6-Year-Old Triplets Share Salty Eyes Reviews/Concerns

Journalist and friend Emily Zemler has moved onto our bus for the next 9 days of Warped tour, and brought presents from three wise 6-year-olds. Watch their video blog here.

Acoustic Sneak Preview of New Matches Song

Jon and I were asked to maybe do an acoustic number for livepulse.com at the Denver Warped date, yet we thought it more fun to play something new that nobody's yet heard. Listen and watch here, if you like:
To Build A Mountain on live-pulse.com

THE FIRST 5 COMMENTS:
1. Written by seth, on 22-07-2007 06:50
bad,bad,bad
2. Written by Alex, on 22-07-2007 06:44
I think that if they played the song non-acoustically it would sound better.
3. Written by conner182, on 22-07-2007 06:35
Wow. It can\'t get any fucking worse.
4. Written by Tommy H., on 22-07-2007 06:32
Suuuuuuuuuuuucks!
5. Written by chris, on 22-07-2007 06:31
This song blows. What is he singing about?

--although, Brett Gurewitz (Epitaph founder/ Bad Religion guitarist) saw the acoustic video and sent us this email:
> Dear Matches,
> >
> >
> >
> > To Build a Mountain is a beautiful and amazing song. I fucking
love
> > it.
> > I think it's my favorite Matches song.
> >
> >
> >
> > xo,
> >
> >
> >
> > Brett

To evoke such polarized opinions..! How does this bode? I chuckle to discover.
Shawn

Acoustic Sneak Preview of New Matches Song

I revised this entry above, to include Mr. Brett's email and fix the link to the song. Didn't want to delete comments thus far, so read other entry of the same name first, and the comments linked to this entry will then make more sense.

eff the effers.
S

Hail Mary to Matt Whalen

Our friend Lizzie put motion to our John Madden-of-art-film diagram for Salty Eyes. Follow the bouncing balls.
Shawn

Alternative Press Magazine in Conversation with the Wizard

Alternative Press Magazine in Conversation with (our manager) the Wizard:

AP: Shawn is an artist, is he also a photographer? We're looking for shutterbugs in bands to visually document the Warped tour for AP.
Wiz: Oh yea-- Shawn virtually lives behind a lens. He's been exhibited in the Ghetty and the Crocker.
AP: Really?!
Wiz: No, but he is quite accomplished.
AP: Great! We'd love to have him submit photos for our feature which will be both online and at the end of the summer, a feature in the magazine.
Wiz: Super.

The Wizard in Subsequent Conversation with Me:

Wiz: You're gonna be shooting for AP this summer.
Me: Shooting what?
Wiz: Photos.
Me: I'd better borrow a camera from someone.


My photos are updated on the AP site every 3 or 4 days. check it out and enjoy my attempt at faking photography skills.

http://altpress.com/specials/warped2007/photos/artists/harris/index.html


S

Pretty Bomb

Dave McWane (of Big D and the Kid's Table), how do we agreeably refer to members of an audience or line which we sing and dance before? They've commonly been (derogatorily?) referred to as "the kids" (i.e. "the kids are all right", or "the kids dig emo"). Being legally a kid, which a good deal of the audience is not, frankly was a difficulty I would not wish on anyone to the point that the name "kid" seems an insult.
X-ing that one out, the term "fan" is presumptuous, we've agreed. Calling someone a fan holds the same possible anvil of embarrassment as waving back at someone you vaguely know from a distance, only to find their gaze extends beyond you to a stranger behind you. When their attention is averted by your waving and you are tractor beamed in their eyes, which are visibly searching for recognition-- that is the equivalent of the termed "fan" responding with a furrowed brow, and admission he’s only heard a couple of your songs (and there, you've just peed on him as your territory, dickhead). He will then hesitate, as both parties silently battle over who can better contain their embarrassment, and when he loses, he’ll add "but the stuff I've heard is pretty rad."
"Pretty" is a passively hurtful word, and everyone knows it. You use it when you are obliged to say something that you feel contrary toward. The more contemporarily removed the adjective it modifies, the more "pretty" negates and then oppositely polarizes it's meaning. Here is a list of words which when modified by "pretty", range from awkward(1) to "stab yourself. now."(8)
1. neat
2. sweet
3. dope
4. bomb
5. badass
6. badazz
7. unstoppable
8. amazing
As you are aware, "pretty amazing" is mythical. Amazing is meant to be the summit of greatness. You can't sorta plant a flag in the top of Everest or kinda beat the Russians to the moon. "Pretty amazing" aint talking, that's just spit mistaken for words.
Back to the terminology query at hand...
The consumers? No-- the whole download torrent loophole technically doesn't make a good number of them monetarily invested. Demographic? Too record label spreadsheet. Masses? (could you really refer to that Myrtle Beach crowd of 12 as such?)

Names... such cages.
Shawn

The Making of Salty Eyes

How?
Like this.

-S

Meddle Fingers

Our tender composite metal shell juggles itself down a blemish pocked dirt road. We're turning the map vertical tonight and drippin our way down past the border, back into the big red 50. Canada was still there, some will be glad to hear.
Once upon a different me and a different you, people not so unlike us brought our band cookies and puffy painted shirts. You should see what those pastries have now become-- a velvet suitcoat! ties! scarves! Hats and glasses! Really, I'm constantly shocked at what sharp taste the gifts exhibit. Honestly, if I were to fall ill, any of a great number of you could stand in my place.
The sun over Warped Tour is a drain, and my head is spiraling dangerously toward it. Post me a comment to make this knot of a face grin, would someone?

S