GOOD LUCK TO YOUR DRUMMER

the intro to this song is the best. seriously, the way the drums come in? are you KIDDING ME? see there are a lot of gnarly things in life but i feel like at least we get these little good moments, when drum beats kick through darkness and remind us THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK.

also - how good is the chorus in this song? it's perfect. holy moly.

anyways.. got all jazzed up on this intro and decided dead voices should have an intro like this. but when your brains are like my brains (not so technical) this means ------> not. going. to. fucking. happen. good thing our drummers nickname is MATH ROCK... it took us two hours (read: it took DAN two hours cause kurt and i were pretty useless) to figure it out but we (he) did it! i still don't know how it works, dan figured out what we needed to play... and then when he comes in.. man oh man.. it's pretty heavy shit. so again.. this is a good reminder that it's these small things, (as weird as it is to be super amped on weird drum intros) that make things OK. next time i'm feeling low i'm just going to put the dig for fire intro on to repeat, close my eyes and remind myself that things are going to be O K.

<3 X 1000000000

GHETTO INTERNET LOVE

i can be pretty out of touch with what's what's in the world of online networking (yes, i was one of those dummies that hated on facebook FOREVER, until one day i realized that i was being an ass-hat... and propmtly got over myself and was happily consumed by FB and all it's socially intoxicating ways)...

eventually i really gave it up and started this blog

and now it's come to this

i have started a DEAD VOICES twitter (OMFG.. but seriously why am i so weird about this?)

anyways it will be good cause moving forward with technology is a good thing, right? it will be like touching the inside of each others mouths and swapping skin suits and we'll all live as one with no secrets and a pseudo-sense of connectedness, physically lonely yes, but totally in-the-fucking-know...

STEP INTO OUR SKIN YOU PRETTY LITTLE BABIES
http://twitter.com/deadvoices

xxxxx (in a creepy i know you but i don't really know you kind of way)

MORK COHONE

another super awesome thing that happened last night was that our incredibly talented friend Mark Cohene asked to 'break in' his new digs by taking a few quick promo shots of us before the show.

well he's posted les deux that made the cut and they're great (just like Mark!) so go and crush on his website and check out the pictures:

http://www.cohene.com/

Thanks Mark!!!!

(also i guess calling his new camera, his new 'digs' is pretty brutal misuse of a term.. cause isn't digs like a home? he's testing his new home out on us? see that just doesn't make sense... whatever i guess)

xx_x_xx (i don't know, maybe kind of looks like something? ugh.. i need to get better at that)

IN TED WE TRUST

last night was magical (i know i sound like a sissy for saying that - but it actually was, so deal with it)

the venue worked out perfectly - fucking hoo-ra for the media club - and big ups to all the people who made it out and made it great (including the staff of the media club and wonderful Jessica Sands for running that shit!)

Ted Leo + The Pharmacists made it through the border (!) and then proceeded to be the coolest/nicest/coolest (again) people you could ever hope to meet.  Not only were they incredibly generous and appreciative they were also cool with us all becoming weak-kneed school-girl sissy band fan geeks (yes we were ALL acting like 14 year old girls in-love).. I can imagine they were operating at a fairly high stress-level but they still graciously let us invade their space.. (although they didn't really have a choice but you know..)

Plus Perfect handled all the deets and made sure there was backline for the show (among other things) and also made sure to melt hearts with their wonderfully charming and endearing set (seriously who can slip french lines into their songs so casually and have it be so dreamy? oh no BD)...

all of us in Dead Voices were incredibly stoked to be a part of this night and i'm still kind of shitting - DID THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN? WHAT AN F-ING DREAM!

my icy heart has been warmed up! (just loling my heart isn't really icy... but last night was definitely a heart warming display of rad people coming together and making something truly great happen)

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

TEDDY LEO AND THE MAGIC OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER (AKA IN TED WE TRUST)

we had our dicks pulled (not in a sexy way, i assure you)

but we've recovered

thanks to the wonderful boys in Plus Perfect, our wonderful friends (Jessica Sands and Allana Farnell - to name a few), to the mighty Media Club for pulling this shit off and of coarse to Ted Leo and the Pharmacists for being up for still playing and just being all around super cool dudes.

our show with Ted Leo, as of Friday was fucking dead. in. the. water. SUPREME BUMMER, right? but then some people got their shit together and figured it the fuck out and now it's SUPREMELY AWESOME and actually happening.. opposed to it just being me, in my living room, drunk at 8, singing ted leo songs, to nobody by my plants (although that doesn't sound too bad, eh?)

SO tomorrow night at the Media Club / doors @ 8 - show @ 9 / cover 10
Dead Voices / Plus Perfect and then ol Teddy Leo + the Pharmacists

CHECK this shit:
http://www.tedleo.com/2010/09/06/new-vancouver-show-is-on/
http://www.myspace.com/plusperfect
http://www.myspace.com/tedleo

xox (yes i put in an 'o' i'm THAT stoked)

KICK OUT THE JAMS

jamming is actually the only thing i'll be doing for the next couple of weeks.

and maybe sometimes blogging

sometimes working

trying to sleep (which never works anyways)

eating rice cakes

trying to avoid vices

so OK not the only thing i'll be doing but you know..

XXXXXXXXXXXX and jams

IN TED WE TRUST

HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HELL -- WE ARE PLAYING WITH A GOD

TED I LOVE YOU

GET INTO IT