Happy Halloween From Steve

Happy Halloween everyone. Here's pictures of Steve Prefontaine running.

Kevin "law of diminishing re..." Byrnes

hey yous guys,

This weekend the pico palace (thats what people call our house in nashville-probably because we make them call it that) was blessed with the presence of our good friend Kevin Byrnes. if you think back to early years of pico you might remember us having a song called "Kevin Byrnes". we named that song after our best friend but then changed it later to "In The Sky" because we realized that we couldn't possibly have a song named after our high school chum and be taken seriously. but it was the thought that counted.

Anyway, we still love him. this weekend we came across a website that changed our lives and will surely change yours. it is an internet website archive (don't worry i'll link to it at the bottom). what does this mean? well... the IAWM is a site that allows you to visit archived versions of web sites. alls you do is type in a url of your favorite website, select a date range, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the web. the results can be pretty hilarious.

for example we viewed old versions of our website formally www.pvitrees.com circa dec 09 2002. we used to have a section called kevs korner where our good friend kevin would write to his fans. some would say that we were blogging before the idea of a blog was invented. no big deal. but if you are at all interested to find out who we went to the prom with or stories about us hanging with the olsen twins (before the big 18th birthday. score!) check out this site and let us know what you think. and hey if you come up with any fun archived websites let us know.

click kev

something to believe in...

so i think we're really gonna give this whole blogging thing a shot.  i've never been good with things like keeping a journal (though i've tried on numerous occasions) but hopefully this will be a bit more consistent.  this is where we're going to put our interesting (maybe) stories or anecdotes about the goings on with Pico vs Island Trees.  here's the first one:

  yesterday, we drove from nashville to atlanta to see our friends Maroon 5 play.  it's nice to do a road trip every now and then, and not have to worry about when sound check is, or unloading (it may be argued that i usually don't worry about unloading, but you'd be wrong John Henry, dead wrong).  the arena was probably one of the nicer venues i've been to.  Way to go Georgia!  We met up with the guys backstage right about the time the Hives started playing.  The lead singer of the Hives is an amazing frontman and had the attention of every one in the audience.  The band was pretty entertaining overall, with the guitarist and drummer doing tricks with their respective instruments, and let's not forget the black and white dummy amps to send home the theme of their new record The Black and White Album.  On the side of the stage there was a family of like 13 young blonde kids, which Brian pointed out probably belonged to the members of the Hives, since they are, in fact, a Swedish band.  He was right.

Maroon 5 went on afterwards, and we were thoroughly impressed.  They're definitely one of the hardest working bands out there.  After the show, we caught with the guys on the bus.  Possibly inspired by the shredfest James and Adam put on earlier in the night, we spent the rest of the night watching this:

it started getting late, so we said our goodbye's and headed back to nashville, with even more inspiration and motivation to get this thing going...

well thats it for now.  we've been doing a lot of writing as of late, and hope to have some demos and videos available soon.  one down.

bryan