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Have you ever been in a situation where you wished someone would call you so you could pretend that something important came up and you had to leave? Well, now you can do exactly that with the Popularity Dialer.
Just give it a phone number, date and time and the type of call you want, and you’re all set. The options range from the basic “popularity call” to “cousin in need” to the newly added “band practice” call, which is especially good for all you lazy musicians out there just looking for an excuse to get out of something.
I’m not exactly sure how this works, but it’s awesome. I want my own private Chuck E Cheese robot band (or whatever this place is… Showboz Pizza or something).
On this date exactly 5 years ago we released the self-titled album on Roadrunner Records. The album went on to sell over 30,000 copies in the U.S alone and was supported by a big fancy video and several months on touring. Despite it being our only release for Roadrunner I’m sure we all have enough memories from this time in the bands history to last us a lifetime. From recording the album in Nashville with Malcolm Springer to doing a video that was probably a huge waste of money to the last tour date for the album in South Carolina it was all a blast (even though at the time we maybe didn’t appreciate it as much as we should of).
Just thought I’d post this to celebrate one of the many great times in the bands history. I’ll try to do more in the future.
Over the years, users have voted on their favorite postings to the site, which are then archived in the Best of Craigslist section. Some of the highlights:
Who wants to buy the rights to all these characters that I just invented, and now own the rights to, in perpetuity throughout the known universe and throughout such other universes or dimensions that may become known at some later date?
This is a time-lapse video of someone doing a painting of John Locke (the character from LOST) in Photoshop. It’s always interesting to the process an artist takes to get to the final result.
As you may have noticed, I rearranged the sidebar a little bit and added a new section called “Linktown.” It’s basically just a list of links. Pretty simple.
On a daily basis I come across a ton of stuff that I think is worth sharing with everyone, but I never seem to get around to posting it. This makes that process a lot easier. Instead of the sporadic blog posts with a list of random links (that are usually weeks old by the time I get around to posting them), I can throw something up right away with not a whole lot of effort.
My other thought was that if I can’t use random links as an excuse for a blog post, I’ll be forced to actually come up with some real content. I’ve had ideas for what that content could be for a long time. I just haven’t made the time to sit down and write it.
Mostly I was thinking that with all the experiences we’ve had over the past 12 years, we can help other bands avoid some of the mistakes we’ve made as well as share the things that worked. And I’m sure there are people out there who’d had similar experiences and can teach us a thing or two. Whether or not they read this blog remains to be seen (at this point, probably not).
We’re certainly not music industry experts, but we have been through a lot over the years and what we’ve learned might be useful to you if you’re in a band, thinking about starting one or even just trying to get into the industry in some other way (management, promotion, etc.)
I also thought some people might be interested in getting a more “day-to-day” look at what we’ve been doing for the last few years. Sometimes I’m not really sure what it is exactly that we’re doing, but we can certainly take a shot at explaining it here and see if you find it interesting.
If there’s anything in particular you’d like to see us talk about or otherwise “get into”, feel free to comment.
I used to think Mr. Show was the greatest thing that was ever on TV. This just might be a new level of greatness that I honestly didn’t even know existed.
Apparently Jim Morrison and Michael Hutchence talked to a psychic about their "controversial deaths" and the "many myths that surround them" and she put all of it into this book.
If you were going to shows in this area in the 90's, you probably went to a few at City Gardens. This is an archive of flyers from shows between 1992-1994.
