Here’s our life in realtime, at least until we find a permanent home for it. Live it, love it, carpe everything.

If you write enough songs about someone, they will eventually either file a restraining order or invite you to come over.

For those of you currently living in Southeast Asia, Misha and I will be playing a handful of shows in Vietnam this month. Venues run the gamut from tiny urban art space to US embassy to nationally televised sea festival.

We’ll try to remember to bring a camera.

(Speaking of which, photos from my last jaunt with Justin Carroll can be seen here. You may or may not be in them.)

Shaving and manufacturing both underway. EP hits the streets 3/14.

Misha continues to hold down Hanoi.

Mixing the night away. Excited by how album is coming together. Regretting decision to not shave until it’s finished.

That means hello in Vietnamese, which is what they speak here in Vietnam, which is where I’ve been living for the past 21 months.

The original plan was succinct: after romantic life stabilized and inspiration ran dry, a foreign land would spur the creative spirit, I’d write my opus in exile, and SWLLC would return with fury and vengeance (and maybe electric guitars) in mid 2007.

More time has passed than expected – life in Vietnam isn’t very existentially challenging – and SWLLC is limping through the dog days of the Bush presidency (our first practice was the first day after George W. Bush’s inauguration).. I can’t predict what an Obama presidency will bring from a larger, national/global perspective, but I do believe that the traditional first 100 days of the new Administration will be productive ones for the LLC.

Hope is on the way.

Misha