Yes indeed: we are coming back to Australia! We are psyched. Psyched because we love Australia; psyched because we love playing music there; and psyched because we get there during week three of the AFL Premiership season. We will see you at the shows! And then we'll see you at the stadium! And then we'll see you at some more shows. Can't wait!

Good people! We, and I, will be briefly emerging from the cave to play a few shows: at right, on the post-it, you'll see a couple of Florida dates that I'll be playing solo foot-stomp style. More immediately, tomorrow night, Tuesday, the same four-piece Mountain Goats whom you last saw at the Bell House in the Brooklyn will be playing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. There will be more news as the spring develops, though for the most part I'm downstairs in the lab pouring green fluid outta beakers into graduated cylinders fulla bubbling clear liquid and laughing maniacally as the dry-ice effects enshroud the whole scene. What can I tell you? Some people use a paper and pen, I use antiquated Universal horror sets I copped on the cheap from eBay. To each his own! See you on TV!