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Walcott (newgaze remix): Unauthorized Vampire Weekend Fanfic
Release!
Today is the release date of the Aa gAame CD/DVD, for which we directed 2 videos and produced the DVD! Now you can buy it at lots of places (Kim’s and Amazon come to mind).
Come celebrate with us Thursday at the Gigantic Music gAame release party!!! Here’s the info:
Thursday April 26th @ STUDIO B :: LIGHTNING BOLT :::: xBxRx :::::: Aa aka BIG A little a —-> Gigantic records release party :::::::: High Places :: SPECIAL GUEST :: :: Bug Sized Mind [ STUDIO B ] -> totally superclub style! now w/ friendlier bouncer dudes! 259 Banker St @ Calyer | Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Bklyn | 718.389.1880 L-Bedford/G-Nassau | -ALL AGES- | $10 | 8PM
Studio B has a lot of smoke machines, so expect to get in trouble…
New Music Video! Cheveu - Clara Venus! Big deal!
Please enjoy our new music video for Clara Venus, by french postpunkers Cheveu.
CLARA_VENUS.MOV: (Quicktime)*, (Youtube)
LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS LINKS
http://sdzrecords.free.fr/
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/719774.html
http://cheveunet.free.fr/mp3videos_fichiers/clara_venus.mp3
http://www.s-srecords.com/
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/501
http://myspace.com/cheveu
http://www.lacoste.com/usa/main.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6076560.stm
http://myspace.com/gitangitan
http://www.balldeep.tv/?p=64
http://www.freetranslation.com/
*(If it doesn’t work, you need the free Quicktime 7 player.)
How’d they get so many awesome people?
Announcing the Aa gAame Music Video DVD! (coming Springtime on Gigantic Music)
Death Mask/Best of Seven - STO Cinders Flag Day - Jason & Cindy SynTofts / John Aa Good Ship - Sean Aa Manshake - Lev & Whitney New Machine - Christoph Steger Thirteen - Aron Aa Walk Again - Michael Bell-Smith Time In - Jon Schwartz Fingers 2 Fist - Lev & Whitney Uracle - Dictator 893 Fucking SmearCompetitor Thumper - Aron Aa Horse Steak:A - Ropstyle Horse Steak:a - Billy Pavone Plus live video
Start buzzing, baby bees!
To Front Only the Essential
Man — definitely another bear/not bear day. For example, less than 5 minutes from after this shit (I mean, COME ON!) CheerUupCompetitor sends us this amazing Manshake synopsis and reminds us of what’s really important. Pleeez enjoy thoreauly:
"What are you doing out there?" asked Henry David Thoreau, to which the most enriching answer of which I am privileged to divulge to whom it may connote (by which I mean those for whom the manly virtues by which a man may be measured are, relative to which, underappreciated): the answerers of whom I speak are a devoutly paternalistic splinter sect of the Shakers, the Manshakers, who cultivated the most supreme synergy between two seemingly-countervailing virtues — masculinity and maternalism. This video recreates the Manshakers’ greatest challenge: to breed some sensitivity into the seemingly-intractable Bavarian Cnidarian Boy, a child who spent the first 28 tragic years of his life raised by Sea Pansies, and who as a result of which had developed numerous craniofacial inversions and a debilitating addiction to equinatoxin. The Manshakers use their most sensitive sensitivity-training techniques:
1) If you must shoot the bird, do so with one arm slung to your torso. Afterwards, draw its corpse. IN PENCIL!
2) Don’t paint the painting. Don’t look at the painting. You must feel the painting. With your face! All the important feelings are in the lil man face!
3) WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF! Grrrrrrrrr
4) Mr. Holland’s Opus glasses make you look and feel sensitive.
5) Hugs
Hugs right back, Matt!
L +W
Our Confession
Back in July when we posted the Fingers 2 Fist video to Antville, we got accused of ripping off the concept and it really bugged us.
I mean, of course we did steal the idea, but not from some Random — from Lev’s friend Suz!
So this time we’re letting ya know: We stole Manshake from Truffaut’s Wild Child. Pretty much the whole thing. We also stole these concepts from actual history:
The Woodcraft Indians
Feral Children / Wolf Children
John James Audubon
The Cos Cob School of Painters
And for future reference, 95% of our movies are ripped off from either Stella, Rohmer, or the enormous amount of TV we watch.
Oldtimey Homo-Sensual Laffs
Enjoy our New video for Aa (Big A Little a — pronounced AAAAAYAYAH) — Youtubed & Quicktimed!(right click to download)
The cast: not only actors with great screen presence, also musicians with great internet presence.
Aa Aron, John & Nadav
Nevin Ned
Shot Heard Round the World Tim
Birthday Boyz Judd
Also watch: Our other Aa video
And then buy: The upcoming Aa DVD!
-Honnk- Now!! Now!! Now!! -Squeeeakk Now!!
Lev here.
I know Whitney and I present a fairly unified corporate identity on this site. But we don’t really agree on everything. Take music — she doesn’t invite me along to see bands I wouldn’t be psyched for, and there are MP3s I’d probably email to J or J or A before her.
There is one kind of music tho that I really feel has belonged to us as long as we’ve been friends. It involves heavy distortion, high pitched noises, mumbled off-rhythm vocals (usually mixed way too high to way too low), and often a drum-machine.
Example bands are The Country Teasers, early Devo, the Coachwhips, the Fall and the Butthole Surfers. These are people I only imagine wearing very dark cheaters all the time. If Whitney and I had a band our one song would be her playing a highly amped and distorted kazoo while I screamed “NOW! NOW! NOW!” until I passed out.
So when I heard Cheveu for the first time I emailed the MP3 to Whitney with lots of exclamation points in the subject. I mean, on top of making our kind of music, they’re French: the effing people of sunglasses!
The point is they’re playing in Brooklyn tomorrow night on their first American tour. So we’ll be there and here’s an MPfree…
Friday, October 13 @ UNCLE PAULIE’S
:: Tunnel of Love —–> titans in tights from Boston
:::: Cheveau ———-> from France
:::::: Ghosty ———-> Kansas City kidz
:::::::: Bossy ——–> x Bent Outta Shape
:::::::::: Shrag ——-> from Brighton, England[ UNCLE PAULIE’S ] ~~ air conditioned! ~~
NE corner of Monitor St & Greenpoint Ave | Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G train to Greenpoint Ave or L to Graham | 8pm | all ages | $6[ UNCLE PAULIE’S ]
$2 beer! Uncle Paulie’s is totally a temporary structure built out of blue canvas and two by fours and plywood on a slab of concrete next to the huge under-construction death star minaret upside-down hot-air-balloon lookin’ sewage treatment plant in Greenpoint. During the daylight, men in hard hats eat fried food here. Totally patio, but totally inside! Easy to get to but so far out nobody cares! Noise & djs till the wee hours! $2 beer!