

And buy some yellow spraypaint to make a yellow brick road

They'll say we're three dimensional and maybe a little lazy

We'll ask them what's wrong with that, Yeah, We'll ask them what's wrong with that

Hello, How are you?

I'm pretty sure that we should be best friends

I'll walk you to the ocean

And make you a sand castle to live in

We'll learn about geography by sleeping in the grass

Our bodies'll twitch to wake us up when we fall asleep too fast

They'll say we're unbelieveable and maybe a little trendy

We'll ask them what's wrong with that, Yeah, We'll ask them what's wrong with that

Hello, How are you?

I'm pretty sure you're pretty much all I need

The main inspiration for the song was definitely the simplicity of the songs on the Juno soundtrack (which is a great set of songs, by the way).

But yeah, that's that.

Random look on the last week, ready... go.

After seeing Juno for the second time the other day, I decided I have a crush on Ellen Page.

I've started collecting some of my older poems together and written a good bit of new ones for that book I've mentioned. I've got a name for it that I really like and will definitely share that with you all soon. And I think there's a really really good possibility I'll have it finished and published by the time I head out on my BG Spring tour, hopefully.

Since I got sick last week everything with recording has been postponed, so now I'm going to actually begin tracking for the new album first thing next week.... so right now I'm just polishing up songs and taking extra time to get used to the new equipment.

Saw Cloverfield, finally. Great movie. Awesome monster and little monsters (personally the little monsters looked a little scarier to me).

Sorry, this still isn't exactly a super exciting blog, 

to be honest, everything just keeps setting me back from the fun stuff (getting sick, etc, etc, etc)...

but I have finally been able to get the exciting stuff in its prepping stages for you all,

so get ready for a good line of just straight awesome stuff coming week after week starting with next Tuesday ;)

Randomness, over.

Alright, all I've got left to say really, is that THIS Thursday I'm going to be doing a live interview/performance on the ever-popular DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock Show on www.idobiradio.com. And I haven't really mentioned this, but YOU get to ask the questions that Rossstar will be asking me, all you have to do is IM him on AIM during the show at the screename staridobi and there's a good chance your question will get asked :)

The show starts at 7pm (PST) / 10pm (EST) on Thursday and is an hour long.

You can listen from ANYWHERE in the world, just go to www.idobiradio.com and in the top right corner you can choose which player you want to listen from, click the link for iTunes or Realplayer and then after a few seconds your player will automatically start playing the show :)

If you've got any questions about the show just let me know.

Shake and bake,

Chad