KYOU

"Gus Gus Gus" was among the podcasts played for KYOU's inaugural day of "open source broadcasting". Meaning that I uploaded a bunch of MP3's to the station's website and they liked one. Cool! The folks at Music Biz demurred; scroll down to "They Gave Up Imus for THIS?"

Live Jazz ReRocked

Ilse Hoplite, who has officially changed her Captain Automatic status from Active Member to Lady's Auxiliary (there is only one Lady in the Auxiliary), favored us with an appearance last Saturday night. Despite technical difficulties and a foreshortened, it was a hot show. Thanks to all who came. If you didn't hear about it and wanted to, sign up for the newsletter! And download an mp3 of I Remember Travis. I'll put a movie up presently.

Also: members of the SLAJVC, download Magalena if you like.

Skooby's Reduxby's

Our triumphant return to Skooby's resulted in the eating of more hot dogs. This is what we looked like:

We played Liars and Lovers, a song by The Dogs. Here's the original, with Paul, and drumming, guitaring and vocalizing respectively. The Austin remains the same.

We closed on Please Come Home which has become a nice way to go out.

See you at Live Jazz!

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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.