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Later that evening, Grant and Amanda came over to hang out and learn a song that Frank wanted to play at their upcoming Christmas Party.
the december roundup
December, 2012
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...Brandon play an awesome acoustic set!
the november roundup
November, 2012
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...and then I biked over to Piano's late night to see....
the november roundup
November, 2012
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Wandered around the downtown area.
on tour with all-american rejects
September 21, 2012
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Nothing better than seeing your friends on stage doing what they love.
on tour with all-american rejects
September 21, 2012
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Looks like someone helped Dan Smith with a brand new flyer!
the september roundup
September, 2012
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One of the loveliest family dinners I've ever been to. Sunch a nice time.
boulder and red rocks
September 14, 2012
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After dinner, we listened to Sean play songs with his family for a few hours.
boulder and red rocks
September 14, 2012
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I finally decided to part with a bunch of really awesome guitar tab books. The internet wasn't as good back in 1992 so I had to supplement my free time by learning how to play every Metallica song.
the july roundup
July, 2012
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I was really interested in learning how in the world people could get such different sounds out of the same instrument. John Frusciante.
the july roundup
July, 2012
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Somewhere in Time was the very first CD I ever purchased!
the july roundup
July, 2012
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New bedroom.
the july roundup
July, 2012
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A lovely day...
fateman jam v
June 16, 2012
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Flying V cheese grater. Haha.
the february roundup
February, 2011
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There were rumors that David Gilmore was going to turn up and play a show, but he didn't show up at ours.
the october roundup
October, 2010
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Hot licks.
summer visit to british columbia
August 19, 2010
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On Monday night I went to the Bowery Poetry Club to see Brandon play a quick acoustic set!
the june roundup: part one
June, 2010
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If your band needs a shitty guitar player, I'm still available! I will, however, need to borrow a guitar now. I wasn't playing it enough to justify keeping it and an amplifier so I gave it away (to Catrinel, I think?)
the april roundup
April, 2010
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They put on an awesome show.
the story of anvil movie premiere
April 09, 2009
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Hot lix.
the story of anvil movie premiere
April 09, 2009
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Bob commandeered the mic...
brett and amy's wedding
January 22, 2009
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On Friday night I went over to my buddy Jared's house to get my pre-game on!
the april roundup
April, 2008
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Jared used to be the lead singer of Group Sounds (a NYC band known best for getting naked on stage) and now he runs a jingle house in NYC that's BLOWING UP called Jingle Punks. Here's Jared playing one of his new tunes for the crowd.
the april roundup
April, 2008
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Joe on the ax!
the october roundup: part one
October, 2007
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Jared and I reminisced about Sexy Joe's previous post-show antics (like when he draped his ding-dong on Meredith's arm!) and we tried to talk him into getting completely naked and posing on motorcycle that was parked on the street, but he totally wasn't having any of it.
the june roundup
June, 2007
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He did finally relent and shyly flashed his peen a little bit though! (Sexy Joe, what happened to you? All growsed up!)
the june roundup
June, 2007
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After the show, Sexy Joe was acting out on the sidewalk.
the june roundup
June, 2007
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Tired of being mocked, Posh figured that the only way he'd be able to show me up was on a real guitar.
the april roundup: part two
April, 2007
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Elliot and Posh Tony making it happen.
the january roundup: part one
January, 2007
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On Wednesday night I went to Lit to see Alle perform with his band Modwheelmood!
the november roundup
November, 2006
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Take two = Perfect! There's SO much amazing stuff going on in this photo: Brandon's doing a spot-on accidental impression of his brother, Monkey's smoking (a smoking dog!) and Alle's jamming out as Lady Sov. Hahaha. Happy Halloween (and Happy Official 10 Year Anniversary of this site! Whoa!)
halloween 2006
October 27, 2006
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I was trying to get another photo of Monkey "smoking" in this photo, but the cigarette fell out of her month (you can see it falling!) right when I snapped the picture.
halloween 2006
October 27, 2006
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Nine Inch Sov, UNPLUGGED!
halloween 2006
October 27, 2006
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Ralph Bishop won the Karaoke MVP award for using Melissa's leg as a guitar to play the entire guitar solo. Hahahaha.
the october roundup
October, 2006
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Not sure who the mustachioed man in the embroidered shirt was (one of the Killers roadies?). But when he broke out his guitar and started playing tunes...
the august roundup
August, 2006
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We ended up stumbling into some bar called Carney's. There was an awesome cover band called The Union playing. After playing a few more songs, the band took a break and I went up and asked their female singer if they'd let me sing a song with them. She was like "Sure, what song?" When I asked if they knew "Don't Stop Believing" she was like "Yup, we know it. If you can hit all the notes, it's all you." (And by the way, this was years before this song was used in the Sopranos finale! Fuck all you Johnny-come-lately Journey fans!)
emma and rob's wedding
June 03, 2006
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...and Rob took to the mic to serenade his new wife!
emma and rob's wedding
June 03, 2006
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Which proved to be....distracting, to say the least.
the april roundup: part one
April, 2006
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Later that night, a whole bunch of us went to go see Fiasco play at the Delancey.
the november roundup
November, 2005
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The show started out normal enough, but then halfway through the set, this wannabe Lenny Kravitz pushed his way up to the stage and started giving Grant funny looks.
the november roundup
November, 2005
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Then later that night I went to go see Apartment play! Here's David cupping an invisble boobie...
the september roundup: part two
September, 2005
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LOL!
heidi gallant's birthday quarterslot show and misshapes
April 09, 2005
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My Pineapple partner and Steve.
chris and jen get married
July 03, 2004
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Grant pouting for the camera streetside with Emily (one of the three attendess of the show) behind him.
the may roundup part two
May, 2004
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Here we are at Fatty's apartment in the morning. After he was done showing us the wall-hooks he'd bought from Guitar Center to hang up his guitars...
fatty quits and two karaoke nights
March 01, 2004
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"Hey Frank, play that one Kings X song that you always play any time there's a guitar. Oh, and could you make sure you make your guitar-face? Yeah, that's it. Thanks."
the march roundup
March, 2004
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Hey, it's a Monday morning we went to hang out at Fatty's apartment and were surprised to actually find the Fatty there! He quit his jobby-job, remember? Woooo!
the march roundup
March, 2004
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Chris the Greek was up visiting from DC to attend Grant's "Welcome Back from Hell-A" party. Here we are sending him off after some Tuesday morning brunch (which, is one of the finer points of not having a day job).
the march roundup
March, 2004
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...we passed a guitar shop. Grant and Colin both instanted popped "music dork boners" and wanted to go inside and check out some guitars.
moving day and siege's birthday
February 28, 2004
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Ahhh, gotcha. (I'm just teasing you, Jerz. You know I gots nothing but love for the Garden State).
moving day and siege's birthday
February 28, 2004
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Colin tried out a vintage jazz bass.
moving day and siege's birthday
February 28, 2004
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While Grant kept it real and opted to marvel at the "special edition" fluorescent pink, snakeskin-patterned BC Rich Warlock. fluorescent pink snakeskin??? What kind of asshole would want that?
moving day and siege's birthday
February 28, 2004
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Lola played us a solo on her belt-buckle.
a random night at lit
January 21, 2004
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By now, January's unseasonably warm weather had gone away and the month had turned into one of the coldest that NYC had seen in years. This particular night was like 10 degrees and snowing so the place was practically empty. So all of us that were there to see Chris' band were sort of hanging out in the back waiting for them to come on. The band playing before them wasn't about to let us ignore them, so their guitar player walked 40ft off stage (let's hear it for wireless, woooo!) to walk right up to us and play some hot guitar lixxx all up in our faces. It fucking ruled.
the january roundup
January, 2004
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Colin "Big Daddy Fat Knut" Gentle on soul-axe.
em and lo's book reading
November 25, 2003
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After the video, Six Piece Nastee retook the stage...
em and lo's book reading
November 25, 2003
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Before Em & Lo went on, the fabulous Six Piece Nastee took the stage and warmed up the crowd. By the way, four of the six pieces of said nastee are made up by none other Colin (on guitar), Frank (on kit)...
em and lo's book reading
November 25, 2003
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Frank can pretty much play any song you can name on the vibes (and Antonio Di Lullo's the same on guitar) so it wasn't long before Frank started inviting people up for some impromptu karaoke accompaniment. Here's Amanda cutting loose.
impromtu karaoke with tracy morgan
July 11, 2003
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Okay, see the kid in the wife beater and silky track suit pants? So he was totally rocking out to the show and Amanda nudged us and was like "Yo, that kid's totally popping a metal boner." We looked over at him, nodded in agreement, and then turned our attention back to the show.

That's when Amanda nudged us again, this time directing our gaze with a finger pointed at his crotch and said "No, look...he's really got a boner!" We had assumed Amanda was talking about a "figurative metal boner" (which we all had) but this was a "literal, honest-to-goodness, metal-boner." So let that be a warning to you, if you plan on seeing the metal-wizardry that is SPEL, make sure to wear loose-fitting clothes from the waist down.
fucked company book-release party
May 14, 2002
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Case in point, here's one last pic. C'mon, admit it. You're hard right now, aren't you?
fucked company book-release party
May 14, 2002
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...the two long-haired, metal-gods that front the band. Check these two dudes out - they are no joke.
fucked company book-release party
May 14, 2002
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Here's my room. How fly are those recessed bookshelves. Those motherfuckers took me longer than anything else in the house.
goodbye indoorvillage
April 06, 2002
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These next few photos are from when we were in the studio recording our wellspring demo. Here we see super emo-core Josh Tiexiera acting tough.
the end of college
May, 1998
In addition to trying to get better at formal songwriting - I've also been trying to get better at just letting music flow out of me! Celebrated the longest day of the year by writing a quick 8-bar loop, then pressing record and playing without thinking. Came out sounding summery.
the june roundup
June, 2016