howdy from tennessee. hope everyone had a swell holiday season. i was able to visit relatives in both texas and california. for christmas i got a new acoustic guitar from my parents that i plan on using during the recording of the next foxymoron album. it's the perfect little guitar to have sitting around the house. i can grab it on a whim and work out a new song or melody that's floating around my head. i also received three harmonicas but i don't really know how to play them yet. i think harmonicas are cool but i don't want to sound like alanis or anything. maybe we'll find a tasteful way to use them on the new record.

the new record, the new record, yadda, yadda, yadda. it's kinda strange to have an entire record written but not recorded. we've never really been in this situation before. hopefully by spring we'll have some definite plans or news to share with you. in the meantime all i can say is that we're strongly leaning toward calling the album hesitation eyes. that's the name of one of our new songs plus we think it's just a cool title. we just know that we didn't want to name the album after a city again.

in recent news, i posted information how to obtain your very own foxymorons sticker. yes, we've finally joined the ranks of millions of other bands, and created stickers. now we can plaster rest rooms all across america with the good message of the foxymorons.

i also posted our old SXSW debut concert video on the web. it was our first concert ever so please be sure you go check it out. it's a real bootleg blast. sxsw didn't allow cameras or video equipment but my cool mom was able to sneak her video camera in. thanks mom! now you can see thirty minutes of blazing rock-n-roll engery with a bunch of nervous stage banter.

i also want to apologize for all my jumping around. i guess i was really excited to be playing. i think i was also excited to be playing guitar. at that point in my life, i was playing a lot of bass with the luxury liners so maybe i was just jumping for joy due to having a guitar around my neck. i did have (i mean "get") to play bass on one song though. our bass player for the night, chad edgington, played guitar during broken heart. boy am i glad we switched. his solo was so ripping and dripping with country twang. (it was so good we totally forgave him for singing the first chorus too long.) chad's excellent harmony vocals really made it a top notch concert too. action jackson chang played keyboards and carlos jackson was the drummer that night. it's a true crime that you can't see jackson on the video. he was a dancing fool. his whistle blowing was a highlight during perfectly. that's also the song where jerry's guitar strap broke. classic foxymoron comedy relief. jerry also stopped the rock for a while when he layed down his axe to play jingle bells for the duke of gloucester. nice touch. the final song, ten time, is one of my favorites. everyone chanting the trivial lyrics to ten x and getting crazy on the freak-out noise drop-the-beat solo section. rock!