Reviews of the Big Show

"AWESOME Show last night! I shall once again start prowling on eBay for M7x stuff, for, yes, I too have a record player (and the eagle recently screamed). Get your autographing pen ready!"
- Booradley D

"I just wanted to thank you for putting on such a great show last night. I was transfixed, singing along with every line, and reminiscing about seeing M7x shows when I was in college. You guys are masters of being ethereal/spooky/moody, having fun, and rocking out at the same time. Anyway, thanks for a great show!"
- Clint Popetz

"[Brendan's playing]'s pretty tasty--not a lot of extraneous bullshit...Mostly I thought your voices were staggeringly beautiful together...Also I liked the bass player. The bubble gum is a good touch for a bassist. And the seersucker."
- Gabriel Solis, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology

"Sorry about the Stevie Nicks comment."
- John of the song "John," 'from the fabulous new high top world of sound'

"I was glad to see you together again, and I think you sounded even better than you did twelve years ago. Was it fun? It looked fun. When's the next show?"
- B. X. Wilkinsen

"Oh man... I wish we could have managed it... just not the right time... Owen would have been SO impressed with you."
- Cynthia, blogger

"I'm so bummed I missed the show."
- Stephanie, blogger

"Brendan is such a tasteful drummer that I wanted to kill Larry for not bringing him up more in the mix."
- Jesse Brown, abuser of keyboards and sound engineers

"I really don't like Moon Pies, Mom."
- Xanthe, who fell asleep during the set

Hold the Phone! Gordon Pellegrinetti Sent More Pix!

Way Back When

This is from before the beginning of the Moon Seven Times. The shoulder Lynn's crying on is Henry's, or at least the sweater on the shoulder looks like one Henry used to wear way back then, and it is therefore somewhat likely to have been on him that day and in that picture. Or he would have been somewhere nearby. (Photo courtesy of the Steph or "She Who Is Not to Be Uncredited.")

And Up To Now

And here's a picture of us last weekend. This is the only picture really taken at that gig, and it was taken by Gordon Pellegrinetti who most generously shared. If you look very carefully you can see Henry's shoulder or at least the idea of something like his shoulder in the far corner, in the dark. Or perhaps it was someone else. But it also might not be anyone or anything. I can't really tell because my eyes were closed at the time.

Hurrah!

The gig is gug.

Thanks a million if you were there. And if you weren't, we heart you anyway.

Jay Ryan Poster

...available for purchase after the show at the Bird Machine

Things We Must Decide

You are familiar with our time-tested decision procedures. Now watch us roll as we finalize a set list (HA HA HA) and choose between paper confetti and the more glittery traditional foil stuff. The paper option is sort of attractive. Because it's lighter, it hovers in the air supernaturally before wafting to its death on the beer coated dance floor or in your drink. It also comes in a handy jet-propelled tube for maximum impact as long as I don't point it at my face or the floor. But the glittery foil stuff is so pretty when it catches the light! And the soundmen hate it even more than paper - it's always good to offend the guy whose finger is inches away from the "suck" knob. Plus it sinks to the bottom of your drink so you can probably ignore it and keep sipping. Unfortunately it comes in dinky little containers, so I have to be extremely athletic to get a bunch of them going (AND in the right direction) for an ethereal surprise explosion.

Next up: what will we wear and how will I do my hair? If I use hairspray and it gets in my mouth, I'll want to spit all night, and that's probably too rock for the occasion.