Midge: We have new songs... look at 'em

Vivian: What are they called?

Midge: Christmas Red and Christmas Time in Paris

Vivian: We JUST, well we entered into Sufjan's Christmas song exchange thingamabobber at asthmatic kitty records... and have some SAD NEWS BACK...

Midge: WE DID NOT MAKE THE CONTEST

Vivian: Not even the top 36!!! Sad Sad Sad... The winner was Alec Duffy

Midge: IT was good.. can I please go to the bathroom now? (yes) THANK YOU!!!

Vivan: I personally didn't like the song.. it wasn't my style... It was uhm.. more like music your grandpa would listen to. It sounded like grandpa music. We listened to some of the top 36 songs.. Many of them were VERY GOOD!!! Tobogon was REALLY GOOD!! The Palace Flophouse was good.. so was Cocoon, I like Matthew Shellenberg, Billy Crescendo was SUPER FUN, Friend Factory sounded good like a Magic Marker band - so is Bryant (which is good), The Choir at Your Door is really good in a really creepy way. The bad ones leave me speechless.... The looserest was Fauxhawk Favre it was so bad that it make me throw my Christmas stocking at the cat (slight exaggeration) - Then there were the Sufjan copiers...And there were a good amount there. BUT WE CANNOT Exactly talk... because our song was kind of uhm... "Wh*t* Str*p*s" sounding hint hint.

Midge: You have to add "HINT HINT" 'Cause it's just like the Wh*t* Str*p*s. It's called Christmas Red. It's about this man and his daughter and wife are killed died. Cause there was a big explosion at the North Pole. And it came to the North Pole. And everybody died.. except for SPIDERMAN!!! 'Cause he was like Whosh Whosh! (doing web hand movements) Did you know a web comes out of his butt?

Vivian: Yeah, sure.. Anyway Christmas Red is not about Spiderman. It is a bout this guy who got hurt in a coal mine explosion. His Name was Johnny but the town knew him as Red. He survived the coal mine blast but lost his better leg. When he woke up they say he disappeared, locked up alone inside his home shooting webs out of his REAR!!!! ha ha ha ha (laughing uncontrolably)

Midge (laughing hysterically)

Vivian: Hope you enjoy listening to the songs... we enjoyed making them.

- Vivian and Midge
(transcribed by dad)

Midge: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Vivian: Hee Hee HAW!

Midge: We hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. THANKS GIVING THANKS GIVING THANKS GIVING.

Vivian: Tell them what you know about the Pilgrims

MIdge: I don't know anything about them AND VIVIAN IS GIVING ME A FACE!!!

Vivian: Do you want me to talk about..

Midge: THE PILGRIMS sailed on the Mayflower... a boat. I forget where they came from. But I remember the king didn't want them to go to their own church. He made them go to HIS church... but they couldn't go to their own church. So they said "well, then. We're going to go to a different planet called the USA!" They sailed and they had to eat fish and drink sea water... Uh Uh, I couldn't imagine that... for dessert they had fish with whipped cream on it!!! They found more fish and more water. Then they found this little land called the USA!!! They builded houses and made a community... Then they found Indians. I forget what they are called

Vivian: Wompanoag tribe

Midge: So they helped the Pilgrims do planting and how to build these awesome houses. They teached them how to get animals.

Vivian: They were extremely helpful to the pilgrims. SO they had a feast to thank them.

Midge: FEAST of Thanksgiving...

Vivian: Actually they did not have turkey.

Midge: They had T U R K E Y

Vivian: No, they didn't have turkey. I think they had deer and wild berries

Midge: Actually they had TURKEY LEGS!!!! The Indians didn't start Thanksgiving until December but we celebrate it today in November. I forget if they got to go to their own church in America.

Vivian: They started their own church.

Midge: I'm thankful for my pets.

Grandma: Are you thankful for your mom and dad?

Midge: Yup. I'm thankful for MY PETS! and my French Toast and for my turkey that I'm going to consume. I'm thankful for Christmas because I like Christmas BETTER!!

-Vivian and Midge
(transcribed by dad)

Shisho are cute yet badly sung. Their track "Courtney sat on a rock" is described as "rainbow jumpin' kid core!" and features the lyrics "Courtney got bit on the butt and she cried and she cried". Albeit possibly the coolest kids in school, the two girls that perform herein, Midge and Vivian, are led by the mysterious Professor Peushu which is just wrong if you ask me. They are working on an under-18s record label and download site, bless them. Adorable, if a little irritating – Repeat Fanzine

Two kid sisters singing to a background track, and simple as it sounds, they blow my mind. Nick stumbled upon their show at Cornerstone and got their demo and I swear, it almost made me cry how hard I was laughing at how brilliant and funny their lyrics are. These kids are geniouses. If they ever put it on their myspace, check out the song "Rocks n' Penalties". It's a gem. – Day Tripper

Shisho, While their name sounds like a Buddhist chant, these goofballs offer crazy mixes that are awesome, fun, mega-silly. They cover the Mike Knott tune, "Daddy's Womp" and do a "basement Mash-Up" mix called "Disco Brandtson." I told you they were crazy.. - HM Magazine

Shisho are an amazing pair of pre-teens from Ohio whose lo-fi keyboard kidpop is literally fantastic on 'Rocks and Penalties' where a blow on the head sends them riffing about unicorns eating rainbows at a Smiths reunion concert. - SOUNDS XP

have released an online single called "Get Behind me Santa". The title song is wonderful, but even better is their cover version of The Dead Milkmen's "Punk Rock Girl", though it's not a christmas song. With influences like The Dead Milkmen I'm sure they'll grow up to make lots more great music in the future. Thanks to Mira El Péndulo for pointing them out to me. – Indie mp3

…cute and not in a too annoying way. I love the squeaky voice in the middle telling the "jokes. – Small Ages Blog

Saturday night-Toledo Indie POP festival: this was lots of fun. a great collection of bands from the midwest played. my favorite band and the highlight of my tour so far was Shi Sho--a two piece kid band. imagine two adorable girls in cool sunglasses singing along to an ipod (run by dad i think). my favorite song was "courtney sat on a rock" it was about how she got bit on the butt by a spider. i also liked their last song about unicorns eating a rainbow but the rainbow was poisonous so they got sick. they couldnt take the unicorns to the clinic because the clinic was on the other side of the rainbow and the rainbow was half eaten. luckily the smiths reunited in this song so morrisey took the unicorns to the clinic with his magical flight powers. stellar song. -Arrah

Laid back pop grooves, out of tune teenage-girly-vocals and silly lyrics. Catchy and annoying in equal measures. Eminently slappable, yet subversively endearing. There should be laws against this sort of thing...oh, there are! – The Mag UK

Ok, there is a band in Columbus, very obscure..they are 2 little girls..you have to listen to their song "rocks n penalties", seems to be inspired by the smiths/moz. I caught it on a local college radio show… Oh, the band is called "shisho". – Desmoface

ShiSho are described as "kid-core". If The Lord exists, he knows how wrong this would be, and it is that wrong. But "Rocks and Penalties" is, simply, genius. More fully, it is a work of deeply wrong genius, and you owe it to yourself, to lil sis Midge, to big sis Vivian, to their mentor Professor PeuSheu- you probably aren't a made-up person but I'm not sure about the other three - to hear it. You get to find out how Morrissey saved the Unicorns. – Repeat Fanzine

twee electro of Shisho including the kindergarten sing a-long, 'Courtney Sat On A Rock' with its candy cute melody and lyrics of, "Courtney sat on a rock and she smiled and she smiled, Courtney got bit on the butt and she cried and she cried". It may be simple, but its bright beats mirror the cheerful and blissfully simple premise of the singles club - 5 brightly coloured 7-inch singles that are sure to cheer up your record player. 'Rocks And Penalties', Shisho's second track is so daft that it makes you laugh out loud, two young children talk about The Smiths and unicorns eating rainbows, it's just barmy genius! – Room Thirteen

ShiSho est un trio originaire de l'Ohio, composé de Midge ( 5 ans), Vivian ( 8 ans), et de leur mentor et éminence grise, le mystérieux Professeur Peushu. Deux petites filles qui jouent du rock indé, on pense évidemment aux délicieuses Smoosh de Seattle. La différence, c'est que Smoosh jouent leurs propres morceaux, tandis que chez ShiSho, le Professeur Peushu ( leur papa ?) s'occupe de tout, ce qui ôte évidemment une partie du charme de cette entreprise. – ROCKOMONDO

Oh dear...two pre-teen girls and their dad with a White Stripes fetish. None of those ingredients are a good thing and the end result is a disaster. I just don't find anything cute about hearing basement-recorded guitar and drum machine, with two bratty moppets talk-singing about being "creeped out" being watched by Santa Claus. I'm sure the daddy here thinks it's clever exploiting his children and having them pish all over a childhood tradition in the name of being uber hip, but for me, it was a disgrace. This single is available for free download on their website, since clearly nobody anywhere would pay for something this leftfield. There's also a bonus mp3 on the site, a cover version of the Dead Milkmen's "Punk Rock Girl" -- a remake so awful, you just won't believe your ears. Just when I thought nothing could be worse than sitting through Rock Jack's "Toilet Master", this. If your idea of bad kids music is Ricky Segall, you ain't heard nothin' yet. If you simply must hear kids performing music, stick with Smoosh and Dev2.0. Even for free, I felt ripped off. Get behind me, ShiSho... SkinnyRobbie

EP 1 gives us Shisho, two toddlers rhyming off time about Morrissey and Unicorns eating rainbows set to day-glo kid-core. Believe us it sounds even madder than it reads and is part heinous, part genius. – Is This Music is a mighty split between ShiSho and Hyper bubble - which is pardon the vernacular the absolute dog's bollocks. First there was the adorable Kitty, Daisy and Lewis with their 50's Hawaiian bop, then the bunking off school 'better than the White Stripes' (blimey did we just say that- okay then maybe not quite but certainly piddling in the same vintage styled old school pond) Tiny Masters of the Today and now ShiSho. Kooky name kooky kids - ShiSho are a couple of Columbus based perky pre-teen punkster ladies (in fact their sisters Vivian [10] and lil' sis Midge [7]) who along with the mysterious Professor PeuShu (honest I am not making this up) appear to be knocking the most in tuned and informed of the underground set sideways and bandy and who can blame them. As cute as buttons are these two tracks - deranged and fey admittedly but adorably infectious. 'Courtney sat on a rock' a tale of a school bullying minx by the name of Courtney (obviously) is just dippy, in no - screwball, wonderfully naive in both sound and delivery, a bit like a warped on e numbers and additives Shaggs lost in some surreal kaleidoscopic kindergarten paper mache and fuzzy felt exercise featuring Sesame Street and Peanuts. Can't for the life of me think why but I did find myself whistling Sebadoh's 'gimme indie rock' afterwards though all said and done you need to hear this just for Midge's wonkily out of tune vocal. 'Rocks and Penalties' ups the ante considerably, (parents you really must stop lacing their jellies and fairy cakes with mind bending substances) name checking wikipedia and (frequently) the Smiths while recanting a bizarre fuzzy edged tale of unicorns, rainbows and our hero of the hour Morrissey flanked by angels no less (again don't ask) - all replete with your standard new waved riffs and pre school growls though if like me you'll positively choke yourself laughing at the 'kids do not try this at home' introduction to the brief guitar solo mid way through. Go to their website for not only White Stripes (second mention - we are on a commission though not as big as the N*E) pastiche sleeves and portions of fizzy pop, jelly and general zany chit chat but also a chance to download a plethora of mp3's including a cover of Sufjan Stevens 'Get behind me Satan', a live set culled from last years Gratis Fest along with a shed load of pod casts that frankly at times sound like they were wired up and put together in the daft as a brush mindset of the late Kenny Everett and features a listening party special playing the free to download 'Down to Grease on holiday' compilation (a tribute to Grease as in Travolta and Newton John which originally saw the light of the day last year). Your new favourite band - don't bet against it. Expect a whole album later in the year around thanks giving no doubt or maybe the summer holidays who knows. It's therefore a tall order asking Hyperbubble to follow that…" – Losing Today

Shisho are six-year-old Midge and 9-year-old Vivian, together with the mysterious Professor PueShu, who dash through 'Rock'n'Roll Is Here To Stay' with schoolyard punkish energy. Smoosh, you're already too old! –Sounds XP

Hi

ha ha ha - my name is Midge. Uh, we're sorry that we did a blog last week. Here's a good one.. Knock Knock... who's there... monkey... monkey who? monkey fish stick!! ha ha ha ha ha !

We have me my cat and Vivian on our thing... and have you ever uh... seen ah...ahhhh the Simpsons? Uhm.. well, I talk like a mouse! Ohhh h h h h h h h h h You didn't leave spaces dad!!! MONKEY FISH STICK!!!! I know.. I like quotation marks. YOU DIDN"T LEAVE SPACES MONKEY FISH STICK!!

Bunny ears ears are so Happy happy BOINGY BOINGY!!!

Today I am at a coffee shop and uhhhhhhhhh I like hot chocolate. My dad took a picture of me at the coffee shop on his powerbook. You'll see the picture in by brog.. blog, bro! Vivian is not here right now with us... She is in Paris France... NAH!!!! She is in our grandmas house right now. So I'm just hanging out with Monkey Fish Stick.

Uhm we saw... okay we saw our... house. We saw our friends house and a bunch of other stuff on a website. It was on.... uh.. what was it again Monkey Fish Stick? (it was Google Earth) GOOGLE EARTH. And we were able to fly to the top of the WHOLE ENTIRE EARTH and land on our OUR HOUSE!!! We went to the top of the Eiffel Tower and spin around and see Paris.. it was sooo cool.

And also I like Happy Happy Boingy Boingy... I like Halloween? Guess who I was? It was on the last blog.. I think. I WAS GINNY WEASLEY. A lot of people thought I was Hermieny Granger... but I was.. I don't like her. I like GINNY WEASLEY!!!

We went on vacation and we worked on some songs in a cabin called the ROCKIN' D Ranch! We wrote two NEW SONGS FOR CHRISTMAS!!! I know you are jumping around right now. So are all the bands in the world. Except for Dot Dot Dot!!

MONKEY FISH STICK!!!

You know candy is going to make you be hyper!!! So why don't you lay off of the candy, MONKEY FISH STICK!!!

Okay, I'm done!! See ya - I know this is so very long, sorry.

~Midge
(transcribed by Monkey Fish Stick)

Vivian: Yesterday we did an audition for a big festival in Columbus. And so a guy... it was only the guy we were auditioning for and his daugther.

Midge: We sang in our garage.

Vivian: .. you mean our CAR HOLE.

Midge: We were going to do it in our back yard but it started raining... so we went over here over there over here over there over here over there... but then it stopped raining and we did our show.

Vivian: It was odd doing a show in front of two people but we had a really good time.

Midge: And we're really happy that they chose us to play at the festival.

Vivian: Yup, we got the slot for the show and we're very happy. And we'll be playing there on Septemer 7.

Midge: yup yup yup! They said they they like the way I jump around like crazy!!

Vivian: Okay, bye.

Midge: I like Ginny!!! She's from Harry Potter... she's awesome!! She's Ron's little sister who got possessed by Tom Riddle...

Vivian: Last night we went to a show... it was a very good show... one of the best I've ever been too.

Midge: YEAH!

Vivian: It was by a band called Harry and the Potters. Their songs are about Harry Potters.

Midge: That's where I got possessed by Ginny!!!

Vivian; We go our picture taken with little Harry. Well, they were actually one of the bands that inspired us to start a band. Three years ago we went and saw them in the basement of a bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio... And after that and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players... we decided we wanted to start a band.

Midge: So last night we got to get a picture with little Harry Potter... it was like AWESOME!!! Yeah.

Vivian: Today we're playing a show a the Toledo Indiepop Fest. We're really excited and nervous.. little bit.. but not super nervous yet. Maybe later I'll be nervouser.

Midge: This summer is really really going great! Well, for our Vacation we went to a music festival... IT WAS AWESOME!!!! We got to play two shows there...

Vivian: IT WAS AWESOME!!

Midge: Stop mocking me!! I got this awesome magic wand!

Vivian: That's a straw from your smoothy!!!

Midge: Well we hope you enjoy this blog and we hope to do one soon!!

Vivian: I hate the picture I drew of myself in my last blog.  It's up there because my dad found it in the bathroom and he posted it in our blog.  WHEN I DRAW PICTURES IN THE BATHROOM I EXPECT MY PICTURE'S PRIVACY!!!

Midge: I think the picture is awesome.. But I didn't know SHE DRAWS IN THE BATHROOM!!!

Vivian: I'll be in the bathroom, bye.

Midge: With my mom, I don't really play games with with her.. She's just like "Blah, you have to go to bed... bye."  I can say, I like cheese and dad will write it... I LIKE CHEESE, I LIKE CHEESE, I LIKE CHEESE, I LIKE CHEESE.  My dad said who's the best band ever? and I said The Smiths and he gave me a dollar!!!  I like my mom!

 Vivian:Yeah, mom is pretty nice.  But she makes us do school. Just in case you don't know we are home schooled.

Midge: YEAH so don't think we're public schooled.  I mean it's like you go to this living room and you just do school.  Like you do all these projects that you do... it's just the same.  I've never been to public school.  

Vivian: We do math, science, history

Midge: OHHH and silent reading.

Vivian: And sometimes... well every day my mom reads to us.  We have independant reading which we take to our room and read... at least I do.  We do a lot stuff...like ugh.. I'm in Girl Scouts and I go to the YMCA, that's where we take Swim class and gym class.  We did tai Kwon Do, Soccer in the SPring and Fall, We're also starting a record label called Magnetic Bunny.  THats sort of a class that our dad teaches us.

Midge: I do push ups... e v e r y   s i n g l e  day!! Yeah, strong with the bones!! You should do it too kids!!!

Vivian: Well we have a little work to do!

Midge: I DON'T do silent reading!!! Nope

Vivian: Mom helps her

Midge: Like 'cause she's awesome and Vivian's in my band so that's pretty cool

Vivian: Happy

Midge: Birthday

Vivian: to Midge

-Vivian and Midge
 (transcribed by dad)

-Vivian

Midge: Well, we did a release, not a release. Well we stole... well, I wouldn't say stole...

Vivian: ...We didn't steal anything. We covered Sufjan Steven's song "Get Behind Me, Santa." We covered this song because we have a song called Get Behind Me Santa.

Midge: Our song called "Get Behind Me Santa" is original – and everybody knows it. Our second one called "Get Behind Me Santa" is Sufjan Stevens'.

Vivian: It came out like last year. So we thought it would be funny to cover Sufjan Steven's new version that came out last month.  We did it for fun... his record lable, Athmatic Kitty has us listed as a top friend.  So hopefully they'll hear it and laugh some.

Midge: We thought it would be really really funny so we just did it. So now you can listen to two "Get Behind Me Santa's." Sufjan's version is...

Vivian: Like all pop!

Midge: Yeah, super duper poppy...

Vivian: So we did (the cover version – dad) all, like mellow... just like Sufjan's other saddish kind of songs. You just have to hear it.

Vivian: Midge, please get OFF OF ME!!!

Midge: OKAY!!!

Vivian: Uhm, if you wnt to listne to our song you can go to www.shisho.info or our myspace page myspace.com/shisho

Midge: Yeah – you can be our friend too! Today is Vivian's birthday. She's 10 and she has another birthday party in January it's going to be Mom's side of the family. And I 'm really excited for Christmas – we celebrate the birth of Jesus. There's this one song where it says God was born so we get presents..

Vivian: That's not important right, now Midge. We have another new song coming, Monday December 18. It's a BRAND SPANKING NEW original song called "Merry Christmas, Now Leave"

Midge: Merry Chrismas, Now Leave! Is very immature. And my aunts aunts, aunts, aunts, they got me a present and it was piece of dirt!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Vivian: That was a nugget of joy by Midge

Midge: The song is about being very immature...

Vivian: It's about relatives, and how.. it's kind of mean.. it's about all the relatives in our family that we really don't want ot see on Christmas.

Vivian: We've gotten a little bad feeback because we used a BAD WORD and everyone's P. O. ed about it. Midge says the word "HELL" and I follow by sayin "O" - like Hello... but some people have written saying that we shouldn't be cussing. It's funny that no one's mentioned that it has the word "breastesses."

Vivian: Well, it's a special download – you can only get it at www.filthylittleangels.com in the "Hark! The Filthy Angels Sing" compilation cd with other bands like Hefner and Hyperbubble and other really good bands.

Midge: You should really check it out.. if you don't I'LL GET YOU!!!! no.

Vivian: In case you're not familiar with us... we're called ShiSho S to the H to the I to the S to the H to the O – and we're a little band out of Columbus Ohio and Cincinatti. Our names are Vivian and my sister Midge and our friend Professor PeuShu.

Midge: Professor PeuShu is not our dad!!

Vivian: People, for some reason think he IS our dad. He lives a hundred miles away from us. This year we recorded like 10 songs. And we did two live shows... one of them you can download at www.shisho.info because it's my big 10^th Birthday Bonanza.

Hope you like the songs. That's all!

-Vivian and Midge

  (transcribed by dad)

Hello

I GOT MY EARS PIERCED!! They..re pretty. They..re hoops with a pink bead.

We went to Cincinnati to see PeuShu and Supastarr and uhm I went to get my ears pierced. And it was a scarry lookin.. guy. He had like .. he looked like a hippie dude that was a Rock-N-Roller. Like .. h e y , y o y o y o .. His name was Tony.

I started out a Scribbles Café (in Covington, KY .. dad). We walked down to the piercing shop. A couple a minutes ago. We walked down there and my dad took a lot of pictures. He was like ..okay, stand here!.. ..Now stand here.. ..Now stand here.. ..Now put your hands up.. So we got there finally and we had to take M O R E pictures. There were these cool pictures in the place.. they were awesome. They were pictures of wood things.. I don..t know what they are. They are baby toy. (Fisher Price people .. dad) YEAH! Fisher Price People. SO .. We had to wait for a little while for him to set up everything (who..s ..he?.. .. dad) The scary guy. He..s like ..hey.. He is in a band. I don..t remember the name .. something Angels. OH! ..Meth Angels... (Angels of Meth .. dad) http://www.myspace.com/angelsofmeth

So, we uhm finally came in .. because there was a special place where you had to sit. And so, uhm.. I was to Vivian ..Come sit with me.. and so she didn..t sit with me. SHE WAS TOO SCARED! I don..t know why. But she didn..t get her hears pierced. So my dad, Captain Kool sat by me.

Okay .. so uhm he cleaned my ears. Then he had these tong things that he put on my ears. Then he NEEDLED ..em. Uhm both of the ears. Tony uhm.. he..s really really nice. He did a good job. He had to do the marker, cause he had to put the marker on my ears .. so he could know where we were going to put it. Then it was all done.

Then uhm. The night that I got my ears piecered I had to put this stuff on my ears. It was salt and uhm hot water and that..s all. And mom had to use these cotton balls so she put them on each ear. Then I was all done!

Now I have these pretty earrings!

-Midge
(transcribed by dad)