Longmont Potion Castle

how's that grab ya?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3pVTdOd7I

i heard this stuff when i was in college. and then i moved to longmont.

... I don't think you've got it figured out yet, pardner. how'd ya like a spider aimed at your heeeaaaaad

how'd you like my fist on your lip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW5i225OGTI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefgKi1OgQo

so good:
http://www.longmontpotioncastle.com/media/phonefun/lpc_2.mp3

triple double check

My girlfriend sewed me an LPC shirt. I cherish it.

Nobody ordered any millipedes.

i knew it was you..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu9tinqHWHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xUB8BCfYGk

i don't want to beat up no children

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i am too old to do things right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_ChkjrmOc

bout to release some WILD animals...in your diRECtion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czXy7uBGsUY

bengals are gonna be relased...
owls are gonna be hootin all over the place

wait i said direction

but it's way funnier than that:

"towards ya!"

I voted for his latest on my Pazz & Jop ballot last year. Nobody batted an eye.

my name on ilx was 'towelette pettatucci' for a short amt of time

i heard a rumour LBC has done live shows? anyone experienced that?

super funny shit.

lol how many ilx names are longmont

I read a review that said there are some calls to celebrities on your releases. Did I miss those? Who are they?

I don't know how to answer that. They're unlisted on there, and I'm unlisted on there, you know? But just for your information, GG Allin and Sidney Portier both make an appearance. GG is the one who is "sitting here drinking Beam," and Sidney is the one who insists that "no one in this house ordered any millipedes."

http://markprindle.com/longmont-i.htm

holy shit, eddie money!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtos2rYOy1s&feature=related

Every couple of months I scan eBay in the hopes of coming across the 6 disc box set he put out, but I never see it on there.
...Anyone got a lead on a copy?

If I ever wonder if the ilxor experience has been worth it, I'll just remember that I discovered LPC here.

double double check double triple flip check

i was in touch w/ him years back, wish i still had those emails. he did tell me that the orange julius calls were not done by a little girl as i'd thought but by his then gf's son. still have a vhs copy of the lpc home video around, its pretty strange.

you should make that digital somehow and share it with me

or else what you're proposing is a complete Darwinian society

I don't accept your rhetoric.

its part of the box set

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longbox_Option_Package

The DVD contains the videos Live From Longmont Potion Castle, Return to Longmont Potion Castle as well as several other clips.

three months dude... four months dude

I have the VHS. It's weird.

revel in the excitement of tandy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2fV2soHJ88

i'd like something with a WHOLE lot of flavor....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xIrkTVTQ1s

volume 8 is out

Thanks for the heads up! Brushotti!

I thought about this dude today while I was hauling a some rope up to Limon.

(To: Dan Limon c/o Lloyd Wabbit)

i've got coaxial flutter on my unit.. it's the perpendicular crosstalk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKAswwoc7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umXLpx6oSL8

I said many years ago, I said to my son "You must learn from the ways of Masayuki Akamatsu"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/echochops/id296803692?mt=8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=DwiArHaxuG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwiArHaxuG8

Also known as Virtual Balboa, Brock Winthrop, Bart Hacker, Wyatt, Prick Baxter, Tommy Vee, Red Brown, Fennel Cartwright, Frickey Weaver, Cooter, Bernard Fuddle, Dirk Funk, Reuben Norman, Curtis Nayla, Gomez, Levi Goulet, Buddy Gripple, Grover Knox, Desmond Sanford, Holmes, Reginald Maplethorp, Dudley, Gianini, Nuno Gloop, Tanyo Lubbock, Luke, Kermit Neville, Nipper, The Polish Stallion, Lars, Don Savage, Rusty Savage, Sissy, Wallace Thrasher aka Stretchy, Dr. Slap, Bonecrusher Smith, Bo "Bobo" Tucci, Nigel Zacket, Spicy Legato, Dusty Staccato, Lloyd Wabbit, Raul, Herbert Prick, Axel Rod, Jacques, Mr. Freebus, Monroe, Kirby, Cecil Conklin, Bernie at UPS, Freddie, Hubbard, Remmington, Luther Manhole, Jackson, Monty, Benedict, Bri-Bri, Ray-Ray, Sylvester, Malcolm, Spencer, Kiplet, Swanson, Salzar, Elmo Slaughter from the Cave of the Winds, Rasmussen Yassin, Starchild, Luther Manwhole, François (from Lip Smackers)

unusual details in wikipedia articles

triple flip check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyO8Gx-1QSs&feature=player_embedded#!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyO8Gx-1QSs

nannette nunanacci

ps - chaki had longmont potion castle on his radio show last night. he prank calls alex trebek!

OMG!

I want to throw it out there again that if anybody ever comes across the box set Longmont put out, I want to buy that thing!

New album, Wig Out at Jagbags, coming in early 2014. http://m.pitchfork.com/features/update/9254-stephen-malkmus-and-the-jicks/

ps - chaki had longmont potion castle on his radio show last night. he prank calls alex trebek!

― homosexual II, Monday, November 4, 2013 2:33 PM (23 minutes ago)

http://radiovalencia.fm/illogicalcontraption/2013/11/04/illogical-contraption-podcast-for-111113-trebek-with-longmont-potion-castle-and-john-xavier-cassese/

Sorry wrong thread!

Heh - "Wig Out at Jagbags" totally sounds like it COULD be an LPC thing

i can't believe this is still a thing. i was reminded of LPC today and hadn't thought about it/him for probably 15 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLmnaX7V18

some good laughs in there

the Longmont Potion Castle Ultimate Session Bundle..... i am so tempted to snatch this, it's $100, but there's only 50 copies, and it's complete LPC...

http://www.noisetent.com/DUCat.html

Hi,
Out now from D.U. Records is the complete Longmont Potion Castle anthology "LPC USB". You can order it online exclusively here.

The "Ultimate Session Bundle" includes a USB-drive, T-Shirt, and bonus vinyl. The USB features all previously released LPC albums, 2 unreleased albums, all previously released LPC videos, unreleased videos, extra tracks, complete liner notes, and more. You get:

Implement Of Prognosis "Butcher The Paleontologist" (1987)
Previously unreleased album - phone pranks and collage prototype for LPC - 93 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle (1988)
Remastered from original tapes - plus previously unreleased tracks - 93 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle II (1992)
Remastered from original tapes - plus previously unreleased tracks - 80 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle III (1995)
Remastered from original tapes - plus previously unreleased tracks - 85 minutes.

Miller Time (2000)
Previously unreleased album - the saga of LPC and his crazed employer - 35 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 4 (2001)
Plus the "Expanded Anniversary Edition" bonus content - 112 minutes.

Late-Eighties-Vein (2003)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 59 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 5 (2005)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 78 minutes.

Videos (2006)
Featuring the LPC DVD - plus previously unreleased videos - 58 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 6 (2008)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 93 minutes.

Implement Of Prognosis "Cauterized Toxicologist" (2008)
The return of LPC's phone prank and collage project - plus bonus tracks - 45 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 7 (2009)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 85 minutes.

Implement Of Prognosis "Abject Seismologist" (2010)
The finale of LPC's phone prank and collage project - plus previously unreleased tracks - 41 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 8 (2011)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 103 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 9 (2012)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 114 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 10 (2013)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 125 minutes.

Longmont Potion Castle 11 (2014)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - 98 minutes.

Metal Interludes (2014)
Plus previously unreleased tracks - also featuring 2 complete live concert videos - 120 minutes.

T-Shirt
Featuring all LPC album cover art - super soft 100% cotton - grey shirt with purple ink - please specify size.

Liner Notes
LPC takes you behind-the-scenes for the recording of every album with detailed liner notes - PDF booklet.

Vinyl LP
Also included is a randomly selected D.U. Records vinyl LP or double LP (up to $40.00 value).

All audio files are high-quality 320kb MP3s. All video files are Quicktime MOVs. This is a special, extremely limited-edition
release of 50. Approximate running time 25 hours. Explicit content. Free shipping. This is the only 100% complete LPC
collection, with rare archival content made available now for the first time. And it's hilarious.

Thanks,
D.U. Records

damn.

Forgot to post this last month, it's a great read, first ever interview with LPC?

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/longmont-potion-castle-interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkQ3HQvDxPI

lol that he's doing this via skype now

Forgot to post this last month, it's a great read, first ever interview with LPC?

nope he was on my radio show and we prank called alex trebek live on the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaG429VNdik

oh whoa, sick!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/longmont-potion-castle-the-official-film#/

rainn wilson

he's on my podcast this weekend - what should i ask him?

ask him if he found the parochial ramrod yet

interview about the new movie and album and metal and prog rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqILl-zeyrg

dude i'm bonded... with the state

dugan nash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJBNDW5uyjo

Kills me everytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vOy7s_IkQ

tandy makes the goggle

Bookshop one is amazing... also where do bookshops stay open 10 am to midnight, I want to move there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjbpbmSqYk

"I don't know what your hours are but it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

That line has been popping into my head regularly this week and I always start laughing at the inflection in the second part. And "What's your level of involvement there, Charlie?"

Hahaha. Man bumps of this thread send me down a rabbit hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVXPBitB2rY

He sounds so much like Bill Murray here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEQPb79piA

"I don't know what your hours are but it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

Stuck in my head now too :) Same with 'plain as day':

'Cause I'm fired up'
'What's got you fired up?'
'Well you tell a man you ain't gonna help him with his repair and your sign says repair. Plain as day'

Yeah! He has such a weird way of emphasizing things, it's hilarious. I love the epic Radio Shack call where he asks the guy what his title is and follows up with "...and your duties include?"

He has a definite Billy Murray/Joel Hodgson deadpan quality.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/87-longmont/

"I've got a box of centipedes here for ya"
"uhhh...I didn't order any centipedes...you must have the wrong number"
"I'll whup your ass"

*answering machine beeps*
"what's that beepin'?"
"uh that's just some rope movin' around"

i think my favorite call of all time is super nintendo (pt 1, pt 2)

the way he starts to empathize with the kid then all of a sudden switches back to his empty aggressive threats is classic. also lol at the dad's limp attempts at trying to match his fightin words

ok so this podcast is an interview with a guy about his interview with LPC. this documentary style has been bothering me for a while (and this is probably an entirely different thread), but what's the deal with narrators and reporters injecting themselves into the narrative? "so not gonna happen" podcast becomes about the narrator's journey to find the truth about wayne. in the vivian maier doc, why exactly am i watching the narrator going through airport security to board a plane bound for a place where she spent some time?

who do we have to thank for this? moore? herzog?

NPR?

*answering machine beeps*
"what's that beepin'?"
"uh that's just some rope movin' around"

YES! That kills me. And the shipping guy's reaction later is so weird.

He released a new triple disc set this month that sold out within 10 minutes, plus he was selling the master tapes to his early discs for like $200 each. For a moment I was considering it, like "what a conversation piece!," then I realized nobody would possibly care except for me and a couple other sociopath loner comedy nerds

man I ordered these guys on the strength of like an MRR review circa '96 and totally didn't feel it but now I'm listening to Swamp Donkey and fuckin' dying

^^

"I'm not sitting up here playing whackamole fella"

we listened to this on tour for like 6 days straight, so good

If we can't get some moisturization going here I'm gonna need some reimbursement

"Who's the shipper?"

"Peacock Hut."

"No."

"Oh, yeah."

i think my favorite call of all time is super nintendo (pt 1, pt 2)

the way he starts to empathize with the kid then all of a sudden switches back to his empty aggressive threats is classic. also lol at the dad's limp attempts at trying to match his fightin words

"I'll be talking to whoever I need to talk to, to get it resolved"
"You'll be talking to the pavement once you're lying up right upon it"

loool

"I got a little bit of it on tape"
"Oh we'll play it at your funeral, how about that"

Guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_w8QFzmbXw

First 13 minutes or so are one call and it's fucking extraordinary. Like I get the feeling at times the guy is fucking with LPC but I'm never quite sure.

'I'm Wilder'
'Like Van Wilder?'

Yes, this one is positively amazing.

'No one in Alabama acts like this. Ye got me blood pressure right up!'

Ohhhh boy, guy is serious about his country music!

(Stamina on this guy! The sound effects would've driven me nuts on this one, on the phone)

('It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! crept into my vocab way too confident tbh)

"You drive a Humvee? How you like it?"

"You're not gonna like it when you're lying in back going to the clinic."

if me and me got in a fight i would win

do we think he researches his victims on social media before calling nowadays (e.g. buttcheek knowledge)

i feel like the dude is in on it, or at least started to be amused and rolled w/it once it started

you got sundry items all over the place

victims starting to play along is like a sub-genre of LPC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkQ3HQvDxPI

"Listen, I've been on the water for 44 years. I have hundreds of millions of dollars in assets at my disposal."

"i got 'cher phone number from a bank president"

hahaha this clip is so good. reminds me that i need to go buy the new one

"i need you to bring it down a peg, alright?"
"actually tonight im gonna bring it up a notch a little bit. make it a little louder"
"nOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO"

"a weave, please."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhxrw1cpHdk

"i'm gonna grab holda your lips"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr1pq2wMux0

The one where he calls Sam Goody to ask about the "great buns" videotape, and his pronunciation of "awesome," has been making me laugh all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqdjd4tOLI

yeah he'll get into some kinda weird pronunciation on a call, like sometimes he really exaggerates "li-yup" like "I'll bust yr li-yup" and it cracks me up so much

"this is an unlisted number"
"like hell it is"

https://youtu.be/464i66_mgL4

i'm calling it now, this thread is my favorite discovery of 2017. not sure how i've never heard this before but i've been obsessed for the past several weeks.

"shehheh... i'll crush your skull, with one punch, one punch... shehh"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxG3HyPhgXY

This is a masterpiece of linguistic parkour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8xCM0dSLY

That one's like the prank call equivalent of a Xenakis score

And then he throws Arthur in

Otm on Xenakis. This is high art. Serialist prank. Unique.

The teary eyed one is so funny, love how the woman laughs so much

Love how the caller recognizes him at 3:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFtoEiUAO7Q

"I've got a seeing eye falcon..."

JUMPING UP AND DOWN, SIR
UP AND DOWN THE STREEEEET
WHERE AH YOOUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPgZ_Da32E

i get a kick out of him getting recognized. there's a call in the new one like that- any others beyond that and the one above?

Dag... think there's one on 8 or 9 where he's calling a bunch of record stores and someone recognizes him and says "LPC IN THE HOUSE!"

I love the one in 13 - the way LPC reacts cracks me up. And I'm still trying to figure out of the guy who votes for Billy Dee is someone famous.

ok but my tripler is gonna end up multiplying my couple, you understand? so my signal will be coupled with the flipper.

"you should onion up your face"

god this is killing me

"what's with the voice manipulator?"
"I got a new phone"

haha

http://talkinwhipapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Calls_in_which_LPC_is_recognized

A) why do people transcribe his calls?
B) why do I still laugh when I read them?

"This is freaking Benedict, dude."

Uh, I don't know who you are.

"That's who I am, dude. And you're gonna know all about me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUkXn_4ZFJY&t=3222s

I reallylike the three way calls

Am I the only one that isn't showing up for? I mean I get the placeholder but then I just get an error message.

i'm guessing it's the trebek and 'mr .beauprex' call from the latest?

i need a brooom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mSJR9pf0bw

SQUAWKBOX!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrBufBilYDw

[5:00]
'You guys snortin' smoke upair? You guys stand by yer work upair?'
'You know you sound like you got a dick in your mouth'
'Ok, well that's unprofessional, strikingly unprofessional'

And at 8:23, 'Camacho' trying to sell an lsd comic book about Kiss - 'Kiss, the demons of rock' - has me in stitches. 'What's the trouble upair?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8zJ25Y_MA4

realy enjoying this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f9ZOfO_MbQ

you know you're either jacked up on marijuana or POT, and i just traced your number you son of a bitch

pretty disturbing how that one caller seems terrified

during the guacamole advice?

the guy at 2:35 ish

Yeah that guy seemed to be going through uh... something.

This was a solid collection. Last one was cool.

LPC is looking for an animator to help him with a project. Wants a fan that gets him. Plz halp.

OMG paging Karl Malone!

Kurt - can I get more details? Asking for a friend, thanks

sorry, we're gonna lose you there Carl

hey good news - i'm halping lpc!
i'm still not 100% what the larger project is, but i'll be contributing a couple minutes of video/animation as a sort of interlude. i'm really excited/nervous because i generally make shorter things, so this is a really cool opportunity.

i'm trying to immerse myself in LPC imagery and things that fit in that universe. lambs will play a role, but i'm still trying to understand the deeper meaning behind them

Yasssss! That is so friggin cool <3

That’s super awesome, man. Congrats.

Holy shit, awesome! That's so sick Karl, congratulations - can't wait to see whatever the finished project is.

wow!!

thanks! yeah i'm pretty excited, but also nervous about fucking it up. it'll be several months before the larger project is out (i don't even know if this part of that documentary on gofundme or something else), though.

Congrats Karl!

awesome!!!!

very cool, Karl!

karl can you score me a t-shirt

i still don't even think i've talked to him directly, and don't think i will! he is mysterious.

that is awesome karl. a friend here in longmont actually accused someone of being LPC recently and he denied it.

I just imagine him calling you to discuss specifics, fully in character w/effects and burly threats.

so rad, congrats

"The representative from LPC"

Congrats Karl - can't wait to see what happens!

rad news!

:)

i promise not to liveblog the making of this clip but i think LPC fans would appreciate knowing that the first two sections that i'm working on appear to be 157 BPM (in fact, i'm almost certain it's more like 157.4 BPM) and 143 BPM, respectively. at 30 frames per second, this means that 1 beat = .382165 seconds = 11.46 frames ,and 4 beats = 1.5286 seconds = 45.86 frames. i appreciate that, structurally, there is no way to exactly align the animation frames to the beat. It'll be close enough that no one except audio rain man will be able to tell the difference, but it'll still require the creation of 46 frame animation segments (and the occasional 45-framer so things don't get too far out of whack) to make it work, which is awesome

Totally awesome! :D

Were you an LPC fan already or did you dig in his stuff when this opportunity arose?

i knew a little bit about him...a friend of mine put him on a mix for me way back in the day, and i remember looking through this thread on occasion. but i've definitely done much more of a deep dive over the last couple weeks. heavy LPC vibes in my apartment recently, it's been a madhouse!

It has always vexed me that some professional editing programs like Avid Media Composer and suchlike don't have the facility to place an audio clip in between frames, so if they're working on 24, 25 or 29.97 they can't simply just place a beat or an edit exactly where it might be required, like I can do in Protools.

sounds like youre talking thru a wow wow pedal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-M3zWrTqKc

hey good news - i'm halping lpc!

that is rad! this sounds like it would be a very fun project! i can't wait to see the results.

It has always vexed me that some professional editing programs like Avid Media Composer and suchlike don't have the facility to place an audio clip in between frames

most commercial video editors & compositors (hate AE's timeline) i have used i find have insufficient timeline control imo except Premiere and FCP where you can at least advance and edit easily by one frame at a time. im not sure audio can live in between frames without editing the code of the video file itself outside of a program. one time i was playing around w Data Moshing and the trick behind that is to remove keyframes and have the codec itself generate the video image given the gap between the last previous keyframes and the next image. there was an open source program i used to do this but i forgot what it was.

the first two sections that i'm working on appear to be 157 BPM (in fact, i'm almost certain it's more like 157.4 BPM) and 143 BPM, respectively. at 30 frames per second, this means that 1 beat = .382165 seconds = 11.46 frames ,and 4 beats = 1.5286 seconds = 45.86 frames

are you doing this frame-by-frame w stop motion animation? what is your framerate? 29.97 or 30/Xfps? i used to use a Windows program called CoolEdit to assist with marking off frames. it is an audio editor and it displays time on the x axis as usual but you can switch between minutes/seconds and video frames w support for different framerates. you just set it to what you need and play the sound file (and/or look for the changes visually) and it displays it in fps. good look! this type of animation is very work-intensive but visually very rewarding!

funny, i have been hearing people irl and online talk about Longmont over the past few weeks. imo his legend is growing...

good look!

lol good luck

good look! haha

the larger project (i'm only making a short interlude for it) is 30 fps. it won't be too big of a deal to make things line up (i'm using premiere for the video editing). it it were entirely my own project, i'd just edit the audio slightly to make it align with the 30 fps visuals, but since i'm working to a pre-existing audio track (at 157 bpm, followed by a 143 bpm section that then gradu ally gets sl o w e r) it'll be a little bit trickier. but no big deal. i think the worst case scenario is that my visual cuts will, on occasion, be less than 1/30th of a second off of the barline of the audio. i was just kinda 420 last night so i temporarily got really into calculating exactly off it would be. :)

"thats the reason why we instituted this 89 dollar penalty to dissuade folks from going buckwild!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9USR4w0orxQ&t=8s

this finally got put on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pBCswy8bRk

new longmont

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlsAVzev5qU

"I got a little bit of this conversation on tape, so we'll see..."

"We'll play it at your funeral, how's that sound"

"dude it's longmont potion castle"

longmont can be incredibly mean spirited, but somehow i still can't help but laugh

the Super Nintendo one where he's telling the suicidal kid "I don't see why such a bright young man would want to end it all so soon" and then 30 seconds later "I really enjoyed talking to you. I'm gonna kick you in the jaw young man. With my foot-uhhhhhhhhh"

"if you come into my puffin' parlor, i'm gonna come out whuppin'"

that's like the quintessential LPC sentence

hedgehog
hedge fund
hedge clippings
leap frog
egg nogg
yule log
warthog

I've been walking around singing 'where joo git yer dahn-keeee' since I first heard this

LPC is one of those fairly rate things that I wished I could like, but must admit I don't

rare not rate

well why don't you rate my boot touchin yer lip?

hey man, you ready to feel my grip?

you could come over here with my barbells, get things real flamed out

omg he calls Peter Weller on the new one lol

i tried shooting you over an email but it said it got bounced back cause there's a diphthong in my name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XU-YvtGE8w

had a 9 hour road trip and we listened to LPC the whole time, super great

this one in particular killed me. so many more that I can't remember the names of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja2-98e7KfI

"if you come into my puffin' parlor, i'm gonna come out whuppin'"

it really is perfect road trip material

"if you come into my puffin' parlor, i'm gonna come out whuppin"

lol this is forever in my head

i love the voice he uses in the second call here. i got a big meetin' tamarrruh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVXPBitB2rY

listening to the early calls today. his voice was so different and young and innocent. its cute.

yeah doesn't even sound like the same person to me. he went from a 20 year old kid to a 50 year old man overnight

There’s nothin to deny young man

His early stuff he was like 16 I think! Which makes me think of the Super Nintendo sketch where he’s like “I used to think I wouldn’t make it past 23 ... and now I’m a 70 year old man”

this has LPC vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le0me6my4B8

lmao totally

"yeah little shots of coffee, somethin' nice and dark"

been re-listening to all my Orb albums lately and suddenly I hear "do you mind if I maneuver your donuts?"

actually the second LPC sample I've indentified on an Orb album. there are probably more.

Oh cool

Tear production never fails to make me roll laughing

I NEED A BROOM

My friend swore he got a call from him today — !

maybe it was Bill Murray?

Caller identified himself as “roger”, a neighbor; encouraged my friend to clean up garbage amid whooshing and echoing sounds

Sounds about right

the documentary is screening here in may, psyched

For those already not in the know he’s doing text pranks on the insta account “uneasy sleeper.” Learn about puffios.

The uneasy sleeper stuff is great but I thought it was a producer of the film (David Hall) and not Longmont himself.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/longmont-potion-castle-the-official-film#/

Ahhh that makes more sense thanks

this makes me cry laughing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJDRZP6bVY

trip triple check

you're gonna be talkin' to my foot after i fix it in your cheek

So has anyone seen the documentary yet? Is it mostly admirers speaking of their admiration, or is there more to it?

The trailer didnt make it seem like it had much going for it, tbh

Caller identified himself as “roger”, a neighbor; encouraged my friend to clean up garbage amid whooshing and echoing sounds

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:07 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ This is fucking hysterical

a friend of mine went to the premiere in NYC. said the doc is good not great, the first half apparently is mostly talking head interviews with random bands being like "i love his shit" and then the second half they meet up with LPC and he shows them around Denver, points out places he calls frequently.

This is the tortilla herder.

I could come down and play you a Whole Lotta Love but it's gonna sound like a Whole Lotta Nothin' because this thing is fouled up

What the hell's an antelope wad?

can you make some wasp jerky for me

good morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZumfSC80QOE

The little moments when he's talking or making noises to himself before the other person picks up always get me

"Hi, this is Jebediah with Motor-Rooter"

lol i love the bit taken from the live appearance

its not really funny per se but "Peacock" is one of my favorite Longmont bits, must've taken forever to put that all together

Yeah agreed, a real high point for him, truly inspired

LPC "Official Longbox Discography" Complete Box Set out now!
40 CDs + 1 DVD + Liner Notes Book + Poster + 5 Pins. Very limited! https://t.co/XBUVv9SUXP pic.twitter.com/f8Mep565pJ

— LongmontPotionCastle (@LongmontPotion) November 1, 2019

pretty interesting!
https://www.thedoe.com/articles/the-first-longmont-potion-castle-album

that's amazing

Yeah wow what a story

apparently he's answering Qs on twitter:

Fans! Have a burning question for @LongmontPotion? Leave one below and the man, himself, just may answer it. 👇#longmontpotioncastle

— The Doe (@wearethedoe) January 20, 2020

That story is wild.

new one tomorrow

can't believe this went unreleased. i'm fuckin dying here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr49txvlke4

yes, just what i needed

that is the best

What's the frickin subtotal up there, cap?

I got no total

omg that sampled laughter

the longmont "... or?" has infiltrated my own speech

10 pounds of soda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNa8jy9jZ5k

Always found the Alex Trebek calls heartwarming - Trebek is so nice and seemed like he actually secretly got a kick out of it, genuinely curious and interested to talk to random people from around the country, even if he's kind of acting annoyed. Like this one where when the phone rings again he immediately goes "lets wait and see who picks up".

yeah is it weird when the news came one of my first thoughts was "LPC lost his only friend"

My name is Whip. I was recently on a frigate.

apparently the new one has a ton of alex trebek

yeah im halfway through and theres already much alex content

admittedly when he died one of my first thoughts was sympathy for LPC cuz he must've considered him a friend at this point

Kind of a tense moment on the new one where what sounds like a 7 year old picks up, and I'm praying he doesnt fuck with a little kid and freak him out and make him upset. But LPC seamlessly modulates his routine and the kid immediately gets into the spirit and starts having a blast yelling into the phone and answering silly questions and it ends up being very adorable.

"Wwwhat is yourrr opinnnnion of rubberbandsss?"
"I love rubberbands!"
"Do you like to feeeed squirrels?"
"HOW DID YOU KNOW I LIKE TO FEED SQUIRRELS? BECAUSE I NAMED A SQUIRREL AND I FEED HIM! SO YES I LIKE TO FEED SQUIRRELS!"

Haven't done comparative study, but good screamin' over guitarr: https://deertick.bandcamp.com/track/divine-providence-feat-longmont-potion-castle

Longmont used to be a cow town, now it's practically a suburb of Boulder.

started listening to the last few I missed, he's just as funny as ever though oftentimes a little more conceptual, for better or worse

the moment OEO mentions above is cute - I was a bit nervous about it as well but it's actually pretty cool, because for once he found someone who's taking him seriously, it's a really fun conversation

but the ones I really like are "Gentlemen's Quarters" and "Skipper's Housewarming" on 18, because he manages to make both ladies laugh uncontrollably which I think catches him off guard and causes him to break character a bit. one of them even offers to come over, and *not* because she wants to kick his ass! I don't think that's ever happened on an LPC album before