New Website Domain

The brilliant Adam McElhaney at Exohive.com hooked us up today with a new domain name for our site. It's so good to have our website address have our name in it finally...

Check it out -- http://www.newjerusalemband.com

Day 57, 58, 59:

This past weekend was really great. My parents bought Nathan a new truck and drove it up from Corpus Christi and along with it brought us a new rug for our living room. It seems like now that Nathan's not living with us we've been slowly starting to really get our place together with stuff. One step at a time.

Pink - Please Don't Leave Me

I cannot get this song out of my head!



This is our very own Andrew Dethloff performing Emerald City @ Rusty Spurs and he had is sweet sweet sweet friend Sofia come up and sing a song. It was amazing!

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago



Joel and I had dinner with our good good friend Jacob at Vivo! Great atmosphere.. low light.. super rad mexican place! I had some pretty insanely amazing puffy tofu tacos and a prickly pear margarita! Yum!

Junior Boys - FM

Day 56:

Sunset from our front porch. I can feel spring coming... can't wait!

Grandaddy - A.M. 180

Day 55:

Yes I'm obsessed... even though I may be a little behind.

The Calling - One By One

What happened to The Calling?

Day 53, 54:

Joel working on gettin some midi piano tracks recorded...

Lifehouse - Halfway Gone

Yeah... they're new record will be out March 2nd. And. I. Shall. Get. My. Fix. (It's been too long)



So it was 75 degrees on Sunday. It was glorious and this is what I wake up to this morning! Really?

John Mayer feat. Kanye West - Bittersweet

Day 51, 52:

This past Saturday after we were finished with our gig... Nathan was dancing a little too hard on the patio at Rusty Spurs and fell and cracked his head open. We were in the emergency room till 5:30am. But at least his brain is okay ha!

Rihanna - Disturbia



Here is Kalaidoscope of Dreams with a rad stage set up. They were really good!

Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

Day 50:

Ghostland Observatory - Dancing On My Grave

Fun times at @HARMONYSWEET

Day 49:

This is a new addition to NJ. This is Cheryl's french harp. Can't wait for you guys to see/hear her!



Artists For Haiti - We Are The World 25

Day 47, 48:

It hasn't been the best past 24 hours. Fat Tuesday last night was a big bust. I've spent most of today evaluating what we've accomplished since being in Austin. I'm grateful for everything that we've done but it can always be more. I'm that guy that's never satisfied really so it's time to work harder. April marks 10 years of me doing music. Where will I be in another 10 years? Who knows. But I do know that I'm not stopping. This is my dream and I will do any and everything to make it a success. For the next few days if not longer I'll probably be ranting more about this so bare with me. Lol

This picture has nothing to do with that but it made me laugh when I saw it. Rufus sleeping in a strange position in his kennel:

As Tall As Lions - Is This Tomorrow?

"OH YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE SOMETHING TO KNOW IT NEEDS A CHANGE."



And this is my beautiful Ryann Isley who sent me this today to cheer me up. I love you Rye!

Owl City - Super Honeymoon

Day 46:

Margarita Monday with that Jacobie!



Depeche Mode - Stripped

Day 42, 43, 44, & 45:

We have had some of the best food this past weekend. Z Tejas, Kona Grill, Moonshine and Bess Bistro to name a few. This was Joel's Chili Relleno @ Z Tejas!

Broken Bells - The High Road



This is a painting our friend has in his condo. Reminds me of Justin from QAF lol

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy



Mardi Gras Son!

Carlos Santana & Rob Thomas - Smoothe



And of course Valentine's Day dinner with my love @ Bess Bistro. Apparently Sandra Bullock owns it. It was incredible!

Keyshia Cole - You Complete Me

Day 41:

Gotta love the black on black!



Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

Day 40:

I love my brother!



Elton John - Rocketman

Day 39:

My mom got Joel and I this portrait for our living room at Ikea. Love it!

Lady Antebellum - Need You Now

I know this song has raped the radio but it gets me everytime!

Day 36, 37, 38:

Okay so I'm not keeping up with this blog as much as I'd like to. I need better discipline for sure. However... this has been a pretty crazy weekend. My Mom, Dad and sister came into town to help Nathan move into his new apt... and he lives on the 3rd floor so... enough said lol

Sat night we played probably the best show we've ever played here in Austin. There was insane amounts of energy and our new guys are really incredible. Thank you to everyone that was there with us at Emerald City. We really love you ALL!

So I'll group the whole weekend together on this one and just say that I've been really stuck on Lovedrug's record "Pretend Your Alive" ...Spiders will always be one of my favorite songs ever! I'm hoping they come to Austin on the tour they're doing right now. Such a great band!

I love this city. This is the view from a friend of ours condo downtown.



Gotta love the my bro works at Zumiez!



And last but not least here's Joel about to destroy this calzone at brunch today! Boy can eat!

Day 35:

Lil Wayne - Mr. Carter

"Man I got summer hatin on me cause I'm hotter than the sun, got spring hatin on me cause I ain't never sprung. Winter hatin on me cause I'm colder than ya'll... and I will never I will never I will never fall. I'm being hated on by the seasons, so fu*k ya'll for hatin for no reason."

Day 34:

Lovedrug - Ghost By My Side

This band helps me so much. Such passion and truth... get something new from it every time.

"Because love means going this far. Even when the ending is only the start."

Day 33:

Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

(RIP)

Day 32:

These are my good friends Candy and Travis with India Arie. Candy didn't know what to say to her so she just told India that her bag was cute lol



India Arie - Complicated Melody

Day 31:

Meet Diesel...



Rufus Wainwright - The Art Teacher

Day 30:

Jamie Cullum - 20 Something

"After years of expensive education, a car full of books and anticipation... I'm an expert on Shakespeare and that's a hell of a lot. But the world don't need scholars as much as I thought."