the show in trenton went as well as it could have with a little less than two hours of practice in the last 9 months. i only shat all over one song, which, in my defense, was half a result of the farting noises coming from the bass rig i borrowed and i also guess i broke and half a result of 3 pints of $2 vodka tonics from the nice guy bartenders at the Mill Hill Saloon. however, in the bass rig's and the vodka's defense, i also suck it.

that night we celebrated with absinthe and vaporizer at matt's neighbor's house in the forests of pennsylvania and ensured a painfully hungover train ride back to the city.

in case you missed it, here is what you missed

and if you are so sad that you missed our triumphantatious return, go to our page and listen to some of the tunes we had been working on for so long before matt abandoned us before crawling back to us.

sorry that day long jiffy turned into a week.

 

Having completely exhausted our attempts to capitalize in these epic times of prosperity, we are sure that everyone will be glad to stop holding their collective breath, have some sodas, and revel in the joy that is our return to the corners of dirty bars in the tri-state area.

The date,  which will be much like the 4th of late November, is actually this Saturday, November 22nd.

The venue fortunate enough to host the occasion is the Mill Hill Basement at 300 S Broad St in Trenton "Makes, the World Takes," New Jersey.

Our friends are the Press.

We will be playing the entirety of our new 6 song EP, which will be up on myspace in a jiffy. Probably a day long jiffy.

I assume this could be our last show before the storm, so in case we don't see you, enjoy stuffing your faces.

We give thanks that you are you.

so we ran out of parhcment paper and we cut off our calligrapher’s hands for touching himself inappropriately.

but we have this piece of crap for you.



not only is it your last chance to see the oaots for months and months of torurous sadness and lamentation, but it is also the imperialists bootleg EP party show. so you will get free musics if you come. both live and recorded

that entrepreneur matt garappolo found a sweet deal of living the sweet life in an airerstam in savana in april fixing up a duplex and making a killing off rich art school kids.

so as to not be completely useless to ourselves and others, we have decided to record an EP at the end of the month, tentatively entitled, hot lunch. so for now its time to practice the six best songs we have written with joe and go into joe sr.'s studio as we transition into april. when the ladies start wearing short shorts as soon as its 70 degrees out. perfect timing.

before then we do have one last and mighty shout to shout. thursday march 20th will be the last night of typical imperialism at ottos until the end of summer. it will be tons of fun. details will be written by our calligrapher on parhcment paper and mailed first class priority to your mom's house. so we hope you still talk to mom.

the show last night was great. as usual there were dumb shits being dumb, but everyone had fun. we played as the press so as not to confuse the door guy. there were supposed to be two bands before us. there were two. but before them there was a freeform art project which featured a cello, acoutsic and keyboard that you couldnt hear and a girl drawing a monkey on a huge sheet of paper on the floor. they played forever. we didnt play till super late and had to adjust for the one two punch of oaots and imperialists as two meltdown boys got lost in greenpoint. green. point. i had many half priced yuenglings and my drunken opinion is that we played swell. i almost lost my glasses. i cant see too good without them. but someone found them with little damage inflicted. so i consider it an overall victory.

our next show is march 20th at ottos with the invincible gods and the mercy bends. the ikes are having a party on the ides of march. if you dont know what that means you cant come. the imperialists will be playing that. swell

the imperialists are playing tonight at the charleston. it is the happy friday leap year show the are playing with the meltdowns. they were going to be playing with the press. the one and only typicals killed the press. the oaots are playing the happy friday leap year day night show tonight at the charleston. it is free. buy a drink and you get a whole free whole pizza. the charleston is on bedford north of 7th right by the L train stop. we play at 10. the meltdowns play at 11. the imperilalists headline at midnight for all the night owlettes out there. don't, not go.



on a more personal note i broke my phone. dropped about 700 times too many. i broke the screen open at work to see inside. it was rather uninteresting.

i lost my camera at those shows a few weeks back. so no footage. no proof. no fun.

this weekend's shows went off in a typical oaot fashion, even the imperialists set that the oaots didn't play. thursday at ottos featured four fast and furious sets of punk rockin goodness. the press opened up with a set full of new songs and lipstick smeared on their faces. then we learned that music was supposed to end at 11, not midnight like i had agreed with the booker. so we squeezed the sets down a little and were even able to split the difference and play till 11:30. the oaots played for 23 minutes and fit in 8 songs of a jumping screaming kicking tantrum of a punk rock set. the new york howl was fantastic fury of soul punk and the imperialists kicked the most ass ever. the crowd was great and everyone was happy. just as expected. we have some footage of three of the four sets, although i am unsure where my camera went after friday's clifton show where i decided to get sloshed on vodka and pass out in the back of mike's car directly after we played. again, assuming we still posess the camera, we also have video proof that this set actually happened. i hope we have a shot of the dickhead sound guy (who hates me and my bass) being a dickhead and telling us we sound like shit. thats most of all that i remember from that set. then we got white castle. in two weeks we are heading up to bostonish area to play abbey lounge courtesy of muy cansado. yippee. hopefully we will have some video of the show up soon. now we detox. 

 

hey kittens and roosters, happy 22nd day of the new year. ours has started fantastically. the new years party was off the skillet and i tied a fantastic bowtie.

since then, the basement room of musical tunes has been in comission and been keeping the neighbors up in the early evenings when at least one of us is filled with the need to scream our heads off. and that we do. and do it often. all we need is a punching bag down there and no one would ever be frustrated ever again, until we have to wake up and go back to our stupid fucking jobs.

we are finally working on some new material, and soon will start gearing up to work on preproduction for our next album, tentatively entitled the oaots heart a.a.

so there is a nice balance of awesome floating around us and we are ready to use it. this thursday we are doing another night of typical imperialism at ottos shrunken head. we are very pleased with the lineup and know it is going to be packed with people, both likeable and not, friendly and not, not sober and more not sober. but one thing is for sure, they will all be happy.especially since it is supposed to snow. everyone likes going out in the snow, right?



friday night the imperialists will head down to clifton to rockit with rabid roy in celebration of the meltdowns' cd release party. yey!

We are having a rock and roll new years formal cocktail party on monday to celebrate the approaching and impending apocalypse. Come around ten, ask us for the address, I'm wearing a fancy dinner jacket.

Next week we are also playing a last minute show at Matchless thanks to the antisocial, coffee drinking, comic book artist, Mad Cat. Its on friday, Jan 4th with The Imperialists opening up at 8, then Snake Vision at 9, Tin Kitchen at 10 and we close up the night at 11. Matchless is a fun venue and the whole night should be pretty awesome.

I'm fighting a shitty cold, on a brownie and dayquil and can't think of anything else too interesting to comment on. Blah work drink blah rock blah vblaalbblahabalhlaaaaaa.....