Last night it rained in athens georgia. I was in a really great mood after a long conversation with Jules. One of the less important things I learned in that conversation is that the guy from the black crowes really dug my playing. The important stuff that I learned I'm going to keep to myself. We stopped at a waffle house at about 3 am because a few of the guys were starving. It turned out to be one of the original waffle houses from way back in the 50's or whenever these things started. I was hoping for a lot of old classics on the jukebox but besides one or two 60's hits it was mostly bad rock hits from today and the whole new black eyed peas album for some reason. I decided to get some cheese grits in honor of a girl I know from Atlanta who showed me the pleasures of cheese grits before.

I'm sitting at "hot corner's" in Athens, GA. We're on the second show of our mini "hot indie scene cities" tour, which hit Chapel Hill, NC yesterday. Both cities are effing great and I can endorse them fully. Last night a rapper named L who works at the cat's craddle club did whalebone with us and did a pretty darn good job of it. I'm getting a flood of memories as we drive further and further south. It's been a long time since I've been in this part of the world and I'm just now remembering how much I love it here. I'm looking forward to catfish, and Nick and I have both decided to try boiled peanuts which we were both too wussy to try before.

The next thing we need is to find one of those fireworks warehouses to really bring back the old feeling.

Tonight is the last show with "men, women and children" opening. They have been really nice to us, and I'm sure we'll be seeing more of them.