Wow!  Out of my 100-copy, limited-edition run of Disconnect’s advance release, only 17 remain!  Since they’re numbered, and I’m selling them in decending order, I’m very seriously considering charging $10 at shows for the single-digit cards.  So that’s incentive for those of you who’ve put off picking up this sonuvabitch to quickly purchase these remaining 8 copies for $5, before the last 8 sell for $10 (’cause I’m keeping #1).

Other than that, tickets for my show with Peter Searcy (priced to move, at only $10), are selling like hotcakes (or maybe something slightly more popular than hotcakes).  The show is 8pm, Friday, September 14th, at The Saint.  Be there, or be rectangular.

Edit: 15 now remain.

Not counting my close friends, whom I love dearly and whose music I adore, my favorite living singer/songwriters are Ryan Adams, John Mayer, Sondre Lerche, Jonathan Coulton, and Peter Searcy.  Listening to Peter Searcy’s new album, Spark, last week, I remembered what Jeff Raspe (90.5 The Night music director) said when we discussed bringing Peter Searcy for a Park show, in Red Bank: “I don’t think he leaves Kentucky.”  Since then, as I check for his upcoming gigs, sure enough, they’re always in Kentucky (occasionally just beyond state lines).  I always hope to see one in NYC, or Philly.  Yesterday, I saw that he’s coming to The Saint, in Asbury Park, on September 14th.  HE’S COMING HERE!!  “Wait a minute,” I says to myself.  “I know those guys.”  Long story short: I’M OPENING FOR Peter Searcy!!!!  I can barely contain the excitement.

But before that, I’ll have to get through my August 25th StreetLife gig at Kevin Smith’s comic store, Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, and my August 30th show, back in Princeton, at Small World Coffee.  Info in the sidebar and the Shows section.

I’ll have advance tickets for the Peter Searcy show, and I’ll be selling them to you.  I frequently advise local artists, “Don’t bother with shows you need to sell tickets for.” Recently, James Don’t-call-me-”J-Pat” Dalton ammended that statement with, “…unless the show is really worth it.”  And he’s right.  And this show is REALLY worth it!!

The iCafe show went really well last night.  HUGE thanks to everyone who came out.  It was a good time, and well-attended, to boot.

I delivered a lot of raw footage to Katie Biese, who will be editing a promo video of me.  Maybe a few weeks from now, you’ll be able to find it in the Video section of the You page.

I’m at The Court Tavern on Monday with Frank Bressi (of The Chilling Details), Gerry Rosenthal (of The Newbru), Sarah Donner, and Chris Brown (of Emory St.).  It’s bound to be a great show. (and free…did I mention, “free”?)  Check the Shows page for more details.

The Flickr account from the Car Rally is shaping up nicely, with a good deal of help from Team America and Team Awesome.  There’s one photo from Semper Fi, so far, and I’ve got The Jill and Jack Exxxtreme Attack!!’s photos primed to be uploaded (tagged and all).  Oh, and I also got a DVD from Malibu Maddness, so we’ll see what that looks like.

In other news, I’m playing Red Bank’s Internet Cafe, THIS Thursday (so, kind of tomorrow), with fellow local, Holtz., and national touring acts, Brad Passons, Isaac Johnson, Adam Fallon and Kelly Kellam.  I’m REALLY excited.  Check the info in the sidebar or the Shows page and I’ll see you there!

It was a fierce competition between nine cars. The Jill and Jack Exxxtreme Attack!!, Chai Way Riders, The M.O.B., Malibu Maddness, Poonanee, Just Drop a Deuce, Team America, Semper Fi and Team Awesome each gave it they’re all, but in the end, someone’s all had to be the most. Team America stood a force to be reckoned with, racking up a mighty 515 points, with Just Drop a Duece in second place (ironically) with 447, Team Awesome with 414 points and Chai Way Riders scoring 410. To everyone who made it out, who competed, who had fun, who ate pizza, who will be telling their friends about this for weeks to come, and especially who came out today to donate blood, thank you so, so, so much, truly and deeply, from the bottom of my heart, for making this a tremendously successful (and what I hope will become the first annual) Birthday Party/Car Rally.

Special thanks go out to Natascha (Semper Fi), for coming all the way from Brooklyn, Neil (Semper Fi), for charging forward with one last hurrah before being deployed to Iraq, this afternoon, Barb (Just Drop a Deuce), for pulling her team together, showing true leadership, Xenia (Team Awesome), for crank calling me crying, convincing me I’d somehow gotten her entire team arrested, all of The M.O.B., for holding your own against the big dogs, Jon (Malibu Maddness), for coming through at the 11th hour, Jeff Raspe (90.5 The Night), for the shout out, Don Lee (Target A), for showing your chest hair, Nunzio’s Pizzeria, 1210 Main St., in Asbury Park, for accommodating us at the last minute, when our beach plans got rained out, and, most of all, Chandra, without whom none (and I mean NONE) of this would have been possible.

To create a bitchin’ photo album of everything we did, I’ve created a Flickr account. Log in as “EricGinsbergs_CarRally@yahoo.com” with “BirthdayParty” as the secret code. Upload your photos (or scanned item), and please be sure to tag the exact item name, as described on the list (i.e. “Photo of whole team at a local radio station” or “Target D”), and tag your team name. I’ll be removing the above info in the by the end of this week, so please jot it down, even if you don’t upload your stuff right away.

If you haven’t received word from me, chances are you’re not invited.  If you think this is an error, please reply to this post and tell me, in exactly 15 words, why you should be invited.