For you morning people out there, it's time for coffee, doughnuts, bagels, orange juice, and Happy Hollows!
We are very happy to be playing The Sunset Junction Street Fair on the Indie 103 Bates Stage this Saturday, August 23!!!
I have redubbed the early portion of Sunset Junction. It is now Sun-RISE Junction since our earlybird set starts at 12:50PM. We will have a pot of coffee on the stage, which probably means we will play our songs way too fast (which we do anyway so this will be way way too fast).
The good news is that the show is ALL AGES!!! We don't get to do ALL AGES shows often enough. So we are really looking forward to it!
Also, make sure to get there early BOTH days to see Radars to the Sky on Saturday and The Henry Clay People on Sunday.
On Friday, July 18, we are playing at The Hotel Utah in San Francisco @ The Mission Creek Music Festival. Thanks to Performer Magazine for inviting us to play this show!
We played last night in San Diego w/ The Hectors. Near the end of their set, they played a great cover of the Q Lazzarus song "Goodbye Horses". Apparently they had been playing Grand Theft Auto 4 and "Goodbye Horses" is part of the soundtrack. Hearing the song led me to look up its history and some info on the the one-hit-wonder known as Q Lazzarus.
Like many people, I first heard the song in the movie Silence of the Lambs. If you've seen the movie, you know that the song is played during a sort of disturbing scene when the serial killer, Buffalo Bill, is dancing in front of a mirror.
Before its placement in the movie, the song seems to have hardly made a dent in popular consciousness. It was released in 1988 and apparently was in the movie Married to the Mob, which, like Silence of the Lambs, was also directed by Johnathan Demme.
After it appeared in Silence of the Lambs, the song was used in a spoof scene in Clerks 2, which you can see below:
Finally, as The Hectors pointed out to me last night, the song has become part of the Grand Theft Auto 4 soundtrack. As far as the mysterious Q Lazzarus, it has been rumored that she was a NYC taxi cab driver before the song was recorded. There is also a MySpace Page that claims to be her personal page.
By the way, what does the song "Goodbye Horses" mean anyway? According to a member of Q Lazzarus:
"In an Eastern philosophy "horses" are symbolic/representative of the 5 senses - the things that keep us tied to the physical/material plane of existence. When you can transcend the limitations of these senses and achieve a higher level of consciousness, you are leaving the "horses" behind - "flying over them." The song is about someone who was so affected by (A loss? A breakup?) they decide to give up the things that keep them tied to this world by emotion."
There is a piece on CNN today about how high gas prices are killing the tours of small indie bands like....ahem....us. We aren't "going on tour" this summer but we are playing out of L.A. a lot and the cost of gas is going to be outrageous.
So, when we run out of money on the highway, my plan is to have Sarah do tarot readings on the side of the road until we make enough cash to travel.
