The Year 2009

So this is it. The year 2000 and niner. It's crazy to think about how much has taken place in the previous year. '08 was quite generous to us. It's also very easy (as a band or individual) to feel like you didn't accomplish enough but we try hard at focusing on the positives vs. the negatives. Here are some positives things/things worth mentioning:

MARCH 2008 - WE RELEASED OUR FIRST EP
BOUGHT A SEXY-WHITE 15 PASSENGER VAN w/TRAILER
TOURED WESTERN CANADA 3X
(ASSUMED LOTS OF DEBT)
PLAYED WITH SOME REASONABLY REPUTABLE BANDS
HIT A DEER
WON 3RD PLACE IN CALGARY'S "BAND VS. BAND"
MET SOME GREAT BANDS/FANS/PEOPLE ON THE ROAD
(ASSUMED LOTS OF MORE DEBT)
RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT RADIO PLAY
LOST OUR GOOD FRIEND AND FOUNDING MEMBER, KYLE RYKS (BASS GEETAR)
WROTE PLENTY OF NEW SONGS
ESTABLISHED AN AMAZING FANBASE
DECEMBER 2008 - RECORDED 3 SONG DEMO IN PREPARATION FOR UPCOMING FULL-LENGTH

Now after taking some time off, we plan on setting some major goals for ourselves as we hope to give this thing a bigger, more intensive adrenaline shot to the ass. We're still in desperate need of a bass player but we're trying our very best to convince someone we know is a perfect fit (D. Man, you know who you are). In the meantime, we've been busy buckling down and preparing ourselves for the new record. So far we have approximately 8 songs and we just finished tracking 3 of which you may end up hearing sooner than you may think (shhhhh).

Hope all of you took advantage of the free download during Christmas. It was a gooder.

-The Doctor

part 2....

some sounds....

part 1....

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Gilliam Propaganda

So if you're not familiar with Terry Gilliam, you should be. He is the personification of pure genius. He is the mastermind behind movies like Brazil (inspired by Orwell's 1984), Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), 12 Monkeys (inspired by the French short film La Jetée) and Time Bandits to name a few. If you haven't seen any of said movies, I highly recommend you blitzkrieg your local Blockbuster and snatch up any one of his films. You will not be disappointed. As you might be able to tell, I am a zealous fan and can't wait for his upcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus starring Heath Ledger in his final attempt at living/acting. Teaser below.

Read about Gilliam here

Cantankerous Negotiations

Good to hear you're feeling well patient # _______,
Just a quick update on what's going on with us as of late. Well, first off, I got to hang out with In Flames on their bus for a few hours Saturday night. That's right, In Flames. Anyways, as many of you have noticed, we are recording again! Hold your horses, though. These are demos and there are only 3 of them. The reason for the recording is so we can shop the songs to some bigger name producers in the States and have them melt with our sweet, sweet sounds and agree to produce our next album. So, unfortunately, you probably won't get to hear them. Well.....okay, here's what we'll do. If you head over to our Myspace page and start helping us campaign (sending messages to all your friends, posting bulletins, etc.) to help us get to 80,000 plays by the end of December, we will post one (and ONLY ONE) of the new songs. Remember these are the doctor's orders.
In other news, we are still continuing the hunt for a new bass player, so if you are out there and want to rock the world, give us a shout and we'll set something up, aight?

Wherever Whenever

Presenting the SMS Guerilla Projector. A high-intensity light source, it's equiped with a cellphone that can receive and then project SMS messages in public spaces: theaters, walls, government buildings. Read about it here

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Grande Prairie

Kyle's final show. Oct.11th, Better Than Fred's.

A Dosage 0.25 mg Twice Daily: Builds a Better Bot

Don't take it personally.
We just happen to favor artificial children.

Robotics company Cyberdyne Inc are set to start
making Repliee on a mass scale starting Friday, Oct.10, 2008.

Believe it right here

~The Doctor

Audio Incarnations/Musical Transformations

Recently we've been fortunate in finding some studio space to help us prepare for the new record and it's proving to be very inspirational. In the past four weeks we've written over three new songs and now have approximately seven/eight in total. So far we're pretty excited. The way things are shaping up; the music is seemingly less "poppy" and has a much rawer sound, the heavier side has definitely gotten heavier and the softer side is a lot softer. It's neat (yes, I said "neat") cause we're finding a real difference in contrast whereas on Reversals there was a mixer of bothwithin a song. We'll begin demoing shortly.

For now, here is an image of us constructing future rock.