Posts Tagged ‘Beauty Pill’
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Sampling the thought streams of D.C. musicians past and present.
-my pack game is so official. you dont wanna see my tour tetris. forreal, i could fit a family of 6 into a fannypack.
-had my 1st facial (cant wait to hear from my mature ass twitter friends’ reply). attached suction cups&steam machines to the grill. relaxin!
Travis Morrison:
-Can tell when you aren’t playing with your original drummer. Even if he’s not that big a fan. Just sayin in case you were gonna get back …
-Woke up totally nostalgic for the early 80s baltimore orioles and googled lenn sakata.
-There is a “Halloween store” near my house that offers absolutely no costumes for women that aren’t conspicuously sexy. None.
-A 1986(!) Steve Reich interview tape unearthed! Talks about Ghana, Stravinsky, Charlie Parker, Bach. http://bit.ly/x31O5
-Oh man Pandora, what are you thinking? The “demo” version of Freebird? Freebird without the guitar solo is not Freebird.
Chad Clark on Story/Stereo @ The Writers Center
Combining literary pretensions with rock music can be tricky. Sometimes you get Leonard Cohen and everybody’s happy—or at least content in their woe-tinged introspection. Other times, you get the Lizard King. But Chad Clark, leader of local rock band Beauty Pill and former proprietor of Silver Sonya recording studios, seems to know what he’s doing. At least, he’s aware of the aesthetic dangers at hand.
Tonight Clark—alongside musician Matt Byars and the staff of The Writer’s Center—will kick off Story/Stereo, a concert and reading series that pairs local rock bands with local writers and poets and, ultimately, forces the two to combine their efforts. “Hopefully not in a goofy way,” says Clark. “We’re aware of the perils.”
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–pancakes + hummus, sink or swim? let’s go.
–Apparently my big Asian head is stenciled on trash cans up and down U Street. Foreshadowing? http://mypict.me/nqyT
–wish I’d never discovered toaster oven smores. now I’ll eat ‘em all the time… also, the windmill movie was incredible. highly recommended.
–how can they say mark twain was an ENFP? did the myers-Briggs folks hire a psychic & have him take the test from beyond the grave??
–Driving through Montana at night = terrifying. Driving through Montana during the day = exhilarating!
–My favorite part about portland? Burlesque.
–If you ever get to sit next to Tony Maimone, it means you have won at the game of life.
–Tarantino. Please. No speak. Fermez la bouche. Hushy hush for hush time. Shhhh. Listen! Let’s all enjoy the sound of you not talking.
–Enroute to Blakroc session. Your average Black Keys/Mos Def/RZA/Qtip/Joel Hamilton/Pharaohe Monch collaboration. Psyched to work on this!
–Millions of colors in the world and the color experts at Pantone® can only give us 1,089?
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
Beauty Pill (Chad Clark):
–“Ill Communication” reissue is out. Has anyone ever really stuck their dick in mashed potatoes? Scared to do a YouTube search.
–On second thought, I think inserting genitals into mashed vegetables is more of a Vimeo thing. Next level. No commercial gain. Integrity.
Casper Bangs:
–Just had to pay $580 to prevent NYC from towing the van we borrowed from army of me and then the starter died.
–punks in a white van just rolled up in front of lauriol plaza and said to an old white man, can u tell us how to get to the hood
Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think):
–Guyoncologist=cancer doctor of the man-vaj
–Homealone hexes Cptn Eo after unsolicited reacharound causing everything post-Bad to be actually kind of bad.
Edie Sedgwick:
--Vince Vaughn making me smell his fingers to prove he got lucky last night.
–POV porn too realistic to be fun, but Don Herbert is looking pretty sexy on these old Nickelodeon Mr. Wizard VHS tapes…
–Had to shave my moustache after employer pointed out she has identical moustache. Bastards always finding a new way to keep you down.
