Last night it was snowing here in Michigan as I drove to my parents' house from Kalamazoo. An 8 year old boy on my flight from NYC said he works in Manhattan telling jokes. He has $5025. The $25 was from his parents for his birthday. His little sister Ingrid had a suitcase shaped like Cinderella's carriage. She kept telling her brother that he should get a suitcase like hers.
My sister and I went to the local brewery/music venue here that is closing at the end of the week. Trains passed by the window as snow swirled around. We saw old friends from childhood and found out that everyone is married, teaching at our old high school, or having babies. Today is Thanksgiving and I am thankful for red cabbage, fake gravy and tofurkey.
Kamis, 22 November 2007
Minggu, 18 November 2007
We have two new songs on two neat-o compilations!
Esopus Magazine has a new issue out that comes with a CD of eleven songs that were written about or inspired by dreams submitted by Esopus readers. It was such a cool new way to write a song!
Esopus CD #9: Dreams
Black Moth Super Rainbow: "One Day I Had an Extra Toe"
White Whale: "A Heavenly Light That Shines"
Paavoharju: "Sumuvirsi"
Hank: "Me and My Daddy Are Walking in the Desert"
Ida: "Moon Flower"
Dirty Projectors: "One Kill"
High Places: "Oceanus"
Califone: "Two/The Machinery in Your Stomach Has Everything to Do With Your Dreams"
Lucy Wainwright Roche: "Poison"
Ta'Raach & the Lovelution: "Montparnasse"
Cheval Sombre: "I Sleep"
You can preview whole cd here.
You can also (via Pitchfork) stream the Dirty Projectors song One Kill.
AND.....
Our Australian label dudes Mistletone just released this holiday compilation CD. The profits from the CD sales will benefit an Australian animal shelter.
Here's the track listing:
Evangelicals: The Last Christmas On Earth 4:10
Barrage: Xmas in July 3:12
John Maus: This IS The Beat 2:29
High Places: New Grace 2:12
Ned Collette Band: Christmas Song 4:14
The Sticks: Santa’s Fucked 2:10
Kes Band: Gentle Elf 5:12
Pikelet: Let the Tree Be 2:40
Francis Plagne: Krampus with Scale by the Moon 2:32
Grand Salvo featuring Oliver Mann: I Sometimes Wish 2:16
Ross McLennan: He Seems To Think We’re His Family 3:36
Hands On Heads: Witches & Lightning 2:44
Jack Ladder: All You Get’s a Song 3:52
Listen to John Maus' This IS The Beat
And here is an mp3 of our contribution New Grace.
Esopus CD #9: Dreams
Black Moth Super Rainbow: "One Day I Had an Extra Toe"
White Whale: "A Heavenly Light That Shines"
Paavoharju: "Sumuvirsi"
Hank: "Me and My Daddy Are Walking in the Desert"
Ida: "Moon Flower"
Dirty Projectors: "One Kill"
High Places: "Oceanus"
Califone: "Two/The Machinery in Your Stomach Has Everything to Do With Your Dreams"
Lucy Wainwright Roche: "Poison"
Ta'Raach & the Lovelution: "Montparnasse"
Cheval Sombre: "I Sleep"
You can preview whole cd here.
You can also (via Pitchfork) stream the Dirty Projectors song One Kill.
AND.....
Our Australian label dudes Mistletone just released this holiday compilation CD. The profits from the CD sales will benefit an Australian animal shelter.
Here's the track listing:
Evangelicals: The Last Christmas On Earth 4:10
Barrage: Xmas in July 3:12
John Maus: This IS The Beat 2:29
High Places: New Grace 2:12
Ned Collette Band: Christmas Song 4:14
The Sticks: Santa’s Fucked 2:10
Kes Band: Gentle Elf 5:12
Pikelet: Let the Tree Be 2:40
Francis Plagne: Krampus with Scale by the Moon 2:32
Grand Salvo featuring Oliver Mann: I Sometimes Wish 2:16
Ross McLennan: He Seems To Think We’re His Family 3:36
Hands On Heads: Witches & Lightning 2:44
Jack Ladder: All You Get’s a Song 3:52
Listen to John Maus' This IS The Beat
And here is an mp3 of our contribution New Grace.
Sabtu, 17 November 2007
If you have an hour and a half......
We strongly recommend the Peanut Butter Solution! As if childhood isn't jacked enough, we had films such as this to make us feel normal (?). Weird understated dialogue, totally sad lighting, creepy father daughter dynamic, a frightening pubic hair scene and a total WTF plot with digressions out the wazoo.
The Peanut Butter Solution (French title: Opération beurre de pinottes) is a 1985 family film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 2nd in the Tales for All (Contes Pour Tous) series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.
Michael Baskin is an average 11-year old boy. One day, Michael and his friend Connie find an abandoned mansion. Michael looks in the window, has an extraordinary fright, and loses his hair as a result. After a few failed attempts to get hair on his head again, Michael finds out about a magical formula for hair growth, whose main ingredient is peanut butter. But this formula works so well that his hair grows too fast, and doesn't stop. The art teacher at Michael's school, simply called the Signor, frightens children with his presence and is eventually fired. The Signor eventually finds out about Michael's condition and kidnaps him (and many other neighborhood children) to make magic paint brushes from Michael's ever-growing hair. Soon, it's up to Michael's friends to find where he is and rescue him.-Wikipedia
The Peanut Butter Solution (French title: Opération beurre de pinottes) is a 1985 family film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 2nd in the Tales for All (Contes Pour Tous) series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.
Michael Baskin is an average 11-year old boy. One day, Michael and his friend Connie find an abandoned mansion. Michael looks in the window, has an extraordinary fright, and loses his hair as a result. After a few failed attempts to get hair on his head again, Michael finds out about a magical formula for hair growth, whose main ingredient is peanut butter. But this formula works so well that his hair grows too fast, and doesn't stop. The art teacher at Michael's school, simply called the Signor, frightens children with his presence and is eventually fired. The Signor eventually finds out about Michael's condition and kidnaps him (and many other neighborhood children) to make magic paint brushes from Michael's ever-growing hair. Soon, it's up to Michael's friends to find where he is and rescue him.-Wikipedia
Senin, 05 November 2007
Jumat, 02 November 2007
Ultimate Fall Tour, 2007
Hi friends! We did a little midwest tour with the Blow & Saturday Looks Good To Me a couple weeks ago. Also along the way we crossed paths in a couple spots with the homies, Video Hippos. Made new homie-dom with HEALTH. Then CMJ struck. And we were off again to Chicago to play Ladyfest! We also had good hang sessions with the Pearsons in MI.
Again, I apologise for not photographing awesome key zones like Grinnell, Minneapolis, and Chicago (twice). Sometimes I would rather experience stuff with my eyes and non digital senses, so I get a little spotty with the digi-documenting.
Apple orchards with Bri! Otsego, MI
This dude is Brian Pearson. Total ruler, and Mary's big brother! Otsego, MI
You all are the apples of my eyes. Otsego, MI
Ch ch ch ch ch.... (cue Chariots of Fire soundtrack) Brian & Lake Michigan. Saugatuck, MI
In our quest for "Ultimate Fall" adventures, we figured attending a High School football game was the right thing to do. The cheerleaders yelled at Mary for picking up their giant football prop. Gobles, MI
This isn't some comment on veganism, I swear. I just thought the milk aisle at Meijer looked all Damien Hirst or something. Plainwell, MI
I really didn't want this put on the internet, but Mary insisted. We were trying to take a "really awkward" photo. The employees at Meijer seemed stressed out by our hanging around and giggling loudly in the training bra section, wearing Halloween masks. Plainwell, MI
Old Halloween photo of Mary as Anne of Green Gables' best friend Diana. What an odd child.
We had an unexpected crossing of paths with the recently relocated Jae Choi and MoMo. U of IA Writer's Workshop, holy crap! Iowa City, IA
Tofu scamble INSIDE a vegan waffle. WTF!? Iowa City, IA
Seems like a nice place to reside in for a while. Yikes! Iowa City, IA
Night on Bald Mountain scene from Fantasia. The Blow @ the Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, OH
The Blow, Saturday Looks Good To Me, High Places, and Ray. Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
After our show at the Wexner, we went a couple blocks to see Delay play a basement show at the Legion Of Doom house, which is a little more what we are used to. Columbus, OH
We stayed at the rad Monster house, permanent home to the Delay brothers, and temporary hostel to our friend Paul Baribeau. This feline dude kept me company while I sat on the front porch at 3am. I didn't catch her name. Columbus, OH
There is a lot happening in this photo. Monster House. Columbus, OH
Hot woodland legs! Wellington, OH
Wellington, OH
Wellington, OH
Wellington, OH
BONK! Wellington, OH
New dashboard for Ultimate Fall!
Video Hippos! Oberlin, OH
Mosh pit for HEALTH. Oberlin, OH
However, no mosh pit at the Gramercy Theatre show. NYC
We were back in Chicago a week later for Ladyfest (AWESOME!). So we stopped in Plainwell to hang out with Brooklyn Reid, and get ruckus on some leaf piles.
Again, I apologise for not photographing awesome key zones like Grinnell, Minneapolis, and Chicago (twice). Sometimes I would rather experience stuff with my eyes and non digital senses, so I get a little spotty with the digi-documenting.
Apple orchards with Bri! Otsego, MI
This dude is Brian Pearson. Total ruler, and Mary's big brother! Otsego, MI
You all are the apples of my eyes. Otsego, MI
Ch ch ch ch ch.... (cue Chariots of Fire soundtrack) Brian & Lake Michigan. Saugatuck, MI
In our quest for "Ultimate Fall" adventures, we figured attending a High School football game was the right thing to do. The cheerleaders yelled at Mary for picking up their giant football prop. Gobles, MI
This isn't some comment on veganism, I swear. I just thought the milk aisle at Meijer looked all Damien Hirst or something. Plainwell, MI
I really didn't want this put on the internet, but Mary insisted. We were trying to take a "really awkward" photo. The employees at Meijer seemed stressed out by our hanging around and giggling loudly in the training bra section, wearing Halloween masks. Plainwell, MI
Old Halloween photo of Mary as Anne of Green Gables' best friend Diana. What an odd child.
We had an unexpected crossing of paths with the recently relocated Jae Choi and MoMo. U of IA Writer's Workshop, holy crap! Iowa City, IA
Tofu scamble INSIDE a vegan waffle. WTF!? Iowa City, IA
Seems like a nice place to reside in for a while. Yikes! Iowa City, IA
Night on Bald Mountain scene from Fantasia. The Blow @ the Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, OH
The Blow, Saturday Looks Good To Me, High Places, and Ray. Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
After our show at the Wexner, we went a couple blocks to see Delay play a basement show at the Legion Of Doom house, which is a little more what we are used to. Columbus, OH
We stayed at the rad Monster house, permanent home to the Delay brothers, and temporary hostel to our friend Paul Baribeau. This feline dude kept me company while I sat on the front porch at 3am. I didn't catch her name. Columbus, OH
There is a lot happening in this photo. Monster House. Columbus, OH
Hot woodland legs! Wellington, OH
Wellington, OH
Wellington, OH
Wellington, OH
BONK! Wellington, OH
New dashboard for Ultimate Fall!
Video Hippos! Oberlin, OH
Mosh pit for HEALTH. Oberlin, OH
However, no mosh pit at the Gramercy Theatre show. NYC
We were back in Chicago a week later for Ladyfest (AWESOME!). So we stopped in Plainwell to hang out with Brooklyn Reid, and get ruckus on some leaf piles.
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