ok so it has been a while since we've updated this blog i know...

we've been busy! we just got back from LA where we did more recording with famous hollywood producer MUDROCK!!! his place is so sweet, we made beautiful music together. speaking of that, i just posted some new tracks on our page that we recorded with mudrock, so check em out and let us know what you think.

also if any of you have any live footage of us, send it to us, for inclusion in a video in the near future.

last but not least, I reccomend coming to the new alliance audio grand opening party on december 5th, at new alliance, 110 brookline street in cambridge. ken from wonderdrug and myself and some other NA heads will be playing records (and laptops) and there will probably be a set by a band, who knows. watch this space for news on that.

peace

p-midi bumpin in the city

Huge thanks to David (WFNX), Shred (WBCN) and Jeff Breeze (WMBR) for spinning some tracks off the new EP.  New song up just added.  And also, huge thanks to Michael Marotta from the Boston Herald for reporting about our upcoming don't call it a residency residency. 

Hey y'all.  We've been nominated a couple times for another one of these silly "Best Music Poll" thingys.  If you aint doing nothing, clicky here and go to town. Seems unlikely that we'll beat Mission of Burma or Bang Camaro, but the Phoenix is kind enough to LET THE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR SAY and all that.  So do the write thing.  Cheers! 
-C4RT.

Next Wednesday Feb. 28th. 5 bucks!!! I think we are going on around 11 or so.
It's pretty impromptu and casual but get there early cause the place ain't that big.
We are going to be test driving some new shit so it should be interesting.
 
  Also, you can now get all our shit on ITunes so be a dear and buy a song.
It's the only way we get Steve to return our calls, really, we've tried many different approaches. Just check out the myspace page for the link.

So in honor of "Photo" finally seeing the light of day on the"Knocks From The Underground" comp I'm posting the lyrics.
Falconer sings this one so that makes it special. The words are pretty reminiscent of , um, well, other things  but let him have it ok. He pines well.

"Photo"

Half the night
Sped up in sweat
Where did it all go wrong
How did I let
You leave my sight without a fight
I'm feeling cursed and the rain makes it worse
I know the course you sail on
The stars are all gone
The tide seems so high but I'm not moving on
Or getting better
I sit and shudder
You got to let me know when your coming back home.
She's got the photo
That she won't give away
She sits down by the docks all day
Is her ship coming in or did it just go out
Is it just something that she cries about

And I know, it ain't easy
But I will push it for the sake of tragedy
If I feel bad enough keep to myself enough
I might win in the end I just might
See that poor fool in the rain
See him shake, see him shiver
Hear him whisper my name put it to sleep because

She's got the photo
That she won't give away
She sits down by the docks all day
Is her ship coming in or did it just go out
Is it just something that she cries about
She's got the photo
It seems so common place
To be erased by another face
She's got the photo that she can't live without
And no one knows what she's crying about
She won't tell nobody what it's about
(note:I think some kind of malfunction happened here, I can't really tell what he is saying...Something about a city of glass)
She's got the photo
That she won't give away
She sits down by the docks all day
Is her ship coming in or did it just go out
Is it just something that she cries about
She's got the photo

It's M'nF'n Dave Parm's birthday so we are all going down to Ralph's on Friday.
Apparently Black Flag and The Minutemen are playing as well as Carry The Zero.
I hope it is not like the last time the Flag played Ralph's as detailed in Rollins' "Get In The Van". Not sure if I feel like doing the tussle with any men in blue.
Should be a hoot thought. I'll see you there?
Ok so here is "One In The Gut".
This one started as kind of a joke. We just wanted to see what we were capable of.
It is now one of my favorite songs to play, mainly because I usually pass out at the end.
I think the lyrics sort of speak for themselves.
Don't cross the Campaign.
"One In The Gut"

Tell the good doctor there's no need for police
This man is going nowhere
He's spitting lies like he is spreading disease
We'll save ourselves in this house
Your one last good look at yourself
Can't walk for miles to be chopped at the knees
I may be blind but I can see
Your shaking worse than what the drink does to me
Tell it to a priest
He'll write off every little misstep you took
Your mouth my foot

Climb up the walls
For a good fall
It's sinking in
I won't begin
Too hear this litany of sin

And now your crying about some history
This is your education
What you were taught gave you mistaken beliefs
Yeah you cut your teeth
You never bargained they'd be punched out before you could spit out

Climb up the walls
For a good fall
It's sinking in
I won't begin
Too hear this litany of sin

Make your peace
You made your bed
this fiction has a bitter end
It's one in the gut
and two in the head
Cut it up and weigh it down
Put the rest underground

Now everyone says there is love to be lent
It never passed upon me
Stop crying
There's nothing you can say that I will believe
Beg and bargain plead
It's just a role I play
Shoot that little, stupid, fucker

I talked enough
I talked to you
I told you what I wouldn't do
You act like you never saw this coming
Yeah, it's due
You tie me up and weigh me down
I'll bury you before I'm in the ground

In Your Dreams or One In The GutIn Your Dreams or One In The GutIn Your Dreams or One In The GutIn Your Dreams or One In The Gut...ok I'm going to flip a coin...tails is Dreams....
tails...
Before I start...Have you noticed that this band isn't constantly littering your inbox and comments page with annoying, generic promo shit.
It's called a mailing list everybody.
Just because we added you as a friend does not mean we choose to be inundated with your show listings and record announcements on a daily basis.
That's what blogs and bulletins are for. That way people have a choice.
Get it?
Gonna drop a fagan here and say"I'm a fool to do your dirty work..."
Ok, so not much commentary on this, it sort of is what it is, which is...I don't know, sometimes relationships between people can be nothing but complicated.
On a technical note this song has two bridges the we referred to as Jeff and Beau, (sorry Lloyd). It sort of didn't help to differentiate them really because we could never agree which one was which.
Until next time....Rory

"In Your Dreams"
Tell me one last thing that I could prove
To chase away every bad dream I gave to you
The blood was so bitter
The past is a river
That sometimes flows right back to you
You walk that road to just move on
There's nothing here
And nothings wrong
A face in the mirror
Doesn't get clearer
It's just hidden by the lines I've drawn

I think about it when the lights go on
There's only one place that I know I belong
It stands beside me just like everyday
I don't believe but a belief can stray

And all for naught
Well there you go
I didn't say that
I didn't mean to
I'm better than bitter
My swagger still shivers
And long ago is long ago
And how I blush it's obvious
Don't disregard a single touch
There's something I promise
We're lost in an honest
Breaking out of breaking up

Just take it off and say
"Imagined it was me"
Just take it off and be
ok

I think about it when the lights go on
There's only one place that I know I belong
It stands beside me just like everyday
I don't believe but a belief can stray
And every time you talk about a life you just can't live
and every little slight that you just don't want to forgive
I think about it like it's right from wrong
Somewhere between the two you still hold on

Just take it all and fall
Wish it all away
Just take it all again

Hope everyone had a good holiday.
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Ok, so this song is all Lee. I don't know what drugs he did on the day we cut this but he wasn't sharing...the phrase "herioc dose" comes to mind.
Most impressive.

"Song for New Amsterdam"

In the best interests of full disclosure we should not bemoan the fact that you're either going to get juked or nixed or crept one out of the three. And there are going to be those who dance and say that we deserve it, that's when I'm going to say, "let the other 40,000,000 people out there get famous."

Me? I'd rather stay nameless
Leave my remnants in folded up love letters
Shove them under wobbly coffee tables
Let them discern
While you'll be stuck in a held-over pattern
You'll be looking for the hidden messages throughout
The Chinese restaurant take-out menus
Let them party
You see I've never felt so far away
While I'm struggling to think over the din of screaming headlines in my eyes
Let them suture
Got no past and I got no future but
Here I am I reminicing and I'm pulling pints with my new-found friends over yesterdays
So let them buy mine
When I'm in a cougar bar
They're going to buy me a gin and tonic
While I make sure I'm going to get myself a movie cel of closing credits
Let them renege
You'll be holding back tears ever time you walk through two beams of light
Knowing full well what you saw that day.
Let them confine
Every time you walk around ghost towns
You can search for redemption
But settle for cell phone reception
Let them devise
Cute sloganeering while I say, "hey,
Maybe inevitability aint such a bad thing after all
Least for now"
Let the descry
Grokking fine feeling high in the off-time
Between well-known birthdays of well-known assassins
Let them dethrone
Everybody knows that it's all well-known that
Those who will be born in '46
Are going to die in '64
Let them define
I'll throw the outcome of curling contests
And then write editorials of what I did to hide the dollars and cents
Let them connive.
Contemplate the gavitas of having the coffee cup handle
Face to the left or face to the right
Let them relive
You can spend a whole afternoon patching up a sieve
While I'll just recast it as miniature Aztec artifacts
Let them remind
Retract the flags to half-mast
In memory of the untimely death of the creator of the Impala
Amen
Let the design
A sure-fire retrofit of an unmodernizable city
I dare you to try and gerrymander it's watery borders
Let them divine
You want to try and tell me the weather's just fine
The day after the next Easter
And the Easter after that and the Easter after that

Let me resign myself to the fact that this is how it's gonna end and if I have to wait til next Tuesday then, by God, Monday cannot come soon enough. So just shellac the directions on the nearest telephone pole, 'cause maybe, maybe, maybe I should have faked my own death.

Don't you realize that right now that
The dusk is the new night
Ennui is the fight
Collapse is the new [censored]
Esel is the new zeit
Unsure is the new quite
Anger is the new polite
And through it all fuck you is still fuck you.