MRI Lightpainting and unreleased versions of old songs

we get shunned by a lot of people. southern lord records, chaos in tejas, desperate bicycles, the legendary stardust cowboy (to name a few). however, there are some decent people out there that take an interest in us. i mean, aside from maximum rocknroll.

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8/24/12 Davis, CA at 837 Douglass Ave House w/ Nancy Drew Pentagrams, Lotion, White Hole

first of all, we got voted in the big city newspaper as 8th best live act in the city along with the Minnesota Orchestra and this vile hippie band, Trampled by Turtles. Or as Pat called them, “Trampled by Turds, yo”. it would be a shame to neglect our renaming of local dork band Wookiefoot as Dookiefoot. so that’s weird.

also, more apologies in the usual fashion for not updating this. i started working again at my old job from many years ago at Frightprops. you should click that link.  i also drank too much coffee at my restaurant job this morning so i’m a little edgy which is never too good for writing.

i’m one of those people that has a scant ability to regulate my intake of things due to the fact that i’m either immersed in what’s going on or lost in thought to the point where i don’t seem to recognize normal signals my body gives me. i’ll drink coffee until i start shaking, eat until i feel like throwing up, and up until the last few years, drink until i pass out or black out. so bear with me while i tremble and fumble through another chapter of this poorly documented experiment in musical stupidity.

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8/23/12 – Arcata, CA at The Big Tree w/ Komatose, Aleister Christ, Oodles of Heroin

why does slam poetry always fucking suck? its like hardcore if there was only a lead singer and no band. what a terrible idea. i’ll spare you my initial rant i wrote about how mean are trained to feel ugly and stupid and are encouraged to be ugly and stupid, and the difficulty associated with that. i’ll spare you because i read some shit on that site, Jezebel.com and now im self conscious about ever complaining about being a white male. rightfully so but c’mon, don’t deny me the ability to whine.

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8/22/12 – Portland, OR w/ Dan Fucking Johnson

again, apologies for being crazy/weird/stupid/inattentive. shit’s been crazy weird stupid. i actually don’t have a lot to say about this day although it was a much needed day for my throat and for us as a band, but i have some other shit to go over.

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8/21/12 – Portland, OR at The Know w/ Organized Sports, Bi-Marks

Joel and I woke up in the van. well, I woke up in the van first, somewhere around 7AM. i walked to the nearby auto shop we had been towed to – their doors already open with Pink Floyd blasting. i told the lady of our new problems of the van not starting and she said her husband would take a look at it and to get Joel out of the van.
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The Feederz

been dealing with deaths and insanity and other shit. rather than do half-assed update, lets throw on this incredible FEEDERZ song  – http://www.feederz.com

this is also the band that open fired on a crowd with an assault rifle full of blanks at their first show (i think)

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8/20/12 – Olympia, WA at Le Voyeur w/ Nudes, White Walls, GAG


quick couple of things:

– go see Double Negative while they’re out touring. they’re with some bands called The Spits and OFF!. OFF! has an exclamation mark in their name, like so many other quality bands (!!!, Vampires Everywhere!Stop It!!) so im not sure how to end a sentence with their band name in it.

– listen to Inservibles

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8/19/12 – Seattle, WA at The Rendezvous w/ The Funeral and the Twilight, The Botherations, Totes Brute

there seems to be a time on any tour, long or short, where things suddenly get weird. our Seattle show marked the beginning of the weird. when mentioning this show to people, I say,

“it was great. someone punched joel in the face. have you heard of Totes Brute before?”

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8/18/12 – Total Fest, Missoula, MT (pt 3) + house show with The Funeral and the Twilight, Tenement

i know this is probably poor form, seeing as how Sweden’s Terrible Feelings puts shit out on Deranged and we put shit on on Deranged, but I just want to say that their new shit is a bit of a disappointment. feels like the kind of bar-rock band i’d watch for ten minutes before leaving to go take a piss that i don’t really need to take.

Compare:

with:

Europeans are supposed to be pretty renowned for their annoying honesty regarding music so fuck it. feels like a number of Swedish bands eventually get to this point where they’re too polished and strip out all the character. at least it’s still listenable.

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8/16/12, 8/17/12, 8/18/12 – (Part 2) TOTAL FEST, Missoula, MT – Lecherous Gaze, Tenement, Iron Lung, Big Eyes, White Wards, The Funeral and the Twilight, White Walls, and some other shit (like Dreamdecay)

first, i will start out by promoting a St. Louis/Minneapolis hybrid band with some members of Doom Town and uh…i dunno, maybe some other Minneapolis dude. But Colin from a bunch of great bands like Formaldehyde Junkies, Safewords, and The Sinks is also a part of this Voight-Kampff shit.

http://soundcloud.com/voight-kampff-band

click it if you like The Wipers or The Observers or if you don’t know who either bands are.

so anyway, last i left off with simultaneous shit-talking and much-respect-chest-pounding for Dan Deacon for playing a boring show for 200 people and an amazing show for a coffee shop of 15, his main audience member: a human baby.

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