Hello friends! I know its been a long time since Ive written. Ive got a lot to catch you up on! Ive been all over the place, including not this country. But Ill get to that later. First, did you guys happen to catch me perform on These Walls on Americas Got Talent? Theres a crazy story behind how all that happened that you have to hear.

Last week while in LA shooting my video for These Walls for 2 days, we got a call at like 11am that I could perform on Americas Got Talent the first day I was there. I LOVE that show. Theres a guy with horns all over his body and stuff. Some of the people are ridiculously talented, and its fun to see what kind of things people will spend their lives trying to perfect. So I was obviously psyched and honored that Id be able to play on the show, and I was ready to do anything to make work that day, even though I had only 3pm 4pm free to make this happen. I had the video shoot all day, then that little lunch break, then I had to be back on the set to keep shooting. They were going live at 6pm, so that was the only hour I could do it.

The traffic in LA is insane and it would have taken over an hour to even get there. The shoot was way out in the desert in the middle of nowhere. The only way it would be possible, is if I could physically grow wings and fly there. So what did the show do to get me out there, back to civilization and to the set? They sent a helicopter come to the middle of the desert where I was filming the video and pick me up to to fly me there! So the crew and I hop in and I take my first helicopter ride ever over LA to the set of Americas Got Talent. Pretty surreal and amazing. I got there, ran into the studio, and played the song. Then I ran back out, hopped back in the helicopter, and went back to the desert to keep shooting my video. Insane day! I didnt know until like 2 hours before that I was going to be performing in front of 20 million people on TV So my advice to you guys is, if you ever think youre going to be late for something due to traffic, get a helicopter.

So now I definitely have to tell you guys about my first time traveling outside of America or Canada. Sooo much happened.

Ok, first I flew into Tokyo and I thought the clouds looked different. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but I did. I ate Sea Urchin, jellyfish and foods I cannot pronounce--a lot of interesting textures. I enjoyed green tea and the the feeling of being in a completely different culture. The truth is, I worked so much and the hours were so long it was hard to see much of anything at times. But Japan was awesome and the people were fantastic. (I also thoroughly enjoyed working with a translator and hearing English become Japanese and vice versa. And then came Singapore...okay...the fruit in Singapore was incredibly exotic and good. (One kind of fruit smelled like gasoline and was very weird.) In Singapore my album was already out so it was so cool to perform in front people who actually knew the music. It's so cool how small the world is and how connected we are through the internet.

After Singapore, I was off to Australia---a long way from Rochester. We had a day off and I slept to recover from the jet lag and then came TV shows and performances and more radio visits and lots of shaking hands and meeting amazing people. Rove was awesome! (he's like equivalent to Letterman but in Australia). One night in Sydney I was getting ready to go to bed because I had an early TV show to play on the next morning. So before those I usually turn on the shower at full blastige hot so the steam keeps the room from getting too dry for my voice. But this time, I fell asleep and forgot to turn it off. So that thing was cranking steam all night into the room. At about 2 am it eventually completely filled my room and set off the fire alarm for the entire huge hotel. Firemen came to my door, and I informed them of my narcoleptic accident. The next morning while I was at the front desk, there was a woman next to me and the bell hop asked her if she enjoyed her stay. She said yeah, everything except the 2am fire drill. Whoops.

So that was it. It was an incredible experience that Ill definitely never forget. So now Im back on the road. I missed my home with wheels. Dirtie Blonde is back out opening up, which is always tons of fun. Their set is amazing! So come out and see us all. Come say hello. Were nice people. Oh yeah, and dont forget to keep checking back to the Web site and MySpace for contests and all sorts of fun stuff. I also have a new Concert Update Page where we pick the city of the month and do a bunch of cool giveaways and stuff. So check it out!

Thanks to everyone thats come out to the shows. You have all been amazing!

Much love.



Teddy