CODY LUSBY Smothers with Butterflies

Posted on March 13, 2013 by B_MAOI

Name: Cody M Lusby
Nickname: Mustachio
Sign: Aquarius/Capricorn

Favorite:
Color: naples yellow
Scent: Bounce “outdoor fresh”
Food: cookies

MAOI: Are you superstitious?
CL: Not really, but I try not to walk under ladders and I don’t like breaking mirrors.

MAOI: If your art was a cereal, what would it be/ similar too and why?
CL: I would have to say “Basic 4” because it is a delicious blend of sweet and tangy fruits, crunchy almonds, and a wholesome variety of gains. Just like my art is a blend of spray paint, collage, acrylic paint and oil paint.

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Faking It – A Dandy Warhol’s Story

Posted on February 28, 2013 by B_MAOI

(stole photo from The Swollen Fox)

It came to my attention in my late(r) teens (2002) The Dandy Warhols, to me, was the band that all the cool kids liked. At first when I saw people mention the Dandy Warhols, I’d think they were spelling Andy Warhols name wrong. And yes I did embarrassingly correct a few people. Eventually I would mindlessly agree to also loving the band when people would mention them in casual conversation. Not adding to the discussion, but I knew this was a band to care about. As I was not too internet savvy, too scared to download music, and YouTube to my knowledge did not exist in my teens eventually I forgot to look them up. And it wasn’t till 2011 The Dandy Warhols really took hold and a solid file of recognition was sorted in my mind.

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HENRIETTA HARRIS “Birdy Num Nums”

Posted on February 7, 2013 by B_MAOI

Name: Henrietta Harris

Nickname: Henri, Sparky

Sign: Capricorn

Favorite:

Color : Powder Blue,

Book : Brideshead Revisited,

Beverage : Coffee

Q1. What is the best show (music) you have ever been too?

A1. Definitely a Mint Chicks show (Ruban from Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s old band) but it’s too hard to pick just one. I saw them practically every weekend for a few years.

Q2. If you could live in any time period or be anyone dead or alive, who would you be or where would you go?
A2. The 1960s for the music and fashion.

Q3. What is something you hate doing, but must do anyways?
A3. I say the word “like” in sentences too much and I hate myself for it.

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RUMSPRINGA

Posted on March 30, 2011 by B_MAOI

Name: Cecilia Della Peruti – no longer in Rumspringa/ now leads Gothic Tropic
Nickname: The band calls me “C”
Sign: Virgo (libra rising, gemini moon)

Favorite:
Dessert. too many to choose from…. A well made Flan.
Holiday. Halloween (and New Years)
Book. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Q1. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
A1. Not so much as one friend, but imaginary scenarios, definitely. All the time haha.

Q2. Personal Quote?
A2. “son of a bitch” is a staple… and taken from a text convo between my roommate and I “We can donate some of that $50 to strippers and death rock. Yeah, I’ll be okay this week, I’d rather do that than buy lavish meals.”

Q3. Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiac signs?
A3. I believe the earliest of human civilizations referenced the night sky and documented their lives according to the stars/planets. Over time, enough consistencies suggested a correlation between humans and what exists outside our planet. It’s already a scientific fact that the moon influences the tides of our oceans, I think as humans, products of evolution, we’re not exempt from the effects of the planets/star systems/universe ect.. I demystify it, because the flower children often distract from the basic logic of it all.

Q4. Do you drink coffee? If so how many cups a day?
A4. Unfortunately I work in a corporate office, so YES. Maybe 2 cups a day. Sometimes 3 😦 Only started about 8 months ago though. Prior to that, absolutely not. Never, in fact. Tea…and hot chocolate…

Q5. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?
A5.Probably profanity

Q6. What superhero would you make your sidekick?
A6. Quail Man?

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7. Forwardness, intuition, absurd humor, the ability to do anything i cant do…I could go on.
Q8. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A8. a ‘The Cool Guy complex’…And saying “melk” instead of “milk.” Same rule applies to “pellow.”

Q9. Bathroom read?
A9. Mome (graphic novel)
Q10. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A10. I pissed my pants in 7th grade on the tennis court. I was laughing too hard. I think even then I thought it was too funny to be mortified.

Name: Ricardo Robles Jr.
Nickname: Caco
Sign: Virgo?

Favorite:
Dessert- too much sugar, don’t like it. I like deserts though.
Holiday- Kwanza (don’t celebrate it).
Book- “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”- In 9th grade I realized my worldview was similar to Vonnegut’s.

Q1. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
A1.God.

Q2. Personal Quote?
A2. “Get Real.”

Q3. Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiac signs?
A3. Hmmm. This one’s hard for me. The idea that the time of year a person is born somehow determines their personality seems like blatant bullshit. I don’t see very good evidence for it; but maybe there could be checkable evidence later- like the location of the other planets of our solar system in relation to earth somehow affects the physiology of a growing fetus’ brain…? The way Carl Jung explained Zodiac Signs makes it sound not too far-fetched: the weather and time of year that a person is born naturally affects a person’s first experiences outside of the womb, and therefore their personalities. My reply to this would be to ask: do only people born outdoors exhibit personality traits associated with their Zodiac symbol? Most of us in developing countries are born in hospitals with roofs and temperature control…How could this apply?

My own horoscope suggests that I’m very picky/anal. Most of the time though, my house etc. is pretty messy and I can just go with the flow…..then again my long ass answer to this question may indicate otherwise! Often, horoscopes seem to perfectly describe a person. I read one of those birthday books and it describes me well. So, I’d say I’m skeptical, but allowing for the possibility.

Q4. Do you drink coffee? If so how many cups a day?
A4. No coffee. I’m always shaky and nervous. That +coffee could = a mess.

Q5. If you had a parrot what would you teach it to say?
A5. I’d see how many digits of Pi it could memorize….might take some time.

Q6. What superhero would you make your sidekick?
A6. Magneto, duh.

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7. If a person is really opinionated but not closed to debate, I like em.

Q8. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A8. Those who, on a certain level (often barely conscious), are comfortable lying to themselves or others because life is easier that way and second guessing your ideas or values is too uncomfortable.

Q9. Bathroom read?
A9. I don’t take THAT long to poop…but I might play Bubble buster on my phone.

Q10. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A10. Every time someone walks into my house (often), they are greeted by a CD tower which I’m too lazy to move. It happens to be the tower from the time period between 6th grade and 9th grade with great bands like Limp Bizkit, Slayer, and everyone on the Warped Tour…..there’s a couple I’m proud of and might still listen to like Richard Hell, but for the most part it’s horrible.

Rumspringa is indie rock dipped in a 70’s psychedelic sound. With paisley printed melodies and guitar work they have a familiar gypsy sensibility. Unlike most psychedelic music that tends to be so trippy one needs to be on hallucinogens to appreciate the music. Rumspringa has a very grounded rock sounds that is more of an homage to the great rock stars of days gone by, instead of being trapped in the rock stars acid trip. As a contemporary band they are taking classic rock elements and brushing off the cobwebs to make them fresh again. Their song “Shake’em Loose Tonight” dips into the love den with a heavy velvet rhythm, easily I can imagine a bunch of people dancing together in a room decorated with silk scarves and bohemian pillows. But its songs like Triptych and Sway that validates their music in its current relevance while nodding to their influences and inspirations.

Please listen to more Rumspringa on thier Facebook

Dead To Me

Posted on March 18, 2011 by B_MAOI

Name: Tyson
Nickname: Chicken
Sign: Libra

Favorite:
Color. Green
Food.Burrito
Season. Summer

Q1. What animal trait do you wish to possess?

A1. Flight, mating for life, and awareness/knowledge of the earths electro-magnetic fields.

Q2. If you could live in a movie for a day, which movie would it be? Would you be yourself or another character?

A2. Boyz In The hood. I’d be myself and tell Ricky not to split up with Tre at the end so he doesn’t get shot. In turn, Doughboy wouldn’t have to retaliate and then he wouldn’t end up in prison. Best. Movie. Ever.

Q3. Bathroom read?

A3. Secret Teachings of All Ages by Many P Hall and Be Here Now by Ram Dass are in the bathroom currently. Both are really good to just open up randomly and start reading. Tons of really cool imagery in both books too.

Q4. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?

A4. I’ve had a lot of very exciting moments in my life, but I would like to think that the most exciting is yet to come. Besides,I would hate to name just one past experience because I feel like it makes everything that happened after anticlimactic.

Q5. Do you have a lucky charm?

A5. It sounds silly but I kind of consider some of my tattoos my lucky charms. My elephant on my arm protects me from impulse and the third eye on my sugar skull sees with my minds eye everything that my regular eyes cannot.

Q6. What do you miss most about being a kid? What the best thing about being an adult?

A6. I miss the feeling of infinite possibility and innocent naivete. When I was real young I was oblivious to the potential of human cruelty and becoming painfully aware of it as I got older is something I’ve never really got used to. As for being an adult, I guess the best thing is the gift of loving myself. I know how to now, but didn’t then.

Q7. If you had to give up one of your 5 senses, which one would you abandon?

A7. Smell. Reluctantly.

Q8. You were slipped a radioactive roofie by an evil scientist and now have mutated, what’s your superpower?

A8. The ability to speak every language spoken on earth.

Q9. Best compliment ever received?

A9. When someone tells me that a song I wrote helped them through a hard time, or even that it just made them happy for a few minutes is pretty much the best compliment ever as far I’m concerned.

Q10. Greatest strength? Greatest Weakness?

A10. My greatest strength is that I realize I’m weak. It makes me strong.

This is a momentous post as Dead To Me is the FIRST PUNK BAND to grace the pages of My Favorite MAOI. Breaking this musical barrier on the blog, I couldn’t be happier as Dead To Me is a straight up, no chaser, no filler, no gimmick punk band. They play the kind of punk music that inspired and fueled Warped Tour before it went strangely drastically astray into the sugar coated overly processed land of pop-punk it lives in today. (Jeffrey Star has been on the Warped Tour bill, need I say more). Playing their instruments hard and fast with lyrics that are a bloody heart on the bands sleeve. Singing about overcoming ones demons, establishment frustration, and the trials n’ tribulations of love; they cover all the basic raw truths that fuel punk ideals. Opening for bands like Screeching Weasels and NOFX, they deserve every minute of stage time their sets allow. Never holding back while performing, fans go crazy singing a long to passion filled songs. And lets not forget the element of fun that every true blue great band possess, above all else Dead To Me is fun! You want to get down and start a circle pit, surf a crowd, blast it on your car stereo while stuck in traffic or speeding down the freeway. A kick in the stomach, to say wake up you’re alive, now enjoy it damn it!

Please check out more of Dead To Me’s music on their Myspace Page

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits – A Lurid Stew

Posted on February 3, 2011 by B_MAOI

Name: Christopher Frederick Newcomer
Nickname: Chris
Sign: Pisces

Favorite

Cookie: EMPIRE BISCUIT
Holiday: New Years Eve
Flower: Ranunculus

Q1. What is one of your vices?
A1. Sometimes I have a real flip attitude.

Q2. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A2. Hearing other people’s shitty loud music through my apartment walls or blasting out of their cars.

Q3. Have you ever been in a food fight?
A3. I was once slapped in the face with a burrito.

Q4. Have you ever done a physical challenge, like drink an entire gallon of milk in an hour?
A4. I never haven’t accepted a challenge of any kind.

Q5. What movie would you want to live in for a day? Would you be yourself or another character?

A5. Patton/Patto

Q6. Do you have a phobia? Or what is your most irrational fear?
A6. Spiders. Dying in the fireball of a plane crash. That actually doesn’t seem too irrational to me, though.

Q7. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A7. Being born was probably exciting.

Q8. What do you wish was invented?
A8. Human flight. Invisibility. Giant cats that you can ride like horses.

Q9. Childhood ambition?
A9. The first thing I apparently ever wanted to be was a garbageman.

Q10. What is something everyone else loves and you just don’t get why?
A10. People must like it or there wouldn’t be any, but I don’t really understand why Yoshinoya exists.
Name: jenni Tarma
Nickname: Tarms
Sign: aries

Favorite:

cookie: mint chocolate chip
holiday: Halloween
lower: lily of the valley

Q1. What is one of your vices?
A1. The sauce.

Q2. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A2.Incompetence.

Q3. Have you ever been in a food fight?
A3.No. Seems like a total waste of delicious food, which you could munch on instead.

Q4. Have you ever done a physical challenge, like drink an entire gallon of milk in an hour?
A4. I once challenged myself to eat a bite of catfood, which it turns out is surprisingly bland.

Q5. What movie would you want to live in for a day? Would you be yourself or another character?
A5. I would be any character from Scott Pilgrim, and live in their magical video game fantasy land.

Q6. Do you have a phobia? Or what is your most irrational fear?
A6. Murky water= no bueno.

Q7. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A7.I got to play a show on top of an Austrian mountain, another one on an outdoor stage overlooking the Bosphorus, and another one at the Hollywood Bowl. All three of those were pretty rad. And cold.

Q8. What do you wish was invented?
A8. Teleporting, although I think they’re already working on that. Also, it would be cool to see the inside of a black hole.

Q9. Childhood ambition?
A9. Astronaut/ secret agent.

Q10. What is something everyone else loves and you just don’t get why?
A10. Beer- it’s not that I mind it, I just think it’s overrated. And mayonnaise fucking sucks. Most of all though, the thing I currently hate above everything else, is that stupid show Glee.

Name: Jack Burnside
Nickname: I’ve had a bunch of these. Most are vulgar.
Sign: Capricorn

Favorite
cookie: Mint chocolate chip
holiday: Christmas
flower: Jacaranda

Q1. What is one of your vices?
A1. I feel it would be unfair to my myriad vices to pick out just one.

Q2. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A2. Bad spelling.

Q3. Have you ever been in a food fight?
A3. Yes. Several, actually.

Q4. Have you ever done a physical challenge, like drink an entire gallon of milk in an hour?
A4. I prefer to goad others into food related challenges.

Q5. What movie would you want to live in for a day? Would you be yourself or another character?A5. The Life Aquatic. I’d like to be Steve Zissou and see it turn out a little better.

Q6. Do you have a phobia? Or what is your most irrational fear?
A6. I hate confined spaces, particularly multi-level parking lots.

Q7. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A7. Either rafting down the Zambezi in Zimbabwe or waterfall rappelling in Costa Rica. Or maybe seeing David Byrne play Naive Melody at Disney Hall a few years ago. One of those. I think.

Q8. What do you wish was invented?
A8. Some kind of a real life command Z / undo button.

Q9. Childhood ambition?
A9. Starting center fielder for the Chicago Cubs.

Q10. What is something everyone else loves and you just don’t get why?
A10. Bloody Marys.

Name: Dan Horne
Nickname: Horn
Sign: Capricon

Favorite:

Cookie. Holiday. Flower…. Whatever is the current craze.

Q1. What is one of your vices?
A1.Beer

Q2. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A2. Cheapskate rich people.

Q3. Have you ever been in a food fight?
A3. No. I like food why would I fight it?

Q4. Have you ever done a physical challenge, like drink an entire gallon of milk in an hour?
A4. I play real sports. I’m not trying to be the best at eating or anything.

Q5. What movie would you want to live in for a day? Would you be yourself or another character? A5. Willie Mays Hayes in Major League

Q6. Do you have a phobia? Or what is your most irrational fear?
A6. Spiders

Q7. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A7. 89 earthquake at Candlestick Park. I like earthquakes.

Q8. What do you wish was invented?
A8. The guitar solo

Q9. Childhood ambition?
A9. Jimi Hendrix

Q10. What is something everyone else loves and you just don’t get why?
A10. Mediocre Music. Very in right now.

Small confession: I’m never fully confident about writing my little sum up of the bands I survey, because I don’t write like a music writer (and this is no exception). It seems as adults the insecurites of our teen years are supposed to be gone, and we are to be confident in all our actions. But the more I talk to other people in the realm of “adulthood” it’s not that your insecurities fall away from our teen years, we just get better at working through the fear. Why do I go into this? Because I feel Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits is music for adults, the twenty thirty forty somethings all still figuring it out. With lyrics like “Saturday friends, are you sure of them?”, from the song Right Ones, it opens up a peep hole into the land of “adults”. When we are teens we know who our friends are, we have our clique, and even if we don’t like them we stick with them. As adults we have the power to walk away, we can find new friends, we don’t have to stick with the wrong ones. There is a familiarity about the music of Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits, and I believe that familiarity comes from the fact their music encompasses the insecurity and the power that we have as “adults”. I don’t really care for the term “Young Adult” because it indicates an age in which you grow into an adult. I feel that being an adult is a mindset. And that mindset, I don’t think anyone ever feels like an adult.Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits get that, or at least their music conveys it.

( and for a friend that said i didn’t say anything about the band, in my best music writer voice: the music is dreamy but not trancey, upbeat but not pop, more like you have a small pep in your step, there is no gimmick or niche, it just is what it is and that’s good.)

Listen to more Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits on their Myspace Page.

Find more artists like RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS at Myspace Music

Murder by Death

Posted on January 10, 2011 by B_MAOI

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Name: Adam Turla
Sign: Cancer
Nickname:Don’t really have one

Favorite:

Food– grilled food in general
Book– either East of Eden by John Steinbeck or One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marqeuz
Season– summer. absolutely

Q1. How many times have you been pulled over? And why?
A1. at least 20, but most were when i was young.

Q2. What animal is your spirit guide?
A2.i like elephants a lot

Q3. What’s your vice?
A3. movie theater popcorn

Q4. If you could live in a movie for a day, which movie would it be? Would you be yourself or another character?
A4. i would be Indiana Jones.

Q5. If your art was an ice cream flavor which one would it be?
A5. Neapolitan

Q6. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
A6. no my real friends were exciting enough

Q7. Personal Quote?
A7. never had one. life is too varied to sum it up

Q8. Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiac signs?
A8. more than i would expect that i’d believe in them

Q9. Do you drink coffee? If so how many cups a day?
A9. 1-2 a day

Q10. Best show you have ever been too?
A10. iron maiden doing all their 80’s stuff was pretty incredible. also we played a show with Gogol Bordello in Amsterdam last year that was really impressive. When i went down to the dressing room to grab a beer the ceiling was moving up and down from people stomping their feet at the show above.

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Name: Matt Armstrong
Nickname: Battlebot
Sign:Pisces (as far as I know. That didn’t change, did it?)

Favorite:

Food.- Italian or Mexican
Book.- Cormac McCarthy, Nick Cave, effect pedal instruction manuals
Season- Fall

Q1. How many times have you been pulled over? And why?
A1. I tend not to get pulled over because I don’t drive very often. If I were to get pulled over it would probably be for swerving because I was messing with the radio instead of focusing on the road.

Q2. What animal is your spirit guide?
A2. A shitting buffalo, according to a blood stain I got on my knee at a show one time.

Q3. What?s your vice?
A3. Oh boy…Smoking, drinking, coffee, musical equipment

Q4. If you could live in a movie for a day, which movie would it be?
A4. Would you be yourself or another character?- It might be fun to be the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse from Raising Arizona.

Q5. If your art was an ice cream flavor which one would it be?
A5. It would probably be a root beer float but with whiskey instead of root beer.

Q6. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
A6.No, but I had a lot of action figures. Mainly G.I. Joes and Star Wars guys.

Q7. Personal Quote?
A7. “Anything for a lover, anything for a friend.” -Afghan Whigs

Q8. Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiac signs?
A8. I find that stuff really interesting.

Q9. Do you drink coffee? If so how many cups a day?
A9.Yes. Anywhere from 2-6 cups a day.

Q10. Best show you have ever been too?

A10.There have been many. Off the top of my head I would say The Jesus Lizard reunion show last year in Milwaukee was a face-melter

Strong coffee and crisp morning air. A curious sun peaks through the blinds after the voyeuristic moon goes to bed. Murder By Death is grounded in there honest song writing and rich thick sound, playing the soundtrack to a passionate hearts intimate moments. Capturing the soul touching and gut wrenching knots we all try to ignore giving our genuine emotions an authentic voice. I define music by the emotions and images it invokes, I tend to stray away from normal Music journalism jargon. But I want to say that to me alt-country has always been a genre of music that speaks to my soul. That in another life I was a whiskey drinking man with a beat up truck, and a broken heart carrying a tragic story with hope always on the horizon but sometimes gets to hard to see. Well my past life would listen to Murder By Death and with songs like Foxglove, might be inspired to try again for that glimmer of love and hope.

Listen to more of Murder By Death

The Pity Party

Posted on December 2, 2010 by B_MAOI

Name: Julie Edwards

Nickname: Heisenflei

Sign: Libra

Favorite:

Fruit: Avocado

Book: Post Office, Bukowsky

Place: White Sands, New Mexico

Q1. Most wild and crazy thing you have done thus far in your life?

A1. And this is your business because…

Q2. Whats the most interesting thing you found lying on the street/sidewalk/ground/random place? A2. A wet t-shirt with “fuck it” scrawled across the front in sharpee

Q3. How many car accidents have you been in?

A3. 6

Q4. Do you have a phobia?

A4. economic slavery, spiders

Q5. If you could morph into any animal what would it be?

A5. a housecat

Q6. What was your childhood ambition?

A6. notoriety

Q7. Have you ever been in a food fight?

A7. no

Q8. If you had to give up one of your 5 senses, which one would you abandon??

A8. sight, don’t need it

Q9. What do you wish was invented?

A9. The Morchant Timeline

Q10. Do you have a childhood memento you keep with you always?

A10. Animal.

Name: Marc

Nickname: M

Sign: Cancer

Favorite:

Fruit: Green apple

Book: Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)

Place: Bora Bora, French Polynesia

Q1. Most wild and crazy thing you have done thus far in your life?

A1. I rode my bike at night with the Wolf Pack Hustle years ago. Less than 2 blocks into the ride, I rode straight into a pothole and was launched over the handlebars of my bicycle. I ended up with two pins in my pinky and six stiches in my face. It was awesome.

Q2. Whats the most interesting thing you found lying on the street/sidewalk/ground/random place?

A2. $20. I was 10 years old. My two older brothers and I were walking home from school in the San Fernando Valley, and I caught sight of it. They took it from me and insisted that we buy baseball cards with it. I didn’t get to use any of the money for myself.

Q3. How many car accidents have you been in?

A3. At least 10. I have a knack for hitting inanimate objects (dumpsters, parked vehicles, etc.)

Q4. Do you have a phobia?

A4. Acrophobia (irrational fear of heights). The older I get, the more intense the fear.

Q5. If you could morph into any animal what would it be?

A5. A cat.

Q6. What was your childhood ambition?

A6. Decline to answer.

Q7. Have you ever been in a food fight?

A7. Yes, in 3rd grade. I was suspended from Hebrew Day School for one day.

Q8. If you had to give up one of your 5 senses, which one would you abandon?

A8. Smell. As a male, I already suffer from a bad sense of smell. I can’t miss what I’ve never really had.

Q9. What do you wish was invented?

A9. A “waste black hole,” to put all the trash of the world in so that it can no longer pollute the earth.

Q10. Do you have a childhood memento you keep with you always?

A10. A picture of my bandmate from when we were 12 years old. It’s adorable and prominently displayed on the refrigerator.

I have a tendency to talk about things I know nothing about. Take The Pity Party for example, their music has a late 90’s Lower East Side sound to them. But if you asked me to compare it to another 90’s group I can’t name one, all I can say is I think “Love Lies” could have fit in perfectly on the tv show Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s soundtrack (which is my favorite show of all time – I love that soundtrack, so that’s quite a compliment). And I’ve never been to NY’s Lower East Side, but I know a bit about it and there is a basement bar quality to the hypnotic voice of singer Julie Edwards. It seems lately the LA music scene seems to be saturated with a vintage beach/ surf sound, so it’s refreshing to be torn from this “California” sound and hear something a bit more grity.

Listen to more of The Pity Party here…

Big Whup – RIP

Posted on October 24, 2010 by B_MAOI

-This band disbanded-

DD= Drew Denny (vocals, keys, guitar)
JE= Jenna Eyrich (bass, vocals)
GG= Geoff Geis (vocals, guitar)
MG= Morgan Gerstmar (viola, violin, saw, vocals)
RV= Rand Voorhies (drums, vocals)

1. Who was your first celebrity crush?
JE: Scott Baio. Love me some Chachi.
RV: Remember that crappy Married with Children knockoff called ‘Unhappily Ever After’? I think I had a crush on the girl who played the equivalent of Christina Applegate’s character. I was 12- give me a break.
GG: MC Hammer.
DD: Dead even: Rainbow Brite/Strawberry Shortcake.
MG: Brian May.

2. Most awkward encounter with someone you were in to?
JE: Most of my encounters with people I like are of the awkward kind. I thank the all-girls high school I was forced to attend for my social skillz.
MG: Boob slipped out.
GG: Hit her in the face.
RV: Trying to kiss this girl goodbye who was totally not into me. It’s a long story I guess, but believe me it was awkward.
DD: Got hit in the face.

3. Favorite childhood activity?
GG: Pickin’ boogers.
RV: Playing video games with my best friend and listening to “Motorcade of Generosity” by Cake.
MG: Pretending to be an animal (wolf, lion, griffin, dragon).
JE: I used to line up my My Little Ponies (I had about 30 of them) in a straight, single file line and move each one forward about an inch one at a time. I used to walk them all throughout the house like this. It would keep me busy for hours!
DD: Eating/horseback riding.

4. Biggest Pet Peeve?
DD: Misogyny, Manifest Destiny and smacking.
GG: Douglas screams loudly for food, every morning.
JE: Heavy doors
RV: When someone asks that kind of question to which it’s not possible to answer both politely and intelligently. My favorite example is when someone asked this guy Charles Babbage “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into your machine the wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” Mr. Babbage’s only answer was “I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
MG: Small eyes.

5. What TV show would you want to be on? And why?
DD: 30 Rock! Tina Fey is my hero.
RV: Law and Order SVU. Mostly I just want to hang out with/be Stabler.
MG: Who Wants to be a Millionaire, duh.
JE: Weeds. I don’t really do or sell drugs, but I think it would be neat to be a drug lord.
GG: Some game show, because I like prizes.

6. Do you have a phobia? If not, what fear of yours is down right close to a phobia?
MG: Triskaidekaphobia. *
JE: I’m afraid of spiders. Mostly I’m afraid of that movie that’s about being afraid of spiders.
GG: My fears aren’t particularly phobic in nature.
RV: Spiders. Definitely spiders.
DD: Gang rape.

7. Coffee Bean or Starbucks? How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?
JE: I prefer a homemade coffee. Or a McCafe beverage. I drink about 4 cups of coffee a day.
RV: Starbucks, just because I don’t even know where a Coffee Bean is. Actually, we have this awesome espresso machine in my lab that grinds and brews a really really good cup of coffee when you hit a button, and then cleans itself. When we first got it I was drinking around 24 oz of espresso a day, but I’ve cut down a lot.
GG: Teddy Roosevelt drank a gallon of coffee every day.
DD: My kitchen- BOOYA. Since the kidney stones, I’ve switched to tea.
MG: Coffee Bean but I always go to Starbucks when I have money. As many cups as needed.

8. When do you feel most creative?
RV: Those few seconds right before I fall asleep.
JE: Mornings and evenings. Afternoons totally zap my creativity.
DD: Just before waking/while in the shower/post-masturbation.
MG: When I’m in a creative mood
GG: It really varies.

9. What do you wish you were better at?
JE: Mind control
DD: Sleeping! Not taking things personally? Gamelan.
MG: Pretty much everything I do…
RV: Following my gut. I tend to weigh my options too much.
GG: Interviews.

10. Did you have your wisdom teeth pulled?
GG: The drugs they gave me were far worse than the surgery itself.
DD: They did not give me ANY laughing gas. They broke all 4 of my wisdom teeth in my jaw before they pulled them out in bloody bits. They would not let me keep them.
MG: Yep!
RV: Yeah, all 6 of them. I know, I’m the missing link.
JE: Yes. And I liked it.

*Triskaidekaphobia= fear of the number 13
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Say Hi – Ringo Star to the Rescue

Posted on October 18, 2010 by B_MAOI

Name: Eric
Nickname: The Guy
Sign: Virgo.

Favorite:
Ice Cream: Rocky Road.
Book: Infinite Jest.
Color: Black.

Q1. What animal trait do you wish to possess?
A1. Flight.

Q2. What superhero would be your sidekick? What villain would you go after first?
A2. Ringo Starr.Beat Detective.

Q3. Bathroom read?
A3. Tape-Op.

Q4. Where and When in time would you go?
A4. Here and Now.

Q5. Most Embarrassing Moment?
A5. Most of ’em.

Q6. Best compliment ever received?
A6. I hate compliments.

Q7. What do you admire in a person?
A7. A paunch.

Q8. When do you feel most creative?
A8. Coffee.

Q9. What 80’s movie would you live in for a day? Who would you be?
A9. Ghostbusters. A Ghostbuster.

Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10. People who use cellphones at rock shows.

Authentic. The music that makes up Say Hi is authentic. It possess a genuine honesty that’s simple and comforting, like hot chocolate with little marshmallows. And I’m afraid to use the word simple as I do not want to insult the music for it has grown and developed over the past 7 years in a beautiful organic way. But I find there is such poignancy in simplicity. With Say Hi I feel there is no flashy gimmick or a care if a song will be radio worthy. You don’t hear marketing coming through his albums, you hear an honest musician, that loves his music. One step away from being acoustic, Say Hi is music with out all the junk.

Please visit Say Hi website and myspace page for more music.

Also add his FB page…

He responds to every post and comment a fan leaves, now tell me that’s not a genuine person!