The Motion Sick: Say Now
I just signed up for this Say Now service. I guess you can leave us messages and we can reply or something. Any messages you leave become public and other people can respond. I don’t totally get it, but I … Read More
The Motion Sick: Cold as Coldplay
Thanks to everyone who voted for us and passed along our plea to all of their friends and enemies. As we had said, the competition was fierce and we were defeated by our good pals, The Luxury. Some of you … Read More
The Motion Sick: Courtney Love’s Blog
I can’t quite totally follow what she is saying, but I kind of enjoyed Courtney Love’s stream-of-consciousness blog on myspace for July 24th: Myspace Blog May 31, 2016 You may have heard reports recently about a security incident involving Myspace. … Read More
The Motion Sick: Bands on Tour, Need A Place to Stay?
“What’s the story behind the site? Touring isn’t cheap or easy. We know, we’ve done it for years. We thought of this as a way for bands and music lovers to offer up their floor and couches. We’ve stayed in … Read More
The Motion Sick: Metal Mondays Volume 1
I just made up that I might be doing a weekly thing called “Metal Monday.” This simply means that I’ll post something metally on every Monday that I remember to. Here’s the first one. It’s some later-era Judas Priest. Ridiculous … Read More
The Motion Sick: Digital Bear Party Photos
Here are a few photos from the Digital Bear Studio party. As usual, no flash was used… The New Collisions: The Patrick Dunn Band:
The Motion Sick: The Motion Sick vs. The New Collisions
We’ve been searching for a while for a band to have a feud with. Â Music feuds are awesome and hilarious. Â Oasis vs. Blur. Â Neil Young vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Â It’s all good stuff. Â Anyway, yesterday at The Digital Bear Studio Party, … Read More
The Motion Sick: Review of TT’s Show on Melophobe
Check out Melophobe’s review of our show at TT’s here. It seems that they had a fun time. They also posted some awesome stylized pics. I’ll repost a couple here (hope they don’t mind), but head on over to them … Read More
The Motion Sick: The records of my birth
After almost a week, I too have my list of my favorite albums from each year that I have been alive. I kept to the spirit of this exercise by only choosing albums that I know and not repeating an … Read More
The Motion Sick: TT’s 7-14-08 Photos and Video
Here are some awesome, awesome photos by Kelly Davidson. Lots more great ones here. One of the photos of Matt will be appearing in the next issue of The Noise! Sophia also took some awesome video of us rocking the … Read More
The Motion Sick: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin at TT’s 7-14-08
We had a really fun time opening the show at TT’s and I got a bunch of video of the headliners, so here is all the video I could get before my camera died of Someone Still Loves You Boris … Read More
The Motion Sick: Whirlwind of Rock: DC, CT, and Cambridge, MA
I am just beginning the healing process after a series of 3 shows in 3 days. As always, a variety of nonsensical videos are available here. On Saturday, we played in Washington, DC at The Grog and Tankard. It was … Read More
The Motion Sick: Most Listened to Records
(Post by Travis Richter) Hey Yall, So I saw Mike’s last post about picking his fave records from each year he’s been alive, and I thought it was a great idea. Unfortunately, I got through 3 years and realized there … Read More
The Motion Sick: Favorite Album From Each Year of Life
This is something I picked up over on Three Imaginary Girls. It’s a list of your favorite albums that came out each year of your life. No repeats on artists. I cheated a little with a couple of greatest hits … Read More
The Motion Sick: The Motion Sick are Coldplay opening act contest finalists!
Friends! We have been selected as a finalist in the WFNX contest to find an opening act for Coldplay in Boston! Our video for “30 Lives” is now featured on Coldplay’s special web site for this purpose: http://www.coldplayontour.com/wfnx/ Please go … Read More
DNFMOMD: Peanut Butter and Chocolate: The story of obsession!
There was some argument regarding these cupcakes in my household, as Mike wanted vanilla, and my need for peanut butter and chocolate was just beginning to rear its head. The compromise was that I made vanilla cupcakes and took out … Read More
DNFMOMD: Shells of the Stuffed Persuasion
I had never made stuffed shells before, but it occurred to me that I would enjoy them more than lasagna (which has always been too messy, and too cheesy (when I ate cheese) for my liking). Anyway, stuffed shells are … Read More
DNFMOMD: Quechee Gorge, VT
I visited the Quechee Gorge, otherwise known as “Vermont’s Grand Canyon” back in May. This photo was taken from the bridge alongside the road, BB tells me that this is quite the popular spot for suicides. I enjoyed photographing the … Read More
The Motion Sick: Wanted
I saw the midnight viewing of the movie Wanted last night and I found it to be pretty awesome. I won’t spoil too much, but it includes all of director Timur Bekmambetov’s favorite themes: father/son relationships, superhuman abilities, fate, and … Read More
The Motion Sick: Do you know this girl?
I get a massive quantity of spam with subjects like: “this girl is looking for you,” “someone loves you,” “bad girls,” “let’s chat,” etc. For the past six months or so, these messages, of which I’ve received thousands, have almost … Read More
The Motion Sick: Dead Confederate Live on KEXP
This isn’t exactly new, but it’s pretty awesome for both its innate greatness and its 80s-style fade video montaging mixed with Blair-Witch-spooked shaky cameras. I love it. I also love the observers mixed in with the band. Oh yeah, awesome … Read More
The Motion Sick: Girl Talk and collage music…
The new Girl Talk album is available for whatever price you choose (including $0.00) at: . I really enjoyed the last record and, although I’ve not been active lately, I was involved in doing a lot of music along the … Read More
The Motion Sick: Stage Fright
Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright is one of my favorite films ever. Â I am in the process of seeing every Hitchcock film (75% through them) and I think it may even be my favorite of his films so far…but that is … Read More
The Motion Sick: Graph Jam Strikes Again!
more graph humor and song chart memes
The Motion Sick: The Music Industry Today…
While Mike reads the newspaper to find random industry-placed adverts, upon my morning flip of the paper found this interesting article about the new head of EMI… A music producer, like Rick Rubin? No, a financier named Guy Hands. Known … Read More
The Motion Sick: Funny Newspapers
You may remember a while back, I had posted that thing about the burrito being mistaken for a baby in the trash. Well, I found the source of that tidbit of joy. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jbistlin/headlines1.htm These got me into a painful giggle … Read More
DNFMOMD: Jean-Paul Video
Mike from The Motion Sick created a video out of archive footage for their song “Jean-Paul.” For a twelve-hour project it came out pretty cool. I wrote this song at age 18, I originally called it “Jean-Paul Approximately” (a little … Read More
The Motion Sick: Jean-Paul: My Saturday project
So, I am trying to learn more about video editing. I hope to make a short film for the 48 Hour Film Project next year. As an exercise in editing, I spent all day making a music video for Jean-Paul … Read More
DNFMOMD: Naan Power
Tonight, I tackled Naan. I bought the mad expensive Chipati flour weeks ago at the Indian Grocery, and finally now have come around to using it. I followed a random recipe from somewhere in webspace and replaced the yogurt with … Read More
The Motion Sick: Tullycraft
Saw legendary Twee-poppers Tullycraft on Thursday at PA’s Lounge. They got the kids dancing… Video of the show: Setlist: Someone else’s photos from the show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bsearles/2575631452/
The Motion Sick: My Reviews at Three Imaginary Girls
Here’s an updated list of what I’ve reviewed over at Three Imaginary Girls Record Reviews Moby – Last Night Devastations – Yes, U Dead Confederate – Dead Confederate EP Battle Hymns – Hidden Reservations Keith John Adams – Unclever Newspapers … Read More
The Motion Sick: Promo CDs
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/universal-to-ap.html An interesting case has finished its first round in the court system. Â Universal Music sued eBay seller Troy Augusto for selling promo copies of CDs. Â “The judge ruled [that these sales] are legal because the promo CDs are essentially … Read More
DNFMOMD: Dead Confederate
It is not often that I find music, especially entire albums, that I really like. I am super picky about what music is for. But when I do find something I love, I’m pretty die-hard about it. Though there have … Read More
The Motion Sick: Elisa Jordana / Neil Forman
Elisa Jordana, who I’ve already raved about a few times, is working on a music video for her song “Nymphomaniac.” If you scoot on over to her page and watch the videos she has posted, a keen eye will observe … Read More
DNFMOMD: Fish Tacos
Amazon just decided to recommend this book, Vegan Seafood to me and it totally grossed me out. Veggie approximations of fish. I’m entirely the wrong person for this, as I’ve always hated anything seafood related, including seaweed, as it often … Read More
The Motion Sick: Amazing, Awesome Video of Our Cell Phones Not Doing Anything to Popcorn!!!!!!!!!
Nothing happens! It’s amazing! It’s awesome! It’s a hoax! How stupid. I guess I am helping perpetuate it by posting this, but pleh. In response to: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2100340/Mobile-phone-popcorn-‘hoax’-hits-YouTube.html UPDATE 6/14 – OFFICIALLY REVEALED TO BE A STUPID VIRAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN – … Read More
The Motion Sick: Electric Laser People (gear stolen)
Our close pals in Electric Laser People, who will be joining us for The Flash Wednesday as part of our August residency to rock out about Superheroes were robbed this weekend of some important gear. We’re always greatly saddened when … Read More
The Motion Sick: 100!!!
A giant, giant thanks goes out to all of you who helped make our 100th show at The Middle East Upstairs a blast! We had an awesome capacity turnout, excellent crowd participation (possibly the best 30 lives dancing yet!), and … Read More
The Motion Sick: Pun Stores
Most people who have spent at least five minutes in my presence have heard my diatribe on pun-named businesses. I actually have often talked of my plans to run for legislative office so that I might propose a bill to … Read More
The Motion Sick: Johnny Rotten battles the Bodog Battle Lady
As some of you may recall, The Motion Sick was one step away from being invited to appear on The Bodog Battle of the Bands million dollar contract thing on Fuse. We lost to the energetic fellows of Fear Nuttin’ … Read More
The Motion Sick: Dead Confederate
They are literally my favorite band right now. They are great on record. They are great live. They are great. Check them out at: http://www.deadconfederate.com/ Live review and interview coming soon to http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/user/thesleepwalker Go seem them if you can. Tour … Read More
The Motion Sick: Win Tickets to Our 100th Show!!!
Contest over at: http://ryanssmashinglife.blogspot.com/2008/06/pela-and-static-of-gods-at-middle-east.html
The Motion Sick: Weezer – The Red Album
I was “lucky” enough to hear an advance copy of the new Weezer album PNH (That’s one beyond OMG), this album is terrible!!!!!! It is, almost impossibly, the worst thing they have ever done. Whenever I managed to stop cringing … Read More
The Motion Sick: Dead Confederate
Saw them last night. I already thought their EP was the best thing I had heard in a while. Now, they are officially my current favorite band. Will post more on them soon, but for now, just go listen to … Read More
The Motion Sick: Sea Wolf
Three of us in the band went to see Sea Wolf on Friday at The Paradise. I really enjoyed the band a lot. The Jealous Girlfriends also played: