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Summon the Wizard

I am a liability. What a week for the Wizard to be gone... Some great ideas from you guys; parking lot screenings, megauploads, treasure hunts. It honestly wasn’t my most popular move on the business end, trying to upload the video myself. The Wizard comes into cel range tomorrow. We will do something. Promise.
S

Serious Bullshit

Serious bullshit is going down. I’ve been on the phone all morning (I do mean morning-- try 5am) with our label and the London Metropolitain Police (our manager is out of town). I’m told that the “clip” Yankee in a Chip Shop contains footage of us “engaged in violating British law” and that our rights of dissemination are in question. Serious bullshit.
Public officers had taken our names during one incident on the shoot, which we kinda laughed off.. I seriously thought they were rent-a-cops. Apparently our files had been in processing, and had gotten investigated due to CCTV tapes of us running down the middle of the huge roundabout at Piccadilly Circus that was the video’s finale.
Funny thing is, Epitaph, who’s under pressure here, didn’t have anything to do with making the video at all. The only money spent on this video came out of my pocket-- I’d been saving up checks from art jobs just to shoot this second video for our new record-- one that there was no budget for in our recording contract, but that I was passionate about, and knew that people would be tickled to see. Epitaph didn’t even know we were making a video! When we brought back the footage, they were thrilled, and then totally got behind us-- helping us get great online coverage, and hopefully TV as well. Having them behind us gets our video and song much more potential coverage. Maybe instead I should have just slipped the thing online right when we finished it. Forgone the pomp and circumstance and just had the parade, tho be it smaller, before the red tape and roadblocks went up.
...The video is promotional and we’re not intending to make any money off of it. I just want people to see this video we shot. Fuck it. Here’s a link. I’ll gladly catch shit for this.

Friday! Yankees!

We just sealed it-- The Yankee in a Chip Shop video will be rotating onto the front page of myspace for 7 whole days beginning Friday! That’s a huge deal considering that we shot this video totally run and gun while on tour in London. Our tiny budget was inversely proportional to the brassiness of the balls of all brave enough to be involved. When Emilee Seymour and I pitched the concept, there wasn’t a soul who thought all four of us band members would walk off the shoot without the aid of paramedics. London’s reputation is mean, and that is precisely what we were banking on. The video will be linked here! 10:30 am pst. Don’t be late!
S

Yankee = This Week!

Better than Salty Eyes? Worse than Salty Eyes? You'll find out this week-- the Yankee in a Chip Shop video will be debuting online THIS WEEK. Check back here on the daily for a link to the Matches and Oxen's follow-up collaboration to Salty Eyes.

Look at me tryin to sound all official...what I really mean to say is "Me and my friends made something neat! Be excited with us!!"

(and yes, of course Micheal Coleman, the man behind the camera, was using "worse" as in "my head hurts more now than before". I just can't refrain from fanning flames under any cauldron of shit.)

'til not soon enough,
Shawn

A Band In Hope Payment

Dave Smallen from Street to Nowhere makes good on his burned copy of ABIH:

Post us video responses on youtube or send to the sharpied email on the cardboard box.
wink. nudge.
Shawn