Merry Christmas from Captain Automatic, A Band That Comprises Three and a Half Jews

Thanks to everybody for coming to the Silverlake Lounge last week and thanks to the Fold for having us over.

We've been cooking up some special treats in the Captain Automatic holiday kitchen. Engineered by the band and produced by Professor Pessah, here for your seasonal enjoyment is our late-entry contribution to your holiday migraine. Please download and play at a mall near you today.

(We Used To Have A) Christmas Party

Enjoy, and we'll see you in ought-eight.

Silverlake Lounge, December 18

"Captain Automatic" at Silverlake Lounge, originally uploaded by Aman About Town.

Thanks to Aman About Town and Going Los Angeles for covering the show.

Pictured: Andrew joins on cello for "The Recognitions". (Hear it at our myspace.)

On Sale Today; Wet Your Whistle

Pictures Of The Moon EP is now on sale at CD Baby. It fits neatly into most regulation stockings.

Here's a sample track for you to enjoy. It's called "New Hampshire Rodeo", and you can listen to it right here or download it and put it on that party mix you were making.

CD Release Party at Silverlake Lounge

Captain Automatic is pleased to announce the release of its first studio EP, Pictures Of The Moon.

Come get a taste of the action on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 8:30 pm. Join us at The Fold at Silverlake Lounge for our CD release party.

We'll be followed by Sam and Alex, One Trick Pony, and Marvelous Toy.

The Fold at Silverlake Lounge
2906 Sunset Blvd. at Parkman (map)
$8 cover

For those of you need your Captain Automatic sooner (or in time to stuff some stockings), we will be putting it on sale December 10 in stores and online. Details to come.

Harvest show

There, in the distance

Look at the Moon, originally uploaded by Captain Automatic.

Something's coming.

Circulation

2.Wall2-3.jpg, originally uploaded by Captain Automatic.

Circulation is a site-specific work by Tamara Sussman, made 'specially for Josh. Slideshow.

Pictures of the Moon

Dunescape 06, originally uploaded by Antelope Balloo.

Be prepared: we are bringing you our music. It is a long way through the desert to bring it to you. It will be called "pictures of the moon".

Science

A friend has made a discovery.

After Yesterday's Crash

Mrs. Benson and Josh have been singing this one since the late middle 90's.

But it never really sang until the Pessah Twirl Solo made it in.

Math.

More math.

Equanimity with Special Introduction

Thank you, Gareth. For more on the Eroticon of Yoryis Yatromanolakis, see Unfogged.

Haircut

Thank you for Josh's haircut to Athena at Sonic Roots, the little salon that hangs precipitously over sea level records.

Requiem in pace

Anna and Sylvia Freak.JPG, originally uploaded by Captain Automatic.

Miss Sylvia Krappstein and Anna Nicole Smith, Queen of Silver Lake Pageant, July 13, 2002.

Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

--Frank O'Hara,"Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)"
(thanks, Darcy)

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, originally uploaded by Captain Automatic.

See you in 2007.

Love,

Josh, Mrs. Benson, Professah Pessah and Drummer Dan

Eve New Year's Eve

Madrid Airport, originally uploaded by Captain Automatic.

Madrid, Spain. Bassist Professah Pessah comes within a futbol field of the ETA bombing. If I don't make it to the gig, he thinks, then the terrorists have already won.