Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Welcome Back Jean Paul Kottier

Sorry for the absence, been busy growing facial hair. Now for the updates:

THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES NO LONGER
2002 - 2009

Steve, Chris, Ryan, and Brian have decided to hang up their slithery selves.
No word on each member's next move, but they posted this concise farewell on their site:

" It's with a heavy heart we tell you that These Arms Are Snakes is no more. It's been a great run and we'd like to send out a very hearty "Thank You" to everyone that we've worked with or anyone that we've toured with; anyone that lent us a floor, towed our van and/or trailer, lent a van, given us a listen, downloaded our records prior to their coming out, bought our shit, or asked us where our band name came from; everyone who cooked us food, made habanero-infused tequila, had a safety meeting with us, let Steve gyrate all over you, had to live with any of us, made us pay shitloads of money to get off your punk label, got us into LOST, found Steve drunkenly wandering the streets of Tokyo alone, played Madlibs in the van (plural nouns), lost money promoting one of our shows, took Chris to the hospital, put up with our drunken sorry asses, got into a fight with us, etc. etc.

This band could not have been possible without all of you. We sincerely thank you.

Much love,

TAAS
"


Brian still plays bass for Russian Circles.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Get an Envelope


[When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore

Friday, April 17, 2009

To Hella With Coachella.

"It's too damn hot for a penguin to just be walking around." Here's three albums that have been rotating consistently in my head, car, laptop. Keep in mind that last time I was at Coachella I could barely hear Willie Nelson because the Kaiser Chiefs were playing "I Predict A Riot" through huge speakers. This weekend's forecast for Indio: "I Predict Some Heatstroke".
Lotus Plaza - Floodlight Collective
This is the guitarist from Deerhunter.


Wavves
This is a dude from San Diego.


Harlem - Free Drugs
These guys rule.