Season Finale.

If you're just joining us, chances are that you saw Crime in Stero on this tour with Brand New and Thrice/Glassjaw. Welcome to the party. I'm Josh Spickler, your narrator, merch guy, and frequent drunk. If you talked to me or bought something, thanks. If you tipped me, thank you even more. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think of Crime in Stereo, me, the shows in general, cows, bridges, rivers, the stupid Twilight movies, the healthcare dilemma, or 30 Rock (the greatest show on television). I'll appreciate all of it.

Today is November 25th. It's the last day of tour for a while. Wallingford, CT with Brand New and Glassjaw. The venue is the most giant concert hall ever. It's intense. I know I haven't updated much at all on this leg of things for us, but I just haven't felt particularly motivated to. It's a bit exhausting being on a tour like this. You load in so early and sit around all day and work till midnight-ish, just to do it all over again the next day. Granted we've had a bunch of days off throughout the whole thing, but on those days, we either like to take it as easy as possible, or we have to drive, or the band wants to practice. Despite what any of you may think, touring is not luxurious. Not on our level. Not yet at least. It's physically, mentally, and emotionally draining. I'm not going to try to explain this. You either get it or you don't.

So if you saw Crime in Stereo in Canada this past weekend, you may or may not have noticed that it was a shorter set and the drummer wasn't the guy you may have recognized. That's because they had a fill-in. Karl Hensel, former drummer of Holding On, and Martyr AD, former Label Manager of Bridge 9 Records, and who now works for Epitaph Records (quite the resume if you ask me), was awesome enough to offer his services as a fill-in for the weekend, because Scott had an emergency back home. Karl Hensel. Good dude. Backed hard.

I'm getting increasingly interested in the music industry. My mind wanders with where this path I'm on can take me career-wise. That's the end of that thought.

So tonight we head back to New York, and bright and early in the morning, I get to brave midtown to get on the Bolt Bus to DC. I didn't realize when I booked my ticket that it would be during the stupid parade. Hopefully I don't get trampled. I'm not looking forward to this, but at least I get to be in the comfort of my Dad's home for a few days, where I can watch every tv show ever and hibernate. Then on Tuesday the 1st, I get on a plane for Atlanta where I get to spend time with someone. Then somewhere around the 7th or 8th, I need to find a way to Orlando. I'm looking forward a bit to just acting like an idiot until 5am with my friends in my living room. And riding around on my scooter, of course. I'm gonna try to get in some kind of shape, too. We all know how difficult that can be, however.

Not quite sure what I'm really going to do until we head back out. I think that's going to be February. There are some crazy awesome options on the table right now for Crime in Stereo in the new year, but I don't know which is/are going to happen yet. So I'm a bit in limbo. I know I'm looking forward to being home and not in a van or at a show right now, but I'm expecting that to wear off shortly. I'm sure I'll be itching to get back on the road come February. There's also the readjustment period in the beginning. Last time I toured (many years ago), it took at least a week when I got back for me to feel slightly normal again. You feel like you don't belong, and that everything has changed, and there's no place for you in your own home anymore. And the last time I toured was only for a month. This has been four. Every single person's going to ask the same questions. "How was it!?" "What was your favorite city??"  "Have any crazy stories?" "How were the shows?" "Did you get laid all the time?" "How was Brand New?" Just thinking about it all is exhausting.

I wish I had something funny to say right now. Nope.

During the writing of this post, I finished reading the critically acclaimed comic books series known as Y - The Last Man, written by Brian K. Vaughn. 60 issues in about 52 hours. Not bad. The series is about a plague/disease/event that kills every male animal on the planet, except for Yorick Brown and his male capuchin monkey named Ampersand. Last males on a planet full of women. It was a great read with an intersting ending. Sad at times. Kind of touching. I'd recommend it. Here's a link to Amazon for the first trade of it. While you're at it, pick up Identity Crisis too. That's one of my favorites.

Crime in Stereo has a few shows lined up in December and January here and there. I'm sure either Gary or myself will update the site and let the internet know about them, as well as any upcoming tour information. I expect I won't be posting much else in that time though. Keep following Crime in Stereo on Twitter. Keep following me on Twitter too. I post more often. And I'm interesting. I swear.

Thanks for the memories. See you in season 3.