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It's been a few years now since we decided to bow out of existence...well, to be honest, it was not really that much of a mutual decision to end things when we did and how we did. Ultimately it was me who pulled the plug and I don’t think I’ve ever really been clear on that.

Our band existed as its own entity but there was always something that we relied on from the energy of the scene we grew up with; the scene without which we never would have existed. When I saw that begin to die all around me, to me it felt like we were dying too. The well had been tapped too many times. Everything became cliché. The bubble we rode on which propelled us and so many bands like us towards the spotlight began to deflate in a grotesque way and being a part of that really took its toll on what I wanted to do and the excitement I had about playing music. I guess I couldn't bear to hang around on life support watching vital organ after vital organ fail- so when the lights were out I crept in and pulled the plug. To be so quick and decisive about it wasn't fair to the other dudes in the band and it wasn't fair to everyone that loved our band. I fully admit that now. That was selfish on my part. But I don’t regret ending things. Looking back I think we all knew that unless we drastically changed many things about what we were doing, we could not go on. Well we could have, but we knew what would have been left would no longer have been us.

So years have passed. We're all really happy in our lives (I'm pretty sure). PJ has an awesome band called Love Automatic, Tone graduated from NYU in a way in which only a truly gifted person could, Nash moved to Brooklyn and is pursuing his drumming career, and I am working on my own stuff and quite content living in NYC, being newly engaged to the love of my life, and just greatly enjoying my time here on Earth.

To me, the need to bring back Armor for Sleep for some kind of reunion or farewell shows was never really something I was dying to do. Walking away from it was hard enough so entering that whole world again seemed easier just not to think about. But then I got to talking to Tone about Bamboozle. Bamboozle was in many ways our birthplace. It was the first time promoters gave us a chance to showcase who we were. We started building our fan-base there and we owe a lot of the success we had to Bamboozle (and Skate and Surf) for giving us a chance at the beginning.

When Tone mentioned that Bamboozle was back at Asbury Park this year I kind of froze. We kicked around the idea of doing something just to have a book-end on a huge part of our lives that never had an ending. For the first time since we disbanded I felt like playing Bamboozle this year would be the perfect way to officially end what was so special to us and to so many of you as well. So Bamboozle reached out. And we accepted.

We never got to say goodbye and for those of you out there who want to send this out with us once and for all, please join us. I’ve been re-visiting the AFS records and I really want to play some of the old songs for everyone that maybe were left out of our sets at the end of our existence. We played around with the idea of doing strictly a DTMB set or strictly a WTDWYAD set, or both, or neither; not sure what we’ll choose but we’re open to your suggestions.

We have no motivation for doing this other than to get up on stage and say goodbye properly to the people out there who never got the opportunity to see us one last time. Like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap we will strive to "put right what once went wrong”…and then just like him we will poof out of existence. But for good this time- we promise.

R.I.P. Piece of crap guitar case...you really didn't even protect my guitar that much over the years but for some reason I just couldnt bare to leave you in the garbage room. Well, my friend, your days of handle-less, duct-taped, lack-of-doing-the-one-thing-you-were-designed-to-do, are officially over. Goodbye. See you on the other side.

Australian tour approaching...I've been going over the set with wes who will be joining me on stage with an acoustic guitar...we are preparing a ton of songs to play but here's the running list so far: car underwater, the truth about heaven, dream to make believe, my town, changed my mind, know what you have, chemicals, only just a memory, basement ghost singing, right here with me, don't go, all I need (radiohead cover), daylight...these songs will all be played acoustically but they're sounding great...does anyone in ausy want to hear anything else? Weird to have to pack for summer...

AUSTRALIAN TOUR!!! WEEEEE

my australian tour is less than one month away!!! i have no idea when i might be back to your far-away land, so please come hang out...

Friday January 14th –Enigma Bar, Adelaide 18+ Tickets Available: www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 438 849

Sat January 15th - Loophole Community Centre All Ages Melbourne – 2pm doors

Tickets available at the door

Saturday January 15th – The Arthouse Hotel, Melbourne 18 + Tickets available www.oztix.com.au / 1300 762 545 & At The door

Sunday January 16th – The National Hotel, Geelong 18 + Tickets available www.oztix.com.au / 1300 762 545 & At The door

Thursday Jan 20th – Rosies Live, Brisbane 18 + Tickets available www Oztix.com.au & At The Door

Friday January 21st -The Cabbage Tree Hotel. Wollongong 18 + Tickets available www.oztix.com.au

Saturday January 22nd – - Little Eden, The Gaelic Theatre, Sydney 18+. Tickets available www.moshtix.com.au & At the Door

Sunday January 23rd – The Cambridge Hotel. Newcastle 18+ Tickets available www.moshtix.com.au

Who's in there?

question:

whats your favorite song of all time? it has to be the last song you ever want to hear...i think i know mine but not sure

Last minute show announcement! tonight at 7 PM at angels and kings in nyc...$5.00 cover charge...this show will be just me on acoustic guitar playing my solo songs and a few other songs from afs i think...we shall see...

black friday for you!

http://benjorgensen.bigcartel.com/

everything up there is on sale until 2011....if you like any of those designs i would get them now...i think i'll just keep adding new designs once i go through the ones that are up...there are still a handful of lyric sheets left so if you wanted one, i would say now is the time amigos. i hope you guys had a great holiday. i made some awesome stuffing. and thats all i know.

show tonight!

yup definitely woke up at 8:30 already thinking about the show tonight. so excited to set up my stuff and soundcheck and hear how everything is going to sound in there. i was planning on using my telecaster but i switched it up last minute and am gonna rock my jazzmaster (for the songs i am using an electric guitar). i like it, but sometimes my arms swipes a button on the top of the guitar that serves one purpose-to mute the entire guitar. still makes no sense to me but hopefully my arms will not swipe the guitar in such a fashion tonight! i'm going to drag over some merch that i got from the webstore so if youre coming tonight please come say hi and hang out...i will be behind the mound of tshirts. whos coming tonight?!!?

i will see you then!

So hard to resist getting all of these every day

Ok guys...it's game time...let's do this.

sore throat

from practicing yesterday....i think we have a pretty tight little set getting ready for the show on the 24th...starting to feel jittery/anxious about playing...definitely will be having some weird stress dreams in the next week and a half...i think last night in a dream of mine i was wading through a river in vietnam evading snipers and trying not to drown.

sweet australian tour poster...cannot wait for this! working out possible set-list and songs now...bringing back some oldies acoustically for this tour. get your tickets they are being eaten up. who's coming to my nyc show on wednesday the 24th?? all night dynamite and moxy just got added as well---pretty pstoked. i might have to play on stilts...the dudes from all night dynamite are like 30 feet tall.

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