My mind is bursting with information.  Most of it is worthless trivia, valuable only to me and useable only to amuse others at parties.  However, these days my skull strains even further to contain the abundance of Paper Moon-related minutiae, and I must purge some of it lest I forget truly important things like how to breathe or what language the power droids in Star Wars speak (it's Gonkian, by the way).

WE BIRTHED ANOTHER CD!
First, let me thank all of you (and there were many!) who came out on May 1 to partake in the celebration for our new album's release.  I hope you enjoyed yourselves.  I know I did.  Special thanks to the incredible Liptonians and the astounding BEAT! for playing this show with us.  Double extra special thanks to Larry (I hope that's right) who bought John a tray of Jagerbombs for his birthday.

Oh, and you can now get the album on

WE BIRTHED A VIDEO!
Those of you in attendance also got a delightful surprise...the world premiere of our brand new video for "Where Did All Our Time Go?"!  After so long without one, Ben Stouffer and his crew came along and finally just made us a damned video.  It was so great to share it with the crowd at the Pyramid and see the reactions to it, and now we can share it with EVERYBODY, although we can't see your reaction unless we're creepily staring into your window while you watch it (which might happen, if you're very lucky). 

I recommend watching it in "HQ".  You can also read a little bit about the making of the video and look at some behind-the-scenes pictures and videos in this here blog post, but you should try to name all of the movie scene reenactments that we did first.

WE'RE BIRTHING A TOUR!
Just a reminder that WE'RE GOING ON TOUR BASICALLY NOW.  So maybe we'll be seeing you in one of the following places, at the appropriate time?

May 6, 2009 - Regina, SK - The Club
May 7, 2009 - Lethbridge, AB - The Slice
May 9, 2009 - Vancouver, BC, CD Release Party - The Railway, with Cinderpop and Dawntreader
May 12, 2009 - Kelowna, BC - The Grateful Fed
May 13, 2009 - Penticton, BC - Voodoo's
May 14, 2009 - Edmonton, AB - The Crown and Anchor
May 15, 2009 - Calgary, AB - The Palomino


WE BIRTHED A...TWEET?
Okay, fine, we'll sign up for a Twitter account.  It's at
http://twitter.com/PaperMoonMusic
and you should become a...follower? Because FitnessLion, the pity-fan that was assigned to us by default, is lonely.  We'll try to update it as rapidly and pointlessly as we can while we're on the road.

Maybe from rest-stop bathrooms.


WE ENABLED THESE OTHER PEOPLE TO BIRTH STUFF ABOUT US!
Just for fun, here is a small selection of links to reviews and interviews that we've seen and done in the last little while.  You know, to remind you of how awesome we are.

The Winnipeg Sun likes our new album.

As does 30Music.

The Uniter starts a local band rivalry that we didn't ask for.

FFWD in Calgary gives us some tough love.

CBC radio's DNTO included us in their recent podcast, "Makin' Mistakes".  We're at around the 50 minute mark.


Uptown Magazine did an interview with us.

Enjoy this interview with BeatRoute Magazine.

Some more Winnipeg Sun action, this time in interview form.

Soundproof Magazine did an interview as well.


Love,
Chris

We did it.  We finally did it.  We have officially achieved, after seven years, something that most bands manage within hours of their conception.

We made a video.

I recommend hitting the "HQ" button to watch a better looking/sounding version. I also recommend trying to name all of the movie scenes before reading the rest of this post

Why did it take this long?  I could say that we were holding out as a rebellion against the music industry status quo which demands visual representation of our music, not unlike Metallica who refused to make a video until their fourth album, after which they made a video for every single song they wrote as if they were making up for the time lost on silly, frivolous things like "taking a stand" and "integrity".  I could say that, but it would be a lie.

It's not completely our fault.  We had our struggles.  I've lost count of the number of VideoFACT grant applications we've submitted that were passed over so that the world could have more Great Big Sea and Fefe Dobson videos (and a poorer world it would be without them).  We just decided that it was time to make a video regardless of obstacles and thanks to the incredible Ben Stouffer and his miraculous volunteer crew, we pulled it off.

The song we picked was "Where Did All Our Time Go?", because it's awesome.  Ben came to us with an idea that was probably, in his mind, somewhat sophisticated and meaningful.  Then Paper Moon got our hands on it and exchanged some "sophistication" for "ridiculousness".  The end result (we hope) relates to the introspective, soul-searching lyrics of the song by inducing nostalgia through the use of reenactments of movie scenes from the past few decades.  Perhaps by recognizing certain scenes and connecting them to personal memories and feelings of your younger days, you will find yourself echoing the sentiment of the song and asking yourself, "where DID all my time go?".

No, actually, we just acted out a bunch of scenes, interspersed it with some hot performance shots, and then we acted like idiots at the end.  We're not that deep.

The first day of shooting was fairly typical for Paper Moon.  We had a lot of outdoor shots to do, and the one day we had scheduled was the one day in an otherwise sunny, warm week that was unseasonably cold and snowy.  What better way to spend a Saturday than standing around outside in very light clothing at 8 in the morning, in sub-zero temperature?  The phrase that best summed up our feelings was "My nipples are going to poke through my Vote For Pedro t-shirt so hard".  And they did, dear reader.  They did.

Location one was Assiniboine Park where we watched Ken playing Forrest Gump, wearing the tightest white suit we could dig up, and then pulling his "Gump Muscle" while running unnaturally down a gravel path.  Ken also acted as tetherball enforcer, frightening children away from our prop tetherball and earning the ire of their parents.  Well done, Ken!  Allison became Fraulein Maria from "The Sound Of Music" and declared that she had confidence, and then she played some tetherball with my own Napoleon Dynamite while screaming out dire curses at the cold between takes.  I also portrayed Lloyd Dobler from "Say Anything".