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Joe Pernice

Joe Pernice

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The video for Working Girls debuted on MTV2's 120 Minutes on Sunday! 120 Minutes airs from Sunday night at 11:00 p.m. to Monday morning at 1:00 a.m. EST. If you can't watch it next week, you can download it from the website, thanks to Chris, Ashmont's VP in charge of website and graphics.

Saturday, March 23, 2002Hello Everybody,

It's the first day of spring here on the East Coast. It was an unusually mild winter which, on the surface, was welcomed: A brutal East Coast winter probably would have been more than most people could handle. On the other hand it made me uneasy to be walking around Brooklyn in T shirt in early March. Granted, I am Italian, an olive waiting to be pressed, but this is nuts.

Speaking of gaping holes in the ozone layer, Australia is calling me once again. This will be my third trip and this time I'm bringing Thom and Peyton with me. Forget playing shows, I can't wait to flush the toilet for those guys so they can witness first hand the fabled inverse of the coreolis effect. There is no doubt in my mind that the three of us will gather around a toilet for no less than thirty minutes talking about calculus, water currents and how they resemble air currents. We'll touch briefly on famous storms at sea, and inevitably the Shackleton expedition. Ah, music has given me so much.

After Australia, Peyton and I will do a few-week duo tour in the States. It will just be Pink and I and the road. We'll be driving a small, fuel efficient car. My good friend Rich (who is an Italian professor among other things) just hooked me up with an Italian course on CD. I figure by the end of the tour I will have translated a good portion of the set. You'll have to check out the Web site for the dates and locations. I am terrible with that stuff. My handlers take care of that.

In late May the Pernice Brothers will go into seclusion somewhere in Vermont to record our third album. Should be a real toe-tapper. We'll probably stay up there so long we'll be forgotten. Five years later we'll emerge, bearded (except Laura), led by Thom, a modern day Moses bringing the media to the people. Actually, we only have three weeks to track in Vermont or the surgeon who owns the property will have us arrested, or worse: exploratory surgeoned.

I'd say that's about it. Hope to see people in the next few months. Take care and enjoy the spring.

JP 3/22/02 Brooklyn