YMAEWK

I feel like I've spent the weekend with You, Me, and Everyone We Know. Friday and Saturday were a big edit-fest to finish up their interview & acoustic performances, and then today I headed to Starland ballroom to see them play with Just Surrender, Rookie of the Year, and approximately 29 other bands. (also, the first sentence I wrote sounded funny in my head, but just looks creepy now that I've typed it.)

For the record- Starland ballroom: not so easy to get to. Their website makes it sound like a breeze, but it required a 40 minute subway ride to Penn station, an hour train to Jersey, and then an $18 cab ride to the venue (then reverse all that to get home). Whatever, now I've learned not to go there unless I can dupe someone into picking me up at the train and chauffeuring me to the venue. The show itself was pretty sweet. I thought that You, Me, and Everyone We Know were pretty solid when I saw them at Bamboozle, but tonight's set probably blew Bamboozle's set out of the water.

As I mentioned, all the stuff we shot with You, Me, and Everyone We Know is posted on Inklings now, so go check it out. If you think that the spider that crawled onto Ben's arm in the middle of Do It Again was distracting, I will tell you that it doesn't come close to the random guy who almost walked into the shot while they were playing Dirty Laundry (the first time.) A guy was riding his bike by, and decided to come check out the huge tree/bush that the guys were sitting in front of. We were literally in the middle of shooting an acoustic performance when the guy walks up maybe 5 feet from Ben and Ryan, and leans over to read the plaque behind them. I got really confused, but they kept playing so I kept shooting. After the guy walked away, Ben lost it and we ended up starting the song over. It was by far the weirdest thing that's happened during one of our shoots. Naomi missed the whole thing because she was so focused on getting good shots. She was very confused when everyone just burst out laughing and they stopped playing.

In any case, if you are one of the (estimated) 4 people who actually reads this blog, and you somehow have not already heard You, Me, and Everyone We Know, go do yourself a favor and download their EP. Seriously.

It's been a long day. I don't think I've ever been at a show for more than 6 hours when it wasn't Warped Tour/Bamboozle.

I think this week I'm going to see Goldfinger for the first time since I was 17. I'm pretty excited.

Later!
-Carrie

Birthday Party Pictures: posted!

Naomi and I both promised more notes on the birthday party once we were a little more rested, so it seems like a good idea to let you all know that there's a slew of pictures from Sunday up on our myspace, here

Also, I found out after the last blog I posted that after I went to bed Sunday around 3am, my brother and his friend (who were supposed to be crashing on my couches) left my apartment and went back into the city, where they wandered around until it was light out, and also ate an entire pizza.

Naomi's gone for the week to California (rough life, I know) but I'll be talking to Danger Radio on Thursday before they play Highline Ballroom, and I think I'll probably venture out to Jersey to see You, Me, and Everyone We Know again on Sunday. Hopefully getting home will be less of an ordeal than the last time I saw them (after our shoot with them last week I got home at 3:15 to find that I'd forgotten my keys, and my roommates were all in Connecticut. I almost had to sleep on a couch at work, but luckily I was able to crash at Naomi's.)

Our interview with Socratic will be posted tomorrow morning, and I'll hopefully also be posting You, Me and Everyone We Know's interview + 2 acoustic songs ASAP!



Completely unrelated, but I'm watching 30 Days on FX right now, and this episode they take a hunter and have him live with a family of vegan PETA activists. It's interesting, but so far they're just preaching at each other and getting mad.

Oh, also, happy birthday to Dan from The Scenic, and Danny from National Product! :)

-Carrie

GRACIAS ... MERCI ... DANKA ... GRATSI

As Carrie said below, I will also have a more coherent blog after another coffee...OR a nap.

I can't thank everyone enough for coming out. The night was already complete with amazing performances by Lannen Fall, Socratic, and The Graduate. I can't tell you how much we appreciate all of those guys for playing and celebrating with us! It was so awesome to have my mom, brother/donation man, Bethany, roommates, upstairs mates, work friends, Carrie's bro and friends, Amena, Matt, Alex, Josh, Sean, Jamie, Carmelina, Pat, Bruuuce, and every single person who came. It was a wonderful way to celebrate 1 year! OK, so maybe a few too many soco & lime shots....ehhh nahh.

Happy for real birthday to my mom...Love You! (She rules!) Looking forward to posting the pictures in a few!

Carrie...oh yeah thank you for showing up too...and being the shit.

Here's a picture of my favorite part of The Graduate show:

as usual - lots of love,
naomi

THANK YOU

Thank you so so much to everyone who came out to the show last night to celebrate our birthday with us. We had a BLAST, and all the bands were amazing. Thanks to all our friends/roommates/family (Naomi's mom and brother, and my brother made it out for the occasion) for hanging out and dancing with us.

It was our first foray into the world of show promoting, so needless to say the day was a little hectic, but everything came together and the show ran pretty much on time. I apparently took a whole lot of pictures, which I'll be posting on our myspace soon.

I'm still in the process of waking up, so I'll probably have more coherent thoughts in a little while. If you liked Socratic last night, you'll love the interview with them that we'll be posting in the next day or so.

I'll leave you with some kind words from competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti, who we invited to the party but was unable to attend:

Carrie and Naomi,
Thank you for the invite and congrats on your one year birthday! That cupcake should be the size of 52 regular ones.

I will miss out on your party due to the rigors of the competitive eating circuit. Eater X and I will be doing back-to-back contests in hot dogs and strawberry shortcake this weekend. I will raise my 1st pound of strawberry shortcake in your honor (and then hopefully eat nine more pounds for my personal best in the dessert discipline). Consider that an omen - inklings.tv needs to be around for a decade.

Enjoy the party I hope its a night you'll never forget, but might not remember (open bars tend to do that to me).

Eat All You Can,
Crazy Legs Conti




-Carrie

INKLINGS ONE YEAR BASH & NEW INTERVIEWS

Hey there...

Lots going on in the Inklings world. As the summer is heating up, we have tons of new interviews and acoustics for you peeps to check out! Saturday we got a chance to shoot with a band that I think has A LOT ahead of them: You, Me, And Everyone We Know. Their entire EP is available for download for FREE...What in the hell are you waiting on? Actually, go download it now...here. Their interview and 2 acoustics will be up in about 2 weeks.

Also, go check out our "about" section @ www.inklings.tv because Carrie got it up and running on Sunday with pictures and info on a few of us! On that note, I'm so happy to say that we have our first EVER interview up from another country - AUSTRALIA! A new addition to the inklings team is Rebecca Taylor and she recently caught up with Falling Of One. Go check out their interview in the "print" section along with photos from the day of the interview on the Gold Coast.

T-minus a few day till the INKLINGS ONE YEAR BIRTHDAY BASH! I couldn't be happier to have THE GRADUATE, SOCRATIC, and LANNEN FALL playing and celebrating with us! I hope all of you can come too! You might ask, What do you mean, it's fathers day??? What better way to celebrate Father's Day than to bring your dad! Seriously, the show/party is going to be a damn good time! I'll leave all the info below with a sweet flier that our good friend Matt designed for us!

LOTS OF LOVE-
Naomi