the illustrious Mick Mercer has reviewed our cd! it's our first review ever! he liked parts of it! we're just thrilled! we can't stop talking about it! he didn't like our production values, though. we get that a lot.

lookit lookit!

http://blog.myspace.com/mickmercer

glee!

Oh, Kelsey, all of the things that i told you about me are legends and wives' tales
i followed them down through the tracery town and they eddied and swam round
the darkest of sidewalks

Oh, Kelsey, i'm afraid that when all of my scratching is done i'll be fallow
the glimmering fruit needs soil less destitute, and can only find root in
the darkest of sidewalks

watch as the lanternlight drifts through the neighborhoods, running aground on the town's sides
and edges
all night they poured through the streets like molasses, refreshing past passion with kindness
and newness
we sat on the curbside and watched them roll past us, bright globes in their droves going home
start to finish

Oh, Kelsey, this frail hour is wrinkled and red-faced and mewling for milking
they grow up so fast, nothing ever can last, and they wait for us, massed on
the darkest of sidewalks

they made this town a river when they flowed slow through it with a river's shining blindness and its hands lands long,
forgetting every wrinkle that they ran their fingers over,
they took away no stories, and that theft left scars

Oh, Kelsey, brick by brick i am building a house i am proud to grow old in
the structure is stout, and the doorways devout, and the front door leads out to
the darkest of sidewalks

anyone can be dead. being alive is much less likely. being alive is also where all the interesting things happen. it's hard to know anything about life, for the same reason that it's hard to taste your own tongue. keep me posted.

decide what your name means. no, not "lord" or "faithful" or whathaveyou (unless it does.) for instance:

"Kate" means "seemed really important at the time."

"Saturday" means "a bright light of unknown provenance."

now go to http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml and enter your name's meaning. tell me what your name in Dictionary is.

another example: www.myspace.com/13_silk_34 -his name is "systatic."

you know me. i'm kind of a hippie. i try to reduce, reuse and recycle whenever possible. to this end, i ordered 100 refurbished jewel cases from www.greendisk.com. keep 'em off the streets.

but they haven't come yet, and our first show is thursday. i called them, and they said they'd look into it and get back to me. so where's the first printing of Eponymy going to live?

a few years ago, a book of CDs was stolen out of my car. i kept the empty jewel cases to remind me what i was missing, and to hold a new CD if someone burned me a replacement. i've held onto those cases for 4 years now. it's time for them to move on. really, it's a great honor for DeatHat's first EP to share cases with such albums as "Clowns in the Sky: the musical history of MST3K" and Nina Simone's "Pastel Blues/ Let It All Out."

Here's the full run-down on what you might be inheriting if you buy one of the first 8 copies of "Eponymy:"

Sweet Dreams are Made of This- the Eurythmics
Nighmare Before Christmas soundtrack
Drums and Wires- XTC
Screamin' the Blues- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Dead Man's Party- Oingo Boingo
Only a Lad- Oingo Boingo

as well as the two albums mentioned above. i'm feeling very sentimental about this. also, it says a lot about a person what CDs are stolen from them, and possibly even more what CDs they don't replace in 4 years (although, to be fair, 2 of these are extras. you guess which ones.)

I've been thinking about the early days of Led Zeppelin. i bet everybody was all, "Lead Zeppelin?" "Lead Zeplin?" or Def Leppard. i bet all Def Leppard's myspace friends spelled their name wrong. so, we're in good company. i needn't give into pronunciatory despair, because before long, DeatHat will be a household word, and noone will even think to associate it with its component ideograms.

really, it's my own damn fault for naming my band something absurd and deleriously spelled. this band is neither about death, nor hats. i'm a morbid haberdashery poser! with a fetish for flaunting spelling and grammar conventions!

every once in a while, i think about changing the name of the band. we were almost "dream operator" for like 2 weeks. i don't think it's going to happen. DeatHat is my destiny. i need to be one with the nonsequetorialism, to honor that part of me that desires lingual gimmicks.

Zow!

what would your band be called, if you never had to answer for it?

The EP will be called "Eponymy: Songs Named After the People They're About." These new tracks have sound quality, and multiple musicians, and everything, and i'm real excited. there will be probably 6 songs on the EP. it'll run about 12 minutes. Clear your schedule, grab a yogurt, pee now, 'cause you're gonna want to listen to it all the way through. Take time off from work if you need to.

There're two tracks left to record. I'm not gonna say what they are, but they're named after the people they're about, so if you pay as much attention to my band as I do, you'll have no trouble guessing.

love and creatures,

Kate Saturday