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A little while ago I was in a band called Robber & Thief. We released an album called Bright on Both Sides. We began recording for a second album however, in the year and a half between releasing the first album and the bands hiatus when our lead singer moved to LA. So with a bunch of mostly finished tracks on my hard drive I decided to release an EP to promote some of the more finished ones.
And so I give you: To the Rooftops: Demos and Songs 2008-2009
They’re all up for free download on the Last.fm website. Give them a listen too. For those of you who were at one of our shows, a few of the other staple songs like Pet Wolf, Covers/Sheets or I’m Gone may be included in a second release if there’s enough interest for it. We’ll see how it pans out.
To continue the unabashed posting of YouTube videos in lieu of real content here’s another song in the tune of science:
Good to see Mr. Nye gets his due in inspiring folks to think beyond the tube. Go look at the stars, kids.
This is amazing:
A still more glorious dawn awaits, my friends.
And remember kids: Always cut it up, never cut it down.
So, it’s a Friday night and you’re bumming cause your friends just canceled their big Bass Hunter 64 tournament and you’ve got nothing to do. Why not go and see a show?
Grant Street Orchestra is playing their farewell show at the Big Easy with Model Airplane. Both acts are amazing if you like funk and soul. So don’t just get drunk and play pinball all night: get drunk, play pinball and go see Grant Street Orchestra.
Check it:
Not yet but potentially very soon. That could be the theoretical title if a referendum currently before the city council tonight gets passed. Here’s the jist of the news that just broke out all over Hilly Town:
The Man (or at least A Man) is working on another way to get us down.
A city ordinace is being reviewed that could outlaw any noises over 55 decibels after 9pm in the “Entertainment District” which encompases a majority of the musical spaces in Portland. This sounds fishy as even a city council meeting can easily get over 70db if more than two people talk at the same time.
They are trying to pass this quickly and sneakily and will be voting on this at 5pm today at City Hall. Go there, speak out against it as this could very well get passed. Some council members are notorious party-poopers.
For reference:
| Weakest sound heard | 0dB |
| Whisper Quiet Library | 30dB |
| Normal conversation (3-5′) | 60-70dB |
| Telephone dial tone | 80dB |
| City Traffic (inside car) | 85dB |
| Train whistle at 500′, Truck Traffic | 90dB |
| Subway train at 200′ | 95dB |
| Level at which sustained exposure may result in hearing loss | 90 – 95dB |
| Power mower at 3′ | 107dB |
| Snowmobile, Motorcycle | 100dB |
| Power saw at 3′ | 110dB |
| Sandblasting, Loud Rock Concert | 115dB |
| Pain begins | 125dB |
| Pneumatic riveter at 4′ | 125dB |
| Even short term exposure can cause permanent damage – Loudest recommended exposure WITH hearing protection | 140dB |
| Jet engine at 100′, Gun Blast | 140dB |
| Death of hearing tissue | 180dB |
| Loudest sound possible | 194dB |
Rock concerts are loud, Wharf 51 is loud. But 55db is very quiet. Even cranky neighbors can deal with 55db. The ordinace smacks of someone not really understanding what they’re doing or a knowing idiot trying to pull a fast one to get back at an entertainment venue.
Dear Portland-based Potential! fans, writers and readers I implore you to go check this out. Read the Hilly Town article, tell your friends, go speak up for music and a younger Portland.
And if Kevin Donoghue votes in favor of this, throw a shoe at him for me.
The internet has vomited again, and here we find some gems buried deep within Youtube.com. It makes me sad my own personal short films I spend time and money and stupendous effort on (well, okay, just time and money) are only reaching a mean average of 300 hits and these drum up 200,000+. Regardless, I triple dogg dare you to watch all 1:39 of Joe Pesci. It becomes almost poetic. Monumental. Entrancing.
And just to solder your beautiful little synapses even more into a gelatin, feast your face-balls on this beauty.
To lighten the mood with something truly unusual and perhaps a little bit terrifying (for me at least, just sayin’)
And I’ll send you off with this incredible low-budge music video made in a single take by a radtacular member of anticon. from Berkeley, CA. It is AWESOME.
- Bill Clinton goes on a solo mission to N. Korea to secure the release of two US reporters.
- Remember how cool Pandora was? Not for long as it teams up with Clean Channel, yeah you know that Clear Channel.
- Heath Ledger directed Modest Mouse video to premiere.
- One reporter and two accompanying tourists have been arrested in Iran after straying accross the Iraqi-Iranian border.
- Someone investigates GE and GE throws money at them.
- A Canadian family fails to realize that uploading home videos of their 7-year-old driving a car full of people to YouTube may be used as evidence against them.
- Praying father allowed diabetic girl to die, opting to put God before a doctor.
- Protests in Sudan as woman is tried for wearing “indecent clothing” after caught wearing trousers in public.
This is one for all the true Mainers out there.
This dialectic diamond was unearthed on Youtube, at the time no one the wiser to the author, or who even posted it, and like most sensations it snowballed over the ‘Net, making waves in the Portland music scene. After Toddy got so hot [pun totally intended] everybody was quite frustrated with the anonymity of this masterpiece set in Waterville, ME. The owner of Ruskie’s even offered $50 and free food and beer to whoever owned up to writing this.
Luckily, the songwriter’s sister still lived in Maine and heard the buzz about it in the Phoenix and phoned her brother, Billy Mayo, a Watervillian who had moved to New York to play in his band Black Taxi. Check the video here of him actually playing it in a super-swank NY apartment to his highbrow cityslicker friends. I jest. Anyways, Billy heard of the reward for his name and replied “It’s a Deal.” I’m going to keep my ear to the ground to see if perhaps when he comes to claim his prize, he’ll perform this incredible feat in vernacular discharge.
My dear friend, Charles Parker Newton, is the one with the beard.
Apparently this got on Fox last night. Twenty-four thousand hits in fifteen days.
