March 2012

Happy birthday, Shaq! (March 6)

My debit card has had the expiration date of March 2012 for as long as I can remember, which has made it seem like kind of a milestone for years even though I’ve not had any reason to think of the month as anything particularly special. It seemed very distant once, but like all expiration dates it’s now come and will soon pass. Hopefully my bank will remember to send me a new one.

Oh, but in the meantime March 2012 actually became a real milestone. Thanks to So Many Wizards, I’ll be in the United Kingdom next week participating in my first overseas tour. Immediately after that, we’ll be at South by Southwest. We’re really excited to be supporting “Lose Your Mind,” the first single from our new album Warm Nothing that will be released by JAXART soon:

Juiceboxxx has been crashing at my house for the past month, stressing about meeting his new goal to blog every single day. Apparently, some TED Conference speaker convinced him that blogging everyday is the key to making stuff happen. I buy the argument completely. I’m not prepared to publish something every day, but Juice’s blogging has inspired me to blog at least more regularly than I have been blogging. March 2012 seems like a fun place to start, so here I go. Starting next week, I’ll be posting dispatches from the road…

Check the rest of the post for tour dates.

Filed under: geoff geis, so many wizards, Uncategorized, geoff geis, mp3, so many wizards, south by southwest, tour dates

Buy “Princess”

Geoff Geis: Princess (VP001).Available digitally and on a limited-edition cassette from Vanity Projects.  ORDER ON CASSETTE and receive an immediate digital download: $6.00 ppd DIGITAL ONLY: $4.99 pre-order from Bandcamp (available July 15)

Reviews: LA Record | the Lin Party

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How to win the love of a lady, featuring my RA from Freshman Year of College

Download mp3: Bryan Adams – Think About You (featuring My Freshman Year RA)

Alternative link to use if Soundcloud is not working.

When I was a Freshman at USC, my Resident Advisor fell in love with a student who lived on the second floor. He was so in love that he invoked what was called the “true love” clause of his contract with the school in order to date her  (apparently, RAs can date students if they can convince some higher-up that they’re truly, madly, and deeply in love with each other). That was a long time ago, and I’m not sure if it was actually true love because I’ve lost touch with both of them and don’t know if they’re still together [Update: a friend from college tells me that they did, indeed, get married to each other].

"I could go drinkin', but I... can't stand the stuff."

To woo said girl, my RA decided to record himself singing over a Bryan Adams song and give it to her for Valentine’s Day. I’m not sure why this would have appealed to her, but apparently it did. Anyway, my RA didn’t have any sort of recording software, and was pretty clueless about how to do the whole thing. I had a copy of ACID Music, so I let him record this terrible little ditty onto my computer. In exchange, I ended up with this: an mp3 of the resultant monstrosity.

It’s kind of sweet, even though it’s also incredibly wretched. It makes me both laugh and squirm. I’m not exactly sure if this mp3 will be funny to people who don’t know the guy, but maybe there’s something universally appealing about this type of naivety and innocence. I mean, he just sounds lost. It’s enjoyable to hear other people doing embarrassing things.

Years ago, I uploaded this to the Internet and received an unhappy email from the RA, who as in the job market and pretty upset that the top search for his name on Google was this mp3…. This time around, I made it anonymous. Hopefully he won’t find it.

Filed under: Human Interest, mp3, Uncategorized, bad mp3s, bryan adams, karaoke, resident advisor, usc, valentine's day

In LA Record – Review of Joe Jack Talcum, Whitman, Human Hands and more

LA Record published my review of Joe Jack Talcum (of the Dead Milkmen), Whitman, Human Hands, Lord Grunge, and the Bassturd at Ports o’ Call Bedroom last week. You can read it here. The new print edition of that  paper also features a review that I wrote of Nicole Kidman’s tape “Teen Worship.”

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In LA Record: Review of Manimal Residency at the Echo, night two

I went to the Echo on Monday night to watch the second night of the Echo’s Manimal Vinyl Residency, featuring We Are the World and Rainbow Arabia.

Click here to read my review of the show on LARecord.com.

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