Tuesday, February 14th, 2012, 8:00pm
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle and The Balagan Theatre Present!:Original Music Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Location: The Erickson Theater (1524 Harvard Ave Seattle, WA 98122)
Tickets: $12 Advanced, $15 door

The Bushwick Book Club Seattle is bringing to you original music inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This is going to be a night of matchmaking not to be missed. Grab your “sweety” and come mingle with the Bushwick Book Club members. This is the perfect night for you and your Sweet Heart! Join us at The Erickson Theater on Valentines Day.

Your’s truly (MJV) will be performing and so will your favorite mustache rock keyboard player, Travis Young!

Other performers include:
Linda Waterfall
Del Rey
Tai Shan
Joy Mills
Wes Weddell
Debbie Miller
Michael Owcharuk
Bridgett Quigg
Craig Flory
Ashia Grzesik

I have personally read the book. Some parts were outstanding but mostly it was a chore. The time has come for me to take my inspiration by the horns and write a couple songs, which will hopefully be less of a chore. Not a bad way to spend the weekend.

If your weekend was anything like mine, you spent the majority of your time in your bed fighting off the flu. Woooo! Party! Speaking of parties, here is a song about going to a party and meeting a guy, who at first seems all right, but then he starts bumming everyone out because all he wants to do is talk about is his stupid heart attack. You don’t care about his heart attack, nobody does. You keep trying to politely change the subject and remove yourself from the conversation, but to no avail. Despite your genuine disinterest, the guy just won’t shut up. The party is ruined. What a jerk.

I should also mention that this song features sax master Galen Green on the jazz sax.

Sit back, let WE take you on a magical journey back in time to the summer of 2011. A time when love was in the air and dinosaurs walked the earth. Unfortunately for our hero, the Mighty Brontosaurus, things don’t quite work out the way he would have liked when the woman he loves more than anything reveals to him her shocking secret… that he doesn’t actually exist . DUN DUN DUN!!!!!

There there, brontosaurus. There there. Listen to this song. It will cheer you up. WE promise.

design by Mike Votava

WE go on at 10pm. Hooray!

Every year when Christmas rolls around I can’t help but wonder why We Wrote the Book on Connectors doesn’t show their Christmas spirit and put out a Christmas album. All the cool kids are doing it, Mariah Carey, New Kids On The Block, James Brown, Billy Idol, Bet Midler, Jesus Weinberg and the Jesus Weinberg Seven, you name it. They have all helped spread that wonderful Christmas Joy with the power of their music. There is no reason why WE can’t do the same.

With Christmas only two days away there is just not enough time to get it done this year. However, if WE start working on it now, in theory WE should be able to have it complete by next Christmas. Piece of cake. I’ve already written one song this morning. It is called I May Be A Homeless Guy, But I still Love Christmas.

As of now, the closest thing WE have to a Christmas song is our version of the great R. Kelly classic The World’s Greatest. I hope you find it as uplifting as I do. Hooray and Merry Christmas!

As you may have noticed, The WEekly Challenge has been on a bit of a hiatus the last few weeks. WE apologize for the inconvenience and any grief this probablay has caused you. But never fear, for WE have have good news. The WEekly Challenge is scheduled to make a triumphant return come the new year. So be on the lookout for that. 2012 will be the year of WE.

So far WE have succesfully completed 14 challenges to date, which has netted us a total of 25 songs, including a few from some guest challengers. All the songs are posted below. If you need help remembering how awesome they are, feel free to take a listen. Did WE mention that you can also download them for FREE? Well… you can. In fact, WE highly encourage it.

Hey y’all Portland peeps!

Our pals Tennis Pro will be rocking your neighborhood tonight at the Doug Fir. They are trekking all the way down from Seattle to rock your hearts out. You WILL fall in love with these boys, just as WE have. Go to the show. Tell ‘em WE said, “Hooray!”

Also on the bill is the musical stylings of The Angry Orts, and Hellokopter.
Should be a fun night. Party on, internet!

design by Mike Votava

The next WE show is on Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day of the year. But that won’t stop WE from rocking your face off. WE are one of four great bands that plan on murdering you that evening with the power of our ROCK.

Show starts at 9pm.
WE go on at 10pm

The HIGH DIVE presents:

9pm – The Dignataries
10pm – WE WROTE THE BOOK ON CONNECTORS
11pm – Mothership
12am – Post Adolesence

The High Dive – 513 N 36th, Seattle, WA 98103
$7 – +21 – NO WIMPS

WE go on at 10pm

Hooray!

As a member of The Bushwick Book Club, many months ago I was given the opportunity to contribute some music for an independent art magazine based out of San Francisco called Drift Magazine. I was asked to write/record a song inspired by Jon Lincoln’s Shaking the Tree, a short story published in the magazine. Other members of the book club including Bridget Quigg, Jon Lanman, MoZo, and Shawnmarie Stanton also contributed original songs. We could write about whatever we wanted, just as long as it was inspired by the story. That was the only rule.

Here is what Drift Magazine had to say about our Shaking the Tree inspired songs:

“The musicians of Bushwick seem almost uniformly unsettled by the story as a whole.” – Drift Magazine

That is a very polite way of saying that we all hated it. The story is eight pages long, and I couldn’t even make it all the way through the first two. Which inpsired me to come up with this gem called Please Don’t Tell Me.

Drift Magazine issue number 2, including Jon Lincoln’s Shaking the Tree, as well all the original music it inspired, are all available for you to check out online. My favorite part about this whole project is how instead of giving me the proper credit for the song I made, they gave it to somebody named Mike Volta. Mike Volta? Never heard of him.

UPDATE: The editor of Drift Magazine saw this post. He apologized for the typo on my name and said he will correct it as soon as he can.

design by Jon Smith

Jon Smith, the man responsible for designing the cover of our RIDE IT OUT LIKE A TURBO HORSE album, is the best poster designer in the universe. Here is his latest masterpiece for the 2011 Deck the Hall Ball show with Mumford & Sons, and Death Cab For Cutie. Incredible! Jon has so much skillz he can pay all the billz. Word.

Go Check out his website, buy his stuff.

smithbellcraft.com