I think I've finally recuperated from sxsw two weeks ago. We played four days in a row and by the last night I was so tired I missed all the bands I wanted to see (sorry Why?) My favorite day was definately the excellent Weekend at Bernies 3 house party thrown by Chris Yetter featuring all my friends that I never get to see!
So, anyway, I wanted to give some thanks to the people who reviewed our set(s) afterwards on the interwebs by linking them back and what not.
Heres a great one from the Denver Post:
Fishboy. It's a shame these talented, pop-adoring kids from Denton, Texas, played their SXSW showcase to an almost empty room. The indie pop quartet and their record "Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State With the Power of Rock and Roll" deserve the kind of fandom reserved for Ted Leo, the Mountain Goats and others.
Fishboy rule! There's no way around it. Really fun band from Denton Texas. We caught them at the tiny Habana Annex on March 13.
Check em out. I even bought their cd!
-Chrisville USA (Thanks dude!)
2:00- I sneak out to meet up with Daytonboy and co. at Lovejoy’s. Then something awesome happens. This random band gets on stage- “Hi there, we’re Fishboy from Denton Texas,” and they begin. They play their whimsical rock opera album from start to finish and it is indie-pop-tastically great. One of those unexpected treats that is the whole reason to go to SXSW.
-The Donny Brook Writing Academy (Thank you sir!)
2 p.m. - Fishboy (1024 East 44th St.) - The native Texan's show is a complete performance from beginning to end of his fantastic 2007 record release, Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lonestar State With the Power of Rock and Roll. It's a twee rock opera (and a brilliant album). Apparently there's even more story inserted when they play it live.
PASTE MAGAZINE (this technically was a reccomendation that was posted before the fest...but still! Thanks PASTE! or...some 'mysterious' contributor)
and then some other stuff than I found (thanks google!)
A proper TIG review from Erik Gonzalez:
...Fishboy has that same charm of early Green Day, a sort of "rough on the edges" rock band that survives on its moxy and enthusiasm...
(wait till you hear our 'Brain Stew!')
A cool review from Athens Exchange that thinks Albatross is our 6th album (that must be why its so good!)
THANKS Kathryn!
and THEN...two weeks ago I posted the new video
and have gotten some amazing feedback from all these people:
I Guess I'm
Floating
Cable and Tweed
You Aint No Picasso
Pasta Primavera
Fear of Arthropods
Retro Lowfi
Hejl Hath No Fury
It Covers The Hillsides
The Latest Show on Earth (a very rad new york web show)
HHBTM Blog (yes, our record label blogged about our video)
There is a strange blog post about fishboy blogging over at DC9 at Night. So I guess this blog post is blogging about a blog that is blogging about more blogs blogging about Fishboy
Go visit these kind supportive people who write about rad things other than our music.
ok also, we have a big tour coming up east coast style. It's almost all booked and up on our myspace page. go to it! and help up fill in any empty dates if you see them.
thanks!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
creepy irish uncle.
Monday morning after sxsw and I can barely stay awake. Hopefully, I can find a time machine and get one of these on my break from Grimace's creepy uncle:
A couple things come to mind after I watch this again.
1. The old Grimace sure was a lot more flexible and had crazy eyes.
2. If his uncles name is "Uncle O'Grimacey" I guess that means that there's a 50% chance that Grimace's full name is "Grimace O'Grimacey" which is kind of like naming your kid 'Doy O'Doyle" or "Reil O'Reily"
3. Why don't they make shamrock shakes anymore?
A couple things come to mind after I watch this again.
1. The old Grimace sure was a lot more flexible and had crazy eyes.
2. If his uncles name is "Uncle O'Grimacey" I guess that means that there's a 50% chance that Grimace's full name is "Grimace O'Grimacey" which is kind of like naming your kid 'Doy O'Doyle" or "Reil O'Reily"
3. Why don't they make shamrock shakes anymore?
Monday, March 10, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
it has what plants crave
So one of my favorite films of 2006, a movie deemed so unattractive and rude by the studio who were contracted to give it a theatrical release (Fox) has already gained a large enough cult following to have its fictional beverage created in real life.
Amazing.
Though, I honestly thought I would see a can of slurm before I saw this.
Now all we need is to vote this man for president:
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Speeding Motorcycle of my heart
Hey FOLKS! I've been saving up blog posts in my mind and this is the first one I need to get out there:
Last weekend, my girlfriend and I ventured down to Austin for a weekend vacation. Friday night we went to the Alamo theater and watched Be Kind Rewind which was accompanied by some nice locally sweded classic shown before hand. I loved the movie, better than any other Gondry movie for sure. I've gotten flack from friends for choosing this over Eternal Sunshine..but watching BKR gave me this warm feeling of watching an instant cult classic that spoke straight to everyone whose ever tried to make something epic with a video camera (scroll down to watch my infamous high school attempt) where as watching Eternal Sunshine gave me the feeling of being tricked into watching a high concept chick flick.
Anyway, the next day we hung out with the Andersons, ate crepes from an airstream, bought a french dunny and a pete fowler monster, went to doggy island (an island where dogs run free), ate an an amazing burger and then went to see SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE which is the main reason for this post.
We didn't really know what to expect when we bought tickets for this thing cause its kind of hard to describe to some one. We just knew that it involved Daniel Johnston songs and that my friend Joe Mathlete played one of the leads. Boy, were we in for a treat. What it essentially boils down to is a full blow rock opera similar to the stage production of Tommy using Johnston songs to form a LOOSE narrative; and while my complaint about most rock operas is that there is way too much fluff, the story is too hard to follow (see uh...our last album), and the singing is so theatrical and distracting...it was totally wonderful and appropriate in this case.
This is mainly because, A) as they explain in the hand bill, Daniel didn't write any of his songs with the intentions of telling a long story but many end up telling the same tale of unrequited love with a girl who marries the director of a funeral home. and B) Johnston songs make perfect covers as proven time and time again by (insert a dozen of your favorite artists.)
So yes, some of the songs were a big theatrical and over dramatic, but so is the world that Johnston has created in his head. It pretty much just comes down to great songs performed by talented people.
Another HUGE plus was that Kathy McCarthy had just recently joined the cast. If you aren't up on your Johnston trivia she's the one who recorded the first album of Johnston covers introducing a large number of people to his song writing. After the show the cast played more songs on a stage outside where she played my favorite song of his. What a treat! If you live in Austin you should go see this before its over. A little bird told me they have cheap tickets on Wednesdays too!
Sunday afternoon we drove back got some czech stop and watched a very predictable Oscar ceremony (at least Juno didn't win!)
A great weekend I will remember always.
Did I ever tell you guys I got a new guitar?
Karl
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Last weekend, my girlfriend and I ventured down to Austin for a weekend vacation. Friday night we went to the Alamo theater and watched Be Kind Rewind which was accompanied by some nice locally sweded classic shown before hand. I loved the movie, better than any other Gondry movie for sure. I've gotten flack from friends for choosing this over Eternal Sunshine..but watching BKR gave me this warm feeling of watching an instant cult classic that spoke straight to everyone whose ever tried to make something epic with a video camera (scroll down to watch my infamous high school attempt) where as watching Eternal Sunshine gave me the feeling of being tricked into watching a high concept chick flick.
Anyway, the next day we hung out with the Andersons, ate crepes from an airstream, bought a french dunny and a pete fowler monster, went to doggy island (an island where dogs run free), ate an an amazing burger and then went to see SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE which is the main reason for this post.
We didn't really know what to expect when we bought tickets for this thing cause its kind of hard to describe to some one. We just knew that it involved Daniel Johnston songs and that my friend Joe Mathlete played one of the leads. Boy, were we in for a treat. What it essentially boils down to is a full blow rock opera similar to the stage production of Tommy using Johnston songs to form a LOOSE narrative; and while my complaint about most rock operas is that there is way too much fluff, the story is too hard to follow (see uh...our last album), and the singing is so theatrical and distracting...it was totally wonderful and appropriate in this case.
This is mainly because, A) as they explain in the hand bill, Daniel didn't write any of his songs with the intentions of telling a long story but many end up telling the same tale of unrequited love with a girl who marries the director of a funeral home. and B) Johnston songs make perfect covers as proven time and time again by (insert a dozen of your favorite artists.)
So yes, some of the songs were a big theatrical and over dramatic, but so is the world that Johnston has created in his head. It pretty much just comes down to great songs performed by talented people.
Another HUGE plus was that Kathy McCarthy had just recently joined the cast. If you aren't up on your Johnston trivia she's the one who recorded the first album of Johnston covers introducing a large number of people to his song writing. After the show the cast played more songs on a stage outside where she played my favorite song of his. What a treat! If you live in Austin you should go see this before its over. A little bird told me they have cheap tickets on Wednesdays too!
Sunday afternoon we drove back got some czech stop and watched a very predictable Oscar ceremony (at least Juno didn't win!)
A great weekend I will remember always.
Did I ever tell you guys I got a new guitar?
Karl
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