A few videos from the final Okay Thursday show on April 3, 2008. Also, video of Harris and The Woodrow Wilsons… To prevent slow load time, all of the videos can all be seen at http://themotionsick.com/themotionsick/tour2008/okaythursday4-3-08.html Here’s one teaser…
This blog wrote about our winning entry in the DDR contest: http://b-yaro.seesaa.net/article/92331078.html?http://www.themotionsick.com That, in and of itself is not terribly exciting, but since I don’t read Japanese, I had to use Babelfish to translate it, which led to the wonderful … Read More
The dance remix of “30 Lives” will be featured in the 2008 version of Dance Dance Revolution! The game is made by Konami and the song “30 Lives” is based on the famous video game code “The Konami Code.” We’re … Read More
I use Pandora (as mentioned here). Just now, it decided that Wesley Willis’ “I’m Running My Inkpen” should be played as a song similar to Joy Division. The similarities:electric rock instrumentation, punk influences, repetitive melodic phrasing, extensive vamping, and major … Read More
Tonight will be the final bow of the band Okay Thursday. Three of us in The Motion Sick have also been playing in Okay Thursday since 05/25/07 when we hopped in to back vocalist Sarah Korval after the original band … Read More
The best one can hope for when creating something is that your creation will inspire another person to create something. The kids over at The Wheel’s Still In Spin wrote a review embedded in a piece of short fiction. It’s … Read More
Check out this hilarious April Fool’s Day lineup for Coachella: Roger Waters headlining…ha ha ha. What? That’s the real lineup? It reminds me of the good old days when Metallica headlined Lollapalooza… Who goes to these things? I know, like … Read More
Saw Tilly and the Wall on Saturday. Was a fun time. Review forthcoming at: http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/user/thesleepwalker Here’s a setlist. The unreleased songs are best guesses based on lyrics and prior setlists (MP3s are from the Team Love website unless otherwise noted): … Read More
Assuming this is real, this is quite possibly the best video that I’ve ever seen on Youtube. It has the thing I love most in a short video clip: some douchebag gets what he deserves…
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ ***3/24 Update: The Boston Globe ran a feature on this blog today…2 days after I posted it…coincidence? – http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/10_things_white_people_like/*** This is a pretty great blog satiring the lifestyles of “white people,” by which they basically mean young, professional “cosmopolitan” … Read More
In our journeys across the US, we found ourselves often desperate for anything remotely edible. One of the safe-havens falling into the “remotely” category was Taco Bell. I made the mistake today of looking at Taco Bell ingredient lists and … Read More
The tour is over. We had an awesome time, met great people, dealt with a few frustrations pretty gracefully, and just generally experienced things that I will remember for the rest of my life. You can’t beat that. First, I … Read More
The journey home was brutal…we went a little crazy during our 37 hour drive, but we made the best of it. We stopped in Memphis and visited Beale Street, possibly the worst place on Earth. However, in the parking garage, … Read More
Austin during SXSW was an overwhelming experience. When we first arrived, I was sure that I would have a bad time. It was crowded, I wasn’t hipstery enough, there was cacophonous resonation with every step. We’d already been on the … Read More
We’ve got some pretty poor connectivity lately, so the updates may be delayed for a few days. We’ve got tons of video from Tulsa, Houston, Dallas, and Austin…we’ll get it out to you eventually…
After our wonderful visit to the Sam Houston statue, we headed on down to Dallas. We arrived at the door before it opened and we sat in the van in the parking lot with about 10 other vans full of … Read More
Well, I can only sum this one up as “adventure.” It was definitely a night for the memoirs. We drove for over 8 hours to get down to Houston. It was a pretty brutal journey this far into the trip. … Read More
We arrived in Oklahoma and stopped at the visitors center. Patrick struck up a conversation with the women working there and they pulled out the Tulsa World newspaper and it turned out that our show was the “pick” show of … Read More
We’re back on the move again. We left the hotel this morning after doing some free printing there to try to get some more flyers out to new shows added to our Austin plans and for the changes in times … Read More
Today was a day of many small let downs. We left St. Charles to head on over to TN. It was about 30 degrees when we left, but I expected us to reach warmer ground on our journey. The travel … Read More
I am still recovering from a couple of days of limited sleep, but we rolled around through Indianapolis and hit a coffee shop and the post office (to mail out some orders we’ve gotten on the road). We drove out … Read More
We got up and out before the sun came to visit. We trudged through a tiring 10 hour drive to get to the high school in Pendleton, IN, home of WEEM 91.7 FM. WEEM is a great radio station run … Read More
For photos from the Air and Space Museum and the special exhibit of American Treasures (Albert Einstein’s Pipe, The Ruby Slippers, Prince’s guitar, Abraham Lincoln’s hat…) head over to: http://themotionsick.com/themotionsick/tour2008/photos-0304.html
DC was a fun time as always. We had a quick run through the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and we got to see the “American Treasures” (approximate title) special exhibit. It was a really strange set of stuff ranging … Read More
So, I got really slammed with the flu. I am still pretty weak, but I feel a lot better. I got home after the CD release show and more or less felt like a truck had hit me. I’ve barely … Read More
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UPDATE: TOUR DATES 3/8 (Springfield, MO) and 3/9 (Tulsa, OK) JUST ADDED! Hello Friends, We’re super excited about our Boston CD release show, which kicks off our upcoming tour that leads us down to SXSW (and hopefully back)! Keep an … Read More
I am definitely a science fiction nerd. Recently watched two films: – Equilibrium – Not a bad movie, but disturbingly derivative. THX-1138 vs. The Matrix, but better than the latter…not so much the former. Christian Bale is decent, the cinematography … Read More
The main reason that it is significant is that, allegedly, advance copies were not made available for review. It seems that the review came out in the March issue of Maxim. The Crowes were puzzled as they had not provided … Read More
I finally got around to writing that review of The Magnetic Fields show… Also, I got to review this awesome band called Battle Hymns. As I say in the review, one of the reasons I love this record is for … Read More
We’re all really excited about our upcoming tour. You can find more info at our web site 2/27 – Boston, MA – Church – CD RELEASE SHOW – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110189059162/29 -New York, NY – Baggot Inn – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7929958843 3/1 – Philadelphia, … Read More
Although some commercial stations are currently playing our music regularly, we largely depend on college and non-commercial radio for airplay. I was a DJ for about 9 years at WHRW and WRBB doing both pop and sound collage shows and … Read More
This looks like it could be some fun self-parodying. I think Bruce Campbell is pretty funny, though I have not been so blown away by his recent films (Bubba Ho-Tep, The Man With the Screaming Brain). The Evil Dead series … Read More
I saw The Magnetic Fields last night at the Somerville Theater. I enjoyed the show a lot. The set mostly didn’t include the material I prefer, but the band is always so goofy and fun that it makes up for … Read More
Skip down a bit past the “My Country” song lyrics if you want to read about a funny dream I had the other night and skip some political talk. For those of you who are unaware, The Motion Sick has … Read More
Ten years ago this month (Feb. 10 to be exact), Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was released. I am sure most of you have already worn through 4 copies of it, but for those of you … Read More
I am quite excited to let you all know that today, I had the opportunity to write the Note Books column on Largehearted Boy! I’ve been a regular reader and fan of LHB for several years, so it’s quite an … Read More
At the present, we find ourselves in a difficult situation. The Motion Sick is a band that really loves making music. We really do. That is why we’re here. We are not expecting fame and fortune, but in order to … Read More
The most exciting thing about the upcoming election…what campaign songs will they choose?!?!?!?! Here are some past ones to get the gears turning… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_song 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Happy Days Are Here Again” 1960: John F. Kennedy: “High Hopes” 1964: … Read More
I saw Cat Power Thursday night and wrote a review for Three Imaginary Girls that is now available and posted in conjunction with awesome photos by Ion Sokhos. Here’s the setlist and a few live videos (I didn’t record them, … Read More
I just watched the movie Primer tonight. It was a pretty great dizzying foray into time paradoxes and layers of actions that don’t quite ever make sense to the audience. We’re only shown pieces of a puzzle. I imagine some … Read More
I am sure most everyone has seen these by this point. The truth is that I do suck at photoshop and I appreciate actually being able to learn from this tutorial series at the same time as Donnie Hoyle tells … Read More
The Motion Sick’s second album, The truth will catch you, just wait… is number 86 on the CMJ Top 200 this week! “30 Lives” is the featured video today by Blender!
I already wrote about Ms. Jordana over at: http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/blogentry/2008jan/firstguiltypleasureof2008elisajordana Still, I am reminded again that I must point you to her before every messy-haired hipster in town is drooling over her hyper-post-ironic irony with a touch of neoclassicistic retroactivation. Basically, … Read More
I am the official taste tester for this new blog: http://itbeginswithashriek.blogspot.com/
Hello Friends! Much is going on. Our CD release show and subsequent tour are coming up! First, 4 exciting tidbits: 1. The truth will catch you, just wait… has been screaming up the CMJ radio charts! We were in the … Read More
I came across this band when I saw their album cover was a crop of the painting The Death of Marat. Our song, “Jean-Paul” was written by Sophia Cacciola in response to that painting. My expectations were low for Have … Read More
Censorship, particularly the bleeping of “bad” words and the blurring of “unsafe” images has always been fascinating to me. There’s something particularly compelling about the idea that it’s okay for a TV show to contain “f(beep) you,” but not the … Read More