Young Adults 2012 Cassingle

YO.

So I just helped put out a cassingle for my friends in Young Adults for their mini tour. They’re already back from minitour, that’s how short it was, but we still have plenty of tapes left for sale! They look like this:

$2 + shipping. Two brand new songs you can’t hear anywhere else, plus a download code for both the songs and third cover song which I don’t remember what it was. Some band from the 90′s that cool kids listen to not me. Anyway, email ME at: contactATgarbage-townDOTCOM. If you live in Boston. I’ll hand deliver it to your house for you so you don’t have to pay shipping. I’m just that swell.

Also, here’s Young Adults last music video that I directed. It’s the debut track off of their last LP Black Hole, which you can buy at their bandcamp.

8 Hours in Laramie

We had to make a pitstop during our travels from Iowa City, IA to Las Vegas, NV earlier this week because no single human can physically or legally drive a tour bus to do that shit straight through. SOOO we had to stop and when we did it turned out we were in beautiful, rustic Laramie, WY. I can’t say enough good things about Laramie. Myself and a coworker, Nick, took the free public shuttle downtown and visited some of the local stores, checked out the surprising amount of public street art, and went to the town’s oldest bar/former brothel, The Buckhorn Bar. The higher elevation (7165 ft above sea level, you guys) and two for one drink specials left us where you think it would and I ended up buying a really sick jean vest and a shaving a moustache.  We also found a train yard right at the edge of downtown and the workers had all gone home so we wandered around for awhile and here’s some pictures of our afternoon.

Columbia, MO and Band of Skulls

Hey guys,

So while I’m recovering from having to cram 2 days of Vegas stuff into about 12 hours of real time, I thought I’d toss up these pictures from the Columbia, Missouri stop of the tour. Columbia is cool and probably the drunkenest town I’ve been to on tour so far. Three old women accosted me and some of the other dudes and wanted to get on the bus and then decided it would be better to go watch the show with the intention of throwing their bras on stage. I don’t think they did it, but maybe they sobered up and changed their minds, cause it was, like, 8:40 pm. Also, did you know white people in Columbia, when they give super smashed, literally shout, “wahoo!” like a cartoon or one of those Slim Pickens -style cowboy caricatures? Cause they do. It’s obnoxious and awesome. Lastly, the night ended with a drunk kid trying to get on the bus cause he thought it was public transit. We left him there still confused as to why he got kicked off a public transit bus. Anyways, see what band of skulls looks like after the jump.

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ADULT SWIM CARNIVAL

Hey Guys,
So I’ve been on tour the past two weeks with Adult Swim, fixing carnival games and chillin’ hard in various parts of the country. I decided to finally pull my camera out at the last event in South Dakota State University, and I made a couple animated GIFs of what it’s like to see Dan Deacon…

These were just a couple tests and sort of an afterthought. Hopefully, I’ll make some better ones at the next show. Below are a few more pictures I took at the event. SWEET

Grown Up Ecto Cooler

So, get this. Have you ever wondered how so much stuff ends up on the internet? I, personally, have never been one to spend my time uploading how-to videos or written tutorials or really anything to help others, but I often find myself googling stuff and taking advantage of the internet’s collective kindness, helping me learn new things and appear to be a better and more learned person than I actually am. What drives people to upload all this content? I finally figured it out when I created Grown Up Ecto Cooler. There’s this inexplicable force urging me to tell the world about what the hell I did. This is what all the kids must feel when they decide to make a youtube video on how to post an animated gif on facebook (you can’t, btw, without getting some dumb facebook app which is stupid.)

So, I’m bored sitting in Lexington, KY cause that’s what you do in Kentucky. So I’ve decided to put together a quick pictorial recipe for a morning-after drink I created to help wash those dreary headaches away: Grown Up Ecto Cooler.

Ingredients

Beer
Limeade
Mountain Dew
Rock Candy/Pop Rocks/Salt
Limes

Step 1:

Cut up your limes and smash up your rimming rocks of choice. I chose rock candy because it was all I had on hand. Salt works well, obviously, or if you got a wild hair up your ass, go with pop rocks for an added adventure.

Step 2:

Rub some Lime around the rim of the glass and dip it into your rimming rocks and get this rollercoaster moving.

Step 3:

Add about half a glass of beer. Any crum bum beer will do. I chose Bud Light Platinum because I’m an idiot. As a sidenote, I do not recommend drinking budlight platinum. While it provides an added alcoholic push, at what gastrointestinal cost, dear readers? It is too crude to mention. Use your imagination.

Step 4:

Add about 1/4 of a glass of Mountain Dew. I’ve chosen DIET Mountain Dew. I’m trying to watch my figure.

Step 5:

Add 1/4 a glass of Limeade to give your drink a little weight and thicken it up a bit.

Step 6:

No step 6. You’re done, stupid. Now go enjoy yourself. You’ve managed to crush these pieces of coal into a delicious brain diamond. Look at how sweaty and tasty that looks you just wanna have it all to yourself. You’ve earned yourself a few hours to relax. This recipe isn’t perfect and could use some tweaking for enhanced flavor. I blame the DIET Mountain Dew. If anyone figures out something to make it better, lemme know. Maybe a maraschino cherry or something. Whatever.

Another day doing this crap.

YO. It’s pretty cool I do this all the time now. Hopefully, someday I’ll get paid. Here’s a video I finally got online after messing with it for awhile. It’s a quick timelapse showcasing the makeup effects that will be seen in the new MiniBoone video, “Brand New Thing.” Makeup FX by Amanda Mcgrady and music by Johnathan Richman, duh.  We’re doing reshoots for the video this weekend so it should be done soon gonna be totes dopeshow.

 

 

MiniBoone “Brand New Thing” Video Shoot

So, this weekend I had the pleasure of directing a video for NYC-based band, MiniBoone. They asked me to tell the story of a two best friends on the hunt for the elusive abominable snowman.  Here’s some candid photos featuring Roger Lussier of Yale, MA and Pretty & Nice playing our yeti on our woodland apartment set we built. Big thanks to Boston Studio and Rough Water Films for making all this possible! Editing is flying, I hope to have the video done before the end of the month!

 

 

Yale, MA

So last week I hung out with my friends in Yale, MA, and helped them shoot a video for their song “Danger City, Population: Me.” My “help” involved me and others getting drunk and throwing records and other assorted garbage at them. Trying to hurt them. Cool stuff.

Oh yeah, here’s the video. Done and edited. In, like, 10 hours.

 

Impressive shooting and editing work done by Daniel Danger over at Tiny Media Empire. Dude’s a madman. Check out his other stuff, and listen to more Yale, MA over at their bandcamp.