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Thursday, September 29, 2005
Hello Nurse in the New York Times!!
...well, sorta
Here is the article from page B4 of the Metro section.
Hello Nurse, Meet the Bulletproof Junkies
Published: September 29, 2005
How does an aspiring band get some attention in a celebrity-saturated town? Perhaps with an unusual name. Here are some of the bands playing in New York City in the coming week, as advertised in The Village Voice:
Architecture in Helsinki
The Big Wu
Bling Kong
Bulletproof Junkies
The Celebrity Pilots
Checkbook Biography
The Comas
The Crimea
The Dearly Beloved
Deerhoof
Drive-By Truckers
Ego Likeness
Evil Doers
The Flying Neutrinos
Garage a Trois
The Gaskets
Gonna Get Got
Gnome Dust
The Hard Tomorrows
Have Her Home by Ten
Heartless Bastards
Hector on Stilts
Hello Nurse
The Inevitable Breakups
Johnny Casino's Easy Action
Keygrip
Low Flying Jets
Makeout Room
Medications
The New Heathens
Nixon Agnew
No Redeeming Social Value
Other Passengers
Pariah
The Pillcrushers
Sin Destroyers
The Smyrk
Still Life Decay
Summer Lawns
Team Robespierre
The Urges
The Walk Ons
The Weary Boys
Wicked Little Dolls
Wide Right
Wormburner
7:45 AM
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Takin' the Day Off!
I'm at Hello Nurse, Inc. mixing all night tonight, and I'm super psyched that I took the day off tomorrow. I have a bunch of vacation days that I'm about to lose at the end of the month, so I figured I might as well use one.
Tomorrow is going to be awesome. I'm going to wake up early and play morning ultimate in Prospect Park. Then Jackie and I are going to the new MoMa. Afterwards, we take Eloise to the vet. Muwahahaha!
Best part, no work involved and it will be a Wednesday.
Damn, I really should have used my vacation days this year. I'm an IDIOT.
6:23 PM
Friday, September 23, 2005
Big John!
Yesterday I spent almost the entire day reading Big John's blog. I got very little work done, unfortunately.
Big John and I were very close throughout K-8. We went to different high schools but we kept in touch because we leaved near each other. When I went home to Michigan in college we would hang out. Big John was the friend I invited to attend my dad & Lynne's wedding a few years ago. After college, John and I both joined Teach For America, and he taught in New Orleans. At that time we lost touch with one another, and John is now in Japan teaching English through JET.
I have always regretted not keeping in better touch with John during the past few years. When I started reading his blog yesterday, I was glued! It's like reading a close friend's journal! I love John's blog in that it is a personal account, a glimpse of his life, and the pictures are great.
Big John: I'm happy to hear that you're having such awesome adventures in Japan. Keep up the frequent blog posts, and get your ass to Maine next August so we can do some celebrating!
Big John and Ben, friends from Detroit
Alex Chung wrote me an e-mail the other day in which he said, "It's funny how the blog world works: you know what people are up to without having to talk to them which saves a lot of time but also really weird."
This is so true! So many times when I call a friend and start telling a story I am interrupted - Yeah, I read it on your blog. This stinks, because I love telling stories. I guess this is probably why I keep a blog in the first place - to tell as many stories to as many people as possible.
In other news, check out these Hello Nurse t-shirt designs. My favorite is the one below. Chime in if you hvae a preference.
http://hellonurserock.com/tshirt/
10:58 AM
Monday, September 19, 2005
Please pass this information along!
Teach For America is looking for 1,000 Champions who will each donate $1,000 to improve public education in our country's urban and rural public schools. By choosing to Be One of a Thousand, you will play a critical role in growing Teach For America.
We are one of ten finalists - out of nearly 1,000 applicants - for the inaugural Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award. The finalist that raises the most money between now and September 30, in donations of $1 to $1,000, will win the Award and a matching grant from Amazon.com of up to $1 million.
Be one of Teach For America's 1,000 Champions who will collectively donate $1 million, position us to win the $1 million matching grant, and help us be named the most innovative nonprofit in America!
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who fight educational inequity by teaching in low-income communities and becoming lifelong leaders for change. This is a unique opportunity to grow our corps and to take a step closer to the day when all children in our nation have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.
Donate Now
link location: http://cl.exct.net/?ffcb10-fe5216777065037b7c1c-fe181c787663067a721c75
Please copy this information in an e-mail to friends and colleagues who could also Be One of a Thousand.
Thank you for your support.
12:49 PM
Videos from Hello Nurse CMJ Show
Dollar Signs and Liars video
My Ally video
Ordinary Me video
Token Summer video
A HUGE thanks to Rachel (and Frankie) for shooting these videos and for being such awesome fans in general.
9:08 AM
Friday, September 16, 2005
Hello Nurse at the CMJ Music Marathon 2005
Saturday September 17th at 7:45 PM
CMJ 2005 Music Marathon
Continental - 25 Third Avenue at St. Marks
ALL AGES, and there will likely be some absurd $10 cover charge
The acronym CMJ stands for College Music Journal. Given that we never had the chance to join fraternities in our various educational paths, Hello Nurse has decided to start our own frat and hold rush week during CMJ. We will call our fraternity Eta Nu. Eta Nu is Greek for HN, and everybody knows that the ancient Greeks were big fans of meatheads with spikey hair drinking Bud Ice.
Won't you please join us at the Continental for keg stands, ice luges, and the the atomic situp?
Yours in brotherhood,
Hello Nurse
Eta Nu
Est. 2005
7:04 AM
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Accomplishing the little things
The past few weeks I've been concentrating on tying up loose ends I've been meaning to do forever. I went to the dentist. I got a new contact lens perscription for new fancy silicon lenses that allow more oxygen to reach my corneas. (On a side note, the doctor thought I might have glaucoma, and my first thought was that I might be able to scam some herbal medication... but it turns out that I just have thick corneas, which skews the eye pressure test.)
Anyway, back to the little tasks. I'm finally going to pick up junk I've been storing at Kari's place in my old loft in East Williamsburg. I worked on my guest list for the wedding, and Jackie and I even took a half-hour to figure out what our wedding song will be. (Wedding crap is over-the-top corny by design, but I must admit it's kind of fun.) We chose You and me song by the Wannadies. It's on the old Romeo & Juliet soundtrack, but I'm not sure how many of you out there have heard it. It's a gloriously cheesy indie-pop song sung in broken english by Scandanavians.
Over the weekend Jackie and I dog-sat for our neighbors downstairs. Sequoia is likely a Korean Jindo, but they're not 100% sure since they got her from the pound. She is an awesome dog, and we took her to all the dog-friendly cafes in our neighborhood. Unfortunately, she has the runs through the first day we had her, and she had a few accidents. Overall, it was great to spend a long weekend caring for the dog. It made us realize that we are probably better dog-sitters than dog-owners. So, I'll finally have to put my incessant browsing of the Craigslist pet forum to rest.
(Generic Korean Jindo - not Sequoia)
On Sunday, Hello Nurse did very rough recordings of our 6 newest songs. We're doing rough recordings so we can fool around with background vocal tracks, percussions tracks, mixing parts in and out, and possibly keyboard parts. This way we can figure out which three songs are best, and we can also determine exactly how we want to record them and layer the tracks. We feel that we're ready to start spending money on REAL recordings using the help of PROFESSIONALS with QUALITY gear. This way, we'll know exactly what we want when we walk through the door, and this will help cut down the total number of hours spent in such extravagant and EXPENSIVE recording studios.
And finally, in other Hello Nurse news, we were illegally evicted from our practice space the other day. Our landlord dressed up like a marshall, and tried to padlock the door saying that we did not show up for a court date and therefore we are being evicted. The last we heard, after a meeting the landlord earlier this month, is that our space is being demolished to make way for condos, and we need to move by November 1. We said ok, and we started to look around for a new space. We were never served with papers and had no idea about a court date. This whole thing is extremely illegal. We did move our gear out of the space and into Joe's office to be safe. Nonetheless, I'm sure that all of the bands sharing the space are going to get together and sue the crap out of that landlord. I hate court, but wow would it feel good to sue the shit out of some skeezy landlord. Heck, Joe did it - and he hasn't paid rent for years!
6:40 AM
Friday, September 09, 2005
I hate clowns!
Donate today! Every $20 helps.
Thanks to Joe C. for the graphic.
12:29 PM
Thursday, September 08, 2005
One Band, Two Band, Old Band, New Band
Leo Creek Jam Band
This is my dad's band. The finally have a website: leocreek.com
The website has mp3s of a live performance, video from that same performance, and a tall tale of the band's history that had me slapping my knee.
I dig the fish!
OK Go
Andy Ross, former guitarist for the A-Ross Experience and the mastermind behind Secret Dakota Ring, is now a member of the popular band OK Go. OK Go will be performing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight to promote their new album, Oh No. If you can muster the energy to sit through Blue Collar Comedy shenanigans, OK Go will come on at the end of the show. Git 'er done!
Andy, your hair is [lisp]spectacular[/lisp].
(2nd from left)
1:24 PM
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Hello Nurse Interview in SONYC
Damn, we give good interview.
SONYC is a great acronym, by the way: Sounds of New York City
8:16 AM
A feeling of uselessness - Can I do more?
Last week I had this burning sensation in me - What can I do to help? How can I be most effective?
Late Thursday night an idea popped into my head: I'll get a 15-passenger van, drive 1-way volunteers to the gulf coast along with supplies, and bring back people who have family in New York City. Once I had this basic plan, I couldn't sleep. I called up some friends who I thought might be down for a marathon 2,400 mile road trip in the span of the three-day weekend.
Drew agreed to join me in this madness. We spent the day on Friday trying to get our ducks in a row. We posted on craigslist asking for volunteers, small donations for gas, and most importantly, a vehicle. We found 2 or 3 volunteers looking for a ride, 2 people willing to give us money, and 2 people who wanted to donate supplies. The Daily News even contacted us for the details of our trip. But, we still didn't have a van.
Finding a van turned out to be most challenging. Drew called tons of rental companies. I contacted people who were selling vans on craiglist. Drew called a few churches. I even called the Columbia Athletic Department. We were back and forth with a half-dozen people. It turns out that two Joes without insurance have a tough time getting someone to lend them a vehicle, especially the day before labor day weekend.
At about 6pm we decided to contact the volunteers and tell them that our plan was off , that they should find another outlet for their generosity. We were bummed, and I'm sure a lot of people were feeling the same way last week:
How can I help? How can I give of my time? How can I be most effective?
At work we're trying to help our new teachers placed in the Greater New Orleans area find work elsewhere or help with disaster relief. So many alumni are calling us asking what they can do. There are still so many questions and so few answers.
The weather this weekend was beautiful. I enjoyed it as best I could. But in the back of my mind: "I wish I were driving through Louisiana with a van full of diapers and clothes."
6:48 AM
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