Alright....so we've shipped out all the domestic 82588 shirts and the overseas will be shipped within the week. Here's a new limited design for you all to feast upon like lions to a carcass. It's for the song "Dead As History", and only 200 are being made. Around 800 "82588" shirts went in a 24 hour period, so don't sleep on this Dead As History shirt or IT will be history and you'll just be sad and depressed...and miserable....and probably eventually kill yourself honestly. Check it out here then go to the main page to pick it up.
The evil genius who works with us to design all these limited shirts, Shadowmonster, recently won an award or something from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC for his design for the Milk Lizard shirt. Check him out here, rocking the 82588 design, next to his Milk Lizard design, in an art gallery!
The best part about that picture...is THE FACE. Ben and I have a theory about THE FACE that I'll share with you real quick(sometimes it's just called FACE, when used as a verb or adjective). Basically, FACE is when you hear a riff, or a part of a song, that is just so nasty and righteous that it makes you make THE FACE. THE FACE is always kinda like you just ate something disgusting but are somehow satisfied with it at the same, like it's somehow gross and tasty all at once. Kinda like the face Bill Cosby always makes when he's dancing or when he eats a kingly piece of pie or one of those big sandwiches he always only gets to take a bite of before Claire yells at him(why did she yell at him for eating sandwiches?! is that what happens when you get married? sandwich eating becomes a crime?!). It's the face I imagine one would make if they got told they won the lottery while constipated. Something like that. So that's a secret of The Dillinger Escape Plan. We don't do anything, ANYTHING...unless it causes us to make THE FACE. If we're sitting around listening to demos or if Ben is playing guitar and we start nodding our head and making THE FACE when a certain part hits....its a keeper for sure. Obviously all of this dude's designs are FACE as a motherfuck, so it's only natural that he's in front of them and obviously can't keep himself from facing the fuck out. Face on, brother.
In other news...we're playing the Soundwave festival in Australia in early 2009. It's gonna be us, Nine Inch Nails, Alice In Chains, Bloodhound Gang, Lamb Of God, Underoath, PTW, ETID, and a bunch of other goodness. If you don't live in Australia THAT FUCKING SUCKS cause this is gonna be ridiculous. Check out the main page for dates or head over
here to check it out.
We're wrapping up a DVD, a documentary on early years Dillinger, from the beginning, all the way through the end of the Calculating Infinity cycle, which is gonna be really cool for the ten of you out there who weren't in elementary school when this band started. For everyone else, it'll be a history lesson well worth watching, to see how this beast got started.
We're writing new songs. They will be here soon. When I say soon, I mean DEP time, but soon nevertheless even factoring in DEP time....and I promise you, these songs are gonna make each and every one of you make THE FACE.
PS: If anyone hasn't gotten a shirt they ordered or is just wondering when the fuck to expect it, and they wanna talk to someone the way people who are depressed and wanna die have to call a hotline or whatever(someone out there reading this just got real sensitiiiiive and sad...."HEY! suicide's not funnny!!! don't joke like that!!!! last year one of my best friends blah blah blah". RELAX. Don't have a HEART ATTACK MC Serious) just email dillingermerch@yahoo.com and the guy who checks it will get you sorted out or make you feel better inside. Chances are it just didn't mail yet or your paypal address was wrong.