St. Vincent February tour across the US followed by Physics Spring tour to SXSW followed by John Vanderslice Spring tour supporting Malkmus and the Jicks. All done now. Resting up at Rachel's in LA before Coachella this weekend, playing with St. Vincent on Saturday.

Got the flu at the beginning of March. Yuck. Flew up to NYC at the end of the flu to play the Plug Awards with St. Vincent. Met hero Patton Oswalt and tried to talk to him with my hoarse voice. Felt like an idiot.

Just got back the posters for the Physics May/June tour. They look really good. Thanks to Josh Godin of www.sour.org for the design.

Alex Lazara mastered the new Physics album in January and it sounds really good. Thanks to Alex for that.

We're kicking off the five-week-long jaunt across the US with a show May 8th at Local 506. Please come hang out. Fun times to be had by all.

Tour schedule up on our myspace site: www.myspace.com/thephysicsofmeaning

Tell your friends across the US: Physics is coming, it's coming, it's coming!

I've come up with a new phrase: vabin fever. Vabin fever is like cabin fever, except that it starts in a tour van. Then it spreads to everywhere, so that even when you're walking down the street on a clear, sunny breezy, beautiful day, birds chirping in your ears, folks smiling at you as you walk past, you still feel like the world is crushing you, coming in at you from all sides and pressing down on your brain. Vabin fever can only be cured by not touring for a while. Most people who suffer from vabin fever do it to themselves and will keep doing it to themselves (and that's what really hurts) because they've been driven crazy by vabin fever and so can't think of any other way of existing.

BUT: I am so thankful to have had these opportunities to tour with Physics and these other bands over the past year. I am one of the few lucky people in the world who gets to do what they want to do with their lives (in my case, that's making music I care about). So, thank you to the powers that be. Once I figure out why me, I'll take some action in accordance with repayment of said luck being given.

As you can probably tell, still a little crazy folks. Thanks for your patience. Thanks for making time to hang out when I was only in town for 12 hours and thanks for coming to all the shows.

Let's have some lemonade and sit on a porch somewhere.

See you soon.

Daniel