Archive: music

Yet another Blogventure

My band Last Known Settlers just launched a website. You can find it here. You can enjoy our tunes via Muxtape here. I threw all of it together in like an hour, not so bad, right? This is why I love the internets. It makes it easy to make more internets so it’s like continuously exploding all over itself. Very messy. Anyway we’ll be playing a show on Saturday night – 8pm at the Delancey (Delancey btwn Clinton and Attorney). Some come out if you are around. If not, just know you’ll be missing the GREATEST NIGHT ROCK AND ROLL HAS EVER SEEN. Jk jk jk It’ll be like the second greatest night. The first greatest night was when the Hoff sang on top of the Berlin Wall.

Also writer’s block. I kind of have it. It is problematic. I’m not sure if I have to relax or if I have to like get angry. Sometimes I write better when I’m filled with rage. No idea, it’s just like that. So quick, someone, make me angry. HURRY!

Pimp My Chair

With the help of an anonymous architect, I have tricked out my chair. It is so tight and so pimp that every chair within a 300 mile radius is weeping from jealousy. They look at themselves and they wonder, why, baby Jesus, why can’t I be pimp? Am I forever damned to this life of mediocrity? Is there any hope?

Oh, but there is.

I have posted directions on how to turn your stupid, non-pimp, and non-tight chair into the Rick James of chairs (crack pipe not included). You can read about it on the Emeco blog, over here. But heed this warning: If you cannot handle the pimp, you should not even bother looking. I mean it. This chair is only for people who understand the power of pimp and can use it for good and not evil. Good meaning pimping and hustling. Evil meaning everything else.

And in other news: Last Known Settlers, my rock n’ roll band, has put up musical tunes for your enjoyment. You can check it out on MySpace because we don’t actually have a “real” website and Nathan would totally freak out right now if he knew, but shh don’t tell him. It’s our little secret. If you see Nathan please do not mention this to him.

I am going to Los Angeles in a few weeks to visit the family, i.e. get annoyed. I called my mother on Thanksgiving and told her I was going to spend it with a big group of friends, and she asked “Everyone you friend marry? Or are they….SINGLE?” Gasp! Choke! Sputter!

OH GOD NO NOT SINGLE PEOPLE!

Anyway I told her that we were all single and old and unhappy and we’d all sit around the table wiping our tears, and then after pumpkin pie the girls would have a contest to see whose ovaries were more barren. Clearly I’d be the winner. My womb looks just like the Gobi Desert, with camels and everything. She did not think this was funny. I kind of thought it was funny though. But I am one of those people who laughs really really hard at their own jokes. I am my own best friend.

But here is a fact: 41% of Americans 18 and older are unmarried/single.

This is a real fact. Not one of the fake ones you see on TV. Anyway it is almost like 90 million people. So for everyone out there who has to deal with a parent complaining about your barren womb stuffed with camels and scorpions and roving bands of nomads, fear not, my friend. You are in good company.

Mute Math

I am not a fan of Mute Math, but they really just have the most KICK ASS video ever. Check it out here. Note how everything is backward, but the singer and the drummer are playing along. So awesome. The sad part is that their music probably sounds better backward. Coldplay did a similar video a while ago but Coldplay makes my ears bleed with boredom. Whenever I hear them I think, oh dear, it’s you again. I thought we got rid of you, but here you are, with that voice. I don’t trust men with voices that high. They are hiding something. I love how people used to say that Coldplay was the new Radiohead which was so stupid because Radiohead is the new Radiohead.

This weekend I am going camping with a bunch of people, some I know, most I don’t, to Lake George, which is in upstate New York. I am presuming by the name that there is a lake involved. Which means various kinds of wildlife, all of which will want to bite me and give me hives and possibly an infection. I am so allergic to nature that I’m surprised that I actually agreed to this camping business. If you are ever need bug repellant, then just keep me around. Everything will ignore you and just hang out on me like I’m some kind of insect discoteque. Anyway I figure it’ll be good for me to go see some nature so I can understand my enemy.

I went camping a few years ago in Maine with some friends and around the same time some crazyperson in Maine was hiding in/under women’s port-a-potties on campgrounds so he could look up their skirts. There are so many things wrong with that I can’t even start. I mean really. There is some idiom in Taiwanese that is said about “special” people which loosely translates to “someone has to marry him/her.” In other words, there is someone for everyone. So if you want to look up a woman’s skirt, just ask. She may say yes, you never know. Haha. Anyway, the point is that the whole thing really freaked me out but then all the mosquitos bit the crap out of me so I forgot about the latrine lunatic all together.