6 Bands I JUST Learned About

1. Julie Doiron (3hive)
2. Rosi Golan (digital citrus)
3. Armen Firman (obscure sound)
4. Starlight Mints (you aint no picasso)
5. The Bobby McGee's (wears the trousers)
6. Animal Collective (gorilla vs. bear)

*The blog where I heard and read about them is in (parenthesis).

I look forward to checking them all out... more, that is. Whoooo!

In summary, here's a picture of our cat:

3 Thangs: TwoGroove Blog Interview, Pat Radio, & Monday's Show

Sooo... Here is Rich setting up at our show on Monday (5/4/9) at the Treehouse. As you can see, there were many stickers on the wall. Also, as you can see below, there is a tree in the middle of the listening room at the Treehouse. Not just a clever name. The show was good... got to hear Super Desserts... they were great. Jeremy Jay had a solid performance as well. We met a couple guys in a band called: The Language Our Fathers Forgot. They were super-nice guys. That is pretty much the summary of the night. My week has been bizzare. I have been quite tired. Yup.

Our song,
"They Grow It", was played on Pat Radio a couple weeks ago. It was very nice... Pat plugged our Treehouse gig, too. Give his podcast a listen here: http://www.patradio.org/blogs/archives/215-program-159-Your-Favorite-Assassin.html

We were featured on the blog TwoGroove. They interviewed us. Here's a link if you'd like to read it: http://www.twogroove.com/blog/2009/05/04/past-present-future-team-smile-and-nod/

In summary, my enthusiasm is low due to tired-ness. My apologies.

Guest blogger on Out Lesbian!

Why hello!~
I am now a guest blogger on the Out Lesbian Network... You can read my first post here: http://www.outlesbian.com/ I explain why it's important to me to be an OUT musician. Sorry I neglected THIS blog! Ahhh... alas, the main thing goin' on w/ our music at this moment is that we're preparing for our show with Jeremy Jay on Monday. It will be a GREAT show. Super Desserts will be performing as well... and gee... they're SUPER! I am TOTALLY jazzed. WHOOOO!

In summary, Katie and I need to clean our gutters. RAR.

Team Smile and Nod on YouTube...

Sooo... we did it! We joined YouTube AND posted some videos! There are a couple videos from COMFEST last year... which happened to be our 3rd show eva'. So yeah, our shows are different now... more fun electronics to work with... i.e. Rich got a MacBook, so that opened a lot of options for us... we use the MacBook connected to a midi keyboard/controller and Korg Kaoss Pad... which gives us lots of options for manipulating the electronics. At COMFEST, we did the show with 2 mics, 2 guitars, 1 guitar pedal, and 1 JamMan (which is this super-awesome looper/sampler pedal where we can store the electronic components to a songs for playback... it's simple, but effective when toting our entire set-up would be silly).




Here's a link to our channel where you can see a few more videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamSmileandNod
I did a couple solo cover songs... I plan to do more. It feels weird videotaping myself alone in a room, but, oh well. I'll try to get some footage of me and Rich rehearsing, too. Please leave a comment, if it's nice ;)

In summary, the tulips are blooming and that is great. Next year, Katie and I plan to plant a bunch of tulips in the backyard in rainbow colors. It will be awesome... Like, a clump of each color in rainbow order... eh?!?! Thoughts like this make us feel soooo very gay. Whoo!