Tomorrow is The Jones first live show with Mat playing drums. We're so psyched. We practiced yesterday and the songs sounded really good. I think we're all getting comfortable with the sound. Tomorrow night's gig is at DC9, then we have a follow-up performance at Staccato on Saturday. The music starts for both shows around 9:00 and we'll be closing the evening out at around 11:00. If you're in the area, come on out! If you're not, the U.S. tour is still a ways away, so you'll have to wait a little longer. Until then, you can out any updated tracks we have on our Web site.

And last night Catherine and I went to watch the DC fireworks. Incredible. It doesn't get old. We didn't go all the way to the Mall. Instead we stayed where we could make a fast break back home. We wound up stopping at around 15th and Pennsylvania, right beside the Ellipse of the White House grounds. We watched the fireworks through a clearing in the trees - had a pretty good view, actually. They were so loud and spectacular. It's funny, I remember as a kid seeing fireworks in the soccer fields in Houston near our house and we would watch one and then another go off and we would ooh and ahh and my 7-year-old chest would thump when the big bright ones went off. And then when the finale would come, we would just think man that was so loud and so great.

Well, I got news for Harris County, Houston: the entire DC fireworks display is like one big finale! 25 minutes of heart-pounding finale, and you just keep thinking, man this has to stop sometime, and it just keeps going, until you're dazed by the bright lights and explosions, and still thinking, even at 31, man this is so loud and so great.

I'm a sucker for fireworks.

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