Well we’ve just finished what I’m pretty sure was my favorite year of touring. Ever. Thanks to everyone who came to see our gigs, bought and/or listened to our records, wore our t shirts, watched our videos, read or wrote articles about us, and generally enjoyed us in any ways that I haven’t thought of here.

It has been brought to my attention that there is something I need to clarify before I can go on vacation though:

Traditionally it takes us about a year and a half to make a record. About halfway through I need to organize lyrics and arrangements, then again months later before the record is finished. This part takes anywhere from a week to a couple months (in the worst case scenario) depending upon how much procrastinating I’ve done in regards to lyrics. Unless you have a songwriting partner, no one can help you with this. These are long, dark unhappy days generally.

In the multitude of interviews this year I was asked repeatedly if I felt badly about Zia and Brent writing ‘This is the Tide’, as though I had been put out to pasture. Jeez. My usual reply was that I was the one who got to come in for an hour and a half while they spent fifteen hour days working out the tedium of details, but apparently this made it sound like traditionally I make the records while they breeze through for an hour and a half whenever they’re feeling whimsical. That is a ridiculous interpretation, and now that I’ve cleared it up i’m officially on vacation.

Hooray and Merry Christmas everyone.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

Wikileaks:  is everyone aware of what this really is?  It’s a dream of what we all wish we are.  It’s what we make movies about: a benevolent superpower.

They are saying “let us know, We can handle it”  BUT THEN, when the money systems companies did what is wrong with “the system” like a tired cliche’, they said “NOPE”.

This is gorgeous X-men shit putting our Orwellian recent past in a full-nelson until it says uncle.  Hysterical and I find it deeply comforting.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR