Will somebody please send pictures of Pop Noir and Nico?
He's started to make his own.



Love,
Joe

Recording, Day 2

Yesterday we spent 11 hours in the studio recording guitars, bass, vocals, keyboards... all that stuff. I'll say it again: it's sounding great. Adam and I borrowed Bryce's car to buy Subway sandwiches (I recommend the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki). He drives an old VW beetle with only one seat in it... so I had to roll around on the floor in the back. Here's the pictures from day 2.

Never time for ANYTHING!

We've been so busy lately, it's insane. As we mentioned in the last entry, Joe and I have been doing some animation projects for ClearChannel. I hadn't left the computer for 8 straight days, working from 11am till 3am! (I'm the dedicated one.) But, we finally finished last night. Here's a couple new cartoons for you to check out:
Usher.
Country Music.
Weird, right?

Aside from the cartoons, we've started recording some songs with the help of our friends Adam and Bryce of Cute Phase, at their studio in beautiful Vernon, CA. It's right next to some train tracks and a breakfast cereal factory. Joe, Nico and I were there all day today, and it's sounding great, we're very excited. Here's a few pictures from the session:

Luke, with the cereal factory in the background.

Joe!

Nico!

Luke!

Joe taking a break.

Nico... not doing what he's supposed to!

10:15 Saturday Night (you know, like the song!)

...I'm actually writing this at 10:12PM, but I figured it was close enough.
Luke and I are just about to go out, live it up in Orange County! Luke is currently eating a bowl of ice cream.
Alright, now it's 10:15, so I'm absolutely justified in using that title. Luke is now eating a box of Wheat Thins.

Latley we've been busy, working on projects other than Pop Noir (ie our little art company, Fantastic Heat Brothers)... We've been working for ClearChannel, doing these weird animated birthday greetings available from various radio station's websites, or something like that! Here's one of them, check it out. Keep in mind, we don't write them, we just make the cartoons.

New Year's Eve Eve at Eve's.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, READERS!

If you missed our Arrowspace 11 show last Saturday (Dec 30th), then you missed something amazing. Despite the power going out twice while we were playing, we all had a whale of a time!
The gallery is owned by this guy Eve, who used to be a backup dancer for Sade, and the place itself is like one of those movie art galleries...pretty surreal. Drunk North Africans, people riding bikes (indoors, my goodness!), oil paintings, and a guy who looked exactly like Vanilla Ice and spoke in riddles... It was like the mad-hatter's tea party in Sodom and Gamorrah!



Left to right: Luke, Eve, Joe, Nico, Jeff (Leprechaun 3), and Lillian.


Your pals. For life!


Nico is in there somewhere, playing drums for the impromptu "Jam Sesh"/James Brown covers.

After that, we all went our separate ways to celebrate the new year. I turned up on the party photo site The Cobrasnake (click here to try and find me), Joe ended up at some party where somebody urinated on the floor, and nobody has heard from Nico since Saturday. We've tried playing Judas Priest really loud from our rooftop as a kind of beacon for him, but it hasn't worked. If you've seen him, please call us.

Laterrrr.

Ps, I was kidding about Nico. I just don't know how he spent his New Year.