Powerspace & other stuff

Here is something I learned about my phone the night we shot our interview with Powerspace. When on autotext, my phone still does not know the word "inklings." I have a friend named Carmelina, and after 2 years my phone still tries to type "Barnelima." However, when I type the letters P-O-W- in my phone, the rest of the word "powerspace" automatically pops up. I also learned that if I try to abbreviate the word "equipment" to "equip", my phone doesn't understand and tries to type something else. I learned that the hard way when I almost sent someone a text that said "I'm standing in the back with all the drugs."

The night of the interview was also the first time I'd actually seen Powerspace play. I've been to 3 or 4 shows that they've been playing at, but somehow we're always shooting an interview (or just late) and miss their set. On a mostly unrelated note, Cute Is What We Aim For also played that night, and it's always very bizarre for me to see them play big venues in new York. They're from my town, and some of those guys used to play in a band that opened for my brother's band when I used to go see them play at Backstage Pub or Showplace when I was in high school. Also they were chilling outside the Icon at pretty much every show I went to senior year of college.

In any case, we've got a lot coming up this week/month. We're talking to The Cab and Lannen Fall this week, and we shot an interview and some acoustic songs with Rosematter last week that will be posted soon. Right now you can check out our interview with Powerspace in the video player and on our front page.

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. I went home for my friend's wedding, it was a raucous/nostalgic/awesome time.

-Carrie

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

Happy (almost) birthday, Inklings

I read a news story the other day about some woman who has such a good memory that she can relive every day since she was 14 in vivid detail, including what she wore, what she did, what her mom ordered for lunch at a restaurant, etc. I think I must be related to this woman somehow.

Naomi is consistently weirded out by the details I can remember. I'll say things like "Well (x event) must have been last July, because it was the day after we saw Valencia, and it was raining that night." I also have an uncanny memory for dates. I can tell you that 10/1/05 was the first time I saw Paramore, because I also interviewed Cartel that day for my college tv show. I can tell you that March 14th is Taylor Hanson's birthday, because I so deeply ingrained that date into my brain when I was 12 that I probably couldn't forget it if I tried. AND I can tell you that May 17th one year ago is when Naomi and I came up with the idea to start Inklings.

I remember the date because we were on our way to see Men Women & Children, and we stopped for a drink between work and the show. We got to talking about how not enough good, hardworking bands get the media attention they deserve, and we wanted to help pick up the slack. Our first shoot was less than a month later, and we've been going strong ever since. We've accomplished more in our first year than we thought was possible, and for that we have to thank all the people who've helped us out, and all the bands who have given us their time.

Anyway, the point of all this is that we're planning a sick birthday party for Inklings, with the help of our incredibly awesome friends Josh and Sean. More details to be announced this week once we get everything finalized-- but believe me, if you live in the NYC area you're going to want to be there :) June 15th- save the date!


-Carrie

Barely Blind / NJ / Spring

Carrie and I headed out from the city / Penn Station yesterday around lunch time to go meet up with Barely Blind in New Jersey and shoot an interview and acoustic. Man oh man was it a beautiful day! Here are a few pictures Carrie took while we were waiting at the Princeton Junction train station in NJ for the guys to pick us up:We decided to take advantage of the, may I say again, beautiful spring day and shoot outside in the grass...there was a little poo involved but I won't go into any detail.
The acoustic songs "Pariah" was stuck in my head the rest of the night! That's definitely a good thing.These guys not only make me feel at home because they have that southern accent, being from Texas, but crack me up because they pull out the red neck accent that I'm too familiar with...and if you went to my high school you'd know exactly what I'm talking about. After the shoot we went inside for the show, and for the first time Inklings shot some live footage.The lighting wasn't the best, though I got a feel for how it is to shoot live performances. It's pretty damn cool, and they guys put on a great show. Will was killin' it back there on drums, and I didn't realize that they all share vocal responsibilities. Really nice change up. They have to come play in the city the next time they're on the east coast! Our friend Reid was kind enough to put our brand new Inklings stickers on one of their cases...ok well on several of their cases and van (beside the IN-N-OUT BURGER STICKER! rad). How sweet of him.

Song dedications we're aplenty as everyone loaded out, and then we hastily made our way back to the train station. I'm soooo excited for a new jam that their tour manager, tony, told us about. Check this band out for real: Dr. Manhattan (www.myspace.com/drmanhattan). I've been jamming to them all morning.

Let's just say our night ended on a much less exciting note...Having to move throughout he trains to dodge fraternity pledges puking everywhere. fun times. I was reminded why I stay in Brooklyn on the weekends!

Hopefully we'll see the guys in Barely Blind again when they go out on warped tour! Stay tuned for more pictures and their interview / acoustic!

-Naomi

The Rocket Summer

Hi everyone! I am really excited to get to share this interview with Bryce Avary of the Rocket Summer with you! I have been a fan of his music since before the release of Calendar Days in 2003. The Rocket Summers’ music has always had a special place in my heart and over the years I have actually had the privilege to become pretty good friends with Bryce, his wonderful wife Tara and some of the other guys in TRS. This is the first time I have ever gotten to interview Bryce about TRS so we caught up in Bakersfield and had the chance to chat about music, the record industry, faith and a bunch of other things! Bryce was really great about sharing a whole lot with us…enjoy the interview!

-Kelsea

Number one in the ratings!

I'm writing this from my parents' couch in Buffalo, where my cat is currently trying to climb onto my laptop, which kind of makes typing difficult.

Last Monday we shot an interview & acoustic song with National Product. Now, to say that these guys are "nice" is the understatement of the century. They are SO nice that they make regular people seem like jerks by comparison. They talked about a bunch of stuff, from their album Luna to the awesome Christmas pictures they have on their myspace. (sidenote: I have always prided myself on the amazing Christmas picture that my family and I took a couple years ago (it involves jazz hands), but they have blown us out of the water!!! It's cool though, I talked to my mom about it and she says we can do one like theirs next year. I think I'll make my dad wear the onesie pajamas.) They were a great time and also hilarious, plus we had just bought a new microphone so the acoustic version of "Love Me" that they played sounds AMAZING.

As you might have read about on ap.net, we invited the guys out for karaoke afterwards. By the time they got there, there were only a few songs left and they weren't taking any more names. However, Naomi is a person who makes shit HAPPEN, so she put in some good words here and there and got them the last spot of the night. Nate and Danny killed it on "Livin On a Prayer" and ended up winning the night (I don't think they even knew it was a contest!) You can check out a video on youtube.

And this is unrelated to National Product, but later that night some guys we didn't know came up to Naomi, handed her their drinks and coats, then ballroom-danced around us. They then took their drinks, kissed her on the hand and tried to leave, and when she handed one of them his coat back, he threw it on the floor. I think it was some sort of weird dream sequence.

There are a whole bunch of pictures up on our myspace and there's a teaser video up on the site now. Check it out and get psyched for more. I'm in the process of cutting it all together, but I might need to take a minibreak for 2 days so I can hang out with my parents/cat while I'm at home. If you haven't done it already, add Inklings on myspace so you'll know right away as soon as anything new is added.

Laterrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
-Carrie

Bayside and 2*Sweet

This past weekend was good for shows and for Inklings. Friday night we saw Anthony Raneri play an acoustic set at the Knitting Factory. The show was awesome, but it was filled with so many chatterboxes! I've never been to a show where the person onstage had to shush the crowd multiple times...but he played a bunch of Bayside songs and some awesome covers (Death Cab and Alkaline Trio, anybody?) In case you couldn't tell, we kind of like Bayside. In fact, if you look closely at the opening graphics for the "What's your dream tour?" video we posted a little while ago, you can see that if we could make up our dream "Inklings Tour," Bayside might be headlining.

Saturday we took a trip out to Long Island to shoot some stuff with 2*Sweet. They picked us up at the train and took us to Vudu studios, where they were just finishing up mastering their new album. (we got to hear a couple of the songs, and they sounded awesome.) The studio was a great place to shoot--seriously, is there a better place to film a band interview than in a room full of amps & random instruments? They also played us two new songs (three, if you count the little ditty Andy wrote about Inklings...) Anyway, the guys were a ton of fun. We stuck around for their show that night (also fun). Right now we've got a bunch of pictures from the shoot & the show, and a promo up on the site. I'm working on getting everything else done so it can be posted ASAP!

On an unrelated note, who else is seriously bummed about Heath Ledger? I'm kind of devastated. :(

-Carrie

Valencia, 11/20/07

I’m writing this from hour 6 of my 8-hour train ride home to Buffalo for Thanksgiving. Seriously though, trains are pretty sweet…less gross than a Greyhound bus, and cheaper than flying. And while it also takes about 7 hours longer than flying, that time can be spent doing productive activities like starting to edit all the stuff we shot with Valencia last night!

Last night was probably one of our favorite shoots to date. Shane & Brendan from Valencia joined us at Angels & Kings for an interview. They played us a couple Valencia songs, and then Shane played some songs from his side project, Promise of Redemption.

Some screengrabs from the acoustic performances are up on our myspace right now, so check those out. Keep an eye on Inklings in the next week or so because the Valencia stuff will probably be ready to post fairly soon.

Also keep an eye out for new stuff from Jered— last week he spent 4 days on tour with Mike Herrera (MxPx) and his side project, Tumbledown. He’s got a ton of pictures up on his blog, and he did an interview with Mike that will be posted on Inklings in the near future. He and Kelsea also caught up with Whole Wheat Bread last Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your turkey (or if you’re like me, meatless turkey-style loaf.)

-Carrie

MxPx and Lakes

Greetings inklings readers! I am Jered Scott.
Thanks to Carrie and Naomi, I'm part of this fun duo....wait, duo? That's two. Uh.....anyway...
Me and my homie Kelsea Olivia will be covering what we can on the West Coast.

Ok, so now that we've been introduced, friday night we hit up Chain Reaction in Anahiem California to see our friends in MxPx and Lakes.

Lakes is a California based band that is currently on Militia Group. They've released on EP with the expectation of bring much more in the near future. We caught up with Seth Roberts (ex. Watashi Wa front man) for an interview that will be up shortly.

We were able to grab the guys for a short little photo shoot, as well i caught some pictures of the interview!








Next we got to spend some time with the guys of MxPx. This near Seattle based band had actually never played this venue, in their 15 years as a touring band! After the release of their 8th studio album, the guys are currently just hitting random venues to rock the socks off their loyal fans. I caught a few minutes with Tom (guitarist) before the show to ask him questions about the new record, life, and where it's headed (again, it will be up soon!)
Then, we threw down and took the band out for a quick little photo shoot (which was a dream come true since these guys have been my favorite band since i was in 8th grade, which was like 12 years ago!)








ok, well that's my first post!
hit up my blog for randomness (jeredscott.blogspot.com) and keep coming here for updates and announcements on events we're all covering, and when interviews make their way to the web!
have a glorious sunday everyone!!!

"Beer is my gum."

Last night, by some twist of fate, Naomi and Sue and I made it in time to catch The Graduate's whole set at their free Knitting Factory show. We dashed in at 7, expecting to catch the last 2 songs, but as a pleasant surprise they hadn't started yet.



Sometimes we try to be cool at shows, so we don't sing along or dance or anything...last night was not one of those nights. We were rocking out like morons, and I think I actually hit Naomi when they played Justified. We discussed it later, and we don't think that anyone cares about any band succeeding as much as we care about The Graduate succeeding.



We went to say hi to some of the guys after the show, and Max informed me that someone had put the inklings acoustic version of Sit & Sink on youtube...I checked it out today, and it turns out that it actually has more hits on youtube than it's gotten on our own website. I just posted newly re-edited versions of Sit & Sink, and also Monty Are I's Between the Sheets video. The sound should be a lot better, and it looks nicer, too. Check it out!

Then, who should we run into at the Knitting Factory, but other friends of Inklings, Tokyo Rose! As it turned out, they were playing in the Tap Bar later, so we caught up with them and stuck around to catch their set. There was more dancing, more good music and more good times.

The Graduate was raffling off a brand new guitar, and Naomi actually ended up winning it!...but by some shady turn of events, it got stolen while we were watching Tokyo Rose. Knitting Factoryyyyy! (you can't see this, but I'm shaking my fist.) It's a real bummer, Naomi and Sue and I were going to start a band! (Sue plays bass, and I have a tambourine shaped like a star.)

In other Inklings news, we have a new collaboration that we're super excited about! We're going to be launching a west coast branch to the site, with photographer Jered Scott. His pictures are awesome, so we're psyched to have him doing some text interviews and taking some sweet pics! Tonight he caught up with MxPx and Lakes, so keep your eyes peeled for that stuff to surface on the site sometime soon! Also, it gives me and Naomi an excuse to go to California to shoot something and say what's up to Jered...New York gets cold in the winter.

Stay awesome.
-Carrie

WARPED TOUR INTERVIEWS & PICTURES UP!!

Warped Tour!

This Sunday, we had a long and awesome day shooting at Warped Tour in Englishtown, NJ. The day started off a little bit rough-- I was coming in from JFK (I was at a wedding in Buffalo Saturday night) so I met up with Naomi and Dylan, one of our camera dudes for the day, at Penn Station and we drove down to Jersey.

It took us 45 minutes to get to the Englishtown exit, and 2.5 hours to drive the last 10 miles to Raceway Park. Lucky for us, Dylan is hilarious, so the traffic jam wasn't nearly as torturous as I would've expected.

First interview of the day was with Will from Amber Pacific. He was a good sport-- we were sitting down on the pavement, and the sun was heating it up so much that I couldn't sit still, but he didn't even flinch. We caught the end of their set later in the day-- they were great.

Later we talked to Shawn from The Matches. He told us a story about a girl throwing up at one of their signings...check back on the site to see it when it gets posted (or check out the animation he made in his blog.)

After that (plus Meg & Dia, So They Say and The Spill Canvas) we talked to Kenny from The Starting Line. He had the magical ability to make whoever he was talking about appear. He talked about their upcoming coheadlining tour with Paramore, and half of Paramore walked by behind me. He talked about watching Circa Survive, and one of the guys from Circa rode his bike directly through the interview. Also, at one point he was talking about influences and for a split second I really thought he'd said Ace of Base (until I realized that he probably said face to face, which actually makes a lot more sense.)

We had a quick chat with Bryce from The Rocket Summer (whose new album I LOVE) and then took a belated lunch break. Other camera dude Joe and photographer-for-the-day Eric went to check out Chiodos and New Found Glory. One of our last interviews of the day was with Bayside. They're awesome guys, and we already posted a little preview of what's to come from their interview...head over to our youtube to check it out.

After one last interview (with Rookie of the Year, at their merch tent) we said goodbye to our wonderful crew for the day, and Naomi and I stuck around to check out some bands. We saw The Starting Line from afar, and we managed to catch a good chunk of Circa's set (condom spaceships, anyone?) before heading to the Hurley stage to see Bayside. They had a great set-- I think Anthony has such a cool voice. Also, Aaron from Underoath/The Almost came out to sing The Walking Wounded with them.

On our way out we saw a bit of Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, then we hopped back in the car for our short trip back to NYC (read: we got lost 4 times and it took us 2.5 hours, then my subway wasn't running when I tried to go home from Naomi's.) In any case, it was a great day and we can't wait to get the stuff up for everyone to see!

day one: two thumbs up!

So, yesterday was our first shoot for Inklings. Naomi and I were both excited and prepared-- we were up until 2 Friday night prepping for the day. We had a bunch of cool spots picked out in a park about 2 blocks from the Knitting Factory, and we had been set up there since 1, sitting there and getting some tans. Unfortunately, mother nature decided to rain on our parade.

In the 5 minutes that it took us to walk from the park to the venue to meet up with The Graduate, the sky turned from blue to black. We were partway to the park with the guys when we decided to turn back. So they headed back to the venue while Naomi and I ran back to the park to get the rest of our equipment before it got rained on. Let me tell you, there's nothing like a 4 block run in the rain while carrying 100 lbs worth of camera equipment!

Luckily, we'd found a cafe nearby while we were scouting out the park on Friday, and they let us get out of the rain and shoot in there. The guys in The Graduate were very understanding, and Matt, Max and Corey met us over at the cafe for the interview. I have to say, I'm so psyched that we got to shoot with these guys before they blow up (which I'm 100% sure that they will, because they're phenomenal.) They played us an acoustic version of Sit & Sink, which was so good you'll probably poop your pants when you watch it.

A few minutes later, Monty Are I came in for some tuna melts (also, an interview). I think interviewing them really legitified our legitness. We talked mostly about red bull, but also about Warped Tour, Rhode Island and Hootie, among other things. They also played us a couple acoustic songs, which will be posted along with their interview later this week! Check out the videos section of the site for a little sneak peek.

We had to rush to make it to the show in time for The Graduate (we did unfortunately miss 1997) but we ran in about 45 seconds before they started so it worked out. The entire show was great-- Naomi and I hung out in the back and danced the whole time.

After the show I was chatting with Matt from New Atlantic (who we were also supposed to
shoot with yesterday, but because of the weather and schedule changes we were all pressed for time and it just didn't work out. Hopefully we'll reschedule) when Naomi joined us and he tricked her into thinking he was in The Audition. She fell for it, and for some reason so did I, despite the fact that Matt and I had just finished a discussion about New Atlantic's set. Sorry Matt, we seriously do know what band you're in.

So despite the fact that almost everything that could have gone wrong, did, (mostly weather-wise) we couldn't be happier, and can't wait to get the interviews up for all to see! Huuuuuge thanks to Sue for helping us shoot all day! We will try our damnedest to get Monty Are I up by this weekend, and The Graduate up by next weekend.

-Carrie