Current mood:

sleepy

I'm ok!
I want to thank everyone for all the love they've been sending our way over the past several days. For those that didn't know, our van was hit and totalled by a drunk driver after our Flagstaff show this past weekend. Figures, as it was our very last show of this leg, and we were hours away from being back in LA. The fellow tried to drive away,. but thanks to some very helpful bystanders and the police, they were able to arrest him within the hour. During this whole debacle, we were surrounded by our amazing friends in Anadies, Ikonoklast, Hardwire, and Regicide (and the awesome Erika :D ) I feel so lucky to have made friends throughout our tours, and here was a great example of bands from 3 different states who have been supporters of each other for years. These wonderful people helped us clear out our van, transported us, made phone calls, and most importantly were there for us emotionally as we were naturally quite frazzled.

As most of you know, we are a DIY band, and an accident like this is pretty devestating to us financially. We don't know how long it will take to be recompensated for our vehicle or for that matter, if we will be compensated at all (we have yet to find out definitively about the guys' insurance situation). In the meantime, we have shows this weekend in which we'll have to rent a van....and 6 weeks worth of shows the week after that. So we'll have to purchase a new van within these next few weeks. If anyone is interested in helping out, you can
send a donation by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=contact%40mkio%2ecom&item_name=MKIO%20Van%20Relief%20Fund&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=USD&lc=US&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8

I want to personally thank each one of you for always being so supportive and caring. I've had so many messages of concern, and I want to let you all know I'm ok. I've been taking it easy these past few days, as I ripped some muscles in my ribcage from all the coughing (been sick for a while now). Ironically, we were on the way to the hospital when the guy smashed into us and were literally half a mile away when he did.

We've had so many mishaps on this tour...illnesses, injuries, accidents...these challenges have really tested us and made our band closer. Sometimes when you're scaling what seems like mountains, what makes it all bearable is the friends around you that keep you laughing, tell you not to stop, and that they love you.

Thank you, my friends....I love you all

~tash