A Sunny Day in Glasgow

Our old friend Matt, who makes music under the name Solus, did a remix of our song, “Panic Attacks Are What Make Me ‘Me’”.  Check it out: 

Panic Attacks Are What Make Me “Me” (Solus Remix)

We just got back from playing several shows out in California.  They were very fun, here is a quick story about them…  We got to San Francisco Thursday afternoon and went for a huge walk around everywhere.  We are all horribly out of shape as the walk to Coit Tower nearly finished us off.  We then met up with Mike from Slumberland Records for fancy pizza by Washington Sq.  I only just realized that Slumberland originally put out “Switch On” by Stereolab which is one of my favorite records of all time.  Mike had lots of other good stories too, like the one about Wali. 

Anyway, the show at the Edinburgh Castle was a bit chaotic at first as no one seemed to know what was going on, but it all went great.  Delipub and Thousand Names were nice enough to lend us their amps and drums.  After playing Delipub’s AC30 I think I decided I need to get rid of my super reverb and get one of those instead.  Extra bonus about playing in SF was that our old friend Michigan J now resides there and it was great to hang out with that guy.  By the time we played we had been awake for like 25 hours or something and none of us really knew what was going on but I think it went well.

The next morning we went to KUSF to talk with Irwin on his radio show.  I always love going to radio stations and this one was extra awesome because they had the “I Don’t Believe You” / “When I’m Not Looking You’re Not There” 7″ by the Magnetic Fields.  I have lost so many ebay auctions for this record and the version from the 7″ is a million times better than the one from “i”.  If anyone has a copy they want to sell, please write to us-asunnydayinglasgow (at) gmail (dot) com (or if you have mp3s you could email that would be awesome too).  But after KUSF we went to Amoeba records and bought a ton of records.  We then walked around Haight St. for a while before going back to Amoeba and buying a ton more records. 

We somehow wound up at the Exploratorium which is totally amazing.  We didn’t actually go inside, but the facade is so bizarrely grand it was great.  SF is just too nice, it’s weird.  There were hundreds of people wind surfing in the bay with the golden gate bridge in the background.  I bet this would look kind of nice in Philly on Deleware River with the Ben Franklin bridge in the background, but people would probably throw bottles at you or something.

The Davis show was that night and it was also great.  I really love Davis.  We all stayed up way too late hanging out with Simi and Navi and everyone and then next day there was this big parade in Davis which was really kind of sweet in a main-street-old-timey-america kind of way.  I feel like I need this kind of stuff in my life right now.  But Destroy Tokyo were really great and you should check them out when they go on tour this summer!

After the parade was the long drive to LA where we played at Pehrspace again.  I really like it there and for some reason we all got realy drunk before this show.  This was the most out of it I have ever been for an ASDiG show.  Apparently it was very loud, but I think it went well.  It was nice to meet Ale from Dublab and Marion from Squaregirls and all the other people whose names I can’t remember now.  Also, No Little Kindness were pretty amazing and I highly recommend checking them out.

The next day we flew a couple scary planes home and made it back with all the gear intact.  I think we got maybe 5 hours of sleep the whole trip and we are all slowly getting back to normal.  Look out next month for our cover of “Something I Think About You” by the Pastels out on Slumberland Recs and then, a week later on June 3 Geographic North Records will release a 7″ of a couple new songs which are:

A: (cult of) The Cemetery Flowers (mandolins version)
B: Walking Pneumonia

THEN, hopefully in early July our record Scribble Mural Comic Journal will be released on double 180g vinyl by Ruined Potential Records out of Austin.  This version of SMCJ will feature a remix of “Ghost in the Graveyard” by Ulrich Schnauss and a remix of “Summerlong Silences” by Asobi Seksu.  There might be one more remix as well.

THEN THEN, we are going to Europe for some shows!  We will be playing at the MIDI Festival in the south of France and then some shows elsewhere in France, Germany, and the UK.  Incidentally, if you set up shows in Paris, Cologne, or Berlin, and would like to put us on, please get in touch. 

THEN THEN THEN is too far away to speculate.

So this Saturday afternoon was kind of boring and I decided to try to do one of those Radiohead remixes. I’ve never done a remix before, it was kind of fun. I don’t think art/creative stuff should be competitive, so please don’t feel compelled to vote, but check it:

We are coming to California in April!  Dates below:

April 17 - Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco
April 18 - KUSF Radio Morning Show (between 9am-12), San Francisco
April 18 - The Firehouse, Davis
April 19 - Pehrspace, Los Angeles

When I lived in Glasgow, for reasons I no longer remember, I drew every country in the world in crayon. Then I forgot about those drawings. This Saturday a number of artists/people/whomever are submitting sketchbooks for display to the general public and I have submitted my crayon drawings of the world. Unfortunately, I was not able to locate all of these sketchbooks, but I was able to find the drawings of Europe. Below is Denmark, which is nice I suppose. Check it out:

Saturday, March 15
1409 Ellsworth Street, Philadelphia

Pete & Pete was a show on Nickelodeon in the 90s. i vaguely recall robin and lauren really being into it when we were kids but i never really watched it. they got a cassette single of the theme song from a cereal box or something like that, which i borrowed for a while I remember.

Anyway, i never watch tv but robin just lent me all of her Pete & Pete dvds. i’ve been watching them sequentially and i just got to an episode from season 2 called “The Call”. It’s pretty much the best TV show episode I’ve ever seen (I still need to see The Prisoner which Josh and my dad tell me is amazing). but i found it on someone’s myspace and it’s below. check it out cuz it’s great. hub! sigh…

hello, this is my first post on the new website. i am working on a number of new projects at the moment, none of which are finished, but I wanted to get something of mine up on this new website. this is a painting i did several years ago. i gave it to a friend and then forgot about it. but my friend just moved to india so i took it back. as you can see, i don’t paint, but this was the first image i made with the clouds.  i found a child’s chair in the trash and used the seat for the canvas, which was then mounted on to a long 2×4 that i had planned to cement into the ground on a street corner in west philly, so it would look like a bus stop. that never really happened…
ever

craziest shit ever!  ever ever!  so we played at Johnny Brenda’s tonight and it was a great show from what I recall.  I was hanging out backstage with Colin from Remote Islands when we heard this loud explosion sounds.  We looked out onto Frankford Ave. to see this TRACTOR-TRAILER SEMI MONSTER TRUCK thing careening down Frankford.  Sadly, the band van was parked on this street and this truck rammed the car parked behind us and then dragged both of the cars about 100 feet before it broke free and continued down the street, hitting more cars.  It’s crazy too, because it was going slow enough for me to run out of JB’s and catch up to it as it was dragging our van.  I started jumping up and down, screaming at the guy “STOP THE TRUCK YOU CRAZY FUCK!!!” over and over, and he definitely made eye contact with me as he was dragging these cars.  But yeah, eventually he stopped and ran for it.  Totally insane.  I’ve really never seen anything like that.  It was kind of funny when the police got there and asked me if I had seen him.  Then they pulled out the guy’s driver’s license and asked if he looked like that.  We all laughed.  Sigh…

But yeah, we drove the van home, no word if it’s totalled or not- dragging a parked car 100 feet or so can’t be good.  Also, we can’t open the back to load equipment anymore.  But we’ll get to the Union Hall next Saturday one way or another.

be safe everyone.  and when your truck driving friends want to drive home after the bar, punch them in face or something.

grab ya face,
asdig

SCRIBBLE MURAL COMIC JOURNAL - Released February 9, 2008
Order now Amazon Japan, HMV Japan, Tower Records Japan, or in record stores in Japan!

1. Wake Up Pretty
2. No. 6 Von Karman Street
3. A Mundane Phonecall to Jack Parsons
4. Our Change into Rain is no Change at All (Talkin’ ’bout Us)
5. Ghost in the Graveyard
6. 5:15 Train
7. Lists, Plans
8. C’mon
9. The Horn Song
10. Panic Attacks are what Make Me “Me”
11. Watery (Drowning is just Another Word for Being Buried Alive Under Water)
12. Things Only I Can See
13. The Best Summer Ever

The contest to win the Japanese version of our record from Notenuf Recs has ended.  good luck to everyone who entered!

 xoxo