Monday 6pm
‘Fishy?’
‘yo dude, what's up?’
“just wondering what's going on tonight.’
‘not much man. I just am trying to get to sleep before the show tonight. what are you doing?’
‘oh nothing man. I'm just having breakfast.
‘you just woke up?’
‘yeah man. So what time are we playing tonight?’
“I think like midnight. Or maybe one. So I'm going to try to go to bed now and get some sleep. I think we’re rehearsing at nine.’
“oh yeah. Did you talk to the other guys?’
“yeah rockaway is asleep now. and I think Infinito just crashed. He's picking me up later, when he wakes up.’
“Yeah. o.k. cool.’

Tuesday morning 4:32 am

We played this show at a local club on South beach called jazid which we had never played before. hadn't played much locally much lately. it was an acoustic show and maybe it was just that we were on acoustics I don't know. but we were just awesome tonight. it was so electric. We were swarmed at the end by people blown away and we were all so excited by it because you don't get that in Miami when you're a rock band. the people down here that's just not their thing. but we’re learning that there are still these little pockets of cool people here who are still into rock like in the rest of the country. at the party the other night the guys from jet were talking about how Miami is the only city right now where they can walk down the street and not worry about anyone bothering them or even knowing who they are. But Christina Aguilera, forget about it. or Gloria Estefan. Artists like that are huge here. but for a brief moment tonight, for that one hour, it was fucking stellar. The room was all ours and it was an amazingly magical moment for everyone.

We rehearsed twice for this show which we all learned is important for us. we have to do that. we’re much better when we rehearse. At this level you spend so much time questioning your validity as an artist. Always wondering if you're good or not. But after nights like tonight, really after our last ten shows or so, they’ve all been so good, you just start to feel bad for the labels who aren't going to sign you. because they're just going to look back and feel like idiots if we keep going like we’re going now. we just have to get out of this town. that's it. we just need to play the rest of the country and we’re going to do fine. We’re there now. for the last few months I have had this overwhelming feeling, this intuitive knowing, that we’re there now. we finally are where we always wanted to be as a group, where we always knew we could be if we kept at it.

Popping valium like candy to try to come down from the rush of it or else wed be up for three days straight.