Archive for November, 2006

Bob Hope (not his real name)

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Last weekend Amber and I found one of the saddest finds on record. Just down the street from my home we came across a suburban sidewalk completely dumped with a huge chunk of someone’s belongings. There was a filing cabinet full of papers and mementos, old clothes and electronic equipment, photo albums, and an empty birdcage. We rooted though it a bit and decided only to take a few things since it was beginning to rain and the whole thing seemed mysterious.

When we rifled through the papers and the pictures a really dark and terrible story began to unfold. These things that we had found pushed my boundaries as far as this whole “found” culture goes – reading through these letters does not offer the same thrill of finding love letters written by grade-schoolers. These typed pages are the workings of a very very bitter and sad man.
I am still trying to process what this find means; it has been kind of messing with me whether or not this is going too far. Let me know what you think about these.

1.86′ed in 86
2.And you know it
3.Basically a good guy
4. Believe
5.Bob is a gentle man
6. Bullhead
7.Good guy part II
8.He is winning tonight over Kansas
9.Honoring your father
10.I can go to sleep at night
11.I let the Gonads speak instead of the heart
12.It is really fucked
13.Just cause
14.Keep you out of troubled waters
15.Made your bed, now lie in it
16.My mind is still ok
17.Sorry that you are dying
18.Then fuck you
19.Time line
20.Until I am out of your heart
21.You are the key
22.You just stole it
23.You look like a sara
24.Ten Commandments
25.Thank you for the nuts
26.Split 1
27.Split 2

Dead Penguin Orchestra

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Oh man, is this ever over due. One of the first albums in the Hershey Squirt Records line up (our fake highschool label), Josh Rhodes’ (Bobo McMorons’) brilliant debut “Tales from the Baby Grinder” clenches more than just your teeth. These songs made me cringe whenever Josh would play them in the “ButterFly Lounge” (the unfinished addition on the side of my house where we would have shows) because he was usually scantily clad, screaming about the pleasures of necrophilia, in a place my parents could easily overhear.

This album, recorded in landon’s bedroom, is where it all started. If you thought the Old Testament was full of sexual harassment and fire and brimstone, you’ve ain’t seen nothing yet! My favorite line is “All you riot grrls should learn how to spell … ” (Josh is reall an ardent feminist, I swear!).

1. Fortississimo
2. Animatronic sex
3. Karate Kid Blowjob
4.Necrophiliac Blues
5. Bobos tirade(~(tilde))
6. Mr. Coffee’s Revenge
7. Lucky Charms in Pocket
8. I’m Sad
9. Salt Lick and the Muppets of Death
10. Poem on the Chalkboard
11. Wackity Dewdrop
12. Fortississiom(reprise)

Read more about the album, here: Can you Disband a One Man Band?

Hollow Earth Radio Station

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Amber and I have been preparing to start a streaming internet radio station the past couple of months – but we wanted to do it right. It’s something that I played around with a while back, but now we’ve decided to start planning out how to make a rotation, get other people involved, and how to acquire content. We are planning on playing music from the Seattle/Pacific Northwest area, while also distributing live content and talk shows about trippy shit. For instance,Tim Boucher and Zac from Alchecmical BrianDamage are thinking of providing some sort of content whether that be distribution of their podcasts, or some sort of Skype based discussion. We’re hoping to have a beta stage rolled out by January 1st – if you want to help out see the flier below and for now, hit us up on myspace.