Posts tagged "Casey Shea"

Real Estate 101: Articles Of Confederation Envy

Hi, 

Today I am writing to you from two new locations. One location is my couch, which you will probably never see because you have bad taste in shoes and I wouldn’t want to have to watch you take them off while entering my shoeless home, which I have never written to you on. The other is the web address wherein I have swapped the letter “blogspot” for “tumblr” for reasons that have to do with things like expediency of editorial process, aesthetic pleasantries and other things that I spend too much time thinking about. 

And since you asked, yes I have a pretty lame case of tendonitis right now. And yes, this explains why I’m finally taking the time to write to you again after all this time. Not to mention all the time it’s been since you wrote to me. You wouldn’t want me to mention that. I promise. Because it totally outstrips the amount of time you’ve been waiting on me. Trust me, I’ve got a lot of time on my hands and I am very good at math.

And speaking of math. Check out the following link to what 2/3rds of states of the United States might be able to do while all of us privileged folk along the north eastern seaboard wallow in our genetic guilt:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/the-gops-new-constitutional-amendment-give-states-veto-power-over-federal-laws.php?ref=fpb

Pretty cool huh? 

In related news, I don’t ever get tired of listening to this: 

And, to continue my test of your generations attention span, below is another old guy singing a really pretty song while you wonder what the hell your doing with your life and “maybe dad is right to be worried about me and the way I spend my time.”

Speaking of being productive while I bore the s#!t out of you, I think I’m gonna go now and eat some food that doesn’t contain fructose

Mwah! 

P.S. Mark you calendars for May 19.

P.P.S. Mark your calendars for May 20.

P.P.P.S. You can find the first version of this blog here: http://imbasile.blogspot.com/

P.P.P.P.S. If you live somewhere, you might get to see The Dig play: http://www.songkick.com/artists/161701-dig


Inverse Capitalization Theory 101: 10 Ways to Overcome Embarrassment

Hi, 

If you’re anything like me, you still haven’t eaten breakfast on account of all the interesting coverage of the “flogging” going on down at a place called “Capitol Hill.” One can only assume that big changes are afoot in the world of people who still drive cars. What’s that? Yeah, I know, I too think it’s pretty weird that people still drive cars that run on gas. It’s like, wow man! Uncool!!! Right?!?!? I mean, pretty much everyone except my friend R___rt has quit smoking since it went out of fashion. But then again I guess things come in and out of fashion. Like fashion. I mean, ladies, come on. My mom called and she wants her pleated dungarees back. You really shouldn’t be wearing them. Unless they’re really high waisted. But that’s another conversation.

Anyway, in case you didn’t get the memo, it’s now officially uncool to have a gas using car. Unless of course you are a taxi cab driver or your name is Casey Shea and you need to give me a ride home from band practice. In that case your car is pretty cool and proves once again that I am the exception to pretty much any rule you can think of.

But luckily for people like Rex Tillerson, today congress is gonna be really ineffective and by the time these totally worthwhile hearings on why the oil industry is making so much money and, eh hum, folks on Main St. US of A are suffering so much you’re still going to have to take your sad little excuse for an income and enjoy it. Just like pretty much everyone else you know. Unless you’re a millionaire. In which case pretty much everyone else you know is probably also a millionaire. Unless you know your landlord really well. In that case he might be a billionaire and you might treat him better than you treat your wife. If you know what I mean. But maybe not. To both. 

And now, since you asked, for today’s installment of ‘The Thing I Made For Breakfast That Is Better Than “Whatever It Is You Call That!”’ I present to you a piece entitled, “He’s Entered His Baked Eggs With Pyrex(c) Phase…”

In related news, this really hot chick who took me to a really funny movie about the Rolling Stones last night forwarded me an article from a magazine called Vanity Fair. It’s all about this really boring subject matter. It’s so boring I’m not even gonna bother you with it. What’s that? No, I mean, you don’t wanna know. It’s too boring. You’ll just fall asleep again. And then you’ll be asleep at work and then you’ll get fired for being unproductive. And then you’ll never have a chance to become one of the top 1% of earners in these here United States. Not that you had much of a chance anyway. Unless of course you’re really good looking and I just haven’t noticed. And by really good looking, I mean really good looking. Not the kind of good looking that will get you into the top 10% of earners. I’m talking at once untouchable and disarmingly good looking. That is, assuming you have no untouchable talent. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I too don’t having a clue as to what it’s like to be the heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune … but after a little bit of something called “googling” it has come to my attention that I do know a thing or two about what it’s like to live as one of the top 10% of earners. And since my income as the proud holder of a High School diploma should actually be some 12% lower than it would be if we were living in 1980 instead of 2011, I couldn’t help but wonder why I should find myself amongst the same elite company as “a lot of other good looking people I know.” What that? Oh, you wanna know if I think most people who have achieved what might be described as “an above average lifestyle as it relates to income related opportunities” are more likely to be “above average as it relates to being genetically gifted?” Well, yes. For the most part I guess I do. Unless you’re ugly but were born rich. Then you’re probably just an ugly rich person who probably wears really expensive clothes that are probably equally unflattering. But not me. I can’t afford to not look good. It took me 28 years to figure that Levi’s 514 jeans fit me in a way that is at once flattering and comfortable. Let alone clocking in at under $60. Not a bad deal. And then there’s H and M. Thank god for H and M. “Making the faux-rich look socially acceptable to the actually-rich since 1947.” That’s actually their new slogan. And I’m the model. Look it up. Anyway, all I’m saying is that apparently all those hours I spent when I was seven years old in front of the bathroom mirror wondering why I was adopted have really paid off in my ability to look sincerely interested in a bunch of things I actually think are total bulls#!t as an adult, thus translating into my knack for garnering gainful employment. And yes, to answer your question, I am also saying is that if you happened to have just now realized that your male spouse you were planning on having children with is actually not that good looking … you should totally have an affair. 

Mwah!

M

P.S. Speaking of me, pretty soon you’ll get to hear the first ever recording of me playing the upright bass.

P.P.S. It happens on a song by someone named Andy Fitzpatrick and another someone named William Merriman.

P.P.P.S. And, don’t forget … next week we got a big show with The Casey Shea Band!!!!!


Two compelling reasons for your attendance at tonight’s Casey Shea show at Cameo…

Impending demise of life and other living things. (See attached photo.)


I’m having a great hair day. (Photo not attached.)

M
P.S. We go on at 10pm.
P.P.S. What’s a guest list?

Two compelling reasons for your attendance at tonight’s Casey Shea show at Cameo…

  1. Impending demise of life and other living things. (See attached photo.)

  2. I’m having a great hair day. (Photo not attached.)

M

P.S. We go on at 10pm.

P.P.S. What’s a guest list?


Health Care 101: Need Therapy? A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Hi, 

I don’t know about you but I actually have no idea who Mitch Daniels, coiner of the phrase “I love my country; I love my family more’, is or why his decision to not do something is getting top billing over at Talking Points Memo. Maybe it’s a slow news day? In any case, it’s definitely more important than that piece of fluff reporting about a certain group of life wasters have been wasting their lives trying to not let other people buy everything.  

And speaking of wasting your life, tonight I’ll be joining Mr. Andy Fitzpatrick and Mr. Andrea Longato over at something called The Scratcher Sessions at a place called, look out!: The Scratcher. We’ll be there at 8pm playing songs that Andy and his friend Will wrote. And probably a song about masturbation that they didn’t write. And speaking of masturbation, I’ll be playing with something called “My Upright Bass.” So, you should come. It’s not everyday you get to see a grown man play with his really big Upright Bass. Actually it’s only a 3/4 size. Which of course has been making me feel pretty insecure. Which is another reason you should come and offer some encouragement by telling me what a big Upright Bass I have

Mwah! 

M

P.S. The Casey Shea Band returns to Madison Square Garden this coming Saturday


Tell me the name of the guy not on the right and I’ll put you on the guest list for Casey Shea’s free show at Rockwood Music Hall tomorrow night! We go on at 11. And… if it’s anything like the last gig I played there, MTV will be doing some unauthorized filming of the show and disguising it as the memory of someone more famous. Watch out Viacom … the authorities at SAG are very, very ________.
Mwah! 
M

Tell me the name of the guy not on the right and I’ll put you on the guest list for Casey Shea’s free show at Rockwood Music Hall tomorrow night! We go on at 11. And… if it’s anything like the last gig I played there, MTV will be doing some unauthorized filming of the show and disguising it as the memory of someone more famous. Watch out Viacom … the authorities at SAG are very, very ________.

Mwah! 

M


caseysheamusic:

louis ck….amazing….look him up!

rowchygogo:

hilarious clip about technology and the white whine generation. aka the story of our lives.

(via thefamilyrecords:, fred-wilson)


Promotion 101: You May Never Finish You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

Hi, 

Since you asked, here is what I am/was eating for breakfast:

And here is who will be eating you for dinner on July 9th:

You should get your tickets here: http://boweryballroom.com/event/6568 … before everyone else gets theirs and the website says Sold Out and then you have to go Bowery Ballroom anyway and say “isn’t there two more tickets left?” And they say “lemme see.” And then after about 2 and a half seconds they say “yeah there are two tickets left. You want both? That’ll be $30.00.” No please. No thank you. You just hand over the money and know you could’ve saved $4.00 if you had listened to me. But you never listen do you? No. That’s half you problem isn’t it? That and the company you keep. Oh yeah? That mouth of yours will get you in trouble one of these days.

In other news, there’s probably gonna be other cool announcement type announcements about the Mother Feather at Bowery Ballroom show coming up soon. So, keep holding your breath. You’ll be breathing again before you know it.

In related news, the Casey Shea band has two gigs this week. But neither of them are listed on his website. That’s on account of him having the greatest record label in the history of labels that reblog cool video clips of Louis CK in all the spare time they have not posting the gigs that THE CASEY SHEA BAND HAS THIS WEEEEEEEK!!!!!! Luckily for you you have me to tell you where to be to see this great band sing all of Casey’s great songs and one of my decent songs too. What’s that? Of yeah, he even put my song on his upcoming album. What’s that? Yeah, he’s got a new album. It’s done. I mean, the last I heard, it was done and my song was still on it. Pretty cool huh? Yeah, me too. I’ll totally tell you when it’s available so you can buy it and I’ll have a few more pennies to go towards that cottage in Misquamicut, RI. In the meantime, you’ll just have to come to the shows we’re playing this week. Actually, I’m not sure you can go to the first show. So, just ome to the second one. It’s at this place called Rockwood Music Hall. It’s kinda the same kinda place as Cafe Vivaldi, except the sound men are better looking in that there are actually sound men working at Rockwood Music Hall. And no I did not unintentionally not say Sound Person. I know what the appropriate term is but there are actually not any females working sound at Rockwood Music Hall. You’ll have to ask them if that is intentional yourself. The sound men do however have great haircuts. Especially the one who looks like Justin Bieber. Anyway, The Casey Shea Band is playing at Rockwood this Saturday at 11pm. Shocking I know. 

Mwah!

M

P.S. In other recording news, the great Andy Fitzpatrick will be releasing his new single this coming Monday, June 13th. 

P.P.S. I’ll tell you more about that and how I recorded my bass for the B side tomorrow. 

P.P.P.S. I just listened to my new LP copy of the album this sentence links to and I am reminded that being sixteen had it’s high points after all. 


Technology 101: Tonight Fontana’s Celebrates Internet Week and My Awesome Hair!

Hi, 

Right now I’m a little too distracted from both watching an 83 year old man redesign a webpage using an iPad while sitting at a table with a sign on it that says “No computer use at this table. Please sit at a communal table.” and begrudgingly overhearing the conversation of two 27 year old decidedly upper middle class white chicks and all the negative connotations that connotes yammer on about their something called “their spiritual growth” and how “it really seems like you’re getting to a good place” so I won’t be able to tell you about any of the interesting things happening inside my me-ness. 

In unrelated news, please mark your calendar for Monday June 13th and come down to Rockwood Music Hall to celebrate the release of “If Your Find A Home,” the new single by Andy Fitzpatrick. It’s a really great recording in that it features me playing the fender bass guitar and also utilizes other instruments. It was recorded by the great Mark Marshall at his studio which might not be a studio anymore. Things change fast around the big city kids! Kind of like the subject of this paragraph which is about to change to me talking about this guy across the cafe who is checking out this chick next to me who just said Bon Apetite! I mean really? Dude, she just said Bon Apetite! What kind of an a@$hole is into a chick who say Bon Apetite with a big dumb smile on her face and I think my brain melted on the way here. Anyway, I’m gonna go find some ice and I’ll get back to telling you about Andy’s b-side later. 

Stop being so immature. 

Anyway, see you tonight at The Casey Shea show … we’re celebrating Internet Week and my awesome hair!

No, actually I think the preceding sentence was not a joke. 

Mwah!

P.S. Buy Andy’s new song on iTunes!

P.P.S. Buy tickets for this!


Promotion 101: I Am Typing Really Fast Because I Have To Go Watch The Wire

Hi, 

Just a quick not to say that I have updated the gig section of this page to reflect the Mother Feather E.P. release show on September 30th. Now if everyone can please stop yelling at me, that would be great. 

In the meantime, if you buy a Mother Feather TShirt at one of our other upcoming shows, you will be electronically communicated to with an explanation about how you and the other people that bought a Mother Feather TShirt prior to the release of the E.P. can acquire a digital representation of the digital representation of Mother Feather playing their songs in something called a studio so that everyone on earth can have the same listening experience. Speaking of which, you should watch the movie about Glenn Gould that’s streaming on the ever more expensive netflix. Anyway, buy a shirt. Get music too. 

Speaking of digital representations of muzak … the Casey Shea album will also be available soon. Mark your dumb calendars now for August 19th. Bowery Ballroom. 

Mwah!

M


Promotion 101: Good And Evil Tour

Hi, 

Coming to a town near you and the one I live in … the Good And Evil Tour. Featuring Tally Hall and some guy named Casey Shea. I’m guessing you’ll enjoy yourself more if you miss the opening act. 

Oh, and don’t forget to buy the eighth song on the new Casey Shea album “In Your Head” when we play at Bowery Ballroom on August 19th!

Mucho Bella Carbonara! 

M


Donationology 101: Proud To Accept American Express Travelers Checks

Hi,

Right now you’re not listening to the as yet untitled/released/sequenced/mastered/blahblahblah next album from The Dig. But I am. And yes, since you asked … It’s better than your record. Personally I would probably double or triple all the vocals. But then again not everyone is as big a fan of Diary Of A Madman as me. Which of course makes anyone who’s not as big a fan of Diary Of A Madman as me wrong. Or at least have bad taste. 

Oh, and speaking of all the people I’m glad I don’t live next door to, did you know that there’s a wall along most of the border between the country of Mexico and a place called The State of Arizona? And did you know that each and every beautiful mile of said wall cost between one and three million US Dollars??? Wow, that’s some mucho dinero! And did you also know that of the three hundred and eighty eighty miles of beautiful border between the greatest country in the history of wall building inciters and the US, all but about eighty two miles are graced with this here wall I’ve been thinking about this morning???? Apparently I’m not the only person thinking about this here wall. Apparently something called The Arizona State Legislature has been thinking about not only the wall itself but about the aforementioned eighty two miles of shall we say, unwalled paradise. To prove how much they’ve been thinking (and to stick a needle in the eye of The Big O. who’s decided to let the wall building stop for a minute), the good folks that make up the Arizona State Legislature passed something called “a piece of legislation” that created something called “a fund set up by the State of Arizona that will use private donations” to continue the wall along the once again aforementioned eighty two miles of unwalled border paradise. That’s right kids!!! The good people of pretty much anywhere can donate to a fund to finish building a physical wall between Arizona and Mexico. As I said, I’ve been thinking about this all morning. It seems really interesting to me. I guess that explains why I’ve been thinking about it. To wit, I’d like to personally amend this government sanctioned program that encourages to people pony up some green back in order to physically shut themselves off from the realities of the world around them and encourage people to donate to an additional fund. This new fund is of course called “The Matt Basile Fund To Build A Wall Around The Entire Border Of The State Of Arizona.” If you too would like to see a wall built around the entire border of Arizona, simply send $82.00 via check, money order or box of spare change to: Matt Basile, P.O. Box 1340, New York, NY 10013. When I get your money I will remember to deposit it into my personal checking account (wherein on the 20th of every month, $250 dollars is automatically transfered into a savings account that I hope to pretty much forget about until I turn eighty two and bequeath my money to the IRS). For every one to three million dollars I receive, I promise to try and remember to build one mile of wall around some portion of the Arizona border. 

In related news, now I’m gonna go try to not break my neck. 

Mwah! 

M

P.S. Tell your friends in Grand Rapids to got to The Intersection tomorrow night. 


P.S. 101: Tell Your Friends In Denver …

To go to the Hi-Dive tonight to see Casey Shea and Tally Hall! 

http://caseysheamusic.com/shows/

Mwah!

M


Insomnia 101: The Homeopathic Remedy

Hi, 

Since I’ve heard from a lot of people that you’ve been having trouble sleeping lately, I thought you’d appreciate this new homeopathic insomnia remedy I came across. Please note that this remedy may or may not only work today. But it’s still worth a try because like I said, everyone has been talking about you and how weird you’ve been acting on account of your lack of sleep. 

Okay, Step One: Purchase one way ticket to Provo, UT. See photo below for current flight options. 

Step Two: Walk out on to the nearest highway and stick out your RIGHT THUMB in conspicuous view of oncoming traffic. This is the international symbol for “I still think it’s 1972 and therefore assume all you people driving will understand that I am hitchhiking to a rock concert!!!!” 

Step Three: After two hours, give up hitchhiking and call a taxi cab. Since you won’t be in NYC anymore, you’ll need to give them a destination address, because that’s the way things work in rural america, so right this down: 135 North University Ave., Provo, UT, 84601 

Step Four: Use google maps to double check that UT actually stands for Utah. 

Step Five: Ask yourself “What the f@$k am I doing in Utah?”

Step Six: Tell the doorguy/girl/person at the entrance of the esteemed rock club “Velour” that you’re there to see Casey Shea. 

Step Seven: Pick up blanket and pillow as directed. 

Step Eight: I suggest you find a comfy spot closest to the soundman/woman/person because that’s usually where the mix sounds best.

Step Nine: Clap enthusiastically for Casey’s first song.

Step Ten: Apologize to the girl sleeping next to for inadvertently drooling all over her shoulder for the last 43 minutes.

Step Eleven: You can thank me for your nap later. 

Mwah!

M 

P.S. Here is a photo of the website you can go to in order to purchase tickets for the Casey Shea band’s show at Bowery Ballroom show next month! 

P.P.S. At that show, you’ll wanna ask for Wes Verhoeve when looking for the pillows and blankets. 


Archiving 101: Wreck Hoard Ing

Hi,

My apologies to those of you who’ve been planning your week around my calendar and have been trying to figure out how the only band Pete Harris says was/is better than Mother Feather could possibly be recording on Thursday August 5, 2011 when in fact that day /date does not actually exist. Truth be told, fixing typos before self-publishing has never been one of my strong points. So, for the record, Rich Girls will be making a new digital representation of what once was referred to as a record on Friday, August 5, 2011. And yes, by Rich Girls I mean “myself and a couple of guys sitting in for a couple of guys who quit the band and one other guy who was wise enough to move on.” And by “guys sitting in for a couple of guys who quit the band and one other guy who was wise enough to move on” I mean Andrea Longado will be playing most of the guitar parts and Dave Burnett will be playing all the drum parts. We’ll be at Metrosonic waking up Steve Wall at 10am! Stay tuned for more details on opportunities for you and your loved ones to monetarily compensate me, Andrea and Dave, along with a couple of guys who quit the band and one other guy who was wise enough to move on, in the coming weeks.

Speaking of recordings, I’m pretty sure Casey Shea has been selling something called “his new record wherein he put the best song second to last” on something called the “Good And Evil Tour” with Tally Hall … They’re taking today off either to celebrate the Big O’s big birfday, or to fix whatever is wrong with the tour website:

Apparently they’ll be at The House Of Blues in Dallas tomorrow night. Disclaimer: Attendance of that performance will require you to be in Dallas, TX.

In related news, Mother Feather has started promoting the next Mother Feather show.

Oh, and speaking of The Dig. I watched their new video this morning and for the first 30 seconds I thought Emile was in drag.

Mwah!

M

P.S. Unfortunately for the four of you who’ve been pining for a recording of “Wrecking Ball”, that’s not gonna happen this week, but it definitely will soon.

P.P.S. The Misty Boyce Experience spent two days this week at a place called Mission Sound, conveniently located just three blocks from the amazing apartment where I admire my amazing hair, and recorded about eight or nine thousand songs.

P.P.P.S. Mr. Joe gets him some pretty epic drums sounds there … so if you find yourself needing some, I would give them a call.

P.P.P.P.S. Below are the results of my first bass lesson:



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