but I got to the toad tavern, sound check, get a burrito…and the room starts to fill. and the way this room is set up is so cool, everyone feels so close to the stage. such an intimate set up. the show starts, and BAM i can tell this room of people is gonna RULE. it was such a fun show…i found myself telling a lot of jokes, in the zone with the Colorad-ans(?)… it was a great show…every show just gets better on this short little tour.
I got a great chance tonight to really listen to Justin Currie’s whole set. this guy is quite a talent…great writer, and on top of it just a really sweet guy. he has a rabid following that I envy to say the least!

but the show is done, and i am looking forward to tomorrow night in San Francisco. Braydon will join me for the next 2 shows…and needless to say, its gonna be awesome! excited to play for a home crowd..its been a few months since we’ve played SF…

also. im so excited to sleep in my bed! wooo!
until tomorrow!
cheers friends!

CJ

Now I find myself in Minneapolis. its rainy, its muggy, its hot. naturally im loving it! it is a bummer the weather is rough, because the city also appears to be awesome from what I can tell…

first observation everything is TARGET here!…which mean…this town RULES.

one can find so many different places to shop, like the MALL OF AMERICA , come on people!! lets spend all our cash! ..anyhow ive only been here for a few hours, but I realized that the twins are in town, and they are of course playing a game that I cant go to, at their new ballpark that I so badly want to scope out. im considering buying a ticket to the game, and after my set is done, walking through the ballpark for a couple of innings. seems like a good idea.

ok and on a side note…saw a lady last night wearing silver bedazzled skinny jeans last night. I know, I know…wheres the pic right?

through the whole situation I couldn’t find a way to snap a pic with being obvious. but just try to imagine it. and oh yah, I forget to tell you, I think she was at least 52.

thanks chicago, i love your fashion!

missing the guys in the band…

with affection,

Cameron

You get to be the host, and together between your friends and ours, we have a fun little shindig..where we tell you the stories behind the music, we laugh, we cry, we hug, we joke…and we have a great time! if you are interested, here is a list of where we are looking to book a house show, and the dates we are thinking….

July 15th- Redding, CA
July 16th- Chico, CA
July 17th- Sacramento, CA
July 29th- Modesto, CA
July 30th- Bakersfield, CA
July 31st- Fresno, CA
Aug 5th- Santa Cruz, CA
Aug 6th- San Luis Obispo, CA
Aug 7th- Santa Barbara, CA
Aug 12th- Los Angeles, CA
Aug 13th- Orange County, CA
Aug 14th- San Diego, CA

now i know what you are thinking..ONLY CALIFORNIA!?! well for now yes..if this round goes well…no state will be safe from JR house shows!!

help us make this a smash so we can expand the shows out further!!

there is more info HERE

(if you cant open the link…here is what its says)

1. You have a house or space that can comfortably and safely host 30-45 people. A place with a big living room, finished basement would be ideal. There would need to be enough parking nearby and your neighbors should be cool. It would be a huge bummer if someone called the cops because of all the extra cars and people coming to your house. You should probably not do this if you live in a small apartment with a bunch of uptight neighbors or a cranky landlord.

2. The shows will not be open to the public and no tickets will be sold at the door. We will pre-sell a set number of tickets for each show via Brown Paper Tickets before the show. Be realistic on how many people your place can hold. We need to know how many tickets we can sell in advance. We’ve found that 30-45, pending your space, is good. Ticket price will be $7.

3. We will provide you with a detailed list of everyone who will be coming to the show. The host won’t have to deal with any money and will only need to check people off the list as they arrive.

4. You can have up to 5 additional free tickets for the show. If you have other friends who want to come to the show you can direct them to the link to buy tickets on-line.

5. You don’t need any sort of sound system. All you need to provide are a few chairs for us to sit on.

6. Your home address will not be published on the web and will only be given to those people who purchase tickets.

7. We will provide you with downloadable posters, or ecards to send out to your friends if you choose. We will promote the dates on our websites, etc.

If you are interested, please follow these steps:
1.READ THIS

2. email concerts@jaymesreunion.com- a. your address- b. a few photos of your living room or space you are thinking- c. which dates and times work for you

3. sit tight and we’ll get back to as soon as possible if we can work your home into our schedule

After we have the dates and locations sorted out we will announce the dates and where to get tickets!

so its been awhile since we have used the blog..and boy are we sorry!

But we are back in action and ready to rock.

thanks to everyone who has been so amazing with their support of the new album..its been a long time coming..but we are so excited about it!! here are some cool new things that have popped up lately!

more JR blogging to come!

-Cameron

Vh1

spikeTV

Mocha Club (go and check out how we are partnering with them! and be a part of it!)-

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MTV music

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but what I wanted to tell you guys about is a new project Mocha Club is starting, and that we are stoked about! please check out everything below!

I NEED AFRICA MORE THAN AFRICA NEEDS ME

When I think of Africa, the following images immediately come to mind: Starvation. AIDS. Child soldiers. Genocide. Sex slaves. Orphans. From there, my thoughts naturally turn to how I can help, how I can make a difference. “I am needed here,” I think. “They have so little, and I have so much.” It’s true, there are great tragedies playing out in Africa everyday. There is often a level of suffering here that is unimaginable until you have seen it, and even then it is difficult to believe. But what is even harder is reconciling the challenges that many Africans face with the joy I see in the people. It’s a joy that comes from somewhere I cannot fathom, not within the framework that has been my life to this day. [read more]

and check out the sweet tshirts for the campaign!

thanks for checking it out guys! lets learn to grow deeper in 2009! lets continually learn to LOVE EVERYONE!

please consider joining Mocha Club in this exciting work!

hey friends..sorry its been awhile since our last post! but we are coming back around…

so check it out…today me (cameron) and a couple of buddies, jason & chris, went out to san francisco to do a little fun filming…

we decided it would be cool to shoot some videos on a really cool roof in that overlooks san francisco, and is close to the golden gate bridge…its a beautiful view..although it was high up and i was a little nervous of falling off while i played the song… the videos shot today were just acoustic videos, me and my guitar…due to the fact that we didnt have time to pull together the production for a full band acoustic video on the roof…but im working on the logistics for that…so maybe thats coming soon?

anyways heres a snap shot from the acoustic session…its gonna be really cool though! music on rooftops rule!

Braydon

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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Handcock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton  

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Braydon Nelson, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Camron Jaymes,  Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, Eric Watson, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith , George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton