I don't sit alone

Just a note: I don't sit alone in crowded rooms. If I ever enter a cafeteria, library, or bar I will opt to sit with strangers over taking a whole table to myself. This is two fold: 1st off I don't see why I should take up a whole table unless I am waiting on someone to join me or I have to spread out a lot of stuff (computer, books, cameras, et cetera). 2nd, I like meeting new people, they usually shoot me an awkward stare at first, but usually they open up and start chatting about whatever interests them shortly after. Just yesterday, I sat with a girl studying her Biology. After a while, she got up and asked me to watch her belongings. When she returned, she thanked me, "thank you, sir" and went back to studying. Shortly after, I started working on my Western Civilization homework. She shattered the stranger boundary and started chatting me up about her Western Civ teacher and we ended up talking about a wide variety of school and life related subjects. Her name is Bree, and she's a new acquaintance. Maybe not a "loan you money" friend, but someone else in the world that has a connection to you.

That is why I don't sit alone.
-O

It's nice to know you're not alone

We got a call from a band in Brooklyn that we've played with in the past. They wanted to know if we could trade some bookings with them. It's nice to know that the connections you make with other bands endure. They will be on their way back from SxSw when we play with them next. We have been too busy finishing the "Mixed Signals" EP to book any festivals so far this year, but we'll probably hit SxSw up next February. Our touring focus remains in the far off land of Norway, where we'll be kicking off our promotional tour for the new EP. I got excited yesterday because I thought my passport came in, but it was my sister's. AHAHAHAAAAAAAH. She' going to Georgia (the country) to teach English in August. Please Mr. Secretary, send me my passport soon.

-O

We exist in sleep or How plant life evolved on Earth

Humans are not very good at astral projection. Not as a species. There are individuals and cultures in our history that have figured it out. The ancient Egyptians as well as modern Japanese put there physical bodies into states that allowed them to transcend the senses to reach the astral plane. Modern physics posits a theory that the world around us and its rules might just be an end product of our interactions. Think of the blueprint for a bridge. You see the bridge and its features. You can drive over a river, it doesn't collapse, it is visually beautiful, it has lanes that pass two directions. The components that make up the bridge do not possess those same qualities. Our universe is the same. A composite.

Have you ever defied the "laws" of physics in a dream state? Why is that possible? Where are you actually at when you are dreaming? You can say, "I'm in my head" but have you ever experienced something in a dream that you've never experienced in your entire life? We're not talking about a memory transferring from short term to long term memory. Have you ever had a completely unique experience in the dream world?

Do trees dream? Do trees ever stop dreaming?

Humans have experienced massive gatherings in the astral plane, but nothing on the scale of planet life on earth. We evolved to value our 5 senses. Our senses are sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch. Realize that other organisms have a different set of senses. Plant life do not "think" about their external stimulus to survive. They have forms that provide defense and food without having to interact with their consciousness.

The conscious manifestation of plant life on Earth lives in harmony on the astral plane. The ability to imagine what the astral world looks like to planet life is like trying to imagine what red smells like. Humans might one day evolve to this way of being.

It is possible to interact on the astral plane. It is also possible to live in solitary.

Finishing up

We just came from the studio with the final mixes on 3 of the songs for the "Mixed Signals" EP.  We still have to get the other 3 songs mixed and mastered. That will be with a different engineer. We are still on track to finish everything by mid-February. I reached out to the Norwegian Tourism Board about the web series/documentary that we are working on. I'll let cha know if they bite. We've also started/continued writing for the full length. Our producer, Niles, is going to co-write and perform on several of the songs. He is a 1st class citizen. He is currently on assignment in New Orleans editing a series for Discovery Channel.

I just ate some amazing chile-cheese dip, and Norway is for lovers.

-O