2:43PM Thursday, February 26, 2009
Not exactly the road blog I envisioned. I’m sitting in the emergency room waiting room at the Vance County Hospital somewhere near the Virginia border waiting to get an EKG for some persistent chest pains. My images of being shuttled breathlessly into the emergency room and hooked up to beeping, humming, [...]

We just saw the final cut of our brand new video for “Walk on Thin Air” for the first time today…It’s like David Lynch and Buster Keaton made a short film together.

For the first five or six songs of our set, these two girls were reenacting the kama sutra on the edge of the stage right in front of me. It was, er, a bit distracting, but not the kind of thing I wanted to discourage per se.

Married people often say that, after all the planning and preparations, their actual wedding was a blur. There is so much going on around them that their processing abilities temporarily slow down. That’s how I felt at our cd release show last night at the Cat’s Cradle.

We did a taping for NBC 17 Raleigh’s Sessions in Studio B today. You can see the video on the media page.

So we want to use this blog as a place for TOC fans to display their artistic talents.

By request, here are the lyrics to the new album. Enjoy!

Thanks to everyone who entered the TOC/Cats Cradle Poster contest. There were some amazing entries and we will post them here soon. Here is the winning entry which we chose because, basically, every time we looked at it, it made us laugh and simultaneously feel a little uncomfortable. Congrats Kirsten, and thanks everyone, it was amazing seeing your artwork.

Yes, it’s been a while.

I’d like to say that it’s because I’ve been orbiting the Earth in the world’s first outer space music venue. Or that I’ve been working undercover to forge a secret land settlement between Hamas and Israel. Or that my computer broke (which, technically, it did). But the reality is simpler. I’ve been too preoccupied to blog lately. Why?