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Dave — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:29:25 +0000

For those of you who are into side projects, I’m taking a couple of weeks away from the Speechdesk to tour California with the insanely talented Ramona Falls. If you’re one of the 30 million people going to see The National next week, you already have a ticket. Stick around after the show and say hi.

If you’re one of the 6.8 billion people who aren’t going to see The National next week, here’s a music video to hold you over:

Regular programming to resume shortly.

Xoxo,
Dave

Samantha and Dave tourdates! (UPDATED)

Dave — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:01:33 +0000

UPDATE: More shows just added – Boston, Burlington, others. Visit our tour page for details!

They’ve been up for a while, but if you haven’t just been randomly clicking around our website, you probably missed them.

Samantha Murphy and I are touring, hard, and you can see exactly where by clicking here. Or you can follow us on Twitter, which we’ve pledged to start using properly.

As part of, like, lent.

You can probably even do both.

Sexual Professional in Prius with live tiger (NSFW)

Dave — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:43:58 +0000

Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?

While working on the forthcoming Speechwriters cd, I (Dave) took a few weeks off to crank out a music video with an absurdly talented group of filmmakers here in Portland. The finished product is finally online, and you can watch it here:

www.sexualprofessional.com

As the title suggests, this is a fairly raunchy, NSFW affair, though it’s more of a PG-13 (for language) than an R. It’s also incredibly offensive, and definitely not for everyone.

Please enjoy or avoid as you see fit. Then click here to Digg. The Speechwriters will return in November.

Cheers,
Dave

New music, Monsters in your home

Dave — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:32:20 +0000

OK, no more vague innuendoes: there’s a new EP in the works, and we’re hoping to get it finished in time for spring break. Why spring break? Because our last two official releases, God bless ‘em, were a little rough around the edges, at least relative to the Bull Moose. Gibbard and Tamborello had nothing on the 7000 miles currently separating Portland from Vietnam, so we want to make sure we take the time to do this one right.

Here’s a very rough bedroom recording of “Seattle”, for the brave and/or impatient.

In other news, our cinematic stepchild Monster Camp just came out on DVD. We’re totally biased, but we still think it’s a great movie, and now you can add it to your Blockbuster or Netflix queue with the push of a button. Specifically: your mouse button, on those links in the last sentence. You can also pick it up for keeps at Hyrax Films’ online store, along with our original (but mostly instrumental (and weird)) soundtrack album.

Finally, if you’re into live music, there are a few new shows here that weren’t there yesterday.

Love / Song

Dave — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:18:28 +0000

High school is and was a special place for we of the LLC, and, as such, we try to respect the sacred space cordoned off therein, keeping reality away from teenagers and teenagers away from reality as much as we humanly can. But tonight we have to break with this (heretofore) unwritten rule and encourage every man, woman, and child who’s reading this in time to make a pilgrimage to Portland’s Lincoln High School, because their theater department is currently running a truly awesome show.

We’re a little biased, in that our good friend Liam Kaas-Lentz is the director and one of our songs is featured in the show, but it’s a pretty ballsy piece of devised theater from the 14-18 year old set, and we can’t praise it enough.

Go art! Go kids! Go deconstructionist theatrical karaoke!

Will v. Mary

Dave — Tue, 22 May 2007 05:05:00 +0000

While you’re waiting for this:
Maybe listen to this:

We’re not really supposed to say this, for marketing purposes, but it’s probably the best sounding recording of us out there.Definitely NSFW. Actual shows coming soon.

Monster Camp

Dave — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:46:00 +0000

Our “official” writeup is still a few days away, but Monster Camp, arguably the best movie ever made about LARPing, has been blowing up the festival scene since its world premiere last week in California. This is newsworthy not just because it’s a great film, but also because we scored it. Details are, again, still very much up in the air, but know that a soundtrack will almost definitely be released, and it will almost definitely include a song called “Sea of Foaming Hell.” Which we wrote. Check out the trailer.

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Misha — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:36:00 +0000

holy crap! we’re playing a few shows.
(that new video we were talking about can be found here, and you can follow our greening online at carbonisforsuckers.com.)

Project Megafauna

Dave — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:18:00 +0000

Jack and I have made a New Year’s resolution to become better bloggers, and we’re doing it here. All hail the dog-faced megatherium.

Enter the Panda

Dave — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:19:00 +0000

Friends. Fans. Creditors. The day has finally come. The day where I tell you what the hell I’ve been doing since the end of our last tour. I know there are only, like, four of you at this point, but the beauty of the blogosphere is that even megabloggers like Wesley Crusher do their actual blogging just like the rest of us: naked, stoned off toad adrenaline, and listening to Enya on two stereos at once. It doesn’t matter how many people out there care who you are – we all blog the same color. It’s what brings us together. It’s what makes us human.

Anyone who’s talked to me in the past, well, six and a half months knows that I’ve been working around the clock to get my latest mad internet venture up and running ASAP. (Not in the sense that my work has been all-consuming; rather, there’s this giant clock in my office that’s in dire need of repair, and my partner and I literally have to work around it.)

But it’s been a hell of a ride. I’ve learned things. I’ve bled my own hot blood onto a thousand rusting keyboards. I’ve spent enough time at my 24 hour Starbucks to hear two separate cover versions of “One” by U2. And I’ve Photoshopped over seven pandas.

We were supposed to go live on April 1st. Then May 1st. Then May 15th. Then June 1st. Then June 15th. Then July 9th. I was told repeatedly that this was normal; I was told repeatedly that this was insane.

And then, one morning, not unlike today morning, which is in fact the exact morning that it was, I woke up in the arms of my creepy green Starbucks mermaid and there it was: our website. We had somehow gone live in the night, which, as anyone who’s ever launched a website can tell you, means that the nailbiting and sleepless nights we thought we’d put behind us had only just begun.

The long and short of it is, I have this new website now. It’s called Panda Control. It’s not replacing the LLC in any way, it’s simply this totally other thing that’s been sucking my time like a chupacabra with sorority kneepads, and it finally works, sort of. It probably won’t make a whole lot of sense until August or so, but I figured I’d let the four of you in on it now, while it’s still in beta, so that someday you can tell your grandchildren you were one of the first 100 PandaControllers, and they’ll maybe finally start respecting you again.

Kidding. I’m sure you guys have a great relationship.

Anyways, that’s where I’ve been, and that’s where I’ll be when I’m not here. Which is often, I’m afraid, because there’s only so much a band can do through its website. But I figured you should know. We’ll be in touch more soon, all of us. Thanks for your time.

Love,
Dave