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Surely you noticed the change when you woke yesterday morning. Your eyes were crusty and your worldview bleary, but you could still feel it: the reality you've known all your life had changed. Heightened, if you will. Or, perhaps, simply become more... ultimate?

Chalk that fresh feeling up to the efforts of two fellows, Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche, both of Baltimore's storied Wham City collective. The two are taking Ultimate Reality-- the DVD they jointly created and recently released via Carpark-- out for a spin, with the proceedings ultimately kicking off last night in Chapel Hill. Danny Boy and Jimmy Joe will dole out their version of reality throughout the rest of the month of January, joined on the drums by Videohippos' Kevin O'Meare and Ponytail's Jeremy Hyman.

And when he's not heightening reality with a few old friends, Dan's doing his damndest by his lonesome on a handful of non-Ultimate Reality gigs over the next few months, including a trip to Australia and a trip to Langerado.

Deacon also recently revealed to the blog Cone Toaster that his next single from Spiderman of the Rings will be live fave "Silence Like the Wind". (His publicist confirmed this as well.) DOH! "Silence Like the Wind" isn't on Spiderman of the Rings!

In other Dan Deacon news, I wouldn't expect a Deaconized cover of "The Wheels on the Bus" anytime soon.

Ultimate Reality tour:

01-07 Atlanta, GA - Eyedrum
01-08 Pensacola, FL - Sluggos
01-09 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
01-11 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr.
01-12 Denton, TX - Hailey's
01-14 Phoenix, AZ - Modified
01-15 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre *!
01-17 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
01-18 Portland, OR - Backspace
01-19 Portland, OR - Holocene
01-20 Seattle, WA - Neumos
01-21 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards $
01-24 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
01-25 Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theater
01-27 Detroit, MI - Scrummage University
01-28 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
01-29 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
01-30 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
01-31 Boston, MA - Pozen Center
02-03 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church

* with Health
! with Abe Vigoda
$ with Montag

Dan in real life:

01-26 Chicago, IL - Metro (two shows) *
02-08 New York, NY - Whitney Museum
02-22 Sydney, Australia - Oxford Art Factory
02-23 Adelaide, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
02-24 Melbourne, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
02-27 Perth, Australia - Perth International Arts Festival
02-28 Adelaide, Australia - Rocket Bar
02-29 Brisbane, Australia - Troubadour
03-01 Brisbane, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
03-02 Sydney, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival
03-08 South Florida Everglades, FL - Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Langerado)
04-12 St. Louis, MO - Billiken Club

* with Girl Talk