Well, I’ve been back in Washington, DC for about a year now. I took a long hiatus from playing out but I’ve got a new album that I’m working on which will hopefully be ready in the Summer. I’ve been recording with some fantastic musicians and can’t wait to see what people think of the new tunes. I’ve been trying to get more in touch with nature and bought a house plant too. It’s sort of nice having an extra living thing in the house. It’s almost as if I can feel the plant’s energy emanating from its foliage. Try it out! It might change your life. Worst case scenario: you’ll have something pretty to look at.

Yippy. It was our first show ever today at Jammin Java. I want to thank everyone that came out today. It was great. Thanks so much Koris for the stellar photography. The band played great and now it’s time to party at Cesse’s place. It’s so interesting having a mathemetician in our band. I wonder if mathemeticians can completely bypass conventional language. It would be pretty strange to hear people communicating in math jargon; that’ll be the day.

I have spent my entire day in bed today trying to be as productive as possible. I have decided that I will have another 20 days in Australia before I come home to the States. I just feel like I have gotten everything that I have needed to get out of being here in Australia and my soul wants out. I've had a great time. I had an amazing New Years celebration with all of my new Aussie friends and couldn't have asked for more. I will be going to Sydney on the 5th of January and will be there for five days. Then I will be going to back to Melbourne for a couple days before I head over to Kangaroo Island for a few days because I have to see the famous wildlife exclusive to this amazing continent. Then it will be back to Melbourne for a couple days and then back to the USA for a while. I have a lot of recording to do and I can't wait to get back.

Cheers,
Noah

This past week has been so eye opening. I am trying to figure out what my life goals are and it's so tough. I have been busking almost every day that I can. It's really really hot today and my amp cut out after two hours due to my lack of charging. Oh well. It got so blazing hot to where I think I did myself a favor by not charging it all the way. I just woke up from a nice nap. I got so tired all of a sudden but I've got loads of energy now. I am in a pickle and don't know how much longer I want to stay in Melbourne. I am having such a blast though. I kind of want to check out the rest of Australia too but I've met so many awesome people and am not ready to say goodbye. A friend of mine went to a psychic and the psychic said that I was going against my life plan and that I am paddling upstream so I have no idea what that means. I feel great and it feels like I'm doing the right things but who knows (besides people claiming to be psychics). Anyways, I will stop my rambling. I hope you are doing well and I hope the new year brings you health, prosperity, and everything else you wish upon your short life on this giant sphere we call earth.

Cheers,
Noah

Well, a lot has happened over the past few weeks. I got settled into Melbourne, Australia where I am temporarily and hopefully inspirationally residing for an indiscriminate amount of time. Life here is great. It’s sunny, by the beach, and very friendly. I have been busking in central Melbourne and that has been going great. There are so many very talented buskers in Melbourne and I am very happy to be a part of the community here. On top of busking I have also been writing a lot and I think some really special stuff has surfaced. I have my first official Australian gig coming up on December 27th at a really cool place called the St. Kilda Branch. St. Kilda is actually a suburb where I am living right now, which is right by da beach and very laid back. My computer died last week due to exposure to beer. The spill actually occurred in Madrid, Spain about a month ago and it was working that whole month until it decided it didn’t want to turn on anymore. Unfortunately Apple’s warranty does not cover spills so I ended up having to buy a new computer. That was quite a downer but I’m back and better than ever. A word of advice would be to keep all liquids away from your computer to avoid the mistake I made. It’s not fun when your computer stops working. People keep asking me when I am going to come out with another CD and although I have about 70 songs that have not even been recorded I am not exactly sure. I have been on a writing frenzy for the past few months trying to create a really nice pool of songs and I really want to find the right people to help produce an album with me. It’ll probably happen when I go back to the states. I have some people in mind but I really want to make this album something special so we’ll just have to see. I wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday.

Noah