Summer Fun // Got A Computer

I got a computer! that means I am a promoter again! or something to that effect. the joys of blogging return to my life. All shit is going good, thanks for asking. I just watched the Daft Punk Movie Interstella 5555. It was awesome. I got a preview of the new John Wesley Coleman album -- "sounds like the Boss on shrooms." No lie there. I like the one with the super tremolo. Pretty heady stuff!

My bands have been playing shows! We have played 3 shows, all house shows, and also Ive had a couple house shows this summer that my band didn't play. Its fun. I was working a lot of hours to save up money, and now I did that so I work 25 hrs a week and have time to see my friends and stuff. and look at art on the internet. and go to peoples shows. and go tubin etc etc. it feels kinda weird not planning for a tour per se. We were planning a Spiked Punch tour for October, but I think that is gonna get pushed back, which is kinda cool cause its like free months not being broke. A lot of circular musician logic thought went into the outcome, but it was cool cause we were like "Were gonna go on tour in October!" and *ppoof* all the sudden the band is back together and better than ever and we are having a great time. We've done 3 house shows, all 3 shows with both Spiked Punch and Reverse X Rays playing. Shane and Joey varyingly go out of town coming up, but Spiked Punch has shows Im really excited about coming up in early September...3 in Austin, 1 in San Antonio.

Speaking of time to do shit, I had an epic weekend 2 weekends ago, playing 4 sets in 3 different bands in 2 days, including the Pau Wau boat party which was sick. The last of the 4 shows was at beerland, a show we picked up with this dude Sam Vinitari from Chicago. Shit I cant remember how his last name was but his songs were cool and we chilled out afterwards. It was fun already going on so much energy off the weekend to play that beerland show, it felt like piece-of-cake. I think the beerland show we do is the last of this next set of 4 coming up, all the shows are like Sept 3rd thru 10th.

We are doing one with Names Divine from Chicago, venue/bill tba. Looking forward to hearing their sound this time, the stuff on their bandcamp is from a couple years ago, Ill bet there is some secret new shit that's awesome.

We are doing two shows (Beerland-Austin / VHS 1137 - San Antonio) with the band Advaeta from NYC. They are hard rocking chicks. I hate saying what music sounds like ... Vice said they sound like Sleep, but while I hear it in the guitar tone its at a different speed for sure from what I think of when I think of Sleep. they just sound so good I feel like its probably original, but I wish I knew a better comparison band. I think you can just say Sleep to say "check it out its good".

Also there will be a house show for Freak Heat Waves returning from Victoria, BC, Canada, this time with Viet Cong from Calgary in tow who are 2 dudes from the band Women and their project which I have been assured is sick (I think it might be a 4 piece). I wonder if one of the dudes is the guy from Amarillo. I wanna ask him if that's going cowtown to cowtown.

Spiked Punch can play 7 new songs and we are mixing in a couple old ones into the set currently, Nobodys Foolin Nobody and Certain Shane of Purple. there are 5 more new ones that we are working on but we are practicing at the speed of life as Stevie Wonder would say. Some of it gets kinda technical but I think we are gonna pull it off, I am excited to be at the point where its time to do a recording and to be working with a full length amount of material.

some appetite-whetting song titles for the next record are:
In That Old Midnight Hour
Too Much Too Quick
Nightripper
Dr Bronners
Nul, Nil, & Void
Sinbad
Buddy Cop Movie
Her Spirit Flies Without a Face
Pissed Off From Work (In a Good Way)
Smokin' on a Spliff of Exotic Time
The Number One Guy You Call
Red Light, Green Light

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a long SUNSET

SUNSET played Local Live last night. My bold prediction for the future is that between his golden locks and pedal steels Bill is going to garner himself some "Sea Changes" era Beck comparisons sooner rather than later. My favorite one by theirs is the one that goes "My heart before my brain/I fight like Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens must have fought before." Im not sure it necessarily makes any sense, but when you got 5 guys playing acoustic guitar there seems to be some sort of specific images conjured, although I couldn't tell you exactly what outside of 5 guys playing acoustic guitar. One of the guitarists looked like Sting, which was awesome. They played 15 minutes over so we took licence to have a little fun with delay in the production booth at the end and it got really trippy. After setup (which was long but fun...last week White Denim brought one mic and insisted on only using that one, this week we used every mic we had, including one from the DJ booth) we went over to Hold in the Wall and I got the strangest Bloody Mary of my life. That girl did not know what she was doing ("Ive never had a Bloody Mary before, but I know how to make em!" No...no you dont...) Oguz has spread his Jagermeister disease over to the rest of the production crew. We hung out with a guy named Praveen who was shooting camera for the band and talked about the Battles record among others. Oguz has it but hasnt listened to it yet. He just got back from Turkey this week and is still jet lagged. He is going to love it in all its mathy glory. Those math doctoral students...

Were having a show 7-7-07. It was originally going to be called the Whose Who and Que since it was the 4th of July Saturday and we were going to BBQ, but once we realized it was 7-7-07 we had to change the name. I think its going to be called Lucky 7s or something. Danns booking the DJs, so far on the band end it looks like SUNSET will be playing as well as J Chu, The Satin Hooks (Houston) and Im working on an Effete/Ethan Master of the Hawaiian Ukulele hybrid set that should be fun as well.

Also the new White Stripes record comes out tomorrow!

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