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Montreal, Quebec

Dear Diary,

i love montreal.

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Quebec, Quebec

Dear Diary,

We were shouted french at by a man with long, wild hair and wide, crazy eyes. We think he wanted to say we should stop, but maybe he was excited to say how 'resilient we were to performing in the cold rain and that bar down the street wants us to play go now putains merde albania mania is awesome!!' That happened after three songs. But we made ok money even in the rain because two dollar coins are easy for people to throw. Then we spend it all for cafe and the.

Quebec reminds us of east and west europe. The downtown is a old gray stoned fortress on a hill. Even in the rain people were walking here to there and being pleasant, but the rain all day and maybe the next made us want to go direct to Montreal. Americans purchased bread for us because we translated them to the cheerful woman at the boulangerie. That was nice too. We must return someday, probably.

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Old Orchard, ME

Dear Diary,

This is the perfect village to be a street band. We could become most famous of the village or even Maine if the security forces did not arrest the show. In Old Orchard, it is proclaimed that a street band must pay 50$ for standing before the council and they decide if you can wildly entertain tourists. But we were wildly entertaining them before security forces came to illegalize us! It is the opinion of Albania Mania that the customer is always right and the tourists are like customers for the village. Does the village not want them to be happier than the tourists in New Orchard? Why do they want to interrupt them when they are happy? We don't care because we just don't care about things much anyway. But the children were starting to cry and the parents were bitter at the guards and that is not a better environment than New Orchard. That is what we talked about anyway.

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NYC, NY

Philadelphia, PA

Pittsburgh, PA- 7/11-7/13

Sturgis, MI- 7/11

Elkhart, IN 7/06

Dear diary,

We played music today at the biggest farmers market in these states. It was kind of scary and very much like an american mall with its own food court even. However, there were also animals, and amesome foods made by Amish people there. Joshan especially enjoyed the homemade Amish foods.

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Chicago, IL- 6/28-7/11

Dear diary,

This is Dan. He is the most best friend of albania mania.
Besides meeting him and getting to live out of his empty house we also did many other things such as:

• playing music for the art gallery Caro D'Offay Gallery at 2204 W North Ave, Chicago, IL.
  
• dancing with sharks
  
• playing music on street corners
  
• playing music at the Pontiac Cafe
  
• playing with children
  

Louisville, KY- 6/26-6/28

Asheville, NC-

Spartanburg, SC-

Dear diary,

Damn! Lord Warrior Pini is a quitter. But Sam takes us to church. He saved the day and maybe our souls. Let's hope!

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Savannah, GA- 3/15/07-4/16/07

Dear diary,

We have been in Savannah for such long time now and partied so hard with so many of the locals and visitors.
We party for the young crowds while we are here just like at super rock jam Mike's party with so much dancing from the people that the floor almost collapsed, but also for the old crowds like at the Marsh View Retirement home.

Also...! We have even upgraded to the recording artists and street band ALBANIA MANIA! thanks to Mike Capannero and John Mapel who captured us onto a cd one afternoon. If you are pondering to yourselfs on how you can hear us without being on the streets and parties of savannah with us then i can tell you now, yes you can hear us still. If you want the lower quality internet sounds for a song or two you can go to myspace.com/albaniamaniareally and hear this here. Or you can donate to us money for the shipping and cd pay with the paypal and we will send you your very own cd! with handmade wood cut of a shark (with mustache)
We also replace Lord Warrior Pini's engine, senior citizen of the road, before continueing Chicago.

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Savannah, GA- 3/8/07-3/14/07

Dear diary,
Thanks to Lord Warrior giving up as usual we were able to stay and play for Savannah extended time! Plus on the first night of being stranded we encountered Ally and Aaron on the street where we had supersonic rock street party with pedestrians dancing and making megacrazy in the streets with us. We also encountered Gustavus, bad mother also!, who met us TC who owns Sweet Melissa and the entire bloc. TC gives us immunity from security forces and hamburgers and pizza and a bathroom and water and wisdom and sometimes beer also. So many things he gives us makes us feel humble. But not much really, because we are truly ripping party pants in this place, so many.

Then we played fun house birthday party for our new friend Melissa (not Sweet Melissa, but also sweet). We switched songs between us and mega death band extrodinary Friends of Fire: Matt, Teddy, Alli (not same Ally as before) and Jeff. We smashed so many that security forces made us relocate inside. Then we made a spectacular in the staircase. Everybody stomping and insane!

Also Wednesday we try to bring all the awesomes of Savannah together for a big potluck party at the Friends of Fire. Then we try to break large quantity of bread on St Patrick days. More later. So check reflect.

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Athens, GA- 3/5/07-3/7/07

Dear diary,
Athens proved to have many of the most supreme people there, with people giving us places to stay or coffees to drink or lunches to eat or vegetable petrol to give Lord Warrior Pini (Pants): Poseidon of the Road. It is also the place where we were able to encounter and kick rocks all day with Aaron the most dreamy person who is also in a band and a bus that has vegetable power just like our Lord, but it is large and also better but it lacks character and refinery (also, no racing stripes!). We played for the crowd waiting to see Aaron and his band, and then for the crowd before Cars Can Be Blue play, who kicked our jaws they are so dirty! Cars Can Be Blue are some bad motherfathers!!

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Atlanta, GA- 2/27/07-3/4/07

Dear diary,
Atl's Little 5 Points will be missing our jaw-kicking sounds on their streets. We know this because Tyson said we were touching his soul when we kicked out jams and breaked bread? and please to not leave early. We did not leave early and so we breaked enough bread to purchase things for the bus and things to eat, I think. And also they invited us to come play at markets and houses and things. Maybe we will go back in the spring. Maybe. If we break enough bread.
We achieved hip hop with our new friend Hayes for his documentary about kicking his junk habit.

And also thank Clark for all the pizza and for the most awesome new manager/god who saws, stitches and scratches the mighty firmament. All praise is do.

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Chattanooga, Tn- 2/25/07-2/26/07

Dear diary,
We have our first day back to touring the streets! And more!- we touch some fame from the Channel 9 Chattanooga Storm Tracker Film Ranger Squad. He made a video clip for original Albania Mania Storm Destroying Song "We Can Never Be Astronauts". We did not see the fame make fruition, but we are sure it is quite special, maybe really.