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Where I've been

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Monkey Movies: The Year of the Rooster

A Chinese-American colleague snuck a judge into City Hall to perform her wedding before the Year of the Monkey expired and turned into the Year of the Rooster. For those unfamiliar with the Chinese calendar and its implications, Sky K Studios put together this explanatory video.

If you're wondering to yourself, "Self, does this mean that the bunny movies are going up online?" then you can wonder right back at yourself, "Self, I do believe this means that they are."

Mayors and markers

At the Skooby's show, this dude named David Kogan (I think -- I realized that either he's into mirror writing or I scanned the image wrong) drew a picture of us rocking out. Here it is for your viewing pleasure. Also here is a video of the mayor's race dubbed over with funny voices. Also here is our myspace.com page, which is going to make us even more famous and you can hear Gus Gus Gus on it for free. Watch out! We're coming back to Skooby's AND Live Jazz veddy veddy soon.

Skooby's show

Rockin' the Hollywood Boulevard with franks and freaks

Skooby's Hot Dogs may be the best place to play in Los Angeles. Who knew? We went on after American Placebo, who by day rocks the dogs at Skooby's; we invited her back up for an on-the-spot jam-along to one of her songs and put an MP3 of the collaboration up here. We also wrote a brand new song for the occasion: Here's a QT movie of "Theme from Skooby's".
Special praise goes to Skooby's artist-in-residence Alanna who put the whole shebang together.

Attempting a Hard Rock Lick

Drummer Dan had been at a party the night before, where he chatted up a woman named A. "My band is playing a hot dog stand tomorrow night," said Dan. "Neat," said A. The next night A.'s beau R. said, "Hey, my friend's band is playing at a hot dog stand. Let's check it out." A. admitted to us that her first thought was, "Gee, I didn't know so many hot dog stands hosted rock shows in L.A." God bless her.

Face of the Bassist

Following us was Chromosome Tea, who look totally ready for embiggerment. The guitar player also plays with Pink Mochi, who I meant to see at sea level records but missed. Cool name tho.

Los Angeles Downtown News article

Take my picture, Gary Leonard!

Live Jazz rocked. (Live rock didn't jazz.)

Great time at the Live Jazz show. The keys + vox dude from Dusty Rhodes flailed about like Joe Cocker's puppy and Cockeysville brought in a big crowd for their last show ever. Some guy came by and sold the club a huge box of oranges for $2 and then Dusty Rhodes wrote "Dusty Rhodes Loves Captain Automatic" on an orange and I ate it. There were Journey references and I left my bank card there. Here's a QT movie of us doing King of Karaoke. Gary Leonard came by and took our picture. We should play there again this Spring.

We have a name.

We are now Captain Automatic*. URL and everything!

*That is, our name is "Captain Automatic". Let's be clear: Captain Automatic himself did not authorize this, nor, we want to make clear, do we ever recommend having him in your corner in a fight. And don't get me started about the Five Flavors ...

The Fais-Do-Do Smartgals Show

Was way cool. Check this out! Click on the bottom image to see a QT movie (10MB) of Gus Gus Gus.

Live Jazz exists!

I finally found the website for Live Jazz. It's pretty cool. They have a robot disco and some interesting research. I hope you have it in you to stay up late with us the night of January 26th!

Josh K and the Treasures Captain Automatic @ Live Jazz 1-26-05

On Wednesday, January 26th at midnight, come see Josh K. & The Treasures Captain Automatic play downtown's hottest new club* (possibly also its newest hot club), Live Jazz, at 366 E. 2nd St. $5 cover gets you in. By Wednesday at midnight, I mean go to the club sometime Wednesday evening, and stay til midnight, which we all know is technically Thursday. DO NOT COME TO THE SHOW REALLY REALLY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING! Come out Wednesday night. Pretend you're young enough to stay up late.

Fais-Do-Do Benefit Show!

Josh K. and The Treasures will play a short set at a benefit for Christine Berry's Smartgals on Thursday, January 6th at 8 pm at Fais-Do-Do. Here are two unconfirmed predictions:

* Even though we're only supposed to do a three-song set, I bet if a lot of you show up at the show and clap really hard, they will let us rock you out with a numero cuatro.
* If you have some gifts that you want to get rid of, you can give them to Christine and she will raffle them away. This isn't part of the program, but I know her: she's a raffler, that Christine Berry. Ask her about how my dreidl candles lit her on fire, she'll like that.

Fais-Do-Do is at 5257 West Adams Blvd near La Brea.