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so the show last night went pretty ok, these things never go perfectly i guess, at least for kids as green to playing live as we are. basically the main problem was that daniel and i had trouble hearing each other, so he got lost a bit on some of the more complicated songs. but for the most part we were able to fake our way through it. one of the guys in the ishta music company or whatever is this dude named Moose, and he was all like i love you guys, i think yr brillant, which was very flattering and all. apparently he wants to record us or remix us or something into dance music or something. i got to hear just a little bit of his music at the end of the night when i was speaking to him, and it seemed pretty cool. i'm not exactly sure what might come of it, but he seemed very hyped to make something happen, so i guess we'll see. he was all like lemme come over this next weekend and record you guys at yr rehearsal space, and i'm like, well we're working on getting a rehearsal space, right now it's just our bedroom. i'm not sure how aware he is that we have recordings, or that is our particular strength, as it seems like it would make more sense to hand him over some audio tracks to play with rather than record us live, but whatever, we'll see.

the other bands were pretty cool. they were all definitely more electronic. the first band, pistols will air, ended up as i expected sounding very much like air, mainly because they used so much fender rhodes keyboard, but their song-writing was very solid and they had lush thick sound of texture. we met the turntable beat guy william and he was totally cool, really complimentary, said that it took a lot of balls to stand up and sing in front of people, and i was like yeah it's scary, and he was like, yeah, i just hide behind my turntables, and i was like hey that's cool.

after us was deletist, who was fucking awesome. it was just one chick, who actually was the person behind the "not your bitch" sticker on the bumper of my car that has been there for like 5 years, as tommi picked up a bunch of her stickers way back in the day at a comic convention and once emailed her but never followed through on getting a t-shirt made with her logo (her comic was called bitter pie or something). anyway, her music was totally cool, very darkwave, like an electronic goth kinda cat power, but in a cool way. after her performance i told her she was awesome and she gave me and daniel stickers. from her website i learned that she has a cd on sale at amoeba so i'm gonna go try and pickup a copy after work tomorrow, cuz she was really fucking cool in a very inexplicable way.

lastly there was the neighborhood bass coalition, who on myspace seemed like a hip-hop mash-up thing, but live were more ambient and more of a noise thing. they were alright, but i didn't really pay too much attention to them, though they seemed kinda cool, they just didn't draw me in really. some of their stuff sounded like the orb.

anyways, once again we didn't get paid, but who cares, we only got ten people to show, so they comped us a couple drinks, so yeah, whatever. it was pretty cool, hopefully they'll have us back again, and hopefully next time we'll play better and show some more improvement with this live shit.

oh yeah, and tony ayala took the pictures below cuz he's a sweetheart. it was really dark in there, i could barely see my guitar during the first couple of songs, fortunately the notes didn't really matter, haha, cuz we're sooo no-wave, right. we realize now that maybe he should have take a few with the flash after all, even though we hate the way it looks with flash. oh well.