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dallas show added

we just added a dallas show to wrap up our texas believer tour. its at the hurricane grill on greenville ave. should be a good time to get some dinner and drinks, finish up the football games, and see some rock and roll. early show starts at 7:30.

also, here are some more pictures from the fort worth show.
(if you want to save them, its better from the previously mentioned flickr page)

there are believers in texas

Thanks to everyone who came out last night and made our first homecoming a blast! I can't tell you the joy that comes from looking out and seeing so many loved ones. There are some new pictures on the myspace profile and there are more to come to the blog

(if you are really impatient, check out Mary Neal's photography page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/in_a_blink/).

set list 12.26.08 the aardvark (does anyone care about this?)

to travis
the conversation
working man
california
new friend
back to st. louis
to travis pt. 2
down, down, down
1st to die
mountain moving service
indochine

Looking forward to Austin and playing more music.

hiphopanonomy

rsn
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friday evening
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inspirational music
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Tuesday @ Pianos

everyone come out to pianos on tuesday for our cross-pollination gig.

http://liberatedmatter.com/index.php

featuring our new friends "car on the moon" (http://www.myspace.com/caronthemoon)

i knew there were more...

crashed mansion

the lonliest picture (i know there are more out there!!) of the show last weekend at crash mansion/blvd. it was a great time and thanks to the TFA'ers that made it great! what a nice looking four piece...

ATX

get yer cowboys on, we're comin' to austin jan 1st at the carousel lounge with alex dupree & the trapdoor band. start the year as a believer.


myspace.com/thetrapdoorband
myspace.com/andrewthomasandthebelievers

Rainbow Room

creative visualizing.

just 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes before you go to sleep at night.

come by and sit with us in the clouds. we're making progress in the rainbow room.

pleasant surprise

i don't want to be good or be bad anymore.
oh, wherever i go there's a note on my door:
"words we just make up to help in the fall"
and i don't have time to make sense of it all.

and i don't want to see you and start telling lies.
so when we get together, speak with the light
like the tree speaks a trance to the break of the dawn
cuz my thoughts get too tired and my words are all gone.



oh and did we even mention that we have some cool shows coming up
(including the start of a texas tour)????
myspace.com/andrewthomasandthebelievers

texas we love you

i just got back to dallas after a late night of practicing for the texas version of the believers. we worked on a bunch of songs and look forward to bringing them to any and all eager listeners after christmas. we got fast jams, slow jams, jam jams, and more jams. its going to be a great time playing with these guys in texas so keep your eye on show dates and tell your friends.

rj

momentum

day 2

where?

i just wanna (get close to you)

i wrote these lyrics and had the vision of the song looooooooong ago...finally, it fits. thanks john. its amazing how a song can make the day so much better.

updated cave entrance

vacationing in east new york

hello believers!

i haven't been around lately i've been vacationing in east new york. my other life is spent teaching in a junior high recording studio. you can believer in them too - gershwinstudio.blogspot.com

i attached an old song that is getting pulled onto the new album. russell and i spent some time in the cave last night. pulled out a rough draft.

ah ha! we have new shows! tonight i am playing the williamsburg songwriters thing at matchless. then as a band we will be playing

dec 6th at the Teach For America holiday party @ BLVD downstairs in crash mansion
dec 16th - cross pollination @ pianos

wow - both really exciting shows-

-at

the phone won't quit ringing

played this seed last night. i think i was saying those words over and over in my head all day without knowing it



(call me anytime call me anytime call me anytime)...strange. i'm having troubles coming up with a bridge to the second verse. maybe a rainbow room will help...

click the title for the link

perpetual spring at the cave

well we spent the weekend creating the entrance/forest waterfall to the cave. nicole came over to help and continue to make paper her bitch. i couldn't be happier with the way the cave is turning out! as i return home, there are very few things i would rather see when i reach the top of the stairs than a blooming tree and a sparkling waterfall. the inside still needs a trip to the christmas light store and some detailing, but it should be finished soon. then we'll have a photo shoot or something to show you the tent in its entirety.



also spent the day yesterday on a new song for my project, come on sing along. check out myspace to listen to the fruit : www.myspace.com/comeonsingalong

r2j2

my friends, my bends, my hands

i wrote this song last night but i don't know if its a believers song or not...sounds more like a cardinology song to me. anyways click on the title for the song.

i've got my staple gun

and i'ma gonna clean this ol tent and listen to cardinology and get ready for the evolution of tent...
to cave.

sycamore

a few pics from our impromptu show this past saturday at sycamore, the new bar on cortelyou road. nice tent!



pictures taken by eric balgley



oh, and yamaha resurrection

new friend practice

pt 2 take 1

well the tent is almost finished (thanks to a great collaboration with the brain trust) and we recorded a little practice the other night. first attempts of "to travis part 2" and "new friend". click the titles for the link

"there's almost two miles of line here," he tells him. "don't let go"

i logged my first hours in the cave tonight. it is a fine place. i only wish i had more to show for the time...
i'm working to finish an ep before the believers kick it in gear. click the link (www.myspace.com/comeonsingalong)for a peak.


finally, Navidson stops in front of an entrance much larger than the rest. it arcs high above his head and yawns into an undisturbed blackness. his flashlight finds the floor but no walls and, for the first time, no ceiling.
only now do we begin to see how big Navidson's house really is.

self medicating.

Click. Title. Para. link.

love is electric

"It's perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forewords. And if one thinks that over it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time simply because at no particular moment can i find the necessary resting place from which to understand it - backwards."

the track is called,

to travis (part 2)

cubism.

new track AND new video AND an update on tent status. all in one little video.

don't forget about the music page. myspace.com/andrewthomasandthebelievers

spelunking

today we continued our journey in the cave. here's some pictures of the progress.

you can click the title/link for today's track.

the new tent

We are continuing our study of tents. the last record was recorded in a tent called 'the mansion' located inside the mansion on cortelyou. we no longer live there. this tent has the working title, "the cave" - here are some pictures of the first structures.

2nd to die

this is what i created today. It's part of our study of harmonies that has been going on for a while now. some day the two parts will be the same song.

Perhaps this is the beginning of something much bigger then what i'm actually, knowingly beginning.

I didn't go to work today. Work is a junior high in East New York Brooklyn. At 7:07 i called in sick. Today i want to write and record, plan my next unit and go to guitar center and the fabric store (and set up THIS blog). It would be nice to accomplish all of this and then be able to set up the tent.