Friday, January 30, 2009

HEAVEN MUST BE LIKE THIS, HEAVEN MUST BE LIKE THIS

ILLINOIS PLAYERS,

DIG THIS. W/L'S PLAIN-OL' PLAYING AT AN ART FIASCO AT HEAVEN ON FRIDAY, FEB-RUE-AIRY 13, 2009, FROM 7 TO 11PM. CURATED BY OL' PAL AND GENUINE GENIUS TIM KINSELLA, FEATURING WORK BY DAN HIGGS (YES, THAT DAN HIGGS! ), JEREMY BOYLE, MELINA AUSIKAITIS, KEN ELLIS, JENNIFER BUFFETT, AND A WHOLE BUNCH MORE.

INBLOGURAL BALL

THE AUDACITY OF SOAP ON A ROPE... BRILLIANT! THANKS FOR THE MAMMARIES, MYSTERY BLOGGER.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

LOST IN TRANSLATION

"THE WAKING YAWNS OF A DYSPEPTIC OGRE."

OH, MARGASAK. THANKS? YEAH, MAN, THANKS!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

C'MON FEEL THE BOY'S NOISE BAND, MAN...

THE WNYU W/L BLOWOUT WITH SY'S STEVE SHELLEY ON THE POTS & PANS CAN BE HEARD AROUND THE 5PM MARK HERE, FYI.

TOM DELAYED

'MEMBER HIM? ANYWHO...

BELOW IS AN OUTTA DATE UPDATE/THANK YOU, CUT-UP AND PASTED AND LONG OVERDUE, DOODS. CHOPPED OUTTA AN EMAIL FROM W/L'S JRL, WHO'S BEEN SPENDING A LOTTA TIME IN COUNTRIES WITH WEIRD INTERNET ACCESS. MHC'S BEEN TOO BANANAS TO GET ONLINE TOO MUCH HISSELF, BUT DANG IF HE DON'T SAY THANKS TO YOU TOO, NATCH.

ON WITH THE SHOW, EH?
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Well, it's all over. Whirlwind tour for 2009... it's the first but not the last... Matt is already back in law school and Jeremy is already on a plane to japan for the next gig. i know we had a BLAST everywhere... so many old friends and so many new ones too. Where can I go after that last post?
Thanks again to Rick Omonte from Shaki Presents for putting on another great show in New Haven. Thanks to Ben Vida of Birdshow and Koen Holtkamp of Mountains for helping us put on a great show for $40. Thanks for the Talk Normal (who are totally killer BTW) and Tall Firs (play more!)and the eBow supergroup of Marcia Basset/Tom Carter/Steve Gunn for making Brooklyn so much fun. Thanks to Oslo Coffee and Steve Shelley and Kayla Cohen from WNYU so we could jam on the radio! (That Steve guy is pretty good, weird huh?) Thanks to Daylen Dalrymple for the tour of her house and killer Indian food. Thanks to the bands Kohotek and Alasehi for blowing minds. Thanks to John Schmersal for his wonderful house and his most amazing breakfast! Thanks to the guys at the Art Damage Lodge in Cincinati for having a great place to play and helping us load everything to the third floor. Thanks for C. Spencer Yeh for being radical. Thanks to all at the Empty Bottle for putting up with us for all of these years, it's always a comfort to come home and have such a wonderful place to play. Thanks to Regina Greene for putting it all together.
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YEAH, WHAT HE SAID. THANKS THANKS THANKS, TONS AND TONS. I'D ONLY ADD SPECIAL SHOUT-OUTS TO KEVIN DREW IN TORONTO AND KATE & COLIN IN BROOKLYN FOR BEING SUCH SUPERLATIVELY RAD HOSTESSESSESSES.

MORE SHOWS AND RECORDINGS ARE IN THE WORKS, INCLUDING SOME BANANAS STUFF THAT FEELS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. WE'LL KEEP YOU POSTED AS STUFF DEVELOPS, PROMISE.

YRS,
MHC (& JRL & W/L)

"Live" on WNYU Tonight!

www.wnyu.org at 5PM EST today they will be broadcasting our performance with Steve Shelley on the air!  I'm sure that the following interview will be embarrassing!

If you miss it, we will put it all up on our site once I get back to the states with the rest of our shows...

It's really blowing my mind to be in Australia right now when the ol' USA is ushering in our new president??!?!  Don't mind TOO much, cause it's 80 degrees right now!  take care,
Jeremy/W?L

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Philadelphia

Sitting in the Narita Airport and thought you might want to see these pictures from Johnny Brenda's.

Sayonara Japan!

Monday, January 5, 2009

OMG'S IN THE DARK

STAMFORD MOTOR LODGE, W/L HATES YOU. WHY? SO HARD TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS THAT PUT US OVER THE EDGE...

MAYBE IT WAS THE WET & WRINKLED OUTDOOR CARPET USED INDOORS.
MAYBE IT WAS THE BUTCHER PAPER BATHMAT.
MAYBE IT WAS THE CARDBOARD TOWELS.
MAYBE IT WAS THE MAKEUP ON THE WASHCLOTH.
MAYBE IT WAS THE CRYING GHOST BABY IN THE WALLS.
MAYBE IT WAS THE 8AM RAGING PAINTERS & THEIR BLAZING RAVE MUSIC.
MAYBE IT WAS THE...

SO HARD TO SAY.

BUT, MEANTIMES, BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS TODAY/TONIGHT/TOMORROW. CAKE SHOP IN NYC TONIGHT, GLASSLANDS IN BROOKLYN TOMORROW, WNYC ON WEDNESDAY (WITH SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED REAL SOON). ALSO MEANTIMES,
RAD COFFEE, GOOD FOOD, ET CETERA...

NYC, W/L LOVES YOU. WHY? WHY THE F NOT, MAN...

Sunday, January 4, 2009

AND PS















THESE GUYS WERE GREAT.

STRIKES TWICE

BROKEN INTO. TWICE IN MY LIFE. DANG. SOMEBODY SNAPPED THE LOCK OFFA THE WAY BACK DOOR OF EARTHA KITT (AKA THE WAAAMBULANCE, AKA MAYBELINE, AKA W/L'S ECONOLINE) LAST NIGHT IN MONTREAL. STINKS. TOO BAD FOR THEM, THOUGH; THE GEAR WAS SAFE AND SOUND IN ANOTHER SPOT... SUCKERS! AMPS ET CETERA SPENT THE NIGHT ONSTAGE, DREAMING ABOUT WHEN THEY MIGHT COME BACK TO BEAUTIFUL MONTREAL (PHEW).

EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS TO ANDRE AND THE GOOD FOLKS AT BLUE SKIES TURN BLACK AND CASA DEL POPOLO FOR LETTING US KEEP OUR "EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT"* INDOORS LAST NIGHT. HATS OFF TO RADICAL/SYMPATHETIC PROFESSIONALS.

OFF TO NEW HAVEN,
W/L

*EXPENSIVE AND POORLY USED, ACCORDING TO ONE POST-SHOW CRITICAL PRICK WITH A HAIRCUT THAT PROLLY SET HIM BACK MORE THAN ANY SINGLE PEDAL THAT WE BROUGHT TO THE SHOW. CAN'T PLEASE 'EM ALL/THERE'S NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE/ET CETERA... WE RECORDED THE SHOW, AND WE'LL PUT IT UP FOR A FREE DOWNLOAD NEXT WEEK SOMETIME, AND THEN YOU TOO CAN TELL US JUST WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT. COOL?

Friday, January 2, 2009

TWO-HER...

...OR TORE? DEPENDS ON WHERE YR FROM. RIGHT NOW, WE'RE IN CANADIA, AND THEY SEEM TO SAY IT BOTH WAYS.

EITHER WAY, THOUGH, TORE'S GOODISH SO FAR. LOTSA TROUBLE GETTIN' ACROSS THE BORDER, BUT WE'LL SPARE YOU THE DEETS (BORING!). NO GOOD DIGITAL CAMERA'S ON BOARD, BUT THERE'S A RAD OLD LEICA RANGEFINDER-FILM-JAWN-PICTUREMAKER OF MATT'S ON BOARD THE WAAAMBULANCE THAT'LL GET PUT TO GOOD USE SOON; EXPECT SOME SCANS AT THE END OF NEXT WEEK. MEANTIME, MAYBE WE'LL LOAD SOME CAMERA PHONE PICS? DUNNO. TIME'LL TELL.

ALSO MEANTIMES, WE'LL TRY'N POST SOME NEW NEWS WHEN THE FREE INTERNET FLIES OUR WAY, EH? WE MAY EVEN HAVE SOME GUEST-BLOG-UPDATES COURTESY OF WHITE/WIFE GWEN, ALONG ON TWO-HER FOR THE RIDE OF A WIFETIME.

HOLY COW. CURRENT MEANTIMES, OPENING LOCAL ONE-GUY YOKEL CALLED KNURL JUST STARTED TO MELT OUR FACES... GOTTA GIT!

X/O
W/L

Thursday, January 1, 2009

White/Light Tour

Time to hit the road again, ladies and gentlemen... Hungover from New Year's Eve and leaving at 7:30 AM tomorrow for a ride to/in Canada!

Maybe we will see you out there???