ELEVEN

11 songs for October.

LONG PIGS.

It's only appropriate that after a post about cute cards featuring hearts and kittens with pretty flourescent pink bows, that I would introduce you to some gore . . . . .

My pal Rob and I did the music to a movie called Long Pigs about 5 years ago. It's a low-budget mockumentary about a couple of incompetent filmmakers who set out to make a documentary about a cannibal serial killer and find themselves in way over their heads.

By chance, we ran into one of the filmmakers a few months ago and were told it would be playing for a week at The Royal. We had never seen the final cut, so it was really fun to watch the movie at the theatre a couple nights ago! Chris and Nathan (and everyone involved) did a great job.

Check out this weeks Eye Magazine which documents the 7 year journey of the making of the movie. The article uses Long Pigs as an example of how much time and effort people put into independent productions that they feel passionately about - and that it isn't always a walk in the park to create something. Truth!

Also . . . handing out beef jerky at the door "made" by the character in the movie? Hilarious.

Tough Love.

The King has been transformed into a show poster. A sleazy piece of promotion. He's a tough fighter that likes loud music and lots of attention from his kingdom. He believes in be-headings and sleep deprivation experiments . . . be afraid.

This show is going to be good times. We Versus The Shark is an awesome band from the US you should check out for sure (CLICK!).

Also! We have a few new songs that we're stoked about playing before we start being song writing shut-ins for the next month or two in preparation for recording.

Bring on the Sunday night adventures.

Colour Is The Keyboard!

Colour is the Keyboard:
Whippersnapper Gallery
587A College Street, Toronto
April 4-13, 2008

Reception: FRIDAY, APRIL 4 @ 7pm
With a performance by Toronto’s DD/MM/YYYY.

From video works to Edward Gorey-esque ink drawings to vibrant screen-prints, Toronto's Whippersnapper Gallery will feature an art exhibition of stunning visuals by an exciting crew of indie rockers.

Exploring a free interplay between mediums, Colour is the Keyboard presents a dynamic relationship between the visual and the auditory. The “Indie Art Extravaganza” (Exclaim) will feature east-coast rapper Buck 65, Polaris Prize nominee Chad VanGaalen and Jace Lasek of Montreal’s psych-rockers The Besnard Lakes, among others.

Colour is the Keyboard was co-curated by Toronto photographer/OCAD thesis student Rachel Verbin and Whippersnapper Gallery director Luke Correia-Damude.

Musicians showing work include:

Buck 65
Bev Calder (The Rock and Roll League of Tomorrow, Nipplewhore)
Matt Collins (Ninja High School)
Luke Correia-Damude (Boys Who Say No)
Dan Deacon
Tomas Del Balso (DD/MM/YYYY, Romo Roto)
André Ethier
Sandi Falconer (The Guest Bedroom)
Matt King (DD/MM/YYYY)
Marco Landini (Ghostlight, Lullabye Arkestra, Mean Red Spiders)
Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes)
Alexandra Mackenzie (Machetes, Romo Roto)
Sean Maxey (The Doers)
Justin Peroff (Broken Social Scene)
Seripop: Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum (AIDS Wolf)
David Stein (Key Witness, Boys Who Say No)
Ian Vanek (Japanther)
Chad VanGaalen
Dallas Wehrle (Constantines)
Will Zimmerman (Shout Out Out Out Out)