One year and a few days ago more or less, Cil joined the band!

Here’s to us getting 33% cooler.

This post is brought to you by sauerkraut.

Boyd Shropshire played a great set as usual, Bandname was actually alright despite hailing from Philly (and the bassist played her bass upside down and lefthanded!) and I had fun playing yesterday!  I got a massive tambourine bruise on my thigh during the FTR song.  I guess we were really rockin’ out.

I guess its a bit overdue, but these other folks here posted about their favorite album cover. It’s hard for me to say I have a favorite anything. But here is an album cover that I can’t help stare at for a while. It’s been secretly saved on my computer for years now. It might be superficial but I really do enjoy looking at girls in skinny pants and high heels.

On a slight whim I entered a design into the Weezer/Hurley t-shirt contest. Okay you don’t have to vote for my design, just your mere participation would be appreciated   But part of me feels like, “hey, I could win not because my design is really good, but because my competitors’ are really bad!”  Plus if I win I’ll give an xtra percentage of $ to the making of the Backlights EP!!

contest ends July 8th and you can vote for all the designs on a scale of 0-5  “)(“

I like this album cover because it has that real wtf charm.  It is there to remind you that there are sensationally absurd things going on all around you all the time.  I especially like the expressions on the three hippies’ faces.  It places them somewhere, but also nowhere in particular at the same time.  They are suspended in GBV’s bizzaro universe.

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for myself, circa 2004:

give me some of those cacao nibs, bro

That’s one of my cats!  He is confusedly sitting in front of two album covers that I really like by the Silver Jews.  I am an embarrassingly awful music reviewer so simply put, this is just one of my favorite bands.  I love their music and their lyrics and I think their album covers are a good reflection of how they sound.  I guess this is starting to turn into a photo critique but I like how the images are so simple but can still elicit complex emotions of nostalgia and mystery.  Here are close-ups, note that the pushpins were placed by me.

Check out this review of our song “Chase Scenes” at Indie Darkroom Magazine! (and a photo from our handsome practice space)

Yonetsuru represents my return to sake blogging with a vengeance.  Here it is posed with one of my favorite album covers.  This one smelled like Big League Chew, had a nice strong alcohol finish, and made me feel like a million bucks.