2 Good Things 2 Do Today From Tim Fite.

I just got this message from Tim Fite.

Tonight Is Halloween Friends!

1. Go to timfite.com right now to download the third and final Halloween EP, "Watch Your Mouth" for free!!!!!! (available today ONLY)

2. Dress up and come down to the Union Hall for the Tim Fite Halloween Party!!!!!!!! For one show only, a brand new set of the scariest shit you have ever heard AND . . . Fun, games, costumes, a piñata, and death!!!!!!

Tickets are available HERE in advance or at the door tonight. Full show info. at unionhallny.com

3. Trick or Treat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tim

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"More like Wichita SHORT-Falls!" - Those Darlins tour part 3

Got a feeling in my heart, gonna feel it tonight!

Phoenix, Arizona has a great Arts district - East Roosevelt St is host to a string of makeshift galleries, fabrication spaces, studios and all-ages venues. Most are a combination of several, set around large painted murals of musicians and what appeared to be a fleet of hessian boats with shopping trolley hearts.



For one of the first times this tour we played with an opening band, a surprisingly talented group of High-Schoolers called The Chandails. Their songs were catchy and bright, and I'd recommend checking out their myspace, where i ripped off the following picture -



As is the problem in many places right now, after the show they were talking to us about how both Modified Arts and another all-ages venue down the street were set to close in the coming months. Let's hope the promoters find another home to host more great shows in the future!

See a review of ours at Up On The Sun and some sweet photos at Electric Mustache (they spell it both ways over here!)

Those Darlins lent me a sweet Wolf Hat made for band The Howlies



and Patience made her first cameo as The Chicken, unleashing an impressive catalogue of appropriate dance moves. I remember that she used to get angry that home clips for the Salmon Dance never actually showed people 'dancing like a salmon floating upstream'..

I got drunk and I ate a chicken
I ate a chicken I found in my kitchen
Not just a leg and not just a wing
I got drunk and i ate the whole damn thing!
- Those Darlins

The drive from Phoenix to Dallas was mapped at 12 hours long.

We started in the wet frosty morning, through rain,



snow,



and against the Texan Sunset.



We had out heart set on a BBQ dinner, but were foiled by this Bermuda Triangle of a town called Wichta Falls. Both BBQ destinations chosen were closed at 7:30pm, as were the tinfoil diners. The Mixed Grill we called said they were open, asked a bunch of suspicious questions, then turned out not to even exist at the advertised address!
Gave us the creeps.

Speaking of food, the amount of non-biodegradable polystyrene packaging used in this country makes me want to yell "What is this, the MIDDLE AGES?!".
Apparently, each year Americans still throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam cups - that's enough to form a chain that would circle the Earth 436 times! Many big chains are leading the example in abolishing its use, but at an average day here still offers me 4 items of styrofoam - even when eating in.
If this topic interests you, there's an online petition here.

We only have two more shows left with Those Darlins before heading to Minneapolis and the East Coast again for a few of our own - sounds like a catty whompus to me! Am fit to be tied!

But until then, we have Dallas and Austin -
so from Norman Shamus and all of us here in The State Of Flowing Water

"Hope you're walkin' in tall cotton!"

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Extra! Extra! Grates play the West Coast, develop health issues!!

"I found gold on the West Coast. Over here they call it 'sunshine'!"
- Patience Hodgson

Whatever state i'm in, i still LOVE Seattle. I feel it in my waters. It's persistent drizzle nourishes my spiritual roots. It's the greatest!!
It was Ty's first time to the city, and we eagerly asked him what he thought of the jewel in it's crown - the Space Needle:

"Dinky" - Ty Jontz

WH-WHAT??? I'm going to put that down to flu-induced delirium.

And the monorail - 'Future Of public Transport'? I finally got to ride it! It's a whole 16 block journey, and kitted out like a 60s lounge with blue vinyl couches facing out the windows!
Look at it gracefully winding its way around the science Fiction museum...
Majesty!



If you'd like to know another thing i love about Seattle, it's the Doughnuts. Look at these babies from Top Pot!



RIDGIE DIDGE!!!

We also got to see our friends Antoine + Mala, Chie + Mark, and Jasmine + Josh, but managed to simultaneously lose one camera and realize the battery is missing for the second.
Note: If anyone has some good photos from this tour, please feel free to post them on our facebook page!

Seattle's Sunset Tavern gave us an incredible welcome, and the people were great as well. Got into a heated debate at the merch desk with two local guys regarding "what would you rather: be attacked by a rabid raccoon,



or gored by an elk?".



Of course, I chose the elk, as the other option was just too creepy; am personally more comfortable with old-fashioned blood and guts.


We were greeted in Eugene, Oregon, by a Vintage store turned Speakeasy - 'Redeaux', which offered a wonderful collection of feathers, fox-tails, and hand-made bloomers (keep your eye on Pae's new outfits)!
Check out Those Darlins playing to a plethora of well-dressed ladies at Sam Bond's Garage:



The guys at that show were outnumbered about 10:1!

San Francisco saw us receiving a real treat - Allens Lollies and Tim-Tams from Taylor at the Australian Products Co.



Shoddy health saw our plans of a post-show party after The Rickshaw Stop fall flat, and to top it off John was diagnosed the next morning with Pneumonia in one of his lungs.
What a tough guy! - held up with a run of steroids and antibiotics, and has since made a pretty impressive recovery.

We love wind generators, and the drive from San Francisco to LA was peppered with them.



The Silverlake Lounge has been our host four times now, but this show was definitely our favourite! There were more than a few familiar faces in the crowd, including Eric Keyes, who later made this video using footage from the night:



West Coast shows over, in the next edition we'll head back through phoenix, AZ, towards Texas! Thank-you for your readership!!

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Halloween Alley comics on etsy.com

Andrew Rolfe is a 'polite, youngish man' and good friend who creates clever, well-thought comics and has finally decided to share them with the world for a nominal fee!

His character design is charmingly simple, and all issues laboriously copied at the Oatley Office Works.



The fist three installments in the Halloween Alley store feature 'MURDERED BY A GHOST!'

"Do you believe in GHOSTS?"

NEITHER DID Nelson.
Until he started investigating a particular case, he didn't give the idea of ghosts a second thought.
It was a murder investigation.
A murder where the victim was a killer, and the killer was a murder victim.
Revenge from beyond the grave.
Now Nelson believes in ghosts. And you will too, when you read MURDERED BY A GHOST!



and VOODOO DOLL VENGEANCE!



HE WAS warned: the doll was dangerous. But he didn't listen.
What could be simpler than using BLACK MAGIC to avenge a wrongdoing in your past? What could go wrong? Find out in VOODOO DOLL VENGEANCE!

I personally recommend the Trilogy 'The Dead Man's Face Was My Own', with so many great twists and layouts!

"It Was Like Looking Into A Mirror!"

UNTIL recently, Parker didn't even know he had a twin. But, investigating a murder, he accidentally got in between two people who looked exactly like him: the dead victim on the floor, and the person who killed him. Now the lines between victim and killer are blurring. Who will survive, and what will be left of them?

Includes all three explosive parts of the THE DEAD MAN'S FACE WAS MY OWN saga:
THE DEAD MAN'S FACE WAS MY OWN!
THE RETURN OF THE DEADLY DOPPELGANGER!
THE SACRIFICE OF THE INNOCENT!
+ bonus teeny-tiny comic: "Parker's Dream"


Find out more about his comics and hassle him for the rest of the series here:
androlfe@hotmail.com

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Report on our first leg of shows with Tennessee's Finest

Our tour with Those Darlins started off feeling like a trick.
In Little Rock, Arkansas, our Nav-man wanted nothing to do with the White Water Tavern, tucked in amongst the suburbs, next to what was later described as a "Cat lady house" (our first greeting was from a skittish black kitten).



What a sweet place - straight out of the Good Old Days where you could still smoke whilst eating, and they could even marinate a tofu sandwich to make it taste like ribs! I met a lady in the bathroom who had been coming here for 20 years, and told me that Locals called themselves 'White Water Rats'.

A sign on the wall proclaimed they sold Fosters - 'Australian For Beer', which can be forgiven due to the British, but what was THIS?!




"Kangaroos next 155 Megabytes"??

Being the smooth player I am, my first move after arrival at The Opolis was to lock myself in the bathroom. Not in a fit of pique, but the pin was somehow gone from its latch and i had to pry the fitting from the wall. I'm not exaggerating! I immediately apoligized.

The Opolis was a great little venue run by a band called the Starlight Mints in Norman, Oklahoma. The walls have huge pictures of cats (reoccurring theme?), and attracts great dancers.



Here are some bros getting down with the Darlins - the guy in the middle had a sweet move which was to just kind of chug around the front of the floor like a tank, looking friggin' intense. OH!, and there was a guy in a Dazed & confused-style smiley shirt that had to have his cross taken from him on entry - 2/3 scale!



Before our show in Lawrence, Kansas, we enjoyed a home-cooked and crafty meal at Byron's Mom's house - tour manager of those Darlins. Design-Your-Own-Pizza!

"It was a blast" - Byron

The next morning, we went for breakfast at Toc's Diner in Wichita, which was a delicious surprise! Not only was my omlette mouth-watering, but it came with a side of 'fried apples' - pie apples simmered in sugar, cinnamon, and the secret ingredient... BACON!



Maybe the boys aren't feeling my joy right here, as somewhere inside they knew they were about to get really sick. But that's still coming...

The drives until this point had been bright, dry and majestic -



(see lots of great scenic pics on our tumblr blog!)
but during the trek to Denver the weather turned and we hit our first ice. Like an ace up our sleeve, Ty moved up from the back seat and took the wheel for 8hrs straight, tapping the brakes safely over the slick ground. It didn't snow, but the light rain coated everything then froze in place under the wind - down to the individually coated blade of grass!

Unfortunately, we had to hit the Hi Dive in Denver as a 3-piece, but we did our best behind the metal cage that kept out the drinkers.
*** See Inside Outside, along with most of our set on youtube here ***
This was our second time at this venue, having played there with We Are Scientists back in early 2006! This was also our second show with the awesome Nicotine Fits, who have a new tour ep out:



Kilby Court in Salt Lake City was called such as it was a series of sheds and outdoor settings spread out over a small culdersack.
I'm pretty sure the merch building used to be a chicken coop - there were feathers and fertilizer stuffed down the concrete cracks, but the background mural was sweet, and the venue seemed like a great place to hang out with friends, or even just by yourself...



Next edition: the WEST COAST!

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"A dyslexic man walks into a bra" - Those Darlins