design by Jon Smith
Jon Smith, the man responsible for designing the cover of our RIDE IT OUT LIKE A TURBO HORSE album, is the best poster designer in the universe. Here is his latest masterpiece for the 2011 Deck the Hall Ball show with Mumford & Sons, and Death Cab For Cutie. Incredible! Jon has so much skillz he can pay all the billz. Word.
Go Check out his website, buy his stuff.
design by Travis Young
Guess who has two thumbs and will be performing some original songs inspired by Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas with the Seattle Rock Orchestra? That’s right, this guy right here. I am super excited about it too! And the book was amazing, I reccomend that you read it right away.
On Friday, Dec. 9th at Town Hall Seattle, The Bushwick Book Club and the Seattle Rock Orchestra are joining forces to put on what will probably the greatest Bushwick Book Club show of all time. Here is a list of all the artists that will be performing. Just look at this list!! WOW!
Bucket of Honey
Tai Shan
Galen Green
Ian Williams (The Thoughts)
Mike Votava (that’s me, We Wrote the Book on Connectors)
Hannah Williams (Youth Rescue Mission )
Alex Guy (Led to Sea)
Jason Dodson (The Maldives, Sons of Warren Oates)
Emily Westman
Andrew Nunez
and everyone will be backed by The Seattle Rock Orchestra
YOU are going to want to come to this show! It will be amazing. Get your tickets now!
Friday, December 9th 7:00pm (doors) 8:00pm (showtime)
Town Hall Seattle 1119 Eighth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets: $13 advanced purchase $15 at the door
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is not your run-of-the-mill book club: This West Coast “chapter” of the Brooklyn original is made up of local songwriters, ranging from Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground to Wes Weddell, who plumb the depths of a literary gem, then write and perform original songs about it. Similarly, Seattle Rock Orchestra is not your typical orchestra: the volunteer group collaborates with bands and artists to produce one-of-a-kind symphonic shows. Put the two together, and you get an evening that is sure to be entertaining, unexpected and completely original—this time, with music inspired by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Featuring performances by Noah Gunderson, Led to Sea, Exohxo, Tai Shan, The Thoughts, Bucket of Honey, Mike Votava, Andrew Nunez and Jason Dodson.
The Bushwick Book Club
The Seattle Rock Orchestra
Town Hall Seattle
The next time you will be able to see We Wrote the Book on Connectors play live will be on Saturday, December 10th at the Sunset in beautiful Ballard. Come on down, warm up your mustache.
We Wrote the Book on Connectors
Earth to Toby
Fairweatherfrnd
$5 – 21+ – 9PM – Hooray!
There ain’t no party like a pizza party ‘cuz a pizza party don’t stop. Word. If you know what’s good for you then you will enjoy this tasty pizza jam featuring the one and only Ben “Rapmaster” Baier on the mic. You better recognize, sucka!
A big Happy Birthday goes out to one of the biggest WE fans in the world, Ben’s Mom. WE love Moms, especially Ben’s. Here is a song WE made about her tea drinking weiner dog, Zenzi (pictured above). Awwww, isn’t he a cutie?
Warning: I once a got a very angry email from a WE fan who lived in Japan (yes, WE have fans in Japan. No joke.) She was upset because she thought the song was racist. I politley explained to her that it wasn’t. She then changed her mind and became a happy WE fan once again. In hopes of avoiding angry emails in the future, my warning is this: If you are easily offended by different types of tea, then you probably shouldn’t listen to this song. You have been warned!
Today is Guy’s birthday. Hooray! And here is a song WE made about him, courtesy of The Official We Wrote the Book On Connectors Song Writing Service. Double Hooray!
Party on, Guy!
What is a train song, you ask?
A train song is a song referencing freight and passenger trains and/or railroads. Train songs are a recurring theme in some genres of music, particularly within the Blues, Country and other styles of traditional American music. Songs with train or railroad in the title, but not about or inspired by trains, do not qualify as train songs (for example, “Train In Vain” by The Clash), nor do songs where trains are mentioned but only in passing (for example, Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain”). – Wikipedia
Speeding Down the Tracks is a product of the now temporarily defunct Official We Song Writing Service. Somebody paid us $18 to make a train song and this is what WE came up with. What a bargain! Choo Chooooo!
“The train is a coming so you better get out of the way.” – WE
At the Shakedown.
w/ No-Fi Soul Rebellion.
Bring your friends and their parents.
Hooray!
design by Mike Votava
The best way to get out of a song writing rut is to simply just go with the first thing that comes to mind. And when that stops working, just start quoting lines from the movie The Running Man. Trust me, it works every single time. My answer to Weekly Challenge #14 is a classic example of how to use both of those advanced song writing techniques. Listen and learn. Somebody should pay me to teach classes.
I’m phoning it in
Phoning it in
Not gonna give my best effort tonight
I’m phoning it inI’m phoning it in
Phoning it in
This song only took me ten seconds to write
I’m phoning it inCellular telephone
Reminds me that I’m alone
Nobody wants to talk to me
On the cover of lonely magazineEat some formaldehyde
Dissect me with your laser eye
this is where the party’s at
look it up on Google mapsI’m phoning it in
Phoning it in
there’s no reason for me to even try
I’m phoning it inI’m phoning it in
Phoning it in
Singing the first thing that comes to my mind
Larry bird bill csoby hot dog num chuck checking accounttacos
I need some tacos
The running man is running for his lifeTacos
Give me some tacos
Ram it down your throat and break your god damn spineTacos
Give me some tacos
Dynamo just got the iphone 5He’s losing power
Cut to commercial
I won’t kill a helpless human being
Not even sadistic scum like you
This song is not so much about baseball as it is about a baseball card. Speaking of baseball, if I was the MLB Commissioner, the first thing I would do would be to cancel baseball. FOREVER.
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