LATE BLOOMER
A fissure formed and when it grew
The atmosphere gained molten spew
Billions of years and then there's you
With ashen hair and fiery moods
When we grew by a riverbank
Our roots entangled cold and dank
They chopped us down and lit a fire
Our smoke encircled from the pyre
In every life there's always you
I am the hill you are the view
When overseas you guide me back
When you're a train I am the track.
Selasa, 20 Januari 2009
Minggu, 18 Januari 2009
cold hands... and CA and NE/Canada TOUR!!!
I was just looking at pictures of the pretty hip pre-inaugural concert in DC, and I was like, jeeze, I wonder who played Bush's pre-inaugural concert? Ted Nugent? Toby Keith? Type-O Negative? Skrewdriver? Anyway... I guess the thing that blew me away the most was like, how cool does Pete Seeger look these days? AMAZING! Best beard EVER! He was only wearing a flannel shirt! I always wonder what kinda little old man I'll be. I hope I am cool like Pete! And I am not sure how much warmer DC is from NYC, but it is really COLD here! How can you play a banjo in that kind of weather? Also, does Stevie Wonder ever age?
Ok... In a few hours, I fly with two kitties to Los Angeles, which is NOT cold. This should be interesting. We had to buy an extra seat! I hope they don't drink too much on the flight and get rowdy. Also, why does Firefox give Los Angeles a red underline, like it is spelled wrong?
Ok.. Got to pack.
We have some FUN shows coming up in CA! After that we are doing a cool NE and Canadian Tour! Hope you all are doing rad!
Jan 19 Los Angeles @ Kerckhoff Grand Salon at UCLA w/ Glasser
Jan 20 UC Irvine @ Acrobatics Everyday w/ Protect Me
Jan 22 Los Angeles @ The Echo (ALL AGES!!) w/ Hecuba & Infinite Body
Jan 23 San Francisco @ Bottom of the Hill w/ New Villager & Mi Ami
Jan 24 Santa Cruz @ The Crepe Place w/ Hawnay Troof
Feb 5 Philadelphia @ Danger Danger Gallery w/ Soft Circle
Feb 6 Northampton MA @ Pearl St. w/ Soft Circle
Feb 7 Providence @ Min-Pins 4Ever w/ Soft Circle, Silk Flowers, Kokomo, Wizzardz
Feb 8 Boston @ Institute of Contemporary Art w/ Soft Circle
Feb 9 Toronto @ Horseshoe Tavern w/ Soft Circle
Feb 10 Hamilton @ Pepper Jack Cafe w/ Soft Circle
Feb 11 Buffalo @ Big Orbit Gallery’s Soundlab w/ Soft Circle
Feb 12 Princeton University w/ Soft Circle
Feb 13 NYC @ New Museum w/ Grouper (this is close to being sold out, get tickets here: www.newmuseum.org/events/285)
Ok... In a few hours, I fly with two kitties to Los Angeles, which is NOT cold. This should be interesting. We had to buy an extra seat! I hope they don't drink too much on the flight and get rowdy. Also, why does Firefox give Los Angeles a red underline, like it is spelled wrong?
Ok.. Got to pack.
We have some FUN shows coming up in CA! After that we are doing a cool NE and Canadian Tour! Hope you all are doing rad!
Jan 19 Los Angeles @ Kerckhoff Grand Salon at UCLA w/ Glasser
Jan 20 UC Irvine @ Acrobatics Everyday w/ Protect Me
Jan 22 Los Angeles @ The Echo (ALL AGES!!) w/ Hecuba & Infinite Body
Jan 23 San Francisco @ Bottom of the Hill w/ New Villager & Mi Ami
Jan 24 Santa Cruz @ The Crepe Place w/ Hawnay Troof
Feb 5 Philadelphia @ Danger Danger Gallery w/ Soft Circle
Feb 6 Northampton MA @ Pearl St. w/ Soft Circle
Feb 7 Providence @ Min-Pins 4Ever w/ Soft Circle, Silk Flowers, Kokomo, Wizzardz
Feb 8 Boston @ Institute of Contemporary Art w/ Soft Circle
Feb 9 Toronto @ Horseshoe Tavern w/ Soft Circle
Feb 10 Hamilton @ Pepper Jack Cafe w/ Soft Circle
Feb 11 Buffalo @ Big Orbit Gallery’s Soundlab w/ Soft Circle
Feb 12 Princeton University w/ Soft Circle
Feb 13 NYC @ New Museum w/ Grouper (this is close to being sold out, get tickets here: www.newmuseum.org/events/285)
Sabtu, 10 Januari 2009
back in the day....
So I decided to look at the first mypace message we ever got. At this point, HP and NA were just little babies. We hadn't played a show yet, and actually hadn't really written any songs yet, and I think NA had maybe played twice.
As I re-read it, I got to thinking about how the last few years of weirdo music have been so unique, historically. There are so many more bands than ever before, and yet it feels so much more networked within a real global community than ever before. I really do feel like it is the most interesting time to be making music. Obviously the internet has changed a lot. But once you get past the internet, there really is so much amazing overlap between bands and genres. I don't know where I am going with this... When I was a kid in the 90's, "underground" music was super genre specific and touring was summed up by the payphone tone dialer, a modified Radio Shack device that emulated the sound of coins going into a payphone, tricking the phone into thinking it was getting paid, and therefore giving the caller free long distance! Then for truly over the top scammers, there was the more diabolical cell phone clone! Now, it all sounds like a lot of work, just to make illegal free long distance calls. Possibly more work than actually just working a job at Kinkos (who also got scammed beyond belief). I guess the "logic" was that long distance was very expensive and cell phones were only affordable by really rich people back then, so this is the sort of things that some bands went through to book tours. You know, stickin' it to the man!
Anyway... I just want to basically say thanks to all our friends! And all our future friends we haven't met yet. We love you! Keep on making/doing stuff forever!
Pardon the below censoring, but I don't want people getting crank called, another past-time involving the aforementioned devices.
As I re-read it, I got to thinking about how the last few years of weirdo music have been so unique, historically. There are so many more bands than ever before, and yet it feels so much more networked within a real global community than ever before. I really do feel like it is the most interesting time to be making music. Obviously the internet has changed a lot. But once you get past the internet, there really is so much amazing overlap between bands and genres. I don't know where I am going with this... When I was a kid in the 90's, "underground" music was super genre specific and touring was summed up by the payphone tone dialer, a modified Radio Shack device that emulated the sound of coins going into a payphone, tricking the phone into thinking it was getting paid, and therefore giving the caller free long distance! Then for truly over the top scammers, there was the more diabolical cell phone clone! Now, it all sounds like a lot of work, just to make illegal free long distance calls. Possibly more work than actually just working a job at Kinkos (who also got scammed beyond belief). I guess the "logic" was that long distance was very expensive and cell phones were only affordable by really rich people back then, so this is the sort of things that some bands went through to book tours. You know, stickin' it to the man!
Anyway... I just want to basically say thanks to all our friends! And all our future friends we haven't met yet. We love you! Keep on making/doing stuff forever!
Pardon the below censoring, but I don't want people getting crank called, another past-time involving the aforementioned devices.
Jumat, 02 Januari 2009
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