Last night was so much fun. Definitely one of the biggest crowds I have personally ever played to. I think there were 2,250 people in attendance. Crazy crazy crazy. We sold out of a few sizes of our shirts but should be replenished by our Brooklyn show. Okay, I’m tired. I’m going to try to sleep in the van again. Wish me luck! Oh yeah! We picked up another straggler. My sister Megan is with us until Atlanta documenting our antics. Sleep time… Night night.

You have no idea what you are in for. I think we just came up with a killer set list for you guys tonight. Mind helping us break it in? They’re aren’t many tickets left so grab ‘em up soon. Also, DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO TICKET MASTER! We start at 8:15 on the nose. See you there!

This is how much we love you: Instead of taking a day off in Brooklyn, one of the coolest places on earth, we’re going to play a show for those of you who weren’t able to get tickets to the sold out Webster Hall show. We’re playing Monday, October 17th at the Glasslands Gallery in Williamsburg. Spanish Prisoners and Crinkles will be joining us. Sounds like fun, yeah? Yes it does. Hopefully we’ll see you there!!!

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Sorry, I didn’t post yesterday. I’m kinda on the DL right now. The show I Buffalo was incredible and it was David David’s birthday (see above). We went to celebrate and some how Dave and I ended up on the floor. I guess some of my muscles weren’t completely healed because I ended up spending about 2 hours soaking in a bath then icing my sore muscles. Ugh. On the other hand, I had some really great vegan “pho” in Ferndale the other day at Flytrap just outside of Detroit. I say “pho” rather than straight up pho because, as you can see, it’s not exactly legit. It was still super super good. So many mushrooms… So many black sesame seeds… Mmmmmmm…

Dear Chicago,
It’s Matthew from the Velvet Teen. Let me say first off that you are amazing. You made my night by hooting, hollering and dancing around while I was playing guitar. Okay, now to the hard part: I’m truly am very sorry for wearing shorts and smelling so bad. I could give you any number of reasons it happened, but I know it’s inexcusable and again, I am very sorry. Please accept my sincerest apologies.

Regretfully,
Matthew Izen
The Velvet Teen

Now that’s out of the way: Chicago, you rule. The show was SO much fun last night. We got to hang with some amazing people after the show (Will!!!). Some people spent as long as 5 1/2 hours traveling to see us (Will!!!). Thanks for buying stuff, too! It sure does help us while we’re out on the road. But most importantly, thanks for being so stoked. It makes it so much more fun for us onstage when the audience is showing love, and Chicago: we definitely felt the love. Thanks!!!! Oh yeah, and I had some really great vegan biscuits and gravy at Handlebar this morning and some pretty awesome dolmas/falafel/hummus last night at Petite Pita. And I exercised my Americanness by eating some freedom fries. All in all a great time in the windy city.

P.S. This is what I get to watch every night. Jealous much?