Behold: our latest free EP.

hi myspace friend,

happy holidays! we’re writing you today because we have a new EP available for download, and it’s free.

about a month and a half ago, our myspace account got deleted. like, completely wiped off the face of the internet, and we’re still not sure why. our online operations ground to a screeching halt, as we realized we no longer had any way of letting the friends we’d made on myspace know about upcoming shows, albums, and other mission-critical band stuff.

it was pretty awful.

then one morning, just before thanksgiving, it came back. like, all the way back – friends, favorites, the whole nine yards. and we said to ourselves, “you know, we should really make sure this never happens again.”

so we’ve recorded four new songs, and on december 15th, we’re giving them away for free. the catch? we’d like you to sign up for our actual, real-world email list:

http://www.speechwritersllc.com/signup/

you have our word that we’ll *never* share your information with anyone outside the band. we just want to make sure we can find you when our next album comes out, which is sooner than you’d think.

(seriously.)

thanks for reading, and enjoy the rest of your day.

sincerely,
dave and misha

…when we say it’s been a weird week.

Dave Lowensohn Plays SF Startup Weekend from Tyler Willis on Vimeo.

Thanks for the celebrity treatment, Tyler. Everybody else can click the big link just above this to watch the whole thing in HD, though why you’d want to see my beard in that much detail is beyond me.

What a wonderful weekend. What did you do to celebrate? I helped some friends turn 0.5595% of the internet carbon neutral, then watched in horror as the press release blew up on Digg, and wound up pulling my first true all-nighter of the year launching the website a day early.

So it seems only natural that Misha and I should publish our most embarrassing moment at this time. While there’s no shortage of candidates for the title, if you were to put us each in separate rooms and ask us, “What’s the one thing you’ve done as a band that you really never want anyone to know about?” we would each, without hesitation, say: “Granola Morning Goodness.”

A bit of backstory: we have a friend in LA who works for a film licensing company and occasionally asks us for weird, highly-specific concept songs. Sometimes we take them on, just because there’s usually something like a 24 hour deadline and it’s a fun “songwriter’s challenge” kind of thing. For instance, Temporary States was originally written for “a hard PG-13 animated romantic comedy.” (It didn’t make the cut.)

But this was probably the weirdest set of instructions we’ve ever received, for anything, in our lives:

From : The Amazing LG
Sent : Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:47 PM
To : Speechwriters LLC
Subject : Cereal commercial?

Hi guys,

Please let me know if you have anything you would like me to pitch…see description below:

We’re testing a new campaign that’s a cross between a granola, healthy morning cereal spot and a cosmetic/beauty ad. Looking for a track about beauty, without saying the word ….not too slow, should have some energy, music to make you move/wake up/feel good – nothing moody/chill out.

Key Words:

glowing from the inside
shine
happiness
alive

Please send me ideas by end of day Wed or first thing Thurs morning.

Thank you!

-LG

To this day, we still have no clue what it was for or who wound up getting the contract, but I think you’ll agree: we hit this one out of the park.

Happy Earth Day,
Dave