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Our third album, which has been a very long time in the making, is essentially done.  I almost never though we would finally be able to say that, as the obstacles that have appeared during the making of this record have often times seemed insurmountable.  However, the songs are done.  We are in the final, final stages of mixing - in fact we might as well say the mixing is done and we are moving on to mastering.  Getting so close; proofing the liner notes, tweaking the artwork, making plans for promotion.  It all feels nice. 

Here, for posterity, is a preview that we wrote up for our website regarding the new album.  Travel back with us to 2006, to a time when we though recording this album was going to be easy, that is was going to be called "Food Drinks Music", and that it was going to be released in 2007 (ha ha ha!)

july 2006 - food drinks music is the name of the forthcoming third album by avant-pop band shitting glitter. currently the band is writing and recording demos for the album, which will be the follow up to free alongside ship, released in january of '06. being their third album, the band plans to continue to hone their sound and attempt to move away from what many have labeled an 'eighties' sound. tracks that are currently being worked on include two which have been performed live many times, the apple falls (a kylie-esque pop tune with a disco beat and bass line reminiscent of i feel love by donna summer), and idiot light (a funky and dirty little number that sounds like prince if he had been in a garage band in high school). the collection is a departure and mixes the esoteric and surreal art-pop of laurie anderson with the electro-grrl-punk of letigre. what's the point is a punky number inspired by the early days of the b-52's and pat benetar. unthinkable is a sly and slinky grinder not unlike an early garbage track, whereas hopeless romantic alternates between a r&b flavored verse with a driving, pulsating bridge and chorus à la fisherspooner. so despite the references to eighties acts and bands that sound eighties, the record will be a thoroughly modern affair. the band is incorporating more organic sounds such as percussion, drums, bass guitar, more vocal layers; anything goes in fact. new technology mixed with earned wisdom and a larger perspective have naturally progressed the band's sound over the past year since they have finished their sophomore album. they have listened to feedback, searched out new sounds, and ultimately made a conscious effort to dig deeper with the new material. food drinks music will continue where free alongside ship left off, but keep in mind just how far the ship has sailed... 

It's really funny to see what has changed.  "Apple Falls" probably won't remind anyone of Kylie, but after numerous mixes and alterations at least it sounds similar to how it sounds live, if a little guitar heavy.  "Idiot Light" probably never sounded like Prince in a garage band, but who knows.  It turned out pretty well.  "What's The Point" is now titled "Legalese" and we've been playing it for so long that we just tend to forget about it... but it's a really good song and will most likely be the opener of the album.  "The Collection" has changed so much from the original demo, it used to be sparse, quirky, and a little experimental.  Now, it's a lush, albeit lyrically obtuse, pop song.  "Unthinkable" was always titled "Now Unthinkable" I think, so it must have been a typo.  It has not stayed very much the same.  One of the few songs on here we have never played live, along with "Treasure Good Things" which, in July 2006, may not have even been an idea yet, let alone a song.  Our current favorites, "19th and Lexington" and "Milk Money" were not even conceived yet back then.  It's so hard to believe that in July 2006, we were already thinking we had finished this record, or at least written it.  Three years later and it's not even the same record; at the same time, everything we thought about it then has gone into it to make it what it has become.

We just hope there are people out there that still want to hear it.  It's been 2 years since we released our last CD, which was just an EP which was meant to be a single to tide people over until this album.  Hopefully, since then, more people have heard of us; our fear however is that everyone from the Free Alongside Ship days may have forgotten us.  I guess we'll see soon enough...

Hey gang, we just put up some pics from last night's show on the Hippodrome, the shuttle bus for the Downtown Art Walk.  We played a short, "unplugged" set including the songs Luscious Mag, Mondo di Corpo, The Collection, Mustache Rides 5 Cents, 19th and Lexington, and Slut Buffet; all with just a battery-powered keyboard and one battery-powered amp! 

We had a great time and will be doing it again next month.  Big thanks to The Ukulady for inviting us to perform on the bus; she also played which was brilliant as usual, in addition to our favorite boy band, Reigel and Blatt.
Check out The Hippodrome! here.

Well a lot has been going on but we were not really able to figure out how to update this here website and blog - now we’ve got that taken care of, hopefully we will be more forthcoming with updates and news.
We’ve been doing our club night, hot pursuit, for a few months now and having a great time doing so.  The first night was in february at the palms in west hollywood and featured us, the ukulady, alaska thunderfuck, and dj myles matisse.  In march, we featured that’s what she said, slowmo erotic, daddy wild, alaska thunderfuck, dj eddie tyclus, and of course us.  After that we decided to move the club around from place to place, truly being in hot pursuit, so the next night will be may 7th at mr. t’s bowl in highland park.  the bands playing will be us, ask alice, and slowmo erotic, plus dj eddie tyclus, alaska thunderfuck and coco ono.  we have some more shows coming up too so come be part of the fun.
we have been working a lot on the new album, “Open for business”, which we hope to finally release this summer.  it has really been a “long strange trip” but we think it has been worth it, and we really think you’ll dig it.  we hope to put “19th & Lexington” out soon as a single and video.
meanwhile, we’ve really been getting into the groove with our new live band, which includes matt hermstad from slowmo erotic (ever so graciously loaned to us by his boyfriend, kevin) on guitar and alejandra arellano on drums.  We are writing some new songs together that we plan to record soon, so that the follow up to “Open for business” will come out soon afterwards (not 3 1/2 years later!).

We started going through the vast archives of Shitting Glitter video tapes (we have a large percentage of our past shows on film) and seeing what was there. 
We will be putting select clips on YouTube for posterity and so we can watch them again and again with the touch of a button.  Maybe people besides us will watch them too, who knows.

First, here is "Mondo di Corpo" from our 100th Show, at Rockotitlan in Hollywood, Nov. 12 2005.  Rockotitlan, on the corner of Fountain and Wilton, serves as the coffee shop where Sarah Silverman and her friends hang out on The Sarah Silverman Program. 


Secondly, going further back in time, here's our cover of Missing Persons "Words" performed at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood on Jan. 24, 2004.  This is when the band included Eddie Tyclus of Swivel on drums.

Thanks so much to Annie of the band Ask Alice for inviting us to be part of the first annual Cut & Paste Rock & Roll night at DiPiazza's in Long Beach.  It was a great night full of queer music and art! 
We had a special guest guitarist, our friend Matt from the band Slowmo Erotic, who also played a kickass set that night!  And of course we had our drummer Alejandra and our go-go squad, Coco Ono and Alaska Thunderfuck!  It was quite a night.

We're very happy with the response we have been getting from the first suite of "Open For Business." If you haven't already heard the songs, they are available to purchase from our Music Freedom site.
Also, you can watch the video for "I'm A Vampire" over on YouTube and a montage of photos featuring the song "Legalese" is here. And you can check out live versions of "The Collection" from C.U.N.T. TV and "Socially Activist" at Bakersfield Gay Pride.
Last night, I went out to Malibu to work on the remaining songs and choose the next four songs. It seems that the next four songs will be: "Hopeless Romantic", "19th & Lexington", "Now Unthinkable" and "Treasure Good Things." Those four songs are similar in the way that they are are fairly dark and serious, a little more sophisticated that what we have done before. They are more "wintery" songs if you will.
That would leave four songs for the final installment, but you'll hear about those later.
We do have a couple shows coming up in the meantime, so definitely come check us out if you get a chance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2DiqRXR0zI

Here is another new song! This one is "Legalese" and it's one we've been playing live for quite awhile now, so we're ecstatic to finally let you hear the recorded version. This song features guest vocalists on the Chorus including Dylan "Coco Ono" Tucker, Paulieplastic from Mass., and Jessica Lawless, as well as live drums by Alexa.

This message regarding last night's debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin from Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom To Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide, was published on www.towleroad.com:

As I've noted to some colleagues and reporters, analyzing last night's exchange on same-sex couples and marriage:

The good news is that Senator Biden expressed his belief that gay and non-gay couples should be treated equally under the law, and committed to support for the incidents of marriage, the legal protections and responsibilities that come with marriage. The bad news is that he stopped short of supporting actual equality through the freedom to marry itself, the only way to provide the full security, clarity, and protections that marriage alone brings, and failed (as did the moderator) to point out the inconsistencies and falsehoods in Governor Palin's answer. His comments garbled the distinction between religious rites of marriage, properly left to religions to decide, and the legal right to marry, regulated by the government, which should not discriminate. Supporters of gay equality should not be using the anti-gay forces' false talking-point (introduced by Governor Palin) that ending gay couples' exclusion from marriage is "redefining" marriage; marriage is not "defined" by who is denied it.

The good news in Governor Palin's answer was that she felt obliged to go out of her way to proclaim herself "tolerant of adults in America choosing their partners, choosing relationships that they deem best for themselves," a position that, if true, raises the question of why the law should then discriminate against those Americans, whether in marriage or other legal mechanisms such as domestic partnership (which she opposed in Alaska and tried to overturn by constitutional amendment).

Her assertion of non-judgmental "tolerance" is inconsistent with her chuch's hosting an anti-gay "change through prayer" program that she has refused to repudiate. And her claim that "not in a McCain-Palin administration, to do anything to prohibit, say, visitations in a hospital or contracts being signed, negotiated between parties" is at odds with Senator McCain's support for anti-gay constitutional amendments such as the one in Arizona that would have impeded legal acknowledgment of gay couples and denied the range of protections, from marriage down to specific legal measures such as partnership recognition, to unmarried couples, gay and non-gay.

McCain's and Palin's actions -- nearly always rejecting pro-gay steps and measures, nearly always supporting anti-gay positions -- is the worst news.

Overall, then, the bad news is that while one party's positions are immensely better than the others, both candidates failed to support full equality for America's gay families (despite Governor Palin's invocation of "equal rights" as an American value in her closing); the worse news is that the real and immense difference between their actual positions -- one supporting actual movement toward equality and fairness, the other offering bland assurances belied by actual policy positions deepening discrimination -- may have gotten lost.

And, to end on a positive, it is good news that yet again we see that the discussion around marriage equality is moving politicians, sincerely or otherwise, to greater acknowledgment of gay families and the wrongness of discrimination against them. That one presidential ticket is indeed committed to specific legal measures to reduce discrimination and, indeed, tacit support for marriage equality, even if they won't yet embrace or explain it, is perhaps best of all.

— Evan Wolfson, FreedomtoMarry.org