Thanks to everyone who came out to our CHRISTMAS MIRACLE show at the Uptown the other night. I was a huge success, and very fun, mostly because people came and had a good time - so thanks, thanks, thanks! If you didn't get to go, or had such a good time you'd like to relive the experience, Hippies Are Dead posted some pictures here. Also, below are a couple of great videos made by our most excellent amigo, Mr. Ryan Pierce.
In other news, the Trailer for 'Townies' came out today - Townies is a new web-series filmed in our hometown of San Luis Obispo. John and I are in an episode (which will be out in January), and the series looks really great. The trailer is below, but also check out townies.tv for more stuff about that. We appear for a second in this well put together trailer - we are wearing furry things on our heads:
Our amazing guitarist, Mr. Jameson Swanagon has a bunch of things coming up in the first week of the new decade. He'll be performing solo concerts in Seattle, Portland, and Berkeley, all in the first week. In Berkeley he'll be performing as part of the renowned Trinity Chamber Concert Series. Be sure to get all the details here.
Grand Lake will be performing at Cafe Du Nord with our good friends Rad Cloud on January 6. Tickets are available here.
As previously mentioned, John and I did some playing with Van and Graham of Port O'Brien over the summer for the Bay Bridged feature 'New, Improved, Live'. The sessions came out this past week, resulting in some awesome videos and mp3's. Check out the below video, and for the rest of the session go here.
Last week we ventured down to San Luis Obispo to guest on an episode of a new web series that's being filmed called 'Townies'. In our episode the show's star gets invited to an 'underground' show, and we were asked to play the band at the show - Falkor's Revenge - a ridiculously over-the-top noise band (kind of). Jameson couldn't make it down with us, so our friend Graham from KCPR stepped in to play Falkor no. 3. We don't wanna spoil too much (the series won't be online until January), but here's a video we took of our rehearsal:
While we were rehearsing our scenes this older guy was kind of milling around, convinced that Falkor's Revenge was a real band. And he LOVED it. He hung around for a while, trying to chat us up, and finally after we finished filming he found us behind the building and told us all about his band 'Baked Ham', how to expand our consciousness, the meaning of chaos and etc. Here is a video of him:
After we said good night to our No. 1 fan, we still had work to do. Falkor's Revenge was needed to film a scene outside of the venue, as the star approached. This was complicated and involved many extras, some with bikes, and the scene had to be shot over and over. The task was made more difficult due to that fact that we were in San Luis Obispo - a town that I love dearly but that is unfortunately full to the brim with the type of people that like to drive by groups of people and scream things from their cars. The shoot was interrupted about three times by this kind of thing, which probably added an extra hour or so. Here are some things people yelled:
"How can I get in this porno?"
"Fags!" (this person also threw a water balloon in the general direction of the crew)
"Butthole!" (really)
The whole experience was really fun, really funny, and we had a great time. Many thanks to Carl and his crew for letting us be Falkor's Revenge. Amazing.
Unfortunately we had to get back to Oakland the next day. Work. Sad face. On the way up the 101 we saw the following car, which pretty much iced the cake of a great trip south:
