GOOD MORNING, FLORIDA!!

It's been over four weeks since I've been on the road. Not much has changed. Florida is still a long stretch of semi decent interstate. However, in case you haven't been to South Florida, it's a shithole. It reminds me of Waco. I think Fort Myers is the worst. When I was with an artist we'll affectionately refer to by his alter ego "Black Mangrum" we played Fort Myers with Pat Green. I've never seen so many people with so little teeth. Well, I take that back. We did another show in South Florida with ML- a festival with Blake Shelton- and it was indeed worse. My dear friend Christian took pictures and made a slideshow. Here's a sample from that slideshow:


This is totally representative of the entire crowd, I'm not just picking the best. I'll ask Christian to post that slideshow somewhere. He set the whole thing to redneck music...yep, "Sweet Home Alabama." It really captures the feel of the gig.

I've got to get my sea legs back on me. This bus bounces a little more than I'm used to, but thinking I'm a seasoned pro I tried to delve into split screen Halo 3 last night while rolling. After about 4 games I was overcome with a bout of motion sickness and retired to my non-condo bunk for the rest of the evening. I felt like a sissy. I'm about to dive into a box of Honey Bunches of Oats with Cinnamon Clusters...I'll tell you how it is tomorrow.

I'm getting ready to buy an Xbox 360 for home. I've stayed away from it because of the addictive personality that I have and once I sit down to play I'm likely to stay for several hours. However, I've been captured by the online gaming community. It's really wild how 24 people can team up together online to shoot each other. Enthralling. I can't wait to get pulverized by a number of 12 year olds. Oh well, at least I know I'd best them in 10 Yard Fight or Excitebike. Old school baby, keeping it real. With that Xbox I'm going to buy a small flatscreen for my office. I went to Best Buy yesterday and I'm shocked at how low the prices have gone. You can get a 30 inch LCD for under $650. Unreal. The same 40 inch I bought for $1500 last year is now just over $1100. Bastards.

100 miles to the gig. I need to print some daysheets and listen to this bus driver tell me the same story about wanting to move to a beach and drink margaritas that he's told me two other times since we started rolling last night. God love 'em.