So much to reflect on. Let’s talk about some things.

I’ll start by saying that the drive to Detroit was pretty brutal. We left New Jersey around 5:30 in the morning, and got to Detroit around 5:30 in the evening. It is a fascinating thing to be trapped in a car for any length of time greater than ten hours. We passed the time by playing games like “How Much Water Can I Drink Before the Next Rest-Stop?” and, “Can I Actually Find a Decent Place to Sleep Inside This Van?”.

But we got to Detroit without a hitch, aside from the fact that Spencer got deathly-ill and spent the entire evening in a haze. The show did not go off without a few hitches, but the microphone didn’t get unplugged, as it so often does, which I counted as a personal victory. The people at the show that we got to speak to were really cool as well, which is always a nice bonus.

Unfortunately, due to Spencer’s condition, and the fact that we had to drive from Detroit to Chicago that evening, we had to leave during The Like’s set, before the Futureheads played. The average bear might consider this to not be a big deal, because I have already in the past two weeks seen the Futureheads live almost as many times as I’ve seen Tokyo Police Club, but we have all become strangely dependent. We ended up just listening to a bunch of Futureheads songs in the van.

We arrived in Chicago around 4 in the morning and got to the apartment of the lovely Jessica Sheft-Ason, who was actually back in NJ for the weekend. Needless to say, we promptly trashed the place. Just kidding.

After having a decent number of hours to sleep, we wandered the Hyde Park neighborhood and stumbled upon the UChicago graduation ceremonies. Can you say free cookies and champagne for the Static Jacks?!? Yeah you can. Do it.

Lincoln Hall was a very cool venue, and all the people working there were accommodating and kind, which was great. There was a special treat in that when we came onstage, they started playing “Titus Andronicus Forever”, by none other than fellow NJ indie-rockers Titus Andronicus, which has been my dream walking-out-onto-the-stage song for quite some time. What an awesome coincidence.  What an excellent way to start the last show of the tour.

To mark this historic event, the Futureheads called us up onstage with The Like to sing their cover of Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love”, which was a great honor and outrageously fun. Singing and dancing ruled the night. We’ll post a video once we find one. (If you have one, email it to us!)

After an emotional goodbye (the Futureheads cried like babies), we departed for the apartment, where we slept a precious few hours before hopping back in the van for the drive home, which took 16 hours, of which Spencer drove a heroic 14. Really, the only exciting thing that happened on this portion of the trip was seeing an Amish horse-and-buggy around the 9th hour of the trip. So it goes. So it went.

Celebrity Death Tour 2010 is over. It was a bit top-heavy on the deaths, but it had an even distribution of good times. Farewell to the Futureheads and The Like, may our paths cross again someday. Now we must prepare for some dates with We Were Promised Jetpacks and Bear Hands!

Some pictures will hopefully come soon.

To infinity and beyond.

UPDATE: Jimmy Dean is dead.