• SXSW and Tour!

    February 14, 2008 /

    We're playing SXSW and will be stopping in a few towns to play. Most of the dates are filled. We're playing a lot of parties.
    Parties are fun.

    Saturday, March 8
    Greenville, NC
    Spazzatorium Galleria
    807 Dickinson Ave

    Sunday, March 9
    Augusta, GA
    1102 Bar and Grill
    1102 Broad St.
    w/ Edison Project

    Monday, March 10
    Athens, GA
    283 Bar
    283 E. Broad St.
    w/ Edison Project

    Wednesday, March 12th
    Austin, TX
    Beauty Bar
    617 E 7th St
    9pm
    with Faceless Werewolves!!

    Thursday, March 13
    AUSTIN, TX
    DAY PARTY
    Moose Lodge
    2103 E.M. Franklin Ave.
    Time TBD

    Thursday, March 13
    HOUSTON, TX
    house party
    2502 Leeland St.
    8pm

    Thursday, March 13
    HOUSTON, TX
    Continental Club
    3700 Main St.
    11:30pm

    Friday, March 14
    AUSTIN, TX
    HOUSE PARTY
    1024 e 44th
    2:30pm

    Friday, March 14
    DALLAS, TX
    GOOD RECORDS
    1808 Lower Greenville Ave.

    Friday, March 14
    DENTON, TX
    Dan's Silverleaf
    103 Industrial
    w/ Edison Project

    Sunday, March 16
    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
    The Satellite Ballroom
    1435 University Ave.
    opening for They Might Be Giants!
    tickets

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  • Ghost Dog

    February 11, 2008 /

    I miss the ghosts in my neighborhood. Robert Dillard Ghost used to sit on the stoop 2 doors down always trying to get me to tell him what cold feels like. I couldn’t tell if he was messing with me by showing off of his ability to give me the shivers or if he really wanted to know because it had been so long since he had to wear a large coat outdoors. He can’t tell time anymore because his face goes in and out like a bad fluorescent light and those times that he is present he thinks he’s always been there. He gets excited when I get takeout, forgetting what dinner tastes like.
    I’m glad I’m not you, Robert. You’re like a torpid spirit who’s memory is reflected off of five mirrors before you get to see what it was you thought you saw. I’m gonna get you a dog. A live one. Besides, I don’t know where to find a good dead one, except the veterinarian’s dumpster. Dogs see ghosts and real people. If a dog can trust a ghost long enough, the ghost can get inside the dog and see, albeit colorblind. You can tell a ghost dog right away. If you look in its eyes and feel despised then you’ve found a ghost dog.
    Robert became a ghost dog and then all the other ghosts on my street became keen on the idea and now they’re gone, trotting along highways, sitting around White Castles and Luby’s Cafeterias, pretending to eat peanut butter.

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  • STRAIGHT UP VAMPIRE RETURNS!

    February 8, 2008 /

    I’m playing the role of Ben Franklin who turns into a werewolf. Jason Trachtenburg dons a peculiar accent.
    !!EXTRA DATE ADDED!!
    SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9th at 7:30 pm!
    (Feb 7 & 8 at 8 pm, Bowery Poetry Club)

    Tickets: 212-614-0505

    First induced into labor for Halloween, it is reborn for Valentine’s Day!

    Paula Abdul’s
    “Straight Up Vampire”

    (a Gothic Political Romance)

    or

    The History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania
    as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul

    February 7 and 8th, (thurs, fri)
    Bowery Poetry Club
    8 pm
    $10

    ________________________

    It’s 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia.

    Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright’s son.

    Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves.

    Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony.

    MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly.
    _______

    A touching, informative, and spooky musical hayride through fake American history, set to the music of Paula Abdul, as performed by the likes of CORN MO, THE O’DEBRA TWINS, JASON TRACHTENBERG, THE PIZZAS, and more. . .

    Learn about the history of vampires in Philadelphia while crying because you are so moved by the plot in this staged reading of a new jukebox musical
    from my sister’s dead friend.

    written by Paige Greenwald (RIP)
    as
    reconstituted by Nick Jones, Zak Vreeland and Peter J. Cook

    directed by Peter J. Cook

    music arranged and performed
    by Dr Steamwhipple and the Prescriptions

    with performances by
    Magin Schantz
    Jason Quarles
    The O’Debra Twins
    Members of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
    Jason Trachtenberg
    Megan Stern
    Aziza Omar
    Justin Noble
    Zak Vreeland
    Draeregano
    and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin

    produced by Nick Jones
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    Bowery Poetry Club
    308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker and Houston
    NYC

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  • BROOKLYN WEDNESDAY

    February 4, 2008 /

    Wednesday, February 6
    WILLIAMSBURG
    Trash Bar
    256 Grand St. (between Driggs and Roebling)
    10pm
    $6
    open bar from 8-9

    We’re gonna play songs we didn’t play the last time, including Event Horizon. We’re also going to play a new song about breaking into school to change your grades the old-fashioned way: with an eraser.

    also playing:
    8:00 – KELLY EVA ELLIS
    9:00 – J RODDY AND THE BUSINESS (piano rock from Baltimore)
    10:00 – Corn Mo & the .357 Lover
    11:00 – JOEY JOHN (he’s from France)
    12:00 – JUSTYN WITH A Y

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