heya internets,
it's always awkward starting out these posts when there isn't a giant
piece of news to share or a tour to document, so perhaps we should
just start w/ a pallette cleanser?
look! it is a hamster! he is eating! he stuffs his cheeks so! his
name is anyong! hello, anyong! hehe, you are so redundant in name.
ok, now that the awkward part is over.
we recently found out that we actually got some play on CBC radio 1
(yes, 1...not 2 or 3), even if it was rather late after the fact (ie.
last february late) but it's better late than never. it would've been
nice to be able to brag about it while it was actually happening, but
it was apparently playing on some drive-home program in ottawa, and we
don't live in ottawa...but it further proves the point that ottawa is
awesome to us and we have to go back there soon.
we've got a few shows lined up in the new year (and one next week
before the new year even begins). our jan. 17th show shall find us
back w/ our sort-of tourmates from last summer, my shaky jane. we
look forward to giving jeff more shots onstage so that he can whip the
shotglass at people's heads afterwards...that really shouldn't prevent
you from coming to see the show, though. just wear a helmet. in
fact, if you wear a helmet to that show, you can get in free. what a
deal.
otherwise, we're hard at work on new songs and should be recording the
rest of a full-length in the early new year. i'm starting to worry
though, as one song right now is called 'king hipster', and
apparently hipsters
are now dead, but i really don't feel like changing the words to the
song. so i guess it's going to have to be considered a period piece,
sort of like this:
. i don't think our song
will be as funny as his, though, unfortunately, cuz hippies that get excited about getting the crabs and buying feathers and beads is the ultimate in comedy (and truth?).
finally, this post wouldn't be worth its salt if i failed to mention
the
return of rock of luve (typo but it stays). this time it will be
on a bus. apparently one of the bus drivers fell asleep and ended up
killing someone, which led us to believe that maybe they would shut
down production...but no. someone paid the ultimate price for our
amusement. the ultimate price.