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Here are some pics from this weekend’s Big Sky festivities. I feel like the weekend lasted a month with the bitchen Great Falls show, the Lodge at Big Sky show, the Yurt Dinner, Josh’s birthday at the brewery and then our Monday night impromptu Wii pizza party at my house in honor of Josh’s birth.
This is a pretty boring topic but since I’m suffering with a bout of the flu/a cold/some sort of issue, I figured I’d check the Google Flu trends map. If you want to find it…just Google it. Or you can go here: http://www.google.org/flutrends/
Turns out Montana is currently listed as “High”. About four months ago when I found out about this wacky Google service I looked at the trends and said to myself “I’ll probably get sick between late February and early April.” Low and behold, here I am. Glass eyed and stuffed up. Dizzy and delirious. Jonesing for top ramen, a good iPod game, and the couch. I’ve been staying strong though, planted here in my chair in front of the computer plotting the world’s demise.
You know what scares me though? Being miserably sick while playing a show in Great Falls. Not a good combination. So I shall hit the couch for a bit and focus on getting better by tomorrow.
Here’s the new game I just downloaded from iTunes for .99 cents. iDrakula – Undead Awakening. Look at those fire balls!! And that rocket launcher. Oh my.
This better be good.
[singlepic=16,220,140,,left]Josh Freese has been impressing the crap out of me for years now. He’s been playing drums with the Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails and literally 1000 other bands. He’s a very successful studio drummer too. He even played on the Formats second record. A friend of mine was managing them at the time and the story was that he was actually recording tracks and lighting a cigarette at the same time. Probably even made a pb and j sammy for all I know.
Josh Freese is now releasing his first record (as far as I know it’s his first). He wrote the songs, sings them and plays most instruments as well. If there’s anyone out there who’s as talented as Dave Grohl, it’s definitely Josh Freese. I hope the CD kicks major ass.[singlepic=17,220,140,,right]
It seems that Josh as been talking to his pal Trent Reznor a lot because in true Nine Inch Nails fashion, Josh’s unusual marketing of his upcoming release has been making huge waves around the net.
Here’s one example of an actual package Josh is offering. Go to joshfreese.com for the whole list…
with groupies, etc…. -If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm) -Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here) -If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks. -Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robin’s place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.
I’ve been spending a lot of time on MontanaMusicians.com lately. It’s part of a larger project I’ve been working on with Music Villa to help unite Montana musicians.
It’s been great to see all of the people flocking to the site since we launched late last week. If you’re a musician you should stop by in there and leave me a message!
Our Valentines day adventure was a complete success. Josh, Kate, Angie, and I all made a day trip towards Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone park. Just a few miles before you get to Mammoth is a local secret called the Boiling River. They say about 200 people a day on average show up here to jump in the hot water. We walked about a half mile from the parking lot to get to the spot where the hot water meets the cold ass river. It was rad.
I have to admit that I was a little reluctant to walk all that way in freezing weather. Next time I’ll wear a little more than pajama bottoms over my swimming trunks.
Our boys from Helena, Goodnight Sunrise, recorded a cover version of Jessica Simpson’s song, “With You”. To say the least, it’s completely rad. I’m really impressed with their production skills! You should really skip on over to their Myspace and take a listen. The song will officially be released on the Rockin Romance compilation CD in April.
February is in full force and it seems like our New Years show was just the other day. Time goes by so fast that you just can’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today. If you do, life just might pass you by. I feel like there’s a song in there somewhere. But I digress.
Here is why I expect 2009 to be our best year yet.
1.) We’ve officially signed a 12 month endorsement deal with Jim Beam. They love everything we stand for and want to help as much as possible. They’re a great company with a lot of history and we feel like our ideas are in line with theirs.
2.) A.J. Miller is on top of his game (I mean that in all senses of the word).
3.) We now have the best and most cohesive online force (thanks to you) for spreading our music even further.
4.) Johny and his crew of bitchen songwriters (Dan Violett is a stud) have been working hard on new music.
Our personal lives have never been better which means we’ve all got the foundation that we need behind us to keep doing things better and better. (Did I mention that we’re just months away from celebrating our 10th anniversary?)
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Getting a pic by your comments
You may have noticed that most of the band guys have a little picture by our comments. You can have the same thing and it’s really easy. I made Angie’s for her last night in about 2 1/2 minutes.
It’s called a Gravatar. I copied this from their site for you…
What is a gravatar?
“A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs?”
How do I get a gravatar?
Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled blogs!
Sign up now!
So there you go. I figured I’d show your how to do the little picture thing next to your comments. I makes things a little more interesting.