Sometimes I blog.

MOVED!

2008-12-06T00:39:00.003-06:00

So I think it's time that I shut this blog down. I barely write in it anymore. I bought www.demarhamilton.com so I should probably utilize it. So head over there. That's where I'll post from now now on. I also promise to post more often. It's a lot easier to use. The only thing that sucks is that I don't have my twitter on there yet as well as comments. Trust me when I tell you that all of the is coming as soon as my beloved best friend/roommate Nick Scimeca designs the site for me.

Weird

2008-11-12T09:58:00.003-06:00

Someone sent me this picture of this newspaper. Is this a joke? Why is there a random picture I took of myself in a hotel in Minnesota in this Minnesota magazine? I'm super confused. Can't decide if it's cool or creepy. like how did this newspaper get the photo. Anyways...

New Plain White Website

2008-11-07T19:38:00.002-06:00

GOOD NEWS!

We just launched our new website today. Check it out and become a member if you'd like.

www.plainwhitets.com

Just living the dream

2008-11-07T18:20:00.002-06:00

I got a new phone yesterday. I seriously have waited for this thing for like 6 months. My old phone got to be so crappy. Anyways I'm stoked and can't stop playing with it.

This tour is almost over. Kinda sad that thing only thing I'll really miss is dinner time. I'm kidding I'll miss the bands too.

Kinda missing home. Can't wait to move in with Nick when I get back. It's gonna be wild.

Oh yeah GOBAMA!

Halloween

2008-11-02T23:14:00.003-06:00

If you're wondering what I am. I am a Rabbi.

Thank you.

2008-11-02T23:04:00.003-06:00

Thanks to everyone who left comments and helped me decide on what bed to get. I am horrible with making decisions like that. I have never had that many comments on anything on my blog so that was pretty cool. I really like hearing your feedback. It's really awesome.

Anyways I need to post a picture from Halloween. I'll do that soon. Also last night I got to go see Coldplay. It was amazing. So inspiring. I can't believe we got in.

Anyways tomorrow I have to be up at 5am. We will be on Regis and Kelly and also we will tape One Life To Live. Should be pretty interesting.

Bed

2008-10-28T15:30:00.005-05:00

Ok so I need a new bed and I cannot decide between these 2. It's not like anyone really reads this thing but I need some help on making this life changing decision. Leave a comment and let me know which one you like best. Also if you have better options point me in that direction! Thank you.

1

OR
2

I NEED this.

2008-10-27T14:17:00.003-05:00

Limited Edition Ultimate Collector's Box: Beatles' iPod Set.Exclusively at Bloomingdale's

Limited Edition Ultimate Collector's Box: Beatles iPod Set. The ultimate Beatles collector's gift. Includes a numbered 120G iPod in classic black, etched with the Beatles' logo on the front and Abbey Road on the back. Includes 13 original Beatles' CDs, plus two masters and the "Love" CD, all with an engraved guitar pick. Packaged in a box designed by Psycho Bunny. Only 2500 available.

Catalog Item Number: 64934
Exclusively at Bloomingdale's
Limited Edition. 2500 available. Each iPod is etched with a number.
The following cds are included:
Abbey Road
Beatles for Sale
The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night (British)
Help! (British)
Let It Be
Magical Mystery Tour
Please Please Me
Revlover (British)
Rubber Sole (British)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
With the Beatles
Yellow Submarine
Love
Past Masters, Volume 1
Past Masters, Volume 2

Price: $795.00

My new pony.

2008-10-23T02:26:00.002-05:00

I got this bike today. I haven't owned a bike since I was probably 12. For some reason I thought it'd be a great idea to have a bike on tour. So a friend had his friend build me this bike. It's totally custom and all black. Murdered out as some may say. I am so stoked. Right now it's in our trailer. I hope to God it doesn't get mangled. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Pretty sweet right?

1234 Video Shoot

2008-10-12T18:35:00.003-05:00

Here are some pics of our video shoot for 1234 directed by none other than Michael "Doc Mike" Venezia. Pretty stoked on this video. I don't really care much for music videos. This one will be different. I will like it.

Tom, Mike, and Tim going over the scenes.

Tim looking at the extra's one sheet.

Mike closeup.

Random Pictures

2008-10-05T05:08:00.003-05:00

Nick and Kevin at Cubs game. My 2 best friends. Besides Joel.

Tom wanted me to take this picture so he could see how his hair looked.

View of LA from Penthouse of the Chateau Marmont. We were there for a Viacom party and had to play acoustic. It was pretty crazy. Rev Run's daughters were there as well as Fonzworth Bentley. Good dude.

Spyder taking a picture of me in Copenhagen.

The break is over.

2008-09-24T01:53:00.004-05:00

Today our record came out and which means we will begin to have the craziest time of our lives again. It's a little scary but at the same time I can't wait to do everything we're about to do. I will not sleep until Sunday I believe. It's gonna be nuts. Tomorrow we tape the Tonight Show and the next day we will play Good Morning America. Then we come to Chicago and tape something for WGN, a local TV station, and then we have a singing at the Downer's Grove Best Buy. Then we're right back on a plane that night to San Fran to play a show the next day. Kinda hard to wrap m head around all this. Anyways if you've heard our record I hope you enjoy it. We are so proud.

Plain White T's LIVE!

2008-09-11T17:47:00.001-05:00

Here are a couple videos of us playing the VMA Lifebeat Party with Panic. Kinda cool right?

LA

2008-09-07T13:56:00.001-05:00

We've been in LA since Thursday. I haven't made the time to make a new post since I've been back in America. I have so many pictures to share. Tonight are the VMA's. I wonder how it will go. Should be fun. Anyways that's it. I'm out.

Coming To America

2008-08-30T19:10:00.003-05:00

Right now this is all I got. I am super stoked to get back home. It has been amazing playing over here. A big thanks to these countries welcoming us with amazing support. Even Reading and Leeds. So what if you threw stuff at us. That shit was fun!

P.S. If you have never seen the movie Coming To America starring none other than Eddie Murphy... What the hell is your problem!?

Quote of the Day

2008-08-29T14:06:00.003-05:00

We just played some festival in Germany and when we were walking back to our dressing room from the stage the security guard said in his German trying to speak English voice..

Security Guard: "Ah you're exhausted but satisfied!"
Mike Retondo: "That's what she said!"

HAHAHAHA!!!!!

Foux De Fa Fa

2008-08-28T09:37:00.002-05:00

In the spirit of me being in Paris today I thought it would be best for me to share this video with you. Enjoy.

Natural Disaster Video

2008-08-28T09:19:00.002-05:00

Plain White T's - Natural Disaster - Official Music Video (HQ)

Here's the video you've all been waiting for. Let me know what you think!

Leeds

2008-08-25T18:27:00.005-05:00

The thing about festivals over here in Europe is that they can be very muddy. So this is a picture of me wearing what the Brits call "Wellies" or Wellington boots. They for sure came in handy. Leeds was awesome even though we got stuff thrown at us on stage. Good times. More pics to come soon from Reading. Did you know that we got to play with Metallica? It was weird.

P.S. I hate pictures of myself.

Prague.

2008-08-20T06:53:00.000-05:00

Awesome.

Lollapalooza 08'

2008-08-18T10:40:00.002-05:00

YEAH!

Sigur Ros

2008-08-18T08:27:00.001-05:00

The past couple days we played festivals with Sigur Ros. Totally a band I honestly have never gotten into but everyone always says they are amazing live. Well everyone who told me that was 100% right. It was amazing. Tried to take a good amount of pictures but they all pretty much look the same. Here you go Nick.

Rainbow in the sky

2008-08-14T17:28:00.004-05:00

Yesterday in Copenhagen I saw a rainbow. How often do you see rainbows? NEVER!

Natural Disaster video shoot

2008-08-14T17:04:00.003-05:00

What about I almost forgot about the video for Natural Disaster that we just made. That's pretty ridiculous. Anyways we made a video. There were seriously like 90 people involved. We shot it in this warehouse in downtown LA and what was really messed up is that there were 90 people which most of them had to use the bathroom especially after lunch who weren't able to because all 5 bathrooms were messed up. It sucked. It was fun making the video. We worked with Shane Drake. He made our last video. Anyways I don't have many pictures but here are 3. I can't wait to see this video when it's done. We've never done anything like this before. It will be interesting to see how it comes out.

Oh yeah people got towed because they weren't supposed to park there because of the shoot. I found it entertaining. People we're getting upset which is retarded because there was a sign there for 2 days straight.

Party.

Tom is back there somewhere walking down the "alley"

I know super super super interesting.

No Way

2008-08-12T11:32:00.002-05:00

Today we're in Stockholm, Sweden. I am so exhausted. Flying from LA to London to here is crazy. I feel really confused. Sweden is pretty sweet. In my time of pure exhaustion I went out walking around the streets of Stockholm. I was hoping to find our most beloved American coffee shop Starbucks only to find out that there is no existence of Starbucks in Sweden. I couldn't at all be mad about it. I kinda made me laugh. I think its the coolest thing actually. I AM SO DELIRIOUS!

Webisodes

2008-08-09T04:27:00.001-05:00

If you haven't seen any of these yet here is epsiode 2. You can see the rest over at ABCfamily.com. This is some of the most entertaining stuff ever. So check it out.

Mud Sucks

2008-08-02T04:05:00.004-05:00

That is my drum tech and that was the stage we played today in Crown Point, IN. Pretty sweet right?

This is what the mud did to our dressing room.

Anyways besides that nonsense its Lollapalooza weekend. So far it's pretty awesome. Im really happy that I'm home and I get to experience it. Lots of friends in town. Lots of good hangs.

What a sweet day.

2008-07-29T13:00:00.000-05:00

Hello?

2008-07-26T19:17:00.007-05:00

Remember me? Whats up?! Right now I am in Minnesota spending sometime with my girl. It's nice. I love summer. I feel like every place in the world rules during the summer. Patio seating at restaurants is awesome as well as all the summer fests and events that go on. No other place in the world beats Chicago in the summer though.

There are a lot of things in the works right now. One of them is that our record is finished and will be out September 23rd. I don't think I've ever been this excited about a Plain White T's record ever before. Our single "Natural Disaster" will hit radio this week I believe. I have a lot of faith in this record. I am just super excited and can't wait for people to hear it. I'm proud of everyone in the band and I know this is best record we've ever made. If no one else agrees that's ok.

I also can't get enough of that new Academy Is track "About A Girl" I think its awesome. If you haven't heard it go check it out.

Lastly I bought a new hat today that I'm stoked about.

....And my girlfriend hates taking pictures

If you're bored you should go check out the 10 things you didn't know about De'Mar Hamilton at ABCfamily.com. It's kinda creepy but funny.

The Kennedy Family

2008-07-09T12:46:00.008-05:00

Yesterday the Kennedy Family invited us to the Kennedy Compound and took us sailing. Here are a few pics from the time spent with them. It was such an honor to be invited by them. Pretty crazy. Bobby Kennedy's wife Ethel hung out with us all day. How insane is that?! All of the kids were amazing and had a ton of questions. I found myself swimming in the ocean. Anyways I don't really have much else to say except how amazing of an opportunity it was to experience everything that went on yesterday. I might need to buy a sailboat sometime soon.

Nice group boat shot

Group shot on the sand bank where we had lunch.

The look on Dave's face after he ate...

THIS!

Happy Birthday!

Mike & Tom with Ethel Kennedy

"There's a bear in the water!"

HOWL.

2008-05-27T15:02:00.002-05:00

If you are reading this you need to click the picture above and you will be able to download this album for free. This band Empires is a great band. Guys from Chicago who are taking a different approach with their music and giving it away. I have a lot of respect for them because they have recorded and produced all of this themselves. That is an amazing accomplishment. It also won't hurt to let all your friends know as well.

This is my rant.

2008-05-22T03:49:00.005-05:00

Today I was driving and I started listening to Saves the Day - Stay What You Are. That record is so amazing. Listening to it I realized so many weird things that I guess I never realized before. It was like i was rediscovering it or something. Probably haven't listened to that record in years and it still kicked my ass. Start to finish. There's this weird thing when recording a record. For some reason you find yourself listening to the most random stuff whether it be old or new or whatever. Today listening to that record inspired me again and also made me think about our record in a different way. A better way. For some reason I wanted to listen to that record today and I'm glad I did. Anyways the whole point of this rant is that today I realized more than ever how much music has affected my life and made me who I am. I'm sure that might go for a lot of people. God forbid if you're reading this and you do not own that record you need to download it or go buy it or whatever. It will change your life.

Black & White

2008-05-16T00:47:00.005-05:00

Our guitar tech Evan Bovee got a cool film SLR camera. None of that digital stuff. Here are a couple pics he took of me in the UK last week.

D & D

I look super weird/gross in this pic but I kinda like it.

superstar.

Who needs sleep?

2008-05-08T04:08:00.002-05:00

It's 5am here in Toronto. Im still awake. The good news is I updated my muxtape! The band news is that I'm still awake. Tomorrow we fly to London for the Give It A Name Festival. Should be cool. Paramore will probably hate on us some more. It'll be fun. I will have some pics and things coming soon. Definitely have to get some photos from Malibu up here. It's coming don't worry. Check out my jams in the meantime. I think you'll enjoy this mix.

MUXTAPE

Plain White Cribs

2008-04-27T18:12:00.004-05:00

We film everything here in Malibu. Last Saturday night we had a little fun and made this video. Ian Kirkpatrick edited it. If you are wondering who he is well he's a guy, a good guy, a guy who's helping us with our record. Check it out.

There's some bad language. I have a filthy mouth. Sorry Dad. I love you.

Cribs from De'Mar Hamilton on Vimeo.

Where have I been?

2008-04-23T15:18:00.001-05:00

Wow! I have been slacking. I am in Malibu about to start working on this record. It's pretty amazing. Ill post some pics soon!

I've turned 24 today!

2008-04-15T14:13:00.001-05:00

I made a muxtape. I had to jump on that wagon. check it out!

demar.muxtape.com

Lost

2008-04-10T16:39:00.004-05:00

As you may know Lost is filmed here in Hawaii on the Oahu island. Lost is also my favorite show and everyone in the band besides Tom's favorite show. Anyways last night we got a chance to go to dinner with a couple of the guys. Harold who plays Michael on the show came out to one of our LA shows with his wife and children before. He brought his friend Daniel who plays Jin on the show and that was pretty amazing. We sat and ate and talked about the band and Lost. We are both mutually fans of each other which is the amazing part. It's pretty cool to hang with your favorite TV stars while they are taking time to hang with you from filming your favorite show. We are all fanboys last night. It was cool.

Haircut.

2008-04-06T02:06:00.003-05:00

For a while now Mike has been wanting to shave his head. Everytime he wants to Tom freaks out and gives him shit as you why he shouldn't. I've always thought it was a grand idea. And how that he has done it he looks a lot better. Anyways we all helped him do it and we documented the whole thing.

sick.

First trip to Japan

2008-04-02T20:46:00.007-05:00

On April the 1st the Plain White T's began their journey to Osaka, Japan. When we all arrived at the airport at 6am we found out that our flight was delayed so we had to wait until noon to get on another flight. So it wasn't all that bad. I went back home for a couple hrs and then we flew from Chicago directly to Tokyo. Made it to Tokyo and then had to take a bus for about an hour to another Tokyo airport. Everyone here is super helpful and nice and most people speak English. We finally got to the hotel and went straight to one of the 4 restaurants here and ate. This is a first for us. Good times.

I look great.

This shot is amazing.

PWTS in the studio.

2008-03-29T19:31:00.008-05:00

Random Photos

The song board. If you're wondering who that is that is Slash, naked. The X's mean what songs everyone likes.

The back of our A&R guy's head.

Michael Ray Vaughn

Drums

my view

Sometimes we have visitors

New glasses.

2008-03-23T23:18:00.001-05:00

Do you like?

HAHAHA!!

2008-03-23T23:13:00.002-05:00

We're sitting in the studio right now getting ready for preproduction and this is a picture that Mike just drew!! HAHAHAA!!!

wow.

2008-03-18T15:23:00.003-05:00

I love when I see black guys dressed well. I usually get made fun of black people because I wear tight jeans. Check out this dude. This is wild. I love this pose too. Looks like he's doin some kinda dance.

Can't sleep.

2008-03-18T04:49:00.003-05:00

Common Projects is a sneaker company that has always just made sneakers. I bought a pair once wore them once and returned them because I wasn't all that into them . Anyways the Spring 08' collection is out and now they make dress shoes. I love classic style shoes like this. I am so stoked I don't think you understand! These shoes are total me shoes. I will probably buy at least 2 out of 4 of these pairs. If I can find them which will be super hard. It's also 5am. I should be sleeping. I for sure have a shoe addiction.

Where are my laces?

I have to find these!

I love desert boots.

I'm not Irish.

2008-03-17T22:45:00.002-05:00

Today is my 2 year anniversary with my girlfriend Lindsey. We spent the entire weekend in Chicago together. It was pretty amazing. Ate some awesome food, stayed at a suite at the James Hotel and did some shopping. Pretty crazy that 2 years ago today we started dating. 2 years to some might not be a long time but the fact that we've lasted through me always being on tour is amazing. Love is awesome. Happy Anniversary to me and Happy St. Patrick's Day to you.

What the boot!?

2008-03-17T22:12:00.002-05:00

Today I went to get into my car (a rental car) and there's a boot on the car. How could I get a boot on a rental car? This is crazy! Anyways this was the craziest thing to ever happen. What's even more weird is that the city of Chicago patrols the airport parking garages for cars with outstanding unpaid tickets. Who knew I was driving one of those cars. So what did I do? Since I was at the airport I went to the rental car company and got another car. It actually worked out in my favor. Would've been way worse if I were somewhere in the city and I would've been stranded. Pretty hilarious though. What really sucks is that there's no way to know if your rental car has outstanding unpaid parking tickets. This is pretty funny though. I'm kinda glad this happened to me today. I know, I am weird.

PEACE.

2008-03-16T01:26:00.003-05:00

This means nothing. Just a picture I took at a bar.

I need this book.

2008-03-16T01:16:00.002-05:00

I need this book really bad. Someone find it and give it to me. Nudie is my favorite jean company and when I was in Australia I bought 3 pairs of them because I love them that much. This book tells everything there is to know about Nudie. Sorry I know this might be a little nerdy and some of you are probably like HUH?!

AHHHHH!!!

2008-03-11T01:17:00.002-05:00

So I'm about to let you into to a world where many girls have been before. A place where I sometimes lay my head to rest. Yes ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls this is my room. It is an absolute disaster. Someone needs to clean it. I know it will not be me. This is what happens when you are never home and you accumulate way too many things. Where are all those shoes supposed to go?! Or those books and DVDs and Cd's and papers! Anyways feel special that I've allowed you to see this. It's kind of embarrassing but whatever. This is REAL! This is my life. Oh and yeah the whole thing in the beginning about many girls being in this room was me attempting to sound cool and obviously I am not.

Macbook fun.

2008-03-10T00:14:00.006-05:00

Ha! I forgot I had these. Enjoy!

I'm Back!

2008-03-09T23:56:00.004-05:00

Yes. I bought a new camera yesterday. Isn't it pretty?

How is this dude still alive?

2008-03-06T03:58:00.005-06:00

Just saw that Keith is now advertising for Louis Vuitton which is cool. It's just weird that he's still alive. I just read this book about The Stones and this dude did so much heroin it's insane. Not like no one know that but it was interesting to read and now it's even more interesting that he's still to this day doing his thing.

Now that that's out of the way it feels good to be in America. Chicago is cold which kinda sucks. Kinda thinking about moving to LA. I hung out with my best friend Nick tonight. It was a good hang for the most part. Went to The Metro and saw our friends band called Empires. It was their 2nd show. I was pretty excited to see them. It was also cool to see their 2nd show ever. Lots of random people I haven't seen in years were there. Check out Empires if you haven't heard of them yet. Really glad to see Tom still doing his thing.
www.myspace.com/empires

From areas and theatres to alleys

2008-03-02T02:21:00.005-06:00

Oh yeah! I almost forgot that we played a secret show for myspace down this alley. I think the street was called AC/DC Lane or something. Forgot I had this picture. It was pretty weird. Not gonna lie. Also 2 shows in one day in Australia isn't really my idea of a good time. Hopefully people who saw this show enjoyed themselves. Would've been nicer if they acted like it though.

Well overdue.

2008-03-02T02:07:00.003-06:00

Since I've lost my camera, I know I've been slacking on the updates. Anyways thanks to Craig for taking pictures I have some pictures to post. These are from a day spent in Melbourne. One of the best cities to see in Australia. We found Mexican food and it was my favorite meal of being down under. After tomorrow's show we travel 23hrs home. I am excited.

We could not get a cab to save our lives.

GROSS

Leaving subway

We love Nandos.

Too funny.

2008-02-27T07:49:00.000-06:00

Don't know if anyone has seen this but this is really funny.

www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com

Should I get these?

2008-02-27T07:35:00.002-06:00

Uh oh!

2008-02-27T01:24:00.003-06:00

I lost my camera! The other night I went to see the opera house here in Sydney and I left my camera in a cab. My girlfriend yelled at me. I know I am pretty irresponsible. I've lost ipods, cell phones, and now my camera!! What is my probem!? Maybe I need someone to carry all my stuff for me because I don't do a good job at holding on to it. Anyways the blog will be down for a little while. I'll have to steal someone else's camera or something. We will be back in effect before you know it. This isn't going anywhere. Hopefully I can get the camera back from the cab company. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Australia has been awesome. Been in Sydney for the past 4 days now. Ready to move on and see more of this beautiful country. However I did do a lot of shopping. Got 3 pairs of my favorite jeans. Also I've been hanging out with my friends in Motion City Soundtrack and The Matches. The Matches gave me a copy of their new record. It's awesome. Really happy those guys are still making it happen.

Eventhough I lost my camera I still have some pics I haven't posted yet. I'll get to that soon. No opera house pics though! Oh well.

Brisbane

2008-02-22T11:17:00.003-06:00

After 20 something hrs of flying from London we made it to Australia. It feels like Britain but a mix with America. It's super weird to me. Anyways we will be out here for a couple weeks playing the Soundwave Festival. Today I rented a car and drove to see some koalas and kangaroos, and then drove to the Gold Coast beach area which pretty much felt like being in Miami without the Cubans. I hate Miami. I didn't want to touch, hold, or feed the animals though. Guess I'm weird like that. You can't get this kind of stuff in America though so it was pretty amazing to get chance to explore.

Mike Babcock. A new edition to our crew. (why do I always make that face?)

Roundhouse

2008-02-22T10:41:00.002-06:00

These are from our last show in London. Our entire tour was sold out. It was pretty unreal. Probably the most fun we've ever had on tour. t was crazy. It's amazing that we can play 3 sold out shows in London. Anyways check it out.

We have a gold single in Germany

2008-02-19T17:14:00.003-06:00

We were presented with these yesterday in Cologne. The other people in the picture are from our label, EMI Germany.

More Randomness

2008-02-18T13:24:00.003-06:00

this is crazy!

Hamburg

Cologne, Germany

It's that time of year

2008-02-17T17:54:00.002-06:00

Randomness

2008-02-17T17:24:00.003-06:00

Berlin Wall

Hamburg

HRC Munich

Hofbrauhaus Munich

Grammy Day

2008-02-14T16:18:00.004-06:00

This was Grammy Day. These are pretty much the only pictures I was able to get he entire day. Most of the day was spent being really hungry because things were so busy we weren't able to eat. Anyways these are pictures from us leaving the hotel. On our way to the Grammys. Our good friend Mike Venezia was there to capture the madness.

Grammy Weekend Pt. 2

2008-02-14T13:56:00.004-06:00

The second night we attend some parties. One of them being the Grammy nominee celebration. There we were able to get our medals and also take the nominee picture. This is the moment when it hit us that we were really nominated for 2 Grammies. I kinda got a little mad but then Tom and I hugged it out. I love these guys.

Grammy Weekend Pt. 1

2008-02-14T12:52:00.003-06:00

The first night we got to LA we went to a Grammy gifting. At the gifting Dave met his idol Jason Bateman. Dave loves Arrested Development so I think he was pretty psyched. Anyways we played some Rockband which I am horrible at and then we went to dinner. It was a good night. It was nice to be in America.

Babyshambles

2008-02-07T15:55:00.000-06:00

One cool thing I got to do in Paris was go to the Babyshambles show. Got there kinda late and missed the songs I really like but it was still an experience. I've just always wanted to see how crazy Pete Doherty is in person. It was pretty much everything I expected. He held it together pretty much but he was still crazy. We are on the same label as them in the UK and got a chance to go backstage. It sucked. So I left. I hoped to meet the Doherty. But I found out the next day that he was way out of his mind after the show. Good times in Paris.

Paris

2008-02-07T13:31:00.001-06:00

Here are some assorted pics of us in Paris. Usually i put them in order but I am too lazy.

Anyways Paris was good. Glad to have left though. We had been there for many days. I got to go to this store called Colette everyone talks about. It was a pretty cool store. Didn't get anything though. Simple Plan came to Paris the day we were leaving but we got to hang and go to dinner. Good dudes. Good times.

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The Louvre

Mike likes the Eiffel Tower

Devonte Hynes

2008-02-05T22:17:00.000-06:00

One day while reading NME magazine I stumble across this interesting looking guy. I though who the hell is this and why is he holding a rabbit!? He kinda looks retarded. Anwyays Tom bought the record. Its a pretty good record. Not OMG the best thing since "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" but it's what I've been listening to lately. I like it. One day I hope to meet this guy.

Amsterdam

2008-02-05T13:20:00.001-06:00

This is probably the coolest city I've ever been to. Everyone rides a bike everywhere. The streets are cool. People live in weird house boats. Craziness. Didn't get to see too much of it though because we had so much press to do. NO! I did not go to the red light district! Tried to but it was too annoying. Plus don't really wanna go there.

Brussels

2008-02-05T13:12:00.000-06:00

Never been to Belgium. Sucks I don't have any pictures of the crowd. It was the best crowd we've played for so far on this tour. Pretty shocking. Also it was the first day of the other half of this tour. Now The Fold and The Spill Canvas are out with us while we tour mainland Europe. Anyways we went out that night. No one could figure out what they wanted to do so we all split up and somehow all wound up back together at some hooka bar.

crazy 15 year olds

Joe from The Spill Canvas wearing my hat

Just another day in Paris

2008-02-02T13:18:00.000-06:00

Yesterday Tom had to play Delilah with a contestant of this show. It's basically the American Idol of France. It was kinda crazy. Not being from France I didn't realize how big of a deal this really was. Basically if Tom played on TV with a contestant from American Idol thats how big this was. Whatever you get it. Look at the pictures.

Dave likes his grapes

Blue Man Group! (I hate the way I look in this picture)

Tom trying to look like Johnny Cash

Bertrand

London, UK

2008-02-02T08:42:00.000-06:00

Venue: Shepherds Bush

This was the last day of our UK tour. Live Nation was there filming the whole show. I don't know why. I wish the show would have been a little better. Oh well. It was fun being with Boys Like Girls and Cartel. We will see them in Australia though.

Chris Allen

Aileen was mad there were no pictures of her on here. Here she is.

Southampton, UK

2008-02-01T17:45:00.000-06:00

Venue: Guildhall

Paris

I miss the snooze button

2008-02-01T17:42:00.000-06:00

YES YES YES!!! I know! I have been a slacker on this thing lately. We have been so busy with press and other things. Today I slept for like 3 hrs. Pretty brutal. We are in Paris and in about 20mins we are gonna head to Brussels. This is new for us. It's all an experience. Anyways LOST premiered yesterday. Can't wait to watch it. I got the download from iTunes. If you aren't a Lost fan then become one. For real. It's good stuff. I will have some updates ASAP. There's some cool stuff you all need to see.

Bristol, UK

2008-01-28T13:04:00.001-06:00

Venue: Carling Academy

Today is Bristol. Never been here before. Pretty nice town. Our friend Jack Brown came down to the show today. Last time we were over here he came to every show and slept outside. Nice kid.

I bought a new hat today too.

Jack Brown

Back on the ferry.

2008-01-28T12:03:00.000-06:00

We had a day off in Dublin and basically didn't do a damn thing. The hotel was conveniently located in the middle of nowhere which meant we sat around the hotel all day until about 7pm. I slept until like 2:30pm. Pretty productive day. We got back on the ferry to get back to the UK. We played a roulette gambling game. I swore I wouldn't touch it but I did and I got sucked into it. At least it was something to do.

Dublin, IRE

2008-01-26T12:37:00.000-06:00

Venue: The Ambassador

The Ferry

2008-01-26T08:23:00.000-06:00

I fell asleep for 3 hrs only to be woken up because we were on the ferry. We all had to get up and go into the sitting area of the ship. It was ok at first, but when we got further away from the shore it was really rocky. That with being super tired is not a good combo. Anyways here you go. Tried to upload a video but for some reason it wouldn't work. Maybe I'll be able to do that later.

this is one unhappy Tundoman

Going to Dublin!

2008-01-25T13:33:00.000-06:00

We're getting on a ferry tonight right after the set to go to Dublin. It's gonna be an adventure. Once we ge tto the ferry we have to wake up and hang out for 2 hrs. Should be pretty interesting. Hopefully I'll have a video or something. For sure will have some pictures. Never been on a ferry before or to Dublin!

Glasgow, SCT

2008-01-25T13:10:00.001-06:00

Soundcheck
Venue: Barrowlands

Capt'n John (my drum tech)

Maison Bleue

2008-01-24T19:20:00.000-06:00

My boring day got interesting when I got a chance to leave the hotel and go experience a little of what Edinburgh had to offer. Craig, Dave, and myself went out to dinner. We saw some castles on the way and I tried duck liver for the first time. It was a good dinner. I would have taken more pictures but since I never use my camera, it died on me. Now it's charging.

Edinburgh, UK

2008-01-24T12:28:00.000-06:00

Day Off
Hotel: Malmaison Endinburgh

Yep! You guessed it! I am so bored.

Nottingham, UK

2008-01-24T08:16:00.000-06:00

Venue: Rock City

Craig Tiede

Polka dot Twins

Plain White Cabin

2008-01-24T08:05:00.001-06:00

To kick off the new year the Plain White T's decided to go to a secluded cabin in the middle of Wisconsin to write songs and hang out. Some good came out of the time spent together. We cooked together, we jammed, we played darts, and we were literally in the middle of nowhere. There was a prison down the street from us and the nearest town was about 15mins away and there wasn't much there anyways. It was good to just hang out with each other and have no choice but to play music.

Tom singing to Kanye

Tim and Dave making dinner

Mike and Tom jamming

the one and only

Tom played my drums more than me

The Rig?

NYE Toronto

2008-01-23T19:47:00.001-06:00

The T's rang in the new year this year playing a show to 50,000 people in Toronto. It was probably one of the coolest things we've had the opportunity to do. We didn't think it was going to be as cool as it was but it was. Although it was cold, icy on stage, and snowing while we played it was worth it. My gf took these pictures. She did good.

the crowd

Mike Retondo

Boys will be boys.

2008-01-23T19:33:00.001-06:00

This is my first post on this. I'm trying this out. We'll see how long it lasts.

Anyways... one night over the holidays I got to hang with all my best friends. It was awesome. My girl was there too so that made it all the better. Check it out.

Nick and Kevin

Lindsey (my gf) Kim (Kevin's gf) and Deneane (Nick's gf)

always and forever

Stephanie and Nick S.