I’ve been logging & charting out my hours of sleep over the past few days.. My friend Stacey bough an APP for her Iphone that does this too apparently, logs sleep.. charts and graphs it.. It tells her how deep or shallow she is sleeping at different points in the night. and also the amount of total hours. Pretty soon I’m sure you’ll be able to download dreams.. $1.99 Itunes exclusive.. I’m sure someone is working on this..

Last night I think I just dreamed about playing guitar in front of people.. Which is kind of disconcerting.. I think Brad Pitt was there.. Brad Pitt.. It might have just been him actually.. Mmh.. Anyway, 12 hours of bed sleep and about 3 hours Hyundai hatchback sleep in total in the past 3 days.. Hyundai Hatchback sleep= Back relatively straight up, sitting position.. head roughly a 90′ angle to spine, “resting” on David’s suitcase, which has to be packed [the suitcase] in the middle of the back seat due to space issues.. And legs squished.. I sound like a real bummer.. Zurich was great last night.. Just a few hours to Milan.

Utrecht was bonkers.. So fun.. Just wanted to point you in the media direction of the site.. Recorded a snappy little version of Tobias Grey a few days ago in Bremen with my friend Christoph, who is the sweetest fellow in the world maybe & plays a pretty mean cello to boot.. To boot..I’m a big dork.. Anyway, thanks Christoph.. Amsterdam tonight.

P

http://postdatamusic.com/site/?page_id=39

Day 2 of tour.. Antwerp last night.. Don’t have a lot of time to write this, as I’m in a lobby, waiting to bust a groove any time.. Bust a groove, eh? Some descriptions words about the first POSTDATA show. “Nerve-wrecking” is probably the word for the day.. But really fun.. Slightly out of tune.. Sorry Tobias. And lucky to be doing this.. Merci.. Utrecht tonight methinks.. Hopefull some Utrecthians on the board will come out? I’m sure you aren’t called a Utrechtian if you come from Utrecht, but my Dr. Spock [sp?] filled sci-fi brain wants to call you that..

XOX

A grown man woke up to a “weeeeeee” lodged somewhere deep in his subconscious.. Why? Well, perhaps it was because today there are tangible POSTDATA [why do I always capitalize every letter in this word?] CDs/vinyls of the record in local record stores. Both the vinyl and CD are available in the “store” column on this site also.. What else? Europe/UK Tour begins in 2 days! Hope to see some peeps out.. Have a lovely January 26!!

Word on the street, or “web” I guess, is that the pre-orders are available starting today.. Let’s just say a bird told me so.. Actually, it was Janesta [she told me a week ago].. JB she’s known as on this board.. So let the fever begin!! I am trying to imagine that there are people who are just foaming at the mouth to get this news. It’ll end up being way more casual I’m sure.. Like 3 or 4 people every day or so reading this post while eating a sandwich and or talking on the phone.. Michael and I will account for two of these people on the first few days.. Michael will say something to the effect of “Oh yeah, I forgot Paul told me about that… nice” & I will say something more to the effect of “Oh yeah, I forgot I wrote that.. niiice..”

Anyway.. the option is there if you want to order the record early.. 

Heading to Glasgow via Halifax tonight on one of those red-eye flights.. Mixing for the Wintersleep record has begun.. I feel like a lazy beaver though, a couple days behind Tim & Loely getting there.. UK flights to Halifax are never red-eyes.. Oh well.. It is direct.. I was talking to this fellow who seemed to know his stuff on the shuttle to Halifax today and he said it was “apparently the way to go”. I will keep you posted if anything funny happens on the trip or at the very least draw a picture of myself or someone on the flight or in my jet laggy dreams later that night.. Now that I said this I feel like nothing funny will happen, or I will trick myself into thinking something is funny just so I can write about it and then there will be this really forced “story” about my “craaazy flight” or a picture of some cartoony animal-ish looking “dream-like” thing that you and I will both know I didn’t see on the flight or in any dream..

Talk soon homies.. 

P

Heading to Glasgow to mix the new Wintersleep record with Tony & Tim & Loely [Jan 11-23] and then TOUR a few days after that [Jan 28-Feb 10]!! It will be a POSTDATA support tour for David Bazan of Pedro the Lion fame.. Very big Pedro the Lion fan and what I’ve heard of Curse Your Branches, Bazan’s new record, sounds fantastic. You can check the tour dates for specifics and definitely also check out his new record!! Sorry about all the exclamation marks.. They indicate the level of excitement!!

All snowed-in in Halifax NS.. Beautiful beautiful day.. I shoveled Mike’s drive way and pretended I was Gerard Butler in the movie 300 until I got tired, about 20 minutes into the shoveling actually, which led me to believe that I would not have long survived in Sparta and that I’m very much glad to be alive in 2010.. Weeee..

B: How is Ted anyway?
B’s friend: Amazingly well. It was his birthday & I went the extra mile and bought him this barbecue he really wanted and Bee, you should have seen the look on his face. Truly, I’ve never seen him happier!
B: Really?

Hello. I guess this is Day 1 of the POSTDATA site and Day 1 of my “blog” for lack of a better word. I guess “journal” is a better word. Diary? Journal. It’s kind of strange starting something that no one really wants or needs or asks for. I asked myself in the mirror earlier whether I’d want to hear anything journal-like from me and I came to the conclusion that I don’t really think I’d be all that interested in what I have to say… but maybe, if it was by someone else that I liked, I might be slightly interested to check in on what this person was thinking from time to time. But I’m not someone else. Maybe nobody reads this. So I’ll perhaps think of this for now, of my part in this, as a mental exercise to stave off Alzheimer’s or Dementia in later life if nothing else, if no one actually ends up reading these entries or responds– kind of like a crossword puzzle or Sudoko… It’s actual kind of lazier than those things though and I doubt it staves off anything except the occasional bout of boredom. Maybe it’s just a little fun… Sorry, I’m not making this very intriguing.. 

I didn’t actually ask myself anything in the mirror earlier. I thought it would be a funny thing to say.. Ha.. Ha, for those of you who don’t know is actually mock internet laughter.. Or maybe not straight up mocking laughter but you say it when you think someone is trying to say something funny but you actually don’t think it is and you’re being nice to them, or you think it is slightly funny but not really and you can’t really think of anything to say back but want the joke to end…

Okay then, back to the main track.. Welcome to whatever this is. I think I’ve established it as a journal. My brother Michael is going to also probably write some things on this, link you to crazy mind blowing sites, be a friend in the best way one can via internet communication… if you only let him:)

Feel free to respond in any way you feel like responding, a smiling emoticon or a frowning one, a story be it fictional or non-fictional, a head nod, whatever you like. Have a nice day.. 

XO P