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Hey Y'All,

Just to catch you up to speed, last Thursday we had a release party at the Annex in New York. All sorts of friends and family members came out to help us celebrate, and we even convinced a handful of our buddies to take the stage.

The first to do so was Justin Pierre from Motion City Soundtrack. Justin played a handful of MCS songs and then a Zolof The Rock 'N' Roll Destroyer cover that he prefaced by saying, "If this goes wrong, it's all of your fault." You gotta love that guy.

So then, as Justin was playing, a couple of our friends trickled in. One of them was our friend Tom, who manages both the Format and Brand New, came bearing a gift. This present quickly became known as "the emo wig" and was tried on by many people, including Tom. Yet another one of these people was…

So, there are three items I have to tell you about very quickly this evening. The first:



Yes, the Vintage Vinyl event is mere days away, and there's the flyer to prove it. Honestly, this is going to be a really fun event, so please come out if you can. We'd love to meet you. We'll remind you again, trust.

Secondly, we are running a contest at the moment where you can win not only a copy of Everybody Hurts, but a bunch of free clothes, CDs and haird dye. Our friends at Vans, Ordinary Clothing, Stolen Transmissions, Manic Panic, 31 Corn Lane and Harper Paperbacks made this contest possible, and they're giving away a lot of great stuff. So click right here and let the sweepstakin' begin.

Finally, I just received a text message from Les and, after two hours of taxing on the runway in Cleveland, she has arrived.…

So, did I mention we're doing a reading New Jersey? Well, we are, and we have a very special guest who will be playing alongside us. Ladies and gentlemen, please help welcome PERMANENT ME to our little event.





If you haven't picked up this band's new record, After The Room Clears, well, then you should really be ashamed of yourself. It's an amazingly sticky listen, and we really couldn't be more thrilled to have the guys play after us on Friday, at the Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ.

So here's how it's going to work. We're going to show up on Friday, read a little bit from the book, then take some questions from you guys. After that, the PM guys will rip it up, then we're going to stick around and sign whatever you want, but preferably a copy of Everybody Hurts, which Vintage Vinyl will obviously be selling.

Now, in…

Hey Everyone,

I'm writing this blog post from 35,000 feet in the air, listening to Infiniti On High on repeat as to drown out the chatty women next to me gabbing about whatever news item ran about Reese Witherspoon in this week's issue of In Touch. Ughh.

So here is what has been learned over the past two days: Pimping ain't easy. Especially when you're pimping a book. I arrived in Cleveland on Thursday and checked into my room at the Hyatt downtown, which looks like this:



It was a strange place, this hotel. They played Pavement constantly in the lobby and the bottom two floors were sort of like a mall, with a food court and bargain clothing boutiques.

I'm not sure why you would build a hotel in the midst of all this, but whatever. I wasn't there much seeing that Les and I had two appearances to make in…

Question: What exactly happened to that guy in the tie?



You remember Jesse Lacey, right? He was always clean-shaven, obsessed with The Queen Is Dead and spent most of his money at H&M? That's the Jesse Lacey we all came to know and love, but last night, at the Brand New show in New York, that guy was nowhere to be found.

Throughout the band's two-and-a-half-hour set, Jesse wore a bear mask, spoke in a fake New Jersey dock worker accent, dove into a drum set and, as his final act of the evening, threw a cymbal at Brian Lane's head. Oh, and there were three drummers and about 18 other people onstage when he did so.

In short, the dude has lost his mind, and I mean that in the best way possible. The show was terrific, bizzare, and ridiculously memorable. I don't know if things were quite as unhigned…

That subject line is from one of my favorite Academy Is... songs. I don't think they will be calling me on my next birthday, but I do love some of the music that band makes. Anyway, that subject line is also a way to announce that, yes, people are reviewing the book right now and… well, they've been surprisingly positive. This week at your local newsstand you can read about Everybody Hurts in both Nylon and Revolver. These magazines are very unlike each other. One of them is read by girls like this...



The other… ugh, well...



But both of their staffs seem to love our book. With that being said, if you want to know how you can get a Lower East Side hipster and a dust-tache sporting Chimaira fan in the same room, the answer is to simply leave a copy of our book in the corner. It warms…