Chicageeeeeeeeeeeooooo

the last few shows were pretty good-ish. honestly, i'm watching the redneck version of pimp my ride in a hotel room right now and I'm a bit distracted...Oh yeah, the girls from joey baby tonight showed up and we partied so hard, then we went back to benny bongo's loft in what I think was a kerosene factory and the chicago guys got real catatonic on us after charlie and I ate a pizza the size of a mattress.

One of the SXSW shows. Mess with texas. we were on the stage with the stand up comedians

How things are going...

After a shit show tonight, when so many things were against us that came out of the woodwork of our worst-case-scenario imaginations, this is the email we get at the end of tonight regarding tomorrows show:
"I am very sorry to tell you this but Scrummage University has to cancel all of their shows. We are all completely out of money and cannot afford to keep doing what we are doing. We have too many problems that need to be taken care of. We will need to take time to re-establish ourselves. We won't be able to have this Panther show. Tell Panther that we are very sorry. We don't want to have any shows where the band get disappointed, especially if they come from out of state. Please don't be angry, we are all young and Detroit can be very crazy sometimes. I really hope that everyone will understand, Thank you.

-Alex and Conor"

Oh Canada...

god you are boring. But! I like your cities lots. The club in Montreal was like the inside of a miniature castle. There was hardly anyone at the show, but aside from the people that worked at the club and the bands, everyone there was a female. I've never seen that before. Toronto seems cool, but I think the show is going to be, um... it's snowing.
ps- does anyone know, and im too lazy to even google, was that last one a rem koolhaas????

Citay

check this band. Bonus: they are real nice people. P.S.- if you live in the Boston area, do not ever go to shows at P.A.'s lounge. although it seems like you've already gotten this memo.

New Lips and Ribs video

I've already watched it 4 times today. What the fuck is your problem Jay?

Welker, NYC<<

The show last night was one of the most mind-blowing shows of my life. Things got totes emo. I made a morman girl cry. I almost cried. Other people cried. These guys from some internet thing interviewed us using some technology that made me feel very old. I'll post footage of the show soon. I miss my friends...

I don't feel like talking about the show last night...

because I have a feeling i'm not going to want to talk about the show tonight.

SXSW pt 4

I didn't take any pictures or footage when I saw Dandi Wind at Emo's, but I found this video. They kinda blew me away in Austin, but after seeing this , I'm pretty sure they are my new favorite band...

SXSW pt 3

Austin is becoming really segregated.

SXSW pt 2

drink drank drunk Went to some pretty OK parties. Mostly chilled with the exception of the last night and that night I went to the afforementioned Children's museum. And The night a bunch of us ended up in our hotel room, come to think of it, I didn't really chill. Highlights- Walking into the Deisel party and the DJ was blasting a Panther song. The VIP area there had a bowling alley with shoes I should have taken and Zooey Daschanel whom I impulively wanted to dump my drink on (although she does seem like a very sweet person, but I'm getting tired of hearing about her band, for what I later found out, for no good reason).
We somehow got into the Vice party that was pretty gigantic and not to much fun until the drink throwing fantasy came true for me courtesy of my friend Nellina. I harmless spill escalated real fast until the next thing I knew Nellina was like "gimmie your drink!" and threw my huge ass icy drink in this girls face. Hilarious. There was a real bad band playing with 40 people in it.

SXSW pt1

Bands I saw worth noting:
Dandi Wind- Not that great electro but the girls stage presence was intense. Like a white, more spastic grace jones
yeasayer-new age, psych, good peter gabriel-ish vocals
Pig Out- conservative rave. better live than I thought they would be
Mika Miko-best punk band going on right now
ponytail-loud, noodley psych guitars, thrashy, driving drums, and the girl yelps and makes really uncomfortable expressions like she's taking a crap
afterparty at the childrens museum- Best idea ever. think about it. it's all dark and weird, but theirs no sharp corners, lots of things for drunk 20 somthing indie rockers to fuck around with (allthough as well as I could see were all relatively well behaved) and it says retarded things all over on purpose ("funstruction!"). I don't know about the band I saw (best fwends I think) but it was kind of beside the point

By the way, my pictures suck. My friend Chloe has some real good ones at www. flickr. com/photos/dearestchloe

Salt lake birthday follies!

We played a record store and then had the GPS lead us to the wrong place which was a italian restaurant/bar that we didn't need to be 'sponsored' to get into and employed the hottest girls in all of utah that happened to be getting off of work and invited us to hang out with them at the club they were going to. But charlie is married and I am an idiot so instead we got burritos and went to the worst motel 6 thus far...

Motel 666

Not that I have very high expectations of these places, but they seem to be getting more expensive at the same pace that the rooms are getting shittier. We need our sanity more than we need the $50 most of the time, but some times it's not even worth it. If it's not a heater that we can't control set at 103 degrees, a slanted and rock hard bed, doodoo smell, asshole snowboarders getting up at 5am, "non-smoking" rooms that just happen to smell like smoke and have ashtrays to "you know, keep your change and stuff in", or you'll have a room like last night that was next to a boarded up room. We figured the murder scene was probably too much work to clean up...

BACK ON TOUR in da USA!!!!

Stare at these pictures for 9 and a half hours, and you'll be right there with me!

New Panther vid

good job erock. see if you can spot my new teardrop tatoo. cause i killed a dude

so bizzare on so many levels

Thanks Emil for goin' deep for that one. What. The. Fuck.

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In retrospect, this is the gayest thing I've done all week...

ha ha.

This is what I came home to in my room at 4am after driving back from seattle after a not-so-great show. Pretty good one. You see, Charlie and I put this giant, ugly wooden giraffe on my sisters porch as part of a prank/disposing of a wooden giraffe that was on charlie and maggies porch. So it's my birthday soon you see...

Billy Cobham vs. Travis Barker

This guy I work with asked me who I thought the "best" drummer was. This is a stupid conversation for so many reasons, but I don't have that much invested in this person so I said "Billy Cobham". At which point he told me, no, in fact, the answer is that dude from that band Blink 182. I'll give Billy Cobham an obvious handicap with the ancient footage/sound quality. I'll give blink 182 guy a handicap because he, his bandmates, his fans, and his camera people/editors (nice shot of the Molson Ice stadium and that 13 year old girls ass!) are not that bright. YOU DECIDE!

Garfield minus Garfield

check it here. Highly reccomendedddddd

Ngyuen Thi Buch Thuy: 'Just Give Me The Damn Sepak Takraw Ball'

Well, at least he's not using scare tacti... oh, um

Yeah, that's right! I got this ad off of "God Tube". You'll never guess what that website is all about! Deep religious people seem to fear originality almost as much as their all-powerful creator (whichever one that might be).

Debate

Obama KILLED IT tonight on CNN. Fuck it. They both killed it, but Barack clearly had the upper hand. I can't believe this country might finally come out of a nose-dive that was the bush presidency...

I QUIT

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

My girlfriend Kelly-Jo and I are going to have a romantic evening together. We have ordered a heart-shaped pizza from Poppa Murphy's as well as 4 boxes of sugar-gravy filled chocolate surprise balls and 4 romantic comedies that star Jennifer Anistown (Anneston?) and her puffy boyfriend. We will get real bloated and farty and have tedious sex with each other. Here are some pictures from last year (aint she a fox!)

LA times Pt.1

Ingrid picked us up at the bob hope airport.Her parents had a pool. I needed the sun real bad. went to the MOCA, got let in to the Murakami excibit because some kid working there recognized charlie. became crunked at ingrids cousins house on a gallon of manhattan. paid $11 to see an old hippie in sombody's back yard. john riess' new band is "goin for it". Lots of terrifying driving. did some green screening. played with gossip at the smell. the sound was awfull, kinda ruined our show but whatevz. MTV was there and they tried to make the place look like an "exciting" venue. charlie threw change at the camera man. Mika Miko was great. got up real early again, went on KXLU and had a blast with this really hilarious girl that was DJing. went back to Bob Hope and the dark haired man in the army shirt I was travelling with got searched. free wine on the plane.

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Mabes I've been looking at too much porn but...

Doesn't this Jay-Z ad look a bit like an almost-completely-wrapped-up porn scene? Oh Jay-Z, that is some bizarre psychology you are pulling on us.

"after we brake up..."

three serial killers in a band is so much scarier than any black metal band I've ever seen

I trusted you

wow, did andy kaufman ever fuck with people...

I'm not sure if I think this is funny

Does anybody know this guy? There is a Portland reference. I should really go to the gym...

good fight scene

watch it now before they take it down

New Jersey freakshow

oh this is so good...

more here:
http://www.barstoolsports.com/article/new_jersey_freakshows/1958/

I miss the sun

wait mate

Cool Gap ad!

yeah, fuck these assholes too...

Black Kids

When I hear hype about a band as much as Black Kids have gotten and then I actually get around to hearing it...what am I trying to say here...basically this music is so bad it makes me feel like my reality is a farce. It would be alright if they just landed from the planet KlegZgorn 7 and hadn't heard "western earth style alternative" music from the years 1986-1998, but I don't think that was the case.
It's a pretty genius name though. I mean, who's going to say "I hate Black Kids"

STP, not the gas gas gas...

I'm sure that I am going to catch a lot of flack for this one, but oh well. Does anyone remember this song? I recall being a bit surprised by liking a song by the Stone Temple Pilots at the time, but going back now, holy crap. This is from 1996. Let me put this in perspective for you. Alanis Morrisette and Smashing Pumpkins are selling a shit ton of records. People still watch MTV and MTV still plays videos. Julian Casablancas is still in boarding school. So for no reason, Stone Temple Pilots climbs out of their faux-grunge radio rock sewer with this completely raw and in my opinion amazing song. And the video! What T fuck!? You cant really tell on the youtube but its shot in this shitty, flourecent lit 80's tape stock with all this deliberately cheesy and half-assed editing. NINETEEN NINETY SIX!
Then, they promptly go back to being shit

psych TV

I just broke my TV and now it just looks real psychedelic no matter what, which is actually better than most programming. Oh well. Probs for the better...

Bod

Do you want to smell like "really ripped abs" or a black man?