Heavy Breeding: March 2008

Release Date

There’s a superstitious tradition of going to the record store on release day to buy one’s own record. The thought is, if you won’t buy your own record, who will?

Here is the direct link to buy A Band In Hope on itunes.

Wake the Sun

Wake the Sun video, launched exclusively on yahoo music this week while we sat in jet planes, afraid to take off shoes for fear they would never fit again.

And a clarification: the blog was malfunctioning, and had I the power to post, I would have posted so, but then, I wouldn't have needed to post so if I could have, so we are left with this clarification. All is fixed. Not like a cat. Like a blog.

Answer: The Matches

Did you hear that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer dropped more than
$80,000
on a high-class prostitute and had to resign? And did you know that
everybody in America wanted to see a picture of this prostitute because
they
were curious about what kind of woman can charge thousands for sex? And
that
yesterday somebody discovered that this prostitute a MySpace page? Did
you
know that everybody went to visit this page yesterday? How many people
do
you think went there? Would you believe 1.8 million people? And did you
know
that she is a singer, and that this page was was a MySpace music page?
So
here's my question: Who was the featured band on MySpace Music
yesterday,
the band whose smiling mugs greeted 1.8 million who visited the site?

Answer: (See Title)

AP Cover Photo

This is where a photo of our band on the cover of AP magazine might have gone had I not thought better of twirling baton in my own parade. --->[ ]
Damn. I've realized modesty here is just an outfit. I'm not in a modest mood, just self aware, which is more vain than just putting up the picture in the first place.
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I've rationalized my action: I'll delay putting up the picture until next month, or maybe the month after, when the prize is a mere memory. I'll say "Hey! Remember?" and we'll all look with glassy eyes and tuck our lips into the bit around our lips and make horrid dimples we feel cute behind. Except now that I've forecasted all of this, maybe you won't make those dimples (which I love, even if they are a bad idea!) and you will roll your eyes, because you've caught me posing behind this plot as well. It's like you've walked in on a family rehearsing their America's Funniest Home Videos submission of a lawn chair breaking under Grandma's ass while a tether ball hits Uncle in the nuts. "No, grimace more! Little Timmy, hold your hand up to your mouth while Uncle writhes in the grass! Yes! That's it-- okay Stradelmans, last take...and.. action!"

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