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3rd week of July?!

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:21:08 -0400

Whats up all. The owl city dates last month were amazing, thanks to everyone who came out to a show. Adventures were had. Times were good. We are currently enjoying some time off taking various vacations, but we will be back with some sweet things for the fall. Love and miss you all.

Andyrew

This was our spring tour! Enjoy!

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:51:11 -0400

This was our spring tour! Enjoy!

It's 1:33PM....

Sun, 31 May 2009 13:34:00 -0400

and we have an 11 hour drive home today. Booooo

This is going to be fun! Come hang!

Fri, 22 May 2009 13:49:54 -0400

This is going to be fun! Come hang!

It's been a while...

Thu, 21 May 2009 18:07:44 -0400

Apologies for being horrible at updating our blog. Let’s see… we got home from a rad tour on Sunday night and have been enjoying ourselves at home for the last few days. Anyways, I just wanted to check and in say hello and let everyone know that I’m going to begin working on a video of all of our favorite parts of this last tour. So keep an eye out for that.

What’s everyone got planned for the summer? Anyone doing anything sweet?

Kenny

PS 2009 is almost halfway over… isn’t that crazy? It feels like 2009 just began a couple months ago. I’m rambling….

So here’s the story… We were eating at a Subway in...

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:07:00 -0400

So here’s the story… We were eating at a Subway in Baltimore, Maryland. This lady comes in and demands that the lady at subway get a raise to $55 an hour. (She was the worste sub maker ever I can’t disagree anymore with the lady) Joel stood up to go get a fork, and she looked at Joel and goes ” I ain’t speaking to you!” and started going off about how she was mad at her husband and stormed out. We found her on the streets later on, and this is what happened.

Moral of the story: Touring is the best

Everyone knows I'm in...

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:59:44 -0400

So I’m currently here listening to ‘How To Save A Life’ (not to be confused with ‘How To Call A Bluff, which I was spinning earlier), and packing my life away for tour. This is always such a stressful process for me as I am one of the most absent minded people ever. I lose/forget my wallet and phone on a daily basis, anyone in the band will attest to that….haha. Anyways, we spent the day eating some delicious Georgia barbecue (I finally went to swallow at the hollow for those twitter followers out there), practicing the new set, getting our van in working condition, and meeting up with some good friends (<3 the Morning Light). I hope to see you all on this tour. We have some very cool surprises in store for you and alot of new music as well! The dates are on our myspace page. go scope em’, and let me know if you are gonna be at any of the shows.

see you on the road.

Andrew

my hero

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:26:00 -0400

Holiday Parade x 60

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:46:00 -0400

…so many of these sitting on my desk, it’s insane. It started off with me piling about 60 of them on my desk, and putting them into padded envelopes to mail out. Then I realized I didn’t have any more envelopes, so they’ve just been sitting here because I’m too lazy to move them back to where I got them.

Sushi

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:59:53 -0400

So wednesday was kenny’s 22nd birthday. Be sure to wish him a happy belated if you haven’t yet. To celebrate we went to his dad’s restaurant, and had some delicious japanese food. Seriously, his dad’s place has the best fried rice I’ve ever tasted….wow. Our good friend JJ Killa joined us for the evening. Afterwards we tried to go bowling, but apparently the bowling alley’s close early up by where kenny lives, so we ended up going back to casa muto to hang out and talk about life.good times. happy birthday kenny!

Lately I’ve been getting ready for tour by going to a bunch of doctors appointments that I’ve been putting off for a while now. I had to get some blood drawn at the regular doctors office but the nurse was kinda a n00b and missed with the needle a few days. I ended up having to have blood taken from both arms (suck!) but it didn’t hurt too bad.

Aside from that our friend LJ came into town recently (hes going to be drumming for us on this tour), and even though we have only all hung out a few times they have definitely been memorable ones…more memorable for some of us than others (haha kenny). But all in all I am stoked to finally get back out on the road and see all of your adorable little faces. We leave for tour on Thursday and I honestly couldn’t be more ready to get back on the road.

More updates coming soon, be sure to go HERE and pick up a copy of our new record ‘Tickets & Passports’ if you haven’t already! We placed on the Billboard Heatseekers chart last week and I honestly couldn’t be more proud of the community we have created through our music. Thanks to you guys we accomplished something that is VERY difficult to do as an Independent artist. And I couldn’t be more stoked about life right now. <33333

p.s. we are going to be doing some stuff in the near future to give back to you guys for making this record such a success. maybe record some more music to give to you all for free or something….more details to come soon. if you have any good ideas leave them in the replies

Thank you!

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:03:46 -0400

Thanks to everyone who supported us and picked up a copy of ‘Tickets & Passports’ this past week. I’ve said this plenty of times before, but you guys are the reason we are able to keep making music, and I don’t know how to thank you enough for that. the last few years we have taken a DIY approach to everything we do, and this has allowed us to do things on our own terms at all times. This also means that every time one of you guys buys a song or an album of ours, nearly all of that comes straight to the band and is used to keep recording and on the road. Thank you for supporting us. Much love, as always.

Andy

p.s. if you havent picked up the record yet be sure to go here!

"Egg" is a weird word

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:40:18 -0400

Thank you Alyssa!

Here we are signing all the pre-orders at Spotlight Sound...

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:39:00 -0400

Here we are signing all the pre-orders at Spotlight Sound Studio. We all got Carpel-Tunnel, or however you spell it, that’s how much we love you. :) Hope you are enjoying the new record!

Much Love,

btw, sick camo Andy!

Kenny is a busboy. I am a dishwasher. This is what we look...

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:50:00 -0400

Kenny is a busboy. I am a dishwasher.

This is what we look like at work.

-joel

let's have some fun

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:31:28 -0400

So I thought I’d make this a fun blog. For the last year or two, I have been keeping up with a list of funny band names I’ve come up with by adding some fun words to ends of band/artist’s names to make it sound funny… (that was def. a run-on sentence) You’re porbably a little confused so let me explain. For example, New Found Glory. You take New Found Glory and add the word origami to the end of it…. now you got New Found Glorigami. Get it??

Some fun ones I’ve come up with:

Cartelephant, From First to Lastronaught. Hidden in Plain vewwwww Your Ugly, Kanye Westeedees (my fav.), Thrice-a-roni, Panic at the Discocopuffs, Manchesteter Orchestraining Bra…etc etc

Let’see what you guys can come up with…

ready, set, go!

Kenny

Mhmmmm

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:24:08 -0400

First off, thank you to everyone that came out to the CD release show on Friday night. We had an absolute blast. We couldn’t of asked for a better night, so THANK YOU GUYS for all the love and support and making it such an amazing night! We hadn’t played a show since last December, so it was amazing being on stage and playing some new songs to such an awsome crowd.

So I’m super curious on what you guys have been listening to lately? Let me know in the replies…. Just in case you were wonder what I’ve been listening to lately, I’ve been spinning Third Eye Blind- Out of the Vein over and over and over. If you haven’t ever checked out that album, give it a chance. It very well might be your next favorite cd (besides T&P….. jk)

-Kenny

PS. My dad’s dozing off next to me, and he keeps sleep talking…. and to make the situation more random, the TV’s on a Spanish Channel…. what the?

For all our Atlanta fans, this is your chance to grab Tickets...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:00:00 -0400

For all our Atlanta fans, this is your chance to grab Tickets & Passports before it actually comes out! It’s gonna be a great time!

Love

Random Thought

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:41:00 -0400

So I have two computers. One is old and sucks a lot, the other one is new and doesn’t suck a lot. I was sending e-mails on both of them and I realized something: Even though my new computer is younger than my old computer, it gets crap done and processes information at a much faster rate of speed. What I’m saying is, if my old computer dies tomorrow (it’s 4 years old) and my new one dies in two years, my new one probably actually lived a longer life, or at least a life equal in time, because it processes data faster than my old computer.

Now, I started thinking about this in terms of living creatures. They say for every 1 human year, it’s 7 dog years. Maybe dogs just process information at a rate that is 7 times faster than humans do. So even though they’re living 1/7 the length, they’re processing 7 times the amount of information and thus living the same exact amount of time as a human psychologically (in their minds). Maybe the life span of every creature on earth is relative to how fast they can process data, and all living creatures live for the same amount of time in their brains.

Ask your teacher about it in class tomorrow or something.

First and foremost, I want to thank all of you guys. Being a band that believes strongly in the DIY...

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:23:00 -0400

First and foremost, I want to thank all of you guys. Being a band that believes strongly in the DIY approach, we rely heavily on word of mouth and spreading the word about our music on a grassroots level. It is how we were able to start to build a following over the past few years, and how we will continue to with the release of this upcoming album. It’s directly because of you guys that this record was even possible to make, and not only that, but we had the freedom do things exactly how we wanted to, and not with a label trying to make us into something we are not. So thank you again.

That being said, we need your help one more time. We are putting together a little contest over the next few weeks to help spread the word about “Tickets & Passports”. But this time we are going to be giving you guys some sweet things in return. All you have to do in order to be eligible is log onto your myspace account, and do the following things.

1. - Save the image below and make it your default image on Myspace, as well as change your name to “(name) and Passports”. So if your name is Nigel, it’ll be “Nigel & Passports”.
2. - Add one of our new songs to your profile (currently the only new one we have up is ‘Getaway’, but we will be posting a few more very shortly).
3. - Comment us on Myspace and let us know you did these things.

Every few days from now until April 14th, we will be picking a bunch of people at random from our comments section, you can win: Exclusive early stream of new songs and possibly the entire album before it comes out, Tshirts, Cd’s, Bracelets, personalized videos/songs, signed merch/memorabilia and more….(as soon as we think of it). So start promoting away!

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Andy, Michael, Joel, and Kenny

Save this image and add it as your default on Myspace!

4.7.09! do something sweet with your facebook profile photo and...

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:48:00 -0400

4.7.09! do something sweet with your facebook profile photo and maybe we will put it up here too…..surprise me :)

Andy