and stuff like that...

I hate people who spell “definitely” like “definately” after the 4th grade.

HOLY SHIT!!!

I HOPE THIS COMES IN WILLIS’ SIZE!!!

Well, no more waiting, the first show is here.

For any of you who don’t know, Archie Powell & The Exports is my new band that I have been doing with members of one of my old bands The Box Social. The weird part is that this has been a totally different experience than most projects I have ever been in.

First of all, I currently live in Chicago while the rest of the guys are in Madison. I kind of got the job after coercing the main dude to move to Chicago and offering my services to play bass if he did. I think I was officially handed the job over IM which was fine since I had played with them before, but that’s just interesting to think back on. Everyone will be coming here sooner or later, but it has been a weird experience to drive up to practice since I haven’t done that since my Freshman year of college.

Second, we already have an EP in the can and around 14 songs in our repertoire with pretty solid plans to put an LP in the can by January 2010. I have played in bands where we had maybe seven songs after a year of being together (seriously…) let alone being in the double digits within months. I’ve only been up to Madison twice to practice with the full band but everyone knows their shit and we learn songs like it’s nobody’s business.

Lastly, and this is the most amazing fact, all the stumbling and fumbling of being in a band is gone. I’ve played with these guys before and through our combined experiences we kind of have the right idea of the steps to take and the mistakes to avoid. Plus, with everyone being out of college and in the real world we don’t have things getting in the way. Obviously the post-college world has its own challenges - you know, like rent - but it’s a lot easier when they’re at least your decisions to make.

So basically, I’m pretty psyched to be playing good music again and if any of you out there want to check out the tunes, please meander on over to the Myspace page and take a listen. We will actually be giving away the first five track EP for free download come June so stick around for that.

Adam Export out.

PS - The flyer was made by the keyboardist in the band, Ryan. He does some pretty kick ass artwork I will most likely be purchasing in the future and will share with you all when I make my selections. You can check out a lot of his stuff over at his website, but remember, I called dibs.

jesseames:

i am watching 2 of the kitties wrestling right now.. its awesome.. but i wish one of them was a theramin now ^_^

mentalreminder:

cakeface:

cat plays theremin

oh my god!

Get back to me when you can play “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys.
THEN, we’ll talk.

jesseames:

sarahcrump:

This little Lemur loves getting his armpits rubbed (via hellahairy)

The best part is around 40 seconds in when she stoped scratching him and he looks soooo saaadddd!

aubreys:

via warmingglow.uproxx.com

Topical Humor… Get it? Get it?

I rarely drink soda. Hell, I barely drink any caffeine at all considering that I can’t even remember the last time I had an actual cup of coffee (iced chai doesn’t count). Yet there is one thing that I am convinced that I have to try:

Pepsi Throwback: Apparently this stuff is made with natural sugar instead of HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup), which I bet is a whole lot of tasty. Certain countries even have regulations in place that limit HFCS and to get stuff like this you had to import it (in Mexico it’s called Pepsi Retro).

Here’s the deal: I CAN’T FUCKING FIND IT!!!

There are commercials for it and when I “researched” (by researched I mean Googled and clicked around a couple of times) the product it was supposed to drop mid-April. I have seriously been a few different places and even asked a grocery store worker if they knew anything about it, but to no avail.

Why is it when I want soda like I can’t find it? This is actually a recurring problem with other beverages.

Cream Soda: You would think that this would be no problem, right? Wrong. For me to find a bottle of Cream Soda in a regular 7-11 or something is near impossible. This raises a very big problem in the realm of putting together an AP&E favorite cocktail, Beam&Cream. Enough with the diet Root Beer! Give me some Cream Soda!

Vanilla Coke: Remember when this stuff coming out was a huge deal? So why is it gone? We got Coke with Lime/Lemon but the Vanilla option is nowhere to be found. This is obviously the best when it’s made like Frisch’s Big Boy does it, but I rarely find myself in Ohio so please, bring it back to its previous prominence.

This is why being on tour and filling up at truck stops rules. They have a ginormous selection of everything you want and stuff you’ve never even heard of. Just always go by the truck stop rule: One familiar, one new. That way you’ll always have a fallback if something ends up disappointing.

This is the Road Gospel of the Melby.
Amen.

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while.

This article is so well written it’s amazing.

BTW: If you’re not following “Look at this fucking hipster” yet on Tumblr, you’re missing out.

This is pretty cool. The description from the site where I found it below:

This cover of “Stand By Me” was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. That track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley’s base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz’s added some metal percussion to it.

And from there, it just gets rock ‘n’ rolling bananas: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones.