One of my favorite bands, My Chemical Romance, will be featured on the January 2010 cover of Alternative Press magazine. Each member of the group will have their own cover with subscribers to the magazine recieving the limited edition cover with all 5 members (pictured above). Their article will feature the members talking about their upcoming fourth album.

The issue will feature AP’s most anticipated albums for 2010 which includes recordings from 3OH!3, The Academy Is…, Bring Me The Horizon, The Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, The Young Veins and many more.

Expect to see a few new posters soon as I have been very busy. I had the pleasure of doing one of my dream gigs recently for The Get Up Kids. I also had the opportunity to catch them live at the show that I produced the poster for.

The new poster is 18×24 printed on 100lb white Cougar paper and is limited to only 100 prints with 50 available to the public. I also have a set of art prints available with the same image that is limited to only 50 prints with only 30 available to the public.

These will both be available to purchase on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at midnight (Tuesday night) on Nakatomi along with two other prints for a total release of a set of four new posters. Stay tuned for that…anyways, back to the matter at hand:

this is just a short compounded version of what i played at nexus6 last month. at least ryan and his friend had a good time.

chune – turd

the get up kids – woodson

jejune – regrets are unanswered dreams

tristeza – smoke through glass

the gloria record – grace the snow is here

brandtson – summer in st. claire

boys life – all of the negatives

feel the sadness and remember the “good times” that made you cry and loathe living.

-bv-

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My friend Laura Leebove makes things happen. Like getting to the very front of a sold out Get Up Kids show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Just like that.

This was definitely a rock show, and it made me realize I hadn’t been to a rock show in ages. Sure, people were moving a bit at Phoenix and Passion Pit, but at the Get Up Kids show, people were CRAZY!

Laura and I had to fight for our lives. Arms up, head down. Haha. We tried to avoid the circle pit and since we were so close to the front, we only really kept getting pushed further to the front. Then a bunch of big guys were crowd surfing and landing on people’s heads (ours). Goes with the territory, I guess.

I loved the Get Up Kids in high school, a lot of their songs make me think of some very great times, so it was awesome to finally see them – at their first Brooklyn show, no less. Next time I may want to stand more in the back if I don’t want bruises the day after but for a night of nostalgia and singing my little heart out, it really wasn’t so bad.

Ok, I will write my Halloween update before I start working on this project that I am supposed to be working on…And then, no more internet for the entire night!!!

Ok, my Halloween basically started on Tuesday, when I went to the annual Dupont Circle High Heels Race, where I witnessed tons of guys dressed up in drag (some actual drag queens, some just getting in the spirit) and race down 17th street in pumps. It was raining, and so I was very impressed that not more of them fell.

I couldn’t see very well, but it was very exciting. If you go to about 3:00 into that video, you can see the race.

The rest of the week was pretty normal. Saturday, I woke up and drove down to Hagerstown, where I met up with Dustin. We dressed up as Cookie Monster (me) and The Count (D-Money) from Sesame Street. We went to Chloe’s house for a party. There was soooo much delicious food and fun people! Dustin and I handed out candy, and then a few of us went trick-or-treating. Some of the costumes at the party were…Cookie Monster, The Count, Venkman from Ghostbusters, Steven Tyler, a groupy, a doctor, Babs and Bugs Bunny, a Jamaican pumpkin, a nerd, a vampiress, an airplane hanger, and a hippie. We had a bobbing for apples contest that I successfully won.It has always been one of my favorite activities. Then, we played this Donut game, where the donuts are hanging from the ceiling, and people have to race to see who can eat it the fastest. I didn’t play because I was completely stuffed on other food, and I didn’t want to eat a donut. We then had a small dance party in the basement, followed by a very long game of Cranium, where Dustin and I won by default because we all got bored and quit the game.

Dustin and I then went to the sorely disappointing Minden party, where everyone was already so drunk that it was gross. We didn’t even really see that many great costumes. There was a good Wonder Woman, and the Ninja Turtles were OK…but in all honesty, the party made me realize that I am so happy to be out of that lifestyle. It’s one thing when you’re the one in it, but then looking at it from the outside…it’s disgusting. I had SOOO much more fun at the party with no mind-changing substances, then at the one where there was a lot of drinking, and I think there was this dude passed out in the corner from doing drugs. IDK. Dustin and I left after about 10 minutes.

And that was Halloween! Yesterday, Dustin and I went to the Hagerstown park, where he took lots of pictures and we played on the swingset and went to the Washington County Art Museum. We rented Scream, watched it, and then I drove home.

Oooh! And tomorrow is The Get Up Kids show! I am very excited!

Let me attempt to paint you a picture.  Name your favorite band of all-time.  This doesn’t have to necessarily be the band you think has the most talent, nor does it have to be the most popular band or the coolest band.  Just your FAVORITE band… the one that will always remain in your heart and soul and the one you can recall countless memories of what you were doing while listening to their songs.  Okay, got it?

Now name your favorite album of all-time.  The one album that has all killer and no filler.  The one album you can recite every single word of every single track.  The album that holds more meaning to you than any other collection of songs.

In my case, The Get Up Kids is my favorite band, and “Something to Write Home About” is my favorite album.  So try to understand the ecstasy I was in when they performed the entire album of “Something to Write Home About” from start to finish with minimum breaks.  I was in heaven.  There’s no other way to describe the state of bliss I experienced.

Anyway, the concert was held on Halloween, so everyone was dressed up in costume including the bands.  When The Get Up Kids came out they rocked the whole Wizard of Oz theme.  Lead singer Matt Pryor was the Scarecrow, Jim Suptic was the Tin Man, Rob Pope was Dorothy, James Dewees was the Lion, and I’m not actually sure what Ryan Pope was.

I had a pretty funny interaction with my friends at the show, because prior to leaving we looked at the setlist The Get Up Kids have been playing on their reunion tour and we were totally stoked at all the amazing songs they were playing.  But when they took the stage and played the first three songs off of “Something to Write Home About” we turned to each other and wondered if they were actually playing the album in its entirety.  And then Matt Pryor said something on the lines of “There’s nothing like playing a whole album on Halloween.”  Our eyes widened and our jaws dropped to the ground.  And the rest was history.

The best part about The Get Up Kids playing the entire album was hearing them perform certain songs on the album that I’ve never seen they play before.  One notable song (and arguably my favorite off of the album) was “Long Goodnight.”  Pryor actually admitted that they probably only played this song live about 5 times in their entire career.  But also hearing gems they usually don’t play like “The Company Dime”, “My Apology”, and “Close to Home” was amazing as well.

After completing the album, The Kids left the stage briefly and returned with as Pryor put it, “Part Two” of the set.  With “Something to Write Home About” finished, they went on to play hits off the rest of their albums.  Half of these songs included old tracks such as “Don’t Hate Me”, “Coming Clean”, and “Mass Pike.”  They even played a new song titled “Keith Case.”  Their finale was the incredibly powerful “Walking on a Wire.”

To recap, my favorite band performed my favorite album in its entirety.  Needless to say, this was and always will be my favorite concert performance.  I sure hope The Get Up Kids stay together, record more albums, and tour a lot more.

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The Set List:

Something to Write Home About:

Holiday
Action and Action
Valentine
Red Letter Day
Out of Reach
Ten Minutes
The Company Dime
My Apology
I’m a Loner Dottie, a Rebel
Long Goodnight
Close to Home
I’ll Catch You

(intermission)

Man of Conviction
The One You Want
Coming Clean
Off the Wagon
No Love
Campfire Kansas
Keith Case
Mass Pike
Don’t Hate Me
Walking on a Wire

On their first full American tour since reuniting earlier in the year, The Get Up Kids approached New York City with a three-night stand across Manhattan and Brooklyn. On the heels of a special Halloween show that found the band performing all of Something to Write Home About, the Kansas City five-piece took aim at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

At home in Brooklyn in front of friends and family, Kevin Devine opened with a solo performance of “Brooklyn Boy” at before being joined by The Goddamn Band for the rest of the set. A few older cuts were tossed into the mix (“Flatline Blur” and “Noose Dressed Like a Necklace” from 2003’s Make the Clocks Move); the set was fairly well spread across his discography.

Kevin Devine

Songs from Brother’s Blood were strong, including the enormous title track and the pointed single, “Another Bag of Bones”. Midway through “Carnival” Devine experienced guitar troubles, possibly reducing the forty-minute set from nine to eight songs as the crew struggled to get a working guitar and amplifier on stage. Nonetheless, Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band sounded as strong as ever and adequately warmed the crowd for the feature act. The full set:

Brooklyn Boy
Flatline Blur
Go Haunt Someone Else
Yr Husband
Carnival
Another Bag of Bones
Noose Dressed Like a Necklace
Brother’s Blood

The Get Up Kids sounded great, reaching across their entire discography from 1997’s Four Minute Mile to their 2004 farewell, Guilt Show. Older songs like “Coming Clean” and “Mass Pike” offered a glimpse into what set The Get Up Kids apart from their peers in their earliest days as a band; 1999 cuts like “Holiday” and “Out of Reach” hinted at the band’s more mature sound that would come full circle with 2002’s On a Wire.

The Get Up Kids

As highlighted on songs such as “Overdue”, Matt Pryor delivered a strong vocal performance throughout the night. The Cure’s “Close to Me” received quality treatment as part of an encore that even found Pryor stepping up to sing “Ten Minutes” for the first time ever, as the standard singer for the song, guitarist Jim Suptic, was unable to sing due to illness. Keyboardist James Dewees helped fill in on backing vocals where necessary, as well, injecting his more hardcore vocal approach into the mix.

By night’s end, it was hard to want more from The Get Up Kids (except maybe the Suptic-sung “Campfire Kansas”, one of their strongest songs). Held together by the Pope brothers rhythm section–bassist Rob and drummer Ryan–the band was incredibly tight and extremely energetic for more than hour. The band plans to record in 2010; if the night’s performance is any indication, the upcoming songs should sound phenomenal.

All photographs by the extremely talented Kenami.

inTuneMusic is very interested in any submissions/corrections from this event including photographs, setlists, and audio/video. Please contact us, you will receive complete credit for any submission.

Tomorow is Halloween, and yes, I’m doing the whole song and dance of dressing up. The Grandma Coat is coming out and probably some obnoxious amount of pearls and cocktail rings. Meghan and I will be heading into the City for Halloween festivities. Normally, I would avoid New York on Halloween but there is a very special event that neither of us could deny: The Get Up Kids Reunion Tour. I never stopped listening to them (ok, maybe The Guilt Show, not so much) and when I didn’t get a chance to see them on their farewell tour, I wrote it off as having to say good-bye to one of my favorite bands. But as another indicator of old age (late 20s is old age), they are reuniting. This is the band that defined so much for me and set as the soundtrack to so many things- simpler times if you must. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane:

2000ish: I’m pretty sure I had a license and I was driving towards Watsessing back in Bloomfield to drop off some friends. One of these friends was Tishon. Tishon is one of the coolest cats I have had the pleasure of knowing in me life. I don’t exactly remember how we met, obviously it was in high school, but anyway, we were in my car with another friend and he takes out of his backpage this album.

T: “Yo, have you heard of the Get Up Kids?”

Me: “Nah, who are they?”

T: “This awesome band. This album is so good. You need to listen to it. “

Me: “Allright.”

So, this kids was before the time of fancy cd-burners and  Something To Write Home About came to me via a mixed tape. My car (God bless you Dexter, may you RIP) only had a tape deck anyway so it was cool. And let me tell you- I listened to that sucker everytime I was in the car. Then I finally got around to burning it. Then a year or so later I got around to actually buying it. My music life was so oddly varied: I was really into Sugar Ray (I’m sorry, RPM and Mean Machine? those were awesome songs. Cmon.) but I did enjoy the Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer. So GUK was just one step further into the depths of Indie, Emo, etc.

PS: You can visit Tishon here. Learn of his awesomeness.

2001ish: Late bloomer here, I fell into my first relationship at the culmination of senior year. Jason. He was into me because:

1. My lack of smiling (really.)
2. My sharp wit.
3. My ‘cool’ taste in music.

OK, so my music taste wasn’t established but #3 rested on the simple fact that I listened to a band like the Get Up Kids. After high school, I wanted to get out NJ for a while, so I decided to go school in Providence, RI. It became a Long Distance Relationship and as most high school couples take the leap to college couple, we needed to mark our territories and celebrate every single tradition.

A quick thing that got established by Jay was a song. This song was Mass Pike. You know, because I lived in Rhode Island…and that was the gateway to New England. You do not take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Providence from New Jersey, but because he associated it with us it was The Best Song Ever. The dinky, almost child-like intro would always bring a smile to my face. Jay would listen to it and then tell me about it when we had a scheduled camera chat (web cams were kind of a big deal back then) or on the phone (I ran up a stupid phone bill the first month in Providence. let’s not discuss it). He was so psyched when he downloaded it illegally from somewhere. he would play it over the phone too. It became a staple in mixed CD’s he would make for me.

We broke up at the end of Freshman year. (We’re totally cool now).

2002ish: Ok, actually in between the awesome phone convos and blowing kisses over a Logitech web cam, there was some other business going on to. Looking back at it, it was almost natural to happen- being miles away from your first ‘love’ and meeting new people, that crushes develop on boys who are not your boyfriend! My relationship with Jay was somewhat deteriorating around March of 02, obviously this is more evident to us now- I had kind of established a newer identity in Providence- punk, emo, or hardcore shows, track jacket wearing, scenester night at Club Hell. I had met friends who exposed me to these cool new things, that I could dig because of my pedigree of Get Up Kids and Vagrant records show and Battle of the Bands at Birchwood Nightclub back at home.

But anyway, around that time I was hanging with my usual posse in Providence; mainly Nisha and Corianne. Then all of sudden, I started hanging out with this other dude. I don’t remember when, how he came around. Patrick. He just appeared out of nowhere, hanging out with Nisha then all of sudden hanging out with me. I remember many a night sitting in the camp chairs in his room, one floor up watching the late show by ourselves and him being with us when we were trying to find a bats+mice/Bradford Ave show deep into the Eastside.

Patrick was a NJ native, chubby in the hot kind of way, didn’t talk too much, lived on the sixth floor of McNulty Hall but we were friends. My 19th birthday was marred though when Nisha got mad that I was hanging out with Patrick and he said he wouldn’t go to Club Hell and that kind of bummed me out. I totally had a crush on him.

Anyway, the GUK connection here is that he burned me On the Wire because I loved The Get Up Kids, and couldn’t figure out how to illegally download music onto my computer. We both agreed it was ‘Ok’ but I kind of secretly cherished it because he had given it to me (along with Second Stage Turbine Blade by Coheed and Cambria)- it absolutely rules when crushes give you gifts.At the end of the year I hated JWU and was moving back to go to Rutgers/NJ and we kept in touch on and off and I saw him once when I visited Nisha and Corianne.

2006ish: I was on the verge of graduating college, and I was a frightful mess most of my senior year. I probably didn’t acknowledge it and either hung out with my then boyfriend (no GUK connections there- I think I tried getting him to listen to it and he wasn’t having it), worked, studied, or drank. I had a good life in New Brunswick with my friends.

Proceed to my 23rd birthday. Rutgersfest, crazy debaucherous festival of music and booze was taking place the Friday before my birthday. Unfortunately, I was burdened with finishing my entire college education in the time span of 2 days- 2 twenty page papers and 2 exams and lets throw in a presentation for good measure. I didn’t have the nice pad of finals study time like most other people, so I spent most of Rutgersfest in the computer lab, until I had enough and needed to drink.

I got a surprising text from Patrick. Let me explain- he had moved back to NJ after college and would try to hang out in New Brunswick with  me, but I always had something going on. Anyway, this night it happened to be the right timing  and we ended meeting up and hanging out with other friends here and there that crazy night.

He kissed me that night. I had a boyfriend. He said he was in love with me. I said he drank too much beer.Etc, etc.  I broke up with my boyfriend, started hanging out with him a lot, graduated college, went on dates with him (like actual dates) and had amazing fun the entire month of May.

Did things work out between us? No. I went to the Philippines for a month and came back to flakiness, so that was that. I still though, can’t help but think of him when I listen to this album. Overdue pretty much sums it up. I went out on a limb for him, but instead I was 23. But if anything, it got me out of a stale relationship with my ex boyfriend, boosted my confidence, and after all the crying and being bummed out- I got my groove back and a series of events led me to my current SO, who I can safely say, is the love of my life.

2004ish: I was back at home, enrolled at Rutgers,  super depressed for a lot of reasons. This GUK exerpt of life will be short and sweet. Four-Minute Mile is probably the GUK album I associate with some really rad friends.

It’s funny, but it’s not explicit because I don’t remember the connect as clearly as the others. I just remember listening to this album with a variety of people. I remember asking Megha’s super cute neighbor who was into super awesome music if he wanted to go to Eighteen Visions (yeah, bitches I was so hardcore. yeah right, I was going because my RI friends were in town for it) and he totally had this album. Some guy that Megha made out with in her dorm gave her his copy of it, and I ‘m pretty sure this is how it came into my ownership. Emily listened to a lot of awesome music and our friendship was based on mutual intimidation (it’s related to the Eighteen Visions concert) and I remember other than the Smiths, I was totally freaking out because she had this album.

God, I love the Get Up Kids and I am sooo psyched for tomorrow’s show. The last thing I will mention is the amazing music video idea I’ve had for Action & Action since forever. I’m pretty sure I drew out storyboards. It came after I saw Empire Records and That Thing You Do! and somehow the idea formed.

Basically, The Get Up Kids are this awesome early 60ish rock and roll garage band that gets signed (insert the Tom Hank figure from TTYD here) to play like the number 1 tv show in the country. They blow up and take the country by storm: there are a lot of montages of girls screaming, they are wearing matching suits, vintage microphones- it’s like the Beatles but it’s the Get Up Kids.  BUT THEN! Matt Pryor is getting too much attention and this is causing mad internal conflict and they break up. Flash to cover of Life magazine with the news.

Now, if you’re familiar with the song, the break up happens about 2:40 minutes into the song. You flash to the news etc, then at 2:50ish you see a solo drumstick beating out that riff or whatever you call it- then slowly the rest of the band comes into focus and omg…they are back together again. The rest of the video is the Get Up Kids playing their come back tour and it’s awesome because it’s in color- a big deal in the 60s, right?

The Get Up Kids, Meghan, and I (and probably some people we might not want to see because of our past muahaha) will be at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza, on Halloween, with sassy cat masks. Get at us!

Tessa and I are going to see The Get Up Kids tomorrow and rock out and have lots of candy and in general, have an awesome Halloween.  I didn’t think it could possibly get better than last year when we saw Bruce “aka Jesus” Campbell live as he introduced My Name Is Bruce at a screening, but I think this will top that.

On the work end, progress is slow but steady on The Underground, I think Mike Howell’s gonna have some promo art for me to show you in the near future.  I just submitted my contribution to another project a week or so ago that I’m excited about, and Tess and I want to start something in the near future together that’s also starting to come together nicely.

Hope everyone else is having a safe and awesome Samhain!

My pictures of The Get Up Kids live in Bologna on ArtEmpire Magazine (Germany). On the cover too!!!

My GUK pic on the cover!

Click here to get the PDF version of this issue

Bien…tal vez este disco no es parte del ondímetro, pero me rehuso a que pase inadvertido, al ser probablemente uno de los discos más influyentes de mi vida. El 21 de septiembre de 1999, exactamente hace 10 años, un mes y un día, The Get Up Kids pusieron a la venta uno de los mejores discos la historia en su género, “Something To Write Home About”. Un disco totalmente emocional, emo, sí, pero ésto era cuando el emo aún era emo y no una moda, y mucho menos un tipo de vida que en nuestros días es criticado e insultado. Something To Write Home About no solamente es la prueba de una maravilla de disco, sino que demuestra que el grupo originario de Kansas City, Missouri, tenía canciones frescas, directas y fáciles de digerir. Además es un esquema musical con muchísima energía. Las letras hablan sobre el despecho, pero aun así, podemos encontrar la canción perfecta para cada día de la semana y más. Es imposible no relacionar una etapa de nuestra vida con estas 12 canciones. The Get up Kids, diez años después, siguen haciendo lo más dificil: mantenerse vigentes. En esta nueva edición, además del disco original, nos regalan un DVD con un concierto en vivo en donde tocaron el álbum completo el pasado 13 de marzo, además hay imágenes de archivo inéditas y una tarjeta para obtener un demo con 7 maravillosas canciones.

1. Forgive and Forget (Demo)
2. Red Letter Day (Demo)
3. Close to Home (Demo)
4. VFW (Demo)
5. My Apology (Demo)
6. Holiday (Demo)
7. Valentine (Demo)

DOWNLOAD

If Worcester weren’t so far away, I’d be seeing The Get Up Kids at The Palladium next week. Unfortunately, my car just can’t make that trip, so I’m missing out. All’s not lost though, as the guys stopped by Daytrotter to record some songs. There’s a cover of Vitreous Humor’s “Sharin’ Stone,” Something To Write Home About’s “I’m A Loner Dottie, A Rebel” and On A Wire’s “Overdue.” There’s also a new song, “Your Petty Pretty Things” – one of nine new songs the band recorded this summer after getting back together. Listen to it below. And go here to download the whole set.

lawrence, kansas’ newly reunited kings of emo, the get up kids, dropped by the wonderful daytrotter studios to track a new song (!), a vitreous humor cover, and some of their classic material from their discography. most exciting is the talk of the 9 songs that the band recorded for their new release, their one song “keith case” i’ve already heard live in san antonio.

make sure to stay posted for a show review by me after the get up kids swing by the house of blues here in houston next month.

download:

- sunbear

Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.
Compra la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.

Se sei un fan della prima ora dei Get Up Kids, li segui più o meno dagli inizi e hai tutti i loro dischi in tutti i formati possibili, devi comprare la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.

Se invece i Get Up Kids per qualsiasi ragione non li hai mai tanto cagati (ma che vita triste hai avuto?), è giunto il momento di rimediare: devi comprare la ristampa per il decimo anniversario di “Something To Write Home About”.

Eccone una copia (grazie mille W.!) ancora incelofanata. Chissà per quanto tempo ancora resterà così, intonsa…

Word, I’ve got a shitload of cds I no longer listen to/for sale! Roughly £3 each

The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
The Mars Volta – Deloused In The Comatorium
Andrew WK – I Get Wet
From Autumn To Ashes – Too Bad You’re Beautiful
Sonic Boom Six – Sounds To Consume
Volcano, I’m Still Excited – s/ted
Something Corporate – North
Ultimate Fakebook – Open Up And Say Awesome
Blur – Parklife
Rufio – Perhaps, I Suppose
Elliott Smith – S/ted
Punk Goes Acoustic
Beth Orton – Central Reservation
The Verve – This Is Music: The Singles 92-98
Rufio – 1985
The Beatles – Anthology
Thursday – War All The Time
Graham Coxon – Happiness In Magazines
Smoosh – She Like Electric
Nathan Fake – Drowning In A Sea Of Love
Go Simpsonic With The Simpsons
The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
Owen – I Do Perceive
The All New Adventures Of Us – Primary Colours EP
Help She Can’t Swim – Fashionista Super Dance Troupe
Mcfly – Room On The Third Floor
Jerry Built – Upstarts
The Movelife – Forty Hour Train Back To Penn
Jimmy Eat World – The Singles
Route 215 & Captain Everything – Make The Love Connection
Not Katies – Repeat Repeat
!!! – Louden up Now
The Get Up Kids – Eudora HELD
MC Lars – The Laptop EP
Denver Harbor – Scenic
At The Drive In – Relationship Of Command
Kanye West – Late Orchestration
Over It – Timing Is Everything
Coldplay – Parachutes
Willy Mason – Where The Humans Eat
My Favourite Co-Pilot – When All Your Hopes Fall
Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Knockout – Driven To Distraction
Blur – Think Tank
Punktastic Unscene 1
Belle & Sebastian – Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
Route 215 – Steal Your Soul With Rock And Roll
The Smiths Songs By – How Soon Is Now
Jack’s Mannequin – Everything In Transit HELD
Don Ramos Players – S/ted
The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site HELD
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Neptunes – Present Clones
No Coply – With Windmills Turning Wrong Directions
Not Katies – At Every Turn
Ben Folds Five – S/ted
Clayhill – Small Circle
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Joy Division – Substance
Less Than Jake – Hello Rockview/Losing Streak
Green Day – International Superhits
My Awesome Compilation – The View Is Amazing
The Coral – Invisible Invasion
Deftones – S/ted
Elvis Presley – Elvis 30 #1 Hits
Clayhill – Acoustic/Tour EP
The Streets – Original Pirate Material
The Get Up Kids – Red Letter Day
Willy Mason – Hard Hand To Hold EP
The Snake The Cross The Crown – Mander Salis
My Awesome Compilation – Actions
Andy, Glenn And Ritch – Escape From The Bastille
Rufio – EP
Slick Shoes & Cooter – Split
Shortcut To Newark – Heads In Hands : Hearts In Half
Statistics – Leave Your Name
Dugong – Quick To The City
Second To The Last – On The Bear Valley Trail
My Awesome Compilation – Every Souvenir Has A Story
Sigur Ros – Takk
Jolly Not So – To Fear The Past, To Losing The Present, To Have No Future
Something Corporate – Leaving Through The Window
Travis – The Man Who
Tokyo Adventures – The Hunter’s Handbook
Over It – Silverstrand
Statistics – S/ted
Ultimate Fakebook – Before We Spark
Vanilla Sky – Waiting For Something
The Vandals – Look What I Almost Stepped In
The Maple State – At Least Until We’ve Settled In
Tomorrow Never Came – Face In A Photograph
Anti Folk Volume 1
The City On Film – In Formal Introduction
Minus The Bear – Bands Like It When You Yell YAR At Them
Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic
The Jesus Years – Are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
The Mountain Goats – Palmcorder Yajna
Kevin Devine – Make The Clocks Move
The WWF Superstars – Slam Jam
Thursday – Five Stories Falling
The Bombjacks – Batteries Not Included
Paramore – Riot!
The Futureheads – s/ted (cd/dvd)
The City On Film – I’d Rather Be Wine Drunk
The Get Up Kids – Woodson EP HELD
Chaser – Best Seat In The House
Fenix TX – Lechuza
Four Tet – Rounds
The Bombjacks – Midnight Picture Show
The Miracle Of 86 – s/ted HELD
Defiance Ohio – The Fear, The Fear, The Fear
Something Corporate – FIllmore Theatre (£30/OFFERS)

DVDS

Belle And Sebastian – Fans Only (£8)
South Park – Season 6 (£10) HELD
Planet Earth (£10)
Columbo – The Complete First Season (£5)
Mad Men Series One (£10)

Also – IPOD

Apple iPod classic 80GB black (£90/OFFERS)

Leave me a comment or email me at splashturntwist@gmail.com

Obviously open to offers..

Ta!

Seriously, this is one of the scariest things I’ve ever dealt with and faced.  That blank page and blinking cursor, waiting for that first word to end up there…*shivers*…

“The horror…THE HORROR!”

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It’s October, I’m starting research on one or two new projects, just little stuff that’s in MS Notepad or in my Moleskine notebooks.

Also, I’m watching a lot of horror movies as I count down to my Halloween (the better half and I are going to see The Get Up Kids in concert) and start editing draft number whatever of my Master’s thesis (which I have been working on forever).

More Sharpie sketches, random news on The Underground, calls for artists, and all that jazz probably next week.  I’m still settling into the groove of this newer site, but I think I’ll probably be posting stuff about 3 times a week give or take.  Or whenever I feel like, we’ll see.  For now, I’m just getting through the day so I can go home and watch Community and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia on TV with my girlfriend.

The Get Up Kids at the Avalon on September 24, 2009.

This show was more sentimental than their reunion five or six years ago. It really was a personal experience, sharing the memories of my adolescence with a room full of strangers, who I like to imagine were also being carried away by the same collective swell of nostalgia, singing all the words to the same songs that chronicled our youth.

Then all it takes is some overgrown drunken douche-bro fan to deck you hard in the face, and we’re not fifteen anymore.

That’s when you realize all the frontmen are wearing wedding bands, Bazan has gone God-sick again, and you have someone else’s blood in your hair.

It’s official.
Growing up kind of sucks.

Conrad Noir sent me this link, told me it was “the most ridiculously happiest and cheesy thing I have ever seen.”

Global warming, increased sea levels, and “ghost states.”

Brain scan reveals what you’ve seen?

“Hitler’s skull” actually belonged to a woman.

Sex inspires women to do chores.

Woman gets pregnant while already pregnant!

Dennis Hopper and James Dean’s cock.

Oktoberfest etiquette.

Cosmic rays hit a new high.

The Australian dust storm.

The 10 most puzzling ancient artifacts.

There are two kinds of light.

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”

God is our space pilot.

Capitalism, baby!

Can we survive an asteroid attack?

What we really need now is more pictures of Marilyn Monroe reading.

Music collabs are crazy out of control these days.

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

-Vladimir Nabokov

Heroes is crashing and burning, at least ratings-wise.

Earthquakes and invisibility cloaks.

The occult and hip hop.

Forgetting in a digital age.

The Get Up Kids apologize for having wrought emo, Fall Out Boy.

Sarah Silverman/Jimmy Kimmel sex tape? Eww.

Stop asking for permission.

recap central. this is going to take a muthafuckin while. son.

thursday, september 17th, 2009
was bumming around seattle and headed down to portland with peter for musicfest nw! son! had some fucking wristband problems because the willamette weekly office closed by the time we got to portland, and so i had to call a publicist chick and arrange some shit. i got a vip wristband, holla! which ruled! and peter got some really random wristband, and we couldn’t figure out what the fuck it was, but it worked! just in time for explosions in the sky! woulda been a bummer if it hadn’t worked out, cause that was the ONE band peter REALLY wanted to see. for me, it was okay, but i was tired of standing and couldn’t see anything, so i sat half the time. and kinda coulda fell asleep, don’t remember if i actually did or not. stayed that night at micah’s house! they had a fucking rad ass set up! we each had a bed to sleep on! not really sure what that was the case, but MOTHAFUCKIN RULE!!!

friday, september 18th, 2009
journal notes based on recap i wrote on my ipod touch:
- woke up
- cuddled furiously with cat: micah’s cat, harvey (named after two-face), is hellzaz cuuuute.
- drove to lloyd center: to hop on the max / leave peter’s car there.
- taco trucks downtown: actually, i had a veggie sammich.
- park to eat (metal detector guy): there was a guy scavenging the waterfront park for who knows what.
- walk to rei: picked up my backpack, yay!
- willamette (not williamette!) weekly office: yeah, i didn’t know it was actually willamette weekly, so i felt like an idiot mispronouncing it about a zillion times. went to the office and got an extra set of wristbands! kinda (details forthcoming).
- streetcar: took streetcar for free, wee!
- powell’s: stopped by and read sedaris for a while.
- post office: had to mail some shite. actually, thought i did but didn’t have the address, so i just bought envelopes instead for future mailings.
- furious quest for pencil sharpener: so i could put up these art printouts. no dice.
- get back to car! no keys!: a fucking nightmare! peter dropped his keys “in portland somewhere”! holy shit!

[[ for some reason the notes skip some shit here, which is just crazy!! here's what happened in between... ]]
had to give alex and jimena coffee, so they were near lloyd center and were going to meet up with us, but oh no, the car’s locked. luckily, they had triple a, so they got a tow paid for. unfortunately, fucking volkswagen has crazy security precautions and they couldn’t unlock the car because it would set off the alarm for life or something. mofos. waited around for peter’s friend to pick us up. crap, i forgot his name; that’s some bad form! wtf is his name… time to dig through emails… oh yes, sam. anyhoot, we planned to stay at sam’s for that night, but first we saw some shows. 9:00pm: say hi (eh); 10:00pm: monotonix (eh, same ol’ same ol’); 11:00pm: bad brains (they looked very sleepy); 11:00pm: mount eerie (good… well, their darker stuff was good, anyway); 12:00am: japanther (i thought they were okay before but today it was kinda meh); 12:00am: the long winters (we only caught the encore of their set but holy shit, it left me fucking speechless for a bit. i wish i had fucking recorded it. why didn’t i record it? i can’t even remember. something about conserving battery for portugal. the man the next day because i’d forgotten to bring my camera charger. but i REALLY should have recorded it.); 1:00am: two cow garage (the band was ridiculous, their fans were ridiculous, but it was all quite entertainingly ridiculous. just look at their name for the love of god!)… anyways, after the show, went home and crashed. back to notes.

- guy askin bout y asian girls don’t like brothas: as i was walking around downtown during show times, some black guy stopped me and asked if he could ask me a question about asian girls, and i said, “sure,” and he said, “why don’t asian girls ever talk to brothas?” and i said, “i’m talking to you,” and he said, “yeah, you are, but you’re probably on your way to meet your white or asian boyfriend,” and i’m like, “nope, i’m not on my way to meet anyone,” and he’s like, “you drink?” and i’m like, “not really,” and he’s like, “you smoke bud?” and i’m like, “sometimes,” and he’s like, “you want some?” and i’m like, “nahh,” and he just left without really saying anything. lol.

saturday, september 19th, 2009
- woke up
- read sedaris: his new book is one i’ve been whittling away at every time i go to powell’s bookstore. i’m more than halfway through it and will finish it within a couple more trips to powell’s, i guarantee it!!!! sam and girlfriend had it at their house, so i read it first thing in the morning.

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sleep setup was not a bed, but it was couch cushions laid on the floor with sheets and sleeping bag on top of it. it was actually pretty godamn comfy. could not complain. what’d we do today………….. bummed around for a long time. interviewed john gourley from portugal. the man around 4:00pm and there was some crazy guy who kinda interrupted our interview. but it was all in good fun and mr. gourley is a little too ridiculously talented and kind and good-looking. kind of. ridiculous. like, really. how can one human have so much! anyhoot. it was a swell interview. ate some thai food with peter after. mmmm. nom. dude, i think. i’m so confused about what happened when, haha. saw some music at nighttime. 8:00pm: dr. loomis (whatevers metal girl-fronted shit); 8:00pm: drug rug (it was okay); 9:00pm: crom (uh… can we say amazing? fucking hilariously filthy lead singer! — see peter’s review here); 9:40pm: portugal. the man (definitely a fucking good live act, although i think their old stuff is more adequate for uber showmanship than their new stuff — see video here and here); 10:45pm: the get up kids (i’d wanted to see a couple songs for nostalgia’s sake, but i saw part of one and it was MEHHH); 11:00pm: church (second time seeing them… pretty damn entertaining); 11:00pm: grouper (ambient music is okay to listen to but kinda boring to watch); 12:00am: om (fucking amazing — show review here). went home, instantly crashed. oh yeah, turns out peter’s car won’t be fixed until monday or something. so we have to figure out a way back home or something.

having some fun inside of the doug fir.

some fun outside of the doug fir.

sunday, september 20th, 2009
time to gigga-go!!!! had to get some car shit taken care of cause turns out like, third-party companies can make copies of peter’s key but volkswagen can’t. what kinda shit!! ridonkulous. so we go to eat thai food — which rules — and then do that shit. meet up with aaron, john, and gina briefly while they’re eating brunch at some totally hoppin spot cause i didn’t think there’d be a chance to meet up with them, but turns out they’re going to see the chapman swifts — as we are — that night. so i’ll see them later, but lunch was fun. hung out at sam’s for a while doing some work, and then just went to the chapman swallows at nighttime before leaving town. aaron, john, and gina met us up and we all had a fun old time watching crazy birds diving into a chimney. every year, during september, these birds live in a chimney for a while, and they just fly out of the chimney in the morning and into it at sundown. aweeeesooooommmmmmme!!!! SEE PIC! (did not capture the complete awesomeness.)

This Trees thing annoys me. Really I hate the way it’s being heralded as the savior of Deep Ellum, despite the fact that the bar is catering to the Firewater set by bringing in bands who are sans radio play, and were popular for like a second in about 1998 (Looking directly at you Powerman 5000, and really who would have thought a Ozzfest band would take their name from a Kinks album.). Seriously, there were 4 news stations there covering it’s opening, Vanilla Ice sold out the place, and various media outlets are have continually gone ape shit with coverage of the places exploits.

The fact of the matter is what John Is does with Parade of Flesh is a thousand times more influential to the “scene” down there then anything Trees has done so far. Seriously, the man tirelessly books a wide variety of quality acts in various clubs in the area, and doesn’t get a quarter of the press that shitty bar gets, and that’s a tragedy.

I’m taking this space to thank John for the hard work, Parade of Flesh continues to book some of the top shows in the area, and it’s much appreciated.

Big week around these parts folks, take a look at the shows, and start making plans to go out.

Monday

Speaking of Parade Of Flesh they giving you Sweedish metal with Burst, Zororoaster and Four Days to Burn at The Lounge On Elm St, not my type of thing, but if you love metal it’s the show for you.

Peelander-Z=Costumes, J-punk, and a righteous good show. The Birthday Suits and Stew! are opening for them at Rubber Gloves. How the hell is Giggle Party no on this bill?

Tuesday

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Secret Machines and Ume at the Granada Theater.

Fuck Metallica, and their shitty shitty music.

Wednesday

The Starfucker has had multiple lineup changes leading to Deelay Ceelay and Binary Sunrise at  Hailey’s

This months edition of BS Art Fusion features Geistheistler, Piccline and Kyoto. As always it’s at Rubber Gloves.

BlahblahblahThe Get Up Kids apologized for EMOblahblahblahthey are a little full of themselvesblahblahblah they’re at the Granada with Youth Group and Pretty and Nice .

Ben Folds is with the  Dallas Symphony Orchestra at Myerson Symphony Center, I caught something like this in Houston, expect lots of Dates, lots of older people trying to be hip, and a fuck ton of blazers.

Thursday

Sarah Jaffe & Robert Gomez are at Opening Bell Southside.

RTB2, The Hope Trust, Eaton Lake Tonics are at  Dan’s Silverleaf.

Friday

Parade Of Flesh has an excellent show at the City Tavern that features  The Theater Fire, Mimicking Birds and RTB2 you should make it to this one.

Cotton Jones, Wye Oak and The Fox and The Bird are at  The Cavern. It would be nice to know the set times for these two shows, so bouncing back and forth could be attempted.

Also, there will be dancing at the Lounge.

Saturday

Parade Of Flesh’s 1000th show this week has Intelligence, PVC Street Gang , Fungi Girls and Video playing at Dallas’ best DIY venue The Handsome Kitten.

Sunday

Colour Revolt has quite a few fans around Denton with many a band citing them as an influence, should be a who’s who at this show.

links will be up soon.