But I can’t stop myself:

Fucking magnets how do they work?! XD

See you at the show tonight! (9pm, the Mars Bar, Seattle!)

Look! Somebody not me put up a poster for this Friday’s Mars Bar show! This is awesome! Thanks, Cow!

Particularly since it’s in Toronto XD

You can print and paste too! The PDF is just a clickie away! It still looks good in black-and-white, you don’t have to spring for colour!

This is the first gate show I’ve had. EVER. I’ve been paid to play plenty of times; this is the first time I get a cut of the door. So it’s kind of a big deal to me. $6 for three bands – SUCH A BARGAIN! C’mon out! Seattle, Cafe Venus/The Mars Bar, Friday! Shows start 9pm. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Remember me mentioning playing out at the Gypsy Cafe the other night? A guy going by the name of Zorp took video and sent me the link! Thanks, Zorp, that’s so nice of you! ♥ Everybody else, check it:

Please, also, if you have time/opportunity, print and post the showbill for this Friday’s show at the Mars Bar! And come out! Three bands for six dollars, how can you lose? XD

OMG I’m in a tiny ad! Or rather, a tiny part of a rather large ad! Or rather, the album is. One of those. Possibly more. Shiny:

This’ll be in Fireworks magazine, which is timing-amusing given this weekend’s festivities. ^_^

If you put up the gig poster for this Friday’s show anywhere, let me know! And hopefully send a pic! I’d love to have some of those. I’d repost the pics here!

And now we have an official poster for the July 8th show (9pm, Mars Bar, Seattle, with Natalie Quist and Gimme A Pigfoot; $6 cover). Yay! Check it:

Click for sparkly, high-resolution PDF

Download, print, post. Please! And let us know if you do. It’s the first time any of us with played with each other and it’s kind of a weird assemblage, so we’re really hoping people turn out!

I have no idea what the other bands think of this and strictly speaking I don’t have to care! But I do care, because I’m a sap. XD Here, a sneak poster preview, for people on the blog and RSS feed directly:

Click to embiggen

Whaddya think?

OMG! <3

Perpetual Ceilidh Award, Tacoma Highland Games
(Given each year to the best of the Ceildh performers)

Fuck yeah, Mudkips!

Red McWilliams, who runs the stage there, made a point of making sure I knew. Thank you so much! <3 Walking onto the grounds today and seeing that on the official plaque? Awesome.

(Annie Henry won in 2008! Hi Annie! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! <3)

I just wish I could’ve played there this weekend, too, but, well, conflicts and bah humbug. Next year, I hope!

Hi, mobsters and gunsels! It’s been a busy week.

I had fun playing a half-set at the Mandolin Cafe open mic last night – they’re under new management! But not with our, aheh, assistance. I hope it goes well for them, it’s a nice place. I went down expecting to play two and be off, but they do a base set of three, and I got to go back on again later. People seemed to like it; that was cool.

Most of my time the last week or so, though, has been hauling murkworks.net out of, oh, 2000ish?, and into 2011. We were l33t, once – we’re giving up a Class C we’ve had since 1993, thank you very much

Domain Name: MURKWORKS.NET
Created on: 03-DEC-96
Expires on: 02-DEC-12
It was murkworks.seattle.wa.us before that, and lorbit.UUCP before that

…and while we’re not going to go back to that particular kind of awesome, our new pipes throw us back into the top 7%, which I gotta tell you, does not suck.

We’ve also gone through cleaning out a lot of cruft (some of that even physical goods), thrown Frontier (damn them to hell) out on its decrepit aluminium ass, ditched Sprint entirely, deleted one landline (keeping one for 911 calls), pulled the DirecTV dish off the roof, and basically have been putting the starch back into all our infrastructure shirts. Spring is finally here. It’s time for some cleaning.

Everything I write lately is another Mary Kaye and the Cosmetics song, which if you’re new – meet our alternate band manifestation, the four-chord all-girl hardcore punk band Mary Kaye and the Cosmetics, who play exclusively Hello Kitty-branded instruments.

I guess I should just get them all written down and then maybe I can write other kinds of music. I like the Mary Kaye stuff, but there’s more to life than hardcore mandolin. OR IS THERE? XD

Hate Your Day Job
(C) 2011 Dara Korra’ti/CRIME and the Forces of Evil

CHORUS:
Hate, Hate, Hate your day job
Hate, Hate, Hate your day job
Hate, Hate, Hate your day job
Hate, Hate, Hate your day job

I hate your day job
I think it’s driving you nuts
I hate your day job
We all know that it sucks
I hate your day job
So come in from the rain
I hate your day job
It’s driving you insane so

[CHORUS]

You hate your day job
You say it all the time
You hate your day job
They treat you like you’re slime
You hate your day job
It’s cruel and antithetic
You hate your day job
Staying makes you feel pathetic and you

[CHORUS]

They hate your day job
It doesn’t pay the rent
They hate your day job
They wish you’d go get bent
They hate your day job
They’d outsource it if they could
They hate your day job
Please don’t be misunderstood because

BRIDGE:
It’s not that I’ve been listening to all those stupid Marxists
It’s not that I’ve been sewing sickles onto scarlet sheet
But it’s pretty fucking obvious they took you to the cleaners
And I’m trying to determine how they got you quite so beat
It’s not like there’s redemption in adhering to the masses but
Nothing’s gonna happen ’till you riot in the street so
Maybe take a tip or two from Portugal or Iceland and go
Party down the boulevard just like you were a Greek! and

Quit, Quit, Quit your Day Job!
Quit, Quit, Quit your Day Job!
Quit, Quit, Quit your Day Job!
Go! Do! Something else!

Quit, Quit, Quit your Day Job!
Quit, Quit, Quit your Day Job!
Quit, Quit, Quit your Day Job!
Stop! Wasting! Your! Life!

A lot of creative people follow music and art blogs, so with not much going on online right now as we work on swapping out our internet providers – what do you do? What’s your creative project right now?

(Don’t forget: CDs bought from the bandsite ship anywhere for free while we move t00bs around. That URL won’t be affected by the move, so it’s safe even if the rest of the site is b0rk b0rk b0rked. o/ )