From Omaha to Iowa

The Slowdown where we played last night for 7 people. Jacob from the Faint (who we ran into in a store next door) came out. The venue was amazing. This morning we checked out their studio, also amazing, still the friendliest band/guys in the world. They're working on a new album.


Omaha is clean and beautiful, with a warehouse district that's being converted into lofts. It's also really really cold.






A nice kid directed us to some record stores, and we found our album at Drastic Plastic. Cool store. Josh bought the last one and gave it to the kid who'd given directions.




The poster for last night's show at Slowdown was in the "Free" bin at Drastic Plastic :)


We keep seeing White Rabbits posters and they're playing the same venues we are (they must be heading West while we head East.) We left them a record at Larimer Lounge in Denver, and they're playing Slowdown this Friday. White Rabbits + us would be a good tour.


Faint stickers and albums are everywhere in Omaha. The Urban Outfitters had an entire section of CDs and vinyls devoted to Bright Eyes and The Faint. Pretty cool.


Chris drinking the most intense milkshake in the world:

My dad used to have this exact Pepsi machine in his real estate office:


All afternoon we drove through Iowa, which looks like Field of Dreams America:


We found this great green hill to roll down. It's steeper than it looks: