Tour Doc

mmmm. hooray

Hello people. It’s Jamie.

It’s crazy how quickly weeks go by for me these days. There’s so much stuff happening every day; band practice, work, walk Cleo, sometimes a run, friend dinner, AA, clean my apartment, make merch, write songs, go to shows, buy coffee, get nervous about stuff, get over it. Feel broke, get paid, feel rich. Call parents, see Mak, read before bed, make boy dinner (eggs, kale, chickpeas, tomatoes, sausage), watch basketball, eat too much peanut butter. Play shows. Email. Laundry.

Documentation of what’s going has never felt more important to me. Every morning on the train into work I write in my journal. Usually it’s something that’s bothering me first, and then when I’ve gotten all that out I just go through what I’ve been doing. Seeing all of it written out almost always makes me grateful for my life, by the time the train rolls into OTC. I cry most mornings, feel God most mornings. There’s so many good people in it (my life), and I get to do basically everything that feels important to be doing. And I know that nothing lasts forever and that each component piece will change, and in 5 years a lot of the specifics will look different. And I’m excited about that. But these people and these component pieces feel pretty special, and I just want to make sure I can go back and remember.

Widemouth went on tour last summer, before we’d put out any music. It was so fun. It was the reason I started the newsletter, really, so we’d have an archive, and so people could follow our journey. Feel free to go back and read through. But we also brought a camera, courtesy of Renee (goat), and sent all the footage to Bryn Kelly, our supremely talented friend. She made an 11 minute documentary. It’s enjoyable and funny and really really well done, and also makes me cry, in large part because even now, less than a year later, some of our specifics have changed.

Watch here

And a poem in Mak’s mom’s house that I love a lot and think about often:

Stop working; remember the dead.

Annnd also come see us at Gman tavern a week from today gonna be so sick and lit we go on at 9:15 ish tickets here

Love you guys. Sorry for calling you assholes last time.

Jamie