Gold mine

Oh my god.

I was being good and trying to work on our BP/P album art and look what I found. It's only exactly what I've always wanted -- an awesome site with free font downloads. And Not Only That. It lets you custom preview the words you're trying to write so you can see if it's the look you're going for before you download and install. Genius!

I even figured out how to install new fonts on this computer! I think a little more font shopping, some ink drawings, a date with Aron's scanner, and we'll have album art. At long last!

The making of the "Twenty-Five" video (Part 1)

This rough animation is the beginning of our "Twenty-Five" music video.



Eventually, I'm hoping it'll look like this:

Black Magic Voodoo Lounge

Lisa, Maya and Steven played at the Black Magic Voodoo Lounge's open mic tonight. This is our first set with microphones, PA and a monitor! We would like to thank Ray, the host, for letting us play the following set:

1. Marcher
2. Idea
3. Sylvia
4. Scenic World (Beirut cover)
5. Twenty-Five
6. Picture Yourself
7. Frankenstein

Yodel

Last song to be released from the November sessions! Hear it on the facebook.

The night I wasn't home
I was a little stoned
I was tripping out to the beat of a disco
Whatever happened next
I bet it was complex
I woke up in the heart of San Francisco

With me and you and everyone we know
From all of the places we've found
All the smiles and eyes and sparks from long ago
They spun like a merry-go-round

I walked along the shore
I walked along some more
I found it hard to talk and hard to swallow

With me and you, and people I don't know
We played on this big haunted ground
All the smiles and eyes and sparks from long ago
They spun like a merry-go-round

Yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee ooh

Yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee ooh

So then I reached the park
As it was getting dark
I was introduced to a stomach in peril
My senses came to light
As the world sank out of sight
I found my rented home in a street oh-so-narrow

Oh me and you and everyone we know
Flew out of the old lost and found
All the smiles and eyes and sparks from long ago
They spun like a merry-go-round

Yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee ooh

Yodel lay, yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee, yodel lay ee ooh
Yodel lay ee, yodel lay ee ooh

Idea

The fifth song from our November sessions. Steven and Molly are the singers. Listen on our Facebook page.

As we walk into a room of freezing cold
You laugh and say hello my friend
My fear my kind idea
And I brew a kettle drumming tea for you
Yellow foggy silver blue
I feel its sweet appeal
And you in the armchair all alone
Ooh, tell me something about the past decade
Of blue and the monochrome tube
We can swing and rock till
We both have had our fill
Of time and of space and of fun
But we know we will never be done

The nightclubs and bars and disco lights
Ooh, don’t compel us
As much as our habit of
Staying up talking all night
As I fell into your arms
Fallen out of harm
The charm of a dream of mixed rhymes
And the fancied invention of lines

Later on, the sun is in the room again
Chased away the moon again
The mirror is frosty dear
In a daze, gentle wind a warm embrace
And everything is in its place
So near come for me here
The Sunday review is on the lawn
Ooh, we should go out, see what it’s all about
The bricks in the old custom house
We can stop and wonder
In front of a window of a shop
That is closed for the day
And the sights that we’ll see on the way