Was when Djerzi and Eloise fought over a giant portrait of me at our White Elephant party.
Needless to say, Eloise won, and it’s hanging in our house next to the OTHER giant portrait of me.
Both portraits courtesy of Famous Artist Jedidiah Chavez, who we’ll hopefully be working with soon on our next band photo as [...]
“Ben, I Wish You Were My Girlfriend” is, according to the 61, our least popular song. Now, I’m not going to claim that it’s a great song or anything, but I really thought more people would like it. This may be one of those cases where I think a song is much, much better than [...]
[ January 31, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Since that last post was kind of long, it might have bumped Pennystripe’s announcement a bit too far down.
Here she is, preparing for another acting role. She’s always acting in something or other. Anything to get out of band practice, I guess.
Golux13 just informed me that Roboctopus is live on eMusic.
Since, as far as I know, he’s the only person reading this blog who might be interested in this news, I may as well take this opportunity to discuss some of the differences between iTunes and eMusic for independent artists looking to release their [...]
If you’re interested in theater and want to see what i’m working on right now, go here
4.48 Psychosis opens next week.
Today, Monkey turns something between 28 and 44. To celebrate, here’s a text message I received from him last weekend:
Monkey has a cold. monkey no come to practice. bad monkey!
Of course, the weekend before that, we had determined that we would be canceling practice for the next two weeks.
Here’s to covering your bases!
[ February 7, 2008; 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm. ] Finally, our dreams have come true. We’re playing at Ground Kontrol on February 7. I guess I should clarify: the rest of the band will be downstairs on stage making music, while I’m upstairs playing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Pinball. Last time I was there (for Djerzi’s birthday), I [...]
[ February 17, 2008; 9:00 pm; ] Show starts at 9pm, and we go on first, followed immediately by:
The Hot Toddies, a girl band whose members have to field marriage proposals from fanboys on their MySpace page;
Blue Skies for Black Hearts, who must come from money since they can afford the royalty payments to the guy who came up with the “two [...]
Did anyone see that this dude is playing at Pix? He’s a little like a train wreck for me. I can’t look away but I also can’t believe it.
It’s time once again for the PDX Pop Now! compilation. Being a Portland band and all, we should probably submit a song. And it should probably be a fancy-pants studio recording from Roboctopus.
Since we like to pretend that your voice matters, dear fans, we’ll let you vote on this. And [...]
No embedding, but this is the song I was talking about a while ago, Djerzi.
My god it’s awesome.
Ever since I gave Bubba a copy of “Satan’s Sodomy Baby” for his birthday, I’ve been a fan of The Goon. That issue wasn’t quite as repellently offensive as I’d been led to believe, but it was enough to get me interested… and I just gave Djerzi a copy of volume 1 for Christmas. [...]
1. Be on time for shit. I know. My being late gets old. It is kind of fun, and I sometimes think it makes the band realize that I am more than just an auxiliary band member. Not that I worry about these things.
2. Stop breaking guitar strings on stage. I’m not sure [...]
So this year we became The Greatest Band That Ever Was. Let’s review the highlights, shall we?
1. The Band Photo. This is, by far, the greatest band photo ever taken.
2. A Studio Album. Holy shit, we actually went into a studio and recorded an album! And then we tried to make [...]
Hey, look! We have a new simple Myspace Page with our new “bombastic song” that i think everyone will enjoy. Phew. I like it and i hope you do too. Hooray! And on our Mercury Band Page True Love Turtles and Felt Has Feelings have joined the ranks!
In other news, I specially request that we [...]
Thanks to the tireless efforts of new fan Golux13 and cynical sock puppet Infinite Monkey, we’re well on our way to Level 2 on The Sixty-One. Twelve more points, baby!1
Which means we’ll get to post a BRAND NEW SONG on the site! And since I have approximately three millimeters of critical distance from all [...]
Ah, the Republican field and their corresponding Buffy villains.
A couple of days ago, Eloise said, “Now that we’ve got a real video up on our YouTube page, can we please take down those embarrassing Barnstock videos?”
Done. I’m leaving “Shark Attacks!” up, since it had the most hits, and since The Worst Show We’ve Ever Played demands to be publicly documented.
The wait is finally over, as is this series, which in my defense I thought would be much, much more interesting. Turns out writing about the creative process isn’t all that much fun, so tough nuggets.1
But now it’s time for you, our audience, to determine how close we got to providing a product [...]
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