LITTLE SCREAM

Dear Reader,
I am writing from somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin, where the “Stale Cow Chip Toss” is real, and we have just passed a sign that proves it. We have just finished up tour with a great little band called Beirut that started in Montreal and ended out west at the Calgary Folk Festival. Highlights of this trip included our first show in a mall (West Edmonton) and my first mechanical bull ride (Calgary). Adam and I are gunning the 42 hr drive home (now in hour 32). I’ve had about half a dozen diet cokes (from the Bierut rider, thanks guys for sharing those warm beers and soft cookies!) and we’ve uploaded lots of Coast to Coast. Over the last few hours I’ve learned that Fidel Castro has seen the body of a dead alien and that most houses are probably haunted, but that it’s nothing to worry about. Phew!

A few days before we left for tour we shot a video for Cannons, co-directed by Ian and Anisa Cameron. Anisa grew up in Las Vegas, where both of her parents were show people. Every morning when her mother would return home from work, she and her little brother would each get to remove one of their mother’s false eyelashes. I relate this story not only because it is a beautiful image, but to underscore the fact that Anisa’s make-up secrets run deep. She dolled me up to look like a smokin’ hot asylum escapee from a silent film for the shoot, which suits me just fine.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Edmonton, and Calgary. We’ll be playing Wolfe Island Festival next week, and shortly after that I’ll be playing my first solo show in an awfully long time at the Shigawake Music Festival in the beautiful Gaspésies. If you’ve never been there before, you should come join me and all the other artists who will be camping out for the festival. You won’t regret it! Unless you hate music, amazingness, and nature.

Yours Faithfully,
LS